Norwegians were puzzled by the threat, partly because the nation did not join the war in Iraq. Norwegian forces were part of Operation Enduring Freedom against the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan.

it's not too late for Canada to win a coveted prime ministerial invitation to George W. Bush's ranch in Texas by following the ennobling Aussie example of outsourcing your foreign policy to Washington.

Byrd, D-W.Va., said: "If the situation in Iraq is the result of liberation, we may have set the cause of freedom back 200 years."

Evidence is mounting to suggest that between 5,000 and 10,000 Iraqi civilians may have died during the recent war,

Officials in Iraq and Washington stressed that because the unit studied in greatest detail had been thoroughly decontaminated with a still unidentified caustic agent, it was impossible to say whether it had ever produced agents for bioweapons.

The Pentagon made an interesting choice when it hired a U.S. company to build a small wireless phone network in Iraq: MCI, aka WorldCom, perpetrator of the biggest accounting fraud in American business and not exactly a big name in cellular service.