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Friday, June 01, 2007
International News for June 2007
6-30-07
UK Police Hunt Suspect Who Fled Bomb Car
LONDON (AP) - Detectives hunted Saturday for suspects who abandoned two explosives-packed cars in the heart of London’s nightlife district, reviewing closed circuit television footage and scouring the vehicles for clues. Counterterrorism officers at Scotland Yard briefed Prime Minister Gordon…
UK Hunt for Bomb Suspects
London: The Iraq Connection
By the time this sees cyberprint more is likely to be known. Beyond the certainty that it was much too early on Friday to draw many of the conclusions some talking heads on television were speculating about, it’s prudent to wait for more facts before taking hard-and-fast lessons. At the least, however, the apparent thwarted car bomb discovered outside a nightclub near London’s Piccadilly Circus reminds us about what dangerous times we live in.
Perhaps the most significant fact is that this incident, which now seems to have involved two cars with potentially explosive material and thousands of nails obviously intended to do damage more to people than to buildings, serves as yet another warning that the threats we face come not from a nation-state setting plans in operation through some kind of Terrorism Central that could be disrupted by conventional military means, but a diffuse, stateless network that sometimes operates more through indirect inspiration than by direct orders…
Iraq Connection to London
6-29-07
UK Police Dismantle Car Bomb in Central London
Bloomberg
By Nick Allen and Scott Hamilton (Bloomberg)—London police dismantled a car bomb outside a nightclub near Piccadilly Circus, raising concern about terrorism in the capital two days after Gordon Brown replaced Tony Blair as UK prime minister…
Car Bomb Dismantled in London
6-28-07
20 Beheaded Bodies Found in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) - Twenty beheaded bodies were discovered Thursday on the banks of the Tigris River southeast of Baghdad, while a parked car bomb killed another 20 people in one of the capital’s busy outdoor bus stations, police said. The beheaded remains were found in the Sunni Muslim village of Um…
20 Beheaded Bodies
6-27-07
Israelis, Palestinians clash in Gaza
CBC News
Israeli tanks and troops rolled into parts of the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing eight Palestinians, including a 12-year-old boy, said Palestinians.
Two detachments of Israeli troops were sent into northern and southern Gaza, where they exchanged fire with suspected Palestinian militants, said the army and Palestinian witnesses…
Israelis in Gaza
6-26-07
Hamas acted on a very real fear of a US-sponsored coup
Washington’s fingerprints are all over the chaos that has hit Palestinians. The last thing they now need is an envoy called Blair
By Jonathan Steele
Did they jump or were they pushed? Was Hamas’s seizure of Fatah security offices in Gaza unprovoked, or a pre-emptive strike to forestall a coup by Fatah? After last week’s turmoil, it becomes increasingly important to uncover its origins.Continue
Blair as Envoy?
6-25-07
Iran Invites Nuclear Watchdog to Tehran
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Iran has invited an International Atomic Energy Agency team to Tehran to work on clearing up suspicions about its nuclear program, an IAEA spokeswoman said Monday. Apparently calculated to blunt the threat of new U.N. sanctions, the invitation could increase pressure on the…
Iran Invites Nuclear Watchdog
6-24-07
Lebanese Troops, Militants Clash; 10 Die
TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP) - Lebanese troops raided an apartment complex suspected of housing Islamic militants in the northern port city of Tripoli early Sunday, sparking a gunbattle that left 10 people dead, including a soldier and six gunmen, security officials said. The fighting marked a new…
Lebanon
6-23-07
Roadside Bombs Kill 7 US Troops in Iraq
BAGHDAD (AP) - Roadside bombs killed seven American troops in Iraq on Saturday, including four in a single strike outside Baghdad, the military said, as U.S. and Iraqi troops captured two senior al-Qaida militants in Diyala province. Separately, a predawn operation by U.S. forces working with…
7 More US Troops Killed
6-22-07
25 Civilians Killed in Afghan Violence
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Taliban militants attacked police posts in southern Afghanistan, triggering NATO airstrikes that left 25 civilians dead, including three infants and the local mullah, a senior police officer said Friday. NATO said its overnight bombardment killed most of a group of 30…
25 Killed in Afghan Violence
6-21-07
Egypt Invites Leaders to Peace Summit
RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Closing ranks against Hamas, Egypt’s president invited Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian leaders to a peace summit, officials said Thursday, the biggest show of support yet by moderate Arab states for beleaguered Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. The meeting will…
Egypt Invites
6-20-07
Israel Sends Missiles, Tanks Into Gaza
EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israel fired missiles and sent tanks on a foray into Gaza on Wednesday, killing four Palestinians in the first military action since Hamas militants took control. At the same time, Israel eased restrictions on travel in and out of Gaza, letting in a few seriously…
Israel Sends Missiles and Tanks into Gaza
6-19-07
61 killed by bombing at Baghdad mosque
Houston Chronicle
By LAUREN FRAYER AP Writer BAGHDAD - A truck bomb struck a Shiite mosque Tuesday in central Baghdad, killing 61 people and wounding more than 100, even as about 10000 US soldiers northeast of the capital used heavily armored Stryker and ...
