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"I have been in Kyiv for a third day and I see for myself that the numerous actions of local opposition bear the earmarks of those groups that at different times tried to destabilize Prague, Budapest and Bucharest - the earmarks of U.S. special services," he told Interfax on Thursday. Zyuganov said he would not forecast the election results or interfere in the electoral race in a neighboring Slavic country. Russian communists support Petro Symonenko, the leader of Ukrainian communists, who is running for the presidency, he said. Zyuganov would not say who Ukrainian communists will support if the choice in the second round of elections is between the two front runners, Viktor Yanukovych and Victor Yushchenko. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 08:53:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: NATO To Train 1,000 Senior Iraqi Officers A Year: NATO Commander http://www.spacewar.com/2004/041028145729.of2ouuj0.html Agence France-Presse October 28, 2004 NATO chief says it hopes to train 1,000 senior Iraqi officers a year MONS, Belgium - NATO aims to train around 1,000 senior Iraqi military officers a year as part of its military aid programme, the organisation's supreme commander, US General James Jones, said Thursday. "About a thousand a year - that is pretty significant," he told reporters at NATO headquarters in Mons in southern Belgium. Jones declined to say how many NATO instructors would be sent to Iraq or what kind of force would be deployed to protect them, saying it "depended on the willingness of member states". Senior officers suggested the number could be between 350 and 3,000, though the higher figure was judged very unlikely. "I think it would need not exceed 3,000,"Jones said. "I'm confident it will be less than that." The NATO contingent will work on three fronts - developing a military academy on the outskirts of Baghdad, channelling supplies of military equipment donated by alliance members and advising officers in the new Iraqi army. Jones submitted earlier this week an "operation plan" to put into effect the training mission. This is being considered by NATO's military committee before being passed to ambassadors from the 26 NATO member states for approval later this year. At present fewer than 70 NATO personnel are in Baghdad where they have already begun training military headquarters staff. "Now we are working out of the Green Zone (a fortress-like compound in the centre of Baghad that also houses the US and British embassies among other official buildings) but we are looking at alternatives to base trainers outside," a senior NATO spokesman in Baghdad told AFP Wednesday. Jones said he could not say whether the military academy would be functioning by January, the date set for general elections in Iraq. "Sixteen or 17 nations out of the 26 have indicated a willingness for duty inside Iraq," he said. Others, in particular France and Germany, have said they will contribute to the programme but not on Iraqi soil. About 20 Iraqi officers are expected in the Norwegian town of Stavanger next week for a week's training in a NATO facility. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 09:30:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Ex-USSR: Four Autonomous Republics Hold Joint Exercises Against Attacks http://www.geotimes.ge/gtnews.php?cat1=6#10916 Daily Georgian Times October 28, 2004 4 unrecognized republics to hold exercises in S. Ossetia -"Sukhumi, Tskhinvali, Stepanakert and Tiraspol do not rule out that the armed forces of countries to which our republics used to belong may try to restore control by force. The most apparent danger exists for South Ossetia and Abkhazia." The Defense Ministries of four unrecognized republics - Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh and Transdniestria - will train in the response to armed attacks before the end of the year, a source in the Abkhaz Defense Ministry told Interfax by telephone on Thursday. "Task groups from the defense ministries will hold joint training in the response to armed incursions before the end of this year," the source said. "Sukhumi, Tskhinvali, Stepanakert and Tiraspol do not rule out that the armed forces of countries to which our republics used to belong may try to restore control by force. The most apparent danger exists for South Ossetia and Abkhazia," he said. South Ossetia and Abkhazia are legally provinces of Georgia, but conflicts in the 1990s led to their de facto independence. Azerbaijan lost control of Nagorno-Karabakh, and Moldova lost control of Transdniestria at approximately the same time. All of these unrecognized republics are seeking international recognition, while Tbilisi, Baku and Chisinau are stepping up efforts to restore control over their breakaway provinces. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 10:46:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: NATO Calls For Sole Command Of All Military Operations In Afghanistan http://www.spacewar.com/2004/041028162301.uv33e85h.html Agence France-Presse October 28, 2004 NATO calls for sole command of all military operations in Afghanistan MONS, Belgium - NATO's top commander in Europe General James Jones said Thursday that all military operations in Afghanistan should come under one command. "It's a good idea ... I think it's the right way ahead," Jones told a press conference at NATO's European military command in the southern city of Mons. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization took over the International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) last year, but has struggled to expand it out of the Afghan capital Kabul. The UN-mandated ISAF, which was beefed up temporarily for October 9 presidential elections in the war-scarred country, currently comprises some 9,000 troops. The United States has pressed its allies to study a possible merger of commands of ISAF and its own Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), which carries out frontline combat missions against the Taliban in the southeast of the country. A merger, which is opposed by France and Germany on the grounds that the two missions are different, would help "eliminate force redundancies," Jones said. "We will have to come up with a solution that is acceptable to all 26 which takes into account the sensitivies of some countries to combat," Jones said. "As a general philosophy ... it's always better to integrate if you can." Asked about the expansion of ISAF projects in western Afghanistan, Jones said: "I would hope we see something by the spring at the latest." In June NATO confirmed the establishment of five provincial reconstruction teams in the north of the country, but it is behind schedule in moving into the west and other regions. