In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful Inews Daily Tuesday 4th April 2006 - 5th Rabi' al-Awwal 1427
Sudan 'blocks' UN trip to Darfur Sudan has prevented the United Nations' top humanitarian official from visiting the troubled Darfur region. Jan Egeland said he thought the government did not want him to see the latest wave of "ethnic cleansing" against black Africans in South Darfur. He said thousands of people had fled after 60 villages were attacked by Janjaweed militias. More than two million people have sought refuge in huge camps following three years of such attacks. The Sudanese government is trying to stop the UN from taking over the peacekeeping mission in Darfur from the under-funded African Union. A Sudanese foreign ministry spokesman said the government had asked Mr Egeland to delay his visit because it coincided with a holiday to mark the birthday of Prophet Muhammad (p). Ten killed, 38 wounded in Baghdad mosque bombing At least ten people were killed and 38 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack near a Baghdad Shiite mosque yesterday as worshippers were leaving after their evening prayers. The bomb was set off near Al Shuruqi mosque in the Al Shaab neighbourhood, northeast of Baghdad. The attacker drove his pickup truck loaded with explosives straight at the entrance of the mosque as worshippers were leaving following prayers. The truck struck a concrete barrier surrounding the building and detonated. The explosion occurred hours after US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and her British counterpart Jack Straw ended their two-day unannounced visit to Iraq. Jordan charges Indian workers with murder A Jordanian criminal prosecutor has charged 13 Indian expatriates with stabbing to death two compatriots over a financial dispute, the Jordan Times newspaper reported yesterday. A spokesman for the Indian embassy confirmed the report but said an investigation was still underway. "There was a fight between two groups of Indians over a matter of money. Two people were killed and one is in hospital in stable condition," the embassy spokesman said. According to legal sources, the suspects could face the death penalty if found guilty of murder. The prosecutor said one of the victims owed one of the suspects 42,000 rupees (around 940 dollars) and was late in repaying the loan. Angry at the delay, the lender, accompanied by 12 other Indians armed with knives and blades, sought to get his money back but a fight broke during which two people were killed. Pentagon sceptical but not discounting Iran missile strides Iran may have overstated claims to have developed radar-absorbing materials capable of hampering the targeting of its ballistic missiles, a Pentagon spokesman said yesterday, adding however, that Tehran's weapons program also could be "making strides". The US Defense Department reaction followed Iran's announcement Friday that it has test-fired a missile that can hide from radars and whose multiple warheads can accurately strike different targets at the same time. The missile test, conducted on the first day of a weeklong Iranian military exercise in the oil-rich Gulf and the Sea of Oman, comes amid growing tension between the United States and Iran over its nuclear program. Hamas says it has met French, Indian officials A Hamas spokesman said on Monday Hamas members held talks two months ago with French officials and more recently with an Indian diplomat despite US and Israeli efforts to isolate the Islamic militant group. "Meetings were held here (in Gaza) two months ago with French officials," said a Hamas spokesman without identifying them or providing any details about the talks. France's ambassador to Israel denied French officials have any contact with Hamas, which won elections in January and formally took control of the Palestinian Authority last week. Israel and the United States have sought to isolate Hamas, whose charter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state, since its election victory. Algerian who published al Qaeda fatwas jailed for 10 years A Spanish court yesterday jailed an Algerian man for 10 years for creating a website where he published messages from al Qaeda inciting 'jihad' and justifying terrorist attacks. Madrid's National Court found Ahmed Ibrahim guilty of "belonging to a terrorist organisation", in this case al Qaeda. He was arrested in Spain in April 2002 while "creating a website to publish radical and extremist principles", notably fatwas from al Qaeda calling for jihad, the judgement said. The court said Ibrahim had several times met senior members of al Qaeda in Palma de Majorca in Spain's Balearic islands where he lived, and that he had proven contact with radical extremists. Kurdish unrests spreads to Istanbul, death toll at 15 Kurdish riots that hit southeast Turkey spread to Istanbul over the weekend and the countrywide death toll from nearly a week of unrest climbed to 15 on Monday. Officials in Diyarbakir, the biggest city in Turkey's