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Thursday 2nd March
2006 - 1st Safar 1427
Saddam admits ordering 'trials' of
Shias
Former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has admitted that he ordered the trial of those suspected of involvement in an assassination attempt on him in the town of Dujail. Saying that he had also ordered the confiscation of their lands, Saddam yesterday told the court that doing so was not a crime (sic). The prosecution said the move was a reprisal by the then Iraqi leader, following the 8th July, 1982 attempt to assassinate him in the town of Dujail. Saddam and seven co-defendants are on trial for the torture, illegal imprisonment and executions of 148 Shias, as well as the arrest and torture of others and the confiscation and razing of their farmlands. Iran president wants nuclear
support from Malaysia
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad arrived in Malaysia on yesterday, taking his international campaign to win support for his country’s nuclear programme to an influential Muslim nation with strong US ties. Malaysia chairs both the world’s largest grouping of Muslim nations, the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, and the Non-Aligned Movement, and has given Iran moral support for Tehran's peaceful nuclear programme. Iran has been reported to the UN Security Council, which has the power to impose sanctions, after failing to convince the West its nuclear ambitions are entirely peaceful. 30 killed as violence continues in
Iraq
Bombings in Baghdad killed 26 people, and four others died when mortar rounds slammed into their homes in a nearby town yesterday, the second day of surging violence after authorities lifted a curfew. Wednesday's most serious attack - a car bomb near a traffic police office in a primarily Shiite neighborhood in southeast Baghdad - killed at least 23 people and wounded 58. About an hour earlier, a bomb hidden under a car detonated as a police patrol passed near downtown Tahrir Square; three civilians died and 15 were wounded. North of Baghdad, gunmen ambushed a police convoy carrying 50 officers, killing two passengers and abducting 10, police said. Four officers were seriously wounded. Jordan inmates release hostages
Jordanian prisoners loyal to al-Qaida have released six policemen and a prison chief. The hostage-taking took place after Jordanian troops clashed with prisoners in three major prisons when they went in to move high-security detainees. The policemen were freed after inmates were promised they would not be punished for the hostage-taking. The fighting, which involved 150 inmates, was the most serious in Jordan in recent years. Last year there were several strikes by high-security detainees protesting against poor prison conditions and ill treatment. Jordan denies there are systematic violations of prisoners' rights in its jails. Mubarak warns US not to attack
Iran
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak strongly advised the United States not to attack Iran, warning that military action would create more terrorists in neighboring Iraq, according to comments published yesterday. Mubarak also told Egyptian newspaper editors he warned Vice President Dick Cheney that ground troops ``will have a hard time'' in such a conflict. He said Shiite Muslims in the Gulf region also could turn against the United States because ``Iran generously provides for Shiites in every country and these people are ready to do anything if Iran is attacked.'' Zionists kill Islamic Jihad
leader
Islamic Jihad's top military commander in Gaza was killed yesterday in a car blast that rocked a busy street in Gaza City, knocking out electricity and wounding two other people. The Zionist military, which carries out pinpointed attacks against freedom-fighters in the coastal strip, claimed it was not involved in the death of Khaled Dahdouh. But Islamic Jihad accused Israel of killing Dahdouh in an airstrike and vowed revenge for his death. Islamic Jihad has been the target of recent Israeli attacks. Islamic Jihad has rejected Hamas' offer to join a Palestinian government. Yemeni prisoner refuses Gitmo
Hearing
A Yemeni prisoner at Guantanamo Bay accused of serving as a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden refused to participate in military proceedings against him yesterday, insisting that he would not receive a fair trial. Ali Hamza Ahmad Sulayman al Bahlul, who had said he was boycotting the tribunal, attended most of the day's hearing. But after an afternoon recess al Bahlul apparently refused to return. The presiding military officer said he wasn't certain how to proceed. Al Bahlul repeatedly said, ``I had no direct relationship with the events of Sept. 11.'' He is one of about 490 prisoners at Guantanamo, charged with conspiracy to attack civilian targets and conspiracy to commit murder. Veterans flock to mental health
clinics
About a third of the US soldiers and marines returning from Iraq will visit mental health clinics at least once in the first year after they get home, even though the military refers fewer than one in 20 for psychological consultation, researchers reported yesterday. The study, the first to track recent veterans' use of mental health services, tells a mixed story about combat stress. Yet the study, appearing Wednesday in The Journal of the American Medical Association, calls into question the military's effort to estimate Iraq's mental health costs and whether it can predict its effects on government services. Clinics of the Veterans Affairs Department have treated about 50,000 veterans of the war in Iraq for mental health concerns. Pakistan: '45 militants killed in strike near Afghan border' Pakistani security forces backed by helicopter gunships struck a 'militant' hide-out yesterday in a tribal region near the Afghan border, killing more than 45 fighters including a Chechen commander, officials said. One civilian and a soldier were also reported dead. The raid came just days before a visit by President Bush to Pakistan during which the fight against al-Qaida and loyalists of the former Taliban regime will be on the agenda. Three helicopter gunships attacked their mountain hide-out in the early morning near Saidgi. The assault "knocked out a den of foreign militants" and killed more than 45, an army statement said. Bush vows Osama will be
captured
US President George W Bush on yesterday hailed Afghanistan’s young democracy and vowed to bring Osama bin Laden to justice as he made his surprise first visit to the country since the fall of the Taliban. Bush, praised President Hamid Karzai and said the war-scarred country was "inspiring others". "We’ve got US forces on the hunt for not only bin Laden but anybody who plots and plans with bin Laden. There are Afghan forces on the hunt. ... We’ve got Pakistan forces on the hunt," he said. The tens of thousands of troops hunting for the militants have failed to stop a Taliban-led insurgency from becoming more violent. Refugee smugglers claim more lives
in Gulf of Aden
In the latest grim episode of asylum-seekers and migrants dying while trying to cross the Gulf of Aden from Somalia to Yemen, the UN refugee agency reported today that smugglers forced 137 men, women and children into deep waters off the Yemeni coast, killing at least 33, with another 30 missing. Thousands of Somalis, many fleeing violence in their homeland, arrive in Yemen every year, averaging an estimated 100 people a day during the annual September to March period of good sailing conditions, after making the perilous crossing in the hands of smugglers who often beat them or force them overboard while still far from shore, sometimes with their hands tied behind their backs, leaving them to the mercy of the seas. Authorities regain Afghan jail
control
Authorities have regained control of Kabul’s Pul-i-Charkhi prison after four days of rioting that left at least six people dead, a senior Afghan official said on Wednesday. More than 1,300 unruly prisoners, including 350 Taliban and al-Qaida inmates accused of fueling the unrest, had been transferred to another block of the prison under official guard. One more body had been found as the prisoners were cleared out, bringing the death toll to six - all inmates. At least 40 others have been injured. Officials said an American inmate, Edward Caraballo, who had earlier called media and said other prisoners had threatened to cut his head off, was safe. Danish ambassador to Saudi Arabia
offers apology to Muslims
Danish Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Hans Klingenberg expressed his government’s apology to Muslims over the publication in a Danish newspaper of blasphemous cartoons, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Wednesday. The apology came during a meeting with the Chairman of the Saudi Consultative Council Salih bin Homaid who received the ambassador in the Saudi capital Riyadh. The ambassador said his country’s government and people denounce the insult to the prophet. The cartoons led to a boycott of Danish products in Muslim countries and many demonstrations against Denmark. Inews Daily - No Copyright - http://www.fsphost.com/inewsdaily -
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