 The New York Times newspaper has published what it says are the findings of a classified US intelligence paper on the effects of the Iraq war. The document reportedly blames the conflict for increasing the threat of terrorism and helping fuel Islamic radicalism worldwide. Such a conclusion is at odds with the White House's persistent claim that going to war has made the world safer. The paper has not seen the report, but spoke to people familiar with it. The BBC's defence correspondent Rob Watson says this is not the first time the US intelligence community has said that the war in Iraq has made the problem of Islamist extremism worse. Indeed it had warned that might happen even before the US-led invasion. But, our correspondent says, this latest finding, known as a National Intelligence Estimate, is the most comprehensive report yet, based on the considered analysis of all 16 of America's intelligence agencies....
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Editor - 08:40:00 09-24-06
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 DR Congo children held after riot |
More than 800 street children and beggars have been arrested in the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo since riots on Wednesday. Some had protested against the burning of a TV station owned by a candidate in next month's presidential elections. After three days in custody in Kinshasa some 200 children were released. But more than 500 adults, including women with their babies, are still being detained in the courtyard of a police station. They complain that they are not getting enough food or clean water to drink and that they have no shelter from the heavy rain. The head of Kinshasa's police said that the suspects were being investigated in relation to what he termed "criminal activities". But the arrests took place only one day after Kinshasa's street children and unemployed took to the streets in protest. ...
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Editor - 08:37:00 09-24-06
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| Slain woman’s children found in washer, dryer 3 children went missing after mom, fetus found slain; baby sitter charged |
Authorities on Sunday were trying to pinpoint the cause of death for three children an investigator says were found decomposing inside the washer and dryer of their apartment, hours after a woman was accused of killing their pregnant mother and her fetus. Saturday night’s discovery inside apartment 28J at the John DeShields public housing complex came two days after the mother of the children — ages 7, 2 and 1 — was found in a weedy lot, her abdomen torn open and the fetus missing. Investigators carried out a furious two-day search, including scouring an 1,100-acre state park, for the children they said were last seen Monday with 24-year-old Tiffany Hall, a family friend prosecutors charged Saturday afternoon with killing Jimella Tunstall and her fetus. Hours later, Hall pointed authorities to Tunstall’s apartment that investigators had briefly visited earlier in search of photographs of the children for media outlets to publicize as the search pressed on, ...
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Editor - 08:32:00 09-24-06
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| Venezuela rejects US apologies |
Venezuela has made a formal complaint to the US authorities and the United Nations after its foreign minister was detained at a New York airport. The US state department has apologised to Nicolas Maduro who was detained for 90 minutes at New York's JFK airport as he travelled home. He had been attending this week's UN General Assembly meeting. He said he was verbally abused and strip-searched in what he said was a "flagrant breach of international law". President Hugo Chavez described Mr Maduro's detention as a provocation. Our correspondent Pascale Harter says the apology has done little to ease the tense relations between the two countries. Mr Maduro said the US apology was not enough. ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5375144.stm
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| Iraq leaders take breathing space on regions row |
Iraqi leaders broke a rancorous stalemate over plans for regional autonomy on Sunday by agreeing to put off any final decision for at least 18 months on an issue many fear might tear the country apart in sectarian civil war. Parliamentary officials told Reuters that Shi'ite majority leaders who have been keen to set up a big autonomous federal region in the oil-rich Shi'ite south agreed that legislation required to implement such a move would not go into effect for 18 months after being approved in parliament. Leaders of the main parties also agreed to set up a committee on Monday to review possible amendments to the constitution over the coming year, a key demand of the once dominant Sunni minority, who fear a federal Iraq would hand northern and southern oilfields to Kurds and Shi'ites. ...
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| Chief lawyer: Saddam's defense to boycott genocide trial 'indefinitely' |
Saddam Hussein's defense team will boycott his genocide trial "indefinitely," citing violations by the Iraqi court trying him, his chief lawyer said Sunday."The court committed several violations of the law and we will not just sit there gagged to give it legitimacy," said Khalil al-Dulaimi, who heads the nine-member defense team for the deposed Iraqi leader.He said the lawyers would "indefinitely" boycott the trial, in which Saddam faces charges of committing genocide against Kurds in northern Iraq.The trial — Saddam's second — resumes Monday in Baghdad.One of the key violations is the Iraqi High Tribunal's refusal to hear non-Iraqi lawyers in the case, and the requirement that non-Iraqi attorneys apply for permission just to enter the courtroom, al-Dulaimi said."These are our counselors and it's their right to be present in the courtroom without a prior permission from the court," he added....
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2006-09-24-saddam-trial_x.htm?csp=34
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Editor - 08:21:00 09-24-06
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