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Revolt in ULFA ranks over peace talks
Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:36 AM
NEW DELHI, May 9 (UPI) -- Indian intelligence agencies said a revolt is brewing in the insurgent United Liberation Front of Assam with a faction calling for talks with the government. -
India protests heavy firing from Pakistan
Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:29 AM
NEW DELHI, May 9 (UPI) -- India Friday lodged a strong protest with Pakistan Rangers following heavy firing from across the border that India says was used to send in militants. -
Turkey and Iraq hold bilateral talks
Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:24 AM
BAGHDAD, May 9 (UPI) -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani welcomed a high-level delegation of Kurdish lawmakers from the Turkish Parliament Thursday in Iraqi Kurdistan.
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Dogs of War: Inherently governmental?
Published: May 9, 2008 at 12:03 PM
By DAVID ISENBERG
WASHINGTON, May 9 (UPI) -- Amid all the polemics over the use of private military and security contractors by the U.S. government there are two words one rarely sees, but they lie at the very heart of the debate: "inherently governmental." -
Iraq Press Roundup
Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:28 AM
By HIBA DAWOOD
UPI Correspondent
The Sunni Al Mashriq newspaper said Thursday in an editorial titled "The killing of 15 women" that the problem any militia in the world faces is that no matter how politically professional, organized and ideologically mature they are, they still might be accepted by one country and rejected by another. -
Analysis: Border force seeks recognition
Published: May 9, 2008 at 11:21 AM
By KUSHAL JEENA
UPI Correspondent
NEW DELHI, May 9 (UPI) -- An Indian police force that guards the Indo-Tibetan border wants the federal Interior Ministry to give it the same status as other paramilitary security forces. -
Atlantic Eye: Hardly a done deal
Published: May 8, 2008 at 2:08 PM
By MARC S. ELLENBOGEN
UPI International Columnist
PRAGUE, Czech Republic, May 8 (UPI) -- Most Europeans see the U.S. presidential election as a done deal. They are quite surprised. They were convinced that Sen. Hillary Clinton was the sure thing. Now, and they are confused, they are expecting the inevitable: Sen. John McCain as president. -
Iraq Press Roundup
Published: May 7, 2008 at 3:29 PM
By HIBA DAWOOD
UPI Correspondent
Shebab Al Iraq newspaper Wednesday carried an editorial with the headline "Who is responsible for the atrocities in Sadr City?" -
U.S. looking into Iraq reconstruction contract requiring Iranian parts
Published: May 7, 2008 at 3:23 PM
By BEN LANDO
UPI Editor
WASHINGTON, May 7 (UPI) -- U.S. forces are investigating two contracts to build schools in northern Iraq that required bathroom fixtures to be supplied by Iran.
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Shebab Al Iraq Newspaper carried an editorial Wednesday with the headline, "America: The Satan of yesterday, the friend of today."
The editorial highlighted the fact Iraqis hoped for good to come out of Islamic parties based outside Iraq. It said when these parties came to Iraq with the invaders, they dominated top positions in the government but considered average Iraqis who lived in Saddam Hussein's suppressed Iraq as supporters of Saddam's government.
"The parties who were against Saddam's government put Iraq, its wealth, and Iraqis in the hands of the occupier, a curse that is not going to leave unless with jihad and resistance," it said.
It also said that after living under Saddam, Iraqis won't stand for the current situation in Iraq because now they have the option and freedom to deal with the political "game." It said the new occupier repeats a scenario by bringing politicized figures with personal agendas to take control of the political process.
"The current political figures, after five years of the U.S-led invasion, are incapable of providing the least human services to the Iraqi people," it said.
The editorial said Iraqis realize they won't have a stable and peaceful life as long as the occupier and its friends among Iraqi politicians are present in Iraq. It also said Saddam's opponents who met with U.S. and British officials prior to his fall did not and will not bring any improvement to people's lives or bring wealth similar to Gulf countries.
"One of the figures that made the deal during the London Conference, a meeting between countries that decided to overthrow Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi opposition, was Abdul Aziz Al Hakeem of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council," it said.
