Iran, Israel, India, Lebanon, Somalia
October 26, 2007, 2007
The Independent (UK)
U.S. Hits Iran With Toughest Sanctions Since 1979
by Leonard Doyle
The Bush administration has moved a step closer to military conflict with Iran, imposing punitive measures on its Revolutionary Guard Corps and calling the al-Quds unit of the guards a terrorist organisation.
Vladimir Putin immediately called the new US sanctions the work of a " madman with a razor blade in his hand". The Russian President said: "Why worsen the situation by threatening sanctions and bring it to a dead end?"
. . . The US was forced to act alone, however, with Britain only offering rhetorical support for unilateral action outside the United Nations Security Council. A plan to have gradually tightening UN sanctions is foundering following opposition from Russia and China. . . .
[Livni also criticized the exaggerated use that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is making of the issue of the Iranian bomb, claiming that he is attempting to rally the public around him by playing on its most basic fears.--Gidi Weitz and Na'ama Lanski, " Livni behind closed doors: Iranian nuclear arms pose little threat to Israel," Haaretz, October 24, 2007]
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October 26, 2007
The Washington Post
Hindus Detail Involvement In Deadly '02 Riots in India On Video, Assailants Tell of State Collusion
by Rama Lakshmi
Five years after one of India's worst episodes of Hindu-Muslim violence, a series of videotaped confessions released Thursday showed Hindu activists acknowledging their roles in the killings and detailing blatant state collusion.
In the video footage, recorded as part of an undercover expose by a New Delhi-based weekly magazine called Tehelka, Hindu activists and politicians bragged about hacking Muslims to death and burning their bodies. One assailant said he slit open a pregnant woman's stomach.
The violence began in February 2002 when a Muslim mob torched a train [It is still unclear whether any inflammable material was hurled into the train from outside or whether a short circuit triggered off the blaze.--see "Fresh probe in India train attack" at link below] in India's western Gujarat state, killing 58 Hindu passengers. Angry Hindu groups launched a wave of reprisal killings and set fire to Muslim homes and shops across the region. In all, an estimated 1,000 people died.
Human rights groups in India and the United States have charged that Gujarat's ruling party, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, tacitly supported the mob violence against Muslims. Several thousand cases related to the riots are still pending in Indian courts and state inquiry committees.
At a packed news conference on Thursday, the editor of Tehelka, Tarun Tejpal, released the magazine's forthcoming issue, which contains 106 pages of coverage on the killings. . . .
The Independent (UK)
U.S. Hits Iran With Toughest Sanctions Since 1979
by Leonard Doyle
The Bush administration has moved a step closer to military conflict with Iran, imposing punitive measures on its Revolutionary Guard Corps and calling the al-Quds unit of the guards a terrorist organisation.
Vladimir Putin immediately called the new US sanctions the work of a " madman with a razor blade in his hand". The Russian President said: "Why worsen the situation by threatening sanctions and bring it to a dead end?"
. . . The US was forced to act alone, however, with Britain only offering rhetorical support for unilateral action outside the United Nations Security Council. A plan to have gradually tightening UN sanctions is foundering following opposition from Russia and China. . . .
[Livni also criticized the exaggerated use that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is making of the issue of the Iranian bomb, claiming that he is attempting to rally the public around him by playing on its most basic fears.--Gidi Weitz and Na'ama Lanski, " Livni behind closed doors: Iranian nuclear arms pose little threat to Israel," Haaretz, October 24, 2007]
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October 26, 2007
The Washington Post
Hindus Detail Involvement In Deadly '02 Riots in India On Video, Assailants Tell of State Collusion
by Rama Lakshmi
Five years after one of India's worst episodes of Hindu-Muslim violence, a series of videotaped confessions released Thursday showed Hindu activists acknowledging their roles in the killings and detailing blatant state collusion.
In the video footage, recorded as part of an undercover expose by a New Delhi-based weekly magazine called Tehelka, Hindu activists and politicians bragged about hacking Muslims to death and burning their bodies. One assailant said he slit open a pregnant woman's stomach.
The violence began in February 2002 when a Muslim mob torched a train [It is still unclear whether any inflammable material was hurled into the train from outside or whether a short circuit triggered off the blaze.--see "Fresh probe in India train attack" at link below] in India's western Gujarat state, killing 58 Hindu passengers. Angry Hindu groups launched a wave of reprisal killings and set fire to Muslim homes and shops across the region. In all, an estimated 1,000 people died.
Human rights groups in India and the United States have charged that Gujarat's ruling party, the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, tacitly supported the mob violence against Muslims. Several thousand cases related to the riots are still pending in Indian courts and state inquiry committees.
At a packed news conference on Thursday, the editor of Tehelka, Tarun Tejpal, released the magazine's forthcoming issue, which contains 106 pages of coverage on the killings. . . .
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