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The Iraqi swamp ( the bowl in the past )


The resistance heaps the hitting on the occupation in Baghdad and Kirkuk and Al-Faloga and Basra


An Algzirant / the Iraqi resistance elements launched new attacks on the American occupation forces in Baghdad and Kirkuk and Al-Faloga and caused it losses in the equipments and injuries in its lines, and that after a day of its exposure to the most bloodthirstiness attacks January ago / the last January which resulted in the killing of five soldiers and four American contractors in Al-Faloga .

He has injured three American soldiers in an attack by five missiles on Kirkuk airport where a sitting is found an American military in north of Iraq . And a fourth was injured by dangerous wounds when an explosive device exploded in a lorry laden with the fuel on the way the year in north of Baghdad .

Also vehicles belonging to the American occupation forces in Al-Faloga faced in west of Baghdad dense fires from Iraqi gunmen . And eyewitnesses said that the gunmen attacked an American vehicle from Hamr kind by the bombs and the machine guns which led to its destruction, and the ignition of the fires in it, and she did not come information about the casualties size .

And the new attack on the occupation forces comes in Al-Faloga in a time that those forces tightened it its security measures inside the city after my attack yesterday . That came in the time that launched in it the occupation forces the campaign of an attack and detentions in a number of Baghdad districts .

And in Basra in south of Iraq the killing of an Iraqi citizen and two other when British soldiers and a police of Iraqi fire opened on demonstrators idle from the work that have pelted British armoured vehicles with the stones today at morning which led to smashing glass of four of it and the destruction of a front were injured the building of the department of the customs police . And the demonstrators tried storming the building that the British armoured vehicles guard .


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The killing of an American soldier in Al-Faloga and the injury of seven other in attacks to the Iraqi resistance


The agency / the killing of an American soldier and seven other were injured today, one of them in a serious condition, in separate attacks that the Iraqi resistance men launched today in Baghdad and Al-Faloga and Kirkuk .
And the Qatari news agency pointed that an American soldier was killed and three was injured the other explosion result an explosive device on an American patrol in north of Al-Faloga in the west of Baghdad, as the explosion led to the destruction of an American armoured vehicle from Hamr kind .
And in a second attack, the occupation army spokesman declared that three American soldiers were injured today in an attack by the missiles that the resistance men launched on Kirkuk airport where an American military base is found . And he clarified that one of the injured were injured in its head and the others in their legs . And the leader of Kirkuk police Torhan Yousef declared that the American rule was targeted by five missiles on three successive batches today at morning .
And in Baghdad, America soldier was injured today at morning by dangerous wounds the result of explosive device explosion on the way the year in north of Baghdad, and the explosion led to the injury of a car that was near the accident . And the American forces carried out the blockage of the main road in the region and started with an operation attacking .



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The injury of three American soldiers in an attack to the Iraqi resistance in Al Anbar


The agency / three American soldiers were exposed to dangerous injuries today Thursday, the immediacy of explosive device explosion that the Iraqi resistance men implanted, at the passage of American military convoy in Al Anbar governorate in the west of the capital Baghdad .
And said the general Mark Kimit the official assistant about the American military operations in Iraq it on at 309 ( 306 Tgh ) Humvee vehicle in Al Anbar governorate was injured in the explosion of a charge she cultivated on the sides of the way, adding that three soldiers injured and transferred by the helicopter clarified that the American forces will undertake later on the transfer of Alhamfi vehicle .
That comes under the rise of the Iraqi resistance attacks against the American occupation forces in Al-Faloga, where he was killed four Americans do for the occupation forces in an attack for the resistance by automatic weapons near Al-Faloga yesterday, and an angry gathering carried out the mutilation of my body two of them, while five American soldiers were killed in the explosion of an explosive device at the passage of their mechanism northwest of Habanyia .



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Burning of Homfa 's vehicle in an attack on an American convoy in Al-Faloga


The Islam thinker : Iraqi eyewitnesses mentioned that the Iraqi resistance elements have launched today Thursday an attack on an American military convoy which led to the burning of a military vehicle from Homfa model near Al-Faloga .
And the American occupation forces have carried out the closure of the highway leading to Al-Faloga city after the occurence of the attack while the sources of the American military occupation did not confirm until now the occurence of injuries due to the attack .
And Al Asoshitid agency was informed by a boss about one of the local citizens in Al-Faloga that called Ahmad Tarek its saying the attack fell on the main way at a distance of seven miles from the entrance of Al-Faloga .
And a knocking pointed that the appointed Iraqi police from the occupation authorities carried out the work of several checkpoints on all entrances and city exits after the attack and started in the raid of group of the shops in Al-Faloga ...



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The resistance launches a missile attack on an American rule in Kirkuk


The Islam thinker : three American soldiers were injured by wounds today Thursday in a missile attack that the Iraqi resistance launched on an American base in Kirkuk city in the north of Iraq . And that according to what the news island transferred .
And an American officer today declared that three American soldiers were injured in an attack by the missiles on Kirkuk airport where an American military base is found . And the spokesman confirmed that three soldiers were injured in an attack by the missiles from Katyusha model . And he clarified that one of the injured were injured in its head and the other are in their legs . And the leader of Kirkuk police Torhan Yousef declared that the American rule was targeted by five missiles on three successive batches .
And in a previous time today Thursday the killing of an American soldier and 3 other were injured in the explosion of an explosive device in front of an American periodical in the north of Al-Faloga city, and the attack resulted also in the affliction of great damages on the carrier and she is from Hamr kind .As another American soldier was injured by wounds today in the explosion of a bomb at the passage of American military convoy in northwest of Baghdad,



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Martyr Ahmed Yaseen 's battalions you adopt the killing of four Americans in Al-Faloga


The agency / martyr Ahmed Yaseen 's battalions adopted the responsibility of the killing of four Americans yesterday Wednesday in Al-Faloga city in the west of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, considering that it wanted with that revenge for the assassination of sheikh Yasin an establishing the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip last week .
And the battalions said in a statement for it, it is a present that Al-Faloga nation offers to Palestine nation and to the militants sheikh family Ahmed Yaseen who its assassination took place from the criminals the Zionists with lacking humanity and the manners, and he came in the statement that carried the address of the Al-Faloga of the Americans grave that it is after following and an allocation group to the American intelligences men and the Zionist Mossad our races carried out the execution of assassination operation these in Wednesday the coinciding in 31 March 2004 and after the publics of angry Al-Faloga carried out burning the cars and who in them dragging the bodies and the mutilation of it took place because of the increasing hatred of the Americans answering to the attacks and the attacking one on the mosques and the houses and a detention and the torturing of scientists and sheikhs and the intimidation of women and children .
And the statement added we advise the American forces on the withdrawal from Iraq and advise the families of the American soldiers and the companies owners on the non arrival at Iraq .
And four Americans were doing that for the occupation forces met their death yesterday in an attack by the machine guns through their passage in Al-Faloga and an angry crowd from the city peoples carried out the mutilation of two bodies from them .



