August, 2006

• 4 August

  Blair’s stance weakens his authority

  LONDON — British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s stance on the Lebanon crisis has deepened divisions in his Labour Party, further weakening his authority and potentially hastening his departure from office. While working furiously to agree a United Nations resolution to resolve the conflict, Blair has refused from its outset to …

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• 4 August

  Thousands of Iraq Shiites gather for march as coalition warns of civil war

  BAGHDAD (AFP) — Thousands of Shiites converged on Baghdad ahead of a major demonstration planned for Friday as British and US officials warned that Iraq’s bitter sectarian conflict could push the country into civil war. Shiite protesters were summoned to the capital by radical cleric Moqtada Sadr in order to …

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• 4 August

  Ahmadinejad says solution ‘end of Zionist regime’

  TEHRAN (AFP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday the answer to the conflict in south Lebanon was the “elimination of the Zionist regime”, slamming Israel’s “war against humanity”. “The real cure for the conflict is elimination of the Zionist regime, but there should be first an immediate ceasefire,” the …

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• 4 August

  Command, logistics main problems for proposed Lebanon peacekeepers

  LONDON — The biggest obstacle to creating an international peacekeeping force in Lebanon is determining who will lead it, while questions remain over troops and transport, defence analysts said on Thursday. The two most likely and experienced candidates to lead the peacekeepers would be the European Union or France, with …

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• 4 August

  Trauma of war leaves mother without milk

  BEIRUT — Fadia Ballout can no longer nurse her son as he screams with hunger. Traumatised by her family’s escape from a southern Lebanese village close to Qana, where an Israeli air strike killed 60 people on Sunday, her breastmilk has stopped. As 18-month-old Hussein latched onto his mother’s breast, …

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• 4 August

  Tyre, the morgue of south

  TYRE — A stinging odour hangs over the Palestinian refugee camp of Bass, at the entrance to the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, the chosen site for a mass grave for the dozens of victims of Israel’s blistering bombardment of the area. “Tyre has now become the morgue for the …

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• 4 August

  Topsy-turvy world of Mideast comes to Beirut-Damascus road

  AARIDA, Lebanon — The topsy-turvy world of conflicts in the Middle East has also made its mark at the only remaining safe passage out of Lebanon, the remote Aarida post on the border with Syria. An Iraqi family passing through had had enough of their so-called holiday away from the …

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• 4 August

  US troops accused of killing Iraqi detainees refuse to testify

  TIKRIT, Iraq (AFP) — Four US soldiers accused of killing three Iraqi prisoners refused to give evidence on Thursday as a military hearing heard that one of the captives’ brains were blown out as he lay injured. The troops followed the lead of several of their superior officers, invoking their …

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• 3 August

  Dagestani Mujahideen Report Killing 11 Invaders and Proxies

  Practically every week military units of  Dagestani Front eliminate Russian kafirs (infidels) and their local proxies in Russia-occupied Caucasian state of Dagestan, says a  press release issued today, August 3, by  Mujahideen of  Dagestani Front and Sharia Jamaat,  which was sent to the Kavkaz Center news agency.

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• 3 August

  5 More Proxies Annihilated in Chechnya

  Five Russian soldiers were killed on Thursday in the war-torn republic of Chechnya, puppet police said. The puppet soldiers were burned alive when the vehicle they were travelling in exploded in Chechnya’s second biggest town, Gudermes. The vehicle veered off the road, crashed into an electricity pole, overturned and caught …

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