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While fighting continues
to rage in Liberia, in spite of cease-fire promises by the rebels, efforts to
bring a resolution to the country's civil war are slowly gathering momentum.
African leaders are meeting in Ghana to discuss the deployment of peacekeeping
forces to battered Liberia. They are working on the details of deploying a
force, which could start with 1500 Nigerian troops. A 10-member military
planning team arrived in Monrovia late Wednesday to work on logistics for the
force. The team from the United States, Britain and five African nations is
expected to spend two days in the capital, to determine how the government
fighters and rebel factions can be kept apart. Meanwhile, the United States has
introduced a draft U.N. resolution to enable the deployment of an international
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While fighting continues to rage in Liberia, in spite of cease-fire
promises by the rebels, efforts to bring a resolution to the country's civil
war are slowly gathering momentum.
African
leaders are meeting in Ghana to discuss the deployment of peacekeeping forces
to battered Liberia. They are working on the details of deploying a force,
which could start with 1500 Nigerian troops.
A
10-member military planning team arrived in Monrovia late Wednesday to work on
logistics for the force. The team from the United States, Britain and five
African nations is expected to spend two days in the capital, to determine how
the government fighters and rebel factions can be kept apart.
Meanwhile, the United States has introduced a draft U.N.
resolution to enable the deployment of an international peacekeeping force in
Liberia.
In a telephone interview with VOA late Wednesday, rebel spokesman
General Joe Wylie of the group Liberians United for Reconciliation and
Democracy said the crisis in Liberia will not be resolved until President
Taylor not only leaves office but leaves the country entirely.
"We want Taylor out and we are serious about it," he said. " As
long as he remains in the picture as a negative factor the conflict is not
going to go away. We do have information that Taylor does not intend to leave
Liberia. He might step down but he will stay in the country and not go out and
it will inflame the situation. We want Taylor out, ECOWAS wants Taylor out, the
tribunal in Sierra leone wants Taylor out, President George W. Bush wants
Taylor out - why is he still in Liberia? This is the question! "
President Taylor has promised to leave Liberia, but not until
peacekeeping forces arrive. Nigeria has offered Mr. Taylor
asylum.
But there is nowhere to run for many Liberians. Rebel and
government forces continue to exchange gunfire in spite of several promised
cease-fires. The thousands of civilians taking refuge in the city are
struggling to find food and water.
Humanitarian organizations are warning of an impending disaster. Most
aid workers left the country as the security situation deteriorated and will
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assigned to the “Black Aces” of Strike Fighter Squadron Forty One
(VFA-41) off one of the four steam-powered catapults on the flight deck aboard
USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Nimitz Strike Force and Carrier Air Wing Eleven (CVW-11)
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BAGRAM, Afghanistan, July 31, 2003 - The United States highest-ranking military
officer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Richard Myers visited
Bagram Air Base yesterday as part of his tour of Middle Eastern and Asian
Coalition military operations.
While in
Bagram, Myers held a meeting with Combined Joint Task Force 180 leadership to
discuss a range of issues, and he also held a press conference for local and
international media.
Myers opened the press
conference with a statement that included messages of the mission heres success
and statements about his confidence in the coalition forces here.
Through the efforts of Combined Joint Task Force 180,
the stability of Afghanistan grows daily, Myers said. And this stability allows
the people of Afghanistan to raise their families in security and to prosper
more than they have in the past.
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BAGRAM, Afghanistan, July 31,
2003 - Mary Jo Myers, wife of Gen. Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff, visited Afghanistan yesterday with her husband. She has been
accompanying her husband on his trips to Baghdad,
Pakistan, Qatar, India
and Afghanistan.
But while her husband addressed
military affairs, Myers toured other places in Afghanistan. She toured the U.S.
hospital on Bagram Air Field, Gardez, an outpost in Northern Afghanistan, and
Kabul, where she visited a womens hospital and an orphanage.
It was the daily life at the hospital and orphanage in
Kabul that presented Afghanistans need for rebuilding. Rabia Balkhi, the womens
hospital, impressed on Myers the need for humanity, she said.
