1.
Canada body-parts murder victim identified
CAIRO, July 22 (UPI) -- Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi asked Egypt Thursday to dispatch troops to boost multinational peacekeeping forces to help Iraq restore security.
"We have asked for Egypt's security assistance, namely by dispatching troops to protect the mission of the United Nations in Iraq," Allawi told reporters after a meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Allawi said he discussed the matters with several Arab and Muslim leaders stressing that "Iraq wants them to contribute to protecting the U.N. mission because its presence in Iraq is necessary and essential."
Egypt expressed in the past its readiness to dispatch a small contingent to Iraq to guard U.N. offices and centers, but Presidential spokesman Majed Abdel Fatah said Wednesday that the Egyptian troops will not be part of the multinational force and their mission will be strictly limited to protecting U.N. premises.
U.N. headquarters in Baghdad was bombed in a suicide attack last August and U.N. special envoy to Iraq Sergio Vieira de Mello was killed, prompting the international organization to evacuate.
Allawi arrived in Egypt Wednesday on the second leg of a Middle East tour.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Additional Top News Stories | |
FRANKFORT, Ind., June 1 (UPI) --
The Mexican-born salutatorian of an Indiana high school who almost missed her graduation because she missed a visa deadline said she's glad to be home.
|
NEW YORK, June 1 (UPI) --
Rielle Hunter, former mistress of onetime Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards, has written a memoir about their affair and the child it produced.
|
WASHINGTON, June 1 (UPI) --
U.S. employers added 69,000 jobs in May and the jobless rate ticked higher to 8.2 percent, the U.S. Labor Department said Friday.
|
UMEA, Sweden, June 1 (UPI) --
Residents in a northern Sweden county said they marked the first day of June by shoveling thick, wet snow.
|
| Stories | Photos | People | Comments |
View Caption
