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- CNN.com – Bush meets with Karzai and Musharraf, Siege at Colorado…
- Opinion: Islam Needs Clearer Identity in Germany
- Gaza militants ‘prepare for showdown’
- Let’s bolster this subterranean shift in US foreign policy while…
- AFP AND AP, BANGKOK, SEOUL AND LUXEMBOURG
- The Peninsula On-line: Qatar’s leading English Daily
CNN.com – Bush meets with Karzai and Musharraf, Siege at Colorado…
CNN – Sep 28, 2006
But the relationship betweeen presidents Karzai and Musharraf is strained and they’ve exchanged public barbs. Karzai charges rising violence in Afghanistan has been spawned by Pakistan’s failure to crack down on the Taliban. But Musharraf says the violence in Afghanistan is a home-grown ethnic uprising and Karzai is trying to shift the blame. President Bush wants to help mend fences and create a united front in the battle against both the Taliban and al Qaeda on the Afghan-Pakistan border. BUSH: We’ve got a lot of challenges facing us. All of us must protect our countries but at the same time we all must work to make the world a more hopeful place. The dinner is a chance for us to strategize together to talk about the need to cooperate to make sure that people have a hopeful future.
Opinion: Islam Needs Clearer Identity in Germany
Deutsche Welle – Sep 28, 2006
The groundbreaking German-Muslim talks that opened on Wednesday in Berlin needs to answer a very important question: Who in Germany has the authority to represent all Muslims?
The German Muslim community embarked on its first collective talks with the government in Berlin, in a meeting that has an admittedly symbolic character. Nevertheless, the forum marks a turning point in the government’s dealings with its own, home-grown Islam: The state is talking WITH the Muslims rather than ABOUT them. The “Process of Open Dialogue” that started on Wednesday between the state and the “representatives of Islam” is supposed to enhance mutual consideration between the two cultures. It is supposed to work out a basis for future cooperation in the coming two to three years. Road to integration
The basic question is: How do we regulate the relationship between Muslims and the German state? The answer is by creating Islamic institutions that are on equal footing with already existing religious organizations. And because the primary goals of the conference are to better integrate Muslims into society, raise their visibility and engage them more in the public discourse, then this step can be seen as a first success.
Gaza militants ‘prepare for showdown’
Telegraph.co.uk – Sep 28, 2006
” He said the arsenal at the disposal of the myriad militant groups in Gaza – which include Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade and the Popular Resistance Committees – remained less powerful than that of the Lebanese group Hizbollah. But he said the militant groups were exchanging home-made Qassam rockets for 122mm Grad B missiles, which had a long enough range to hit the major southern Israeli city of Ashkelon. While Palestinian groups have boasted of a home-grown anti-tank missile known as the Batar, intelligence officials in Israel dismissed it. But they revealed that militants have replaced the RPG7, the standard rocket propelled grenade, with upgraded versions that can pierce Merkava tanks. “They want to bring in weapons that ‘break the equation’ of our military superiority,” said one intelligence official. “They want to be able to attack symbols of our power like the Merkava tank, the Apache helicopter, offshore missile boats and armoured bulldozers. ” In particular, the officials said, Palestinian militants have a “real appetite” to adopt Hizbollah tactics from the war in Lebanon, when Russian-built Kornet missiles proved deadly against tanks on the battlefield while longer-range Katyushas were directed at towns inside Israel.
Let’s bolster this subterranean shift in US foreign policy while…
Guardian Unlimited – Sep 28, 2006
At this pivotal moment, we who live in the rest of the world, beyond the Washington beltway, also face a choice. We can watch like spectators in the cinema, as a real-life Terminator 4 unfolds before our eyes, and then walk home, at once titivatingly appalled and self-huggingly reassured in the certainty of our own moral superiority – until, that is, we are blown up by a jihadist bomb. Or we can try to reinforce the nascent shift in Washington by ourselves helping to develop better ways than guns and missiles of dealing with a militant Iran, the awful consequences of the misbegotten Iraq war, home-grown terrorist cells and the other real dangers that threaten us even more directly than they do the current inhabitant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
AFP AND AP, BANGKOK, SEOUL AND LUXEMBOURG
Taipei Times – Sep 28, 2006
But once she did, she thrilled the crowd with some delicate drop shots and her trademark baseline power play that proved too much for her 16-year-old opponent. “It was a little stressful to get here from India and I am happy that I could step up my game and win,” Hingis said. The five-time Grand Slam winner appeared to feel at home on the hard court of the 1988 Olympic Arena. “I like the slow surface here, I feel the slower the better. It gives us power players a chance to get quick winners,” she said. Hingis, who turns 26 on Saturday, took 34 minutes to clinch the first set. Wozniacki, this year’s junior Wimbledon champion, fought valiantly but Hingis went on to call all the shots in the second set, and the Swiss brought the crowd to their feet with a delightful lob on the run in the fourth game… Hingis, who turns 26 on Saturday, took 34 minutes to clinch the first set. Wozniacki, this year’s junior Wimbledon champion, fought valiantly but Hingis went on to call all the shots in the second set, and the Swiss brought the crowd to their feet with a delightful lob on the run in the fourth game. Thursday afternoon will see Hingis in action in a second-round match against the winner of the final first-round contest between India’s Sania Mirza and home-grown favorite Lee Ye-ra. Seventh-seeded Anna-Lena Groenefeld and No. 8-seeded Mary Pierce were knocked out in the opening round of the Fortis Championships on Tuesday. Italian qualifier Karin Knapp defeated Groenefeld 6-0, 6-4; and Ukraine’s Alona Bondarenko beat Pierce 6-3, 6-3. On a great day for Italians, fifth-seeded Francesca Schiavone and Roberta Vinci joined Knapp in the second round.
The Peninsula On-line: Qatar’s leading English Daily
Peninsula On-line – Sep 28, 2006
But once she did, she thrilled the crowd with some delicate drop shots and her trademark baseline power play that proved too much for her 16-year-old opponent.