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Aggressive measures were taken yesterday by coalition forces in efforts to
create a safe and secure environment in Iraq, according to U.S. Central Command
officials.
In the last 24 hours, coalition forces
conducted 51 raids, 953 day patrols and 737 night patrols and conducted 142 day
patrols and 145 night patrols jointly with Iraqi police. Iraqi Police conducted
16 day patrols and nine night patrols.
The total
raids and patrols resulted in 559 arrests including two for murder, four for
robbery, five for aggravated assault, 39 for theft two for controlled substance
violation, 235 for weapons violations and 272 for various other crimes.
Three artillery pieces and some 50 caliber rounds that
were found in the Fallujah area were destroyed by a 3rd ACR explosive ordnance
team.
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-- During peacetime, sick and injured service members can typically rely on
emergency medical services and an ambulance to transport them quickly to a
nearby hospital. On the front lines, however, conventional means of
transporting injured personnel are "up in the air." During Operation Iraq
Freedom, wounded warriors on both sides of the campaign learned to trust the
corpsmen and Marines of the First Marine Expeditionary Force's Casualty
Evacuation Teams with their lives.
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Field on July 30, 2003, the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff General
Richard B. Myers and Major General John R. Vines, Commanding General of
Combined Joint Task Force 180, move to a press conference held at Bagram
Airbase. General Myers held a press conference and later toured the air
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WASHINGTON, July 30, 2003 Six
enemy combatants now being detained by the Defense Department will be evaluated
to determine if any should be charged and tried for war crimes under military
commissions, two senior U.S. military lawyers told the American Forces Radio
and Television Service recently.
The
detainees were seized during U.S. and coalition military operations
precipitated by the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States. The
al Qaeda terrorist group, led by Osama bin Laden, is universally believed to
have planned and carried out the 9-11 attacks.
The Office of Military Commission's acting chief
prosecutor, Army Col. Frederic Borch III, and acting chief defense counsel, Air
Force Col. Will Gunn, told AFRTS that Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D.
Wolfowitz would determine if there is sufficient evidence to bring any or all
of the six to trial.
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WASHINGTON, July 30, 2003 A
free and democratic Iraq will show other countries in the region that
"prosperity and dignity are found in representative government and free
institutions," President Bush said at the White House this morning.
"They are not found in tyranny, resentment and support
for terrorism," Bush said during a press conference on a wide range of topics,
including progress in the war on terrorism.
In
the long run, expanding democracy in the Middle East will bring about a more
secure America. "As freedom advances, those societies will be less likely to
produce ideologies of hatred and produce recruits for terror," the president
said.
To reach these ends, coalition forces in
Iraq have gone on the offensive "in an unrelenting campaign that is bringing
daily results," he said.
Bush noted that
Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay didn't escape the July 22 raid that aimed
to capture or kill them. "And neither will other members of that despicable
regime," he said.
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While there are no guarantees that America can prevent another terrorist attack
on U.S. soil, Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge said the "American
people are more secure and better prepared today than ever before."
"I can say that because we are certainly more aware of
the threat of terrorism and we are certainly more vigilant about confronting
it," he said.
Ridge's remarks were made
during the Homeland Security Department Conference held July 28 in Arlington,
Va. He also announced measures to share information among government agencies
and a new system to keep track of visitors entering the United States
illegally.
He said the president's
initiative to create the Terrorist Threat Integration Center will give analysts
access to sensitive information generated by agencies all across the
government.
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Emphasizing that the al Qaeda terrorist network remains an international
threat, the chairman of a U.N. Security Council committee overseeing efforts to
block the terrorist organization's financing and movements urged nations to
remain vigilant because al Qaeda associates are active in a significant number
of nations.
Ambassador Heraldo Munoz of Chile,
chairman of the Al Qaeda/Taliban Sanctions Committee, warned nations against
complacency and slackening their efforts to counter al Qaeda.
Only 64 nations "barely 30 percent of the members of
the United Nations" have reported their efforts under the sanctions regime to
the United Nations as required, the chairman said. "The overall response has so
far been disappointing."
