[A-List] News Archive: July 9, 2003

["bon moun" <sherrynstan@xxxxxxx>]

Public support for President Bush is slipping on a wide range of issues,
including the economy, health care and the war in Iraq, but his
Democratic presidential rivals do not appear to be capitalizing,
according to a national survey released Tuesday.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/936329.asp?0cv=NB10&cp1=1


Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld asserted Wednesday that large
portions of Iraq are stable, and rejected what he called the "widely
held impression that regime loyalists are operating freely."
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20030709_879.html


Appearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Rumsfeld cited
''recent reports of Iranians moving some of their border posts along
about a 25 kilometer stretch several kilometers inside of Iraq.'' He
said that was ''obviously not being respectful of Iraq's sovereignty.
Certainly that is behavior that is not acceptable and they should be
staying on their own side of the border.''
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters07-09-111027.asp?reg=MIDEAST


U.S. forces came under renewed attack Wednesday, with insurgents in this
restive Iraqi town firing two rocket-propelled grenades at soldiers. The
U.S. military and police in Fallujah said there were no injuries and no
arrests made.
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/190/world/No_reprieve_for_U_S_forces_in_
:.shtml

"You better wear a bullet-proof everything," was the lesson Mr Posten
came away with, almost certainly to the chagrin of the conference
organisers. "Just when you're comfortable doing your job, someone's
liable to come shoot you in the head."  That disturbing revelation has
been dawning across the business community after months of excited buzz
about the billions of dollars to be made rebuilding Iraq.
http://news.ft.com/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=FT.com/StoryFT/FullSto
ry&c=StoryFT&cid=1057562260085

The protesters, marching under the banner of the Anti-War Coalition, a
broad-based group of non-governmental organisations which opposed the
US-led war in Iraq, toyi-toyied and carried placards saying "Go away, we
have enough Bushes in Africa," a photographer reported.  "A village in
Texas is missing an idiot," another placard read.
http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/Bush_in_Africa/0,,2-7-1505_138
5148,00.html


The White House opened itself to a barrage of criticism when it
confirmed that the president's assertion in his State of the Union
address that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa was based on
unsubstantiated, and possibly false, information.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/09/judy.desk.democrats/


Britain on Wednesday defended its allegations that Saddam Hussein had
sought uranium from Niger for a nuclear weapons programme, saying its
evidence was separate from forged information used by Washington to make
the same case.
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters07-09-083034.asp?reg=MIDEAST


Three Iraqis were killed and seven U.S. soldiers injured Tuesday in
attacks throughout Iraq, as a voice attributed to Saddam Hussein called
again for more violence.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/09/iraq/main562303.shtml


Afghan Transitional Administration Chairman Hamid Karzai has apologized
to Pakistan over yesterday's ransacking of the Pakistani Embassy in
Kabul. Hundreds of Afghan protesters, angry over alleged border
incursions by Pakistan, attacked the embassy, destroying cars,
furniture, and computer equipment. Analysts say worsening relations
between the two countries could have a serious impact on the ongoing
U.S.-led campaign against terrorism.
http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2003/07/09072003165215.asp


Germany will keep its peacekeeping troops in Afghanistan beyond 2004,
extending their mission by at least one year, Defense Minister Peter
Struck said.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000100&sid=ahK6WFQE_rT0&refer
=germany


A senior al-Qaeda official dismissed Wednesday, July 9, recent reports
about the arrest of the network's second-in-command, its spokesman and
one of its leader's sons in Iran, adding they "are all free and
operational".
http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2003-07/09/article10.shtml


FORT BRAGG, North Carolina A former U.S. commanding general in
Afghanistan, Lieutenant General Daniel McNeill, has warned that
Afghanistan's recovery from war and economic stagnation is in danger
unless the international community takes bolder steps in the rebuilding
efforts. http://www.iht.com/articles/102249.html


The unpleasant house arrest of 11 Turkish soldiers by U.S. soldiers in
Iraq has really put the already injured relations between the two
countries to it's worst in the recent history.
http://www.turks.us/article.php?story=20030709015533536


Turkey warned the U.S. that its troops will fire back at U.S. soldiers
if another attempt is made to arrest Turkish soldiers in Iraq, Milliyet
daily reported, without saying how it obtained the information.
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=aPBWwTSw.6GE&refer
=uk


President Bush received a cool reception today in the capital of
Africa's largest economic power, as opinion leaders across the continent
complained about his policies on Iraq, AIDS and the International
Criminal Court.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32833-2003Jul9.html


A shot-gun-packing White man with an avowed hatred for Blacks, stormed
into a Mississippi factory Tuesday and picked off 14 of his fellow
workers, killing five of them before turning the gun on himself.
http://www.bet.com/articles/0,,c1gb6803-7604,00.html


The main Palestinian militant group Hamas said on Wednesday a cease-fire
declared under international pressure to advance a peace plan would
unravel if Israel did not free thousands of prisoners.
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3061900


A suburban Chicago man was arrested Wednesday on charges of serving as
an unregistered agent of Saddam Hussein's government, including spying
on opposition leaders for Iraqi intelligence, federal officials said.
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/6265756.htm


Stocks fell further in volatile midday trading on Wednesday as investors
cashed in their chips after the market's recent run and a Wall Street
brokerage's downbeat view of Altria Group Inc. MO.N slammed the
blue-chip Dow index.
http://reuters.com/financeArticle.jhtml?&storyID=3062042&newsType=usMktR
pt&menuType=worldIndices