Death at Baghdad Mosque
6-18-07
Top Fatah leader in Gaza urges inquiry into defeat
Reuters AlertNet
By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - A senior Fatah leader from Gaza who sat out fighting with Hamas last week, called on Monday for an inquiry into how Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s forces lost control of the strip to the Islamist ...
Fatah Urges Inquiry
6-15-07
N.Korea’s Money Transferred Out of Macau
The biggest stumbling block to North Korea’s implementation of a Feb. 13 denuclearization agreement is out of the way at last after Pyongyang’s money in Macau’s Banco Delta Asia was transferred out on Thursday…
N.Korea Money Finally Transferred
Hamas Asserts Control In Gaza Strip
(CBS/AP) Relative calm appeared to return to Gaza Friday morning as Hamas announced that all Fatah prisoners taken in the last five days of fighting in Gaza would be granted amnesty and released.
The captives, including several senior field commanders seized by Hamas men Friday, will be freed unharmed, said the spokesman, Abu Obeideh, in a press conference in Gaza City, signaling that Hamas seeks conciliation with the defeated forces of moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas…
Hamas Asserts Control
6-14-07
After 13 years, end game comes quickly for Fatah
Sydney Morning Herald
Ed O’Loughlin watches as Hamas takes over the last of its rival’s strongholds in the Gaza Strip. Fading hope … a Fatah supporter holds a poster of Yasser Arafat in Ramallah…
End Game
6-13-07
Abbas warns of collapse in Gaza
BBC News
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has warned that continuing violence in Gaza risks taking the region to the point of collapse…
Abbas Warns
Blasts Destroy Remnants of Samarra Shiite Shrine
By John Ward Anderson and Muhanned Saif Aldin
Washington Post Foreign Service
BAGHDAD—Early morning blasts Wednesday destroyed two minarets at the same Shiite shrine in Samarra where an attack last year demolished the mosque’s gilded dome and plunged the country into a wave of deadly sectarian violence.
No one was injured in the 9 a.m. explosions at the revered Askariya shrine in Samarra, about 65 miles north of Baghdad. But officials said it was just the sort of event that could spark a spiral of retaliatory bloodshedand undo recent gains in reducing violence that are attributed to the addition of thousands of extra U.S. troops stationed at high-profile posts on the streets of Baghdad and elsewhere…
Shiite Shrine
6-12-07
Abbas calls for new truce as Gaza infighting escalates
People’s Daily Online
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, also leader of Fatah movement, Tuesday called on fighting Hamas and Fatah militants in the Gaza Strip to implement an immediate ceasefire, after at least 17 Palestinians have been killed since Monday…
Abbas Calls for Truce
6-11-07
More feared dead in Nairobi explosion
NAIROBI, (Xinhua)—Several people are feared dead after an explosion hit Nairobi’s city center on early Monday.
Eyewitnesses reported seeing more bodies being rushed in ambulances.
Earlier, Police Commissioner Maj.Gen. Hussein Ali said at least one person was killed following the blast which went off shortly after 8 a.m. (0500 GMT) at a restaurant near a three-star Ambassador Hotel in the downtown…
Nairobi Blast
Hamas leader says Israel is not concerned about captured soldier
Monsters and Critics.com
Damascus - A senior Hamas official said Monday in Damascus that Israel was not interested in reaching a solution to the issue of the Israeli soldier captured last summer by Palestinian militants…
Hamas and Captured Israeli Soldier
6-10-07
Iran threatens Gulf blitz if US hits nuclear plants
IRAN has threatened to launch a missile blitz against the Gulf states and plunge the entire Middle East into war if America attacks its nuclear facilities.
Admiral Ali Shamkhani, a senior defence adviser to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned that Gulf states providing the US with military cooperation would be the key targets of a barrage of ballistic missiles…
Iran Tells U.S. to Back Off
Russia expects missile defence proposal to be taken seriously
Monsters and Critics.com
Moscow - Russia expects the United States to seriously consider its proposal for the common use of its missile defence site in Azerbaijan, President Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy advisor Sergei Prichodko told Russian television on Sunday…
Putin’s Defense Proposal
6-9-07
Iraq says protests against shelling by Turkey
Reuters Canada
By Waleed Ibrahim. BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq’s Foreign Ministry accused Turkey of “intensively shelling” northern Iraq this week and said it had handed the Turkish envoy in Baghdad a protest letter on Saturday…
Iraq Protests Turkey Shelling
6-8-07
G8’s $60 billion AIDS and Africa pledge criticized
Scientific American
By Madeline Chambers and Gernot Heller. HEILIGENDAMM, Germany (Reuters) - World powers on Friday pledged $60 billion to fight AIDS and other killer diseases ravaging Africa but development campaigners complained the Group of Eight had pledged little ...
