Jordan's King Abdullah said Sun the problems in the Middle East go beyond the war in Iraq and that much of the region soon could become engulfed in violence unless the central issues are addressed quickly. "We could possibly imagine going into 2007 and having 3 civil wars on our hands," he said, citing conflicts in Iraq, Lebanon and the decades-long strife between the Palestinians and Israelis. "Therefore, it is time that we really take a strong step forward as part of the international community and make sure we avert the Middle East from a tremendous crisis that I fear, and I see could possibly happen in 2007," he said. Speaking on ABC's This Week, Abdullah said he remained hopeful a summit he will host this week in Amman with Bush and the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, will somehow lower the sectarian violence that threatens to push Iraq into all-out civil war. "We hope there will be something dramatic. The challenges, obviously, in front of both of them are immense,"...
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 Bookcase 'trap' killed US woman |
The body of a missing US woman has been found by her family, wedged upside down behind a bookcase in her room. Mariesa Weber, 38, is believed to have fallen over and become trapped as she tried to reach behind the bookcase to adjust the plug for a TV set. Her family spent nearly two weeks searching for her, fearing she had been kidnapped from the house she shared with them in Florida. Ms Weber may have died of suffocation, a local police spokesman said. Her death was not being treated as suspicious, the spokesman said. Ms Weber's parents last saw her alive in the family house on 28 October. Unable to locate her after that, the family contacted the police, fearing she had been abducted. Her body was eventually discovered when her sister noticed a foot protruding behind the bookcase in her bedroom. "I'm sleeping in the same house as her for 11 days, looking for her. And she's right in the bedroom," ...
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| Word on the street ... they’re listening |
POLICE and councils are considering monitoring conversations in the street using high-powered microphones attached to CCTV cameras, write Steven Swinford and Nicola Smith. The microphones can detect conversations 100 yards away and record aggressive exchanges before they become violent. The devices are used at 300 sites in Holland and police, councils and transport officials in London have shown an interest in installing them before the 2012 Olympics.The interest in the equipment comes amid growing concern that Britain is becoming a “surveillance society”. It was recently highlighted that there are more than 4.2m CCTV cameras, with the average person being filmed more than 300 times a day. The addition of microphones would take surveillance into uncharted territory....
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2471987,00.html
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| Britain told: do peace deal with Taliban |
“Bring 50,000 more troops & fight for 10 to 15 years more & you won’t resolve it. The British with their history in Afghanistan should have known that better than anyone else.” “The Americans say they can see even a goat on a hillside with their electronic surveillance, so why don’t they tell us where crossings are taking place & we will plug those gaps & kill those people? “Either they Nato are trying to hide their own weaknesses by levelling allegations at Pakistan or they are refusing to admit the facts.” “Why did the coalition come to Afghanistan? To find Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Mullah Omar & the Taliban; for democracy, reconstruction & development, & to leave a stable Afghanistan which wouldn’t be vulnerable to terrorists. “All very noble, but tell me which one of those objectives have been achieved? I went to Kabul in Sept & they are all living in a big bunker with no control over Afghanistan. There’s no law & order. The insurgency has become far worse . . is that a success?”...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2471865,00.html
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| Nicaragua's green lobby is leaving rainforest people 'utterly destitute' |
For centuries the Miskito people have defended their Central American rainforest kingdom. They rebuffed invading of the Spanish settlers in the 18th and 19th centuries with the help of British muskets, from which they derived their name, and remained autonomous even when nominally absorbed into the newly formed state of Nicaragua in 1894. During the 1980s civil war, the Sandinista government accused the Miskitos of siding with Contra rebels, using that as a pretext to herd tens of thousands of the indigenous people into camps and destroy their villages. Those who survived rebuilt their communities after the war. Now this unique community, a mix of indigenous inhabitants and African slave descendants, are facing a new threat: environmentalism. A logging ban introduced earlier this year is devastating the economy and fraying the social fabric of remote communities that relied almost exclusively on forestry to survive. ...
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1957220,00.html
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| Top China Aids critic 'is seized' Outspoken health campaigner vanishes after police question him ahead of a key meeting |
A leading Aids campaigner in China has vanished, feared detained by police, after the authorities ordered him to cancel a conference that was to have looked at the state's responsibility for infections and blood safety.Wan Yanhai, head of the Aizhi advocacy group, appears to be the third prominent activist to have been targeted in a crackdown ahead of World Aids Day on Friday that raises questions about the government's commitment to be more open about its handling of the epidemic. Aizhi said in a statement that four public security officers questioned Wan on Friday at the group's offices and ordered him to halt the symposium. He has not been heard from since.Police refused to comment, but Wan has long been under surveillance by the authorities, which treat non-governmental organisations with deep suspicion....
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1957262,00.html
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