Eurasia Press & News
Rabat – A Moroccan ex-Guantanamo detainee accused of briefly being a member of Osama bin Laden’s personal bodyguard was given a 10-year jail sentence by a Moroccan anti-terrorism court on Friday.
Read More »Iraq deployment greatest foreign policy failure since Vietnam: Rudd
Federal Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd says the Howard Government’s engagement in Iraq has proven to be Australia’s greatest foreign policy failure since the Vietnam War.
Read More »Vietnam Vets to Vote on Iraq Troop Surge
WASHINGTON (AP) – Four of the senators who will vote next week on putting more troops in Iraq bear the scars of another war in another time, in a place called Vietnam. Three will vote against sending more troops. One will vote the other way.
Read More »U.S., Russia Clash Over Syria in Middle East
WASHINGTON — The United States and Russia clashed on Friday over Moscow’s suggestion that Syria should be included in efforts to advance an Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement.
Read More »Hamas, Fatah Ignore Truce Deal in Gaza
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) – Fatah and Hamas clashed at Cabinet ministries, universities and security headquarters Saturday in defiance of a truce that was to have calmed the seething Gaza Strip.
Read More »As Democrats stake out Iraq stands, Clinton says she’d end war if elected
WASHINGTON – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday that she would not have attacked Iraq had she been president, and would end the war if elected, as she tried to blunt rivals such as John Edwards who are stoking antiwar passions in the Democratic Party.
Read More »Iran Diplomat Goes Silent
UNITED NATIONS — “I do not do interviews anymore” was the cryptic response from Iran’s veteran U.N. Ambassador Javad Zarif.
Read More »U.S. copter crash is fourth in Iraq in 2 weeks
BAGHDAD – A U.S. Army helicopter crashed yesterday in a hail of gunfire north of Baghdad, police and witnesses said – the fourth lost in Iraq in the last two weeks. The U.S. command said two crew members were killed, and the top U.S. general conceded that insurgent ground fire …
Read More »Car bombings kill four in Iraq’s Kirkuk
KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) – At least seven car bombings rattled the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk on Saturday, killing four civilians and wounding 37 others across the oil-rich city, police sources said.
Read More »Republicans poised to hang themselves on Iraq
The Republican leadership seems poised to take their party over the cliff. Sen. John Warner has successfully manipulated the Senate so that it will not make a strong statement against the escalation of troops in Iraq and will re-affirm
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