The mayor of Baqouba and 1,500 police officers in Diyala province have been fired in a bid to end the raging violence in that region northeast of Baghdad, the provincial police chief said Sunday. Ghanim al-Qureyshi, who took command of police operations in the violent province after his predecessor was sacked last month, said Mayor Khalid Al-Senjeri, a Sunni Muslim, was dismissed over suspicions he was collaborating with Sunni Arab insurgents. Last week, the mayor was reported kidnapped by insurgents who blew up his office and stole several new police vehicles in Baquoba, the provincial capital. He was released a few days later. Al-Qureyshi said the 1,500 policemen were fired because they fled rather than fight when insurgents attacked in Baqouba in November. The chief said he was determined to create a police force free of corruption....
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 Japan has third bird flu outbreak |
Officials in Japan have confirmed a third outbreak of bird flu - although they are still determining if it is the H5N1 strain dangerous to humans. About 40 chickens have died on a farm in Takahashi, in Okayama prefecture. Officials have ordered all poultry there to be culled, and the movement of people and goods restricted. Two bird flu outbreaks earlier this month in the southern prefecture of Miyazaki have already been confirmed as the H5N1 strain of the disease. The Japanese authorities have already determined that the new case of bird flu belongs to the virulent H5 family of the virus, but further tests are needed to find out if it is H5N1, the strain potentially deadly to humans. Officials, however, are taking no chances. They are due to start culling all 12,000 birds at the affected Takahashi farm as early as Tuesday. ...
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| Body found in airplane wheel well at LAX |
The body of a male stowaway was found Sunday in the wheel well of a British Airways jet at Los Angeles International Airport, officials said.A pilot discovered the body of the young man in the front right wheel well of the 747-400 during a routine inspection shortly before it was to return to London, airport spokeswoman Nancy Castles said.The FBI determined the stowaway likely died in the wheel well, Castles said. Autopsy results won't be available until later this week. Authorities had not identified the victim late Sunday.The aircraft, British Airways Flight 283, had arrived from London Heathrow Airport at 3:15 p.m. and was scheduled to depart at 5:20 p.m. The airline notified officials of the discovery just before 4:30 p.m., Castles said....
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-01-29-lax-body_x.htm?csp=34
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| Turkey mulls 'invading' Iraq |
Turkey's parliament went into secret session this week to debate sending troops to invade and occupy northern Iraq for security purposes. More than 30,000 people have been killed in the confrontation between the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) and the Turkish army – about 400 last year alone, according to Turkey's Human Rights Association. Onur Oymen, the deputy chairman of the Opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), said: "Northern Iraq is the only place in the world where a terrorist group can operate without being pursued." "If the Iraqis and the US are not prepared to take action over this, then we must." Oymen referred to bases in northern Iraq belonging to the PKK which has been fighting Turkish troops since the 1980s to try to establish a separate Kurdish state in southeastern Turkey....
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/85808B77-58B8-4C00-866C-7F38FEB253A7.htm
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| Get Me The Geeks! How Tricky Technology Is Giving Rise To The Geeks |
It’s hard to say exactly when it happened, but sometime during the past ten years, most of us involuntarily surrendered a big chunk of our lives to computers, and to other networking devices that contain computer chips. We’re talking laptops, desk tops, cell phones, BlackBerrys, PDAs, and remote controls, anything that needs to be programmed, requires technical support, and can crash, die, or merely freeze. As Steve Kroft reports, that always has a way of happening at the worst possible moment, and for most of us there is only one solution: get me the geeks! We are becoming slaves to our own technology – addicted to and dependent upon all sorts of beeping, flashing gadgetry that is supposed to make our lives easier. But it has become so complicated to set up, program and fix, that most of us don’t know how to do it, giving rise to a multi-billion dollar service industry populated by the very people who used to be shunned in the high school cafeteria: geeks, like Robert ...
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| Bush policy, not resolutions, called enemy boost |
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman said yesterday that President Bush's Iraq policy is "emboldening the enemy," rebutting critics who insist that resolutions denouncing the president's troop surge hurt the morale of U.S. forces. "It's not the American people or the United States Congress who are emboldening the enemy. It's the failed policy of this president," said Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., Delaware Democrat. "Going to war without a strategy, going to war prematurely, going to war without enough troops, going to war without enough equipment and lastly now sending 17,500 people in the middle of a city of 6.5 million people with bull's-eyes on their back with no plan. There is no plan," Mr. Biden said during an appearance on ABC's "This Week." Sen. Sam Brownback, Kansas Republican, echoed Mr. Biden. "I don't see this enemy as needing any more emboldening or getting it from any resolution. They're emboldened now," he told "Fox News Sunday."...
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