"According to
information available to the monitoring group, individuals or entities
associated with al Qaeda are believed to be active in some way in a significant
number of the states that have not yet submitted a report" to the United
Nations, Munoz said during a public U.N. Security Council meeting on the
sanctions committee's work.
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Behind the police academy in Baghdad
stands the forked trunk of a dead tree, unusual for the fact that on each
branch the bark is permanently marked by two sets of ropes one high enough to
tie up a man, the other, a woman. Near the tree is a row of small cells where
special prisoners were held.
Our guide, the
newly appointed Sunni superintendent of the academy (who had spent a year in
jail for having made a disparaging comment about Saddam Hussein to his best
friend) told us of unspeakable things that once happened to men and women tied
to that tree and held in those cells. Beyond the torture tree, a small gate
leads to the Olympic Committee Headquarters, run by Uday Hussein, who would
often slip through the back gate at night to torture and abuse prisoners.
Traveling throughout Iraq last week, I heard many more
accounts of unspeakable brutality on a scale unimaginable for Americans. While
we were in the north, one commander told us workers had temporarily stopped the
excavation of a newly discovered mass gravesite, after unearthing the remains
of 80 women and children some still with little dresses and toys.
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AYUBKHEL VALLEY,
Afghanistan More than 600 soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division began their
part in Operation Warrior Sweep, one of the largest combat operations in
Afghanistan since Operation Anaconda, early morning July 23.
Headquarters and Headquarters Company, Company A
and Company B, from 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, and Co. C
from 3rd Bn., 504th Parachute Inf. Regt., 82nd Airborne Division air assaulted
into the mountains at elevations topping 10,500 feet in the Ayubkhel Valley in
the southeast part of the country.
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show for soldiers at the 354th Civil Affairs Brigades Summer Jam in Baghdad
July 25.
Sgt. Brian Schoon Baghdaddy Schoonover,
civil affairs specialist with the 354th Civil Affairs Brigade, an Army Reserve
unit from Riverdale, Md., was the master of ceremonies for the Summer Jam, held
at the Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Center in Baghdad.
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Iraq], Americans in uniform are assuming great risks for our country. The
American people are proud of our Armed Forces, and we are grateful for their
sacrifice and their service in fighting the war on terror. We also appreciate
the military families who share in the hardship and uncertainties of this
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Fla. Nat'l Guard Captains
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Rosalia and Rosana Maldonado, with the Florida Army National Guards 260th
Military Intelligence Battalion from Miami, were recently promoted to captain
while serving on active duty at Eagle Base. The sisters enlisted in the Florida
Army National Guard with their older sister Melissa 13 years ago. Now, all
three sisters are captains in the same battalion.
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Baghdad International Airport July 26, two 47th Forward Support Battalion
soldiers were guarding the wall surrounding their compound. Pvt. Precious
Martinez, a track mechanic, and Sgt. David Link, a tank turret mechanic, both
with Company B, observed three Iraqi people scaling the wall and entering the
compound. Instead of firing at the intruders, they assessed the situation and
radioed back to their tactical operations center, requesting assistance.
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Riverdale, Md., and 490th Civil Affairs Battalion from Abilene, Texas, headed
to the Al Thawra district in Baghdad recently in order to assess the condition
of the local hospitals.
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Israel, Palestinian Talks Reach
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Impasse?
Israeli and Palestinian
negotiators have failed to reach agreement on which West Bank towns are the
next to be returned to Palestinian control. The impasse developed after a
four-hour meeting Wednesday night.