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Bremer : attacks Wednesday will not pass without a punishment


The homeland ق / at the beginning of a reaction from it on Al-Faloga attacks the US civil administrator of Iraq Paul Bremer confirmed yesterday that attacks Wednesday that resulted in the killing of four civilians and five American soldiers will not pass without a punishment ‚ and Washington has condemned the attacks and described it that it is a terrible accident and an attempt of the intimidation of the alliance and the demolition of its attempts for the return of security and peace in Iraq»‚

And said Scott McClellan the White House spokesman in a statement for it is that the perpetrators of these doing try the stop of the democracy course»‚





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The Times Online newspaper : why the Americans did not dare to the entrance of Al-Faloga for the recall of what remained of their bodies؟


The Islam thinker : the news reporter of British The Times Online James Hider wonders about the secret that the American occupation forces did not appear anywhere in Al-Faloga today after an attack yesterday that fell in the city and from through it a group of the angry citizens in the town of Al-Faloga located in west of Iraq carried out bringing bodies of 4 of the American contractors who their killing took place, and assailed it by the mattocks and they suspended the casualties bodies on the bridge and they repeat that drops the occupation, drops America .
And Hider narrates the scene nature inside Al-Faloga city today Thursday then says that it is found a feeling of the calm that precedes the storm dominates Al-Faloga atmospheres and there are not any American forces only some of the Iraqi policemen are found in the region and other number from the Iraqi civil defense forces they guard the checkpoints on the entrance to the city .
And The Times Online correspondent adds that the reason in the non the boldness of the American occupation forces on the approach to Al-Faloga today the general Mark Kimit the deputy of the manager of the American army operations in Iraq has revealed it during a press conference that he held for the clarification of the situation where Kimit said [ any answer from the United States on what happened yesterday in Al-Faloga and any attempt on the side of our forces for the entrance of the town its consequences will be bad to the purpose and will make the situation increases a badness ] .
And the American general tried the search for an interpretation of the fear of the American occupation forces from the entrance of Al-Faloga today for the recall of what remained of the bodies of the four American contractors then informed the correspondents by that it if any attempt of a restoration took place the bodies of these American contractors, it will lead only to shedding more blood . And The Times Online newspaper mentioned that Kimit said [ in the truth we expect that Al-Faloga citizens are preparing for the American forces a helpful ambush if she tries the entrance to the city now after he happened yesterday ] ... Ammar is Iraq or for finding and carrying out the arrest of the rebels . But no time frame he gave on when that will happen ...



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The television American channels ban the display of the pictures of the Americans bodies in Al-Faloga attacks


The Islam thinker : the main American television stations inaugurated the newscasts Wednesday at night by shots for the attack of Al-Faloga . And Ay Bi Si defamed Wsi is by me shots exponent of bodies that were brought out of the mechanism that was burning and angry Iraqis assailed it with the hitting then she was suspended on a bridge . But the television stations confused intention the bodies pictures that were displayed after the newscasts presenters warned the spectators of its hardness . Also An Bi Si station carried out a montage to the film until the bodies do not appear on the screen . And throughout a daytime yesterday she touched Si An An and Fox shots therefore the attack without the display of the bodies pictures .
And according to what the news island transferred all American masses media have linked between this attack and the attack that killed in it American soldiers in Somalia in 1993 .And the pictures of these soldiers bodies were dragging in the street which led to the acceleration of the decision of the American forces withdrawal from Somalia,

The Islam thinker : the television screens exposed around the world yesterday Wednesday the detailed events to the attack of Al-Faloga that resulted in the death of four Americans . Also the channels were informed the acting scenes by their bodies and its pull in Al-Faloga streets but the American channels she used only few shots for its covering of the event . And according to what the site of Dblew Is television mentioned by me, the American television screens have planned for the avoidance of those scenes use except in few shots . And said Steph is Qabis an executive producer by a channel [ In Bi Si of the evening news ] : the accident was terrible and he does not need that he is watched completely so that he by what he carries from a terror arrives to the recipient . And by the proverb a deputy has clarified the manager of channel production [ FOX News ] that the planning for the limitation of the visible watching has taken place to the accident and the satisfaction by some shots to the burning vehicle, and the overcrowded crowds in a happiness in Al-Faloga . Also Walter Rodgrs CNN correspondent in Iraq mentioned that there many that will not expose it but some of the scenes were important for the clarification of the accident . And also the executive producer said to Si channel by me an Isbanhm that used some of the scenes in the evening news and its presentation did not take place in the live broadcast time .
And officials by the White House and the Pentagon have announced that they did not demand the masses media the specification of their use to the visible scenes related to the accident ...،،،



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He described Al-Faloga shocks America : that it is Mogadishu a second


The American television stations start the newscasts with the scenes of Al-Faloga attack, and compares between it and between Somalia in the year is 1993 .

Midl Ist is an Ionlain / Washington - the main American television stations inaugurated the newscasts Wednesday at night by shots for the attack that was signed in Al-Faloga and in it four civilians were killed an American, an angry gathering carried out the mutilation of my body two of them .

And Ay Bi Si and Si Bi Is displayed shots to bodies he takes place its bringing out of the mechanism that was burning while angry Iraqis assail it with the hitting a Brfosh then commented on a bridge . But the television stations confused intention the bodies pictures that were displayed after the newscasts presenters warned the spectators of its hardness .

From its side, An Bi Si station carried out a montage to the film until the bodies do not appear on the screen .

And throughout a daytime yesterday she touched CNN and Fox shots therefore the attack without the display of the bodies pictures .

And on the Internet, put Yahoo gate to a short while the pictures of the deformed bodies before she removes it who on its surfaces .

And all American masses media linked between this attack and the attack that killed in it American soldiers in Somalia in 1993 . And the pictures of these soldiers bodies were dragging that in the street led to the acceleration of the decision of the American forces withdrawal from Somalia .

And she inquired about the American New York Times Newspaper number of the Americans opinions that agreed unanimously that the pictures remind them in Mqadisho .

And one of them said perhaps it is the signal to America gets ready for leaving an Iraq ."

And another said that the situation turns from a bad to a worse . Then a mouth that is there until she drowns more and more ."

And Washington Post mentioned that it no utility from reminding the spectators by that the hung bodies she to dead they do not feel a thing, then the form shakes the Americans feelings .

And the newspaper blamed the American officials who said commenting on the pictures there is no new thing here ."

And five of the American soldiers have killed Wednesday in an attack in Iraq while four American civilians were killed in an attack in the Sunni city of Al-Faloga where an angry gathering carried out the mutilation of my body two of them .

And the American presidency convicted this horrible attack . And the White House spokesman Scott McClellan said that it terrible attacks persons that want the prevention of the progress in the replacement of the democracy in Iraq carry out it .

And he added that there who want the intimidation of the Iraqi nation and the intimidation of the alliance and the intimidation of the family the country but they can not an achievement that . Wakid we will not retreat from our efforts .

And the four American civilians who was killed in Al-Faloga was working for a company the special Consalting Blackwater who takes from a Mweok ( North Carolina ) a headquarters for it .

And the company in a statement said that they were carrying out security keeping up of a convoy that carries out the delivery of foodstuffs in Al-Faloga region .



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Robert Fisk describes some scene features in Al-Faloga


BBC / the British newspapers cared for the killing of four American civilians and the mutilation of their bodies in the Iraqi town of Al-Faloga .

