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Tuesday 28th March
2006 - 27th Safar 1427
The real 'death-squads' exposed
US forces killed 22 people, wounded eight and detained 40 others, including some women, at a mosque in east Baghdad in an incident likely to lead to increased tensions. The US troops purportedly retaliated after coming 'under fire'. A videotape showed a heap of male bodies with gunshot wounds on the floor of the Imam's living quarters in what was said to be the Al Mustafa mosque. There were 5.56mm shell casings on the floor, which is the type of ammunition used by US soldiers. A weeping man in white Arab robes is shown stepping among the bodies. The US military would neither confirm not deny the incident but the US army in Iraq has been strongly criticized over the past week for killing Iraqi civilians and falsely claiming that they were insurgents or caught in cross fire or killed by 'death-squads' in secterian violence. Iranian police arrest five bandits
Iranian police said on Monday they had arrested five bandits who tried to infiltrate the Islamic republic through its southeastern border, two weeks after a deadly ambush in the area, state television reported. The police also said they had seized a number of weapons and ammunition but gave no further details. A week ago Iranian police announced they had killed 10 bandits who entered the country via the northeastern frontier with Afghanistan. Weapons, drugs and a satellite telephone were seized. That incident followed an ambush by Afghan bandits close to another border area in which at least 22 people were killed and another 12 reported missing. Lebanon talks seek to resolve fate of
Lahoud
Lebanon’s leaders held fresh talks yesterday focusing on one of the most contentious issues dividing supporters and opponents of Syria -- the fate of President Emile Lahoud whom the parliamentary majority wants to oust. The talks, which resumed after a five-day break, are aimed at ending Beirut’s political paralysis, which set in after Syria pulled out its troops after dominating life in its tiny neighbour for some three decades. Samir Geagea, the head of the former Christian militia, the Lebanese Forces and a member of the country’s anti-Syrian majority also attended the Beirut talks. Several western powers have effectively boycotted Lahoud. During a four day visit to Lebanon, the envoy of UN secretary general Kofi Annan, did not meet the head of state. Haniya presents Hamas government to
parliament
Hamas prime minister designate Ismail Haniya yesterday urged the international community not to punish the Palestinians while he remained committed to armed struggle as he submitted his cabinet for MPs’ approval. Aziz Dweik, the speaker of the Ramallah-based parliament, opened the session, which was attended by MPs and Haniya in Gaza City, linked by videoconference because Israel will not allow Hamas MPs to travel between the two. "The Palestinian people should not be punished for exercising their right to choose their leaders in free and democratic elections," Haniya told MPs in a speech heard by deputies in the West Bank via a videolink. His comments come after both the US and EU threatened to slash funding to a Hamas-led administration unless it abandoned its resistance to the Zionist occupation. Farrakhan calls for US regime change
Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the 'Nation of Islam', has called for regime change in the United States. Speaking on Monday, he denounced US policies as wicked because they turned the world against America. "We need a new government, we need regime change in America," he said at the end of a visit to Cuba. Farrakhan, who led the Million Man March on the Washington Mall in 1995 to promote black self-reliance, said the Bush administration's domestic policies were "sucking the blood of the poor and the weak". The controversial African American leader defended Iran's right to develop a nuclear energy programme to reduce dependence on oil and said Washington's opposition was a pretext for a war. "The Muslim world should unite against America's desire for a pre-emptive strike against Iran and Syria," he said. Al Jazeera airs audio from fugitive Saddam
aide
Saddam Hussein’s former lieutenant, Izzat Ibrahim Al Douri, has called on Arab leaders to "support the insurgency in Iraq and boycott the government", in an audio tape aired by Al Jazeera television yesterday. Al Jazeera identified the voice on the tape as that of Ibrahim, but it was not immediately possible to confirm this. In the past, al Jazeera has shown its bias against the Shia-led government of Iraq and is seen by many as a mouthpiece for the West in the Arab world. The tape excerpts were aired earlier on Monday. Ibrahim has been credited with a major role in organising the bloody insurgency by Sunni Muslim militants. Syria arrests 100 Kurds after New Year
clashes
More than 100 people were arrested last week in northern Syria when a demonstration by thousands of Kurds celebrating their New Year turned violent. "Cases are being brought against 36 of the people arrested including some minors," said a lawyer who witnessed last week’s ill-fated protest in Aleppo. Last Monday, about 3,000 Kurds had gathered in Aleppo to celebrate Noruz, carrying candles and Kurdish flags, when police fired tear gas and demonstrators hurled stones. In March 2004, bloody clashes initially sparked by a riot between rival football fans pitted mainly Kurdish protesters against security forces and Arab tribesmen in Aleppo and Qameshli, another northern town. Many leaders to skip Arab summit
King Abdullah II of Jordan has become the latest Arab leader to announce he will not attend the Arab summit in Sudan, raising the number of no shows to nine. A Jordanian official said yesterday, "King Abdullah will not go to the Arab summit. The delegation will be led by the prime minister." There was no immediate reason for his decision to miss Tuesday's summit in Khartoum. So far eight kings and heads of state have said they will not go to Khartoum and that they will be represented by their prime ministers or their foreign ministers. Also absent will be King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president, King Hamad bin Issa al-Khalifa of Bahrain, Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahayan, president of the United Arab Emirates, King Mohammed VI of Morocco, Sultan Qaboos of Oman, Jalal Talabani, the president of Iraq, and his Tunisian counterpart Zine el-Abidine bin Ali. Turkish govt under fire in fresh row over 'Islamist'
leanings
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government came under fresh attacks yesterday that it is harbouring 'Islamist' ambitions after a failed attempt to appoint an Islamic capital expert to the crucial post of central bank governor. The row broke at the weekend after the government announced that President Ahmet Necdet Sezer, a staunch secularist often at odds with the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), had vetoed the cabinet’s nominee to head the Central Bank over the next five years. Main opposition leader Deniz Baykal charged that the government was filling up public posts with 'Islamist cronies' in a bid to undermine the Muslim nation’s strictly secular system. Yemen report unveils use of children for
smuggling
An official Yemeni report disclosed that organised smugglers at the Saudi-Yemeni border exploit large numbers of children who live in the governorate of Hoja to enable them to smuggle goods between the Saudi-Yemeni strip for little amount of money. The report pointed out that the families of the children, as a result of the intensive poverty and bad living conditions, force their children to work with these gangs to smuggle flour between the borders of Saudi Arabia and Yemen. The report, prepared by a teamwork of specialists working at several official bodies in Yemen, revealed that some unscrupulous dealers make use of the poor conditions of families and tempt them by money to allow their children to work with them to smuggle goods. The report highlighted that the route and the distance the children pass by are very dangerous. Inews Daily - No Copyright - http://www.fsphost.com/inewsdaily -
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