In the News - Feb. 21

U.S. still planting stories in Iraq media - 21 Feb 2006 at 12:04pm - WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was mistaken when he said last week that the U.S. military had stopped the controversial practice of paying to plant stories in the Iraqi news media, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday.


New anti-war march planned - 21 Feb 2006 at 10:57am - An anti-war march is planned for London to mark the third anniversary of the Iraq invasion and urge UK troops to return home.


US removing documents from public access: report - 21 Feb 2006 at 9:29am - The restoration of classified status to more than 55,000 previously declassified pages began in 1999, when the CIA and five other agencies objected to what they saw as a hasty release of sensitive information after a 1995 declassification order signed by President Bill Clinton, the Times said on its Web site.


Iraq angrily rejects US sectarian warning - 21 Feb 2006 at 11:54am - BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb killed at least 21 people in Baghdad on Tuesday hours after Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari angrily dismissed U.S. warnings to shun sectarianism in the country's new government.

Rumsfeld: planting stories under review - 21 Feb 2006 at 1:59pm - WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday that the Pentagon is reviewing the U.S. military's practice of paying to plant stories in the Iraqi news media.


Rumsfeld says 'misstated' facts on planted Iraq news - 21 Feb 2006 at 2:27pm - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday he was mistaken when he stated last week that the U.S. military had stopped paying Iraqi newspapers to publish pro-American articles.


Guantanamo 7/7 link 'nonsense' - Wed 22 Feb 2006 - BRITISH officials investigating July's London suicide bombings have received no useful intelligence from detainees held at the United States military camp at Guantanamo Bay.