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[/url]AP - Osama bin Laden issued ominous new threats in an audiotape broadcast Sunday, purportedly saying the West was at war with Islam and calling on his followers to go to Sudan to fight a proposed U.N. force. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - President Bush hailed on Saturday an agreement by Iraqi leaders to form a new coalition government as a historic achievement that "will make America more secure." Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Afghan security forces surrounded Taliban fighters hiding in a village in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, launching a gunbattle that killed at least three militants and a police officer. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has defended the Kurdish peshmerga militia, insisting they were a "regulated force". Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Tensions between the Hamas-led government and President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction flared into a shootout at the Palestinian Health Ministry on Sunday, despite pledges to calm an eruption of internal fighting. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Three U.S. soldiers were killed Sunday when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb northwest of Baghdad, the U.S. command said. That brought the number of American troops killed in the Iraqi capital area over the weekend to eight. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Iraqi police found the bodies of six young men, bound and with bullet holes in their heads, on Sunday in Baghdad's violent Sunni district of Adhamiya, where sectarian tensions sparked fierce gun battles last week. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - City folks, don't worry. Nobody expects pigeons, more common than manhole covers, will bring the deadly bird flu virus. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - The Central Intelligence Agency warned US President George W. Bush before the Iraq war that it had reliable information the government of Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, a retired CIA operative disclosed. Link To Original Article
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AP - Specialists in paranormal research are investigating whether a historic whaling ship might be home to the ghost of a long-ago seafarer. Link To Original Article
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Reuters - A mortar bomb killed five people near the Iraqi Defense Ministry in Baghdad on Sunday, police said. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - PBS won a leading 12 Creative Craft Daytime Emmy Awards on Saturday night, including seven trophies for "Sesame Street." Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - President Bush said Saturday that the new political leadership in Iraq will shoulder the burden for securing the country, but he did not commit to a drawdown of American forces that now are playing the lead role. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Deena Kastor broke her own American record to win the London Marathon on Sunday, while Felix Limo out-sprinted defending champion Martin Lel to take the men's race. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Three U.S. soldiers were killed Sunday when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb northwest of the capital, raising to eight the number of Americans killed this weekend in Baghdad area. Link To Original Article
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AP - The former chief of the CIA's European operation is accusing the White House of ignoring the spy agency's doubts that Iraq had a budding nuclear program or weapons of mass destruction as the U.S. prepared for war. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden said the West's shunning of the Hamas-led Palestinian government showed it was waging a "Crusader-Zionist war" on Muslims, according to an audiotape attributed to him and aired on Sunday. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AP - Afghan security forces surrounded Taliban fighters hiding in a village in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, launching a gunbattle that killed at least three militants and a police officer. Link To Original Article
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[/url]AFP - US President George W. Bush hailed the nomination of a new Iraqi prime minister Saturday following months of waiting in which Washington grew increasingly frustrated over Iraqi leaders' inability to agree. Link To Original Article
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[/url]Reuters - Rocket attacks, blasts and the discovery of several bodies, apparently executed, around Iraq on Sunday underscored the challenges facing the prime minister-designate as he tries to form a government. Link To Original Article
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