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Attack on Iraq Would Be 'Disaster', Says Mandella

CAPE TOWN (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Former South African President Nelson Mandela said on Monday it would be a ``disaster'' if Britain and the United States extended their anti-terror bombing campaign to Iraq. Asked whether he would support the bombing of Iraq, Mandela told reporters: ``That would be a disaster.'' Mandela said Britain and the United.. More

2693 21/05/2001
OSCE Likely to Equated Resistance with Terrorism

BUCHAREST (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Romanian President Ion Iliescu urged OSCE foreign ministers on Monday to pay more attention to the role played by poverty in fomenting international terrorism. Opening a summit of foreign ministers of the 55-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Bucharest, he said the September 11 attacks.. More

2694 21/05/2001
Chirac Praises North African Leaders

RABAT, Morocco (Islamweb & News Agencies) - French President Jacques Chirac praised the commitment of north African leaders to fight terrorism Sunday, and promised a crackdown against terrorist havens in Europe. Chirac's one-day stop in Morocco came at the end of a weekend visit to North Africa, a hotbed of religious extremism, to solidify the support.. More

2696 21/05/2001
Sarajevo siege general on trial

Sarajevo siege general on trial THE HAGUE, (BBC)_A Bosnian Serb general goes on trial in The Hague on Monday on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes during the siege of Sarajevo from 1992 to 1994. Stanislav Galic has pleaded not guilty to the charges at the United Nations war crimes tribunal. The indictment says General Galic's forces.. More

2697 21/05/2001
Alliance Ready to Seal Deal at Afghan Talks

BONN, Germany (Reuters) - Afghan rivals made a final push toward forming a post-Taliban government on Saturday as the dominant Northern Alliance appeared to put aside internal differences and agree to form a small interim administration. With billions of dollars in foreign aid at stake and the United Nations sponsors of the talks pushing for a conclusion.. More

2665 20/05/2001
U.S. Bombers Hit Taliban Redoubt, Afghans Near Deal

KABUL/CHAMAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - U.S. bombing and tribal warriors racked up pressure on the Taliban's last bastion of Kandahar on Saturday as anti-Taliban factions pursued efforts to complete a power-sharing deal at talks in Germany. The Taliban said their fighters had shot down a U.S. warplane near Kandahar airport. The U.S. military denied the.. More

2666 20/05/2001
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq accepted on Saturday an extension of

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq accepted on Saturday an extension of its oil-for-food deal with the United Nations, but rejected a ``goods review list'' of items that Security Council members would have to approve separately. ``The Republic of Iraq will continue to implement the memorandum of understanding (with the U.N.) in its (new) 11th phase,'' said a.. More

2667 20/05/2001
Twenty Killed, 42 Wounded in Kashmir Resistance Operations

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Twenty people including 14 Resistance men have been killed and 42 wounded in fresh Resistance attacks in Indian-ruledJammu and Kashmir state, Indian security officials said on Saturday. At least 42 people were wounded on Saturday when suspected Kashmiri Resistance men lobbed a grenade into a crowded market place at Bandipur,.. More

2668 20/05/2001
Israeli Troops Kill Two in Cordon of W. Bank City

JENIN, West Bank (Islamweb Islamweb & News Agencies) - Israeli occupation troops shot dead two Palestinians, one of them an 11-year-old boy, after surrounding the West Bank city of Jenin on Saturday, Palestinian medics and witnesses said. Israeli occupation forces ringed Jenin and Nablus, also in the West Bank, in an overnight operation following a.. More

2669 20/05/2001
Palestinian Resistance Blasts Kill 12, Wound More Than 150

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A Palestinian Resistance bombing and a powerful car bomb rocked central Jerusalem's busiest restaurant area on Saturday night, killing at least 12 bystanders and wounding more than 150. (Read photo caption below) The attack on a pedestrian street, which an Israeli spokesman called the biggest in Jerusalem in years,.. More

2671 20/05/2001
US Bombs Kandahar, Afghans Near Deal

KABUL (Islamweb &News Agencies) - U.S. bombers and Pashtun tribesmen clawed at the Taliban's last bastion of Kandahar on Saturday as Afghan factions appeared close to a power-sharing deal in Bonn. Tribal fighters captured part of Kandahar airport from the Taliban and their allies in Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda force after a day of fierce American air.. More

2672 20/05/2001
Iraq Rejects Ambassador Allegations

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq rejected claims that its outgoing ambassador to Turkey had met with Osama bin Laden, labeling such reports as ``American-Zionist propaganda'' against Arab and Islamic countries. The United States has alleged that Farouk Hijazi met with bin Laden, America's prime suspect in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, in 1998 in Kandahar,.. More

2673 20/05/2001
Palestinian Resistance Bomber Kills Three Israelis

JERUSALEM (Islamweb & News Agencies) - A new U.S. peace drive in the Middle East suffered a fresh blow when a Palestinian Resistancebomber blew himself up on an intercity bus in northern Israel, killing three other people. The attack on Thursday night occurred as U.S. envoy Anthony Zinni met Palestinian security officials to discuss ways to end 14.. More

2646 20/05/2001
UN Security Council Approves Iraq Sanctions Plan

UNITED NATIONS (Islamweb & News Agencies) - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Thursday in favor of a U.S.-Russian compromise resolution that pledges to revise sanctions against Iraq within six months and extends the existing U.N. oil-for-food program for Baghdad until then. The vote signified an unusual show of unity betweenWashington.. More

2647 20/05/2001
Bonn Talks On Afghanistan’s Future Enter 4th Day

BONN, Germany (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Talks on Afghanistan's political future turn Friday to the tricky task of putting names to jobs in an interim government in which the dominant Northern Alliance will share power with returning Afghan exiles. The Alliance, which has won control of most of Afghanistan including the capital Kabul bolstered by.. More

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