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26 killed, 21 hurt in Baghdad blasts
India, Israel to further
military ties: report
Hitler’s relative was gassed in Nazi programme
Rice hails Musharraf for 'saving' Pak
Musharraf for DC-level clearance for bus travel
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Baglihar another dispute between India-Pak: Musharraf
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26 killed, 21 hurt in Baghdad blasts
Baghdad, January 19 The military said a car bomb attack near the Australian Embassy killed two Iraqis. A car bomb near a hospital half an hour later killed 18, including five Iraqi police officials, it said. A third car bomb killed two Iraqi security guards near Baghdad’s international airport, and a fourth killed two civilians and two Iraqi soldiers at a military complex in Baghdad. The US military said the loss of life could have been worse if the security forces had not responded so quickly. “All of these car bombers were stopped by security forces before they could reach their intended targets,” said Lieut-Col James Hutton of the Ist Cavalry Division in Baghdad. “While the any loss of life is tragic, it could have been a lot worse.” The second bombing occurred just five minutes later in the Baghdad neighbourhood of Karrada and claimed the lives of six persons, an Interior Ministry official said. Another five persons were wounded, medical sources said, adding one of the dead was a police woman. A US military spokesman said the attack was near a police headquarters. In another incident, suicide car bomb exploded outside an Iraqi army base, killing two and wounding five, police and hospital sources said. A white pick-up truck resembling those used by Iraqi security forces, pulled up outside the gates of an army base located in an old airport in western Baghdad, killing an Iraqi soldier and a civilian and wounding five, said the sources.
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India, Israel to further military ties: report
London, January 19 The third joint working group at its meeting in Tel Aviv last December discussed New Delhi purchasing Israel Aircraft Industries' Heron II medium-altitude, long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicles and jointly extending the range of the Barak point defence system for the Indian Navy, the Jane's Defence Weekly, in its latest issue, said. The two sides also agreed to hold joint exercises in which Israeli F-16 multi-role fighters would be pitted against India's Russian-made Sukhoi Su-30Mk1 multi-role fighters. The venue and schedule of the manoeuvres is yet to be disclosed. The eight-member Indian delegation led by Defence Secretary met Israeli Defence Minister and Director-General of the Israeli Ministry of Defence Amos Yaron and allayed concerns that New Delhi's security relations with Tel Aviv would decline under the UPA government, the report said.
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Hitler’s relative was gassed in Nazi programme
Vienna, January 19 The woman, identified only as Aloisia V., was 49 when she was gassed to death on December 6, 1940, at an institution in the Hartheim castle near the northern Austrian city of Linz, historian Timothy Ryback said yesterday. Ryback, a US historian who now lives in Salzburg and heads the Obersalzberg Institute in Berchtesgaden, Germany, said the details surrounding the woman’s death surfaced last week, after Obersalzberg archivist Florian Beierl gained access to her medical file at a Vienna medical institution where she had been treated. An ink stamp on the file serves as “proof of extermination,” Ryback said. “It’s painful to see what this woman went through,” he said in a telephone interview from Salzburg. “It highlights the cruelty and brutality of that system to an excruciating degree.” That mental illness flourished in Hitler’s extended family is nothing new — a secret 1944 Gestapo report that has been known for decades described Aloisia’s line of the family as “idiotic progeny,” Beierl said.
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Rice hails Musharraf for 'saving' Pak
Washington, January 19 Ms Rice was testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chaired by Republican Senator Richard Lugar at confirmation hearing here yesterday. She also revealed that the USA had a contingency plan to prevent Pakistani nuclear weapons from falling into the hands of Islamic fundamentalists if they had come to power. To a question by former Democratic presidential candidate Senator John Kerry, she said Pakistan had come a long way since two and a half years when it was on the brink of coming under the sway of fundamentalists with its ties to the Taliban and thorough penetration by Al-Qaida. Citing the speech General Musharraf made after the attack on the Indian Parliament, she described it as "one of the top ten speeches any leader has given in recent years". In the speech, the General had said extremism and modernism cannot co-exist side by side in Pakistan and "that gave rise to very promising developments... in South Asia as India andPakistan started feeling (their way) towards a better future." Ms Rice said the USA at this point had a good working relationship with Pakistan and was getting "the information that we need" from Pakistani Government on the information it had obtained from disgraced scientist A.Q. Khan on nuclear proliferation.
