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Pak sidetracking issue: India Zardari released on parole Thousands of UK troops head for Gulf
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2 Americans shot at in Kuwait, 1 dead Kuwait City, January 21 Both victims were civilian contractors working for the US military based in Kuwait. The statement said the second man was critically wounded. “We condemn this terrorist incident, which has tragically cost the life of an innocent American citizen,” US Ambassador to Kuwait Richard Jones said in the statement. US embassy spokesman John Moran said the two men were in their vehicle on Highway 85 north of Kuwait City near Camp Doha, a large military installation serving as a base for 17,000 troops in the oil-rich Gulf nation. The embassy statement said both men had multiple gunshot wounds. “We have full confidence that the Kuwaiti authorities will pursue the investigation of this incident vigorously and professionally,” Jones said in the statement. The attack occurred this morning at a stoplight at the intersection of Highway 85 and Abu Dhabi Road, leading to Camp Doha about 5 km away. A Kuwaiti investigator said on the condition of anonymity that an attacker fired a Kalashnikov assault rifle from behind the bushes. The gunman or gunmen fled. The area was cordoned off with yellow crime tape. The bullet-riddled four-wheel-drive Toyota was loaded on to a flat bed truck and taken away. The man who died was 51 and the wounded man was 47, said Interior Ministry official Brig Mahmoud al-Dossari, who confirmed that the weapon used was a Kalashnikov. Their identities had not been released. Nobody immediately claimed responsibility.
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France, Germany oppose attack United Nations, January 21 Mr Powell was among a dozen foreign ministers who came to New York to adopt a declaration on ways to combat global terrorism at a high-level Security Council session initiated by France. The Iraq crisis quickly crept into the public meeting and dominated private sessions, with France and Germany speaking openly against an attack, at least in the near future. “We must not shrink from our duties and our responsibilities when the material comes before us next week,” he said yesterday departing from his prepared speech on terrorism and repeating the tough warning several times. “We cannot be shocked into impotence because we are afraid of the difficult choices that are ahead of us,” he said. He was referring to a January 29 Security Council meeting to evaluate a January 27 major report by UN arms inspectors. But French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin hinted at a veto of a possible Security Council resolution authorising war should such a measure come to a vote, especially if the Bush administration intervened unilaterally in Iraq. “In the event of a second resolution ... we will not associate ourselves with military intervention that is not supported by the international community,” de Villepin said. “Using force would only be an ultimate resort, assuming that every other possibility has been exhausted,” he told a news conference. “We believe that today, nothing justifies envisaging military action.” In a preview of next week’s meetings, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer gave a solid “no” to military action in his first statement to the council since Berlin joined the 15-member body in January.
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Check support to terrorism: UN United Nations, January 21 In a declaration unanimously adopted yesterday at the end of a special meeting on combating terrorism, the council demanded that all states bring to justice those who finance or commit terrorist acts or provide safe haven to terrorists. It “unequivocally” condemned all acts of terrorism, stressing that they are “criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation, wherever and by whomsoever committed” especially when they indiscriminately target or injure civilians. The declaration urged states to assist one another to the maximum possible extent in the prevention, investigation and punishment of acts of terrorism which, it said, was the most serious threat to peace and security.
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India, Qatar oppose ‘action’ against Iraq
Doha, January 21 The agreement emerged at a meeting between visiting Deputy Prime Minister
L.K. Advani and Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jabor Al Thani here, an official spokesman said after 40 minutes of parleys as the Indian leader began his two-day visit. PTI
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Mosque raid yields weapons London, January 21 Seven persons were held by anti-terrorist officers after the pre-dawn operation at the mosque in Finsbury Park, north London yesterday. Scotland Yard said the raid was “linked to the discovery of the poison ricin” in the nearby Wood Green earlier this month. The cleric at the North London Central Mosque, 45-year old radical preacher Sheikh Abu Hamza, told the BBC there had been “a clear desecration”. The cleric, who was not arrested, dismissed the discovery of weapons. The police said a large quantity of documents including passports, identity cards and credit cards were seized. Of the seven men arrested, six were described as North African and aged between 23 and 48, and one as east European and aged 22.
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Blair: Al-Qaida will target UK London, January
21 “I think it’s
inevitable that it (Al-Qaida) will try in some form or the other and I
think we can see evidence from the recent arrests that the terrorist
network is here, as it is around the rest of the world,” he told the
House of Commons Liaison Committee today. “I think it’s important
we do everything we can to show people the link between weapons of
mass destruction and these terrorist groups,” he said. PTI |
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Milosevic trial put off The Hague, January 21 “(Milosevic) saw a doctor yesterday evening. It is still a case of the flu. He is not fit to attend today’s hearing,” spokesman Christian Chartier said early today. A court statement later added that the trial would also be suspended on tomorrow. The case is set to resume January 27 as no hearings had been scheduled for Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. Three doctors from the military hospital in Belgrade are expected to travel to the UN war crimes court on Wednesday to examine Milosevic, the Tanjug news agency reported today. The team which includes a cardiologist and a neurologist has been given the green light by both the UN court and Milosevic.
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Pak sidetracking issue: India New York, January 21 “The problem in Jammu and Kashmir is cross-border terrorism encouraged by Pakistan despite repeated statements by the council that terrorism is unjustified for whatever purpose — political, economic and social,” the Indian ambassador to the UN, Mr Vijay K. Nambiar, said on Monday.
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Zardari released on parole Karachi, January 21 Zardari, a former minister in his wife’s Cabinet, has been in jail on corruption and criminal charges since Ms Bhutto’s second dismissal from power in 1996. Ms Bhutto, who has been in self-imposed exile since 1998 and also faces a raft of graft charges, says her spouse is being held as a political prisoner by regimes opposed to her.
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Thousands of UK troops head for Gulf London, January 21 Defence officials said the mobilisation compared with around 43,000 who took part in the 1991 Gulf War. “The total number of personnel involved in this land force will be approximately 26,000,’’ Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon told parliament. “In addition we are already deploying 3 Commando Brigade with around 4,000 personnel.”
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