 US Democrats have urged the Bush administration to release in full a report which finds that US involvement in Iraq has fuelled global terrorism. Senators said parts of the intelligence report declassified on Tuesday did not give Americans enough information. President George W Bush released excerpts after leaks to the US media. Correspondents say the excerpts give some comfort to the White House, saying that victory in Iraq would be a big blow to the enemy. Mr Bush has accused those behind the leak of trying to mislead the American public for political purposes ahead of congressional elections in November. But Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has also added to the dispute, saying in an interview for CNN that he stood by remarks in his new book that he opposed the invasion because he feared it would encourage terrorism. "I've stated whatever I had to ... it has made the world a more dangerous place," he said. ...
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 Hezbollah construction wing leaves gov’t in the dust |
Nearly one month after a United Nations-brokered ceasefire went into effect, Hezbollah appears to be winning a race with the Lebanese government to show commitment to helping residents displaced by Israeli air attacks. This delicate political game of gaining populist allegiance through Lebanon’s post-conflict reconstruction period is pitting Hezbollah’s construction wing, Jihad al-Binaa, against Lebanese governmental and quasi-governmental reconstruction organizations like the Lebanese Civil Defense, the Development and Reconstruction Council and the Higher Relief Council.According to analysts like American University Professor Judith Swain Harik, Jihad al-Binaa has won the initial battle of hearts and minds in large part because they are the most experienced in reconstruction....
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_2940.shtml
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Editor - 23:09:00 09-26-06
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| Most Iraqis Favor Immediate U.S. Pullout, Polls Show |
A strong majority of Iraqis want U.S.-led military forces to immediately withdraw from the country, saying their swift departure would make Iraq more secure and decrease sectarian violence, according to new polls by the State Department and independent researchers. In Baghdad, for example, nearly three-quarters of residents polled said they would feel safer if U.S. and other foreign forces left Iraq, with 65 percent of those asked favoring an immediate pullout, according to State Department polling results obtained by The Washington Post. Another new poll, scheduled to be released on Wednesday by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, found that 71 percent of Iraqis questioned want the Iraqi government to ask foreign forces to depart within a year. By large margins, though, Iraqis believed that the U.S. government would refuse the request, with 77 percent of those polled saying the United States intends keep permanent military bases in the country...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/26/AR2006092601721_pf.html
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| Musharraf: Iraq war makes world more dangerous |
The war in Iraq has not made the world safer from terror, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has told CNN, saying he stands by statements on the subject he makes in his new book, "In the Line of Fire." In the book, Musharraf -- a key ally who is often portrayed as being in complete agreement with U.S. President George W. Bush on the war on terror and other issues -- writes he never supported the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq. "I stand by it, absolutely," Musharraf told CNN's "The Situation Room." Asked whether he disagreed with Bush, he said, "I've stated whatever I had to ... it [the war] has made the world a more dangerous place." He also addressed allegations that Pakistan was a less-than-enthusiastic recruit into the war on terror and that former U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told a Pakistani official that the United States would bomb Pakistan "back to the stone age" if it did not cooperate with Washington after the September 11, 2001, ...
http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/09/26/musharraf.terror/index.html
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| Children's Bodies Found Months After Attack |
More than two months since a house was destroyed in southern Lebanon, the bodies of two children were removed from the rubble on Sunday. First aid workers for Hezbollah placed the bodies in plastic bags after they were discovered. Other than the two children, four-year old Ayat Aluiyeh and her cousin Zeinab, five, three other children killed in the July 17 attack are believed to still be under the debris of the house in the northern suburbs of the southern port city of Tyre. The children, from Marun Al Ras village near Lebanon's border with Israel, took refuge with their families in the house after the war between the Shiite group and the Jewish state began on July 12. ...
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004982051
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| Hells Angels Accused of Racketeering As Trial Opens in Las Vegas |
A federal prosecutor said Hells Angels motorcycle gang members plotted a deadly attack on a rival gang, showing jurors Tuesday a security video of leather-clad bikers wielding guns, knives, hammers and chairs in the bloody brawl at a southern Nevada casino. Defense lawyers for the 11 Hells Angels have said their client were attacked first in the April 27, 2002, melee that left three people dead and at least a dozen injured. Each has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the brawl, which was recorded from at least a half-dozen angles by the Harrah's Laughlin hotel-casino's surveillance cameras. They are the first of 42 men from California, Washington, Arizona, Alaska and Nevada, and ranging in age from 28 to 63 to stand trial in the brawl. All face the possibility of life in prison if convicted of the most serious charge, racketeering-attempted murder. ...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2495906
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