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Five more American
troops die
The U.S. command
announced that five more
American service members
were killed in Iraq, indicating
the challenges still facing the
United States and its partners
as this country approaches a
decisive stage in its political ■
development. It has been six
months since Iraq’s govern-
ment took office April 28.
At least 2.010 members of
the U.S. military have died
since the Iraq war began in
March 2003. according to an
Associated Press count.
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The number of Iraqis who
have died violently since the
U.S.-led invasion is many
times larger than the U.S. mili- ‘
tary death toll of 2,000 in Iraq.
In one sign of the enormity of
the Iraqi loss, at least 3,870
were killed in the past six
months alone, according to an
Associated Press count.
One U.S. military
spokesman said it is possible
the figure for the entire war
could be 30.000 Iraqis, which
many experts see as a credible
estimate. Others suspect the
number is far higher, since the
chaos in Iraq leaves the poten-
tial for many killings to go
unreported.
The losses are far larger than
most analysts and Pentagon
planners expected before the
war and mean Iraqi civilians
are bearing most of the suffer-
ing, >
“We may never know the
true number of the Iraqi public
that has been killed or injured
in this war,” said the U.S. mili-
tary spokesman in Baghdad.
Lt. Col. Steve Boylan. “The
Iraqi public has taken the
brunt of the casualties.”
Every day claims more vic-
tims: A car bomb targeting
American troops that kills
Iraqi passers-by. An insurgent
attack on a police station.
Sectarian militias dumping
blindfolded corpses in the
Euphrates River.
Civilians made up more than
two-thirds of the Iraqis killed
in war-related violence since
the country's first elected gov-
ernment took power on April
28. according to the AP count.
The rest were Iraqi security
personnel.
Boylan said the U.S, military.
keeps its own tally of Iraqi
dead, but does not release it.
He said he had asked U.S.
authorities to see the estimates
of Iraqi dead himself, and was
refused.
But he suggested an estimate >
from Iraq Body Count, a
British anti-war group that lias
compiled a death toll based on
media reports, appeared credi-
ble. The group estimated that
from 26.690 to 30.051 Iraqi
civilians were killed, or rough-
ly 1.000 per month in the 30
months since the war began.
While American troops are
killed at the rate of about 60 kv
70 per month, the new Iraqi
military suffers that many
deaths in a week, mainly from
insurgent attacks that rose to
. about 90 per day in September.
O'Hanlon said.
BY JOHN SOLOMON
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON —- Vice President
Dick Cheney’s chief of staff resigned
Friday after he was indicted on
charges of obstructing a grand jury
investigation and lying about his
actions that blew the C1A cover .of an
Iraq war critic’s wife.
I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby became
the first high-ranking White House
official in decades to be criminally
charged while still in office. A sec-
ond key figure in the two-year CIA
leak investigation, presidential strate-
gist Karl Rove, was-spared from
criminal charges for the time being.
Libby wasn’t indicted specifically
for the leak, but special prosecutor
Patrick Fitzgerald left little doubt that
he believed Cheney’s top aide learned
Valerie Plame’s classified identity
from the CIA. State Department and
hjs own boss and then revealed it to
reporters.
“It’s important that a CIA officer’s
. identity be protected, that it be pro-
tected not just for the officer, but for
the nation’s security." the prosecutor ,
said. “Mr. Libby was the first official weeks of the Bush presidency, which for the past two years expired Friday, before stepping down, He became the
VP aide charged in leak case,
resigns from White House post
But he said. “It’s not over.” declining highest-ranking White House official
•to address Rove’s fate. The prosecu- to resign under indictment in the
tor is still weighing whether to three decades since Vice President
Spiro Agnew stepped down over a
criminal case during the.Watergate
era. ' .
Cheney said he accepted the lesig-
ition with regret because Libby is
me of the most capable and talented
Plame's identity in summer 2003 to individuals I have ever known.”
