Tidbits

• Can you say "Mission Accomplished?".  Boston.com is reporting that, from PM Allawi's house in Baghdad, his 70-yr old cousin and family have been abducted.
• Alberto Gonzalez if the new choice for Attorney General.  He'll have a cakewalk of a confirmation process.  This is the guy who called Priscilla Owen a judicial activist who makes law from the bench.  Bye, bye, Priscilla.
• Whether or not former PM, and now cabinet member, Bibi Netanyahu stays or goes in the Israeli Cabinet is now A23 news at the Washington Post.  Can you name another cabinet member of a foreign country whose decision not to resign was A section news?  Thank you, and good morning.