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Tuesday 7th March
2006 - 6th Safar 1427
Hamas votes to revoke Abbas
powers
Hamas has signalled that it will take a confrontational approach in dealing with rival Fatah whom they defeated in January's Palestinian parliament election. At the first working session of the parliament, Hamas voted to cancel all decisions made in the last session of the outgoing legislature. This includes additional powers given to Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president. Fatah legislators walked out in protest before Monday's vote was held. They had argued that Hamas was twisting the rules by holding the vote, and that the last session of the Fatah-controlled parliament was legal. Israeli raid kills four
Palestinians
Four Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli air attack on a car in Gaza City. Witnesses said two, whose names were not immediately known, were travelling in the car when it exploded into a ball of flames on Monday. The sources said the other two victims were a woman and a child on the road. Seven other bystanders, most of them children, were also wounded in the explosion. At least one rocket was fired from an Israeli occupation army aircraft into the car as it drove down Salah al-Din Street in the Gaza City centre. A Zionist army spokeswoman confirmed that the military carried out the attack on a wanted member from Islamic Jihad. The others were - of course - 'collateral damage'. Monday's deaths bring to 4975 the number of palestinians killed since the second Palestinian uprising in 2000. Pakistan puts rebel town under
curfew after days of fighting
Pakistan imposed a curfew on the battle-scarred tribal town of Miran Shah yesterday in an attempt to end three days of fighting between pro-Taliban militants and government troops. Thousands of civilians continued to flee the tribal area as helicopter gunships attacked suspected rebel hideouts and militants attacked army checkposts in neighbouring towns. Meanwhile tension in the border areas was heightened after Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, accused the Afghan leader, Hamid Karzai, of being "totally oblivious" to events in his own country. US dismisses talk of compromise on
Iran
A senior US official has said that unless Iran executes a dramatic about-turn and suspends all its nuclear activities, the UN Security Council will intervene 'quite actively'. His remarks followed an official dismissal of reports an eleventh-hour compromise might be struck over Iran's nuclear program. The United States has long spearheaded a campaign to haul Iran before the Security Council, which has the power to impose economic or other sanctions. The UN's atomic energy agency voted last month to refer the Iran dispute to the Security Council. The process of bringing Iran before the Security Council has been delayed several times. UK troops to quit Iraq by summer
2008
Britain plans to pull out nearly all its soldiers from Iraq by the summer of 2008, with the first withdrawals within weeks, a top military commander said in an interview on Tuesday. Britain's most senior officer in Iraq outlined a phased two-year withdrawal plan in an interview with a newspaper. "There is a fine line between staying too long and leaving too soon," he was quoted as saying. Britain has given no firm timetable for the withdrawal of its 8,000 troops in Iraq, based in and around the southern port of Basra. 16 dead in
Iraq
A string of explosions in Baghdad and other cities claimed at least 16 lives and sniper fire killed the Iraqi major-general in charge of forces protecting the beleaguered capital. The bloodiest attack happened in Baqouba, where a car bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol exploded near the mayor’s office and a market, killing six people and injuring 23, including many children and four patrolmen, police said. Maj-Gen Mibder Hatim al-Dulaimi, who was in charge of the Iraqi army’s 6th Division, was killed when gunmen fired at his convoy from houses along the route to inspect his troops. 11 die as boat sinks in
Indonesia
Almost 11 people were killed after a motor-boat capsized in eastern Indonesia, the local police said on Monday. The 11-meter boat carrying 23 people sank while on a voyage from Falabisahaya to Tubang, two villages on Taliabu island in North Maluku province, It was reported. The remaining 12 passengers survived the accident, which was caused by high waves and bad weather. He said the accident occurred about 25 minutes after the boat left Falabisahaya for the three-hour voyage to Tubang. Taliabu, an island in the Sula chain in the Maluku Sea, is about 2,100 km northeast of Jakarta. Afghanistan defends intelligence
about militants
Afghanistan yesterday called for sincere cooperation from Pakistan in the fight against Taliban and al-Qaida militants, amid a deepening row between the neighbours over the violence. the Afghani Foreign Minister defended intelligence that Afghanistan handed to Pakistan last month about Taliban and al-Qaida militants on its soil who are said to be directing a bloody insurgency in the country. President Pervez Musharraf has said the information, including that which said Mullah Omar had spent time in Pakistan, was outdated and "ridiculous". Musharraf also said there was a "very, very deliberate attempt to malign Pakistan" by some Afghan agents. In previous interviews he has alluded to the involvement of India’s intelligence agency. Assad urges Hamas not to recognize
Israel
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has urged the Islamic resistance movement Hamas, which now holds a majority in Palestinian parliament, not to recognize the Zionist state unless Palestinians' rights are restored. "Recognizing Israel is linked to the restitution of Palestinians' rights," Assad was quoting as saying. "There should not be recognition of Israel for free, as if it were a gift for Israel, so that the West is satisfied with us," Assad said in the speech, which he gave at the university of Damascus. Assad said the victory of Hamas, which won 74 of 132 seats in January's Palestinian legislative election, provided an rallying opportunity for the Arab world. Iraq's new government delayed
again
Further delays have threatened to hinder the formation of Iraq's new government as one of the country's two vice-presidents opposed the president's attempts to convene parliament for the first time next week. Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi president, announced on Sunday that he would order parliament to convene on 12th March in a move designed to force a showdown in the dispute over the candidacy of Ibrahim al-Jaafari for a second term in office. The sitting of parliament would have triggered a 60-day countdown to elect a new president and approve the nomination of al-Jaafari and sign off on his cabinet. Nearly three months after the elections, the country's divided political factions are still fighting over the prized post of prime minister in the new government. ‘Al-Qaida pilot’ on trial for his
life
US government lawyers yesterday set out to convince a jury that Zacarias Moussaoui, the only man charged in the US in connection with the 9/11 attacks, should be executed. Moussaoui, a 37-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan decent, sometimes dubbed the "20th hijacker," was arrested in August 2001, weeks before the attack actually took place. But prosecutors contend he knew in advance of the strike and did not mention it to FBI investigators, so he is just as guilty as the 19 hijackers who steered fuel laden airliners at landmarks in New York and Washington. Investigators claim that Moussaoui admitted to six counts of conspiring with al-Qaida to fly airliners into US government buildings. Sunnis in Bahrain form first
opposition group
Sunni activists in Bahrain have unveiled plans to establish their first opposition grouping since the country introduced reforms in 1999, under the title of the National Adalah (Justice) Movement (NAM). The announcement of the group’s founding came at a meeting in Muharraq, north of the Bahraini capital Manama, held to coincide with the 40th anniversary of the 1965 March 5 uprising by Bahraini workers against British occupation. The NAM co-founder emphasized the group’s role as an opposition movement and said that Sunni Muslims had been 'sidelined' in Bahrain since the dissolution of the country’s parliament in 1975. First English-language Muslim
school opens in Indonesia
A Muslim boarding school has used English as its official language of instruction, making it the first Islamic institution in Indonesia to rely on an internationally recognized language. The Muslim boarding school is in the Central Java district of Sleman and is managed by Yayasan Nawesea (Nawesea Foundation), which also runs Islamic study centres in North America, Western Europe and Southeast Asia. Yudian Wahyudi, the school’s executive director, was quoted as saying that the establishment of the school was aimed at internationalizing Indonesia’s Muslim boarding schools, known as pesantren. Inews Daily - No Copyright - http://www.fsphost.com/inewsdaily -
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