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the majority of Iraki's believe that the US Invasion of the Gulf State was justified. That is the result of a poll taken by arabic researchers between November and March in Iraq. Dubai - 57% of the 1499 Iraki's polled declared that the attack by US troop led Coalition was justified, reports the research center for the gulf region located in Dubai. 47% belive however that the occupation troops should be replaced by a Peacekeeping Force. Criticism of the occupation forces was based on the bad security situation and the lack of a clear strategie for reconstruction. But 60% of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Scores of gay couples were issued marriage licenses here Thursday in a move by city officials that generated both immediate promises of legal action by gay-marriage foes and tears of joy and celebratory whoops by the newly hitched. Two days before Valentine's Day, Mayor Gavin Newsom gave the go-ahead to the county clerk to accept marriage license applications from same-gender couples....

(IsraelNN.com) A prominent Australian cleric has justified Palestinian terror attacks against Israel, asserting they are a “desperate cry for justice”, the Canberra Times reports. In an address to the synod of his diocese, George Browning, the Anglican Bishop of Canberra, denounced Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians, saying that the Jewish state is “perpetrating continued humiliation and deprivation of the Palestinian people.” “Terrorism must be condemned,” Browning said, “it is too often an action of simple bastardry. However, it is not always: in Palestine it is as much a desperate cry for justice in the face of injustice.” While the bishop...

HALABJA, Iraq, Sept. 15 -- Secretary of State Colin L. Powell asserted today that a 1988 poison gas attack that killed an estimated 5,000 Kurds in this farming town nestled in Iraq's barren northern mountains was ample evidence that former president Saddam Hussein's government possessed weapons of mass destruction and justified the U.S. decision to go to war. In an emotional defense of the invasion of Iraq, Powell visited a mass grave site, toured a new museum commemorating the attacks and listened as Kurdish political leaders proclaimed that the Halabja massacre provided sufficient legitimacy to go to war. "If you...

The search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq should continue, but coalition forces don't need to find them to justify the war against Saddam Hussein. That's the take of U.S. Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D. "Regime change was a legitimate goal, it was accomplished and I think that's laudable in and of its own right,'' Daschle said Thursday. ''In 21 days we eliminated somebody who for 20 years has repressed and tortured his own people and posed a serious risk not only to his country, but to countries all over the world, including the United States,'' he added. U.S. Rep....

If I am not for myself, who will be? And if I am only for myself, who am I? And if not now, when? -- Hillel, Jewish sage of the First Century B.C. At this grave moment, America and her loyal allies find themselves on the verge of war with Iraq. If all goes according to plan, they will be the ones to begin hostilities. There is, not surprisingly, a strong prejudice in international law against so doing. There is also, however, a range of possible justifications for it. One of these goes by the name of pre-emption. That term...

A North Las Vegas police officer shot and killed a 29-year-old man Sunday after he tried to kill his girlfriend, authorities said. Police arrived about 7:30 p.m. at the couple's home on the 2200 block of Cambridge Elms Street, southeast of Carey Avenue and Simmons Street. Officers found Deon Johnson armed with a large butcher knife. He was standing beside a parked vehicle, and his girlfriend was sitting inside the car. When police arrived, the girlfriend left the car. Johnson immediately grabbed her and placed the knife to her throat, police said. He stabbed the air near her neck and...

By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The man who videotaped a police beating near Los Angeles that enraged black leaders and then dodged a grand jury inquiry into the matter was arrested on Thursday as he prepared to grant a television interview. Photos Reuters Photo Slideshows Audio/Video (AP) Mitchell Crooks was taken into custody on warrants issued in northern California for petty theft and drunken driving. Authorities also served him with a subpoena to testify before the Los Angeles County grand jury. Crooks' arrest was videotaped and broadcast on local KCAL-TV, showing undercover officers hustling him into a sports...

Resident arrested after suspected burglar killed A 55-year old Dallas man was arrested late Sunday after he fatally shot a suspected burglar outside his house, police said. According to police reports, Sammy J. Jones confronted 43-year old Billy Canady about 11:30PM after hearing noises outside his house in the 3200 block of Spring Avenue. Witnesses say he shot Mr. Canady who staggered away and collapsed. Mr. Jones was arrested on a charge of murder,and police said the case would be forwarded to a grand jury.