I have had a quick glance at the Sunday's on the other side of the Atlantic.

Iraq is pretty much the theme,The New York Times lead story is

U.S. Finds Iraq Insurgency Has Funds to Sustain Itself

According to the Times

"The report, obtained by The New York Times, estimates that groups responsible for many insurgent and terrorist attacks are raising $70 million to $200 million a year from illegal activities. It says $25 million to $100 million of that comes from oil smuggling and other criminal activity involving the state-owned oil industry, aided by “corrupt and complicit” Iraqi officials."

Its second lead concerns the special commissio on Iraq led by former secretary of State James Baker.

"Now, at 76, Mr. Baker is in high diplomat mode, on a mission, friends and supporters say, to aid his country and his president — and, while he is at it, seal his legacy in the realm of statesmen, a sphere he cares about far more than politics."

The Washington Post leads with the headline

Baghdad Braces For More Reprisals
Cellphones and Web Spread Threats,

"In the aftermath of one of the deadliest spasms of violence, a new level of fear and foreboding has gripped Baghdad, fueled in part by sectarian text messages and Internet sites, deepening tensions in an already divided capital.
In interviews across Baghdad on Saturday, Sunnis and Shiites said they were preparing themselves for upheaval, both violent and psychological. They viewed the bombings that killed more than 200 people Thursday in the heart of Baghdad's Shiite Muslim community of Sadr City as a trigger for more reprisal killings."

Its second lead is a domestic one

"House Democrats have vowed to act quickly after taking power in January to lift a ban on Medicare negotiations with drugmakers, which they hope will save as much as $190 billion over a decade. But House leaders have yet to settle on a strategy and acknowledge that negotiation is, in any case, unlikely to generate sufficient savings to fill the "doughnut hole," the much-criticized gap in coverage that forces millions of seniors to pay 100 percent of drug costs for a few weeks or months each year."

USA Today also leads with Iraq claiming that

"The Iraq war is about to reach a benchmark that puts it on par with World War II by one measure: Sunday, it will have lasted the same number of days — 1,347 —that the United States fought the Axis. "

But it points out

"That is where most similarities end, though.

"World War II was fought with navies over two oceans and soldiers on three continents. Militaries faced each other in uniform. Cities were destroyed. No attempts were made to foster elections, build schools or repair economies until the war ended.

In Iraq, whose military was destroyed within weeks of the U.S.-led invasion, the conflict is of a much different nature.

“Guerrilla warfare, counterinsurgency and civil war is what we're in the middle of now,” says Nick Mueller, president and CEO of the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. “The whole picture is a lot muddier” than trying to defeat Germany, Japan and Italy. "

And with Xmas fast approaching,the paper tells us that

Point & click holidays


Retailers want this to be the best cyber-Christmas you've ever had.
HomeDepot.com just introduced do-it-yourself video tips. A week-long sale starts Monday at Walmart.com, where you can get better deals than in Wal-Mart stores. And Staples.com's experts will take the answers to five questions about the person you're shopping for and suggest gifts.
“Consumers are clearly shifting their preferences to online,” says Kurt Peters, editor in chief of Internet Retailer magazine. “Retailers who want to have a future will have to have a good website.”
More than 80% of retailers' websites now offer free shipping, usually with minimum purchases, to online shoppers. Some let you order online and pick up merchandise at a store. Many offer more selection, different products and hard-to-find sizes that aren't available in stores. And still others bring the best of Web shopping — product comparisons, reviews and easy-to-find products — to the mall with in-store computers.

The La Times doesnt go with Iraq but instead leads with drug factories across its border with Mexico

"The methamphetamine laboratories that once plagued California's hinterlands and powered a national explosion of drug abuse have been replaced by an increasing supply from Mexico, U.S. law enforcement officials say.Methamphetamine production has surged south of the border, from Baja California ranches to the highlands of Michoacan to the industrial parks here in Mexico's second largest city, where authorities in January busted the largest laboratory ever discovered in the Americas. "