In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Inews Daily Monday 27th February 2006 - 28th Muharram 1427
30 killed in Iraq clashes, attacks Mortar fire killed 15 people and clashes erupted around two mosques in Baghdad yesterday. Five killed in a minibus and teenagers gunned down while playing soccer were among the 30 dead. Violence has surged since a suspected US linked militia bomb attack on the Samarra shrine. Meanwhile, authorities have arrested 10 people, including four security guards, over last week's bombing of the revered Shia shrine. Meanwhile, Western news agencies are fanning the flames of secterian violence in a bid to divide the Muslims in Iraq. Al-Qaida prisoners seize block of Afghan jail Hundreds of Afghan soldiers with tanks and grenade-launchers surrounded Kabul's main prison on Sunday after a riot by inmates who seized control of much of the facility, officials said, adding that at least 30 prisoners were wounded in attempts to quell the riot. As night fell, government negotiators suspended talks to end the standoff at the notorious Pul-i-Charki jail, which later this year is slated to receive dozens of Afghans currently in US military custody at Guantanamo Bay. A police officer at the scene said seven prisoners had been killed since the riots started. Rockets hit Shia tomb in Iraq Armed men have fired two rockets at a Shia tomb south of Baghdad causing damage but no casualties, officials said. The tomb of Salman al-Farisi, one of the Prophet's (s.a.w.) companions, was attacked after sunset with two rockets, said an aide to Shia political leader Abd al-Aziz al-Hakim. The tomb is located in the village of Salman Pak, 30km southeast of Baghdad. The village carries the name of the man. The attack comes two days after a Shia shrine in the central city of Samarra was heavily damaged by an explosion. Washington Post misquotes Hamas PM Hamas's Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh yesterday denied he had suggested the Palestinian Movement might one day recognise Israel, saying there was only a possibility of achieving a long-term truce. The Washington Post newspaper, on its Web site, quoted Haniyeh as saying in an interview: "If Israel declares that it will give the Palestinian people a state and give them back all their rights, then we are ready to recognise them." But Haniyeh told reporters in Gaza that he "did not tackle the issue of recognising (Israel) in my interview with the Washington Post." Iran and Russia reach tenuous deal on nuclear programmes Iran and Russia signalled agreement yesterday on a joint uranium enrichment project aimed at reducing suspicions that Tehran is bent on building a nuclear bomb. The IAEA chief, Mohamed El Baradei, is about to issue a major report on three years of nuclear inspections in Iran. Moscow said at the weekend that it wanted the row confined to the IAEA and not taken to the security council, which can impose sanctions. The compromise on offer, previously rejected by Iran, is that Russia would manufacture enriched uranium for a civil nuclear programme in Iran, providing guaranteed supplies of nuclear fuel. Court starts hearing Bosnia's genocide case The World Court is today due to start hearing Bosnia's claim for billions of pounds in reparations from Serbia for the genocide against Bosnia in the 1992-95 war in former Yugoslavia. Bosnia first lodged the claim in 1993. It has taken the panel of judges at the UN court, the International Court of Justice, 13 years to hear the case, a delay that has attracted criticism from human rights activists and international legal experts. The Bosnian argument has to prove the war was an international conflict and not, as Serbia claims, a civil war within Bosnia. Pakistan to seek civil N-technology from US Pakistan will ask the US president to offer it cooperation in the peaceful use of nuclear technology. No formal agenda has been prepared for the summit talks between Pervez Musharraf and Bush but Kashmir, terrorism and nuclear proliferation with reference to Iran are on top of the items to be discussed. Bush is expected to use this opportunity to push his 'anti-terror' agenda and for democratic reforms. Iranian students firebomb British embassy Several hundred students threw stones and firebombs at the British Embassy in Tehran in protest at the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Iraq. A few windows were broken in the embassy, and firebombs went off outside its walls during the two-hour protest on Sunday, before Iranian police wielding sticks waded into the demonstrators and dispersed them. Nearly 1,000 students gathered outside the embassy and held a peaceful protest, chanting "Death to America" and "Death to Britain" and blaming the two countries for Wednesday's bombing of the shrine in the Iraqi town of Samarra. 60 former Taliban surrender Sixty former Taliban, including five high-ranking figures, surrendered yesterday as part of a government amnesty scheme and vowed to lay down arms and work to rebuild Afghanistan, an official said. Among them were the Taliban-era mayor of the capital of northwestern Faryab province and police chief of Jawzjan province, according to the director of the National Independent Commission for Peace and Reconciliation in southern Kandahar city. "Sixty Taliban, including five ranking officials under Taliban, surrendered today as part of the peace and reconciliation process," he said. Yemen says 3 al-Qaida inmates surrender after jailbreak Three al-Qaida inmates who were part of a group that tunnelled out of a Yemeni jail this month have given themselves up to the authorities. The fugitives apparently include the leaders of the 2000 bombing of the US warship Cole and the 2002 attack on the French supertanker Limburg as well as a Yemeni-American wanted by the United States. Saudi media had linked some of the escaped prisoners to a foiled attack on a major Saudi oil refinery on Friday. The Yemeni government has offered a $25,500 reward for information that would lead to the arrest of any of the fugitives. Amnesty probes reports of spreading Libya unrest Amnesty International is probing reports that street clashes in Libya's second city Benghazi spread to two other towns in the east earlier this week. At least 11 people were killed by government police and more than 60 others wounded last Friday as a protest initially staged by the authorities against Danish blasphemous cartoons turned against Gaddafi's rule. Benghazi has traditionally been a centre of opposition to the rule of leader Muammar Gaddafi, who has held power for the past 37 years in the oil exporting country. Iranian and Egyptian leaders to visit Kuwait on Monday The leaders of Iran and Egypt will each pay a brief visit to Kuwait on Monday in order to hold talks with the newly appointed Amir, Shaikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah, diplomats reported yesterday. Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will meet Shaikh Sabah at Bayan Palace. He will also visit an Iranian school as well as meet Iranians working in the emirate, a press affairs officer for the Iranian Embassy said. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is scheduled to visit Kuwait on Monday afternoon. Pakistani hires lions, horses for groom's transportation A man from Pakistan's eastern Punjab province hired four lions and 50 horses for his younger brother to enjoy their ride on his wedding, a news report said yesterday. Ghulam Mustafa, a resident of Multan city, hired the animals after he failed to get elephants for the purpose. "I wanted my brother to go his in-laws house on his wedding on elephants but nobody was ready to provide elephants," Mustafa said. In Pakistan, some people still use traditional means of transportation including horses and horse-carts for the grooms. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Inews Daily - No Copyright - http://www.fsphost.com/inewsdaily - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe by sending an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! 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