[Ugnet] International News: Newsweek withdraws Koran report

2005-05-16 Thread Matek Opoko
Newsweek withdraws Koran report The report has triggered anti-US rallies in the Muslim worldUS magazine Newsweek has issued a full retraction of its report that a Koran was flushed down a toilet at Guantanamo Bay by US interrogators. It said a US military investigation had failed

[Ugnet] International News

2005-01-06 Thread Matek Opoko
Iraq PM says timely elections the solution as suicide bombers strike 54 minutes ago World - AFP BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said pressing ahead with elections later this month would help quell the violence plaguing the country as three suicide bombings

[Ugnet] International news rather Politics

2004-11-13 Thread Matek Opoko
International Political Observers areof the view that the Iranians would really like to produce a nuclear weapon, given what the Iranianshave seen in Iraq. Indeed, if the Iranians must play around with the Demand with the demands IA EA, they will most certainly do soif only to buy

[Ugnet] International News

2004-11-12 Thread Matek Opoko
Police Lose Control of Mosul Amid Uprising 1 minute ago Top Stories - AP By ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iraqi government rushed reinforcements Friday to the country's third-largest city, Mosul, seeking to quell a deadly militant uprising that

[Ugnet] International News

2004-11-04 Thread Matek Opoko
Three British soldiers killed in Iraq as Fallujah braces for assault (04/11/2004) BAGHDAD (AFP) Three newly-redeployed British soldiers were killed in an attack south of Baghdad, as the Iraqi rebel city of Fallujah braced for an all-out assault after US President George W. Bush's

[Ugnet] International News

2004-11-04 Thread Matek Opoko
Iraq rebels stage fresh attacksWed 3 November, 2004 11:41 By Alistair Lyon BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Insurgents have mounted fresh attacks in Baghdad and a U.S.-Lebanese contractor has become the latest victim of a kidnapping spree in the run-up to a threatened U.S. assault on rebel-held Falluja