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Wednesday 1st March
2006 - 30th Muharram 1427
Iraq erupts into fresh
violence
A series of attacks targeting Iraq's Shia majority have killed 64 people and wounded 180 as fears grow that a new wave of sectarian violence may be unleashed across the country. In one of the biggest attacks, a car bomb exploded on Tuesday evening outside a Shia mosque in Baghdad's northeastern al-Hurriya neighbourhood, killing 21 people and injuring 43 according to a local security official. The explosion came soon after three bombs went off in quick succession in Shia areas of the capital, leaving 30 people dead and 130 wounded. Syria flays Israel for 'nuclear
dumping'
Syria has accused Israel of using the Golan Heights as a dumping ground for nuclear waste. Bashar Ja'afari, the Syrian Ambassador, told the 65-nation Conference on Disarmament that all Arab states were committed to creating a zone in the Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction. "However, Israel, which has unambiguous support from major nuclear weapon states, continues to reject the will of the international community and dumps its nuclear waste in the Syrian Golan Heights," said Ja'afari, the first speaker in Tuesday's session. Israel has controlled the Golan Heights since the 1967 Middle East War. Documents link Saddam to
massacre
The chief prosecutor in Saddam Hussein's trial read out documents in court on Tuesday which he said established that the former Iraqi leader signed a death warrant for 148 people. The document, dated 14 June 1984, was signed by Awad al-Bandar, chief of the Revolutionary Court and his co-accused, and approved by the former president. Saddam and seven others are charged with crimes against humanity in connection with the execution of 148 villagers from Dujail after an assassination attempt on him there in 1982. Meanwhile, Saddam's trial was again thrown into disarray when his top defence lawyers walked out after their pleas for an adjournment and the removal of the judge were rejected. Police say al-Qaida helped fund
suicide bombings in Indonesia
Osama bin Laden’s 'terror network' helped fund all of the suicide bombings in Indonesia in the past four years, a senior police official said yesterday, highlighting links between al-Qaida and the regional militant group Jama'ah Islamiyah. Money for the attacks, which have occurred annually in the world’s most populous Muslim country since 2002, was delivered by courier to leaders of Jama'ah Islamiyah according to Indonesia’s counterterrorism taskforce. Indonesia is the only Southeast Asian nation known to have been hit by suicide bombers. Apostates Rushdie and Nasreen are
at it again
The recent violence surrounding the publication in the West of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammed illustrate the danger of Islamic "totalitarianism," Salman Rushdie and a group of other writers have said in a statement. Rushdie, French philosopher Bernard Henri-Levy and exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen were among those putting their names to the statement, to be published today in a French weekly newspapers - one of many which reprinted the controversial cartoons. "After having overcome fascism, Nazism, and Stalinism, the world now faces a new global threat: Islamism," they wrote. US settling suit by Egyptian held
after Sept 11
The US government has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by an Egyptian who was among dozens of Muslims detained after the Sept. 11 attacks, held for months and then deported. The settlement is the first the government has made in a number of suits saying that non-citizens were abused and their constitutional rights violated after the attacks. The Egyptian, Ehab Elmaghraby, used to run a restaurant in Manhattan. He was one of two plaintiffs in the suit. The other, a Pakistani, is still pursuing the suit. Sudan leaders face UN
sanctions
The UN intends to impose targeted sanctions on up to 10 members of Sudan's government and others involved in the Darfur crisis, after claims of increased killings in recent months and access being denied to aid camps. A security council resolution, sponsored by Britain, will recommend a travel ban, a freeze on overseas accounts and other assets, and, possibly, the issuing of warrants by the International Criminal Court, which deals with crimes against humanity. The UN drew up a confidential list last year of dozens of Sudanese leaders it claims are responsible for deaths and displacement, as well as leaders of the government-backed militia and two rebel movements. US rejects new UN rights council,
wants more talks
