SPB News for Sunday.

Iraq Insurgency Runs on Stolen Oil Profits --'We'd all be hanged' if the refinery had operated this way under Mr. Hussein's government, one senior refinery official said. On a good day, 500 [KBR] tanker trucks will leave the Baiji refinery filled with fuel with a street value of $10 million. At least one-third, and possibly much more, of the fuel from Iraq’s largest refinery here is diverted to the [US] black market, according to American military officials. Tankers are hijacked, drivers are bribed, papers are forged and meters are manipulated -- and some of the earnings go to insurgents who are still killing more than 100 Iraqis a week.

Army judge in Guantánamo Bay rebukes government --An Army judge ordered the Pentagon to give lawyers interrogation records to help them prepare their defense case for Guantánamo Bay captive Omar Khadr. In a rebuke to the government, an Army judge Friday issued five successive orders instructing the Pentagon to do more to help lawyers for Canadian captive Omar Khadr build a defense case. The judge ordered prosecutors to give Khadr's lawyers the list of all American personnel who interrogated the Canadian as well as access to their handwritten notes, made both in Afghanistan and at the prison camp here. He postponed a May 5 trial date to allow for more hearings on acceptable evidence, but set no date. And he ordered that an on-scene commander expected to testify against Khadr at the trial submit to questioning by the Canadian's defense lawyers.

Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan War Veterans Speak Out Hundreds of veterans are testifying against war crimes this weekend in Washington, DC. Nina Berman shares their stories. (Photo essay)

Pentagon: $520 Million for Space Weapons Research Over the years, the gang at the Center for Defense Information has... just released their survey of the Pentagon's 2009 budget, highlighting research that could lead to arms in space. By the absolute most conservative estimate, we're talking $520 million dollars in next year's budget. The real number is likely several multiples of that.

Thousands protest over Iraq, Afghanistan in London, Glasgow Thousands of protesters gathered in London and Glasgow Saturday ahead of the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, calling for the withdrawal of British troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. In the capital, activists rallied at Trafalgar Square before marching the short distance to parliament while in Glasgow, demonstrators walked from the city centre to the Glasgow Green park on the banks of the River Clyde.