| 11 September 2004 | Saturday | 25 Rajab 1425 |
|
Iraq's occupiers accused of committing genocide
TALL AFAR, Sept 10: A top religious leader on Friday accused the US-led occupation forces of waging genocide in Iraq, after air and ground assaults on suspected militant bases in Tall Afar and Fallujah killed 57 people. ... 
|
|
US troops held 100 Iraqis illegally: General informs Congress
WASHINGTON, Sept 10: As many as 100 "ghost detainees", many more than originally revealed, were held secretly by US forces in Iraq, the army general leading an Abu Ghraib prison abuse probe told a congressional committee Thursday. ...
|
|
||
|
American defeat a question of time: Zawahiri
DUBAI, Sept 10: Two days before the third anniversary of Sept 11, Osama bin Laden's right-hand man emerged for the first time in a year to warn Americans of imminent defeat for their armies in Iraq and Afghanistan. ...
|
|
Jakarta launches hunt for suspects
JAKARTA, Sept 10: Indonesian police launched a nation wide manhunt on Friday for Al Qaeda-linked militants blamed for a suicide car bomb attack outside the Australian embassy that jolted both countries before elections. ...
|
|
|
||
|
Settlers raise spectre of 'civil war'
JERUSALEM, Sept 10: Jewish settlers threatened with eviction under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza pullout plan on Friday hardened their opposition with calls for soldiers and police to disobey orders to remove them. ...
|
|
Is Israel 'swing state' in US election?
DEIR DIBWAN: In this hillside village known as the "little America" of the West Bank, businessman Abu Mohammed voted for George W. Bush in the last US election but vows not to make the same mistake twice. ...
|
|
|
||
|
India calls for end to 'terrorism': Kashmir talks
NEW DELHI, Sept 10: Indian Foreign Minister Kunwar Natwar Singh said on Friday that the alleged terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir had to stop for talks on the dispute to progress with Pakistan. ...
|
|
Nepal seeks investment by India
NEW DELHI, Sept 10: Prime Minister of Nepal Sher Bahadur Deuba, seeking investments in his country, told Indian businessmen on Friday that Maoist "terrorism" would not be allowed to harm industry. ...
|
|
|
||
|
WMD probe: SA claims uncovering Libya link
PRETORIA, Sept 10: Arrests in a weapons of mass destruction investigation in South Africa are linked to Libya's abandoned nuclear programme, the country said on Friday, playing down a connection to a global weapons black market. ...
|
|
Milosevic trial holds lessons for Iraq, ICC
AMSTERDAM: The marathon trial of Slobodan Milosevic shows that future war crimes proceedings against senior figures must be stricter, more concise and preferably conducted where the crimes were committed, legal experts say. ...
|
|
|
||
|
Censor may force Iranian director out of cinema
TEHRAN: Iranian director Jafar Panahi may be celebrated abroad as one of Iran's greatest film directors, but the artist has complained that restrictions at home may force him to drop movie making altogether. ...
|
|
Scientists skirt ice, politics in Arctic
ABOARD THE PROFESSOR KHROMOV: The ship crawled through the fog as if on a slow tour of frozen ruins, trying to avoid ice chunks of every size and shape off Russia's far northeastern coast. ...
|
|
|
||
