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US military firm offers India stratospheric airships, eyes partners BANGALORE, India (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 A US-based firm headed by the former director of the US Strategic Defence Initiative "Star Wars" programme offered India its stratospheric airships Thursday and said it was seeking partners. Rejection of troops for Iraq will not affect India-US ties: US envoy NEW DELHI (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 India's rejection of a US request to send troops to Iraq will not hinder warming US-Indian diplomatic and military ties, outgoing US ambassador to India Robert Blackwill said Thursday. No sex charges against former US marine over British girl: Germany FRANKFURT (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 German prosecutors have established no grounds to charge a former US marine with the intent to sexually abuse a 12-year-old British girl he fled to France with last weekend, a spokeswoman said Thursday. |
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Police find weapons cache in Turkey ISTANBUL (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 Police have discovered an arms cache belonging to the banned Kurdish Workers Party in the basement of a house here, the Anatolia news agency said Thursday. Iraq's Governing Council aims to reintegrate ex-soldiers in society BAGHDAD (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 Iraq's new interim Governing Council Thursday announced a plan to reintegrate tens of thousands of Saddam Hussein's soldiers into civilian life. CIA chief wasn't told about Iraq uranium claim in Bush speech: daily WASHINGTON (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 CIA director George Tenet told a Senate panel he was not personally informed that a speech by President George W. Bush contained disputed intelligence about Iraq's nuclear ambitions even though his agency took responsibility for it, The Washington Post said Thursday. US Central Command chief admits Iraq troops face guerrilla warfare WASHINGTON (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 The new head of US Central Command, General John Abizaid, has acknowledged that US troops in Iraq are facing guerrilla warfare and that the total disintegration of Iraq's army and police after the war was a surprise. British TV crew faked story from submarine during Iraq war: report LONDON (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 Britain's Sky News faked a television report from a Royal Navy submarine during the Iraq war, according to a BBC documentary team that filmed on the same vessel, the Guardian reported Thursday. Police used "mind games" in hunt for US ex-marine and British schoolgirl LONDON (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 Police carrying out an international manhunt for a former US marine who vanished with a 12-year-old British girl used "mind games" devised by experts to secure her safe return home, newspapers reported Thursday. |
CIA chief Tenet appears at closed-door hearing on Iraq intelligence WASHINGTON (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 The US Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday heard secret testimony 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. US ex-marine who ran off with British school girl not listed sex offender DETROIT (AFP) Jul 17, 2003 A former US marine arrested in Germany Wednesday after disappearing with a 12-year-old British schoolgirl is not listed among sexual offenders in his native state of Michigan. Three dead in US military helicopter crash in Sicily: Pentagon WASHINGTON (AFP) Jul 16, 2003 Three US military personnel were killed and a fourth was missing Wednesday when their helicopter crashed on a training flight near a naval air station in Sicily, the Pentagon said. 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. 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. |
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