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In the name of
Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Inews
Daily
Saturday 4th March
2006 - 3rd Safar 1427
19 killed in
Baghdad attacks
Armed men stormed an electricity substation and killed Shia factory workers in overnight attacks that killed at least 19 people in Baghdad's southeastern suburbs yesterday. Dozens of armed men arrived in pickups and set fire to the station. In the adjacent Maamil suburb, armed men shot to death 10 Shia southerners employed at a brick factory as they slept in their shacks. Police thought the armed men may have been part of the group that attacked the power station. The government imposed the vehicle ban yesterday in an effort to avert more attacks on the congregation of the Jumu'ah prayers. Muslims in
Athens wait for first mosque
In a small, cold and decrepit apartment in central Athens, scores of Muslims trip over each other to find a space to pray as rain drips onto their heads from the leaky roof. But for these faithful, there is no other choice. About 130 makeshift mosques like this-windowless, airless basements or rooms in warehouses-are all these Muslims have until the Greek capital’s first mosque is erected. A mosque has long been planned for the estimated 150,000 Muslims living in Athens but has been held up over objections from the powerful Orthodox Church. Athens has not had a functioning mosque since the end of Ottoman rule in the early 1800s. The city remains the only capital in western Europe without an Islamic place of worship. Italy plays
down Qadhafi’s ‘hate’ claims
Italy yesterday played down on threats by Libyan leader Moamer Qadhafi of further reprisals on Italians if Tripoli’s historic compensation claim for decades of colonisation by Rome remains unheeded. Qadhafi said rioters who sacked the Italian consulate in Benghazi two weeks ago had wanted to kill the consul because Libyans "hate" Italians. The comments in a televised speech on Thursday mark a new low in relations between Italy and its former North African colony. Italy’s Foreign Minister played down the comments, which come at a sensitive time in relations between the Mediterranean neighbours. IAEA
politically motivated, says Ahmadinejad
The UN nuclear watchdog’s treatment of Iran is politically motivated, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said yesterday as last-ditch nuclear talks with European nations in Vienna ended without agreement. Ahmadinejad, who wrapped up a visit to Malaysia on Friday, accused international bodies of bias. The IAEA’s 35-nation board of governors will convene on Monday to weigh a report by the IAEA chief saying essentially that Iran has ignored a Feb. 4 call to reimpose a suspension of enrichment work to regain world trust. Egypt tortured
UK detainees
Three Britons who spent nearly four years in prison in Egypt for membership of a banned Islamic group said on Wednesday they had been repeatedly tortured for their political beliefs. The allegations came after Reza Pankhurst, Ian Nisbet and Maajid Nawaz were freed by the Egyptian authorities and returned to London’s main Heathrow Airport early on Wednesday evening. All three freely admit to being members of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Britain, which advocates the creation of a worldwide Islamic state. Although currently legal in Britain, the organisation is proscribed in Egypt. US 'flying
gunships' moving to Iraq
The US Air Force has begun moving heavily armed AC-130 aircraft - the lethal "flying gunships" of the Vietnam War - to a base in Iraq as commanders search for new tools to counter the Iraqi resistance. This was confirmed by other Air Force officers, speaking anonymously because of the sensitivity of the subject. The gunships were designed primarily for battlefield use to place saturated fire on massed troops. The use of AC-130s in urban settings, where resistance fighters may be among crowded populations of noncombatants, has been criticised by human rights groups. Sudan threatens
to pull out of AU
A Sudanese minister has said his country might pull out of the African Union if the AU's Peace and Security Council approves replacement of the AU force in Darfur with a UN force. Khartoum has repeatedly rejected the proposal for deployment of international troops in Darfur. AU foreign ministers are to meet on 10 March in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to decide on the transition, agreed upon earlier in principle. Earlier, Omar al-Bashir, the Sudanese president, warned Darfur would become a "graveyard" for any foreign military contingent entering the region against Khartoum's will. Iraqi Imams
accuse outsiders
Shia and Sunni preachers on Friday accused the Americans and the Zionists of sparking sectarian violence in Iraq, while calling for national unity in the face of violence, which has left hundreds dead. "No Arab or Iraqi could have carried out the bombing of the Shia Ali al-Hadi mausoleum in Samarra, or the recent bloody attacks in the capital," said Sheikh Ahmad Hassan Taha in his sermon at Samarra’s main Sunni mosque. "It’s a plot by the Jews to foster sectarian strife," he said, adding that "nothing divides Sunnis and Shia" in Iraq. The latest surge in sectarian violence was sparked by the bombing of the shrine. Following the Friday prayers, several hundred faithful took to the streets. Tunisia: We
hold no political prisoners
Tunisia has expressed regret that the US State Department seemed to be giving credence to claims by human-rights groups that the North African country holds political prisoners. "There are no political prisoners or prisoner of conscience" in Tunisia, a government statement said, adding that those recently released were prisoners who had been tried and convicted in court of crimes, terrorist acts or plotting terrorism. Human-rights groups have long criticised Tunisia for a range of abuses, from muzzling the press to putting hundreds of political prisoners behind bars and labelling them common criminals. Yemen frees 600
Shia insurgents
More than 600 insurgents have been freed in Yemen under an amnesty agreed by the president, its government has said. The 627 followers of Shia cleric Hussein al-Houthi were captured during and following the rebellion he led over several months in 2004. The rebels are from the Zaidi sect, an offshoot of Shia Islam. The rebels signed a covenant of loyalty and good conduct as a condition for their release, the government said. About 400 people died in Hussein's insurgency in 2004 in north-western Saada province. Hundreds more died in March-April last year in the mountainous north-west, near the border with Saudi Arabia. There were further clashes reported in Saada province last month. Ankara to scrap
death penalty in wartime
Turkey said yesterday it would shortly scrap the death penalty in times of war, bringing it into line with the European Union, which it aspires to join. Turkey abolished the death penalty in peacetime in August 2002 as part of a package of human rights reforms aimed at persuading the EU to open membership talks. The talks began last October but are expected to last many years. The EU is strongly opposed to the death penalty, though the US and Japan still carry out executions. Turkey has executed no one since 1984. Bush Meets With
Musharraf Amid Protests
Welcomed with military pomp and ceremony, President Bush began a mission Saturday to show solidarity with this Islamic nation and support Pakistani President Gen. Perez Musharraf's war-on-terror alliance with the United States. Bush said he would talk with Musharraf about Pakistan's "vital cooperation in the war on terror and our efforts to foster economic and political development so we can reduce the appeal of radical Islam.'' Protests flared across the country in anticipation of Bush's visit. Inews Daily - No Copyright - http://www.fsphost.com/inewsdaily -
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