Today's Details

-Attendees at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in San Francisco on Friday passed a resolution condemning "anti-press policies" taken by the Bush administration in recent years. It was described as the first such resolution against a president since the Vietnam war era. DETAILS

-While American politicians and generals in Washington debate the possibility of civil war in Iraq, many U.S. officers and enlisted men who patrol Baghdad say it has already begun. (Exactly what has to occur before those making the decision to sit our kids in the midst of this mess say out loud that the civil war in Iraq is indeed a civil war? Are they waiting for someone from each side to issue a formal declaration of war on the other? A certain daily death toll? WHAT is the milestone that must be reached which prompts Washington to admit what is obvious to the rest of us?) DETAILS

-Iran's Deputy Oil Minister Mohammad Hadi Nejad-Hosseinian said on Friday global crude oil prices could touch $100 a barrel on geopolitical tension and soaring winter demand. DETAILS

-The United States and France agreed Saturday on a draft U.N. Security Council resolution that calls for an end to the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah but would allow Israel to defend itself if attacked, officials said. DETAILS

-U.S. reinforcements sent to Baghdad to help quell sectarian violence and clamp down on other attacks took up positions in a restive neighborhood Saturday, while two bombs at a market northeast of the city wounded eight people. DETAILS