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 11:07:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Germany: Serbia Is 'Strategic Partner To Be Euro-Atlantic Incorporated' http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?nav_id=30314&style=headlines Beta (Serbia and Montenegro) October 28, 2004 Germany "strategic partner" BERLIN - It is in Germany's interests for reforms to succeed in Serbia and for the country to be incorporated into European and Euro-Atlantic structures, German Foreign Minister Joscha Fischer said today. Fischer, speaking after a meeting with Serbian President Boris Tadic, added however that this was dependent on cooperation with the Hague Tribunal. He also spoke about Kosovo, saying that it was important to effectively protect ethnic minorities in the province and maintain European standards. "It is important that decentralisation proceeds and that everything is prepared for an examination of the status of Kosovo next year," said Fischer. Tadic told media after the meeting that Germany is a strategic partner for Serbia, adding that south-eastern Europe could not be stabilised without Germany's participation. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:23:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 1-200,000 Civilians Have Died From Iraq War And Aftermath: Lancet http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=32120 Agence France-Presse October 28, 2004 100,000 civilians have died from Iraq War and aftermath: Lancet -"Violence accounted for most of the excess deaths and air strikes from coalition forces accounted for most violent deaths." -If Fallujah is stripped out of the calculations, the overall estimate for the civilian tally nationwide comes to just under 100,000, at 98,000. If it is included, the death toll would rise around 200,000 PARIS - Around 100,000 Iraqi civilians have died as a result of the March 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, more than half of them from violence, according to an estimate to be published on Friday by the British medical weekly The Lancet. The research, based on interviews among Iraqi households and an extrapolation of the data, was led by experts from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, in the US state of Maryland. "Making conservative assumptions, we think that about 100,000 excess deaths or more have happened since the 2003 invasion of Iraq," the authors said. "Violence accounted for most of the excess deaths and air strikes from coalition forces accounted for most violent deaths." Their figure is based on data from 988 households from 33 randomly-selected neighbourhoods in Iraq. Families were asked to give the number of deaths since January 2002, the date and cause and, if a violent death was involved, the circumstances. The mortality rates for the 14.6 months before the invasion were then compared with those for the 17.8 months after it, and a nationwide estimate was then extrapolated. The 988 households, comprising 7,868 residents, were visited between September 8 and 20 2004. Five of the households refused to be interviewed. In the period before the invasion, the interviewed households had 275 births and 46 deaths, most of them caused by heart attack, stroke and chronic illness. Only one occurred from violence. In the period afterwards, there were 366 births and 142 deaths, 73 of them - 51 percent - from violence. Heart attack, stroke, neonatal death and infectious disease were the other significant causes. Twenty-one of the deaths occurred among children younger than a year old. The sample used for the study is small by the standards of epidemiology, the discipline of using statistics to estimate the prevalence of mortality or sickness. The authors themselves acknowledge that the sampling strategy "might not have captured the overall mortality experience in Iraq." And, they say, it is possible that "many of the Iraqis" reported to have been killed by the US forces could have been combattants. Of 61 killings attributed to the US forces by the interviewees, 28 involved men aged 15-60, 28 were children younger than 15, four were women and one was a man. The study was led by Les Roberts of the school`s Center for International Emergency Disaster Studies and included two specialists in community medicine at the Al-Mustansiriya University in Baghdad. Fifty-two of the 73 reported deaths from violence occurred in a cluster around the Sunni bastion of Fallujah, where US forces have waged fierce battles with rebels. If Fallujah is stripped out of the calculations, the overall estimate for the civilian tally nationwide comes to just under 100,000, at 98,000. If it is included, the death toll would rise around 200,000, although the researchers stress that there is "substantial... uncertainty" in making a projection of that kind. "Our results need further verification and should lead to changes to reduce non-combatant deaths from air strikes," the authors add. The study will be published online Friday by the London-based Lancet. Its editor, Richard Horton, acknowledged in a commentary that "certain limitations were inevitable and need to be acknowledged right away," but said that despite these flaws, the data and the analysis had been approved in a fast-track peer assessment by other experts in the field. In the circumstances of warfare, scientific data is rare and precious but analysis is invariably hedged with uncertainties, he said. