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Originally posted by pbman
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Kuwait foils smuggling of chemicals, bio warheads from Iraq
Associated Press
Kuwait City, October 2

Kuwaiti security authorities have foiled an attempt to smuggle $60 million worth of chemical weapons and biological warheads from Iraq to an unnamed European country, a Kuwaiti newspaper said on Wednesday.
The pro-Government Al-Siyassah, quoting an unnamed security source, said the suspects had been watched by security since they arrived in Kuwait and were arrested "in due time." It did not say when or how the smugglers entered Kuwait or when they were arrested.

The paper said the smugglers might have had accomplices inside Kuwait. It said Interior Minister Sheik Nawwaf Al Ahmed Al Sabah would hand over the smuggled weapons to an FBI agent at a news conference, but did not say when.

Government officials could not be immediately reached for comment.

Iraqi Interior Minister Nouri Al-Badran met on Tuesday with Sheik Nawwaf and discussed cooperation between the two countries in security matters. His visit is the first by an Iraqi interior minister to Kuwait since 1990.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_399454,00050004.htm
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Why didn't you use the original source pbman?

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34881

Worldnetfuckingdaily - a far right rag, thats not exactly known for anything like honest reporting. And worldnetdaily.cunts clearly say the story is copyrighted to them!

Twat!
 
A minute ago a read one of yor posts on world politics were you belive a silly political charge with much less proof given.

WAFC
 
US faces 'tougher' foe in Iraq

Resistance to the US-led occupation is hardening
The senior US general in Iraq has warned of a more sophisticated enemy on the ground and the possibility of new "major terrorist attacks".

Attackers killed three American soldiers in separate bomb and gun attacks on Wednesday alone.

"The enemy has evolved," said Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, commander of US ground forces in Iraq.

"It is a little bit more lethal, little bit more complex, little bit more sophisticated and in some cases a little bit more tenacious."

Speaking in Baghdad on Thursday, the general said that coalition forces had to expect continuing casualties.

"We should not be surprised if one of these days we wake up to find there's been a major firefight or a major terrorist attack," he added.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3159084.stm
 
I believe they are being targeted for this part of your question:
"for helping the US"

Helping the occupants is gonna get you killed.
 
Israeli army attacks 'terrorist training base' in Syria.
can't find a link, but just heard this on BBC news 24 as breaking news

Just heard on BBC news 34 that the base was a Syrian army training base use by Islamic Jihad. According to the Israeli army.

this does not look at all good :(

edited again to include links


http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3558974

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-10-05-israel-attack_x.htm


edited for typo :oops:
I woz tired and hadn't woken up yet
 
All change.....

Bush orders shakeup on Iraq, Afghanistan
By David E. Sanger
NEW YORK TIMES

WASHINGTON - The White House has ordered a major reorganization of U.S. efforts to quell violence in Iraq and Afghanistan and to speed the reconstruction of both countries, according to senior administration officials.

The new structure, which includes the creation of an "Iraq Stabilization Group" that will be run by the national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, appears to be part of an effort to assert more direct control over events.

It comes at a moment when polls show that Americans are less confident of Bush's foreign policy skills than at any time since the terrorist attacks two years ago. At the same time, Congress is using President Bush's request for $87 billion to question the administration's failure to anticipate the violence in Iraq and the obstacles to reconstruction.

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/cctimes/news/6943987.htm
 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3166566.stm


The plight of Afghan women has improved little since the fall of the Taleban, according to the human rights organisation Amnesty International. There have been big changes for some women since the fall of the fundamentalist Taleban regime nearly two years ago - thousands of girls are now attending school and many women have returned to work.

But according to Amnesty International, most women are not being protected. A draft constitution is expected to enshrine equal rights for both sexes. It says the risk of rape is very high, and girls as young as eight are being forced into marriage.
 
Im surprised this hasnt made more news given the apparent importance of the area and the the scale of the trouble....


