Iraq's crude oil production will double within a month, oil exports will resume within three weeks and U.S. troops will secure oil installations until Iraqis can take over the job, the acting postwar oil minister said Saturday.
Six lion cubs born in the cramped zoo owned by Saddam Hussein's son Odai will find freedom in the African bush. The nonprofit SanWild Wildlife Sanctuary has secured the release of the six cubs, their mother and two other lions.
The British Broadcasting Corp. plans to briefly show graphic footage of two British soldiers killed in Iraq despite protest from their families and the Ministry of Defense. The footage will be part of a documentary comparing Western broadcasters' coverage of the war with that of the Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera.
A U.S. military intelligence team in Iraq has uncovered a dozen French passports, and defense officials believe other French passports from the same batch were used by Iraqis to flee the country. Defense officials are still investigating whether the passports were provided covertly by the French government, or were stolen or forged by Saddam Hussein's regime, said defense officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity. France's government has denied that it provided any passports to fleeing Iraqi officials and called news reports of French collaboration with Saddam's regime U.S. "disinformation."