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General Musharraf will not let the Prince of Wales mingle with locals during his Pakistan tripPRESIDENT MUSHARRAF of Pakistan will protect the Prince of Wales behind a security shield while he is in the country next week, despite a plea from his guest not to be kept from public view. The Prince, who will be accompanied by the Duchess of Cornwall, wanted to avoid a repeat of the suffocating measures imposed during President Bush’s visit in March. The capital, Islamabad, was turned into a ghost town as police and troops kept traffic and pedestrians off the streets. Known activists are...

(From a mom): He told me how wonderful the care packages were and wanted me to tell everyone thank you. He said that one guy we’ll call “Marine X” did get a girl care package and everyone was giving him a hard time. My son said, "Marine X got some really nice smelling lotion and everyone really likes it, so everytime he goes to sleep they steal it from him." I told my son I was really sorry about the mistake, and if he wanted I would send Marine X another package. He told me not to worry about Marine...

ABU GHRAIB, Iraq — On the eve of the first court-martial in the Iraq prisoner abuse scandal, relatives of those still held at Abu Ghraib prison said Tuesday the only suitable punishment would be death -- illustrating the potential gap in expectations in the case. "If they actually committed such offenses, they should be executed," said Odai Ibrahim, 55, as he waited in a line with hundreds of other Iraqis to visit relatives at the prison on the western outskirts of Baghdad -- notorious as the site of executions and torture during Saddam Hussein's regime.