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| October 22, 2005 | Saturday | Ramzan 17, 1426 |
Updated round-the-clock, with major updates after 10:00 PST (05:00 GMT)
One Iraqi province rejects charter: partial results BAGHDAD, Oct 22 (AFP) Only one province so far has rejected the draft Iraqi constitution with a majority of more than two-thirds, electoral officials said Saturday as they presented partial results from the October 15 referendum. The province of Salaheddin, which includes Saddam's hometown of Tikrit, voted no by 81.5 percent, while the yes camp prevailed in 12 other provinces for which results were available, the commission said. Figures from the remaining five provinces, including two crucial ones, Al-Anbar and Nineveh, were not released.(Posted @ 20:30 PST)
NATO to fly in mobile HQs and engineers battalion by next week ISLAMABAD, Oct 22 (APP): The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Saturday said it was flying in mobile headquarters and a battalion of light engineers by next week to clear roads to reach inaccessible areas, still blocked by the Oct 8 earthquake. NATO would try to rush in more supplies and open up roads, before the winter sets in, NATO's Deputy Assistant Secretary General Ambassador Maurits Jochems told reporters. NATO said it would send around 600 of its engineers drawn from Spain, Poland and Italy by next week along with road clearing equipment. "NATO will start its second air bridge operation and lift 10,000 tents from UNHCR ware house to Islamabad," he said and offered that Pakistan may also use its sea-lift capability for bulky items. Besides, he said, NATO was also sending in a mobile, multinational medical unit to supplement the UN hospitals besides three water purification plants. About Pakistan's request for more helicopter Brigadier General Antonius Stik, Chief of the NATO Operational Liaison Team in Pakistan said six more would come.(Posted @ 18:26 PST)
Weakened Hurricane Wilma downgraded to category three MIAMI, Oct 22 (AFP) Hurricane Wilma pounding Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula weakened early Saturday and was downgraded to a category three storm packing sustained winds of 205 kilometres an hour, the US National Hurricane Centre said. "Some additional weakening is expected today while Wilma is over land," the center said in its advisory. It added that the storm was essentially stationary at the moment, with its eye located above the resort town of Playa del Carmen. (Posted @ 15:40 PST)
Afghan journalist killed in blast KHOST, Afghanistan, Oct 22 (AFP) A bomb ripped through a military vehicle in eastern Afghanistan Saturday, killing an Afghan journalist and injuring three military personnel, an intelligence official said. The journalist, identified only as Maiwand, worked for a local radio station called Da Solah Pigham (The Message of Peace). (Posted @ 15:30 PST)
Nine policemen killed in Afghanistan ambush KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Oct 22 (AFP) Nine policemen, including a unit commander, were killed when suspected Taliban rebels ambushed their convoy in south-eastern Afghanistan, officials said Saturday. Four Taliban insurgents were also killed in the attack on Friday in Helmand province, a provincial administrative official said. (Posted @ 15:30 PST)
Loud explosions heard in Baghdad BAGHDAD, Oct 22 (AFP) - Five loud explosions were heard in succession early Saturday in Baghdad, but their cause was not immediately known. The blasts occurred just before 8:30 am (0530 GMT) and might therefore have been controlled detonations, but the US military could not immediately provide details. The Iraqi interior ministry was also unable to comment. (Posted @ 13:25 PST)
Militant group says kills six Iraqis - Web DUBAI, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Islamic militant group Army of Ansar al-Sunna said it had killed six Iraqis, according to Internet statements posted late on Friday. The group said it killed four contractors who worked for U.S. forces and shot dead two members of the national guard, one in Ramadi and one in the northern city of Mosul. The Web statements' authenticity could not be verified immediately. No videos were shown of the killings. (Posted @ 12:20 PST)
Irishman among fighters in Iraq-US BAGHDAD, Oct 20 (Reuters) - More than 300 foreign fighters have been captured in Iraq by U.S.-led troops and Iraqi security forces since April and their nationalities include Israeli, Irish and British, a senior U.S. commander said on Thursday. Most came from other Arab states, however, Major General Rick Lynch said. "Terrorists and foreign fighters" were responsible for some of the worst insurgent attacks, such as suicide car bombings, Lynch said. He told a news briefing 375 foreign fighters had been captured this year, of whom 310 were detained since the start of April. The countries of origin most represented were Egypt (78), Syria (66), Sudan (41) and Saudi Arabia (32). The list included several other Middle Eastern countries and a number of European states such as France (1) as well as two Indians and an American. Lynch declined to give any further details about the one Israeli on the list, or the suspect from Ireland and two from Britain. He said Iraq's al Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi since January has lost 100 of his leaders, Lynch said. "What we've found is he's replacing his leaders with foreign fighters, presumably because they're most inclined to carry out these ruthless attacks against the Iraqi people." (Posted @ 12:20 PST)
Storm surge floods Cancun MEXICO CITY, Oct 21 (AFP) - A massive storm surge whipped up by Hurricane Wilma has flooded the Mexican resort of Cancun, submerging the city under up to eight meters (26 feet) of water, the national meteorological service said.The category four storm hit the Yucatan peninsula and its world famous beaches with sustained winds of 220 kilometers (140 miles) an hour, but no major casualties were immediately reported. The eye of the 12th hurricane of the Atlantic season was expected to remain over the peninsula on Saturday before heading slowly toward the Florida coast in the southern United States. (Posted @ 10:10 PST)
Second Palestinian killed by Israeli forces in West Bank JERUSALEM, Oct 22 (AFP) - A second Palestinian man was killed late Friday by Israeli soldiers near Tulkarem in the West Bank, Israeli and Palestinian security service sources said early Saturday. Earlier Palestinian security service sources had announced that a first Palestinian had been killed late Friday by Israeli soldiers in the same area. Israeli military sources said a unit of soldiers operating in the neighbourhood of Anabta had come under fire from two Palestinians. Another unit in the area located them and shot at them, they said. (Posted @ 10:10 PST)
Abbas says Palestinian state possible before Bush leaves office WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (AFP) - Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas said Friday that an independent Palestinian state can be ready by the end of President George W. Bush's term in January, 2009 -- although Bush now refuses to set a deadline. Abbas also said in an interview with AFP that he had convinced Bush not to oppose the participation of the radical group Hamas in the Palestinian legislative election to be held in January. (Posted @ 10:10 PST)
Three dead in violent Muslim protest in Egypt CAIRO, Oct 22 (AFP) - At least three people have been killed and around 60 injured in violent clashes between protestors and police in Alexandria amid mounting tensions over a video considered anti-Islamic, the interior ministry said early Saturday. One person died late Friday of his injuries in hospital, while two others died shortly after midnight when police opened fire on persons who were demonstrating against the DVD by the Saint Girgis Church. Twenty policemen and sixty protestors were wounded, an interior ministry spokesman said adding that one police car and six other vehicles were torched. (Posted @ 09:25 PST)
Palestinian leader Abbas ends three-day US visit WASHINGTON, Oct 21 (AFP) - Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas left Washington late Friday, ending a three-day visit in the United States during which he held talks with President George W. Bush, according to a Palestinian official. Abbas was heading to Algeria before visiting Egypt and Jordan. (Posted @ 09:25 PST)
Iraqi PM rules out Saddam trial outside Iraq BAGHDAD, Oct 22 (AFP) - Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari ruled out late on Friday transferring the trial of toppled dictator Saddam Hussein outside the country. "The process is a purely Iraqi affair, which should take place on the (Iraqi) territory and it is out of the question to transfer it anywhere else," Jaafari told reporters . "The idea of such a transfer should not even enter our heads," he said. (Posted @ 09:20 PST)
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