Headlines for 03-07-08

US soldiers show mental strain from combat tours More than a quarter of U.S. soldiers on their third or fourth tours in Iraq suffer mental health problems partly because troops are not getting enough time at home between deployments, the Army said Thursday.


Suicides rise among soldiers at war Last year, 121 soldiers in the Army and active-duty National Guard and Reserves committed suicide, the largest number since the military began keeping records in 1980.


World powers still want Iran nuclear talks: Rice


Care for injured vets raises questions


Iraq 'won't tolerate PKK attacks' Iraqi President Jalal Talabani says his country will not tolerate Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq launching cross-border attacks against neighbouring Turkey.


No information on former FBI agent Still hopeful, the wife of a former FBI agent who vanished a year ago from an Iranian island said Thursday a meeting with State Department officials produced no new information about his whereabouts.


Foreign Policy Increasingly Flows Through Pentagon


Gallup: Record number dissatisfied with US global position


Arab League vows to drop out of NPT if Israel admits it has nuclear weapons They said that if Israel admitted to having the weapons, they would call on the UN Security Council to pressure Israel to destroy its nuclear arsenal and bring its other atomic installation under international inspection.


Israeli warplanes fly over Beirut "Two enemy Israeli warplanes" flew over the southern city of Tyre, Beirut and the port town of Jounieh, north of the capital, before heading back to the "occupied territories," the army said in a statement. The Israeli army said it knew of no activity in Beirut.


Spanish judge drops terror charges against two former Guantanamo inmates Judge Baltasar Garzon said Thursday he has abandoned an extradition request and the original indictment he issued in 2003. The suspects are 45-year-old Palestinian-Jordanian Jamil el-Banna and Libyan-born Omar Deghayes, who is 38.



Israeli forces cross boarder line in south Lebanon


9/11 attacks harm First Amendment The shadow of the Sept. 11 terror attacks is eclipsing press freedom and other constitutional safeguards in the United States, Associated Press President and CEO Tom Curley said Thursday. The Associated Press has really no leg to stand on here when they have been the biggest shills for the Bush administration, the neocons and the Israeli lobby.