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PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: President George Bush spoke to the nation during a rare live weekly radio address from the Rose Garden at the White House this morning. He announced that the U.S. military will send an additional 10,000 National Guard troops to Louisiana and Mississippi to assist in hurricane relief. The influx of new National Guard troops is in addition to 7,000 active-duty federal ground troops being sent to the area by the President. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will visit Mississippi and Louisiana tomorrow, and the President returns Monday. His planned schedule has been cleared. Even his...

Myers went on to say, "The real facts show that 10 major lines of inquiry, including an independent panel composed of non-Department of Defense (DOD) personnel, found that the Defense Department did not promulgate interrogation policies or give guidance that directed, sanctioned or encouraged abuse. The DOD has always required detainees to be treated humanely." Myers added, "The Post's continued distortion of the facts is a disservice to its readers and is insulting to the thousands of uniformed men and women who make sacrifices for our nation." That's correct. And this is why we maintain that this kind of media...

Newsweek has blood on its hands. Sixteen Afghans have been killed and about 100 injured since violent anti-US protest erupted on Wednesday over a report in Newsweek magazine that U.S. military interrogators at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba may have desecrated the Koran. Newsweek reported in its May 9 edition that military investigators had confirmed allegations by FBI agents on detainee abuse, including an incident in which at least one Koran was thrown into a toilet. Video footage of angry bearded mullahs brandishing posters saying "death to America'' and "punish the culprits'' was shown today on the Pakistani television. The footage...

Protests were planned across Pakistan Friday as Muslim anger over the alleged desecration of the Koran by the U.S. military spread outwards from Afghanistan, where at least seven people have been killed in violent clashes with security forces. The Pentagon said Thursday there is no evidence to support an allegation that a copy of the Islamic text had been flushed down a toilet "in an attempt to rattle suspects" held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba. The brief item, citing an unnamed source, was published in Newsweek magazine. General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,...