Iraqis shouting pro-Saddam Hussein slogans have staged an uprising in the important oil refining city of Baiji, burning down the mayor's office, fighting with American troops and forcing local police to flee.

About a thousand people, some holding pictures of Saddam Hussein, were in a stand-off with American troops last night, with tanks surrounding the police station in the city, 160 miles north of Baghdad.

.....The atmosphere in Baiji yesterday evening was still very tense. Iraqi truck drivers said they were frightened of driving through in case they were mistakenly identified as Turkish. "No one is in control. It is anarchy there,'' said one man on the outskirts of the city.

.....Last night American troops appeared keen not to provoke further trouble. Although crowds, many holding stones, were still surrounding the main police station.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=450367
 
Interesting piece........

The mounting criticism of Bush's Iraqi policies now extends to key business allies of the administration. "The big oil companies were not enthusiastic about the Iraqi war," says Fareed Mohamedi of PFC Energy, a consultancy firm based in Washington D.C. that advises petroleum firms. "Corporations like Exxon-Mobile and Chevron-Texaco want stability, and this is not what Bush is providing in Iraq and the Gulf region," adds Mohamedi. The specific interests of big oil appear to have been trumped by the ideologues in the Bush administration. As Chris Toensing of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) argues, "administration neoconservatives like Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz are dreamers driven more by ideology than by concrete material interests. They believe the United States is virtuous and has a mission to remain indefinitely as the world's sole superpower.

http://www.counterpunch.com/burbach10032003.html
 
More dead......

ONE SOLDIER KILLED, ONE WOUNDED IN IED ATTACK

BAGHDAD, Iraq – A soldier attached to the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment was killed and another wounded in an improvised explosive device attack just west of Baghdad at about 9:50 p.m. on October 6.

http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20031006.txt

BAGHDAD, Iraq – Two soldiers attached to the 82nd Airborne Division were killed and two others wounded in an improvised explosive device attack in Al Haswah, south of Baghdad, at about 10:40 p.m. on October 6.

http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/Casualty_Report.asp?CasualtyReport=20031007.txt

For anyone not counting, thats 377 dead and 9 dead this month already.:(
 
SNIP SNIP, here come the cuts.......

WASHINGTON - Senior House Republicans proposed slicing $1.7 billion out of President Bush's $20.3 billion Iraqi reconstruction request Monday, moving to eliminate such political hot potatoes as $50,000 garbage trucks, new ZIP codes and phone numbers, and the $100 million restoration of the drained marshes of southern Iraq.

The proposed cuts are contained in a new version of the president's $87 billion war and reconstruction request for Iraq and Afghanistan that House Appropriations Committee Republicans circulated Monday. The committee will formally draft its version Thursday.

Rep. Bill Young. R-Fla., chairman of the Appropriations Committee, and Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., chairman of its foreign operations subcommittee, asked their staffs to work through the weekend, paring Bush's request to make it more palatable to fiscal conservatives angered by what they saw as an overly generous rebuilding effort.

Such anger has fueled a drive to convert much, if not all, of the aid into loans, to be repaid with Iraqi oil revenue. Bush opposes the idea.

Young's proposal would eliminate several of the items most derided by Democrats, including $9 million to establish ZIP codes, $4 million to update Iraq's phone numbers, $10 million to upgrade the business practices of Iraq's television and radio industry, and $20 million for a monthlong "catch-up" business course, at $10,000 a pupil. The Republican bill would cut $100 million designated to build seven new communities in Iraq, complete with 3,528 houses, as well as roads, three schools, a clinic, a place of worship and a market for each.

Kolbe said such projects should be handled by international lending organizations such as the World Bank.

The request for $400 million to build two 4,000-bed maximum-security prisons at $50,000 a bed would be pared back to one medium-security prison for $100 million. The House bill would also eliminate the $150 million request to build a state-of-the-art children's hospital in Basra.

White House officials vowed to fight the proposed cuts.

Washington Post article, no link on page given and its late so I cant be arsed to go find it! :oops:
 
Spanish Dilomat / Military Attcahe shot dead by sniper in Baghdad.