The US has rejected a draft resolution for a new UN Human Rights Council and called for new negotiations despite fears from UN officials and others that more talks would sink the proposal. Sighting what they called 'manifold deficiencies', the US - a country that has the worst human rights record in history - said it would vote against the draft unless negotiations were reopened to correct shortcomings. While the United States has only one vote in the 191-member General Assembly, the diplomats said it was unlikely the resolution would be put to a vote without the support of the world body’s largest financial contributor. Iran has right to civil nuclear
power: Chirac
French President Jacques Chirac, whose foreign minister had two weeks ago branded Tehran’s nuclear programme a "clandestine, military" project, affirmed yesterday the Islamic regime’s right to peaceful nuclear technology. "France believes in the need for the demands of non-proliferation to be respected, but believes this does not in any way prejudice Iran’s right to civil nuclear energy within such a framework," Chirac was quoted as saying by his spokesman. Meanwhile, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani said in an interview, that Iran’s response would not be a "pleasant one" if its territory or "installations" were attacked by Israel. Bush says bin Laden tape aided
re-election
US President George W Bush said his 2004 re-election victory over Sen. John Kerry was inadvertently aided by Osama bin Laden, who issued a taped diatribe against him the Friday before Americans went to the polls. Bush said there were "enormous amounts of discussion" inside his campaign about the 15-minute tape, which he called "an interesting entry by our enemy" into the presidential race. Bush’s comments in the Washington newspaper were excerpts from the new book "Strategy" by Bill Sammon, a long-time White House correspondent. Egypt battles Suez Canal oil
spill
Egyptian experts yesterday used booms and spread foam to try to absorb an oil slick in the Suez Canal after a Liberian-flagged tanker lost 3,000 tons of heavy fuel, an official said. The slick had spread some 30-kilometres before tug boats took over the tanker so as not to block traffic through the canal which is Egypt’s third largest source of revenue. A day’s closure costs an estimated income loss of seven million dollars. The Egyptian Environment Minister said that the rest of the fuel had been pumped out of the stranded tanker. Standoff at riot-hit Afghan jail
enters fourth day
A standoff between 1,300 prisoners and authorities at Afghanistan’s main jail entered a fourth today after rioting, blamed on Taliban and al-Qaida inmates, left four dead. Officials said they hoped to transfer prisoners in the criminal wing of a besieged block of Kabul’s Pul-e-Charkhi jail into new accommodation after their cells were badly damaged in the violence that erupted late Saturday. Around 60 women who had been in the block were moved out late Tuesday after day-long delay. Jail terms upheld for Iraqi
spies
Kuwait’s supreme court yesterday upheld 10-year jail terms against three Iraqi nationals, two of whom were sentenced in absentia, for spying for the former regime of Saddam Hussein before the US-led invasion, a legal source said. In May 2004, the appeals court passed the verdict on the three men - Zuhair Fakira, Nazem Jawad and Mustafa Khalil - two months after the lower court acquitted them of the charges. Jawad and Khalil, who worked as intelligence officers at the Iraqi embassy in Bahrain, were handed the terms in absentia. Fakira was accused of passing on information to the former Iraqi regime through the two Bahrain-based intelligence agents. US seeks funds to build more
prisons in Iraq
The US State Department is winding down its $20 billion reconstruction program in Iraq and the only new rebuilding money in its latest budget request is for prisons (read: detention-camps), officials said yesterday. State Department coordinator said he was asking Congress for $100 million for prisons but no other big building projects were in the pipeline. After false promises made by the US regarding the reconstruction of Iraq's infrastructure - which was all but wiped out by US attacks - many Iraqi's still lack the basic necessities like water and electricity. Dubai's support of Arab boycott of
Israel should 'torpedo' ports deal
The
Jewish Anti-Defamation League yesterday said the Dubai government's continued
support of the Arab economic boycott of Israel "should torpedo any deal with the
United States on port operations." Dubai Ports World, which is owned by the
Dubai government, is set to take over operations at six major US ports. "That
Dubai Ports World is owned by the emirate of Dubai, which actively supports the
Arab economic boycott of Israel, should be grounds enough to torpedo any deal
with the United States on port operations," said the ADL national director in a
statement.
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