March, 2007

• 30 March

  Hicks could cash in while taxpayers foot bill

  CANBERRA – David Hicks, the Australian Guantanamo Bay inmate who has admitted aiding the al Qaeda terror group, has become a major recipient of political and taxpayer largesse as he waits for a decision on the deal his lawyers have struck with American military prosecutors. He could also become rich. …

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• 29 March

  تحصن خبرنگاران افغان برای رهایی اجمل نقشبندی

  شماری از خبرنگاران افغان روز چهارشنبه در مقابل ساختمان شورای ملی کشور خیمه بر پا کرده Ùˆ از دولت خواستند تا برای رهایی اجمل نقشبندی خبرنگار افغان از Ú†Ù†Ú¯ طالبان عملا اقدام نماید.آنها همچنان از وکلای مناطق جنوبی کشور خواستند تا با استفاده از نفوذی Ú©Ù‡ در این مناطق دارند …

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• 29 March

  ادعای وزارت دفاع ملی مبنی تلفات سنگین مخالفین در عملیات نوروزی

  وزارت دفاع ملی از دست آورد های عملیاتی خبر داده است Ú©Ù‡ از یک هفته بدین سو تحت نام نوروزی در هلمند راه اندازی شده است.به گزارش خبرنگار ما ظاهر عظیمی سخنگوی وزارت دفاع ملی روز چهارشنبه Ø·ÛŒ یک نشست خبری در کابل گفت: Ø·ÛŒ این عملیات122 تن از جنگجویان …

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• 29 March

  Worries grow over mental health of U.S. soldiers

  WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Retired U.S. Navy medic Charlie Anderson twice thought about committing suicide: once when he feared he would be sent back to Iraq in 2004 and again last year when a friend and fellow veteran killed himself. “I can’t say that I can’t go because we don’t do …

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• 29 March

  Berlusconi’s “own goal” splits Italian opposition

  ROME, March 28 (Reuters) – Italian opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi may have scored an “own goal” by not supporting an Afghan peace mission in a Senate vote which, instead of showing how weak the government is, split the centre right in two. Berlusconi’s coalition, ousted by Romano Prodi’s alliance last …

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• 29 March

  Afghanistan: ‘Two feet and a lot of skin’

  GURBUZ, Afghanistan – Government officials in this town in Khost province refer to the cross-border operations simply as “Suicide, Inc”, a sophisticated joint venture between al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Young Arab, Pakistani and Afghan bombers strapped with increasingly potent bombs aim for softer and softer civilian targets, both Afghan and …

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• 28 March

  Conservatives Oppose Pet Projects

  Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) – Senate conservatives and the Bush administration are taking aim at billions of dollars of non-war spending added to President Bush’s $100 billion funding request for Afghanistan and Iraq. In addition to money and equipment for overseas troops, there is $100 million for state and …

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• 28 March

  Israel And Palestine To Establish Biweekly Peace Talks

  Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has agreed to meet every two weeks for a peace talk with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to focus on the day-to-day movement and access of Palestinians in and out of Gaza, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Tuesday.

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• 28 March

  At Least Six Palestinians Killed In Sewage Flood

  As many as 10 Palestinians were killed on Tuesday when the wall of a large cesspool in northern Gaza collapsed, flooding the village of Umm Nasser with raw sewage.

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• 28 March

  Sabotage and scandal eat billions to rebuild Iraq

  Even John Bolton, the neocon’s neocon and former United States ambassador to the UN, now admits it. Mistakes were made in the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq. Not regime change – he is unrepentant about that – but what happened next.

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