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Rice wins US Senate panel vote Washington, January 19 The next steps are the expected confirmation of the Senate and swearing in by President Bush. — PTI
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Musharraf for DC-level clearance for bus travel
Islamabad, Jan 19 “The president told us that this travel could also be made possible through domicile under a domicile act, with a view to improving relations between the two countries,” Prof Nazir Ahmad Shawl, executive director of the Kashmir Centre, London, said here on Tuesday. The president was of the view that the deputy commissioner concerned should issue a slip allowing travel between the two cities. Taking to Dawn, Mr Shawl, who met the president on Sunday along with two other Kashmir leaders, one based in London and the other in Brussels, said the president had rejected travel across the Line of Control on passport or any other similar documents. “We endorse the president’s view that Kashmiris of both the sides should get permission from deputy commissioners in Srinagar and Muzaffarabad to travel across the
LoC,” he said. He said the president had told them that Pakistan had not given up its stand that the issue of Kashmir should be resolved on the basis of the United Nations resolutions. “We are only saying that if India shows flexibility we would also be ready to move forward to settle the 57-year-old Kashmir dispute,” he quoted the president as having said. Mr Shawl said the president had regretted that there was no ‘substantial progress’ in talks with India to resolve the Kashmir problem. “The president said he is hopeful that relations between the two countries would improve but he maintained that if things did not move forward then India should be blamed for derailing the peace process,” Mr Shawl said. The process of composite dialogue had been started with the hope that there would be progress on Kashmir and there would be durable peace in the region, he quoted President Musharraf as saying. He said the president had also told them that the international community today attached great importance to the ongoing peace process and that US President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were taking active interest to help resolve all outstanding issues between India and Pakistan. |
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Baglihar another dispute between India-Pak: Musharraf Islamabad, January 19 “The development on the Baglihar project is not good and it should have been resolved between the two countries,” Mr Musharraf told a visiting delegation of chief executive officers of the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) during a 90-meeting here. “If things are not moving ahead between the two countries, the top leadership should get involved,” he said and referred to other contentious issues like Kashmir and running a bus service between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad. Mr Musharraf said a “pragmatic approach” and involvement of “top” leadership of India and Pakistan were needed to improve relations between the two countries. — PTI
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Bush insists on human
intelligence system
President George W. Bush on Tuesday said the USA needed better intelligence gathering capabilities to get inside the enemy's mind.
"Human intelligence, the ability to get inside somebody's mind, the ability to read somebody's mail, the ability to listen to somebody's phone call - that somebody being the enemy," Mr Bush said in an interview with CNN, referring to serious intelligence blunders. Flawed intelligence has been blamed for the incorrect assessment that Saddam Hussein's Iraq possessed stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The Bush Administration used the argument as a pretext for invading the country and last week quietly abandoned its unsuccessful efforts to find WMDs in Iraq. On Capitol Hill, Mr Bush's nominee for the office of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was barraged by a volley of tough questions from Senator Barbara Boxer in which the California Democrat, quoting Ms Rice's past comments on WMDs, suggested her loyalty to Mr Bush "overwhelmed your respect for the truth". Visibly irked Ms Rice shot back, "Senator, I have to say that I have never, ever lost respect for the truth in the service of anything. It is not my nature. It is not my character. And I would hope that we can have this conversation and discuss what happened before… and what I said without impugning my credibility or my integrity." Ms Rice insisted that the war in Iraq was not launched solely over WMDs. Saddam Hussein, she said, attacked his neighbours and paid suicide bombers in the conflict between Israel and Palestinians. "We knew that he was an implacable enemy of the USA, who did cavort with terrorists. We knew that he was the world's most dangerous man in the world's most dangerous region," she added. |
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