February 11, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
WASHINGTON (Reuters) — The United States, which came under fire for abusing detainees in Iraq, has spent millions of dollars creating a new prison system there as part of a programme to revamp the criminal justice system from top to bottom. A Bush administration official, who asked not to be …
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February 11, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli officials played down Thursday talk of a rift with the United States after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice rejected any unilateral moves to finalise the borders with the Palestinians. Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who is to lead the centrist Kadima Party into March 28 …
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February 11, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
KARBALA (AFP) — More than a million Shiites, many beating their heads with knives, marked the mourning ceremony of Ashura Thursday amid heavy Iraqi security presence to prevent stampedes and attacks. Commemorations of Ashura, which remembers the slaying of the Prophet Mohammad’s grandson Imam Hussein in the southern Iraqi city …
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February 11, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
KIRKUK (AFP) — Iraqi army units are searching for Al Qaeda members in a remote hilly area where they are believed to have fled after falling out of favour with tribal leaders in former strongholds. For the past two days, Iraqi army units, with US air support, have been moving …
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February 11, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel has long pursued a policy of preemptive attack as its preferred form of defence. But when it comes to tackling arch-foe Iran, that option may have been put on hold under a protective “umbrella†on offer from the United States.
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February 11, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Secretary General Kofi Annan said Thursday that Hamas’ victory in the Palestinian elections should send a lesson to rulers and politicians in the Mideast and the world that voters want stable governments that are not corrupt and can serve their people. Annan said he didn’t view …
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February 11, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Russia invites Hamas leaders to Moscow for talks GAZA CITY (AP) — Masked gunmen kidnapped an Egyptian diplomat in a brazen daylight attack Thursday that underscored the spiralling lawlessness in the Gaza Strip, and showed that no one — not even an official from one of the Palestinians’ most important …
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February 9, 2006 Palestina, Palestina Press
– التÙاهمات التي تلت أوسلو هي تÙاهات – لا أريد أن أكون رئيساً – لايمكن الوثوق بالولايات المتØدة الأمريكية -دعمت ØªØ±Ø´ÙŠØ Ø£Ø¨Ùˆ مازن ÙÙŠ منصب رئيس السلطة الوطنية منعاً للÙتنة – أوسلو ماتت وانتهت – لا ÙŠØÙ‚ للقدوة أن يقيل أو يعين طبقاً للصلاØيات التي قبلتها السلطة – المؤتمر السادس …
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February 9, 2006 Palestina, Palestina News
اعتبر كبير المÙاوضين الÙلسطينيين، نية إسرائيل الاØتÙاظ ÙÙŠ كل الØالات بسيطرتها على مستوطنتين كبيرتين قرب القدس، إجراء Ø£Øادي الجانب ولن يؤدي إلى سلام. وقال صائب عريقات ÙÙŠ ØªØµØ±ÙŠØ ØµØÙÙŠ: “إذا أراد اولمرت، صناعة السلام Ùهو يدرك انه لن يتأتى دون العودة إلى Øدود الرابع من Øزيران 67 بما Ùيها القدس …
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February 9, 2006 Palestina, Palestina News
ذكرت وزيرة الخارجية الأميركية كونداليزا رايس بأن المÙاوضات مع الÙلسطينيين Øول الوضع النهائي لدولتين ستقرر Øدود إسرائيل. وقالت وزيرة الخارجية الأميركية خلال مؤتمر صØÙÙŠ مشترك مع نظيرتها الإسرائيلية تسيبي ليÙني بعد لقائهما ÙÙŠ وزارة الخارجية بواشنطن “لا Ø£Øد يمكنه أن يستبق بشكل Ø£Øادي الجانب نتيجة اتÙاق Øول الوضع النهائي”. وأضاÙت …
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