'Peace Mom,' Supporters Return To Bush Ranch

By Associated Press

CRAWFORD, Texas -- Cindy Sheehan has returned to Crawford, Texas, to resume her protest against the war in Iraq.

The mother of a soldier killed in Iraq last year invigorated the anti-war movement in August when she began a lonely vigil outside President Bush's Crawford ranch and was joined by hundreds of others.

Sheehan was greeted by about three-dozen cheering supporters last night when she arrived at the Waco airport. She vowed to "keep pressing" until U.S. troops are brought home.

A dozen protesters were arrested near the ranch Wednesday. More than 100 continued the protest yesterday with a symbolic Iraqi meal. Instead of the usual Thanksgiving feast, they ate salmon, lentils and rice.

In Iraq, the U.S. military announced the death of another American soldier in Iraq, who was killed when his tank was involved in an accident south of Baghdad. The military is not releasing details.

He was the seventh American to die in Iraq in two days. Two other soldiers were killed Thursday when a roadside bomb exploded southwest of Baghdad. On Wednesday, three Americans died of gunshot wounds in Baghdad and a fourth died of wounds sustained in a bombing west of the city.

Thirty Iraqis were killed in a suicide bombing Thursday at a hospital. Four U.S. soldiers who had been giving out presents to children there are among the wounded.

More than 2,100 U.S. service members have died in Iraq since the war began.