P'.n'cl, Ui.cknnU lochpk lV.L„n T11C e|t>sest fy bright I1CWS Friday
for his criticism of the Bush adminis- for the White House was word from
Iraq. . confidant was not being indicted
In the end, like so many other along with Libby.
heroes, accorded a public viewing in the Capitol to data released Friday by the U.S, Agriculture
Rotunda. It’s the place where, six. years ago, Department. Between 2002 and 2004. more than
President Clinton and congressional leaders laud- 16 percent of Texas households w ere food inse-
ed, the former seamstress for a simple act of defi- cure, meaning that at some point they had trouble
ance that changed the course of race relations. providing enough food for all their family mem-
On Sunday, Parks becomes the first woman to bers. the USDA report said.
lie in honor in the vast circular room under the hi nearly 5 percent of Texas households, at least
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during that .period because they couldn’t afford ,
enough food. That’s the fourth*highest rate in the .
country. Nationwide, 11.4 percent of households
were at risk of going hungry during that period,
and 3.6 percent of U.S..households had at least
one member go hungry, the USDA said.
State has book surplus, urges
districts to get orders in
AUSTIN — Textbook shortages that hindered
school districts when classes began iii August have .
given way to a surplus of books.
So many extra books are on hand that the Texas
Education Agency is asking superintendents to
review their textbook needs and get their orders in ,
for whatever they need from overstocked publish-
ers. Texas education officials have been authorized,
to spend $295 million this year on new textbooks
for foreign language, health, art and music class-
es. As much as one-third of that is still unspent.
The Dallas Morning News reported Friday.
false statements, lawyers said.
Friday ’s charges stemmed from a
two-year investigation into whether , a
Rove, Libby or any other administra- nation with regret because Libby is"
tion officials knowingly reveated “one of the most capable and talentei
ous. Plame's identity in summer 2003 to " • • •■
“In our System, each individual is punish her husband, Joseph Wilson,
presumed innocent and entitled to f"' - -r‘'- - n -'■ - ■
due process and a fair trial,” the pres- tration’s use of prewar intelligence on Rove’s attorney that the presidential
In the end, like so many other
government officials to tell Libby
about Plame’s secret work for the
CIA before it was leaked to reporters,
Fitzgerald said there was nothing
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no allegation that the vice president
Washington scandals, prosecutors
zeroed in on an alleged cover-up.
I Libby, 55, was charged with five
" felonies alleging obstruction of jus-
tice, perjury to a grand jury and mak-
ing false statements to FBI agents. If
convicted, he could face a maximum
of 30 years in prison and $1.25 mil-
lion in fines.
Fitzgerald suggested that proving
Libby lied to the grand juiy would be
an easier case to make than showing
he intentionally revealed a secret
officer’s cover. Specifically,the pros-
ecutors alleged that Libby concocted
a false story that he got Plame's
name from reporters and passed it on'
to others when in fact he got the
information from classified sources.
“Mr. Libby’s story that he Was at
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passing on from one reporter what he
Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby walks from the heard from another, was not true. It
White House on crutches Friday to the Eisenhower Executive Building on the White was false.” the prosecutor said. "And
House compound. Libby was indicted Friday on charges of obstruction of justice, he lied about it afterward, under oath,
perjury and making false statements in the CIA leak investigation, a politically repeatedly.”
charged case that could cast a harsh light on President Bush's push to war.
Bush heads to Gamp David to
ponder Supreme Court nominee
WASHINGTON — President Bush is mulling a Capitol dome.Congress has authorized this rite
short list of prospective Supreme Court nominees only 29 times since homage was paid to Henry
this weekend at the Camp David presidential clay in 1852. Those honored include Abraham
retreat. Liberals fear Bush will nominate someone Lincoln, Gen. John Pershing. John Kennedy,
to please the GOP s right flank, w'hich opposed the Lyndon Johnson, Hubert Humphrey and unknown
failed nomination of Harriet Miers. Conservatives soldiers from the world wars, the Korean War and
expect Bush to choose someone with a stellar legal foe Vietnam War. The most recent was President
background judicial experience and a public Reagan in June last year.
record of opinions. For three weeks, conservative Parks, arrested in 1955 after refusing to give up
Republicans criticized Miers, saying the Texas |ier |,us seat t0 a white man in Montgomery. Ala.,
lawyer and loyal Bush confidante had thin creden- turned t0 her minister> the Rev. Martin Luther
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Though Cheney was one of the top death in Iraq and the embarrassing
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Bush’s Supreme Court nominee. charge Bush’s closest adviser with
Bush, whose approval rating is
near the lowest point of his presiden-
wrong with that contact. “We make cy, praised Libby’s years of govern-
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committed any criminal act,” he said, “ongoing legal proceedings are seri-
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 324, Ed. 1 Saturday, October 29, 2005, newspaper, October 29, 2005; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1191577/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.