 The US and Israel will not work with a new Palestinian unity government unless it recognises Israel, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said. He spoke as US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice prepared for three-way talks with Mr Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Mr Olmert said he and Bush had agreed on their position on Friday. Hamas, the largest group in the proposed Palestinian unity government, refuses to recognise Israel. Mr Olmert said a Palestinian government that failed to accept conditions laid down by the quartet of the US, EU, Russia and UN "cannot receive recognition and there will not be co-operation with it". "I spoke about this on Friday with the president of the United States, and I can tell you the Israeli and US positions are completely identical," Mr Olmert said in televised comments. Sounds like the Palestinians can have a Democracy as long as they do what we say and elect only those approved by the US and Israel. ...
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 FBI work to thwart kitchen sink bombs |
Kirk Yeager makes bombs from the stuff found under kitchen sinks. He does it to help the FBI defend against what officials say is the next frontier for terrorists in the United States. Ten years ago, peroxide-based bombs were mostly the work of young pranksters. But the easy-to-make yet deadly chemical cocktails were embraced in the late 1990s by Palestinian militants and suicide bombers bent on killing large groups of people. Now, Yeager says, such explosives are considered the most likely weapon that terrorists will use against the U.S. "Every serious terrorist group knows about them and knows how to make them," Yeager said. The forensic scientist heads the explosives unit at the FBI's laboratory. The bombs are made by mixing chemicals used in common household items and easily found at drugstores or hardware stores. Everyone is guilty of having bomb making material, so where are the so-called Law Abiding people?...
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Editor - 08:40:00 02-18-07
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| Zimbabwe opposition rally stopped |
Police in Zimbabwe have used tear-gas and water cannon to prevent an opposition rally from going ahead in the capital, Harare. The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Morgan Tsvangirai said he was cancelling the event after police sealed off the venue. The MDC had wanted the rally to launch Mr Tsvangirai's campaign for presidential elections in 2008. On Saturday he had obtained a High Court order for the rally to go ahead. However, on Sunday Mr Tsvangirai was blocked by police from reaching the sports ground in the Highfields district of the capital where the rally was due to take place. As Mr Tsvangirai's supporters gathered, police set up roadblocks and then opened fire with water cannon and tear gas....
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| The Unwanted Refugees Of The Iraq War Palestinian-Born Iraqis Lived Well Under Saddam, Now Many Are Homeless, And Politically Untouchable |
In the middle of the empty, rocky desert on Jordan's easternmost flank, a group of fabric tents flap loudly in the winter wind. It's a small camp set up by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) before the war with Iraq began in the spring of 2003. The mass exodus of Iraqis anticipated in the weeks after Saddam Hussein's regime fell didn't materialize, but about 1,300 people did come. When they arrived, they were placed in provisional camps like this one until a more permanent solution could be found. One of the dozen tents is home to Miriam, her husband and two small children. They're Sunni Muslims of Palestinian origin, and like the nearly 100 others left in this camp, they say they were threatened by Iraqi Shiite militias beginning just days after the regime fell on April 9, 2003. ...
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Editor - 08:28:00 02-18-07
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| Newborn baby skeletons found in bag |
Police announced they uncovered a plastic bag stuffed with the skeletal remains of at least six newborns Sunday after searching the grounds of a Christian missionary hospital in the central Indian town of Ratlam. Director General of Police A.R. Pavar said they found the remains hidden in a drainage ditch on the hospital's property in Ratlam after scouring the grounds following a tip off from a local. All 390 bone fragments are thought to be from newly born babies and fetuses, but Pavar said an investigation will offer more information. Ratlam's superintendent of police, Satish Saxena said it was not immediately clear whether the hospital was disposing of bones properly. "They may not have buried the dead bodies of the newborn at a graveyard where they should have been," he said, adding also that the bones may not have been properly incinerated....
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| Anglican head calls for humility in gay clergy row |
The spiritual leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans reminded his bishops of the need for humility on Sunday in a veiled rebuke to those whose wrangling over gay clergy threatens to tear the church apart. "Very early in the history of the church there was a great saint who said God was evident when bishops were silent," Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said to some laughter in a packed cathedral in the predominantly Muslim Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar."There is one thing a bishop should say to another bishop ... that I'm a great sinner and Christ is a great savior."Anglican Church leaders are meeting in Tanzania to try to resolve a long simmering row over the U.S. Episcopal Church's consecration of openly gay bishop Gene Robinson in 2003, which has set a liberal minority against a conservative majority....
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