[A-List] News Archive: July 10, 2003

["bon moun" <sherrynstan@xxxxxxx>]

Arms control, intelligence experts accuse Bush administration of
misrepresentation
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/07/09/na
tional0236EDT0442.DTL>

Pleading for patience, President Bush said the United States will ``have
to remain tough'' in Iraq despite attacks on U.S. soldiers that killed
at least two more Americans on Thursday.
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2891699,00.html>

With mounting casualties and no end to the American military occupation
of Iraq in sight, morale among US troops deployed in the country is
down.
<http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_9-7-2003_pg7_50>

A controversial U.S. raid and detention of Turkish special forces
soldiers in northern Iraq ended early Monday when the troops were
returned to their base and U.S. and Turkish authorities launched a joint
fact-finding mission to look into the commando-style operation.
<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/special_packages/iraq/62528
05.htm>

A top US general rushed to Turkey on Tuesday in an apparent effort to
defuse tensions between the two NATO allies following a tense standoff
over the detention of 11 Turkish soldiers by the United States in
northern Iraq.
<http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/wed/jul9w14.htm>

Situation in Mosul-Kirkuk highly sensitive and tense, series of armed
clashes between the Arabs and Kurds, the latter being of Indo-European
stock. These developments are significant, as the US wants India to send
a division-level force (between 12,000-15,000 troops) to ''stabilize''
the area from North of Tikrit to Iraq's border in the north.
<http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=27321>

Sources within NATO have put forward a reason for US soldiers taking 11
Turkish special forces troops based in Northern Iraq into detention last
week, claiming that they had been supplying training to local Turkomen
groups.
<http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/223821.asp?cp1=1>

Last week a newspaper editor expressed surprise about my peacenik views
and emailed me accordingly. "I wonder", he wrote, "if you could do a bit
of self-psycho-analysis, and examine how a British-Australian former
soldier of fairly mainstream views (as I think you were) has evolved
into [your present form]."
<http://www.counterpunch.org/cloughley07082003.html>

The soldiers of the Third Infantry Division, some of whom have been
deployed in the Persian Gulf region since the middle of last year, will
return from Iraq and Kuwait by the end of September, Secretary of
Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld told a congressional panel yesterday.
<http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/191/nation/Rumsfeld_is_pressed_on_tro
ops_return+.shtml>

Defending the war against Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said
yesterday that information on Saddam Hussein's alleged illicit weapons
programs was solid even though one of President George W. Bush's claims
was based on a forgery.
<http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-woiraq103365885jul10,0
,4979685.story?coll=ny-worldnews-print>

Gen. Tommy Franks said Wednesday that violence and uncertainty in Iraq
make it unlikely that troop levels will be reduced "for the foreseeable
future," and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld nearly doubled the
estimated military costs there to $3.9 billion a month.
<http://www.startribune.com/stories/587/3979976.html>

The Enron scandal was under renewed scrutiny yesterday after a US court
dismissed an attempt by the Bush administration to keep details of its
contact with the company secret.
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2003/07/10/cnche
ney10.xml&menuId=242&sSheet=/money/2003/07/10/ixcity.html>

In what appears to be a tit-for-tat response, Saddam HusseinT has
apparently offered a million reward for information leading to the
capture of US Vice President Dick "Head" Cheney, who has been missing
for several months.
<http://deadbrain.co.uk/news/article_2003_07_10_5956.php>

Halliburton Co. shares rose Wednesday on optimism that congressional
efforts to limit the cost of asbestos litigation could cut the oil
services company's current $4.25 billion liability by more than 75
percent.
<http://money.cnn.com/2003/07/09/news/companies/halliburton.reut/>

[This is how an utter military failure gets reported. -SG]  American and
Italian troops have concluded a four-day operation against Taliban
remnants and Al Qaeda fighters in southeast Afghanistan, an American
military spokesman confirmed on Wednesday.
<http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_10-7-2003_pg7_57>

[Big surprise... Haha.  -SG] WASHI NGTON The Bush administration has
certified that Colombia is making progress in reining in paramilitary
forces that terrorize the civilian population, often working in
conjunction with the country's armed forces.
<http://www.iht.com/articles/102345.html>

NEW YORK, July 9 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil Corp. (nyse: XOM - news -
people) expects to boost the crude oil output of a Nigerian joint
ventures by 110,000 barrels per day (bpd) using a gas reinjection
program, the company said on Wednesday.
<http://www.forbes.com/business/energy/newswire/2003/07/09/rtr1021506.ht
ml>

As expected, changes in Venezuela's foreign exchange control system go
no further than to make the current system more workable, through a
series of adjustments designed to speed up the exchange approval and
disbursement process.
<http://www.vheadline.com/readnews.asp?id=9398>

Two more U.S. soldiers have been killed and another wounded in two
attacks in Iraq.
<http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=C727B45A-939D-4FF1-958089CC
95BFB034>

It is widely believed, particularly in the United States, that the use
of nuclear weapons against the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
was necessary to defeat Japan in World War II.
<http://www.counterpunch.com/krieger07092003.html>

Gov. James E. McGreevey will meet privately with Rutgers President
Richard L. McCormick next week to discuss a pro-Palestine student forum
that will be held at the university this fall.
<http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-nj--palestineforum0710jul1
0,0,4225579.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire>

The co-president of the state Senate has called on Gov. James E.
McGreevey to step in and cancel a national pro-Palestine student
conference scheduled to be held at Rutgers University this fall.
<http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-0/10578182392
1520.xml>