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CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq (Oct. 11, 2005) -- After serving nearly 13 years in the Marine Corps respectively, two brothers with 8th Communication Battalion, II Marine Expeditionary Force, Headquarters Group, II MEF (FWD), have found themselves side-by-side in the same unit serving in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom here. Gunnery Sgt. Frank Ashworth and Staff Sgt. Nick Ashworth are brothers separated in age by 14 months, but seem more like best friends catching up on old times. Raised in Grants Pass, Ore., the brothers were raised by their mother. Their father, a Marine veteran who served three tours of duty in...

Bush Pardons Coal Mine Bomber, 13 Others 11 minutes ago President Bush smiles as Vice President Dick Cheney, left, arrives using a cane as Bush was preparing to make a statement on the war on terror, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2005, in the Rose Garden at the White House. Cheney move gingerly with a cane Wednesday as he returned to work at the White House after weekend surgery to repair aneurysms behind both knees. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds) WASHINGTON - President Bush granted pardons Wednesday to 14 people, including a member of the mineworkers union who was convicted for his role in...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - An internal CIA report reportedly criticizes ex-CIA chief George Tenet and several other former and current CIA officials for not dealing effectively with Al-Qaeda before the September 11 attacks. Tenet, who resigned in July 2004 after seven years at the top, was censured for failing to develop and carry out a strategic plan to take on Al-Qaeda in the years before the attacks, two people familiar with the report told The New York Times. The highly classified report, put together by Central Intelligence Agency inspector general John Helgerson, described systemic problems at the CIA before the 2001...

Iraqi Army soldiers conduct a cordon and search mission, searching houses for insurgents in the cordon area in Baghdad, Iraq, June 9, 2005. The U.S. Army A/3-156th Infantry, 256th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, and the Iraqi Army A/4-1 conducted a cordon and search mission to capture insurgents and weapons caches in Baghdad. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jorge A. Rodriguez

U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Kenneth Anthony, left, platoon leader, and Staff Sgt. Michael Jones, center, team leader, Scout Platoon, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 155th Brigade Combat Team, Mississippi National Guard, discuss mission objectives with the platoon’s interpreter during a patrol in Babil Province, Iraq, May 20, 2005. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Matthew Clifton

Iraqi soldiers ride in the back of open trucks from Operation Spear in Karabilah, 320 kilometers (200 miles) west of Baghdad to their base in nearby Qaim, Iraq, Monday, June 20, 2005. About 1,000 U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers finished Operation Spear Monday, near the Iraqi-Syrian border. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

Workers lay feeder cable to the Hamdan electric substation project in Basrah, Iraq, June 7, 2005. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region South is providing quality assurance and design work on the project. U.S. Army photo by B.J. Weiner

U.S. Marines with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, patrol through the streets of Fallujah, Iraq, June 14, 2005. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Robert R. Attebury

Sgt. Leigh Ann Hester, vehicle commander, 617th Military Police Company, Richmond, Ky., stands at attention before receiving the Silver Star at an awards ceremony at Camp Liberty, Iraq, June 16. Hester is the first woman soldier since World War II to receive the Silver Star. Photo by Spc. Jeremy D. Crisp, USA

Eddie Salazar and his mother Sheila, search for their sailor, U.S. Navy Interior Communications Electrician 2nd Class Julio Salazar during the deployment homecoming of the USNS Mercy, June 8, 2005. USNS Mercy rapidly deployed 11 days after the Dec. 26 tsunami for five months from the Naval Station San Diego, Calif, to help provide disaster relief to Southeast Asia. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Scott Taylor

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld joins Secretary of the Army Francis Harvey, Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker, Sgt. Maj. of the Army Kenneth Preston and the youngest and oldest Soldiers in the Military District of Washington in cutting the Army's birthday cake outside the Pentagon June 14. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Carmen Burgess.

Iraqi troops exit a U.S. Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter for a reconnaissance mission in Momadia. Photo by Ronald Shaw Jr.

The battalion colors of 2nd Battalion, 70th Armored Regiment and 2nd Brigade, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, are cased during a transition of authority ceremony in the western Baghdad district of Abu Ghraib on June 9. Full command and control of the base was handed over to the 3rd Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division. Photo by Spc. Brian Schroeder, USA

A mortar team from 3rd Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, dig fighting positions while on patrol in Ghazni Province, Afghanistan. Photo by Joseph Collins Jr.

Pfc. Brendon Piper, from the 443rd Civil Affairs Battalion, 304th Civil Affairs Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, keeps his eye on the vehicles to the rear of his convoy as they roll through Baghdad, Iraq. Photo by Ferdinand Thomas.

Families and friends wait and cheer loudly as the USS Bonhomme Richard moors to the pier at Naval Station San Diego, Calif., June 6, 2005. The USS Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group returned from a six-month deployment in support of the war on terror. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Prince A. Hughes III

The newly upgraded electrical substation in the Al Ameen district of east Baghdad is more durable and reliable. The old electrical grid in Baghdad, built in the 1950s and 60s, was in desperate need of modernization and repair. U.S. Army photo

From left, Capt. Vince Maykovich, Capt. Keith Walters and Sgt. Daniel Stuckey take in a brief breakfast at the home of Hamed Rejab Nega, at center. The meal came during the 2nd Squadron, 14th Cavalry Regiment’s long-distance scouting mission this week for an elusive smuggler in the sands of western Iraq. PETER HALEY/The News Tribune

U.S. Army soldiers make radio contact after arriving by helicopter at night at an undisclosed location south of Baghdad, Iraq where they believed a top leader of the insurgency and close associated of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was hiding, Sunday, June 5, 2005. Although the insurgent leader was not found, Americans and soldiers from the Iraqi Intervention Force detained 15 people. (AP Photo/Jacob Silberberg)

U.S. Army Lt. Col. Roberto L. Garcia, government team chief, 353rd Civil Affairs Brigade, tosses a t-shirt to an Iraqi child at a village outside Baghdad, May 16, 2005. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Jeremy D. Crisp