It also said SIIC, and its Badr militia, weren't to be let into Iraq after the invasion if they weren't to take part in the London Conference, giving the occupation forces agreements to keep the occupiers in Iraq.
The paper said of the SIIC that it was recruited in Iran for 25 years and was in charge of torturing Iraqi prisoners captured during the Iraq-Iran war. … The SIIC forced many Iraqi prisoners to join them, it said.
"The SIIC believed, as did (Ayatollah) Khomeini, that the U.S. is the greatest Satan. However, after the London Conference, the evil U.S. became the SIIC friend," it said.
It said that when the SIIC came to Iraq, it took over most of the high positions in government in order to control the Iraqi people's wealth. Now they dominate the provinces in most of southern and middle Iraqi cities, promising people development and progress.
"What happens on the ground is failure and losing trust in Islamic parties that came with personal agendas unrelated to any good for the people of Iraq," the paper said.
Shebab Al Iraq said SIIC and the Badr militia have broken the real Iraqi resistance's reputation, killed and displaced Iraqi scientific intellectuals and gave Iraqi citizenship to more than 120,000 Iranians in Najaf and Karbala provinces.
The editorial accused the SIIC of allowing Iranian intelligence to be present in the south and middle of Iraq in order to control those cities and their people.
"These Iranian intelligence who were brought by the SIIC have killed and displaced many Sunni families, and even bomb their own mosques and accuse the honest resistance of doing it," it concluded.
UPI Correspondent
Shebab Al Iraq Newspaper carried an editorial Wednesday with the headline, "America: The Satan of yesterday, the friend of today."
The editorial highlighted the fact Iraqis hoped for good to come out of Islamic parties based outside Iraq. It said when these parties came to Iraq with the invaders, they dominated top positions in the government but considered average Iraqis who lived in Saddam Hussein's suppressed Iraq as supporters of Saddam's government.
"The parties who were against Saddam's government put Iraq, its wealth, and Iraqis in the hands of the occupier, a curse that is not going to leave unless with jihad and resistance," it said.
It also said that after living under Saddam, Iraqis won't stand for the current situation in Iraq because now they have the option and freedom to deal with the political "game." It said the new occupier repeats a scenario by bringing politicized figures with personal agendas to take control of the political process.
"The current political figures, after five years of the U.S-led invasion, are incapable of providing the least human services to the Iraqi people," it said.
The editorial said Iraqis realize they won't have a stable and peaceful life as long as the occupier and its friends among Iraqi politicians are present in Iraq. It also said Saddam's opponents who met with U.S. and British officials prior to his fall did not and will not bring any improvement to people's lives or bring wealth similar to Gulf countries.
"One of the figures that made the deal during the London Conference, a meeting between countries that decided to overthrow Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi opposition, was Abdul Aziz Al Hakeem of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council," it said.
It also said SIIC, and its Badr militia, weren't to be let into Iraq after the invasion if they weren't to take part in the London Conference, giving the occupation forces agreements to keep the occupiers in Iraq.
The paper said of the SIIC that it was recruited in Iran for 25 years and was in charge of torturing Iraqi prisoners captured during the Iraq-Iran war. … The SIIC forced many Iraqi prisoners to join them, it said.
"The SIIC believed, as did (Ayatollah) Khomeini, that the U.S. is the greatest Satan. However, after the London Conference, the evil U.S. became the SIIC friend," it said.
It said that when the SIIC came to Iraq, it took over most of the high positions in government in order to control the Iraqi people's wealth. Now they dominate the provinces in most of southern and middle Iraqi cities, promising people development and progress.
"What happens on the ground is failure and losing trust in Islamic parties that came with personal agendas unrelated to any good for the people of Iraq," the paper said.
Shebab Al Iraq said SIIC and the Badr militia have broken the real Iraqi resistance's reputation, killed and displaced Iraqi scientific intellectuals and gave Iraqi citizenship to more than 120,000 Iranians in Najaf and Karbala provinces.
The editorial accused the SIIC of allowing Iranian intelligence to be present in the south and middle of Iraq in order to control those cities and their people.
"These Iranian intelligence who were brought by the SIIC have killed and displaced many Sunni families, and even bomb their own mosques and accuse the honest resistance of doing it," it concluded.
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