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This statue currently stands outside the Iraqi palace, now home to the 4th Infantry division. It will eventually be shipped home and put in the memorial museum in Fort Hood , TX

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that WHYY-FM's Rachel Buchman (search) left a message at the offices of Laptoplobbyist.com saying, "I wanted to tell you that you're vile, horrible people. You're awful people. You represent horrible ideas. God hates you and he wants to kill your children. You should all burn in hell. Bye." Buchman says she lost her temper, and resigned for what she called "personal reasons" after Laptoplobbyist director Chris Carmouche (search) sent the audio message to 150,000 members of the site as an example of media bias.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times on Tuesday sought a court order to block federal investigators from obtaining records of telephone calls made by two of its reporters immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. The U.S. Department of Justice (news - web sites) is subpoenaing the records from telephone companies as part of a probe into whether government officials tipped off the reporters about investigations of Islamic charities, the newspaper said in court papers.