What Caught My Eye Today

Iraq - The U.S. military has noted a "significant improvement" in the aim of attackers firing rockets and mortars into the heavily fortified Green Zone in the past three months that it has linked to training in Iran, a top commander said Thursday. The top U.S. commander in Iraq also expressed cautious optimism over a decline in the number of American troops killed this month. At least 60 U.S. troops have died so far in July after the death toll topped 100 for the previous three months. Well I suppose after 5 years of occupation, their aim was bound to improve. They've certainly had enough practice.

North Korea - North Korea walked out of military talks with South Korea, ending three days of high-level negotiations Thursday with no agreement amid a lingering dispute over their shared sea border. "We've come to the conclusion that we don't need these fruitless talks any more," North Korea's chief delegate said. This week's talks are the highest-level dialogue channel between the two militaries, and were intended to follow up on agreements reached in May on setting up a joint fishing area around the contended border and cooperation on security arrangements for joint economic projects there. Waters around the sea border are rich fishing areas and have been a past scene of deadly conflicts in 1999 and 2002. The two Koreas have made strides toward reconciliation since a 2000 summit between their leaders, but they remain technically at war because the Korean War cease-fire has never been replaced by a peace treaty. It was bound to happen, after all, all good things must come to an end and let's not forget that we're talking about North Korea. All I can say is those must be some awfully tasty fish to derail the peace process.

Lindsay Lohan - Lindsay Lohan, accused of drunken driving and cocaine possession after her second arrest in a month, has denied she was taking drugs. Lohan was booked on suspicion of drunken driving, cocaine possession, bringing a controlled substance into custody and driving on a suspended license. "I am innocent ... did not do drugs they're not mine," she wrote in an e-mail to "Access Hollywood" host Billy Bush. Well that cinches it for me. If Lindsay is going to hang it all out there for "Access Hollywood" then she must be innocent. See this is the different between Paris Hilton and all those pretenders out there. Paris gets booked on "Larry King Live," while Lohan is reduced to sending emails to a Hollywood tabloid TV show.