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Some Republican advisers to Hill leaders, angered with the poor handling of the plan to hand over operations at major U.S. ports to a Dubai company, are suggesting that Treasury Secretary John Snow may take the fall for the White House.
Republican insiders are wondering where the cavalry is. They give White House counselor Dan Bartlett an A for effort in his repeated TV interviews this week to make President Bush's case in favor of that controversial seaport deal. Bartlett has emerged the leading White House spokesman on the issue. But the insiders say his effort isn't enough.
In a dramatic shift in public opinion, more Indonesians now view the United States more favorably than in a negative way. At the same time, support for Osama bin Laden has dropped to its lowest level since 9/11.
AP - Suicide bombers in explosives-packed cars attacked the world's largest oil processing facility Friday but were stopped outside the gates when guards opened fire, detonating their vehicles, officials said.
AP - Appeals from religious leaders and an unusual daytime curfew Friday curbed violence that claimed more than 140 lives across Iraq after the bombing of a Shiite shrine. President Bush joined in calling for calm, saying "This is a moment of choosing for the Iraqi people."
AP - The Bush administration said Friday it won't reconsider its approval for a United Arab Emirates company to take over significant operations at six U.S. ports. The former head of the Sept. 11 commission said the deal "never should have happened."
Iraqi authorities announced another daytime curfew Saturday for Baghdad and its neighboring provinces, just as mortars struck near a shrine sacred to both Sunni and Shiite Muslims. Sectarian tensions are high in the country after the Wednesday bombing of the Golden Mosque, considered one of the holiest of Shiite sites. Reprisal attacks have left at least 132 people dead; 87 bodies have been found in Baghdad alone.
Saudi security forces have thwarted an attempted suicide attack at an oil processing facility in eastern Saudi Arabia, a Saudi security source told CNN.
The leader of al Qaeda in Iraq has been placed on an FBI list of top terrorism suspects who haven't been charged with crimes in the United States but are wanted for questioning.