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Monday 3rd April 2006 - 4th Rabi' al-Awwal 1427
Iran successfully test-fires new
high-speed torpedo
Iran conducted its second major test of a new missile within days, firing a high-speed torpedo that it said no submarine or warship can escape and boasting of its strength at a time of increased tensions with the US over its nuclear program. The tests Sunday came during war games that Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have been holding in the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea since Friday. The new torpedo, called "Hoot", or 'whale', is the fastest known underwater-missile moving at 360 kilometers per hour (223 miles per hour) - too fast for any vessel to elude. The new weapon gives Iran superiority against any warship in the region, a Navy spokesperson said, in a veiled reference to US vessels in the Gulf. It was not immediately clear whether the torpedo can carry a nuclear warhead. Militants kill 5 policemen in
southern Afghan attack
Suspected Taleban militants shot dead five policemen and wounded three others in southern Afghanistan. The policemen were attacked on Sunday by four gunmen on two motorcycles in Charbagh, a southwestern residential neighborhood of Kandahar. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was unauthorized to talk to the media. A purported Taleban spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack. Earlier Sunday, an official said a Taleban rebel posing as a traveler shot dead four policemen as they slept at a remote checkpoint late Friday in the southern Helmand province. Taleban insurgents have stepped up attacks on Afghanistan’s fledgling police recently, and a series of ambushes in the neighboring provinces of Helmand and Kandahar has seen scores of officers killed. Four reported dead in fresh Kurdish
riots in Turkey
A molotov cocktail attack set ablaze a bus in Istanbul late Sunday, resulting in three deaths, as Kurdish riots rattling southeast Turkey for six days spead to the west. Another person was killed in clashes in the predominantly Kurdish southeast, bringing the death toll from a week of violence to 12. A group of protestors hurled a molotov cocktail onto a bus in Istanbul’s Bagcilar suburb and an elderly woman who got off in panic from the burning vehicle was hit by a car in the street, dying in hospital. Two more bodies were recovered after police removed the wreckage of the bus, which crashed into a truck while maneuvering to escape the hit. A fourth person, a 22-year-old Kurdish man, was killed by gunfire in the southeastern town of Kiziltepe, near the Syrian border, where street battles between rioters and the police flared for a second day in row. Gunmen blow up mosque north of
Baghdad
Gunmen blew up a small Shia mosque northeast of Baghdad on Sunday. In Baqouba, 55 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, unidentified gunmen planted explosives around the small Guba mosque and blew it up, police said. No casualties were reported. Meanwhile, police reported the discovery of nearly 40 more bodies in several neighbourhoods of Baghdad. The continued violence put more pressure on Iraqi politicians to form a new government to quell the killings and halt what the west claims are 'sectarian death squads'. Dozens of corpses in Baghdad were found on Saturday in several neighbourhoods including Sadr City, Dora, Baiyaa, Amariyah and Obeidi, according to the police. They were all handcuffed, and had been shot in the head or chest. Rights activist sentenced to five
years prison in Syria
A researcher and a human rights activist was sentenced on Sunday by Syria’s State Security Court to five years in prison on charges of disseminating false information, inciting sectarian riots and forming a secret organization, a human rights activist said. Riyadh Darar, a human rights activist, was arrested last June after delivering a speech during the funeral of a Kurdish Sheikh, Ammar Qurabi. No comment was available from Syrian officials, who routinely decline to comment on such reports. Since taking office in July 2000, President Bashar Assad has released hundreds of political prisoners, but also clamped down on pro-democracy activists. Quartet meets in Jordan to discuss
aid to Palestinians
The 'Quartet', held an envoy-level meeting on Sunday to discuss the future of world economic aid to the Palestinians after a Hamas-led government took up responsibilities in the West Bank and the Gaza strip. The meeting focused on means of ensuring humanitarian aid to the Palestinians without giving money directly to the Hamas government led by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. The Quartet comprises of the US, EU, Russia and the UN. The United States and the European Union have stated their intention to withhold financial aid from the Hamas’ government unless the resistance group recognizes Israel and renounces violence. During the meeting, latest developments in the region were reviewed, "stressing the need for re-establishment of peace in the region in accordance with international legitimacy and in such a manner that ensures the creation of an independent Palestinian state", according to an official statement. Rice awkward as she meets Iraq PM
over government
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice began talks on Sunday with Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Al Jaafari, who is under pressure from the United States and sections of his own Shia Alliance to step down. Rice smiled frostily and appeared awkward as she and Jaafari exchanged pleasantries before photographers at the start of their talks, chatting about the rare rain falling on Baghdad. "It is a good sign," Jaafari said. "I am sure you can notice the difference because you come frequently to Iraq." Rice and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw had arrived on an unannounced visit to push for the formation of a new government of national unity. The Iraqi prime minister is facing growing calls to step down to assist the formation of a government. Militants kill Pakistani cleric
suspected of spying
Suspected militants killed a cleric in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border over suspicion he was a spy for the United States and Britain, officials said on Sunday. The bullet-riddled body of Maulana Zahir Shah, who ran an Islamic school, was found Sunday in Sararogha, a mountainous area in the lawless South Waziristan tribal region, three days after five armed men abducted him from his seminary, a local government official said. Shah helped authorities run an FM radio station that aired programs critical of the militants from his school in Tajori, a town near the border with South Waziristan, an intelligence official said. On Sunday, villagers informed authorities about Shah’s body. The suspected assailants left a note with the body in the locally spoken Pashto language alleging that Shah visited the American Embassy in Pakistan and spied on militants for Britain and the United States. Ten killed, 13 hurt in southwest
Pakistan blasts
Ten people including five tribal police were killed and 13 injured in separate bomb blasts on Sunday in the restive southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan, officials said. Three civilians - a man, a woman and a young girl - were killed and seven injured in two back-to-back bomb explosions at a state-run farm in the town of Kohlu, 300 kilometres (186 miles) east of Quetta, a security official said. The official blamed the attack on tribal militants who have waged a sporadic revolt in recent years in mineral rich but sparsely populated Baluchistan. Meanwhile, five tribal policemen and a private security official guarding an oil and gas exploration site were killed and four injured in a landmine explosion in the desert region of Sunny in remote Bolan district. Inews Daily - No Copyright - http://www.fsphost.com/inewsdaily -
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