White House Cover-up. Charges likely next week.

10-21-2005 • Reuters

Likely to seek charges for easier-to-prove crimes such as making false statements, obstruction of justice and disclosing classified information. May also bring a broad conspiracy charge.

US invasion of Venezuela will lead to higher gas prices

10-21-2005 • Associated Press

"If the United States tried to attack us by a direct invasion, forget the oil," the Venezuelan President said. "Everyday, we send 1.5 million barrels to the United States."

Money for Nothing

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Billions of dollars have disappeared, gone to bribe Iraqis and line contractors’ pockets. The $100 bills weighed an estimated 363 tons!!!!

Saddam attacks legitimacy of Iraqi tribunal

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A combative Saddam Hussein yesterday challenged the legitimacy of the Iraqi tribunal set up to try him and insisted he remained the constitutional president of Iraq, in a dramatic opening of a trial that was quickly adjourned until next month.

Rice Won't Rule Out Force on Syria, Iran

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Wednesday refused to rule out the possibility of U.S. troops still serving in Iraq in 10 years or U.S. military force against Syria and Iran.

White House sets up group to market war in Iraq in 2002

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Very little has been written about the White House Iraq Group, or WHIG, and only one newspaper article or two have mentioned it in passing reporting that it had been set up by Andrew Card, the White House chief of staff, said the article in the newsp

Saddam heads to Iraq court, two years after capture

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Saddam Hussein and seven members of his Baath party, including his half-brother, will file into a marble-lined, chandelier-hung courtroom in Baghdad on Wednesday to face the stares of five judges and the world.

70 Iraqis die after US bombs two villages

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The US military today said all of those killed were militants, but witnesses claimed at least 39 innocent civilians died in the attack.

Iraqis Vote on Constitution

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraqis went to the polls Saturday to give a "yes" or "no" to a new constitution aimed at defining democracy in a nation once ruled by Saddam Hussein and now sharply divided among its Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish

Bush Teleconference With Soldiers Staged

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WASHINGTON Oct 14, 2005 — It was billed as a conversation with U.S. troops, but the questions President Bush asked on a teleconference call Thursday were choreographed to match his goals for the war in Iraq and Saturday's vote on a new Iraqi cons

Iraq suicide bomber kills 30 army recruits in Tal Afar UPDATE

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MOSUL, Iraq (AFX) - Thirty people were killed today when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a large crowd of people outside an army recruitment centre in the northwestern Iraqi town of Tal Afar, police said.

Syrian Interior Minister Commits Suicide (Wah???)

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It is was noted that Kenan committed suicide with just days remaining before the announcement of a United Nations report on the assassination of the former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. The UN report is expected to be released by October 25.

Pre-vote bombers strike Iraq, dozens dead

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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Two car bombs killed dozens of Iraqis on Tuesday, four days before a referendum on a constitution that has divided the nation along sectarian lines.

Timeline on Rove and CIA Leak - Hardball's Chris Matthews

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A summary for those that need to get the names straight.

U.S. weighed military strikes in Syria, Newsweek reports

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The United States recently debated launching military strikes inside Syria against camps used by insurgents operating in neighboring Iraq, Newsweek reports.

A Central Pillar of Iraq Policy Crumbling

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Now, with Saturday's constitutional referendum appearing more likely to divide than unify the country, some within the administration have concluded that the quest for democracy in Iraq, at least in its current form, could actually strengthen the

Norman Dombey: Tell us who fabricated the Iraq evidence

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President Bush's principal adviser Karl Rove is to be questioned again over the improper naming of a CIA official. Mohamed ElBaradei, accused by the American right of being insufficiently aggressive, wins the Nobel Peace Prize for his stalwart wo