Jury convicts Libby on four of five charges

WASHINGTON - Former White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby was convicted Tuesday of obstruction, perjury and lying to the FBI in an investigation into the leak of a CIA operative’s identity.

Jury convicts Libby on four of five charges

Afghan children die as US drops one-tonne bombs

Nine civilians, including four children, were killed in Afghanistan when US planes dropped two 2,000lb bombs on their mud home. Their deaths came after at least eight civilians were killed by US Marines a day earlier.

It has been a disastrous two days for the Americans in Afghanistan. First US Marines trying to get to safety after being ambushed by a suicide bomber sprayed gunfire wildly across one of the busiest roads in the country, killing passers-by.

And now US planes have dropped two bombs on a family home, killing children aged between six months and five years.

Last year, the Afghan President Hamid Karzai wept as he pleaded for Western soldiers to take more care to avoid killing civilians. But the killings continue.

Afghan children die as US drops one-tonne bombs

US, North Korea meet to unravel half century of enmity

The United States and North Korea begin landmark negotiations Monday on normalizing relations, a long-standing condition set by the reclusive communist regime for abandoning its nuclear ambitions

US, North Korea meet to unravel half century of enmity

Why Can't We Talk about Peace in Public?

America's growing economic dependence on the hi-tech defense industry is creating a culture that views peace and nonviolence as seditious concepts.

Why Can't We Talk about Peace in Public?

Scott Ritter on Hillary Clinton and Iraq

It Doesn't Matter If Hillary Apologizes for Her Iraq War Vote

Hillary Clinton knew years before she voted for the Iraq war that Saddam Hussein didn't have WMDs -- Bill Clinton lied about Iraq's weapons programs to justify attacking the country in 1998.

Senator Hillary Clinton wants to become President Hillary Clinton. "I'm in, and I'm in to win," she said, announcing her plans to run for the Democratic nomination for the 2008 Presidential election.

Let there be no doubt that Hillary Clinton is about as slippery a species of politician that exists, one who has demonstrated an ability to morph facts into a nebulous blob which blurs the record and distorts the truth. While she has demonstrated this less than flattering ability on a number of issues, nowhere is it so blatant as when dealing with the issue of the ongoing war in Iraq and Hillary Clinton's vote in favor of this war.

Iraqis consider return home: 'Maybe in a million years'

Since the war began four years ago this month, up to 2-million Iraqis have fled their violent, chaotic country. The diaspora has spread throughout much of the region, with Iraqis now living in Egypt, Iran, Turkey, Syria and Lebanon.

Ahmed and Sara Jabar were among the first to move to Jordan, soon after the Americans captured Baghdad in 2003 and the city descended into a hell of looting and thuggery.

They found a $105-a-month walkup in a run-down building, its dim halls littered with trash and broken glass. But "the most important thing is to feel secure," says the 31-year-old Ahmed. "The rest you can manage."

Until a year ago, he worked as a taxi driver ferrying other Iraqis from Baghdad to Amman. One day, Jordanian authorities refused to let his passengers enter, so they turned back toward Baghdad. Near Ramadi, the taxi came under fire.

Five passengers were killed. One passenger and Jabar survived, though he was in a coma for two months. Bullets broke his right leg and three bones in his face.

When he recovered well enough to walk, albeit with metal pins in his leg, Jabar got a job in a bakery. He makes $12 a day, barely enough for food and rent. And not nearly enough for the $250 taxi ride to the Iraqi border, 200 miles away. The Jabars have only a three-month residency permit, meaning every 90 days they are supposed to go back to Iraq and re-enter Jordan.

The latest three months were up Feb. 14. As long as they don't cause trouble, the authorities won't bother them, the couple hope.

It is rare to find an Iraqi here who hasn't lost someone to the mayhem back home, and the Jabars are no exception. In September, Ahmed Jabar's brother disappeared. He had been married three months.

In October, Sara's nephew and niece were killed in a suicide bombing. He was 14. She was 10.

Do the Jabars think they will ever return to Iraq?

"No," says Sara.

"Maybe in a million years," says Ahmed.

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