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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (563829)	4/13/2004 7:50:55 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

the nation...LOLOLOL...definately your type of ilk. Its interesting how you find this all so funny. As for the Nation, I am not surprised you've never read it. ********************************************************** Time is GMT + 8 hours Posted: 14 April 2004 0639 hrs Fighting flares in Fallujah as more foreigners seized and US targets Sadr BAGHDAD : At least two US soldiers and 11 Iraqis were killed in renewed fighting in Fallujah as militants seized more foreign hostages and US military leaders targeted a radical Shiite cleric. Foreign nationals in Iraq were urged by their governments to flee the increasing anarchy, while UN Secretary General Kofi Annan warned he could not guarantee sending a large United Nations team back to Iraq because of the deteriorating security. In Fallujah, a US marine was killed and seven others wounded after a US helicopter took ground fire and was forced to make an emergency landing, a marine spokesman said. US tanks and jets fired on the city as violence flared in spite of a ceasefire, and hospital sources reported nine Iraqis killed and 38 wounded. Coalition officials also said that the alleged mastermind of al-Qaeda operations in Iraq, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, who has a 10 million dollar bounty on his head, is believed to be in Fallujah. "I am not going to talk about specific plans for the hunt for Zarqawi but rest assured it is robust, but we believe that Fallujah right now is a hotbed for foreign fighters in Iraq, which would include Zarqawi," said coalition spokesman Dan Senor. The US military said an American soldier was killed and another wounded along with a civilian contractor in a roadside bomb attack on their convoy south of Baghdad. It did not mention the nationality of the contractor. US television reported that four bodies believed to be those of American contractors missing since an ambush on their fuel convoy west of Baghdad last week have been found in a shallow grave near the site of the attack. Eight Americans, including two US soldiers, are missing from that attack. Another American, civilian contractor Thomas Hamill, was captured in the attack, becoming one of some 40 foreigners held by Iraqi militants. The latest confirmed kidnapping was that of a French journalist, Alexandre Jordanov, 40, of the CAPA television agency, missing since Sunday while covering a firefight between US forces and insurgents. Cameraman Ivan Ceriex was also detained but later released, according to CAPA head Herve Chabalier. Senor said the US Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing the spate of abductions but reiterated there would be no negotiations with kidnappers pressing for the withdrawal of foreign troops. "We are making it clear that there will be no negotiations with hostage-takers and ... that it is everyone's interest that these hostages be released as expeditiously as possible," he said. His comments echoed those by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who said Italy would not bow to the demands of militants holding four Italian civilians and pull its 3,000 troops out of Iraq. Berlusconi said Italy's involvement in Iraq was "absolutely not in question", according to a statement released by his office, which also said Rome would "do everything in its power" to obtain the release of the Italians. The Italians were believed to have been working for a private American security company when they were kidnapped Monday. Meanwhile, the Russian embassy in Baghdad said five Ukrainian and three Russian employees of a Russian energy company have been released. Fears also grew for three Japanese hostages held since Thursday after a new deadline for their execution passed without news. Japanese Emperor Akihito made a plea for their release. Hostage takers calling themselves the "Mujahedeen Brigades" had threatened to start executing the Japanese unless Tokyo withdrew its 550 troops from the southern Iraqi city of Samawa. The government has refused. Meanwhile, US forces kept up the pressure on radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose militia has seized control of the holy city of Najaf from coalition forces. A top aide of Sadr's, Sheikh Hazem al-Araji, was released by US forces outside a Baghdad hotel after a brief detention which US commanders said was due to his close links with the radical cleric. Upon his release, he said he was held for five hours, was not questioned and received apologies from US troops. In Manama, General Richard Myers, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, vowed to deal with Sadr. "That story is not over. Sadr will be dealt with," Myers said. channelnewsasia.com