Its first surface Alandbndnt newspaper entirely has dedicated therefore the subject and said the writer and the British journalist Robert Fisk in its description of some scene features in Al-Faloga :

Their bodies suspended on the sides of the bridge and was the amputated of the hands and the legs and one of the bodies were without a head according to what for me my Iraqi friend who was leading its car towards Al-Faloga after the occurence of the massacre undertaking described and was shaking and he describes for me what he watched .

And after a detailed description of the scene he spends Fisk saying it is before today a single that was the American general Mark Kimt the military operations leader deputy in Iraq that boasts that the infantry troops of the American navy face only few security problems in Al-Faloga satisfied totally about the way that scores by it a continuous progress there .

As for The Times Online newspaper then she said that Al-Faloga scenes remind of what happened in Somalia a year of ninety three when the pull of American soldier body took place in Mogadishu streets amid cries the general and the mob and led to a fast withdrawal to the American forces in Somalia and taming the American foreign policy through what remained of the nineties .



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A killing in it of 50 soldiers : second last March is the worse month for the occupation


The Muslim / she showed the casualties toll in the American occupation forces lines in Iraq through a March that it second above a monthly toll after last November since the president George Bush declared the end of the main military operations before 11 months she went .
And the last November was the highest months in the casualties toll from the American soldiers where 82 American soldiers were killed through attacks that resisters launched during that month .
And these statements come about number of the casualties although the American forces are the disguise of the true number of its casualties in Iraq, and he is what she confirms the international news agency and the Iraqi sources and the news reporter and the Arab media enterprises .

And this what points to the presence of big numbers is still not liable to the declaration .
And Writrs agency was informed from Stephen a tired program manager its saying 's Maryland university : the succession of the operations is in Iraq and if was why the public opinion Yalb after, but it started raising embarrassing questions about what we do there .
And he added that the continuation of the casualties fall in the soldiers lines in Iraq may harm the president Bush in the presidential elections therefore the year .
And a tired said that the matters stream started preparing a good chance for the influence on president Bush 's attitudes then the operations costs rise and the utilities it appears that it vanishes or decreases a pointing for example to the failure in the finding of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and that took from it Bush 's tool a main pretext for the launch of the war .



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America recognizes the non ability of its citizens 's protection in Iraq


The Islam thinker : the authorities of the American occupation recognized the inability in the provision of the security of the American citizens that will head for the commercial exhibition of Baghdad during the period from 5 to 8 from current month . And the US Department of State demanded its citizens the recollection that ninth of April he is the initial male for the start of the American occupation to Baghdad . And according to what the news island transferred about the Egyptian Shifa Alofd, the exhibition will receive all economic sectors and the enterprises from all of the countries and it is settled the participation of what ranges between 4 and 6 thousands businessmen in the exhibition and more than 300 enterprises including tens of the American companies .
And the sharpness of those fears rises after Al-Faloga attacks yesterday Wednesday that resulted in the killing of five American soldiers and four American civilians .And those attacks have raised wide reactions in the American masses media where the main American television stations inaugurated the newscasts Wednesday at night by shots for the attack that was signed in Al-Faloga and in it four civilians were killed an American, and she defamed Ay Bi Si Wsi by me shots exponent of bodies takes place its bringing out of the mechanism that was burning while angry Iraqis assail it with the hitting then commented on a bridge . But the television stations confused intention the bodies pictures that were displayed after the newscasts presenters warned the spectators of its hardness . And throughout a daytime yesterday she touched CNN and Fox shots therefore the attack without the display of the bodies pictures . Also all American masses media linked between this attack and the attack that killed in it American soldiers in Somalia in 1993 .And the pictures of these soldiers bodies were dragging that in the street led to the acceleration of the decision of the American forces withdrawal from Somalia,



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After Al-Faloga attacks ..America agrees on an international role in Iraq


The Islam thinker : the United States to for the first time on Thursday said that it expects that the United Nations issue a new decision regarding Iraq before the transfer of the sovereignty to the Iraqis response to the allied pressures the westerns on Washington until she requests an entrustment from the United Nations .
And said as countries are France and Spain it do not want the participation in Iraq that after the move of the sovereignty to it at the beginning of July without a new decision from the United Nations supports the presence of the International Community there .
And the United States did not say from before but it is ready for the study of possibility international decision issuing a new . So that Secretary Of State Colin Powell said on Thursday the United States expects now the issuing of this decision before she delivers the authority officially to an Iraqi government .
And according to Reuters Powell said in a meeting with a television [ increase . Des . an ugh ] the German I believe that it a new decision will be issued and we approach from first of July .
And in spite of its acceptance of the return to the United Nations then the United States did not declare the salads amount that will allow it for the international organization in any new decision .
And Powell allude that Spain practiced pressures on Washington for the attribution of a political role to the United Nations that supported that withdrew its forces from Iraq .
And he said that will see the decision kind that the United Nations may issue within the coming months .
And to the United States what exceeds 100 thousand soldiers will remain in Iraq after first of July .
And the American policy critics fear that Washington will remain actual occupation force until if she signed an agreement for the issuing of a new decision to the United Nations من شأنه أن he bestows a legal acceptance of the sovereignty transfer operation to the Iraqis,





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The Iraqi National Council of Resistance declares the political program


The Islam thinker : he called a statement resultant from the national council unifier to the Iraqi resistance, the Iraqis who their foot slipped and serve the occupation somehow to the reconsideration of the soul and the joining to the resistance by all its forms .
And the statement clarified that the national council was formed before 10 months from the Armed Forces men and the national security authorities heroes and tens of thousands of the refusing Iraqi patriots the logic of occupation and submission to the colonist and the noble clans sheikhs and the fighting scholars and a number of the Islamic powers ...., so that he forms an organizational framework he leads the resistance operations and its programs arrange an according for the developments of the military and political attitude .
And the statement according to what a newspaper was informed spoke [ the life ] around a political program to the Iraqi resistance, called for the released refusal and complete to the occupation logic and its tools and its elements and what results from it from structures and addresses and customer shapes and to the continuation of the resistance by all its armed forms and the demonstrations and the protests and the boycott of the occupation by the every possible means .
And the resistance statement after a departure demanded the occupied to the return of the country by all its national enterprises and the sovereign and service one and the return of the army as an unified national enterprise, explaining that it will declare in the suitable time the creation of interim national solidarity government for two years that takes place is after it the call to new elections to a new national council with the supervision of the Arab League and the international observers .
And the statement called for the creation of consultation council that shares with the Cabinet in the preparation of a permanent constitution for the countries he is presented to the referendum, then the national council and the Shura Council elect the president and a deputy for it for 5 years and completes giving the political freedoms including the creation freedom of parties and the societies and the organizations of the civil society .
And the statement confirmed the necessity of the development of the autonomy law to Kurdistan Iraq by what guarantees the national and cultural rights to the region within the framework of the unity of Iraq and its sovereignty, .،



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Albagh Gi warns the Iraqi Shiites of an imposition their opinions


The Islam thinker : the caution of the transitional rule councillor in Iraq is Adnan Pachachi the Iraqi Shiites yesterday from the exploitation of their numerical superiority on the limit of its claim of a proposition their opinions on the other minorities in the countries but it recognized that no substitute from a rule majority after the holding of general elections in next January for the election of a national council that puts a constitution always .
And Albagh Gi through press conference in Baghdad said that the more important advantages of the democracy consists in the protection of the minorities in referring to a controversial section in the temporary Iraqi constitution that the citizens state one thirds right in three governorate from origin 18 states in the refusal of the permanent constitution through a referendum on it .
And he followed up this section that will make the elected majority handles carefully and a saying because it is from not its department an imposition is its opinions on the others in the national council .
And Albagh Gi pointed that it has a solution of this spilt that satisfies all including the Shiite majority that claimed it that not any decision is taken without its acceptance but it did not give any details around its expected suggestion .