Suicide bomber cause of bomb in Iraqi police station in Baghdad. Breaking news, at least 1 person killed, possibly many more. Several civilians known to be injured. US troops stoned by locals when they arrived on the scene and a US soldier's gun went off 'accidentally'.

CNN
 
Baghdad, 9 October 2003 (RFE/RL) -- Police in Iraq's capital Baghdad say a suicide car bomber has crashed into a police station today, killing several people.

Police officers gave conflicting numbers of the people killed and they were unsure how many people were wounded. The wreckage of a car lay in the rubble of the building.

The explosion happened in an impoverished Shi'ite Muslim area of the capital known as Sadr City.
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http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2003/10/09102003080322.asp
 
Ewwww hark at Rummy, he's getting all touchy!

Bush's reshuffling of Iraq policy puts Rumsfeld on the defensive
SECRETARY ADMITS NOT BEING BRIEFED ON POWER SHIFT

Appearing at a NATO conference in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Wednesday afternoon, Rumsfeld tried to dismiss any talk of his diminished role in Iraq policy, suggesting at one point that reporters should concentrate on "something more important,'' like the World Series potential of his hometown Chicago Cubs.

He told reporters Tuesday "it's not quite clear to me why'' Rice sent him a memorandum on the subject. When he was pressed on the question by a German broadcast reporter, he retorted: "I said I don't know. Isn't that clear? You don't understand English? I was not there for the backgrounding,'' a reference to explanations of the new approach that were provided Sunday to the New York Times.

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/world/6969945.htm
 
Lots of people, locked up, charged with nothing, seemingly not getting the necessary medical treatment, staying in overcrowded, poor conditions. People dragged away in the middle of the night, some possibly victims of others own grudges. The US appear to be closing the worst down, but where are these peoples rights, and will they be written into the new constitution? I thought it was onlyevil dictators who lock up people without due process?

The lawyer, gone to the prison on other business, says he saw the man sitting in his long overshirt in the dust of the cellblock yard, a heavy man in his 60s, sunken, weary. "He called to me. I went over," Fawzi al-Musawi said. He could see the prisoner's right foot was bandaged, putrid with gangrene, apparently from a circulatory ailment.

"He asked if I could help. He said, `They accuse me of being a Baathist. I'm not a Baathist.'" But before al-Musawi could even ask his name, an American soldier rushed up and angrily ordered the lawyer away.

The U.S. military says it is working to improve conditions at detention centers, has closed the worst of them, and has begun opening facilities more to legal defenders. But, for outsiders, simply discovering who is behind the walls is a challenge.

The lawyers group clearly sees a long campaign ahead. Even al-Beldawi, who wishes the harshest punishment for Baathists responsible for killing countless Iraqis, including many of his relatives, said the only justice is that which distinguishes guilt from innocence.

"When I went to Rusafa prison, I saw two men I knew, senior Baathists," he said. "These were good, honest, intelligent men. They wouldn't hurt anybody. They were just sitting there, handcuffed to each other in their underwear, unshaven, looking exhausted. It was painful for me. They don't deserve this.''

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/Co...897&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968705899037
 
This is a must read:

Iraq under the US-led occupation is a fearful, lawless and broken place, where murder rates have rocketed, 80% of workers are idle and hospital managers despair at shortages of IV sets and basic antibiotics. Police are seen as thugs and thieves, and the American and British forces as distant rulers, more concerned with protecting their troops than providing security to ordinary Iraqis. The governing council they created is simply irrelevant. A mile away from one of the richest oilfields on earth, the queues at petrol stations stretch for hours. "We completely underestimated how broken this system was," says Andrew Alderson, the financial officer of the British-led administration in Basra.....

......"You can sit in the hospital from 7pm to midnight most nights and watch the emergency room turn into a bazaar," says Imad al-Din, the deputy manager. "Some people come injured after fights. Some people come injured after trying to stop someone stealing their car. Some people come as drunkards."

