Oxfam warned in a report on Monday that unabated violence in Iraq is masking a humanitarian crisis that has worsened since the United States-led invasion in 2003, putting at risk almost eight million Iraqis. While violence dominates the lives of millions of ordinary people inside Iraq, ”another kind of crisis” has been slowly unfolding, said the report.
Three suspected Jordanian Islamists appeared in court on Wednesday accused of plotting to assassinate United States President George Bush when he visited the country last year. Nidal Momani, Sattam Zawahra and Tharwat Ali Draz were arrested on November 28, a day before Bush visited Jordan, and later indicted on charges of ”conspiracy to carry out terrorist plots”.
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/ 23 February 2007
Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi lawyer said on Friday he will write a book revealing ”many secrets” told to him by the executed dictator about the fall of Baghdad, his arrest and imprisonment. ”The book will contain information never before revealed and many secrets about the fall of Baghdad,” Khalil al-Dulaimi told Agence France-Press in a telephone interview about the book he is planning.
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/ 14 December 2005
Lebanon on Wednesday buried slain anti-Syrian MP and press magnate Gibran Tueni, whose killing sharpened international pressure on former power broker Syria and triggered angry calls in Beirut for a regime change in Damascus. Tueni (48) was killed in a massive car bomb blast on Monday.
”In countries like ours, women enter politics in mourning clothes.” Christian opposition MP Nayla Moawad, who made the comment, is one of a few women running for a seat in Lebanon’s male-dominated Parliament. She was propelled on to the tribal political scene by the 1989 murder of her husband, president Rene Moawad.
Arab leaders steered clear of the region’s most contentious issues as they prepared to wrap up a summit on Wednesday, while their resolution to reactivate a Middle East peace plan was swiftly rejected by Israel. Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi described Israel and the Palestinians as ”idiots”, leaving his audience in fits of laughter.