Lieberman Official: Senator Begged For (And Got) Obama Help in '06
Senior official confident of US-Iraq deal in July A top American official expressed confidence Tuesday the U.S. and Iraq will finalize a long-term security pact on time next month despite strong opposition from Iran and a storm of criticism from Iraqi lawmakers who must ratify the deal. David Satterfield, the State Department's top adviser on Iraq, said both sides were committed to reaching an agreement, which would also provide a legal basis for keeping U.S. troops here after the United Nations mandate expires at the end of the year.
Senior official confident of US-Iraq deal in July A top American official expressed confidence Tuesday the U.S. and Iraq will finalize a long-term security pact on time next month despite strong opposition from Iran and a storm of criticism from Iraqi lawmakers who must ratify the deal. David Satterfield, the State Department's top adviser on Iraq, said both sides were committed to reaching an agreement, which would also provide a legal basis for keeping U.S. troops here after the United Nations mandate expires at the end of the year.
US military seeking 'trainers' for Afghanistan The Pentagon is scrambling to find trainers mercenaries to send to Afghanistan, but it will be difficult to do that before commanders reduce the number of U.S. troops in Iraq, the top military officer said Tuesday. The quandary has left U.S. military leaders short in a region of the world where they believe the next [Bush] terrorist attack against the United States will form.
Suspected U.S. missile fired in NW Pakistan A pilotless U.S. drone was suspected to have fired a missile into a Pakistani area on the Afghan border on Tuesday, but there was no word on the target or casualties, a government official said. The missile was thought to have been fired into northwest Pakistan where this year, U.S.-controlled Predator aircraft have struck at least four sites used by 'al Qaeda' operatives, killing dozens of civilians.
Senate Republicans block taxes on oil majors --Democratic plan to tax windfall profits of large oil companies blocked Senate Republicans have blocked a Democratic plan to tax the windfall profits of the largest oil companies. Democrats on Tuesday failed, 51-43, to get the 60 votes needed to overcome a GOP filibuster of the energy package, and bring the bill up for consideration.
IG criticizes FAA's training of air controllers An inspector general says the government is hiring so many new air traffic controllers that it cannot efficiently train them. The inspector general said the FAA uses a database replete with errors to manage the training and has failed to implement remedial steps the FAA itself promised in 2004.
President Bush regrets his legacy as man who wanted war — Tom Baldwin and Gerard Baker in Ljubljana — President Bush has admitted to The Times that his gun-slinging rhetoric made the world believe that he was a “guy really anxious for war” in Iraq. He said that his aim now was to leave …
Nev gov Gibbons sends 100s txt msgs 2 other womans cell, not wifes — You know that unidentified estranged wife of a Reno doctor that the governor of Nevada is not having an affair with? — Well, during one month last year he exchanged 850 text messages with her phone from his official state phone, at 15 cents per.
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