The atmosphere of lawlessness is even chipping away at the authority of the tribes as a younger generation grows impatient with the rituals attached to avenging old injury. At the Ghazi tent, an elderly chieftain notes with dismay: "The young people are so hasty nowadays. They don't follow the rules."


http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1055766,00.html
 
Afghan battle 'worst in months'


General Dostum's militia - lined up against Mohammad Atta's fighters
Heavy fighting between two warlords in northern Afghanistan has left up to 80 fighters dead or wounded.
The battles, between followers of Abdul Rashid Dostum and Mohammad Atta, "are the worst we've seen in months," a foreign ministry spokesman said.

Both of the warlords are nominally supporters of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

Correspondents say the clashes throw further uncertainty on Mr Karzai's plans to disarm the warlords.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3176914.stm



Afghanistan 'out of control'

Britain should be doing more to restore law and order to Afghanistan, the government has been warned.
Large swathes of the country are under the control of warlords where people live under the daily threat of violence, said Christian Aid.

The charity, which is running aid projects in the country, wrote to Foreign Secretary Jack Straw warning him conditions were only getting worse.

Nato takes command of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the capital Kabul on Monday, but that security should be extended to the whole of the nation, says the charity.

And the push for a change in Nato and United Nations policy towards the war torn country should come from Britain, it adds.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/3139455.stm
 
US prevents release of Iraqi council statement denouncing Turkish deployment:

A rift is growing between Iraq's interim government and the United States-led coalition over the deployment of Turkish troops to Iraq.

http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newstories/RANewsStories_962907.htm

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Turkey to Deploy Troops in Defiance of New Iraqi Leaders, Turmoil Deepens:

Ankara moved on to a collision course with the interim leadership in Baghdad after deciding to send troops to its war-torn neighbour as the turmoil deepens in Iraq.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...p/20031008/ts_afp/iraq_worldwrap_031008103554

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Protests rock Turkey over Iraq troop decision:

In Istanbul, protestors shouted "We will not allow our soldiers to be killed" and "We will not be soldiers for the US."

http://www.spacewar.com/2003/031008155500.rquxukop.html
 
:(

Up to 10,000 Iraqi Shias have taken to the streets of a Baghdad suburb to denounce the US for "terrorism".

Chanting "no to America, yes to martyrs", the Shia mourners spilled into the streets, accusing the US of attempting to sow divisions between Shias and other Muslims in Iraq.

Sadr City was also the scene of an attack on a police station
"America claims to be the pioneer of freedom and democracy, but it resembles or indeed is a terror organisation," Sheikh Abdel Hadi al-Daraji told those gathered.

"The Americans may have forgotten that the real power rests with God and not with the wretched America."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3181392.stm
 
Breaking news BBC24
Massive explosion in Central Baghdad at the Bagdhad Hotel, a hotel used by CIA, Becktell (sp?) and US
security / intelligence in Baghdad

could only find this link so far

http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2044961

edited to add another link

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-10-12-iraq-blast_x.htm

Sky News
Eyewitness reports suggest that there are casualties (live coverage on Sky showed horrific footage of people examining something by prodding it with their feet - it was cut quickly to another scene once it became clear that it was a piece of a person)

Live coverage on Sky
Eyewitness reports that a white car was driven to the entrance of the hotel where it exploded as it was shot at by Iraqi guards and police. Looks like a huge explosion from the live footage
 
Confirmation that several people have been killed in the explosion in Bagdhad, most or all believed to be Iraqis guarding the hotel

AFP news

Looks like it may be many more as the hotel appears to be very seriously damaged.

Now they are saying that at least 10 (all Iraqis) dead and many more injured.
 
U.S. military officials in Iraq say one American soldier has been killed and another wounded in the northern part of the country.
Military spokesman Major Gordon Tate said the incident took place late Sunday near the town of Bayji, when the soldiers' vehicle hit a landmine.

http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=EA12553E-CC7A-472A-9EFCF803C15E495D

And overnight Sunday-Monday US troops reportedly arrested Sheikh Jamal Shaker Nazzal, 61, along with four religious students after searching the mosque for one and a half hours overnight, a neighbor of the Great Mosque, Ziad Ismail, 42, said.

