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A war of revenge?
I am writing U.S. Rep. John Murtha this letter seeking information about a statement President Bush made on television. This statement was made when he first went to war in Iraq. The statement was he went to war because of weapons of mass destruction and because of "what he tried to do to my dad." I have heard Murtha repeat there were no weapons of mass destruction, but he never addressed the latter part of Bush's statement. .
Commentary: Deciphering wall writing
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been reading the handwriting on several walls. He has known for some time Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was a tad disingenuous when he kept giving him his word that Pakistan wasn't providing aid and comfort and assistance to Taliban guerrillas on the Pak side of their common border. Now he knows better. What Karzai hadn't realized until recently was why Musharraf was saying one thing to his American and Afghan interlocutors and doing precisely the opposite. His need to placate his own pro-Taliban extremists, who govern two of Pakistan's four provinces, was only half the story. The president general's Inter-Services Intelligence agency, which has long nurtured close relations with its opposite numbers in Iran, its western neighbor, reported Tehran's intelligence apparatus and Revolutionary Guards' clandestine service, were the real victors of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Clarke shoots for $10,000 in contest
Local musician Alanna Clarke woke up to some exciting news, Monday Jan. 22, when her father received an email from CJAY 92 informing her that she was one of the five Calgary finalist announced, with the chance to go on to the Radio Star National Song Writing Competition. Tom Clarke, Alannas father submitted the song into the contest and Alanna had forgotten about it. I actually didnt know that I was in the contest, said Alanna, a Grade 9 student at Cochrane High School. .
Russian Cabinet approves draft bill on restricting foreign investment
The Russian government on Wednesday tentatively approved two laws that would sharply restrict foreign ownership of oil and natural gas fields, putting into writing what is already well established in practice. One law would also ban foreign majority ownership of companies in the aerospace, military and nuclear power industries, while stating that all other sectors should be open equally to Russian and foreign capital. Investors said the rules, two years in the making, were less stop signs than traffic signals that could smooth the flow of capital into Russia by codifying national security restrictions that are now enforced on an ad hoc basis. Viktor Khristenko, the minister of energy and industry, said the new system would "allow the formation of a predictable and transparent climate for foreign investors." The Federal Security Service, a successor agency to the KGB, would vet foreign companies interested in investing in 40 specific industrial sectors spelled out in the law.
Political crisis 'prevented Bangladesh's press from working normally' in '06
A perpetual political crisis prevented the press from working normally in 2006, Reporters without Frontiers said in its annual report, reports UNB.
Politicians pursued numbers of abusive defamation cases, putting journalists at risk of arrest, the report said, adding that for the first time in several years, no journalists were killed while doing their job.
Although no journalists lost their lives in 2006, there were almost daily violent attacks on the press by political militants, criminal gangs or the security services.
The report said "militants in the ruling political parties, especially the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), were behind most of the press freedom violations."
It said threats, beatings, torching and abusive legal action were all put to use by deputies and ministers in Khaleda Zia's government in a bid to silence the press.
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