Posted on 05/10/2003 10:38:10 PM PDT by null and void
Good Morning.
This is the Daily Thread of Operation Infinite Freedom, formerly Operation Iraqi Freedom - Situation Room - LIVE THREAD.
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Iraqi Ayatollah Wants No Foreign Influence
The ayatollah says the new Iraq needs a modern Islamic government that respects all groups, Iraq's majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Muslims, as well as Kurds, Turkmen and Christians. As he puts it, Iraq is now engaged in a holy war of reconstruction and a march toward independence.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) - A bomb exploded Saturday at a crowded market in a southern Philippine city, killing at least nine people and wounding 41.
The Muslim extremist group Abu Sayyaf claimed responsibility and warned of further attacks, the mayor said.
Russia Consulting on U.S. Plans for Iraq
MOSCOW - Russia, saying it will push for a central U.N. role in Iraq, began consulting Saturday with other Security Council members over a proposed U.S. plan that relegates the United Nations to a largely advisory position.
Russia and France — two leading opponents of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq — have said they had questions about Washington's proposal for a U.N. resolution on ruling postwar Iraq.
SARS could be China's Chernobyl, a mismanaged catastrophy that does permanent damage to the government's reputation with its citizenry.
"It certainly has some of the same characteristics," wrote BBC Beijing Correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes in a commentary posted Sunday. "At first complete denial, then a grudging admission, while continuing to play down the seriousness of the situation. Finally a full admission under intense pressure from the international community."
...maybe this is one regime that will collapse under its own weight...one can hope, right?
BAYONNE, France - Police in southwestern France arrested four Basque militants in what Spain said Saturday was a "very important" operation against the armed separatist group ETA.
Three men and a woman were arrested late Friday in the town of Saintes, some 60 miles north of Bordeaux, according to French police.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Authorities have broken up a ring believed to be selling stolen Pakistani passports to al-Qaida suspects trying to flee the country, an official said Sunday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Police have arrested an American man on charges of importing arms to Haiti illegally, a government spokesman said Saturday.
James White Glenn was arrested Friday in the coastal city of Gonaives, 60 miles northwest of Port-au-Prince, in possession of army uniforms, assault weapons, munitions, and grenade launchers, spokesman Mario Dupuy said.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A Muslim cleric close to U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai was gunned down in southern Afghanistan, officials said Saturday.
Habibullah, who used one name, was killed Wednesday outside a mosque in the village of Kalacha in Deh Rawood district, 90 miles north of Kandahar, said Aminullah Khalqi, the head of the district administration. He said six people had been detained.
Referring to Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, on whom the Bush administration is pinning its peace hopes, Powell said "I think he understands that terror must be brought to an end."
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