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The Americans settled their matter in Iraq : an equality in the sovereignty between the Shiites and the year and the Kurds and the non the domination of the Shiite sect


The public opinion / he wrote Yousef Alaona : she confers the Arab political selections on a large scale that the American civil administration is in Iraq, settled its matter after the big retreat in the military operations that were individuals from the Sunni clans and the remnants of the previous regime carrying out it, and that for the sake of a tripartite sharing the Shiite of the ــ of ــ years as my answer, does not conform to the distributions that a beginning cared for the ethnic minorities with as Assyrians and the Turkmen and others .
And the Americans argue a number of the Arab regimes interested in the map of the Iraqi mosaic that the previous stage generated a logical reality to the hoped future of Iraq and that includes a number of the important elements, and she is the non the domination of the Shiite sect by what parallels majority that enjoys it and belongs within that the guarantee of Iraq remoteness about the Iranian model, and the exclusion of religious country emergence and not a cancellation the probabilities of the theory of the scholar state only, besides the marginalization of a role and the sovereign authority top position as being a secretive from the national assembly works ( the parliament ) what means that it is controlled by the influences of the political alliances and the collector balances and the one that the party masses belonging to the three categories will make ( the Shiites are a ــ the year the Kurds ــ ) then the one that will define the authority top quality dependent on herself within bargains he does not notify with it any party of the cancellation or the exclusion .
And she reports sources in several Arab countries were on the line of the American consultations around Iraq that the Americans listened with care to required Arab countries by the non the exclusion of the Sunni party from the equation and its granting Alttminat self that gave to the Kurds, and he is what the compliance with it took place a doing through the postponement of the elections to the farther possible chance and to the limit that made the Americans they reduce for the postponement of the presidency elections in Afghanistan until no he is possible in the midst of the American presidential race the holding of critical comparisons against president Bush 's administration is a being hurried into the holding of Afghanistan elections and evacuated it in Iraq despite the similar security circumstances .
And in the deliberations an Arab Foreign Minister said to the US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Birns that the year in Iraq is the common factor that its exceeding and its defeat do not become permissible then they are the element of unity important to the country regardless of the repressive heritage that distinguished them in previous time, then they are centered in the middle what between the northwards and southwards,, and they are the year with the Kurds, and the Arabs with the Shiites and this an advantage is calculated for the sake of any future order he aims at the preservation of the unity of Iraq and its stability
And the Arab sources explain the Kurdish acceptance and the feeling of the current winning in the current Iraqi equation by that it related to asserting American promises I gave to the main Kurdish commands, by that Washington practices pressures on the countries that include Kurdish citizens by what leads to the emergence of rule regimes no centralism or federal federal, a privacy to the Kurdish regions in all of a Turkish and Syria and Iran especially after the reinforcement of the factor of the Kurdish desire by the non emergence of a Kurdish country that the three countries fears besides the Arab political powers in Iraq gives .
As for the greatest knot on earth and imagines by the Shiite feeling with the injustice from these orders, then its solution will take place in the context of the propagation of the administrative centralism system that gives wide validities to the local governors and returns the consideration of the fair distribution of the development plans and the distribution of a fair Mhassa of the infrastructures and the new greatest projects in the different regions besides a religious freedom no limits for it he appeared from it in previous stage the rehabilitation and the proper position to the sacred religious places in Najaf and Karbala and others them, and the civil references role consolidated and promises the return of lost historical role to the Al-Hawza Al-Ilmiya in the two capitals sanctifier to Iraq and the Shiite Muslims throughout the world .
Therefore the Americans who started a politics ( a reward ) of the Sunni regions on the contraction of the military operations percentages against their forces especially after the terrible mistake who fell in it are the remnants of the previous regime in targeting the new structures to the Iraqi country and from it the new police institution, and he is what will crown in ( an expression ) the interim national assembly that will be the reference of the stage that the Americans and the United Nations will play in it a penetration whatever he accepted the hoped elections is what means that we and according to the Arab Foreign Minister will be in front of a reasonable balance and if he was not sectarian and on the Lebanese way that the members of parliament gets in it individually and collectively an attracting role in the coordination with the regional and international agreement on an aged head the authority who will be restricted to origins a balanced parliamentary and political play she hides with it the الأدوار that were the ruler playing it the individual from any kind was .



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Maariv reveals the veil from the presence of hundred Zionist company that does in Iraq


The agency / the Zionist newspaper of Maariv revealed the veil about the presence of what between 70 to 100 Zionist companies works for a sale and the marketing of goods to Zionist producers in the Iraqi markets by amounts that are estimated at millions of dollars while other companies compete for the acquisition of grants the authorities of the American occupation declared it .
And the newspaper pointed that there is a list by the Zionist company names that do in Iraq and markets its products, and from these companies that revealed it the newspaper is close to the general transportations where she carried out the sale of old trucks in Iraq, and Rafintks company that works for the industry of the armours from the bullets, and Tmbor company for the industry of paint and dyes a Wsonol to the burnt and showed to the textile .
And Maariv clarified that the more prominent Zionist personalities that does through these companies in Iraq, he is safe Lifkin Shahak the chief of staff of the previous Zionist occupation, and between me the previous political consultant field to the previous Zionist prime minister Ehud Barak .
And the newspaper added that the shot initial that gave the start signal for the Israeli jogging on the Iraqi markets she was the declaration of minister of finance Benjamin Netanyahu in July from last year the cancellation of the ban on the trading in Iraq .
And the Zionist radio have mentioned that thousands of containers that carry the goods to Iraq pass on the Zionist ports in Haifa and Ashdod, and hence through lorries to Elat and from it to Iraq, considering that that increases the movement is transferred in the ports the Zionism that witnesses a sharp state from the stagnation .
And she was press reports that have mentioned that the occupation country tries the penetration inside Iraq by means of its companies as news circulated about doing the Jewish in Iraq with the purchase of lands and real estates, and the newspaper of Yediot Aharonot Yediot mentioned in July that the Zionist companies seek the commercial interaction with Iraq through foreign companies for the passing of its exports through Jordan or Turkey .
And news have circulated also about the knowledge document sources that a Zionist embassy complies in Iraq since the last June that is submitted to an American protection and supervises more than 750 employees from the elements of the Zionist inquiries and the diplomatic and the businessmen they practice their works in Iraq with European countries nationalities, as she mentioned Iraqi information that Zionist press and intelligence delegations visited Iraq through last period several times and by Zionist passports sometimes about a way a Turkish then in north of Iraq and contacted lots of the Iraqis for the establishment of fields for the cooperation .


