Afghanistan Wednesday named its first female provincial governor, a step forward in the slow political progress of women since the fall of the Taliban more than three years ago. The appointment of Habiba Sorabi as the new governor of Bamiyan was announced in a brief statement on state-run Kabul Television. Sorabi served as women’s affairs […]
Gunmen in Baghdad killed a judge working for the Iraqi special tribunal set up to try Saddam Hussein and his top lieutenants, a setback in efforts to close the chapter on decades of oppression. Judge Barawiz Mahmoud and his son, who worked as a lawyer, were killed as they left their home in north Baghdad […]
The attack in Hillah, with a majority Shiite population, came as the clergy-backed United Iraqi Alliance sought the support of other parties to form Iraq’s first-ever democratically elected government. Insurgents have stepped up their attacks against predominantly Shiite targets in recent weeks. The 9:30 a.m. (0630 GMT) blast outside the medical clinic was so powerful […]
«Syrian policies and Syrian behaviour are barriers to a better life and a more democratic future for the people of the Middle East. When the Syrians support insurgents, or allow their territory to be used for insurgents, they are frustrating the aspirations of the Iraqi people. When the Syrians allow their troops and their security […]
«The insurgency in Iraq has no political future because the Iraqi people have demonstrated by going to the polls in huge numbers that they believe their political future is in the process that will culminate in December 2005 with free and fair elections. The insurgents have no answer to that…It is a positive development that […]
«As for the suicide bombing last Friday, such actions will not be tolerated by us as they are against the Palestinian interests.» Mahmoud Abbas
Thanks to eight million Iraqis defying «you vote, you die» terrorist threats, Iraq has been reframed from a story about Iraqi «insurgents» trying to liberate their country from American occupiers and their Iraqi «stooges» to a story of the overwhelming Iraqi majority trying to build a democracy, with U.S. help, against the wishes of Iraqi […]
Abbas anklager «terrorister» for Tel Aviv-angrep: «De som utførte angrepet, er terrorister. Dette er en tredje part som ønsker å sabotere denne prosessen,» sier Abbas. Adresseavisen/NTB
IRAQ’S ELECTION let the cat of the bag for an entire region, just as the fall of the Berlin Wall did for Central Europe in 1989. The terrorists said, «you vote, you die,» and the people gave the terrorists the finger – stained with purple ink… It is no longer possible for the surrounding dictatorships […]
En ledende fransk FN-tjenestemann drev en pedofil internett-ring fra Kongo… Det er rapportert om flere massevoldtekter… Ifølge nyhetsbyrået AP har FN vært tilbakeholdne med å slå ned på overgrepene av frykt for å fornærme de få landene som er villige til å bidra med fredsstyrker. FN-soldater voldtar barn
