 Police and members of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia fought in another southern Iraq town on Saturday, leaving nine people dead.A gun battle erupted in Suwayra, in Wasit province nearly 40 miles south of Baghdad.This comes after an eruption of violence this week in Amara between police and the militia, known as the Mehdi Army.Police said eight militia members and a civilian were killed in Suwayra.An argument between a policeman and a Mehdi Army fighter sparked the incident.The militia member was stopped by the policeman from driving along a road.A quarrel ensued and then clashes started after the militia member called fighters.A curfew was imposed in parts of the town and the situation is relatively calm....
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 Experts create invisibility cloak |
A US-British team of scientists has successfully tested a cloak of invisibility in the laboratory. The device mostly hid a small copper cylinder from microwaves in tests at Duke University, North Carolina. It works by deflecting the microwaves around the object and restoring them on the other side, as if they had passed through empty space. But making an object vanish before a person's eyes is still the stuff of science fiction - for now. The cloak consists of 10 fibreglass rings covered with copper elements and is classed as a "metamaterial" - an artificial composite that can be engineered to produce a desired change in the direction of electromagnetic waves. Like visible light waves, microwaves bounce off objects, making them apparent and creating a shadow. But at microwave frequencies, the detection has to be made by instruments rather than the naked eye. ...
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| AP Interview: Georgian President Rules Out Use of Force to Control Separatist Regions |
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili on Saturday ruled out the use of force to establish control over two pro-Russian separatist regions. He also said Tbilisi remained open to dialogue with Moscow to reduce tension that has been rising sharply since the former Soviet republic temporarily detained four purported Russian spies last month. "We certainly, absolutely, categorically are not starting any military confrontation," Saakashvili told The Associated Press. "Georgians' long term strategy is simple," Saakashvili said. "No fast solutions … any short-term solution would be beneficial to the people who want trouble." His comments were a rebuttal to Russian President Vladimir Putin's assertion at a summit with European Union leaders on Friday that Georgia was planning to take back South Ossetia and Abkhazia by military means. ...
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| Bush meets with top generals, advisers to ponder tactics in Iraq |
President Bush reviewed Iraq strategy Saturday with top generals for a second day in a row amid increasing election-season pressure to make dramatic changes to address deteriorating conditions.Before a midmorning bike ride, the president consulted at the White House with his national security advisers, spokeswoman Nicole Guillemard said.Gathered around a Roosevelt Room conference table with Bush were Gen. John Abizaid, the top U.S. commander in the Middle East; Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld; Bush's national security adviser, Stephen Hadley; and other officials. Vice President Dick Cheney joined in by videoconference. Gen. George Casey, who leads the U.S.-led Multinational Forces in Iraq, had been expected to participate as well.No other details were immediately available from the White House or the Pentagon.Bush also met with Abizaid for a half-hour on Friday....
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| Iraq Shi'ite militias clash with police again |
Men loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr clashed with police near Baghdad on Saturday, one day after hundreds of Sadr's militiamen attacked police stations and battled Iraqi forces in a town further south. The violence in the oil-rich Shi'ite heartland is testing the ability of Iraq's Shi'ite-led government to rein in militias and other armed groups accused of fomenting violence that has pushed Iraq close to civil war.The escalation in Shi'ite infighting threatens to further deteriorate the security situation in Iraq, where Shi'ites and Sunnis are engaged in a vicious sectarian conflict and insurgents are battling both Iraqi government and U.S. troops.It also comes amid a rising U.S. death toll in Iraq and as the United States gears up for mid-term elections in which voter discontent over the White House's handling of the war has emerged as a top issue....
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| Lawyer: Marine to plead guilty to Iraq deaths He would become the first Marine to plead guilty in Hamdania case |
A Camp Pendleton Marine will plead guilty next week for his role in the killing of an Iraqi civilian last April, his attorney said Friday.Pfc. John J. Jodka, 20, of Encinitas, would be the first Marine to plead guilty in the case, in which six other Marines and one Navy corpsman were also charged with murder.Jodka will plead guilty to assault and obstruction of justice, his father, John Jodka, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview. The elder Jodka said murder, kidnapping and other charges would be dropped in exchange for the plea, but later said it was premature to discuss details of the arrangement. Attorney Joseph Casas, who represents Jodka, said he could not disclose details of the negotiations but said the deal was “in the best interests of my client and the best interests of justice and the best interests of the Marine Corps.”...
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