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In the name of
Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
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Friday 31th March
2006 - 1st Rabi' al-Awwal 1427
al-Sistani
ignores Bush letter
A letter from President Bush to Iraq's supreme Shiite spiritual leader, Ayatullah Ali al-Sistani, was hand-delivered earlier this week but sits unread and untranslated in the top religious figure's office, a key Sistani aide said yesterday. The aide said the ayatullah had laid the letter aside and did not ask for a translation because of increasing 'unhappiness' over American meddling in Iraqi attempts to form their first, permanent post-invasion government. The aide said the person who delivered the Bush letter said it carried Bush's thanks (sic) to al-Sistani for calling for calm among his followers in preventing the outbreak of civil war after a Shiite shrine was bombed late last month. The messenger also was said to have explained that the letter reinforced the American position that Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari should not be given a second term. Iran prepared
for possible sanctions
Iran is prepared for possible sanctions over its nuclear program, even though its government believes such an eventuality is highly unlikely, the country’s foreign minister said yesterday. The UN Security Council has given Iran 30 days to clear up suspicions that it is seeking nuclear weapons, and it could eventually impose economic sanctions, though Russia and China say they oppose such tough measures. "We have readied ourselves to deal with different conditions," Iran’s Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told reporters in Geneva. Western countries have refused to rule out sanctions against Iran and US officials have said the threat of military action must also remain on the table. Tourists die in
Bahrain boat disaster
A tourist ferry carrying more than 130 people capsized and sank off the coast of Bahrain and at least 48 bodies have so far been recovered, officials said. The Bahraini coastguard commander told a news conference that 63 people had so far been rescued. He said most of those on board the boat were Asians, but passengers also included Europeans and Arabs. Initial reports suggested around 25 Britons, 20 Filipinos, 10 South Africans and 10 Egyptians were among those on board. Officials said the boat had been hired by a local contracting company for a cruise. Organisers said around 150 people had signed up for a dinner cruise but around 130 were believed to have been on board when the boat sank on Thursday night, around 1.5km off the coast. Pirates seize
tanker off Somalia
Somali pirates have hijacked a fuel tanker 150km north of Mogadishu, according to port officials. The ship had just offloaded a cargo of fuel and had left El Ade port - a site seized by fighters with an alliance to regional commanders who killed at least 70 people last week. Somalia's lawless Indian Ocean waters are among the world's most dangerous. Crafts plying the waters often are attacked by armed men in heavily armed speedboats who demand ransom for the return of the ship or cargo, which often ends up being stolen. The piracy has often stopped food aid getting into the poor country. Sailors have been held for as long as 100 days and a cruise ship with more than 300 on board was attacked with rockets and machine guns last year. Saudis angry
over US visa procedures
Saudi businessmen have objected to the Riyadh US embassy’s negligence of their applications for visa. No one respond to their inquiries about interviews schedules essential for visa issuance. The problem was raised in the Riyadh Commercial Chamber last Sunday during a meeting with a delegation of Illinois businessmen. Despite close relations with American officials in the US embassy in Riyadh and Washington, it is not easy for a number of renowned Saudi businessmen to get visa due to the set procedures. The US embassy in Riyadh specified a telephone number for replying to inquiries. Yet, no one replies. Kurds clash
with Turkish police
Thousands of Kurdish protesters lobbed stones and Molotov cocktails at Turkish police yesterday, in the third day of street battles in which three people have been killed and more than 250 others wounded. The fresh fighting erupted during funerals for two young men and an eight-year-old boy killed during Wednesday's clashes in Diyarbakir, the main city of Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast. The boy and one man were shot dead. The other man was crushed under a police armoured car. Some mourners, ignoring appeals for calm from local officials, attacked a police station. Police fired warning shots into the air with AK-47 assault rifles and sprayed tear gas. In Diyarbakir, a city of nearly one million, most shops and offices remained shut on Thursday and roads were blocked by barricades of burning tyres. The army deployed armoured vehicles in suburbs to discourage protesters. Danish Muslims
sue newspaper
A group of 27 Danish Muslim organisations has filed a defamation lawsuit against the newspaper that first published the contentious Prophet Muhammad cartoons, their lawyer said. The case was filed on Wednesday, two weeks after Denmark's top prosecutor declined to press criminal charges, saying the drawings that sparked a firestorm in the Muslim world did not violate laws against racism or blasphemy. A lawyer representing the Muslim groups said the lawsuit sought 100,000 kroner ($16,100) in damages from Carsten Juste, Jyllands-Posten editor-in-chief, and Flemming Rose, culture editor, who supervised the cartoon project. He said the lawsuit was filed in the western city of Aarhus, where Jyllands-Posten is based. The court confirmed it had received the lawsuit but said a date for a hearing had not been set. Britain,
Indonesia agree to boost ties
Indonesia and Britain yesterday agreed to strengthen anti-terror ties, but Muslim leaders told visiting British Prime Minister Tony Blair that his policies were breeding extremism. The five Muslim leaders, known as moderates on social and political issues, urged Blair to withdraw British troops from Iraq and talk to the recently elected Hamas government in the West Bank during a discussion at the presidential palace. Blair’s trip is the first by a British prime minister to Indonesia in more than two decades, showing the Southeast Asian country’s renewed importance to Western nations. Blair met with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for a private discussion at the palace, where the two leaders agreed to expand defense ties and cooperation in the war on terror. Straw asks
European leaders to learn more about Islam
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has asked European governments to learn more about Islam and "protect the rights of every citizen irrespective of their faith and creed." Addressing an award ceremony organised by the Muslim News in the capital, Straw said European governments have to provide a space in which the rights and diversity of people of all faiths are protected. The foreign secretary also said a peaceful co-existence of faith and modernity is essential for the future of Europe and the growing tendency to attack religion and religious people will lead to anachronism. He also challenged the secular credentials of the Western governments. Straw said the reason for singling out of Islam as a target of attack might be due to its reputation as a new European religion. Inews Daily - No Copyright - http://www.fsphost.com/inewsdaily -
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