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December 9, 2003 Tuesday Shawwal 14, 1424 Samarra massacre could lead US to failure or success WASHINGTON: On one point, all sources appear to agree: what... Commonwealth and British hypocrisy ABUJA: At a state banquet opening the Commonwealth conference, Australian Prime Minister John Howard commended President Olusegun Obasanjo for returning Nigeria to democratic rule. Howard was handing over the chairmanship of... Preventing another Rwanda OXFORD: The notorious Rwanda radio station RTLM began to broadcast racism in 1991, and by 1994 was airing instructions to “kill and exterminate” the Tutsi minority. In the same year, a... Japan govt, public split over troops to Iraq TOKYO: Despite growing public concerns about the security situation in Iraq, where two Japanese diplomats were killed in an ambush attack late last month, the government is expected to endorse a... Putin tightens grip on power MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin was fretting on Saturday night, but his anxiety had little to do with Sunday’s parliamentary election.... UK plans to impose surcharge on immigrants LONDON: The UK Home secretary, David Blunkett, plans to impose a Pounds Sterling 500 surcharge on each of the 900,000 migrants who enter Britain each year to work, study or join... Osama’s strategy is working: the world is divided into two LONDON: Osama bin Laden, two years and three months after the New York and Washington attacks that were part of his jihad against America, appears to be winning. He has lost... 40 S. Korean workers leave Iraq BAGHDAD, Dec 8: Dozens of South Korean electrical workers have left Iraq after two colleagues were killed on a road near Saddam Hussein’s hometown of Tikrit in the latest blow to... US army steps in to avert tribal feud NASSIRIYAH, Dec 8: The US army gathered sheikhs in the southern Iraqi city of Nassiriyah on Monday after land disputes from the Saddam Hussein era sparked threats of violence among the... Israel builds bunker in mountains AL QUDS, Dec 8: Israel is constructing an underground government complex in the mountains near occupied Al Quds, designed to house the Israeli government during times of war, a news report... Al Qaeda to shift its fighters to Iraq: weekly NEW YORK, Dec 8: At a secret meeting in Afghanistan held last month during Ramazan, three senior representatives of Osama bin Laden gave the Taliban bad news: Al Qaeda fighters would... Beijing not to tolerate Taiwan separatists: PM UNITED NATIONS, Dec 8: Prime Minister of China, Wen Jiabao on Sunday said that Beijing would “never tolerate” separatist forces and their plan to split Taiwan away from China.... LTTE readying for war: army chief SRINAGAR, India, Dec 8: Sri Lanka’s army chief said Monday that Tamil rebels were recruiting members and assembling arms in defiance of a ceasefire in case peace talks with the Colombo... 10 held in Paris after US embassy gets threats PARIS, Dec 8: Ten people were arrested in France on the weekend after an anonymous caller warned that the US embassy in Paris was to be targeted by a car bomb... ‘Missing link’ gene in breast cancer found LONDON, Dec 8: Scientists have found a “missing link” gene that connects inherited and “sporadic” breast and ovarian cancer.... 3 tourists kidnapped in Iran TEHRAN, Dec 8: Three tourists, two Germans and an Irish national, have been kidnapped in Iran’s southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchistan.... Poland willing to host US bases: PM WARSAW, Dec 8: Prime Minister Leszek Miller said Monday that Poland, a former Soviet satellite, was ready to allow US bases on its territory if such a request was made.... US working on draft N.Korea statement WASHINGTON, Dec 8: The United States is working with its Asian allies and Russia on a draft statement offering North Korea security guarantees in exchange for giving up its nuclear weapons... Japanese opposition vows to resist dispatch of troops TOKYO, Dec 8: Japanese opposition leaders on Monday vowed to prevent the dispatch of Japanese soldiers to Iraq, on the eve of an expected cabinet approval of the basic plan to... Saddam leading resistance, says loyalist BAGHDAD, Dec 8: An armed supporter of Saddam Hussein has said loyalists under the ousted strongman’s command were still fighting across one-third of Iraq as the top US commander vowed on...

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