| 18 July 2004 | Sunday | 29 Jamadi-ul-Awwal 1425 |
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Hostage's life more vital than foreign policy: Manila defends pullout
MANILA, July 17: The Filipino hostage in Iraq has come to represent all Filipinos working overseas, and his safety justifies Manila's decision to pull its troops from Iraq despite commitments to foreign allies ... 
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9/11 suspect living in Pakistan: magazine
MUNICH, July 17: A German-Moroccan fugitive suspected by US agencies of involvement in the Sept 11, 2001, attacks has been sending email messages from Pakistan to his wife in Germany, according to a report to be published on Monday. ...
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9/11 report links Iran to attacks: weeklies
WASHINGTON, July 17: The Sept 11 commission's report, due out on Thursday, says Iran may have facilitated the 2001 attacks in the United States by providing eight to 10 Al Qaeda hijackers with safe passage to and from training camps in Afghanistan, US media said on Saturday. ...
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US to train SA force for Africa missions
HOEDSPRUIT AIR FORCE BASE, July 17: The United States will help train and equip thousands of South African troops to expand Pretoria's peacekeeping efforts on the troubled continent, Washington's ambassador to the country said. ...
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Flood victims protest over aid delay
PATNA/DHAKA, July 17: Hungry and angry flood victims protested over delays in aid in India and Nepal as the death toll from weeks of monsoon flooding in South Asia crossed 350 on Saturday. ...
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Sudan rebels quit peace talks
ADDIS ABABA, July 17: Rebels from Sudan's Darfur region said on Saturday they were quitting African Union (AU)-mediated peace efforts and would return only when the Sudanese government had met their six conditions for talks. ...
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The 'empire' has no clothes
LONDON: What now? Downing Street is loudly reforming its procedures with a fitting show of contrition, but all the while Blair people observe that the more tsunamis the prime minister surfs, the more secure he seems. ...
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Free speech under attack in Russia
He did not go to Iraq or Afghanistan or down a dark alley in Pakistan. Unlike Danny Pearl or Michael Kelly, American journalist Paul Klebnikov did not think he was going to war. ...
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Disaster creeps closer
The massaging, mangling and magnification of intelligence on Iraq's elusive weapons of mass destruction, officially confirmed by the Butler report into the UK government's use of intelligence material in the run up to the Iraq war ...
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Mixing faith with patriotism
One of the most untouchable issues in American politics is the damaging proposition, deliberately fostered by government leaders, that religious devotion and patriotism are inseparable. ...
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Muslims 'under focus' in Japan
TOKYO: Imam Cemil Ayaz makes it clear when he sits down for a chat about Islam in Japan: terrorism is not up for discussion. In fact, says the prayer leader and director of Tokyo's most prominent mosque, don't even mention the word. ...
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Inside the minds of killers
LONDON: Commander Andy Baker wants to get inside the mind of every convicted killer in Britain. London's top murder investigator is preparing to interview them and analyze their backgrounds, personality traits ...
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