G8 Aids Bill
6-7-07
Turkish troops ‘chase Kurds in Iraq’
By Patrick Cockburn
Several thousand Turkish troops crossed into northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish guerrillas early yesterday. The incursion, though limited in scope, gives the crisis in Iraq a new twist.
“It is not a major offensive and the number of troops is not in the tens of thousands,” said an official in south-east Turkey where there has recently been an upsurge in activity by the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Turkish Kurd guerrillas…
Turkish Troops in Iraq
Merkel: G-8 Leaders Agree on Climate
HEILIGENDAMM, Germany (AP) - Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that the Group of Eight has agreed on a plan calling for “substantial cuts” to greenhouse gas emissions. The goal is to cut greenhouse gas emissions in half by 2050, Merkel said, hailing the decision as a “huge success,” adding…
Merkel and G8
Putin Suggests New Missile Shield Site
HEILIGENDAMM, Germany (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin, bitterly opposed to a U.S. missile shield in Europe, told President Bush on Thursday that Moscow would drop its objections if the radar-based system were installed in Azerbaijan. Putin told Bush he would not seek to retarget Russian…
Putin Suggests
6-6-07
Olmert, Abbas urged to meet
CNN
JERUSALEM (CNN)—The Middle East Quartet has invited Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to a June 25 meeting in Cairo, said Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Ziad Abu Amir on Wednesday…
Olmert and Abbas
Police use tear gas, water cannons against G8 protesters
RIA Novosti
HEILIGENDAMM (Germany) (RIA Novosti) - German police used tear gas and water cannons Wednesday to disperse G8 protesters who turned violent at the G8 summit, German media reported…
German Police at G8
6-5-07
Thinly stretched army faces big test
Globe and Mail
Lebanon—The video broadcast several times a day on Lebanese television looks more like a scene from The A-Team than a nation-building effort…
Lebanon Army
6-4-07
Text of interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin
Globe and Mail - 2 hours ago
QUESTION: Russia doesn’t seem to like the west very much any more. Our relationship has cooled down considerably. . . . Are we moving towards a cold war again? Continue…
Putin Interview
Fighting halts at Lebanon camp
Reuters
By Tom Perry. AIN AL-HILWEH, Lebanon (Reuters) - Islamist gunmen killed two Lebanese soldiers at a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon on Monday in the first fatal spillover of fighting between the army and al Qaeda-inspired fighters in the north ...
Fighting Halts
6-3-07
Lebanon army attacks deep in camp
BBC News
The Lebanese army is shelling militant positions deep within the besieged Nahr al-Bared refugee camp, as its operation to force a surrender continues…
Lebanon Army Attacks Camp
1 000 hurt in anti-G8 protest
Finance24
Rostock - German police said on Sunday that 128 people were arrested after a violent demonstration by anti-G8 protestors in Rostock the previous day which left up to 1 000 people injured…
1000 Hurt in GB Protests
‘Foreign fighters’ die in Somalia
BBC News
Foreign fighters from Britain, Sweden and Pakistan were among those killed by US missiles and Somali army operations, according to the Somali government…
Foreigners Die from American Missiles in Somalia
6-2-07
Intense battle rages around Lebanon siege camp
ABC Online
Intense exchanges raged between Lebanese troops and Islamists holed up in a northern refugee camp, as the army confirmed it had lost six soldiers in 36 hours of fierce fighting…
Battle in Lebanon
US not prepare to use military force against Iran: Rice
People’s Daily Online
The United States is not preparing for war with Iran, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday in response to the UN nuclear watchdog chief’s remarks against using force to stop Iran’s nuclear program…
Rice Claims U.S. Does Not War
6-1-07
Palestinians worried battles spread to other camps
Reuters AlertNet
By Yara Bayoumy. AIN AL-HILWEH, Lebanon, (Reuters) - Palestinian leaders are striving to ensure that fighting between army troops and Islamist militants in north Lebanon does not ignite violence at refugee camps elsewhere. Continue . . .
Palestinians Worried
Iran ready to talk to IAEA about cooperation
Khaleej Times
MADRID - Iran is willing to talk with the International Atomic Energy Agency about information access and cooperation, a spokeswoman for EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Friday. Continue . . .
Iran and IAEA
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