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Many American officials and foreign policy experts say the United States has no choice but to stay in Iraq until a stable government is in place. They say pulling out too soon could cause a civil war, create a breeding ground for terrorists and damage American credibility. Now some experts across the political spectrum are challenging that view. NPR's Mike Shuster reports.

In a series of upcoming speeches -- the first scheduled Monday at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. -- President Bush will outline his Iraq policy. Washington insiders have their own views about how the president should make his case. NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld pays a one-day visit to Baghdad, visiting the Abu Ghraib prison complex where abuses of Iraqi prisoners in U.S. custody took place. While in the Iraqi capital, Rumsfeld also addressed troops at the heavily guarded American headquarters. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

American soldiers and Iraqi police raid the home of Ahmed Chalabi, the head of the Iraqi National Congress and a member of the Iraqi Governing Council. During the lead up to the Iraq war, Chalabi was a close ally of the Pentagon. But much of the information he provided has since proven faulty at best, and Chalabi has fallen out of favor with U.S. officials. Hear NPR's Madeleine Brand.

As part of a series of commentaries on the abuse at Abu Ghraib prison, Deborah Johnson, a former television producer, says she is angered by the scandal and will protest the U.S. policies she believes led up to it.

Lori Mildice Hill's husband has been serving overseas since November. Since March, Marine Gunnery Sgt. Daryl Hill has been stationed in Iraq, but Lori doesn't always know where he is. Hear her radio diary.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Robert Baer, a former CIA agent who worked in the Middle East. They discuss potential future terrorist attacks on Saudi Arabia's oil infrastructure. Over the weekend, armed militiamen killed 22 workers at a compound in the Saudi city of Khobar. Baer is the author of upcoming book Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude.

NPR's Vicky O'Hara profiles Lakhdar Brahimi, the former Algerian foreign minister and veteran United Nations negotiator, who is trying to put together an interim government in Iraq.

The U.S. Army releases details of the death of a soldier involved in the ambush that led to the capture of Pfc. Jessica Lynch. Sgt. Donald Walters of Salem, Ore., was not killed in combat, but executed later by Iraqi captors. Colin Fogarty of Oregon Public Broadcasting reports.

The Southern California mountain community of Lake Arrowhead is surrounded by dead pine trees. In anticipation of another bad fire season, the town is now full of logging crews scrambling to remove the dead trees before they become fuel for potentially dangerous wildfires. Susan Valot reports.