July, 2007

• 14 July

  Bush says no shift on Iraq, report mixed

  US President George W. Bush acknowledged on Thursday his Iraq strategy had made only limited progress but put off considering a change of course in the unpopular war until a crucial September report.

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• 14 July

  King warns Middle East conflict breeds more extremism, violence

  King Abdullah on Thursday said the West should realise that in the absence of a just solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the world is headed towards decades of more violence and extremism.

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• 14 July

  Lebanon camp under heavy shelling

  The Lebanese army has continued shelling Fatah al-Islam positions in a refugee camp near Triopli as Katyusha rockets were fired at villages nearby.

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• 14 July

  Mosque protests erupt in Pakistan

  Thousands have protested across Pakistan against a government raid on Islamabad’s Red Mosque that left more than 100 dead.  

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• 14 July

  Russian authorities prepare for possible attack in North Ossetia

  On the night of July 6, Caucasian rebels carried out a hit-and-run raid on the Russian military garrison in Ingushetia. First reports of the incident came from the Ingushetiya.ru website.

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• 14 July

  Moscow’s guessing game over rebel strategy

  Russian Deputy Prosecutor General Ivan Sydoruk has declared that “the operational situation in the North Caucasus will become increasingly hot.”

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• 14 July

  Islamists fire rockets in Lebanon camp battle

  Islamist militants fired Katyusha rockets at Lebanese villages on Friday, escalating their 8-week-old battle with the army at a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.

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• 14 July

  Official: Guards rob Iraqi bank, net $500,000

  London-based HSBC Holdings Plc, which owns a 70 percent stake in Dar Es Salaam bank, said on Wednesday that less than $1 million in cash was stolen in a raid on a Dar Es Salaam branch in Baghdad.

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• 14 July

  Bush to give ‘mixed’ Iraq report

  The White House is expected to present to Congress an interim report on the situation in Iraq, assessing the results of the major US troop “surge”.

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• 14 July

  Egypt and the Zionist plan of division

  In the first instalment of what I intended would be a short series of articles, I wrote that Oded Yinon’s 1982 study entitled “A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s” is the most detailed account so far of the Zionist mindset; how it works and how it aspires to manage …

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