Posted on 05/09/2003 8:58:24 PM PDT by null and void
I feel the same way KL.
Aye. I hope we're giving India (I assume, actually) a lot of support under the table to make sure they can contain the militant Islamic threat from the Pakistanis, and to further trade with them. They are also (anecdotally) some of the most easily melting-pot "assimilated" (in the good sense) folks. They adapt quite easily to American culture. Which tells me that their culture shares a lot of the same values as ours.
KARACHI, Pakistan - A powerful bomb ripped through a passenger bus in southern Sindh province on Saturday, injuring six people, police said.
No one immediately took responsibility for the explosion in Hyderabad, some 60 miles north of the port city of Karachi
ON THE JORDAN-IRAQ BORDER, Iraq - Standing in the shimmering heat beside a long line of waiting cars, pickups and trucks, U.S. Army Sgt. Jeffrey Parker scrutinized the vehicles' occupants, matching their faces with passport photos, and reflected on his unexpected assignment.
"I never thought I'd be doing Border Patrol work on the Iraq-Jordan border," Parker, 29, of Kalkaska, Mich., said Friday as he waved through a van packed with an Iraqi family returning home from Jordan.
Where ARE you folks? I am in Indiana, and we are now on Central Time until fall, so right now it is 5 AM. The cat woke me at 4:00 because he wanted breakfast!
France, Russia Question U.S. Postwar Plan
UNITED NATIONS - With the U.N. Security Council looking to avoid the bitter divisions that broke out before the war, France and Russia toned down objections to a new U.S. plan for ruling postwar Iraq, but appeared intent to seek changes to give the United Nations a stronger role.
I am just south of Indianapolis.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - The top U.S. civilian official in Iraq on Saturday set a June 15 deadline to get much of Iraq's infrastructure up and running and normalize the country's health and educational systems.
German Defense Minister Struck (left) was angered by his Polish colleague Szmajdzinski's (right) proposal to work together in Iraq.
Opinion: Germany Jeers at Poland’s Good Will over Iraq
Poland is set to lead one of the occupied sectors in Iraq. German commentators greeted the proposal that it help its neighbor patrol Iraq with jeers, speaking of a wannabe great power bankrolled by the United States.
Pot calling kettle, pot calling kettle!
KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. helicopter gunships and fighter jets pounded a house in eastern Afghanistan at dawn Saturday after rebels ambushed a U.S.-led convoy, killing one Afghan soldier and wounding an American, an Afghan official said.
In the ambush late Friday, rebels fired rockets at the coalition convoy near Lalmi, about three miles from the city of Khost, said Hayatullah Taniwal, spokesman for Khost Gov. Hakim Taniwal.
SANAA (Reuters) - A Yemeni court on Saturday sentenced a man to death for murdering an American missionary doctor and two of her colleagues in the Arab state last year.
Abed Abdel Razzak Kamel said he killed the three Christian missionaries to get closer to God and to take revenge on Christians and Americans.
JERUSALEM, May 9 -- Assif Muhammad Hanif and Omar Khan Sharif, two British citizens who described themselves as "alternative tourists," sparked no suspicions as they sipped tea with foreign peace activists at an apartment in the southern Gaza Strip two weeks ago, according to other young Europeans who met them.
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