Morning Buzz: April 9, 2007

This morning's top stories:

• An exclusive story by U.S. News & World Report's Linda Robinson found an alarming trend on veterans' disabilities. New data show that a majority of seriously wounded service members are not paid full military retirement benefits and sometimes face a hostile bureaucracy at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
• Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on tens of thousands of Iraqis to rally in the streets of two southern cities today to mark the four-year anniversary of the fall of Baghdad.
• An official in Iraq's post-invasion government has published a harsh but authoritative account that reflects on why Iraqis might have lost confidence in U.S.-led efforts in Iraq.
• The White House plans to file two complaints with the World Trade Organization this week over what the administration calls unfair trade practices by China, CNN reports according to two senior administration officials.
• Researchers at Purdue University have designed a portable biorefinery that can transform certain types of inorganic trash and food remains into electricity.