August, 2006

• 23 August

  3 Russian Invaders Annihilated in Chechnya

   Russian kafirs (infidels) were killed and at least 2 others injured by mobile groups of Chechen Mujahideen in attacks on security posts of kafirs and munafiqs (apostates) on the night from August 21 to August 22 in the Chechen capital of Jokhar; a spokesman of the Chechen Military Command reported. …

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• 23 August

  Olmert refuses to lift blockade

  UN warns of Lebanese ‘security vacuum’ as Israel kills 3 Islamic Jihad fighters, charges Dweik with ‘belonging to terrorist organisation’ Agencies Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday said Israel has no plans to lift its air and sea blockade of Lebanon until an international peacekeeping force takes up positions along …

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• 23 August

  US upbeat on Baghdad clampdown

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Violence in Baghdad has declined in the past two weeks and all but ended in some formerly deadly neighbourhoods, the US military said in a cautiously upbeat report on Tuesday on a major security clampdown in the city.

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• 23 August

  ‘Anfal targeted Kurdish fighters, Iranian troops’

  BAGHDAD (AP) — Breaking down in tears, a Kurdish woman testified Tuesday in the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein, describing how foul smoke billowed across her village, blinding residents, in a 1987 poison gas attack and how her male relatives disappeared at a prison camp.

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• 23 August

  Tehran ready for ‘serious’ nuclear talks

  TEHRAN (Reuters) — Iran handed over its formal response on Tuesday to a nuclear incentives offer from major powers and said it contained ideas that would allow serious talks about its standoff with the West to start immediately.

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• 23 August

  Relief aid pour into Lebanon after ceasefire

  BEIRUT (AFP) — Food, bedding and other emergency supplies are pouring into war-battered Lebanon since a ceasefire took effect more than a week ago, United Nations relief officials say.

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• 23 August

  For farmer-turned-Hizbollah fighter, zeal undiminished

  SRIFA — When not fighting under the Hizbollah banner, Abu Hadi is a farmer whose faith in the movement appears unshaken by the destruction of his village and the deaths of his relatives.

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• 23 August

  Development ‘annihilated’, UN says

  GENEVA (AFP) —Lebanon’s 15-year economic and social recovery from civil war was wiped out in the recent Israeli offensive against Hizbollah, the UN development agency said Tuesday.

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• 23 August

  Oil spill cleanup may take year — Greenpeace

  BEIRUT (AFP) — Cleanup of a massive oil spill caused by Israeli air strikes on a fuel depot could take up to one year, the environmental group Greenpeace Mediterranean said Tuesday.

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• 23 August

  IRAN: „PLATFORMA NU A FOST ATACATĂ”

  Conflictul în care este implicată platforma petrolieră românească Orizont este departe de a se fi încheiat. Un oficial al companiei Petro Iran Development a declarat agenţiei Reuters că platforma nu a fost atacată militar. Dimpotrivă, oficialul a adus acuzaţii companiei române GSP, despre care susţine că a lansat informaţii false.

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