[A-List] News Archive: July 15, 2003

["bon moun" <sherrynstan@xxxxxxx>]

Some 9,000 troops from the US Army's 3rd Infantry Division will remain
in Iraq indefinitely because of security concerns.
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/newstories/RANewsStories_902833.htm

She was rushing off to meet her son, Shawn, at Fort Stewart, Ga. After
arriving in the Persian Gulf region in October, the Army specialist
finally received his orders to be home for Memorial Day.
http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2003/07/14/news/region_and_state/
3cf859465ff662bb86256d6300013d24.txt

"We usually know how long we're going to be away, but the most our
bosses are telling us now is 'We'll try to have you home before
Christmas'. I don't think they really know what they're doing. I
certainly don't," he said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3055553.stm

A grenade exploded on Monday outside army headquarters here, in a bold
assault on the symbol of United States power in Iraq, two days ahead of
the anniversary of Saddam Hussein becoming president.
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?click_id=123&art_id=vn20030715055323321C6
42926&set_id=1

With questions mounting as to why President Bush said, wrongly, in his
State of the Union address that Iraq had tried to buy uranium in Africa,
the online advocacy groups MoveOn.org and Win Without War are launching
a television advertising campaign accusing him of misleading Americans.
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/196/nation/Ads_say_Bush_lied_about_Ira
q+.shtml

Like it or not, the world is moving rapidly to absolute peaks in the
capacity to find, prove and extract ever more oil and gas. The time to
reach Peak Oil, the maximum possible production rate for 'all liquids',
that is including heavy oil and tarsand or bitumin based oil as well as
conventional crude, is probably less than 7 years depending on how world
and regional demand profiles evolve.
<http://solutions.synearth.net/2003/05/29>

U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan made his strongest pitch yet to
President Bush for American peacekeeping troops in Liberia, but Bush is
deferring his decision until he gathers more information.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/07/15/nat
ional0318EDT0456.DTL

The Israeli leader, Ariel Sharon, has failed to persuade British prime
minister, Tony Blair, to cut ties with the Palestinian president, Yasser
Arafat.
http://www.swisspolitics.org/en/news/index.php?section=int&page=news_inh
alt&news_id=4035925

A Palestinian group linked to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat said
on Tuesday it was behind the stabbing of an Israeli that threatened a
truce key to U.S. plans for an Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.
http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3089937

In reference to the estimated 8000 Palestinian prisoners held by Israel:
"It would be better to drown these prisoners in the Dead Sea if
possible, since that's the lowest point in the world." --Israeli
Minister of Infrastructure Avigdor Lieberman ("Israeli government green
lights release of Palestinian prisoners", no author, AFP).
http://palestinechronicle.com/article.php?story=20030714182304334

The president says he was bamboozled by the CIA into including false
information in his State of the Union address.
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/opinions/articles/0715pimentel1
5.html

ChevronTexaco (NYSE: CVX) today confirmed the announcement by The
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) that an agreement has
been reached by NNPC; Famfa Oil Limited; ChevronTexaco affiliate, Star
Deep Water Petroleum Limited; and Petroleo Brasiliero Nigeria Limited
(Petrobras) that will govern future operations on the petroleum
concession covered by OPL 216, offshore Nigeria. The agreement clears
the way for planned activities towards the development of the Agbami
Field.
http://www.pressi.com/int/release/69537.html

"Quit beating around the bush," snaps the Wall Street Journal: "America
faces a guerrilla war." And so it does. But an odd paralysis still grips
the U.S. military command.
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16394

It could be a long, hot and deadly summer for American forces in Iraq,
who may soon face increased attacks, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
says.
http://www.canoe.ca/EdmontonNews/es.es-07-15-0040.html

German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer embarked Monday on a
fence-mending trip to the United States, where requests for a larger
European role in stabilizing Iraq and Afghanistan will top the agenda.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_15-7-2003_pg4_9

The U.S. commander in chief raised eyebrows among many in uniform last
week when he promised not to stretch the military too thin, even as some
500,000 troops find themselves deployed or assigned overseas.
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=16523

TONY Blair has lost the trust of the British people over war on Iraq, an
exclusive Mirror poll reveals today.  Two thirds of voters believe the
Premier fed them false information in the months-long run-up to
conflict.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0714-03.htm

It is one of those hot Ramallah days.
http://www.counterpunch.com/taraki07142003.html

The cartel must go: Bush, Cheney, Powell, Rice, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz,
Perle should all resign, be fired or impeached immediately, before their
conspiracy of lies and their mutual pact of self-protection is allowed
to further endanger the country and the world.
http://www.sierratimes.com/03/07/15/guestoped_dpw.htm