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The Pentagon announces the formation of a military tribunal to preside over the first trials of terror suspects held at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. An Australian and two alleged bodyguards of Osama bin Laden will be the first defendants. Hear NPR's Renee Montagne and Michael Greenberger, law professor at the University of Maryland.

Arab television broadcasts images of two hostages taken in Iraq, one reportedly a U.S. Marine and the other a Pakistani man working with the coalition authority. Militants claim to have captured the Marine after luring him from a base; they have threatened to behead the pair. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

NASA has not launched a space shuttle since the Columbia disaster a year and a half ago. The agency is preparing to return to space next spring, when the 20-year-old shuttle Discovery is slated to launch a Mercury probe. NPR's Richard Harris reports.

The first public audit of the Coalition Provisional Authority's management of $18 billion of Iraqi funds is due this week. An interim report says CPA accounting practices were prone to error and open to fraud. NPR's Emily Harris reports.

Since John Kerry tapped John Edwards as his running mate on Tuesday, the two senators have been on a multi-state tour. In Raleigh, N.C., and Albuquerque, N.M., immigration reform was the focus. NPR's Scott Horsley reports.

An inquiry led by Britain's Lord Butler concludes Saddam Hussein probably did not have weapons of mass destruction. The report finds Prime Minister Tony Blair's government did not deliberately distort prewar intelligence, but calls sources seriously flawed.

Protests over fighting in Najaf cloud the opening of a Baghdad conference to choose an interim national assembly. Shiite demands for Iraqi officials to resume truce talks with militia loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr prompt the delegates to issue a call for Sadr's gunmen to abandon the shrine of the Imam Ali. Hear NPR's Ivan Watson.

Fighting between followers of Muqtada al-Sadr and U.S. forces left much of Najaf heavily damaged. Sadr described the fighting as a struggle to defend the holy city. But in Najaf, a backlash is growing against the young cleric and his violent tactics. NPR's Peter Kenyon reports.

Violence erupts in northern Iraq, as a suicide bomber kills at least 17 people and wounds dozens more outside a police academy in Kirkuk. Meanwhile, U.S. and Iraqi forces fight with insurgents near Mosul. Hear NPR's Jennifer Ludden and NPR's Ivan Watson.

The FBI is investigating whether a high-ranking official at the Pentagon passed classified documents about Iran and Iraq to Israel, U.S. government sources revealed Friday. The documents were allegedly passed by an analyst in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's office to an Israeli lobbying group. Israeli officials categorically denied the allegations. Hear NPR News.