TimeLine Layout

March, 2007

  • 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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  • 28 March

    Generals under fire for Tillman death

    WASHINGTON – A Pentagon watchdog has found fault with four generals and five other officers for mistakes following the death of United States Army Ranger and former professional football star Pat Tillman in Afghanistan.

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  • 28 March

    Spotlight on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard

    TEHRAN – When two British boats with 15 Royal Navy personnel were seized by Iran last week, all eyes turned to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. The corps’ naval force carried out the operation, which Britain says happened in Iraqi territorial waters, and its commanders hold the key to the …

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  • 27 March

    Iranian Disciplinary Force Members Released

    Commander of the disciplinary force in the Iranian eastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan elaborated on the freedom and release of the Iranian nationals taken hostage by the terrorist bandits.

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