* Headlines for October 17, 2006 * Civil Rights Attorney Lynne Stewart Sentenced to 28 Months In Jail; Remains Free On Bail * Report From Iraq: Civil War Intensifies From Baghdad to Balad * Iraqi Judge Sentences U.S. Citizen To Death After U.S. Military “Demanded” the Man Be Executed * Tariq Ali on Hugo Chavez, the Axis Of Hope and His New Book “Pirates of the Caribbean”