Kurdish-majority southeast, said two men - one aged 78, the other 18 - wounded in the riots that began there last Tuesday died overnight at the Diyarbakir hospital. Three of the deaths occurred on Sunday night in Istanbul when someone from a group of about 100 masked demonstrators hurled a molotov cocktail at a crowded city bus. The unrest in Istanbul followed most violent demonstrations in a dozen years to erupt in Diyarbakir during the funeral of four of 14 PKK militants killed in armed clashes with the army. Two Muslims shot dead in restive Thai south Two Muslim local officials including a deputy district chief have been shot dead in separate attacks by suspected militants in Thailand's restive south, police said on Monday. Durawha Mahameng, 52, a deputy village chief from Yala - one of three violence-plagued provinces - was shot early Monday by four men on two motorcycles as he sat at a roadside tea stall. He died later in hospital. Wanabdulrohim Sritulakarn, 45, a deputy district chief from Pattani province, was shot by an unknown number of attackers late Sunday as he drove to collect his wife from neighbouring Narathiwat province. Almost 1,200 people including police, soldiers, civil servants and villagers have been killed in more than two years of unrest in the Muslim-majority southernmost provinces bordering Malaysia. Muslims seen as sympathetic to the government are sometimes targeted by insurgents. Mines maim 100 people a month in Afghanistan Millions of mines and unexploded pieces of ordnance still kill or maim around 100 people a month in war-ravaged Afghanistan, a demining group said on Monday. Afghanistan remains one of the world's most mined countries despite the internationally backed efforts involving 10,000 people employed to destroy the devices, a representative of the Halo Trust told reporters. Millions of landmines were laid by the Russian military during the 1979-1989 Soviet occupation and during the subsequent civil wars between resistance commanders. The devices still threaten the lives of more than 4.2 million Afghans, or about a quarter of the population. Most of the mines were laid along highways, around former military bases and other government installations, as well as in villages and on farmland. Pakistan, Oman for peaceful settlement of Iranian nuclear row Pakistan and Oman reiterated their desire for a peaceful settlement of the controversy over Iran's nuclear programme. "On Iran's nuclear issue, Pakistan has maintained that it needs to be resolved through amicable and peaceful means," Foreign Minister Khurshid M. Kasuri told reporters after meeting his Omanese counterpart Yousaf Bin Alawi Bin Abdullah in Islamabad. Kasuri reiterated Pakistan's stand that opposes any 'coercive measures' against Iran. Abdullah said Oman was working with Iran and 'friends in the West' to try to avoid any possible crisis. The UN Security Council last week set a 30-day deadline for Iran to suspend all its uranium enrichment activities which the US suspects aims at producing atomic weapons. The Iranian government has already rejected the deadline and insists it will continue to pursue the enrichment process. Muslim women to join Lankan armed forces Islamic clerics yesterday gave Muslim women permission to join Sri Lanka's first exclusively Muslim infantry battalion to help provide security in the country's insurgency-wracked east, a religious leader said. "We have no objection of Muslim women joining the security forces, but it must safeguard our culture and religion," said Muslim theologian Moulavi Mubarak Abdul, who is also president of the United Party of Ulamas, an umbrella group of political parties and clerics. Approval for Muslim women to join the military came after Sri Lanka's military last month began recruiting for the exclusively Muslim unit. The unit will protect Muslims living in the troubled Ampara province where Tamil Tiger rebels, who are mostly Hindus, want to extend their domination. During two decades of civil war, the rebels carried out systematic killings of Muslims, including a massacre in August 1990 of 130 Muslims at two mosques on the same day. Iranian police get stranglehold on fake wrestlers Iranian police have caught seven young men who were trying to emigrate to Hungary by masquerading as members of the national wrestling team, the official Iran newspaper reported on Monday. Airport police arrested the seven men after a tip-off from the Iranian Wrestling Federation that warned 15 imposters would attempt to slip out of Iran under the pretext of attending a Greco-Roman wrestling contest in Hungary. Getting visas to leave the Islamic Republic for European Union countries is a very difficult process for most Iranians. Iran's Wrestling Federation said it became suspicious when its members saw an Iranian team entered in the Hungarian bouts, a competition which had not been on Iran's fixture schedule. Wrestling is a highly prestigious sport with a long pedigree in Iran. 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