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India sets up team to probe Jaipur blasts
Published: May 16, 2008 at 11:01 AM
NEW DELHI, May 16 (UPI) -- India has set up a special investigative team to probe Tuesday's bomb explosions in the city of Jaipur in which 64 people were killed. -
Sadr fighters lay down their weapons
Published: May 15, 2008 at 10:44 PM
BAGHDAD, May 15 (UPI) -- Forces loyal to Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr laid down their weapons Thursday as reports emerged from Iraq of relative calm in the Baghdad district of Sadr City. -
U.S. claims Iranian weapons are in Iraq
Published: May 15, 2008 at 10:42 PM
BAGHDAD, May 15 (UPI) -- A spokesman for the U.S. military in Baghdad said emerging evidence suggests Iran is backing the so-called special groups targeting coalition and Iraqi forces.
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Feature: U.S. cites attacks despite truce
Published: May 16, 2008 at 2:34 PM
By RICHARD TOMKINS
BAGHDAD, May 13 (UPI) -- A new cease-fire has been declared between the Iraqi government and Shiite gunmen of radical cleric Moqtada Sadr, but U.S. and Iraqi forces say their troops are still coming under attack in Sadr City. -
Dogs of War: Blackwater, Najaf -- Take Two
Published: May 16, 2008 at 10:28 AM
By DAVID ISENBERG
WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- One aspect of private military and security contractors that is relatively ignored is their relationship with regular military forces. Such discussion, as there is, is generally limited to sound bites about the reported envy that soldiers have for allegedly better paid security contractors. -
Analysis: Indian agencies start blame game
Published: May 15, 2008 at 8:36 PM
By KUSHAL JEENA
UPI Correspondent
NEW DELHI, May 15 (UPI) -- India's intelligence and security agencies are indulging in a blame game over a recent foiled infiltration bid by militants on the Pakistani border, with one agency accusing the paramilitary forces guarding the border of lacking alertness. -
Iraq press roundup
Published: May 15, 2008 at 7:20 PM
By HIBA DAWOOD
UPI Correspondent
The daily Al Mashriq newspaper had an editorial Thursday titled "Last lines for the chaotic months" that said although Iraq has been in a war for five years, the government in the last few weeks has been chaotically carrying out quick military operations and offensives in many cities and areas around the country. -
Features: More graves found
Published: May 15, 2008 at 2:31 PM
By RICHARD TOMKINS
ZAHAMM, Iraq, May 13 (UPI) -- The number of human remains unearthed in an al-Qaida killing field northeast of Baghdad in Diyala province is nearing 70 with the discovery of more graves by villagers who had volunteered to search an abandoned pomegranate orchard. -
Analysis: USAF's cyber offense capability
Published: May 15, 2008 at 2:23 PM
By SHAUN WATERMAN
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) -- Procurement documents from the U.S. Air Force give a rare glimpse into the Pentagon's plans for developing an offensive cyberwar capacity that can infiltrate, steal data from and if necessary take down enemy information technology networks.
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UPI Correspondent
Al Sabah newspaper had an editorial Monday titled "Violence: Words, culture and behavior."
It said spreading tolerance and charity was a positive alternative that could open a "page" untouched by hatred.
"To achieve this goal is to make a lot of effort based on strong beliefs," it said.
It said backers of tolerance call for a framework relying on education and ethics that view schools as a start of bigger change, aimed at guaranteeing a future.
"The new generations should be freed from using words and expressions related to violence so the young grow up with a clean memory, empty of hatred," the paper said.
It also said those who try to reform are dealing with it in an ignorant way.
The editorial disagreed with those who called for an end to the teaching of poetry that has violent expressions.
"This limited vision has confused those who call for the change. … There should be a wider thinking to reveal the use of words in literature is to praise the right and to confront oppression and not a title for random killings or cruelty," it said.
"Throughout the Arab history and culture, there is no poetry or speech that present swords or fighting as tools for violence or bloodshed," it said.
The paper said that during the Abbasid era, the words of violence were replaced by different aspects such as songs, music and entertainment, but it was the worst in terms of marginalization and oppression.
It said the culture of violence was brought by the oppressed political and religious groups when the first chance of freedom and liberation exploded.
"We mustn't forget to free the minds of the new generation from any concept and content that could lead to violence, killing or marginalization," it said.
The paper said the world should no more refer to the old "black" eras. … "We should not move the old eras to the present and the future so we don't create violent concepts for certain words used in the past."
"Those who call for the removal of violent references from the past are in fact bringing those concepts back to the field," it said. "They should focus on the present events that bear the guilt of wide spreading violence concepts."
"What encourages violence is not the past, it is the frightening names given to military operations against groups and cities in Iraq," it commented.
UPI Correspondent
Al Sabah newspaper had an editorial Monday titled "Violence: Words, culture and behavior."
It said spreading tolerance and charity was a positive alternative that could open a "page" untouched by hatred.
"To achieve this goal is to make a lot of effort based on strong beliefs," it said.
It said backers of tolerance call for a framework relying on education and ethics that view schools as a start of bigger change, aimed at guaranteeing a future.
"The new generations should be freed from using words and expressions related to violence so the young grow up with a clean memory, empty of hatred," the paper said.
It also said those who try to reform are dealing with it in an ignorant way.
The editorial disagreed with those who called for an end to the teaching of poetry that has violent expressions.
"This limited vision has confused those who call for the change. … There should be a wider thinking to reveal the use of words in literature is to praise the right and to confront oppression and not a title for random killings or cruelty," it said.
"Throughout the Arab history and culture, there is no poetry or speech that present swords or fighting as tools for violence or bloodshed," it said.
The paper said that during the Abbasid era, the words of violence were replaced by different aspects such as songs, music and entertainment, but it was the worst in terms of marginalization and oppression.
It said the culture of violence was brought by the oppressed political and religious groups when the first chance of freedom and liberation exploded.
"We mustn't forget to free the minds of the new generation from any concept and content that could lead to violence, killing or marginalization," it said.
The paper said the world should no more refer to the old "black" eras. … "We should not move the old eras to the present and the future so we don't create violent concepts for certain words used in the past."
"Those who call for the removal of violent references from the past are in fact bringing those concepts back to the field," it said. "They should focus on the present events that bear the guilt of wide spreading violence concepts."
"What encourages violence is not the past, it is the frightening names given to military operations against groups and cities in Iraq," it commented.
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