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Western Sudan rebels say killed many soldiers in attack on army position CAIRO (AFP) Jun 06, 2003 Rebels from the Sudan Liberation Movement claimed Friday to have killed a large number of soldiers and captured military equipment in an attack on an army position in the western Darfur region. Evidence of Iraq weapons was "big bluff": German UN inspector BERLIN (AFP) Jun 06, 2003 A German member of the UN team investigating Iraq's alleged programme of weapons of mass destruction has accused US authorities of presenting false evidence against the regime, the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel reports in its Saturday edition. US Navy medical team to treat blast victims in Vietnam HANOI (AFP) Jun 06, 2003 A team of 16 US Navy physicians and corpsmen will visit Vietnam next week to operate on victims of blast injuries caused by Vietnam War-era landmines and unexploded ordnance, the US embassy said Friday. |
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Japan enacts military contingency laws TOKYO (AFP) Jun 06, 2003 The Japanese parliament Friday enacted a set of laws that give the nation its first legal framework for responding to military attack since World War II. US in talks with Asian allies on altering regional military footprint MANILA (AFP) Jun 06, 2003 The United States is in talks with allies on reconfiguring its military footprint in Asia, following a deal with South Korea to relocate US troops off the border with the North, the US regional commander said Friday. Indian opposition leader opposes troops for Iraq without UN mandate NEW DELHI (AFP) Jun 06, 2003 The leader of India's main opposition Congress party Sonia Gandhi has opposed deploying Indian troops in Iraq as part of a stabilisation force without a UN mandate, media reports said Friday. Kashmir guerrillas withstand India's military assault: sources NEW DELHI (AFP) Jun 06, 2003 Some 250 guerrillas have survived India's biggest military assault in four years against Islamic militants in a southern zone of the disputed territory of Kashmir, military sources here said. US intelligence on Iraqi weapons was good - Rumsfeld WASHINGTON (AFP) Jun 06, 2003 US pre-war intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) was "good," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld insisted Thursday after closed-door talks with US congressmen. "Truthfulness" of US president on the line over absent Iraqi WMDs: Byrd WASHINGTON (AFP) Jun 05, 2003 Senator Robert Byrd -- one of the most outspoken critics of US policy in Iraq -- welcomed calls Thursday for a congressional probe into US troops' not having found weapons of mass destruction there, and called into question President George W. Bush's "truthfulness" on the matter. |
Crackdown on arms markets in Iraqi Kurdish region ARBIL, Iraq (AFP) Jun 05, 2003 Iraqi Kurdish authorities are cracking down on arms markets in the northern Arbil region, a security official said Thursday in this town, which is controlled by Massoud Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). South Korea, US agree to relocate troops south of border SEOUL (AFP) Jun 05, 2003 South Korea and the United States agreed Thursday to relocate the 2nd Infantry Division currently posted near North Korea's border, according to a news report. Blix casts doubt on credibility of US-British weapons inspectors UNITED NATIONS (AFP) Jun 05, 2003 Chief UN arms inspector Hans Blix on Thursday cast doubt on the authority of the US-British experts searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Criminals delivered sand to Iraq instead of arms: South African expert PRETORIA (AFP) Jun 05, 2003 The man who headed South Africa's chemical and biological warfare programme in apartheid days declared Thursday that Saddam Hussein was "hoodwinked by criminals" who delivered containers filled with sand when he tried to rebuild Iraq's arsenal. "New environment" in Iraq should enable truth about weapons to emerge: Blix UNITED NATIONS (AFP) Jun 05, 2003 The fall of Saddam Hussein should make it possible to discover the truth about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, chief UN arms inspector Hans Blix said Thursday, amid mounting controversy over official US and British claims. Canadian military faces probe into how it handles post-tour illnesses OTTAWA (AFP) Jun 05, 2003 The Canadian military is to be investigated on how it handles troops' complaints of diseases apparently contracted during tours to developing countries, an ombudsman said Thursday. |
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