 Bush plans to warn skeptical Americans on the fourth anniversary of the Iraq war on Monday that a swift troop withdrawal would have "devastating" consequences for U.S. security. Bush was scheduled to make a statement at 11:30 a.m. EDT at the White House after holding a videoconference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. With polls showing him near the weakest point of his presidency, Bush was preparing to defend his Iraq policy to a nation increasingly opposed to the war and unsupportive of his drive to send in nearly 30,000 additional troops. "It can be tempting to look at the challenges in Iraq and conclude that our best option is to pack up and go home," Bush will say, according to a draft of his remarks. "While that may be satisfying in the short run, the consequences for American security would be devastating." Killing more innocent people gives us more security??? ...
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 Russian mine blast kills at least 25 |
At least 25 people were killed when a methane explosion ripped through a coal mine in Russia on Monday, emergency officials said on Monday.About 100 miners remained underground several hours after the explosion, but there was no immediate indication of a cave-in or that they were trapped. Media quoted emergency services as saying the rescue was taking a long time because of smoke underground. President Vladimir Putin ordered his Emergencies Minister to fly to the mine, in a remote part of Siberia's Kemerovo region, to oversee the rescue. A spokeswoman for the Emergencies Ministry said 25 bodies had been brought up from the mine. ...
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| Iran tells envoys not budging on nuclear issue |
A senior Iranian official told foreign envoys on Monday the country was prepared for either cooperation or confrontation, ahead of a U.N. vote on imposing further sanctions because of Tehran's nuclear program. Diplomats who attended the meeting in Tehran said Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi showed no sign of Iran bowing to Western pressure to halt sensitive atomic work as he briefed ambassadors about Iran's nuclear program, The U.N. Security Council is due this week to discuss wider sanctions against Iran for its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, whose product can be used to generate electricity or, more highly enriched, to make atomic bombs. Araghchi, deputy foreign minister for international and legal affairs, rejected major powers' demands to halt such work as a precondition for broader talks but said Tehran was ready to cooperate to allay their concerns....
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| Three indicted in NY police shooting of groom |
Two police officers were charged with manslaughter and a third for reckless endangerment in the firing 50 of shots at three unarmed black men, killing one on his wedding day, prosecutors said on Monday. Two other officers were cleared in the death of Sean Bell, a case that has outraged New York's black community and led to street protests from activists demanding murder indictments for all five officers involved. A grand jury from the New York borough of Queens reached the indictments on Friday, when the head of the detectives' union announced them. The detectives turned themselves in Monday morning before the charges were officially announced by Queens District Attorney Richard Brown. Police put 1,700 officers on alert in anticipation of the grand jury's decision. Protests over Bell's death have produced solemnity and outrage, but no violence. ...
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| Pentagon: Suspected Mastermind of USS Cole Bombing Confesses. Marvelous what torture can get a person to say |
Waleed Mohammed Bin Attash, long suspected of plotting the bombing of the USS Cole, confessed to planning the attack during a hearing at Guantanamo according to a Pentagon transcript released Monday. He also said he helped plan the bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 that killed 213, the transcript said. Seventeen sailors were killed and 37 injured when suicide bombers steered an explosives-laden boat into the battleship on Oct. 12, 2000. "I participated in the buying or purchasing of the explosives," bin Attash said when asked what his role was in the attacks on the Cole and the embassies. "I put together the plan for the operation a year and a half prior to the operation, buying the boat and recruiting the members that did the operation." The release of Bin Attash's transcript came 5 days after the Pentagon released the record of hearings held for 3 other high-value suspects at Guantanamo. One of them, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, confessed to nearly 3 dozen ...
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| Bombs strike targets in Baghdad and oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq |
An explosion at a Shiite mosque in Baghdad killed at least eight worshippers Monday, the fourth anniversary of the start of the war, while a series of car bombs struck the oil-rich city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq, killing 12, police said. A poll conducted for the anniversary found that the optimism that helped sustain Iraqis during the initial years of the war has dissolved into widespread fear, anger and distress amid unrelenting violence. Reflecting on the anniversary, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice staunchly defended going to war in Iraq, but acknowledged the Bush administration likely erred by failing initially to send enough troops to quell the civil strife that followed the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. The latest attacks highlighted the challenges facing U.S. and Iraqi forces seeking to curb sectarian bloodshed with a month-old security crackdown that has led to a drastic drop in execution-style killings but failed to stop the bombings....
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-03-19-suicide-bomber_N.htm?csp=34
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