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Army wives get phone death threats from Iraq By Sean Rayment, Defence Correspondent (Filed: 25/06/2006) Wives and family members of soldiers fighting in Iraq have received telephone calls, believed to include death threats, from insurgents, according to military documents seen by The Sunday Telegraph. The "nuisance" calls have been made with increasing frequency over the past few weeks after insurgents managed to obtain home numbers from soldiers' mobile telephones. The growing number of calls has led to an investigation by the Royal Military Police, which has issued a warning to all soldiers in Iraq to take great care when using...

More than 30 molotov cocktails and crates of rocks were found during a rooftop search in Sydney's southern suburbs last night as the city endured a second consecutive night of race-related violence. The stockpile was discovered at south Maroubra, not far from where a mob smashed car windows on Sunday. Cricket bats, rocks and iron bars were also confiscated by police monitoring about 100 people who gathered near Maroubra beach. Rocks and flares were thrown at police trying to disperse the group, and a female constable was injured when a projectile struck her leg. Police were also hit with projectiles...