July, 2006

• 23 July

  Iraqi army ‘saves British troops’

  A routine patrol discovered five Katyusha rockets aimed and ready to fire at a base housing around 200 soldiers of the Light Infantry.

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• 23 July

  Hezbollah rocket attack kills 2 in Haifa

  The barrage of rockets landing in and around Haifa Sunday morning wounded 11 people, witnesses and local officials said.

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• 23 July

  Car bombings kill 50 in Iraq

  The first suicide car bomb exploded at 9 a.m., ripping open a packed open-air market in the Sadr City section of eastern Baghdad, Baghdad police said; 32 were killed and 65 were wounded.

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• 23 July

  Suicide blasts kill 8 in Kandahar

  A purported Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the blasts and warned of more as NATO prepares to take control of the volatile southern Afghan region.

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• 23 July

  US rushes bombs to Israel

  TANKS, BULLDOZERS AND armoured personnel carriers knocked down a fence and barrelled over the border Saturday as Israeli forces stepped up a small-scale ground offensive into southern Lebanon to try to attack the Hizbollah group.

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• 23 July

  Support for Tel Aviv complicates diplomacy

  WASHINGTON — President George W. Bush’s uncompromising support for Israel in its battle with Hizbollah, a stance now backed by Congress, is threatening to isolate the United States even further from the international community.

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• 23 July

  Iraq holds reconciliation talks, but some pessimistic

  BAGHDAD (Reuters) — Iraqi leaders met in a show of sectarian and ethnic solidarity on Saturday before a White House visit by the prime minister

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• 23 July

  Gloom as civil war looms

  BAGHDAD — Iraqi leaders have all but given up on holding the country together and, just two months after forming a national unity government, talk in private of “black days” of civil war ahead.

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• 23 July

  Rice has narrow room for Mideast manoeuvre

  WASHINGTON — US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has only narrow room for diplomatic manoeuvre on her Middle East crisis tour if she wants to avoid destabilising the moderate Arab states

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• 23 July

  Lebanese brace for 1982 all over again

  TYRE — “They’re coming — again,” said Yussuf Ismael, a teacher who grabbed his family and fled his Lebanese border village, fearing an imminent full-scale invasion like that of 1982 when Israeli troops marched on Beirut.

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