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:35:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Bruce Jackson Heads Up Think/Spy Tank Delegation To Georgia http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=8195 Civil Georgia October 28, 2004 Western Think-Tank, Media Representatives Visit Georgia A group of representatives from western think-tanks and media organizations, as well as political figures, will pay a visit to Georgia on October 28-30 to get acquainted with the current situation in Georgia, the Georgian Foreign Ministry reported. The group includes representatives of the Financial Times, La Figaro, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, as well as Bruce Jackson, President of the Project on Transitional Democracies, Ana Palacio, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Spain, Pierre Lellouche, the Chairman of the French National Assembly, Alex Rondos, Ambassador at large of Greece. The delegation will hold meetings with President Saakashvili, Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, Parliamentary Chairperson Nino Burjanadze, and other officials. The delegation also plans to visit breakaway South Ossetia, Pankisi gorge in eastern Georgia and the OSCE border monitoring operation bases across the Georgian-Russian border. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 13:42:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: With NATO On Its Borders, Belarus Plans Major Boost In Air Defense http://www.interfax.com/com?item=Bela&pg=0&id=5765776&req= Interfax October 28, 2004 Belarus to spend 30-fold more funds on air defense in 2005 than CIS member-states Moscow - In 2005 Belarus is to spend almost 30-fold more funds on developing the Unified Air Defense System than all other CIS member-states, including Russia (2.2 billion Russian rubles ($76.5 million). "Belarus plans to allocate 2.2 billion Russian rubles ($76.5 million) to developing the Unified Air Defense System next year. Other CIS member-states, including Russia, plan to provide over 83 million Russian rubles ($2.9 million)," Colonel Gennady Surkov, secretary of the CIS Air Defense Coordination Committee, told Interfax-Military News Agency on Wednesday. He said that the decision on allocating assets for developing the CIS Unified Air Defense System in 2005 was adopted by the CIS Heads of State Council in Astana on September 15, 2004. "In 2005 the overall budget of the CIS Unified Air Defense System will amount to 2.295 billion Russian rubles ($79.8 million)," he said. The official did not say what Belarus planned to spend such a great amount of money on. A source in the CIS Military Cooperation Coordination Headquarters told Interfax-AVN that most funds, allocated by Belarus, will be spent on upgrading Buk air defense systems (over 1 billion Russian rubles ($34.7 million)), as well as overhauling S-300P air defense systems (over 72 million Russian rubles ($2.5 million)). "Belarus plans to spend some of the assets on upgrading various types of relay stations and other Air Defense materiel," he said. At the present time the CIS Unified Air Defense Systems includes the following eight states: Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Rurssia, and Tajikistan, with Uzbekistan and Ukraine participating on a bilateral basis. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:22:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Afghanistan: Bomb Attack On US Convoy Injures Three Troops http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002075022_afghanistan28.h tml Associated Presse October 28, 2004 Three U.S. soldiers injured after military convoy hit by bomb in Afghanistan KABUL, Afghanistan - A bomb hit a U.S. military convoy in southeastern Afghanistan yesterday, injuring three American troops and an Afghan soldier, the military said. The bomb exploded near the soldiers' Humvee near Qalat, the capital of Zabul province, a U.S. military statement said. Two U.S. soldiers were evacuated to the American base at Kandahar with shrapnel injuries and a possible concussion, respectively. Both were in stable condition, the statement said. The third American and a soldier from the Afghan National Army were treated at the scene for cuts. The United States has some 17,000 troops in Afghanistan hunting remnants of the Taliban regime ousted three years ago as well as al-Qaida militants and followers of renegade warlords. In another incident, U.S.-led forces killed an "enemy person" during a raid in Khost, near the Pakistani border, the military said. U.S. spokesman Maj. Mark McCann gave no information on why the man was targeted. "I can only say that the forces who conducted the operation knew what they were doing." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 14:36:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: 'Absurd Concoction': Russia Reacts Angrily To US Iraq Explosives Charge http://www.hindu.com/2004/10/29/stories/2004102905901400.htm The Hindu October 28, 2004 Russia rejects U.S. charge By Vladimir Radyuhin MOSCOW - Russia has angrily denied a Pentagon claim that its forces had removed nearly 380 tonnes of explosives missing in Iraq. A spokesman for the Russian Defence Ministry slammed the report as an "absurd concoction". The Deputy Under-secretary of Defence, John Shaw, told Washington Times on Thursday that Russian special forces "almost certainly" had transported the explosives out of the country to Syria or Lebanon before the March 2003 U.S. invasion. The disappearance of 377 tonnes of explosives from the Al-Qaqaa military facility south of Baghdad was confirmed on Monday by the International Atomic Energy Agency. "The Russian Ministry of Defence or its units could not have been involved in any way in the disappearance of the explosives since Russian military personnel had left Iraq long before the U.S.-British operation in that country," the Interfax news agency quoted the Defence Ministry spokesman, Leonid Sedov, as saying today. The senior Pentagon official made his accusation against Russia a day after it called on the U.N. Security Council to return weapons inspectors to Iraq to investigate the loss of explosives. Washington rejected the demand, saying American inspectors were looking into the issue. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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