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Friday 7th April 2006 - 8th Rabi' al-Awwal 1427
Israel arrests Palestinian minister
The Palestinian minister for Jerusalem affairs in the Hamas-led government was arrested by Israeli security on Thursday on the outskirts of the holy city, Hamas and police sources said. Khaled Abu Arafeh was released from a police station in the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim more than five hours after he was detained at a checkpoint at the entrance to al Azaria, a suburb of east Jerusalem which Israel claims is part of the occupied West Bank. Israeli police had accused the minister of 'illegally entering an area under Palestinian control'. Witnesses said police had manhandled Abu Arafeh out of the car he was travelling in with two other people before bundling him into a jeep. His bodyguard was also briefly detained and later released. Hindu-Muslim riot leaves two dead in north
India
Two people were killed and several injured yesterday when groups of Hindus and Muslims clashed over prayers at a Hindu temple, officials said. The rioting erupted in a crowded neighbourhood of Aligarh town in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh after Muslims objected to the use of loudspeakers overnight by Hindus, who were celebrating the birthday of the Hindu god-king, Rama. Knives, bricks and bamboo sticks were used in the fighting, and police reported gunshots being fired. Eight of the injured were in a critical condition, officials said. Aligarh, which has a large Muslim population, has seen frequent clashes between Hindus and Muslims in the past. Eighteen people were killed and dozens were injured last month by bomb blasts in Uttar Pradesh. Pakistan says 40 rebels killed by security
forces
Pakistani authorities said on Thursday that up to 40 rebels were killed by security forces in clashes a day earlier in a remote tribal region near the Afghanistan border. After a major operation on Wednesday in North Waziristan tribal district, the military had said at least 16 rebels were killed and 19 captured. The army backed by gunship helicopters went into action in the Shawal region of North Waziristan after rebels attacked a security post with rockets, killing three soldiers. Another soldier died in the ensuing clashes. The army said Wednesday that eight bodies had been recovered in that incident and that another eight were either buried or taken away by fleeing rebels. Jaafari says will resign if parliament
demands
Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari, facing a growing chorus of calls for his resignation, yesterday reiterated his refusal to step aside unless asked to do so by parliament. "I will stick to the result of the democratic process and reject any bargaining over it," he told journalists, but added: "If parlimament asks me to withdraw then I will." Jaafari’s nomination has been the chief obstacle to efforts to form a unity government over three months after landmark parliamentary elections. In recent days a number of Shiites have joined Iraq’s Sunni Arab and Kurdish leaders in demanding that Jaafari withdraw his nomination as prime minister. They accuse Jaafari of failing to stop the killings that have left hundreds dead in recent weeks. 15 dead in car bomb in Najaf
A car bomb exploded near a sacred Shia shrine in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf on Thursday, killing at least 15 people, police said. A witness said he saw 10 bodies and body parts on the ground a few hundred metres from the Imam Ali shrine, which is sacred to Shias around the world. The blast came at a highly sensitive time when Iraqi leaders are struggling to form a government four months after parliamentary elections, raising fears that the deepening political vacuum will fuel sectarian violence. The West is using such terror acts to put pressure on Prime Minister Ibrahim Al Jaafari to step down. Some witnesses reports that have been overlooked by western media point to the fact that those who carry out these bombings and executions are foreign merceneries dressed in Arab clothing with the aim of instigating civil war in Iraq. Rights group urges Libya to free 18 Arab political
inmates
A Syrian human rights group yesterday appealed to Libya to free 18 Arab political detainees languishing in jail since 1990 on charges of trying to overthrow Moamer Kadhafi’s regime. "The Libyan government recently freed political detainees but it continues to deliberately disregard the situation of dozens of Syrian and Palestinian prisoners of conscience who have been in jail since 1990," the Syrian Organization for Human Rights said in a statement. The group was referring to a decision by Libya in early March to release all 84 jailed members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood movement held since the late 1990s. The rights group’s president said 15 of those in jail are Palestinians and three are Syrians. All are accused of "wanting to overthrow Colonel (Moamer) Kadhafi’s regime", he said. US weighing options on Iran outside of Security
Council
The United States is weighing alternative actions against Iran if the U.N. Security Council fails to deal effectively with the threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said yesterday. Bolton said the statement issued by the council president last week was just a first step In what should be an increasingly harsh posture by the council if Iran fails to abide by the measures called for in the statement. The council has demanded that Iran suspend all enrichment of uranium and asked the U.N. nuclear agency to report back in 30 days on whether the Tehran government has complied. Bolton, speaking to a breakfast meeting the State Department Correspondents Association, said the administration could take economic measures against Iran if U.N. action is too 'tame'. US 'in talks with Iraq militants'
The US ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, has said US officials have held talks with some groups linked to the Sunni-led Iraqi insurgency. Khalilzad claimed that the talks had had an impact as the number of attacks on US troops by Iraqi militants had fallen. Khalilzad also warned a civil war in Iraq remained a real risk. He would not specify which groups the US had had contact with. He said the risk of sectarian war breaking out in Iraq remains if ethnic divisions between its Kurdish and majority Arab population developed, and warned it could turn into a wider regional conflict. Danish goods back on Saudi shelves
Arla products were back on the shelves of Saudi supermarkets after an Islamic group called for end to the boycott of the Danish dairy producer. The boycott was sparked by Denmark's publication of drawings of the Prophet Muhammad (p). Finn Hansen, executive manager of Arla Foods, said: "We're delighted that our largest Saudi customers have decided to lift the boycott." The company said its products were now selling in 3,000 shops and supermarkets in the Middle East, and that 31 of its largest retailers in Saudi Arabia had promised to resume sales of Arla goods on Saturday. Saudi stores began restocking Arla products after the International Committee for the Support of the Prophet gave the company the green light and praised the measures it had taken to distance itself from the Prophet Muhammad caricatures that provoked demonstrations and riots in January and February. Arla estimates that it has lost as much as $65 million because of the boycott, which began in January. The company produces milk, powdered milk, cheese and butter. Local version of Playboy to go on sale in
Indonesia
A 'toned-down' edition of Playboy will go on sale on Friday in mostly Muslim Indonesia, defying protests from Islamic leaders who have called on the government to ban the magazine, publishers said. The magazine does not feature nude women, and its photos of female models are no more risque than those in other magazines already for sale in the country, reports claimed. The Indonesia Council of Clerics, the country’s highest Islamic body, said that it disagreed with the publication of the magazine, regardless of its content. "We reject Playboy magazine because it is an icon of pornography," said Maruf Amin, the head of the council’s fatwa, or religious edict, section. "By insisting to publish, they are daring to face the opposition of society," he said. Protesters hit the streets in towns across Indonesia when the magazine announced in January it was planning a local version. It remains to be seen whether demonstrations will pick up again after people have read it. Inews Daily - No Copyright - http://www.fsphost.com/inewsdaily -
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