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  • Experts to Destroy Banned Iraqi Weapons

    Chemical weapons experts trekked into the Iraqi desert Wednesday to destroy their first batch of prohibited Iraqi arms under the new U.N. inspections regime, 10 leftover artillery shells filled with burning, disabling mustard gas. Working with an Iraqi team, the U.N. specialists will take four or five days to eliminate the 155mm munitions at the al-Muthanna.. More

  • NATO's Robertson Tables Plan to End Iraq Deadlock

    NATOam bassadors referred new proposals aimed at breaking a damaging deadlock over plans to defend Turkey in a U.S.-led war on Iraq to their governments on Wednesday and were to meet again later in the day. "There is a proposal. It needs to be discussed in the capitals. There will be another session late this evening," a senior European NATO diplomat.. More

  • Bin Laden Takes Center Stage in Iraq Crisis

    HIGLIGHTS|| Washington Portrays Tape as Evidence that Iraq & Al-Qaeda Are in Cahoots|| However, Tape, Judged by Experts as Almost Certainly Authentic, Condemns Saddam as 'Infidel'|| Tape Reinforces Jitters Over Feared Terror Attacks in the United States|| France Informally Presents Alternative Proposal to War on Iraq to UN Security Council|| Anglo-American.. More

  • 2 Palestinians, Israeli Killed in West Bank, Gaza

    Israeli occupation forces shot dead two Palestinians, including an 8-year-old boy, and a Palestinian resistance activist killed an Israeli in on-going intifadha confrontations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip Tuesday. The bloodshed followed Israel's cancellation of plans to relax travel curbs on Palestinians for a four-day Muslim holiday. Israeli occupation.. More

  • Fourteen Killed in Hajj Stampede

    At least 14 people have been killed and several others injured in a stampede during the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, a Saudi official has said.The official said the incident happened during the symbolic stoning of the devil ritual in Mina, just outside Mecca.The incident comes despite extra precautions taken by the Saudi authorities to try to.. More

  • Muslim Pilgrims Mark Eid Under Shadow of War

    Muslims around the world celebrated Eid al-Adha Tuesday and two million pilgrims in Saudi Arabia threw pebbles at a pillar representing the devil in the most accident-prone part of the annual haj pilgrimage. This year's spiritual quest and the feast of sacrifice have been overshadowed by a build-up of U.S. troops in the Gulf region for a possible attack.. More

  • Israel Keeps Palestinian Blockade on Muslim Feast

    Israel canceled plans on Tuesday to relax its tight grip on Palestinian movement in the West Bank and Gaza Stripon the occasion of a Muslim holiday, citing a surge in resistance bombing threats. In new violence, the Israeli occupation army said occupation troops killed an armed Palestinian in Gaza as he entered an off-limits area near an occupation.. More

  • U.N. Inspectors Visit Iraq Missile Plant

    U.N. inspectors paid a surprise visit to a Baghdad missile plant Tuesday as international experts met behind closed doors in New York to assess whether Iraq's short-range missiles can fly farther than permitted under U.N. edicts. In their daily rounds of inspections, conducted despite a Muslim holiday in Iraq, a U.N. team went to the 17th of Nissan.. More

  • Two Million Muslims Pray for Forgiveness, Peace in Iraq

    With the setting of the sun, some two million Muslim pilgrims on Monday began their descent from Mount Arafat, a revered place in Islam where they had prayed for forgiveness and for Iraq to be spared an attack by the United States.The culmination of the annual pilgrimage, or hajj, behind them, they made their way to nearby Muzdalifa, where they were.. More

  • Iraq Says Accepts UN U-2 Overflights, Arms Law

    Baghdad's U.N. envoy said on Monday that Iraq had unconditionally accepted U-2 surveillance flights and would soon issue a law banning arms of mass destruction -- key demands of U.N. weapons inspectors. The concessions were made by Iraq the face of a massive military build-up in the region by the United States and amid U.S. splits with allies France.. More

  • Palestinians Banned From Entering Israel

    Israel clamped a total closure on the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Monday, banning all Palestinians from entering Israel, citing warnings of Palestinian attacks. Earlier Monday, Israeli occupation troops killed two suspected Palestinian resistance men, including an unarmed fugitive, and caught a would-bebomber who hid an explosives-laden suitcase in.. More

  • Palestinians Banned From Entering Israel

    Israel clamped a total closure on the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Monday, banning all Palestinians from entering Israel, citing warnings of Palestinian attacks. Earlier Monday, Israeli occupation troops killed two suspected Palestinian resistance men, including an unarmed fugitive, and caught a would-bebomber who hid an explosives-laden suitcase in.. More

  • Pilgrims Arrive at Mt. Arafat for Hajj

    Nearly 2 million Muslim pilgrims converged on Mt. Arafat on Monday for a solemn prayer ritual that is the highlight of the hajj, a centuries-old pilgrimage to the birthplace of Islam. After dawn prayers at the nearby valley of Mina, where most pilgrims spent the night in white fireproof tents, they began the short trek to Arafat, a gentle plateau from.. More

  • Greece Proposes EU Summit on Iraq

    EU president Greece proposed on Monday a European Unionsummit as well as an EU foreign ministers meeting next week to discuss the Iraq crisis. A Greek foreign ministry spokesman said the meetings -- foreign ministers next Monday morning and heads of government that afternoon -- would be held either in Athens or Brussels. "Greek Prime Minister Costas.. More

  • Israeli Occupation troops Kill Palestinian Fugitive

    Israeli occupation soldiers shot and killed an unarmed Palestinian fugitive in a West Bank refugee camp Monday, after he tried to escape arrest and hid on a rooftop, officials said. In the Gaza Strip, Israeli occupation forces stationed near a Jewish settlement shot and killed a Palestinian carrying an assault rifle and hand grenades, the occupation.. More