A majority of Americans -- 53 percent -- favors setting a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, with 47 percent saying the deadline should be in a year or less, according to a CNN poll released Friday.Among those who favor setting a deadline of a year or less, opinions also are divergent.The survey found 13 percent of Americans want withdrawal within a few weeks; 15 percent want it in six months; and 19 percent want it in a year.The poll also showed Americans' approval of the way President Bush is handling the Iraq war was up 5 points from May's poll to 39 percent. His disapproval rating fell 8 points, to 54 percent....
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 Report details detainee abuse by US forces |
U.S. special operations troops kept some Iraqi detainees chained in a room with a diet of bread and water for as long as 17 days, according to a U.S. military report made public on Friday under a court order. The report by Army Brig. Gen. Richard Formica, dated November 8, 2004, but withheld by the Pentagon until now, examined in the wake of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal the treatment of detainees in Iraq by U.S. special operations troops. The heavily redacted report was turned over by the U.S. government to the American Civil Liberties Union under court order as part of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. It also described detainees being kept in very small cells, including one who was naked "because he continually urinated on himself and his clothes," and exposed to loud music to prevent them from communicating and sleeping. "The government's own documents demonstrate that the abuse of detainees in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay and Afghanistan was widespread and systemic...
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| Mayor Demotes Portland Police Chief After Probe Into Scandal That Included Explicit E-Mails |
Portland's mayor demoted the city police chief to captain on Friday following an investigation into a scandal that included sexually explicit e-mails and allegations of abuse of power. Mayor Tom Potter said the investigation found that most allegations of misconduct by Derrick Foxworth were unsubstantiated. But he said that Foxworth had used poor judgment in sharing department information with Angela Oswalt, a desk clerk with whom Foxworth acknowledged having a "brief but intense" affair while they worked together, but before he was promoted to chief in 2003. "Men and women of the Portland Police Bureau and members of the public look to their chief to set the tone for acceptable conduct," said Potter, a former Portland police chief. ...
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| Catholic Group Pelts Protestant Paraders With Rocks in Belfast |
Catholic militants hurled rocks and golf balls Friday night at paraders from the Orange Order, Northern Ireland's major Protestant brotherhood, authorities said. A Catholic woman was injured when she was struck by a thrown object as about 100 Orange Order supporters passed near a hard-line Catholic district in north Belfast. The Orange Order stages more than 2,000 parades across Northern Ireland each summer. The group's biggest demonstration comes on July 12. The yearly parading, through some of the most bitterly divided parts of Belfast, previously has triggered violence but Catholic leaders this year pledged to keep stone-throwing youths away and instead mount a sidewalk protest. ...
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| Art teacher in hot water over topless photos School where teacher worked was attended by Bush daughters |
Until they found the topless photos, Austin High School officials considered Tamara Hoover an excellent art teacher with a knack for helping students find their creativity.Now, she's fighting for her job.The photos, which were posted on Flickr.com by her partner, depict Hoover in the shower, lifting weights, getting dressed, in bed and doing other routine activities.Hoover said Friday the photos are art and makes no apologies."I'm an artist and I'm going to participate in the arts," Hoover said. "If that's not something they want me to do then I want to be told that. I don't feel as if I was doing anything that was beyond expectations."The school district said the photos were inappropriate and violate the "higher moral standard" expected of public school teachers. As she was escorted out of class last month she was told that she's become an ineffective teacher....
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| Bomber kills 13; Coalition soldier killed |
A suspected shoe bomber targeting a Shiite imam who criticized Abu Musab al-Zarqawi blew himself up inside one of Baghdad's most prominent mosques during Friday prayers, killing 13 people and shattering a fragile calm imposed by a security crackdown in the capital.Elsewhere, a soldier in the U.S.-led coalition was killed and two others were missing after an attack on a checkpoint, the U.S. military said. The incident took place about 8 p.m. Friday near the town of Yusufiyah, some 12 miles southwest of Baghdad.The bombing of the Buratha mosque, one of several attacks nationwide, was carried out despite a four-hour driving ban intended to prevent suicide car bombs during Friday prayers, the main religious service of the week.Buratha's imam, a leading Shiite politician, blamed al-Qaeda in Iraq for the attack. He said the terror group was trying to reassert itself after the death of its leader in a U.S. airstrike last week....
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