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Half Karzai 's government income from the drugs


The Islam today / sources in the United Nations yesterday Wednesday revealed that more than half income Afghanistan, under the appointed Hamed Karzai presidency from the American occupation forces its source the drugs .
And Antonio Maria Costa the executive manager called for the United Nations' Bureau to the combating drugs and the crime to the increase of the sources for the confrontation of the problem of the aggravated drugs in Afghanistan, adding that the drugs economy in Afghanistan increases a disorder and the non the stability of the region altogether .
Mentions that the government of the Islamic Taliban movement, realized a distinguished success in the eradication of the agriculture of the drugs, and that with the recognition of the United Nations herself, before he seizes rebels the north allied on the rule in Afghanistan, with support from the American military forces .
In another context Afghanistan got pledges of the offering of 2.8 billions dollars to it as new aids yesterday in the international conference to the donors the held in Berlin .
And the Afghan minister of finance declared the more honourable Ghanian is that the International Community pledged the offering of 4.4 billions dollars through the next Alathni ten month and 8.3 billions dollars to the three next years .
From its side Chris Patin the assigned European deputy announced the foreign relations, that Afghanistan grants that appear and as if it is drugs country, additional moneys he will be as the extravagance of these moneys .



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An analysis : the Pakistani campaign is against the Al-Qaeda a disappointing


The Pakistani forces suffered grave losses in the attack, and failed in the detention of any top official because of the decrease of the inquiries and the tribes non-cooperation .

Midl Ist is an Ionlain / Islamabad - who Koran acquitted

Pakistani analysts confirm that the wide campaign that the Pakistani forces launched against races of the Al-Qaeda in the kiblah border regions with Afghanistan was disappointing and appeared about more difficulties in the pursuit of network leader Osama Ben Ladin .

And he saw that raised Hussain the manager of the part of the strategic studies in the university of the greater leader in Islamabad that the army in spite of the grave losses that suffered it did not can that he lays its hand on actives from the الصف الأول . The army has moved the den but it did not succeed in the seizure they them .

And the army operation and its curbing of the regions that are fortified in it have continued about 500 of the Al-Qaeda fighters and cooperative with them from the local Pakistani tribes two twelve day and 7500 soldiers participated in it and ended with the arrest of 166 persons including 73 foreigners .

And the Pakistani authorities declared that it killed 63 elements including some of the foreigners and recognized the killing of 46 soldiers and fifteen civilian . But some foreign Intelligence bureaus in Islamabad confirm that the Pakistani losses they are told my weakness what declared .

And Hussain pointed that the battle was a bloodthirstiness and stoked the disagreements between the tribes and dropped many of the losses in the civilians lines .

And the military mohallel and the retired officer the general Talhat Masoud from its side reported that the campaign did not result in any of the commands detention until from the second and third grades .

And based on these analysts, the campaign results that the Pakistani forces launched in the southwest of Wana city, region capital and Waziristan are the tribalism at a distance of few kilometres from the Afghan borders, does not bode many of the optimism in the chase of Al-Qaeda leader Osama Ben Ladin and its assisting, and she is the campaign of its will the United States before the American presidential elections in next November .

And gathering the American soldiers has taken place in Afghanistan - with the aid of the fast interfering forces Task Fors is 121 the one that carried out the arrest of Saddam Hussein in Iraq - to they carry out the cooperation with the Pakistani forces by a pincers along the Pakistani Afghan borders where he believes that Osama Ben Ladin and the Al-Zawaheri 's by right arm they hide .

And Talhat Masoud saw that the results in spite of the sacrifices in the lines of the Pakistani forces and in spite of the technological progress to these forces came a disappointing to two reasons two : the decrease of the intelligence information and the non-cooperation of the local tribes .

And he pointed in this regard that the traditions of the great hospitality in the region to the Pashtunian tribes and the preserving Islam at these tribes in addition to their feelings hostile to the Americans were papers interest the Al-Qaeda leader in the rough mountain region .

And not happens before to the Pakistani forces that the tribal region that covers half border distance that reaches its length entered 2500 kilos and separates in an artificial way the Pashtunian tribes, except in year 2002 in the alliance interference context that the United States led in Afghanistan in autumn 2001 .

And since then about seventy thousand Pakistani soldier spread in halves the border regions approximately in the tribal region that was famous for its historical resistance to the occupiers throughout years, from the Mongols to the British .

And the Pakistani authorities point to the bills of indictment to one of Pashtunian clans by its eye ( vinegar Alyarghol ) and accuses it that it is conspiring with the Arab and Uzbeks terrorists and the Chechens a Walighor ( China ) .

And the analyzing points in the defensive affairs Hassan is Rdwy 's soldier that some of these clans might have been supporting the Al-Qaeda but they are before that the strong of the care on their independence and they do not tolerate the external interferences .

And he says that the operation did not record despite that a complete failure as the observers notice that softened the combating abilities to the Al-Qaeda retreated many where if that Ben Laden was a doing in the region, it will meet with a difficulty in that he finds in it a safe refuge .


The prisoners


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Members in the International Committee of the Red Cross : Saddam asked about its family and Iraq situations and complained about its non granting newspapers and a radio and a television


The public opinion / she benefitted non official information from members in the International Committee of the Red Cross who visited Saddam Hussein in its jail in Baghdad finally, that the deposed president in good health and a sick sickness did not appear on it and practices the athletic exercises regularly and that it asked about its family and the general situations in Iraq, the sudden of the Committees member with its knowledge of accurate legal texts to the prisoner of war and yesterday the newspaper of the Iraqi improvement was informed about the sources herself, that Saddam complained about the non answering the Americans that to its demands, with bringing wrote most of it that concerns Iraq history, and that the sole book that the Americans agreed on its entrance to its jail is the Holy Quran, as that it complained about the refusal of the Americans the answering of its demand with bringing television or a radio or local and Arab newspapers .
And the sources clarified the details of the visit of the international committee for a clash and the circumstances that accompanied that visit and the message that transferred it from it to its son the present luxury in Jordan now .
And she pointed to that the visit that took place weeks before and continued to more than half hour, the preparation of it took place a long from the American side and the Red Cross committee and intense security measures kept up with it, and clarified that the reception of the formed committee took place from members from different countries, and the choice of seven members including a single Iraqi for Saddam 's visit in one of the palaces amid the green region .
And reminded the improvement is that it through a short meeting of the committee with officials in the American forces the time specification of visit and the items that is used in it and the speakers and the message that the committee will transfer took place, after it the delegation members were transferred to a yard inside the palace where an American helicopter waited for them .
And the newspaper was informed about the sources that the American soldiers carried out the banding of the Committees member eyes before the take-off of the helicopter pretexting by the necessities the hope that requires the non knowledge of the committee of Saddam 's presence place, but they felt the aeroplane that rises from its place then she returns and comes after less than five minutes to a different place that prefers that he is inside the green region also, and mentioned that the committee waited inside a room by two glass sides, while the other walls painting by the white colour and implanted photographing cameras in three corners of the room that arranged in it seven chairs for sitting the Committees member against a wooden chair for Saddam 's sitting .
And the improvement added that it Saddam 's entrance moment with the company of American soldiers, the Committees member stood contemplative its view,, a long sixties and shaved man the chin with care, not concerned by who around it, the restricted of the hands by a rubber university, wears a gray shirt and a black trousers without a belt and a shoe a new blackened, its clothes appeared organized and clean but it did not speak the moment of its entrance and until the departure of the American soldier and its standing in the glass room door, after she lifted the restrictions off its wrists, where the Committees member took the initiative in its notification for the purpose of the visit, but Saddam was content with the beckoning by its head the indication of its knowledge for the purpose of the visit putting its forefinger on its cheek on its famous way
And she followed up : one of the Committees member and its nationality recited a British legal texts she clarifies the prisoner of war rights demanding Saddam with the clarification of its matching 's extent with the circumstances of its detention .
And the information pointed that Saddam is asserting the Committee member two times with the saying : he was stopped an easy, inquirer about a section the accompanying translator did not master its translation that Arab member returned in the committee by the Arabic language and relates exactly the prisoner right in the demand of the books and the knowledge of the press news about its homeland and the world, and she mentioned that Saddam suspended a saying it complains about the non answering the Americans that to its demands, with bringing wrote its most of that concerns Iraq history and that the sole book that agreed on its entrance to its jail is the Holy Quran, as that it complained about the refusal of the Americans the answering of its demand with bringing television or a radio or local and Arab newspapers .
And the improvement wrote that Saddam complained about the detention circumstances that took in it while he confirmed that the investigations with it are stopped for more than two months from the visit date, and wrote that Saddam said to its visitors also that it did not meet in the jail any an Iraqi political personality since the visit of members in the Governing Council for it in today the next for its detention, and requested from the committee the provision of a telephone call is by its son a luxury, and she clarified that Saddam asked the Committees member also about the news of its family and the general situations in Iraq, but the committee refused the answer content with the prepared meeting plan previously .
And about the message details that sent it to its son a luxury, the sources said that Saddam was its books according to its saying before weeks of the visit when I reach by that from the American side, and that it consists of 14 lines all spoke about the inquiry about the family states and if she not was luxurious that contacted its mother, demanding its family with the patience and the cohesion, but it was free of any political indication or referring to the detention circumstances .
And the newspaper mentioned that the Committees member surprised with Saddam 's knowledge of accurate legal texts to the prisoner of war through a short discussion its concern around those texts certain to a committee that it was present in Iraq during the rule of Babylonian and Assyrians and that Iraq applied it accurately with the Iranian prisoners during its war with Iran and have suspended one of them a saying Saddam might have known of the explanations of the families readiness to it .
And with the end of the visit, the information pointed that the Committees member left in the same way the one that entered it after Saddam said goodbye to them by an expression under God's protection, and received its message after their departure with one of the officials in the American intelligences .


