Following a meeting with members of the Iraq Study Group yesterday, the White House said it would reject proposals for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq as lacking specifics or “meat on the bones.” Without committing to accepting the commission’s recommendations, Bush said, “I’m not sure what the report is going to say. I’m looking forward to seeing it.”
“Immigrants arrested in the United States may be held indefinitely on suspicion of terrorism and may not challenge their imprisonment in civilian courts, the Bush administration said Monday, opening a new legal front in the fight over the rights of detainees.”
Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS), who “was forced to step down as Senate majority leader in 2002 after comments he made at former Sen. Strom Thurmond’s (R-SC) birthday party touched off a racially charged controversy,” last night “formally declared his bid for minority whip.”
Up to 150 people were abducted yesterday from a government research institute in downtown Baghdad, “the largest mass abduction since the start of the U.S. occupation.” Iraq’s higher education minister has ordered all universities closed.
15.6 percent. Unemployment rate for veterans age 20-24, compared to an 8.7 percent unemployment rate for non-veterans.
A recent study found that the Bush administration’s faith-based initiative is reaching few black churches in New Jersey because it is not well publicized, churches are wary of federal involvement, and smaller congregations lack the resources to apply for funding, local pastors say. The results echo a study which found similar results nationwide.
“Top Air Force leadership in Washington is increasingly concerned about the Army using Air Force personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan for tasks traditionally performed by the infantry.” The “airmen’s non-traditional duties include operations such as convoys, interrogations and military policing.”
Chad has declared a state of emergency, as a result of at least 300 people being killed this month, in violence between Arabs and black Africans. “Chad accuses Sudan of exporting the Darfur conflict, while Sudan accuses Chad of backing Darfur’s rebels.”
And finally: In Poland, an election official who “had argued with her colleagues over alleged irregularities” decided to protest by grabbing “a pile of unused ballots and lock[ing] herself in a toilet cubicle.” Police eventually convinced her to “end her protest and return the ballot papers.”
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