Posted on 06/09/2003 9:05:35 PM PDT by null and void
Good Morning.
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NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania - Mauritania's president said a coup against him by disgruntled military officers had been crushed as hundreds of his supporters celebrated in the streets of the West African nation's capital.
In a nationally televised speech Monday, President Maaouya Sid'Ahmed Ould Taya, unseen by the public since the fighting began two days earlier, thanked soldiers who remained loyal to him.
Earlier, military officials said that coup forces had taken an armored division based in a southern suburb in an effort to oust Mauritania's pro-Western government.
The soldier killed at the checkpoint in Tikrit a couple of days ago was from Indianapolis (I live in the suburbs). He was a graduate of Ben Davis High School and was only 19.
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, seated below, gestures during the presentation of alleged Muslim mastermind bomber suspect Saifulla Yunos aka Mukhlis Yunos, center, at Camp Crame police headquarters in suburban Manila on Monday June 9, 2003. Police said Yunos allegedly masterminded five almost simultaneous bomb attacks in Manila three years ago that killed 22 people.
Philippine Rebel Tells of Terror Link
MANILA, Philippines - A suspected rebel commander told investigators that the regional extremist group Jemaah Islamiyah helped Philippine rebels carry out a series of deadly bombings in Manila that killed 22 people in 2000, police said Monday.
The chiefs of the Philippines' anti-terror police said the disclosure proves links between the separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front and Jemaah Islamiyah, a militant group operating in many Southeast Asian nations and blamed for the October bombings in Bali, Indonesia that killed 202 people.
The Moro Islamic Liberation Front has consistently said it condemns terrorism and denies links to Jemaah Islamiyah, a group allegedly connected to al-Qaida.
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and police officials presented the alleged MILF commander, Saifulla Yunos, at a press conference at a press conference in Manila on Monday. Handcuffed and dressed in an orange prison shirt, Yunos stared blankly and was not allowed to talk.
Yunos, who uses the alias Mukhlis and allegedly heads the MILF's special operations group, was arrested May 25 with an Egyptian man at southern Cagayan de Oro airport.
Based on interrogations of Yunos and Fathur Roman al Ghozi — an Indonesian convicted last year for possessing explosives and suspected of being a Jemaah Islamiyah leader — "there is a link between the Jemaah Islamiyah and the MILF," said Philippine police intelligence director Chief Supt. Jesus Verzosa.
Yunos and al Ghozi plotted bombings on Dec. 30, 2000, that killed 22 people and injured more than 100 people in Manila with funding from Jemaah Islamiyah.
The bombings were retaliation for a military offensive that led to the capture of more than 40 MILF camps in the southern Philippines earlier that year, Verzosa said.
A police intelligence dossier described Yunos as "a fanatic of the extreme Islamic fundamentalist movement" who received training in explosives in an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan.
Authorities in the United States, Australia and Singapore have submitted questions to be asked during the ongoing interrogation of Yunos in the Philippines, officials said.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai listens questions from a journalist during a news conference at the Presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, June 9, 2003. Karzai said that he will do everything he can to prevent terrorist attacks and protect foreigners in Afghanistan, two days after a suicide bombing ripped through a bus killing four German peacekeepers and one Afghan civilian. Afghan President Vows to Prevent Terror
KABUL, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai vowed on Monday to do everything he can to prevent terrorist attacks and protect foreigners in Afghanistan, after a suicide attack killed four German peacekeepers and an Afghan civilian. Karzai said the perpetrator of Saturday's attack in the capital was likely not Afghan.
"The problem is mostly foreign in our case," Karzai told a press conference, regarding a recent wave of attacks countrywide. "And I tell you with a guarantee, that the person who did a suicide attack the day before yesterday, you'll find out was not from Afghanistan."
Exiled Sharif Ali Bin Al-Hussein waves to his supporters after praying at the tomb of the former Iraqi royal family in Baghdad, Iraq (news - web sites) on Tuesday June 10, 2003. Ali Bin Al-Hussein, the cousin of assassinated Iraqi King Faisal II, is advocating a constitutional monarchy to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. He arrived for the first time since going on exile in 1958.
Exiled Sharif Ali Bin Al-Hussein waves to his supporters following his arrival here in Baghdad for the first time since 1958 Tuesday June 10, 2003 in Iraq. Ali Bin Al-Hussein, the cousin of assassinated King Faisal II of Iraq, is advocating a constitutional monarchy to rule Iraq following the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime.
Iraqis gather human remains, unearthed from a mass grave near the holy city of Najaf, south of Baghdad. Two hundred and sixteen bodies of men, women and children, believed to be victims of repression by Saddam Hussein's government during the 1991 Shiite uprising, were discovered, 20 kms from the city.
Palestinians try to extinguish the burning car of senior Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi after it was struck in an Israeli helicopter attack in Gaza, June 10, 2003. Israel tried to assassinate al-Rantissi in the attack on Tuesday in which he was wounded.
Hamas leader Abdul Aziz al-Rantissi is in stable condition after escaping an assassination attempt in Gaza and is undergoing surgery on his leg
An armed Palestinian man stands next to the destroyed car of senior Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi after it was hit by an Israeli helicopter gunship attack in Gaza June 10, 2003. Israel tried to assassinate al-Rantissi in the attack which wounded him on Tuesday.
A Palestinian tries to extinguish the burning car of senior Hamas leader Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi after it was struck in an Israeli helicopter attack in Gaza, June 10, 2003. Israel tried to assassinate al-Rantissi in the attack on Tuesday in which he was wounded.
Palestinian Hamas activists chant anti-Israeli slogans while standing on the wreckage of Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi's car after Israeli Apache helicopters fired at least six missiles at it in Gaza city, Tuesday, June 10, 2003. An Israeli missile strike in Gaza City on Tuesday injured a Hamas leader in the right leg and killed two bystanders, doctors said. More than two dozen people were hurt.
My quess is in the hands of the other terrorist they were given to.
Re: Global Court
Despite misgivings on the controversial resolution, the measure will easily be adopted, with members wary of another bruising fight with the Bush administration after refusing to authorize the invasion of Iraq.Doesn't it make your hair curl that Bubba signed the ICC treaty? Now, he's out there wanting a repeal of the 22nd Amendment, defending Howell Raines, bashing the President at every venue.Last year's vote was 15-0 after the United States threatened to veto U.N. peacekeeping missions, one by one.
About 40 French troops arrived in the Congolese town of Bunia on Tuesday, starting the deployment of the main component of a 1,400-strong international force sent to stop tribal fighting.
Somehow, bulk and French-led seem like oxymorons.
I can hear Amnesty Int'l howl now.
There is much hatred etched on the face of this man.
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