European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 14, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                T2 stars and stripes july 2007 in the states Rice urges Congress to give Iraq time by Pauline Jelinek the associated press Washington Secretary of state condole Ezza Rice exhorted congressional critics of Iraq War policy Friday to give the Bush administration and the fledgling government in Baghdad until septem Ber to make a coherent judgment of where we on the morning after the House voted 223201 for a democratic proposal to Force a troop withdrawal by next Rice acknowledged in a round of television interviews that prime minis Ter Nouri Alma Likis government Hast achieved As much Progress As we would but we  just dismiss As inconsequential the Progress that they have she trucker suspected of multiple homicides the associated press a trucker arrested thursday is suspected in the slayings of six women at truck stops in Ala Georgia and police Bruce has been charged in Only one killing but gave statements implicating him self in five authorities the resident was charged with criminal homicide thursday after being questioned by police at the same truck Stop along interstate 24 in North Nash Ville where Sara Nicole Hulbert was found dead with gunshot wounds on june police said detective Pat Postiglione went to the truck Stop on thursday to conduct a followup interview in the investigation of Hulbert when he got there he saw a truck fitting the description of a vehicle that was spotted the night be fore Hulbert body was Bruce Mendenhall the detective said the appeared nervous when being questioned and granted permission to look inside his Mendenhall was taken into Cus Tody when the detective saw what appeared to be blood inside the police said in a news during the Driver gave a statement implicating him self in Hulbert As Well As the death of Symantha of whose body was found june 6 stuffed in a trash can at another truck Stop in 26 Miles East of police she also was nine file suit against Man who made flight with to the associated press Montreal nine people filed a million lawsuit thurs Day against the globetrotting tuberculosis patient for possibly exposing them to the disease on a commercial flight from Prague to Montreal lawyer a Lac Nguyen filed the motion in Quebec Superior court on behalf of seven canadians and two natives of the czech eight were Pas sengers on the flight with Andrew speaker and the ninth is a brother and Roommate of one of the Pas a 31yearold Atlanta personal injuries was in Europe when he Learned tests showed he had an extremely drug resistant Strain of tuberculosis known As despite warnings from health officials not to Board another International speaker took a czech state run Cha jetliner to health officials now say speak ers Strain of to is not the extremely drug resistant they say tests so far indicate his risk of spreading the infection Are trials set to begin for families of victims new York thousands of 11 victims families have turned to a victims rather than seeking compensation in but with 41 cases still lingering in a Federal a judge has set Tri als to determine potential damages to begin in the week before the sixth anniversary of the 2001 from the associated press Rice argued that Baghdad has made headway in lowering the level of sectarian Point ing to something that int even on that Benchmark list the tremendous change in Al Anbar prov where you have the the local taking Back their streets from i understand Peoples i understand Peoples Imp she but Rice said we ought to stick to the troop buildup strategy that president Bush announced in and wait until september when com manding David Petraeus and ambassador Ryan Crocker Are scheduled to deliver a new assessment of conditions Mitch the re publican said i dont think theres much debate in the Senate about disappointment with the iraqi its pretty but he said he expects the Republican caucus to stand behind the White House took the Posi Tion that the House vote we have at least a cohesive Posi Tion on our Side for Deputy press Secretary Dana Perino said report Likely Means troops will stay until 08 by Robert Burns the associated press Washington while Many in Congress Are pushing president Bush to alter course in Iraq by september if not his new status report on the War strongly implies that the administration believes its military strategy will take Many More months to meet its the report cited no specific but its language suggests what some commanders have hinted at recently the troop reinforcements that Bush ordered in january May need to remain until Spring that a military calculation at Odds with an emerging political consensus in Washington on bringing the troops Home the disconnect Between the military and Politi Cal views on the Best Way Forward is a symptom of four plus years of setbacks in Only mis Steps by the government but also by iraqi political who have fallen far Short of their stated aim of creating a government of National in the View of some members of not just time has Long passed for the iraqis to show that they can parlay Mil itary efforts into Progress on the political that government is simply not providing leadership worthy of the considerable sacrifice of our and this has to change John said after the White House delivered its War report to Congress on Warner was the author of legislation requiring the the president apparently has made the Tion that he can Ward off political pressure to change course before the next required Progress set for by extending troop deployments in Iraq from 12 months to 15 the army has made it Possi ble for Bush to maintain the troop buildup until about april although the War is increasingly Bush does have support in some prominent quarters for continuing his current military not Only for the remainder of this year but into John a retired fourstar army Gener said this week that Security though slow is gaining the thought of pulling out now or in a couple of months makes no sense Keane