In the News: May-05

Top US commando: More elite forces needed for Iraq - 5 May 2008 at 2:38pm - WASHINGTON -- The nation's top commando says in an Associated Press interview that even as the overall U.S. force in Iraq shrinks, the number of elite troops known as special operations forces is likely to grow.

U.S. monitors to study West Bank roadblocks - 5 May 2008 at 1:17pm - SHANNON (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday it would send monitors to study whether the removal of Israeli roadblocks was making life easier for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Thought for the day:
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. -Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)