America


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A series of the explosions a third are hit the biggest oil refineries in America


The Islam thinker : a series of the explosions fell a night the day before yesterday Tuesday in one of the American oil refineries belonging to refineries system he knows in the name of by me by me in State Of Texas in the United States which resulted in the injury of 10 persons by a surgeon that their transfer took place immediately to the hospital and the local officials forced informing the citizens close to the refinery that was exposed to the explosion with the staying inside their houses and the gasoline prices have risen immediately in all of the world markets .
And the sources of the American police said that at least three explosions have fallen in one of the biggest present refineries on the American lands and the officials clarified that the unity of the gasoline with the refinery have exploded and the firemen tried the extinction of the fires that increased and its spearheads reached the firmament .
And the spokesman of the hospital that transferred to it the 10 injured said and he is prayed Harold Fatig the Emergency Department by the medical island center confirms that the injured suffer from problems in the respiration because of the exposure to chemical substances after the explosions .
And Houston newspaper was informed from Bros Kloson the emergencies administration coordinator in State Of Texas all the fires fighting institutions have responded in an instant way just after the notification about the occurence of the explosions, pointing to that the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has warned of probabilities that the terrorists carry out targeting the oil refineries in Texas .
The oil Wtatbrmsfaa in the city of the Texas of the older refineries in a system by me by me as she promises the bigger third refinery in the United States, and hence the gasoline prices have been disturbed in all international oil markets ...



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Exit poll : I defeat the Americans that wait for a big attack


The Islam thinker : exit poll that Washington Post spread clarified that less than half of the Americans they believe that their countries are the more security which was on it before the attacks of 11 September 2001, while he believes more than a three quarters who inquired their opinions are that the United States may be exposed to a big attack inside the American lands or its outside through the next few months .
And the survey revealed the continuation of attacks shock 11 of September and its influence on the psychology of the Americans where he expressed are 73 % who inquired their opinions about a worried presence at them who called it the terrorism, and he confirmed an about of half the inquirer their opinions are that they fear that terrorists execute operations near their houses or the places of their work .And the newspaper pointed - while is its move the news island - that the survey results that an independent enterprise carried out come in the time that considered in it the American president that the fight of what names the terrorism and the protection of the American national security are the pivotal cases in the election campaign,,



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Two bellows : in the future our young man and our young man will not force the fight and the death for the sake of the oil ..At all


Riyadh / and the democratic candidate reverts to the American presidential elections John Kerry by a plan to the energy aims at the ending of the United States dependence in its oil needs to Middle East .
But president George Bush 's competitor to the White House demanded during an election festival in San Diego ( California ) at the present time that the abstinence of OPEC countries is its production of the reduction of the benzine prices that scored records in America .
And he said that the democratic candidate because of my plan America will become within ten independent years while relates to its needs from the energy related to Middle East oil .
And he added that the fuel will become in the future the less price and the more cleanliness and our young man and our young man will not force at all the fight and the death for the sake of the oil from the abroad .
And for the confrontation of the rise of the benzine prices now he demanded the bellows of the American president the pressure on the meeting countries of OPEC now in Vienna for the increase of its production .

Bush feels failure from the decision of OPEC the reduction of the production

0727 (GMT+04:00) - 01/04/04

Washington, the United States ( a CNN ) - - the White House Wednesday declared, that the American president George Bush feels a disappointment from the decision of OPEC the reduction of the oil production .

And the White House comment came after the acceptance of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ministers OPEC in their meeting Wednesday, on the reduction of the production million barrel is daily a start from the first April / the current April .

And was a number of the member states oil ministers in OPEC organization said Tuesday, the rise of the current oil prices should not prevent the emergence of the organization with the reduction of the production rates by a percentage of 4 by the hundred as a curriculum .

And the White House spokesman Scott McClellan Wednesday said that the president feels failure from the decision that was taken today, on the productive the non taking steps from its affair of the harming by the American consumer and our economy according to speaking the White House spokesman .

And McClellan clarified the White House is diverted in discussions with the producers in OPEC and from not the members in OPEC all over the world for their knowledge of the American administration viewpoints ."

And McClellan early from a daytime Wednesday avoided the engagement in the discussion of the probabilities that will result from meeting an OPEC with the saying that is not with the habit of us the comment undertaking on their decisions ."

And in the time that the White House sought to the dependence on a quiet diplomacy for the persuasion of OPEC of the increase of the production, McClellan said that Bush 's administration pledged the work for the non an occurence what she named a blackmail of the prices .

And McClellan said that will continue the work with international officials and local in addition to the consumers for the surveillance of a likely rise in the benzine prices ."

And the White House stressed Wednesday that the president will remain sticking to its situation opposing the taxes on the benzine and due to that raising issue the White House will continue the pressure on the Congress for passing a draft resolution for the reform of the energy sector, that the Congress hindered its issuing since three years .

And McClellan said to what we were in these situations if the democratic deputies did not hinder the plan of the national energy that the president presented may ago / may 2001 ."

