President Jalal Talabani said that the program to train Iraq’s security forces had been a repeated failure and denounced a plan to add more U.S. advisers.
It is chilling that the Baker-Hamilton report came on the eve of Pearl Harbor's anniversary. In 1941, clashes every day in the Atlantic Ocean made us more focused on the imminence of war with Germany than with Japan. Today all eyes are on Iraq. It's called the center of the war on terrorism, but it must not monopolize our attention. We need a third eye because we are now less likely to be attacked by international terrorists than by homegrown American citizens, self-radicalized individuals who are members of groups inspired by al Qaeda propaganda.
It was nothing unusual; just a high-voltage electrical box, 3 feet deep in trash, surrounded by a chain-link fence and wedged between two windowless warehouses on a downtown Los Angeles Street. It hardly merited a passing glance, or got one, from anyone other than Los Angeles Police Capt. Andrew Smith. After years of patrolling Skid Row, the city's sprawling 50-square-block homeless encampment, Smith has a way of seeing things that others might miss, like the pair of muddy feet peeking out from a mountain of garbage. "C'mon outta there," Smith called out as he rapped the fence with his nightstick. "Don't you see that high-voltage sign? You're gonna get hurt."
AP - Gen. Augusto Pinochet, who terrorized his opponents for 17 years after taking power in a bloody coup, died Sunday, putting an end to a decade of intensifying efforts to bring him to trial for human rights abuses blamed on his regime. He was 91.
AP - Traces of the rare radioactive substance polonium-210 were found at a German apartment visited by a contact of fatally poisoned ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko before the two men met in London, authorities said Sunday.
AP - The Iraqi president on Sunday sharply criticized the bipartisan U.S. report calling for a new approach to the war, saying it contained dangerous recommendations that would undermine his country's sovereignty and were "an insult to the people of Iraq."
Augusto Pinochet's death Sunday at age 91 prompted violent demonstrations in Chile. The former U.S.-backed strongman was accused of torturing and killing thousands of people during his 1973-1990 regime.