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MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A senior Islamic judicial official warned Somalia's interim government on Monday that talks on the anarchic country's future would be broken off if its parliament invited in foreign peacekeeping troops. Militia loyal to Islamic courts wrested control of the capital Mogadishu last week from warlords widely believed to be funded by Washington, after a three-month battle that killed at least 350 people, most of them civilians. The weak interim government, formed in Kenya in 2004, was quick to praise the Islamic courts for the victory in Mogadishu and has started talks with the courts to help it...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - With a new U.N. envoy expected in Baghdad shortly, Security Council members reached agreement Wednesday on the text of a resolution that will extend the U.N. mission in Iraq for a year. The brief draft resolution reaffirms "that the United Nations should play a leading role in assisting the Iraqi people and government in the formation of institutions for representative government." But Secretary-General Kofi Annan made clear to the council in a report Friday that the United Nations will remain "a high-value" target for attacks in Iraq for the foreseeable future, which will severely limit the...

I was looking at the homepage of the Iraqi UN mission to see what sort of lies and terrorist propaganda they have on it. I went to the "Basic Facts" section to see what was there. What I saw looked familiar to me. So..I thought...Where have I seen this before...THE CIA WORLD FACTBOOK that's where! The Iraqi mission stole information that the CIA has about their country and used it as their own. They even used the same fonts at times. They don't even know this kind of information they themselves are supposed to be representing. This is not surprising...

Straight Talk From The President In face of the world's demand to investigate Israel's behavior during the Jenin battles, President Moshe Katzav had this to say today: "With all due respect to self-righteousness, the international community must stop applying a double-standard. I do not understand why the world community has been silent for over one and a half years in the face of the cruel and brutal massacres that have been perpetrated against the Jewish population throughout the country. "The world has been silent even as terrorists have taken over the Church of the Nativity, looted it and desecrated it....

UN to postpone fact-finding mission a few days By Herb Keinon and Nina Gilbert In a surprise turnaround, Israel decided Tuesday night to "postpone" its agreement to cooperate with the UN fact-finding mission, with one diplomatic official saying Israel was afraid of being "set-up." The decision was made after consultations Prime Minister Ariel Sharon held in his office with Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and representatives from the Defense Ministry and the Foreign Ministry who are preparing Israel's case. According to a senior diplomatic official, Israel received intelligence information the Palestinian Authority was busy setting the stage in Jenin to "cook...