Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was supposed to watch President Bush's state of the union address from inside the Capitol. Instead, she was arrested just moments before the President arrived. Her offense: her shirt, bearing an anti-war message and other "unlawful conduct," police said. Capitol Police Sgt. Kimberly Schneider said Sheehan had worn a T-shirt with an anti-war slogan to Tuesday night's speech and covered it up until she took her seat. Police warned her that such displays were not allowed in the House chamber, but she did not respond, the spokeswoman said.

Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan told supporters at a peace forum Saturday that troops would get out of Iraq if millions of U. S. citizens took the simple step that she did outside President Bush's vacation home last summer. "Anybody could do what we did in Crawford, Texas. We just went down and sat down,'' Sheehan told the crowd of several hundred people, with Academy Award-winning actor Sean Penn in the front row. Sheehan, whose 24-year-old soldier son died in Iraq, attracted hundreds of anti-war protesters to her makeshift camp near Bush's ranch in August.

Dutch troops aiding earthquake survivors in Pakistan have been complaining that while they are not allowed to consume alcohol, Spanish and British soldiers (who are allowed) have been ridiculing and taunting them while at campfires. A soldier says, "We were told before we arrived that alcohol was banned in this country or else very difficult to get hold of and we accepted this. "

New government reports show London prostitutes came close to threatening the war effort during WWll by annoying U. S. troops. Newly-released archive material show there were fears the transatlantic alliance could be compromised.

It was deemed as a conversation with U. S. troops, but critics are now calling it a PR move, after it is revealed the questions President Bush asked on a teleconference call Thursday were choreographed to coincide with his goals for the war, and Saturday's vote on a new Iraqi constitution. Allison Barber, deputy assistant defense secretary said, coaching the soldiers before Bush arrived, "This is an important time. The president is looking forward to having just a conversation with you. "