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Top Analyst: Surge Hasn't Cut Into Iraqi Violence

The U.S. troop surge in Iraq has not significantly reduced violence there, according to Thomas Fingar, the nation's top intelligence analyst. Meanwhile, President Bush has announced Donald Kerr as his pick to be the next deputy director of National Intelligence.

10 Years Later, The Nation Remembers The Sept. 11 Attacks

Around the nation today, the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was marked with prayers, solemn ceremonies, vows to remember the nearly 3,000 victims and pledges to never let terrorists fundamentally change the American way of life.

Citizen Voices

Hands Off The Hoses

Many Evacuees Express Gratitude and Hope

Fire has chased more than 500,000 people from their homes. Many stayed with friends and family, others scrambled to check-in to hotels and motels. Some chose to sleep in their cars. And then there are

Tracy Wergley Graebener, a labor and delivery nurse, checks vital signs on a newborn at Virginia's Reston Hospital Center.

Nursing Offers A Healthy Employment Future

More nursing jobs will be created in the next decade than in any other single profession. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that nearly 600,000 new jobs for registered nurses will be created by 2018. The median wage for a registered nurse is more than $62,000 — almost twice the average for all occupations.

Magazine Depiction Of Obamas Fuels Outrage

Cover art for the current New Yorker magazine shows a caricature of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in Islamic dress and his wife, Michelle, armed with a machine gun and wearing fatigues. A former magazine editor and a media blogger discuss outcry over the image.

Libyan rebels watch smoke rising from an oil pipe just outside the town of Ras Lanuf, where many anti-regime fighters retreated after artillery and airstrikes from government troops Wednesday.

Gadhafi: 'We Will Die Here On The Dear Soil Of Libya'

The Libyan leader pumped his fist as he made a surprise address to crowds in the capital, blocks from where government gunmen on rooftops reportedly fired down on protesters streaming out of mosques. Several witnesses told the AP that a number of protesters died, but the reports could not be immediately confirmed.

Members of Libya's police forces waving the country's old national flag and with a truckbed full of children parade in the eastern city of Tobruk.

Gadhafi: 'We Will Die Here On The Dear Soil Of Libya'

Libya's Moammar Gadhafi made a surprise appearance in the capital in which he told a crowd of supporters that together they would "defeat any foreign attempt" to overthrow his regime.

Adam Gadahn, also known as Azzam al-Amriki, is an American who grew up in Southern California, converted to Islam and joined al-Qaida. Here he speaks in a 106-minute-long video released Sept. 22, 2009.

Two Americans Become Al-Qaida Media Strategists

There are a lot of different ways of promoting the terrorist message, but few people have been as successful at doing so as Americans Adam Gadahn and Anwar al-Awlaki.

Local Reporter Returns to Iraq Embedded With Camp Pendleton Marines

Tony Perry, the San Diego Bureau Chief for the Los Angeles Times, is heading back to Iraq for the sixth time. We ask Tony why he is going back, what he expects to see, and how he manages life in a wa

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