By their role sees the democratic deputies are that Bush 's plan do not present more for the circulation of other substitutes to the energy or the compulsion of the manufacturers on the improvement of their oil abilities .

Also the democratic criticized Bush 's administration for its pursuit behind the extraction of the oil from Alaska regions, instead of the emphasizing on the reduction of the consumption .

And despite these situations the White House repeated its opposition of the calls demanding the use of the stock of the American caution from the oil .

And McClellan said in this relation on you the taking in the consideration when you speak about this subject, mentions the presence of cases that relates to the national security specially after attacks 11 Septembers ."

He points to that the American National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice, met Wednesday noon sheikh Mohammad Kuwait Foreign Minister the morning .

And after the meeting the morning said to the journalists that the rise of the oil prices is an issue that the Kuwaiti government does not prefer .

And the Kuwaiti minister on the attitude of its countries confirmed that it was the more useful by OPEC the postponement of the restrictions imposition on the production of the oil, for the expansion of the field in front of the retreat of the prices first .



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Bush establishes a tenth in the list of the Americans with more madness !And the reason is Iraq weapons


The channel / he showed a survey that spread recently on the occasion of the first from April that the American president George Bush precedes it in the order Michael Jackson 's pop music star and its sister Janet are from the Americans ten ( the more a madness ) through the year 2004 .
And Michael Jackson accused of the attack has got sexually a boy on the American title the more a madness for the second year in succession .
And 77 % of 1016 American that the survey included that was held telephone chose the public relations company account carrion in Arg that take from New York a headquarters of it, Michael Jackson so that he occupies the top of this classification regulation prior to its sister Janet that chose by a percentage of 70 % .
And Janet Jackson have raised a scandal after she showed its breast, by a form no a voluntary on the limit of its saying, during the course of half the final to the American football match Baol Imam 's super is hundred million spectator in the last first of February .
And he came in the third rank by majority 70 % the American singer Martha Stuart involved in a case she accused in it recently with the hindrance of the justice work .
Then after it the singer by my ornament Sbirs for its marriage to the friend of its childhood comes for 55 hours in Las Vegas .
As for the president George Bush then he came in the tenth site with its acquisition of 50 % from the votes for the prevalent polemic about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq .
And from the other personalities that were distinguished by some of the madness through the two twelve last months, the basketball star is my glass Braint accused of the rape and Paris Hlton who spread its sentimental risks on the Internet .
And I may hold the survey from 19 to the current 22 with mistake margin that estimated by three points .


The fight of Palestine


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The occupation forces declare the mobilization in a region ( an Ayrs ) the industrial north of the sector‏


‏ ( an universe ) - Palestinian eyewitnesses said that the Israeli occupation forces declared tonight the state of mobilization and readiness in the industrial area in a region ( an Ayrs ) in north of the Gaza Strip .And these witnesses clarified that the occupation forces demanded tonight the Palestinian workers who ‏

‏They inform there in the night hours the departure of the region immediately without showing the reasons .And the stations of local radio were informed in Gaza about a number of the workers their saying big forces from the soldiers of occupation and tanks spread inside the region that does by it more than 3600 Palestinian workers where wide inspection operations are held the range there .And they clarified that the talk turns about the suspicion of the occupation forces successfully Palestinian resisters with the sneaking to this region that witnessed through the three last months several Palestinian martyrdom operations .‏

‏ It is mentioned that the occupation forces have repeated opening the industrial area that falls under the Israeli security control before three days after she closed it for a week he affected the assassination operation that Sheikh Ahmad Yassin was exposed to the twenty second from last month .‏


 

Sat 6 Mar 2004

1:59am (UK)
Al Qaida 'Looking for Africa Terror Havens'


Squeezed out of sanctuaries elsewhere in the world, Osama bin Laden’s al Qaida terror group may be looking to the deserts and jungles of Africa as a haven to train recruits and plan new attacks, the deputy head of US forces in Europe says.

Key among US military proposals to fight back is deploying American units of about 200 soldiers to train armies throughout the continent, patrol alongside them, or hunt terrorists on short notice if necessary.

“Some people compare it to draining a swamp,” US Air Force General Charles Wald told The Associated Press, eyeing a map of Africa in his office in Stuttgart, Germany. “We need to drain the swamp.”

Wald said some terrorists had been sent to Iraq from North Africa, and there were indications that al Qaida had established a presence and tried to recruit in North Africa over the past two years.

Mauritania and Nigeria are among West African nations alleged by some Western think-tanks to have al Qaida cells – top al Qaida figures came from Mauritania. The country’s government has cracked down on Muslim extremism and tried to stop recruiting of fighters for Saddam Hussein’s cause in Iraq.

“They’re there for a purpose, whether it’s looking for real estate, or recruiting or looking for arms, whatever it is, we know there’s a presence,” Wald said. “It may be small but it’s a bad indicator.”

Africa is an ideal location, with its remote deserts and jungles and centuries-old Arab-African Saharan trade route. Governments are weak and poorly paid authorities are easily bribed. Communications are slow and in some places do not exist.

African armies, relatively small and poorly equipped, have difficulty monitoring the vast territories they are supposed to control, Wald says.

“It’s an area we think is becoming appealing potentially for terrorist organisations or individuals to operate with semi-impunity,” Wald said. “It has a lot of expanses of open area that are conducive to terrorist operations or sanctuary.”

The European Command covers 93 countries from Russia to Syria, and all of Africa except the north east. It is awaiting a decision from Washington on its proposals for a major reconfiguration of forces for the war on terror.

Critics say the European Command, traditionally focused on Europe, is not well-equipped to pay closer attention to Africa. The Heritage Foundation, a conservative US think-tank, is pushing for the US-based Central Command to take over responsibility for the entire continent.

Central Command already oversees operations in the north-east Horn of Africa, where al Qaida is believed to be most active. Al Qaida was blamed for deadly attacks in East Africa – the bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and a Kenyan hotel in 2002.

The European Command’s new plans pay more attention to Africa and its oil supplies. The Gulf of Guinea is seen as a possible alternative to the oil reserves in the volatile Middle East. The region already supplies the United States with 15% of its oil, a figure expected to rise to 25% by 2015.

The chief home-grown concern is the Algerian-based Salafist Group for Call and Combat, which was accused of kidnapping 32 European tourists in the Sahara last year.

Wald said the group had issued a manifesto claiming allegiance to al Qaida. He and others have blamed the group for robberies in Niger and Mali, although some dismiss the culprits as simple bandits.

About 100 US special operations forces are training armies in Mali, Niger, Mauritania and Chad as part of a US State Department-funded programme called the Pan-Sahel Initiative, which aims to help those nations guard porous borders against terrorists, arms and other trafficking.

The Sahel is a vast region straddling the southern edge of the Sahara desert.

The European Command has proposed expanding the Pan-Sahel Initiative to include Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria, where terror threats are believed to be growing.

Beyond that, the European Command wants to establish a half-dozen low-maintenance bases at airports or remote camps in Africa. About 200 troops would be deployed to each base at a time.

“They’d be places that we could go into for a small period of time, either train locally with those governments or actually use those to maybe execute an operation from,” Wald said.

The European Command now has about 120,000 troops. Wald said that number would probably drop after forces were moved around to account for changes in the world since the Cold War.

