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In the name of
Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Inews
Daily
Sunday 26th February
2006 - 27th Muharram 1427
Iraq leaders
unite to thwart civil war
Iraqi political leaders have agreed to push ahead with efforts to form a government and condemned sectarian violence in a bid to ease tensions. Ibrahim al-Jaafari, the Prime Minister yesterday called on Iraqis to unite and fight terrorism in a news conference carried live to the nation on state television. Meanwhile, Bush is reported to have called Iraqi leaders and 'threatened to withdraw 136,000 troops. Meanwhile, a car bomb exploded in Karbala killing at least four people and injuring scores yesterday. Lebanon refuses
to extradite Hizbollah suspects
Lebanon yesterday refused to extradite to the US four suspected Hizbollah members believed to have carried out attacks against Americans in Beirut during the 1980s. Local media said that during her visit to Beirut earlier this week US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had made the demand to Prime Minister Foaud Seniora. The judicial sources said the general amnesty law which was adopted in 1991 after the 1975-1990 civil war ended in Lebanon covered incidents of which the four were accused. Russia wants to
complete Iran nuclear plant swiftly
Russia wants to complete building a nuclear power station in Iran as soon as possible, the country’s top nuclear official said yesterday. Sergei Kiriyenko, head of Russia’s atomic energy agency Rosatom, said during a visit to Teheran that the civilian nuclear plant at Bushehr in Iran would be launched as fast as possible. Russia’s building of the nuclear plant at Bushehr has long provoked objections from US officials. Moscow says Iran has a right to civilian atomic energy and brushes aside criticism of the contract, which is worth around $1 billion. Hamas leader
lists terms for recognising Israel
The Palestinian prime minister-designate said Hamas is ready to recognize Israel if it gives the Palestinian people their full rights and a state in lands occupied since 1967, including the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Hamas chose Ismail Haniyeh, a 43-year-old Gazan viewed by many Palestinians as a pragmatist, as the new prime minister after sweeping the elections on Jan 25. The group hopes to complete forming a Palestinian government within two weeks. Israel captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem in the 1967 Middle East War. Rice
Experiences Rough Week in Mideast
It was probably Condoleezza Rice's unhappiest week as secretary of state, one so disappointing that it raises questions about the Bush administration's ability to shape Middle East events in the near term. During her three days in the region, Egyptian and Saudi Arabian leaders - with Rice standing awkwardly at their side before the news media - refused to support the US financial boycott of Hamas as it takes control of the Palestinian parliament. Rice went to the Middle East hoping to build an Arab consensus for pressuring Hamas to either abandon attacks on Israel and accept its legitimacy, or risk losing so much foreign aid that they could be unable to govern effectively. Iran slams US
for creating terror groups
Iran’s foreign minister denounced the United States yesterday for creating terror groups like Al Qaida and reaffirmed Tehran’s support for a united Iraq following escalating violence there between Muslim groups. Reacting to Wednesday’s bombing of a key Shia mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra, he said 'some hands' were working to stoke ethnic and religious unrest 'not only in Iraq but in the Islamic world'. Mottaki also sharply criticised the US for its role in the current global terrorism crisis, saying that it had a hand in creating today’s extremists with its cold war support of militant groups. Children of
legislator kidnapped
Gunmen yesterday kidnapped three children of a Shia legislator, amid rising sectarian tension in the southern city of Basra and across Iraq. Qasim Attiyah Al Jbouri’s son and two daughters were seized by several armed men near their father’s home in Basra’s western Hayaniyah neighbourhood, police officials said. It was not immediately clear whether the kidnappings were politically motivated. Al Jbouri, a member of the Islamic Dawa Party, is the former head of Basra’s provincial council. Police identified his children as Sadeq, 11, Asma, 9, and Altaf, 7. Former
intelligence chief sentenced to death in Afghanistan
A court in Afghanistan on Saturday sentenced to death a former intelligence chief who was found guilty of systematic killings and other human rights violations during Afghanistan’s communist era. Asadullah Sarwari headed the feared intelligence department of the first communist government in 1978. Relatives of people who were killed or went missing when he was in charge also attended the trial. Russian-educated Sarwari had served as an air force pilot under the monarchy, and later as the air force garrison commander under President Daud Khan in 1973. Australia’s
'Jihad Jack' found guilty on Al Qaeda charge
An Australian known as 'Jihad Jack' and alleged by prosecutors to be an agent for Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaida network was convicted Sunday on a terrorism charge. Former taxi driver Joseph Terrence Thomas, a 32-year-old Muslim convert who changed his name to Jihad, was found guilty of intentionally receiving funds from Al Qaida. A jury who had deliberated for more than two days also convicted Thomas of possessing a false passport. Thomas faces a maximum sentence of 25 years in jail for receiving funds from Al Qaida and two years’ prison, or a 3,765 US$ fine for the passport offence. Iran in gas
deal with European firms
Iran will next week grant Total, Shell and Repsol upstream development contracts in the Gulf's giant South Pars gas field, an Iranian state oil firm said. Iran intends to use phases 11 and 13 of South Pars, which sits on the world's biggest reservoir of natural gas, to produce liquefied natural gas (LNG). The Islamic Republic hopes to export its first LNG shipments in 2009. Although it sits on the world's second biggest reserves of natural gas, Iran has been very slow to develop exports. 495 prisoners
released in Kuwait to commemorate national
holidays
Kuwait released 495 inmates from its Central Prison yesterday to commemorate the country’s National and Liberation Day holidays. The inmates were set free under a decree issued by Amir Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah. The decree also reduced jail sentences for another 194 prisoners. The ministry statement did not itemize the nationalities of those granted the amnesty, nor did it specify what crimes the prisoners had committed. Such pardons traditionally do not apply to those convicted of murder, rape, or drug trafficking. Inews Daily - No Copyright - http://www.fsphost.com/inewsdaily -
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