All the News That Fits. . . Pentagons Quagmire Plans, Cali Bringing Treason Back and More

• Pessimistic Pentagon plans include no troop withdrawal until 2010.
• For the first time since the Second World War, American courts indict a man for treason. Twenty-eight-year-old al-Qaeda agent of Californian origins faces the death penalty, if the FBI can find him.
• New Orleans officials say the airline industrys reluctance to fully service their city is keeping away large conventions and big money tourism.
• Out of Control, Ridiculous, Goofy. Those are adjectives the former second-in-command of the Faith-Based Initiatives office says the Bush Administration privately uses to discuss evangelical Christians a base Karl Rove refers to as the nuts. Soon-to-be-released tell-all book describes a White House that uses departments of government and taxpayers money to mobilize the religious vote, while merely feigning piety itself.
• For the book version of An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore wins a literary prize. NBC to broadcast the awards show.