Comment (HFY): The
disagreement is that Israel says Jericho and Qalqilya should be next on the
list of towns returned to Palestinian control. The Palestinians want Hebron and
Ramallah. The disagreement emerged following the meeting which took place at a
location outside Jerusalem. This disagreement has a rather odd aspect. Just as
soon as the process gets going there is disagreement over Hebron and Ramallah
brought on by what more and more looks like a pro Arafat group of Palestinian
negotiators. They should be just as interested as Israel in down grading Arafat
and disarming the militant terrorist factions within Palestine. But they have
already indicated their refusal to do this as long as terrorist actions are not
occurring. This move on the part of the Palestinians would appear designed to
take the "heat" off the militant organizations currently busy rearming and
recruiting according to some reports coming out of Israel. This move also
creates an unnecessary and unneeded reinforcement of Arafat. Is this peace
negotiation nothing but a game of charades where the world is kept guessing as
to true motivation and attitudes? Why on earth would the Palestinian
negotiators turn their nose up at any territories that are turned over to their
security? Perhaps they know very well that they cannot maintain any kind of
security unless they follow the tug on their leash every time the militant
organizations pull that leash. So it would again seem that the militant
organizations are now trying to piggyback their way into influence by using the
present stage of negotiations. Israel is way too smart to fall for such games
and such behavior must necessarily undermine Israel's resolve to take this
Palestinian negotiating team seriously. Israel must always act in a manner that
ensures their security issues. Why should they do otherwise?
VOA -- 31 Jul 2003, 09:02
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and Palestinian negotiators have failed to reach agreement on which West Bank
towns are the next to be returned to Palestinian control. The impasse developed
after a four-hour meeting Wednesday night.
Israel
says Jericho and Qalqilya should be next on the list of towns returned to
Palestinian control. The Palestinians want Hebron and Ramallah. The
disagreement emerged following the meeting which took place at a location
outside Jerusalem.
Israel
is believed to have reservations over handing over Ramallah, because of its
symbolism as the residence of Yasser Arafat and the seat of the Palestinian
Authority government. The Palestinians believe the transfer of control of
Jericho would be of little consequence, because there is no significant Israeli
presence in the town.
A
further exchange of control of West Bank cities and towns has been expected
ever since Israel withdrew from most of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank town,
Bethlehem, a month ago. But the step has been delayed because of Israel's
belief that the Palestinians are not acting aggressively enough against
security threats. Israel Radio reported Thursday that Palestinian militant
groups are taking advantage of the temporary ceasefire they agreed to last
month to rearm - specifically by stockpiling missiles that could be used to
fire on Israeli cities and towns.
Before
the Wednesday night meeting, Palestinian security chief Mohammed Dahlan
rejected Israeli and American demands to dismantle terrorist organizations. He
says "the terror infrastructure is an Israeli concept" that is unacceptable to
the Palestinians. He says Palestinian security forces will not arrest activists
and will not confront them, as long as the cease-fire is
intact.
Meanwhile, President Bush says he believes that the "road map" peace
plan is making good progress. Speaking at a White House news conference,
Wednesday, Mr. Bush said the goal of the creation of a Palestinian state by
2005 is still "realistic." He also expressed confidence in Palestinian Prime
Minister Mahmoud Abbas, saying he is committed to seeing the establishment of a
peaceful Palestinian state.
Mr.
Bush added that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is also committed to the
existence of a Palestinian state. Mr. Bush says Mr. Sharon knows the United
States will not compromise the security of Israel, to achieve that goal.
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Japan to Reject Request for
Fujimori Extradition
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Asia Pacific - Japan - Tokyo - Re: Fujimori
Extradition?
Japan has confirmed that
Peru has formally requested the extradition of former Peruvian president,
Alberto Fujimori, to face charges of murder and corruption. Japan has strongly
indicated it will reject the request. Peru's ambassador to Japan lodged a
formal extradition request Thursday in Tokyo. The 700-page document -
translated into Japanese - alleges that Peru's former president, Alberto
Fujimori - is to face trial in Lima for the massacre and kidnapping of
civilians and official corruption during his 10 years in
power.
