In the News: Mar-05

Jobs needed or Iraq troop pullout at risk: U.S. general - 5 Mar 2008 at 1:14pm - TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - The United States may be forced to halt planned troop withdrawals from Iraq unless Iraqi authorities move faster to create jobs and improve basic services, a top U.S. general said on Wednesday.

More F.B.I. Privacy Breaches Reported - 5 Mar 2008 at 1:15pm - The F.B.I. improperly used national security letters in 2006 to obtain personal data on Americans during terror and spy investigations, Director Robert Mueller said Wednesday.

Iraqi: Turkish helicopters bomb areas in Iraq - 5 Mar 2008 at 9:13am - Turkish warplanes attacked Kurdish separatist rebels in northern Iraq less than a week after the end of a large-scale ground ...

Thought for the day:
There can be no real individual freedom in the presence of economic insecurity. -Chester Bowles (1901 - 1986)