Middle Orient News

JERUSALEM (Feb. 10) – Palestinian leaders fanned out across the world Saturday in a diplomatic blitz aimed at convincing reticent world leaders to support their hard-won power-sharing deal by lifting economic sanctions on their government.

Nazareth – The Arab Knesset (Israeli parliament) member Jamal Zahalka has revealed that the Israeli government of premier Ehud Olmert had rejected recommendations tabled by more that 30 archeologists across the world to avoid harming the Magharba gate.

Gaza – Secretary-general of the Islamic syndicates’ union of Palestinian workers Ahmed Kotob has urged Hamas and Fatah Movements to implement the unity government agreement which they signed Thursday in the holy city of Makka.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq presented on Sunday what officials said was “a growing body” of evidence of Iranian weapons being used to kill coalition soldiers.

A SUICIDE truck bomber slammed into a crowd of Iraqi police lining up for duty near Tikrit yesterday, killing at least 30 people and wounding 50, police said.

TEHRAN, Iran — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad struck a defiant yet vague tone on Sunday, telling Iranians during the 28th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution that their country would not give up uranium enrichment but was prepared to negotiate.

BAGHDAD, Iraq — High-tech roadside bombs that have proved particularly deadly to American soldiers are manufactured in Iran and delivered to Iraq on orders from the “highest levels” of the Iranian government, a senior intelligence officer said Sunday.

A suicide bomber has killed at least 15 people and wounded at least 25 others at a police station north of Baghdad.

February 10, 2007 — MECCA, Saudi Arabia – Hamas urged the West yesterday to accept a new Palestinian unity government, but leading officials from the Islamic terror group said they would never recognize Israel, nor abide by existing peace accords.

BAGHDAD: Twenty-nine Iraqis, including eight Kurdish policemen, were killed and three more US soldiers have been killed Friday in separate incidents of violence in Iraq.