Comment (HFY): The following statement indicates
how this all came about. "Mr. Fujimori, whose parents were born in Japan, was
granted citizenship in 2000, when he fled to Tokyo during the collapse of his
scandal-ridden government. He resigned his presidency by fax from his Japanese
hotel." One has to wonder why Japan granted this man citizenship without any
conditions attached. In other words, citizenship granted in 2000 should have
clearly laid the grounds for repeal if it were later shown that he was a
criminal or violated human rights. When do technicalities take precedence over
common sense? The answer is the USA and most western style legal systems. So it
is hard to isolate Japan based on the statement, "Japan's chief cabinet
secretary, Yasuo Fukuda, indicated his government will reject the request on
legal grounds. Mr. Fukuda says Japan will respond in accordance with Japanese
law. But he says as a general rule, a criminal on the run who has Japanese
citizenship cannot be extradited by Japan." However, it seems reasonable to
condemn all these Western legal systems that totally abandon common sense. For
example, a policeman stops a car on a hunch and tells the driver to open the
trunk wherein are found millions of dollars of marijuana and other illegal
drugs. Common sense indicates that this car owner is implicated in a serious
crime but because a certain protocol was not observed, a mere technicality in
this situation, the judge throws the case out of court on a technicality
completely ignoring common sense. Perhaps, in the name of correctness, the
officer should be both rewarded and reprimanded but when common sense clearly
identifies a criminal action it should never be thrown out of court. And, when
it is obvious that a citizen is so implicated then common sense should over
ride their so called rights. They have been caught in an illegal act no matter
how one looks at this case. Illegal is illegal, wrong is wrong, one should
never try to turn an out right "wrong" into some kind of "right". A similar
situation exists with Fujimori. I personally consider legal systems that
abandon all common sense as a form of social corruption and a betrayal of those
innocent and law abiding citizens that the legal system is supposed to
represent in their legal decision making.
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Japan has confirmed that Peru has formally requested the extradition
of former Peruvian president, Alberto Fujimori, to face charges of murder and
corruption. Japan has strongly indicated it will reject the request. Peru's
ambassador to Japan lodged a formal extradition request Thursday in Tokyo. The
700-page document - translated into Japanese - alleges that Peru's former
president, Alberto Fujimori - is to face trial in Lima for the massacre and
kidnapping of civilians and official corruption during his 10 years in
power.
Japan's
chief cabinet secretary, Yasuo Fukuda, indicated his government will reject the
request on legal grounds. Mr. Fukuda says Japan will respond in accordance with
Japanese law. But he says as a general rule, a criminal on the run who has
Japanese citizenship cannot be extradited by Japan.
Mr. Fujimori, whose parents were born in Japan, was granted
citizenship in 2000, when he fled to Tokyo during the collapse of his
scandal-ridden government. He resigned his presidency by fax from his Japanese
hotel.
Peru's
Foreign Minister Alan Wagner says the extradition request is reasonable and
that "nationality cannot be an obstacle to justice." In addition, Japan has not
acted on an Interpol request for the former Peruvian leader to be
arrested.
Mr.
Fujimori has denied all of the charges against him. He is working as a
part-time university lecturer.
Diplomats say that Tokyo's refusal to honor the extradition request
is likely to strain relations between Japan and Peru. Those relations were at
their peak during Mr. Fujimori's presidency when Japan showered Peru with
hundreds of millions of dollars worth of loans, technical assistance and
private investment -- making it one of Japan's biggest recipients of foreign
aid.
But
political observers here warn if Peru pushes Japan too hard on the extradition
issue, it risks losing the badly-needed assistance.
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UNICEF Reports More Than 1
Million Children Bought and Sold Each Year
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The UNICEF report says
human trafficking is now the world's third largest criminal business, after
drugs and weapons trafficking. The U.N. findings released Wednesday said child
trafficking generates up to $10 billion a year worldwide for those who
illegally buy and sell children for cheap labor and as sex slaves. The problem
is worst in areas like West Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, which supply the
largest number of children. West African and Eastern European children who fall
victim to trafficking are likely to be sold into the sex trade or made to work
as domestic servants. Chinese and Vietnamese children tend to be forced into
prostitution or for cheap labor.
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U.N. Children's Fund, UNICEF, says more than one million children are illegally
bought and sold each year around the world.
The
UNICEF report says human trafficking is now the world's third largest criminal
business, after drugs and weapons tr | | |
