 British Prime Minister Tony Blair has reassured Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf that a leaked intelligence report criticizing Pakistan's ability to fight terrorism was not government policy.A spokesman for Blair's office said the pair had discussed the report, broadcast by the BBC on Wednesday, at a meeting in London."President Musharraf accepted straight away that this so-called document was not government policy and there was no further discussion about it," the spokesman said.The document, from a think-tank associated with Britain's Defence Ministry, accused Pakistan's intelligence agency, ISI, of indirectly supporting al Qaeda and Taliban militants in Afghanistan.It suggested the ISI should be dismantled and Musharraf himself should resign -- a notion the Pakistani leader strongly rejected in a BBC interview on Wednesday....
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 Bearded Professor Briefly Forced Off Plane By Fellow Passengers |
A Spanish university professor with a long beard and dark complexion said Thursday he was briefly forced off an airliner during a layover on the Spanish island of Mallorca by passengers who feared he was an Islamic terrorist. Pablo Gutierrez Vega told The Associated Press that he was humiliated when three German passengers on an Air Berlin flight approached him during a layover in Palma de Mallorca on Aug. 30 en route from Seville, Spain, to Dortmund, Germany, and asked to search his carry-on luggage. The men told him that other passengers were frightened by his appearance, said Gutierrez Vega, a 35-year-old law professor at the University of Seville. "We can't take justice into our own hands," Gutierrez Vega told the Spanish daily el País, "unless we want to return to living in caves." ...
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| Travelers to Africa, Asia returning with new virus |
Travelers to parts of Africa and Asia are returning with a new mosquito-borne virus and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned on Thursday it could become entrenched in new areas. Some people returning to Europe, the United States, Canada, Martinique and French Guyana reported cases of Chikungunya fever (CHIKV) in 2006 and large outbreaks have been reported in Indian Ocean islands and in India, according to the report.The virus first emerged in Tanzania in 1953 and, though no deaths have been recorded, it can cause a debilitating illness whose symptoms include fever, headache, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, muscle and joint pain and rash. No specific drug therapy or vaccine exists to treat it."Some risk exists that CHIKV might be introduced into previously nonendemic areas by travelers with viremia, leading to local transmission of the virus," the report said....
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| Attacks, missteps cost Iraq $16B in oil exports Production slipped after invasion, still hasn’t fully rebounded |
Iraq’s most important moneymaker — its oil industry — lost $16 billion in potential foreign sales over two years to insurgent attacks, criminals and bad equipment, a secret U.S. audit says.The Baghdad government “must take bold action” to protect its oil and electrical facilities, concludes an unclassified summary of the classified audit on Iraq’s energy sector.“Iraq cannot prosper without uninterrupted export of oil and the reliable delivery of electricity,” Stuart W. Bowen, special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction, said in the summary released Thursday. In another report, Bowen said sewage drips through the ceilings of a newly constructed building at the Baghdad Police College because of poor construction and the use of inferior plumbing materials....
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| Bush urges senators to send him detainee bill |
On a cliffhanger vote, Senate Republicans on Wednesday beat a key challenge to a bill setting rules for interrogation and prosecution of terrorism suspects shortly after Bush went to Capitol Hill urging them to deliver the bill. Voting 51-48, the Senate rejected an amendment that would have restored the rights of foreign suspects deemed as enemy combatants and mostly held at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to challenge their detentions. That cleared a major hurdle and the Senate was expected to pass the bill later in the day and send it to Bush."People shouldn't forget there's still an enemy out there that wants to do harm to the United States, and therefore a lot of my discussion with the members of the Senate was to remind them of this solemn responsibility," Bush said after meeting with lawmakers on Capitol Hill....
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| NATO Adds U.S. Troops for Afghan Mission Under new Afghanistan plan, at least 10,000 U.S. troops will be transferred to NATO command |
A plan approved Thursday to extend NATO's military control across all of Afghanistan would put as many as 12,000 U.S. troops under foreign battlefield command, a number that U.S. officials said could be the most since World War II.The move is expected to take place in the next few weeks, NATO spokesman James Appathurai said.The largest number of U.S. troops ever put under the control of foreign battlefield commanders was about 300,000 during WWI, said military officials traveling with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld for the NATO meeting.It was not clear how many troops were under foreign command during WWII. A U.S. officer is in charge of the overall NATO force _ Gen. James L. Jones, but Thursday's emerging agreement would put the U.S. troops under foreign commanders on the battlefield....
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