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CIA chief Tenet appears at closed-door hearing on Iraq intelligence WASHINGTON (AFP) Jul 16, 2003 The US Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday began hearing from embattled CIA director George Tenet, who has taken the blame for President George W. Bush's disputed claim that Iraq tried to buy nuclear material from Africa. El Salvador preparing to send 360 troops to Iraq via Kuwait SAN SALVADOR (AFP) Jul 16, 2003 El Salvador will send 360 troops to Kuwait late next week for initial training before joining the US-led multinational force in Iraq, an army spokesman said Wednesday. CIA chief Tenet appears at closed-door Senate hearing on flawed intelligence WASHINGTON (AFP) Jul 16, 2003 The US Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday began hearing from embattled CIA director George Tenet, who has taken the blame for President George W. Bush's disputed claim that Iraq tried to buy nuclear material from Africa. |
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Colombian paramilitaries to demobilize, keep arms: official BOGOTA (AFP) Jul 16, 2003 Right-wing paramilitaries will be allowed to keep their arms as they negotiate their demovilization under a framework deal with the Colombian government, the nation's peace commissioner said Wednesday. Pentagon had not expected Iraqi security institutions to collapse: Abizaid WASHINGTON (AFP) Jul 16, 2003 US Central Command General John Abizaid acknowledged Wednesday that the total disintegration of Iraq's army and police force at the end of the war had taken the United States by surprise. US envoy visits Sudan amid peace talks deadlock KHARTOUM (AFP) Jul 16, 2003 US peace envoy John Danforth held talks here Wednesday following the Sudanese government's rejection of US-backed proposals to end the country's 20-year-old civil war. White House praises US troops in Iraq WASHINGTON (AFP) Jul 16, 2003 The White House on Wednesday downplayed reports of slumping morale among US troops in Iraq, who face deadly raids almost daily as they work to police the war-torn nation after Saddam Hussein's ouster. Ivory Coast govt, ex-rebel forces take first step toward united army BOUAKE, Ivory Coast (AFP) Jul 16, 2003 Ivory Coast's government troops and former rebels who on July 4 formally ended a 10-month civil war on Wednesday announced the creation of a committee which will be the basis for a new united armed force. US lawmaker slams closed-door CIA briefing as "unacceptable" WASHINGTON (AFP) Jul 16, 2003 US Representative and would-be Democratic presidential nominee Dennis Kucinich Wednesday blasted a planned closed-door congressional briefing by CIA Director George Tenet as keeping with the "false and misleading statements in the lead-up to war in Iraq." |
Four listed missing after US helicopter crash in Sicily CATANIA, Italy (AFP) Jul 16, 2003 A US navy helicopter with four crew members on board crashed in Sicily Wednesday shortly after taking off from a US naval air base on the southeast of the Italian island, the navy said. British schoolgirl reunited with parents, US marine arrested in Germany by Ben Perry LONDON (AFP) Jul 16, 2003 Twelve-year-old British schoolgirl Shevaun Pennington was safely returned to her parents Wednesday, five days after running away to Paris with a former US marine she met over the Internet. Egypt calls for "balanced" Sudan peace proposals CAIRO (AFP) Jul 16, 2003 Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher called Wednesday for more "balanced" Sudan peace proposals to be put forward by east African mediators in the face of the Khartoum government's continued rejection of the US-backed plan. Former Ivory Coast belligerents hold landmark meeting in rebel capital BOUAKE, Ivory Coast (AFP) Jul 16, 2003 Ivory Coast's political parties and former insurgents Wednesday began a landmark meeting in the rebel capital of Bouake to review the implementation of a French-brokered peace deal that ended a ruinous civil war. US plane comes under missile fire at Baghdad airport BAGHDAD (AFP) Jul 16, 2003 A US C-130 military transport plane came under fire from a surface-to-air missile as it landed at Baghdad's airport Wednesday morning, a military spokesperson said. British schoolgirl reunited with parents, US marine arrested in Germany = = LONDON (AFP) Jul 16, 2003 British 12-year-old schoolgirl Shevaun Pennington was Wednesday safely returned to her parents five days after running away to Paris with a former US marine she met over the Internet. |
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