By VIJAY JOSHI
Associated Press August 1, 2006 BAGHDAD, Iraq - Bombings and shootings across Iraq killed at least 52 people Tuesday, including 24 people in a bus destroyed by a roadside bomb. The attacks further damage the U.S.-backed government's efforts to establish control over the country.
The bus, carrying many Iraqi soldiers, was struck in the northern industrial city of Beiji, killing everyone on board, said Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammed al-Askari. Police earlier said that 20 Iraqi soldiers were killed on the bus. Al-Askari confirmed that many of the passengers were soldiers, but said he did not know how many. He said the bus was not being escorted by U.S. troops, as earlier believed. |
AFP
Tue Aug 1, 2006 KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Two British NATO soldiers were killed and another was presumed dead after an ambush in southern
Afghanistan, a day after the alliance assumed command from the US-led coalition. Insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns aambushed a vehicle patrol of NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Helmand province, the force and Britain's defence ministry said. |
Last Updated Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:35:43 EDT
The Associated Press Bombings and shootings across Iraq killed at least 52 people Tuesday, including 24 who died in an explosion on a bus.
The worst carnage was near the northern industrial city of Beiji, where a bus carrying 24 people was hit by a roadside bomb, said Defence Ministry spokesman Mohammed al-Askari. He said everyone on board died and confirmed that many among the passengers were soldiers. |
Tuesday 01 August 2006, 17:52 Makka Time, 14:52 GMT
Iraq's Shia vice-president has vowed to bring the issue of a Shia federal state before parliament.
Adel Abd al-Mahdi, a senior official in the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and Iraq's vice-president, pledged on Monday that the Shia Iraqi Coalition - the biggest bloc in the Iraqi parliament - will raise the issue of a Shia federal state within two months. |
PARIS, Aug 1, 2006 (AFP)
Ségolène Royal, the Socialist tipped to become France's first female president, on Tuesday called for former US president Bill Clinton to intervene to calm the escalating Middle East conflict.
"France can play an intermediary, trustworthy role" but we also need "voices that carry international weight, that have moral authority", Royal told RTL radio. |
by Frank Kaufmann
UPI Outside View Commentator July 31, 2006 Washington - The situation in the Middle East has spun out of control. Analysts and so-called experts cannot see a way beyond the ever intensifying horrors. William Kristol, our generation's most eloquent and greatest lover of war, said this morning "Iran and Hezbollah have won this battle..." Lost and morose, Kristol despairingly allowed, "It has been a bad two months (for the "good guys")."
When it looks as though things cannot get worse (The United Nations has said that its top officials in New York and its officers on the ground in Lebanon made numerous calls to the Israeli mission and the Israeli military to protest repeated firing on its outpost in Lebanon where four unarmed observers later ended up being killed) they do (An Israeli official said the bomb that killed 54 refugees in Qana, Lebanon, including 37 children, early Sunday hit the wrong building). The U.S. in five short years has forfeited its once elegant and glorious role as a peacemaker (only the U.S. and the U.K. stood out against an immediate ceasefire at the recent Rome summit). Sunday morning news analysts even on the perfectly pro-administration, Fox News referred to Rice's time at the Middle East crisis summit in Rome "a flame-out," not just once, but as the term of record throughout the Chris Wallace hour. (The Rome talks broke up after failing to reach agreement, according to CNN television.) (Ms. Rice lost the public relations war. Reports of the Rome meeting uniformly painted her as isolated in one corner, according to the New York Times.). In the midst of it all President Bush was caught on an open mike in front of the world's most powerful leaders, with a mouth full of shrimp swearing about Syria, and complaining about Kofi Anan. Bad enough? |
Created: 01.08.2006 14:32 MSK (GMT +3), Updated: 14:32 MSK
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AP reported that Rice "cut short" her Mideast trip, failed to note reports that Lebanese PM rebuffed her
Tue, Aug 1, 2006 11:59am EST
Media Matters for America Summary: On July 30, Associated Press writer Katherine Shrader reported that Condoleezza Rice had canceled a trip to Lebanon after Prime Minister Fuad Saniora and other Lebanese officials apparently made clear she "was not welcome to visit." But numerous subsequent AP articles ignored entirely the earlier report that the Lebanese government had asked her to postpone the trip.
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01/08/2006
Britain and Germany today rejected a draft EU statement calling for an immediate ceasefire in the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah militants, diplomats said.
The two nations, at emergency EU foreign ministers' talks, offered an alternative draft calling for an "eventual cessation of hostilities" - with no time frame given. On the way into the meeting, the EU presidency warned that Israel's offensive in southern Lebanon would only increase support for Hezbollah militants. The ministers' emergency meeting discussed a draft statement saying: "The (EU) Council calls for an immediate ceasefire." Britain has so far agreed with the US position that work is needed to ensure any ceasefire can last, and UK foreign secretary Margaret Beckett has said "a call for an end to the violence" should be an element of a long-term peace plan. All EU ministers have to agree on the statement before it is issued. Comment: Conclusion? Blair and Merkel enjoy seeing Lebanese children murdered.
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