July, 2006

• 30 July

  Command to send 3,700 American troops to Baghdad

  BAGHDAD (AP) — The US command announced it was sending 3,700 troops to Baghdad to try to quell sectarian violence sweeping the capital, and a US official said more American soldiers would follow as the military gears up to take the streets back from gunmen.

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• 30 July

  Abbas says no plans to team up with Lebanese resistance as 2 Palestinians killed in West Bank

  Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday his government has no intention of teaming up with Shiite group Hizbollah on negotiating the release of Palestinian and Lebanese prisoners held by Israel.

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• 30 July

  War exposes Arab Haifa family to more divisions

  HAIFA — Johnny Mansour drops his cigarette and rushes indoors. His wife, Lilian, and two sons, Elias, 14, and Adey, 10, are well ahead of him as the family rushes to the safe room of the house, which doubles as Adey’s bedroom.

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• 30 July

  Criticism of gov’t abounds in south

  KFAR ROUMAN, Lebanon —Blacksmith Mohammad Jouny, embittered by his government’s failure to come to the aid of south Lebanon, opposes the deployment of an international force along the border with Israel. He and his family want to see the Lebanese army there instead.

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• 30 July

  Lebanon oil slick ‘worst environmental disaster’ in Med

  BEIRUT — The Mediterranean is threatened by its worst ever environmental disaster after Israel’s bombing of a power plant in Lebanon sent thousands of tonnes of fuel gushing into the sea, the environment minister charged on Saturday.

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• 30 July

  Arab women reporters on frontlines of war

  DUBAI — A male news anchor appeared on screen from the safety of Arabic station Al Jazeera’s studio in Doha as two female correspondents in full war gear reported live from both sides of the Lebanon-Israel frontline.

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• 29 July

  Iran Always Worried about Situation in Iraq

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Parliament Speaker Gholam Ali Haddad Adel said Tehran has always been worried about the conditions in Iraq, stressing that Iran’s fate is tied with that of Iraq. A statement released by the Information and Media Department of the Islamic Consultative Assembly said that Iranian Parliament Speaker …

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• 29 July

  World of Islam Proud of Hezbollah Performance

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Representative of Hezbollah Movement to Iran said what Hezbollah is doing brings honor and glory to the world of Islam. Seyed Abdullah Safioddin said that the Zionist regime is endeavoring

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• 29 July

  Intelligence Minister Lauds Hezbollah’s Resistance

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Iranian Intelligence Minister Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ezhe’i said that the Lebanese Hezbollah and the defenseless Palestinian people have, relying on the power of divine faith and national solidarity, defeated Israel which enjoys the most destructive weapons. Speaking in a ceremony to mark the anniversary of one …

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• 29 July

  OPEC’s Daukoru Arrives in Iran for Talks

  TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- OPEC President Edmund Daukoru arrived in Iran on Thursday to discuss how the cartel should deal with high prices and how to solve a thorny dispute between Iran and Kuwait over the OPEC secretary-generalship. Oil traders have worried that Iran could cut crude shipments to world …

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