| 22 September 2004 | Wednesday | 06 Shaban 1425 |
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Saddam wants to go into exile: lawyer
STOCKHOLM, Sept 21: Iraq's former leader Saddam Hussein hopes for clemency and wants to live in exile in Sweden, Austria or Switzerland, reports said on Tuesday. ... 
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Bush starts tapping into emergency Iraq funds
WASHINGTON, Sept 21: The Pentagon has begun tapping its 25 billion dollars emergency fund for the Iraq invasion to prepare for a major troop rotation and intense fighting this fall ...
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US troops arrest Sadr's aides
NAJAF, Sept 21: US marines arrested two close aides and several supporters of Moqtada Sadr in a predawn raid on Tuesday on the radical leader's office in Najaf, officials and witnesses said. ...
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Annan takes fresh jab at Bush on Iraq
UNITED NATIONS, Sept 21: United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan took a fresh jab at US President George Bush on Tuesday, in a clear sign that world opinion was still far from making peace with the occupation of Iraq. ...
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Powell as envoy to Britain?
NEW YORK, Sept 21: US State Department officials on Tuesday scoffed at a British newspaper report that Secretary of State Colin Powell is the main candidate to be the next US ambassador to Britain. ...
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The battlefield has changed
WASHINGTON: When President Bush launched a preemptive war against Iraq 18 months ago, there was no doubt that a third-rate Iraqi army would quickly succumb to the awesome power of the US military. ...
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IAEA, ElBaradei tipped for Nobel prize
OSLO, Sept 21: The Nobel Committee kept mum on its choice for the Peace Prize after a final meeting on Tuesday to pick a winner, although the International Atomic Energy Agency and its chief Mohamed ElBaradei have been tipped as the most likely winners. ...
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700 killed in Haiti hurricane
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Sept 21: More than 700 people are dead in Haiti from flooding and mudslides triggered by Tropical Storm Jeanne and aid workers said half of the northern coastal city of Gonaives was still underwater on Monday. ...
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Ex-general defeats Megawati in election
JAKARTA, Sept 21: Former general Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has triumphed over incumbent Megawati Sukarnoputri in Indonesia's first direct presidential vote, but must now deliver on promises of tighter security, better government and more jobs. ...
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Demo brings Lankan town to standstill
COLOMBO, Sept 21: Sri Lanka's eastern port town of Trincomalee was brought to a standstill on Tuesday due to a demonstration staged by the Sinhala community to protest an abduction allegedly carried out by the Tamil Tigers. ...
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Mandela gets back his prison notes
JOHANNESBURG, Sept 21: South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela was reunited on Tuesday with two notebooks that were confiscated from him while in prison as he launched a memorial centre on his struggle for freedom. ...
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How the powerful manipulate pain
NEW YORK: The tale of how I became a Nazi and my Nazi harasser became a Jew is as intriguing as it is instructive. Last November I wrote a column in the London-based Guardian newspaper about a racist email sent to me by an employee of an insurance company ...
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Why Powell cries genocide
The declaration by Us Secretary of State Colin Powell last week that "genocide has been committed in Darfur and that the government of Sudan and the Jan jaweed bear responsibility" signals an escalation in US efforts to establish ...
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Kosovo: push for privatization
WARS, conflict - it's all business," sighs Monsieur Verdoux in Charlie Chaplin's 1947 film of the same name. Many will not need to be convinced of the link between US corporations now busily helping themselves to Iraqi ...
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