Bush Administrations Former Chief Procurement Officer Indicted & Iraqi Suicide Bomber Kills 10 in Today's Details 10/6/05

- WASHINGTON - The Bush administration's former chief procurement official was indicted Wednesday by a federal grand jury on charges of making false statements and obstructing investigations into high-powered Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff. The five felony counts in the indictment charge David H. Safavian with obstructing Senate and executive branch investigations into whether he aided Abramoff in efforts to acquire property controlled by the General Services Administration around the nation's capital.

- WASHINGTON — Rep. Doc Hastings, the Washington state Republican who chairs the House ethics committee, touched off a political controversy this week with statements supporting embattled Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas. Hastings told the Yakima Herald-Republic that his committee would not investigate a 15-month-old complaint about DeLay's role in alleged illegal campaign contributions in Texas. Such an investigation would duplicate the work of the Texas district attorney who obtained indictments against DeLay over the fund-raising issue, Hastings said. "We don't have the resources," he added.

- WASHINGTON - Tom DeLay deliberately raised more money than he needed to throw parties at the 2000 presidential convention, then diverted some of the excess to longtime ally Roy Blunt through a series of donations that benefited both men's causes. When the financial carousel stopped, DeLay's private charity, the consulting firm that employed DeLay's wife and the Missouri campaign of Blunt's son all ended up with money, according to campaign documents reviewed by The Associated Press.

- A suicide bomber killed at least seven Iraqis and injured nine others today as American and Iraqi security officials prepared for an expected surge in violence ahead of the Oct. 15 referendum on a new constitution.

- The 2005 hurricane season became the second busiest in history Wednesday and gave ample notice that it's far from over. As Tropical Storm Tammy washed ashore near Jacksonville on Wednesday evening, forecasters were keeping an eye on a system brewing in the southern Gulf of Mexico.