A US military spokeswoman had no immediate confirmation but said officials were looking into the reports.

Nazzal, a Sunni Muslim imam who is highly popular in Fallujah, has urged the faithful in his sermons not to cooperate with the occupying US forces.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/51988/1/.html

In the roller coaster ride of Washington politics, Rumsfeld appears to be on a downward trajectory, according to U.S. officials and analysts.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3599466

A U.S. soldier was killed in a rocket-propelled grenade attack in the Iraqi town of Tikrit Monday, the U.S. military said.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle....KL51DACRBAEZSFFA?type=topNews&storyID=3603249

U.S. efforts to stabilize Iraq ran into fresh trouble Monday with a worsening row over deploying Turkish troops and new anti-occupier attacks.

Iraq's U.S.-backed Governing Council stuck by its opposition to the Turks coming in at all, whilst Ankara's military said it would not decide how many soldiers to send until it knew which part of the country they were going to, a sensitive issue.

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3602863
 
Worth the short read:

LONDON (Reuters) - War in Iraq has swollen the ranks of al Qaeda and galvanised the Islamic militant group's will, the International Institute for Strategic Studies says in its annual report.

The 2003-2004 edition of the think-tank's annual bible for defence analysts, The Military Balance, said Washington's assertions after the Iraq conflict that it had turned the corner in the war on terror were "over-confident".

The report, widely considered an authoritative text on the military capabilities of states and militant groups worldwide, could prove fodder for critics of the U.S.-British invasion and of the reconstruction effort that has followed in Iraq.

Washington must impose security in Iraq to prevent the country from "ripening into a cause celebre for radical Islamic terrorists", it concluded. "Nation-building" in Iraq was paramount and might require more troops than initially planned.

"On the plus side, war in Iraq has denied al Qaeda a potential (my emphisis) supplier of weapons of mass destruction and discouraged state sponsors of terrorism from continuing to support it," the report, published on Wednesday, said.

"On the minus side, war in Iraq has probably inflamed radical passions among Muslims and thus increased al Qaeda's recruiting power and morale and, at least marginally, its operating capability," it said.

http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=388471&section=news
 
11 die in clashes in southern Iraq
17/10/2003 - 10:32:46 am

Three American soldiers and at least eight Iraqis were killed in a midnight clash at a Shiite Muslim cleric’s headquarters in the southern Iraq city of Karbala. An earlier report from Iraqi police had indicated three Poles – not Americans - were killed. Gunfire broke out again today in the same area of the city, where rivalries among Shiite factions have produced sporadic violence in recent weeks.

An armoured personnel carrier of the US-led coalition appeared to be firing as screaming men, women and children fled for cover. Shiite gunmen defiantly shouted, “Allahu Akbar!” – “God is great!” Malik Kazim, a gunman who said he was involved in the fighting, said it involved a American-Polish patrol of armoured vehicles and Humvees passing the offices of a local senior Shiite Muslim cleric, Mahmoud al-Hassani.

Since Karbala has been under a 9pm curfew, the international patrol ordered the gunmen inside the offices, but they refused and a gunbattle started. Three American soldiers and two Iraqi policemen were killed, a Polish Defence Ministry source said in Warsaw. He said no Poles were hurt. The Polish news agency PAP and TVN24 private television also reported the dead were Americans.

Iraqi policemen who were at the scene said one fellow officer was killed in the firefight, and Kazim said seven of his comrades were killed. Kazim said intense gunfire lasted about a half-hour. Dozens of bullet holes, some large-calibre, could be seen in walls in the area this morning. Polish forces lead an international brigade responsible for postwar security in the Karbala area,50 miles south of Baghdad.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/2003/10/17/story117692.html
 
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