Agreements with various African governments to use other airports as fuel stops would help US troops move across the continent as needed.

“The areas

in Africa] are large, you have to be able to respond fast as intelligence becomes actionable,” Wald said. “You have to be fast and get ahead of it, and that forces us to think of more mobile, smaller, lighter, nimble forces.”


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Sept 11 terror suspect wins retrial

AP - The only person in the world convicted over the September 11 attacks on the United States won a retrial after an appeals court faulted Washington's refusal to allow testimony from a key al-Qaeda captive.

Mounir El Motassadeq, a Moroccan, had his year-old conviction overturned, leaving German prosecutors with little to show for their efforts to pursue helpers of the Hamburg cell that included three of the suicide hijackers.

A month after el Motassadeq's friend, Abdelghani Mzoudi, was acquitted of identical charges of giving logistical aid to the cell, relatives of September 11 victims again expressed frustration.

Germany's top security official, Interior Minister Otto Schily, called the Federal Criminal Court decision "regrettable".

After the ruling, El Motassadeq, 29, remained in a Hamburg prison where he is serving the maximum 15-year sentence for more than 3,000 counts of accessory to murder and membership in a terrorist organisation.

Presiding Judge Klaus Tolksdorf said he remained "under a high degree of suspicion".

But lawyers said they would seek el Motassadeq's release and planned to introduce new evidence in the retrial that was critical to his friend's acquittal.

El Motassadeq has denied involvement in the September 11 plot.

"I believe he is guilty," said Stephen Push, founder of the New York-based Families of September 11 group, whose wife was aboard the plane that crashed into the Pentagon.

"It's unfortunate that the conviction wasn't upheld."

In Washington, the Justice Department said the court ruling was a German affair.

"We will continue to cooperate to the fullest extent possible with Germany in the fight against our common foe, the terrorists," spokesman Mark Corallo said.

Ramzi Binalshibh, a Yemeni believed to have been the Hamburg cell's contact with al-Qaeda, was the key to the ruling.

He has been in secret US custody since his September 11, 2002 capture in Pakistan and the US Justice Department turned down court requests in both Hamburg trials to let him testify, saying he is "not available".

El Motassadeq acknowledges knowing the plotters, but maintains Binalshibh would be able to confirm he was not involved in the plot to attack the United States.

The German government refused to turn over transcripts of Binalshibh's interrogation, saying the US provided them for intelligence purposes only.

The five-judge appeals panel said the lower court failed to weigh properly how any testimony by Binalshibh might have stacked up against the largely circumstantial evidence that secured the guilty verdict.

"Binalshibh was centrally involved in what happened," judge Tolksdorf said.

"He could have testified directly about the preparations.

"Authorities' interest in maintaining secrecy must not be allowed to disadvantage a defendant," Tolksdorf said.

Germany's chief federal prosecutor urged US authorities to reconsider their exclusion of the Binalshibh transcripts.

"In both trials we tried through different channels to get hold of this information," Kay Nehm told ZDF television.

"We hope that the reactions in Germany and the United States will lead to a change of view."

The US trial of alleged September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui also has been denied access to Binalshibh and other al-Qaeda prisoners.

Prosecutors there argued that national security would be harmed if details were revealed about the captives' interrogations.

"One has to ask whether this is really a wise policy if one wants judicial authorities to succeed," said Paul Wilkinson, chairman of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at St Andrew's University, Scotland.

The US position "should be reconsidered," he added.

But "there's no evidence at the moment that they have changed their view."

El Motassadeq was found guilty in February 2003 of aiding the Hamburg cell that included hijackers Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi and Ziad Jarrah as well as Binalshibh.

Evidence cited by the Hamburg court included his payments of tuition and rent for other cell members, helping them maintain appearances of a normal student life in the city while they plotted the attacks.

El Motassadeq's lawyers say they will seek to reintroduce evidence at the retrial that prompted Mzoudi's release mid-trial - a statement from an unnamed informant saying the only people in Hamburg who knew of the September 11 plot were the three hijackers and Binalshibh.

The Hamburg court, which later acquitted Mzoudi, identified the source as Binalshibh and said that, while they doubted the statement's veracity, they were unable to check its credibility and had to take it at face value.

"The chances for an acquittal are very good," , defence lawyer Josef Graessle-Muenscher said.

Push said he hoped excerpts of Binalshibh's testimony could be provided, but it was unlikely the Justice Department would allow him to appear as a witness.

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Missing Keys At U.S. Nuke Labs


WASHINGTON, Jan. 1, 2004


The Energy Department is conducting a widespread review of security at America's nuclear weapons laboratories after reports of hundreds of missing keys, some of which could allow access to sensitive areas.

Sources tell CBS News that lock and key experts will begin visiting all U.S. nuclear labs next month to assess the problem of missing keys and apparent security lapses, reports CBS News Correspondent Sharyl Attkisson.

The review follows reports last summer that Oak Ridge National Laboratory had reported "a number" of keys missing.

In fact, 200 keys were missing.

Oak Ridge, located in Tennessee, was part of the Manhattan Project where uranium was processed for the first atomic bomb. Also known by its World War II code name "Y-12", it's considered the Fort Knox of highly enriched uranium — the kind terrorists could use for a devastating bomb.

Some of the missing keys, according to one source, "provide possible access to sensitive areas" at Oak Ridge.

At Sandia National Labs in New Mexico, a set of master keys went missing for more than a week, including keys that could get someone as far as the glass doors leading to the nuclear reactors. At the time, nobody bothered to change the locks or report the security breach as required.

Someone also lost track of master keys at Lawrence Livermore Lab.

The Energy Department's Inspector General investigated Livermore and recently determined the lab "did not immediately recognize the significant security implications … did not report the security incidents within the required timeframes," and "did not immediately assess the potential security risks."

During the Inspector General's review, Livermore officials admitted five more master keys were missing, some for years. The Inspector General says it will cost $1.7 million dollars to replace 100,000 locks at Livermore alone. The lab claims it won't cost nearly that much.

In response to the reports, the Energy Department is launching a "lock and key inventory" to try to pinpoint the extent of the security breach. Sources say it will be a "top to bottom review" at all the nation's nuclear weapons labs.

The missing keys are only the latest blow to confidence in security at U.S. nuclear weapons labs.

The Energy Department announced last year it would take competitive bids for the contract to run Los Alamos National Laboratory for the first time in the nuclear weapons lab's history, after high-profile management breakdowns shook confidence in current management.

The University of California has managed the lab since it was the birthplace of the atom bomb six decades ago.

The review of the contract was prompted after reports of financial abuse by several employees, equipment that was missing or unaccounted for, and the firing of two lab investigators who raised concerns about porous management.

Two lab employees used lab money to buy hunting equipment, sunglasses, television sets, gas barbecues and other merchandise apparently unrelated to their jobs. Another used a lab charge card to try to purchase a customized Ford Mustang.

The University of California made sweeping changes, firing or reassigning several top lab managers and instituting a series of reforms.

But the latest problems at Los Alamos come in the wake of the 1999 investigation into Lee, a Taiwanese-born scientist who was imprisoned for nine months while under investigation. He was never charged with spying.

The next year, two computer hard drives with secret nuclear-related material disappeared, only to turn up later behind a copy machine.




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