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To: tejek who wrote (191215)	6/21/2004 12:38:28 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574884

Iran seizes three British naval vessels, detains eight crew, in Shatt al Arab water between Iraq and Iran Monday. Iran claims they were warships. London says they were small boats. DEBKAfile adds: Relations strained since Britain, Germany and France rebuked Iran for covering up suspect nuclear activities at IAEA board meeting in Vienna. Iranian troop buildup on Iraqi border in place since last week. Thai worker died of wounds from combined Palestinian automatic-RPG assault on Kfar Darom greenhouses in Gaza Strip. Thai embassy informed. Palestinians used tractor for first time to clear way for bomb car to reach Jewish settlement. Bodies of 4 US troops found at building site in Sunni Triangle westernmost town of Ramadi. Not clear when they died and no immediate comment from US military. Several employees of KBR, part of Halliburton group, abducted at same time as South Korean Kim Sun-il, who is threatened with death by Monday sunset. Seoul vows not to cancel 3,000-troop contingent for Iraq as demanded by kidnappers, identified as Zarqawi’s group. Kim reportedly held with 10 other foreigners including a European journalist. debka.com

To: tejek who wrote (191215)	6/21/2004 2:08:24 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1574884

Top Stories - AFP Swazi king, Africa's last absolute monarch, takes 11th wife Mon Jun 21,10:56 AM ET Add Top Stories - AFP to My Yahoo! LUDZIDZINI, Swaziland (AFP) - Swazi King Mswati III, Africa's last absolute monarch, has taken a new wife, bringing the number of official spouses to 11, a royal source said. AFP/File Photo King Mswati III and 20-year-old Zena Mahlangu tied the knot last week at the traditional headquarters of the monarchy just outside the capital city of Mbabane. "The occasion started in the wee hours of the morning on Wednesday and it dragged on until afternoon," the royal source told AFP. Zena Mahlangu's mother, Lindiwe Dlamini, had tried in vain to prevent the king from marrying her daughter after claiming that she had been abducted by two royal emissaries on October 18, 2002. Royalists managed to overrule the high court of Swaziland ruling that Zena should appear before it to say whether she was happy living in the royal household as one of the king's two fiancees. Media reports later quoted Zena as saying she was happy living in the royal household but her mother dimissed them as false. Born on April 6, 1968, only four months before Swaziland attained independence from Britain, the British-educated King Mswati is, like the country he rules, a mix of traditional African and modern Western influences. While he has embraced Western-style market-driven economic policies, the king has adhered to traditional political culture, which allows him full control of the executive, judiciary and executive arms of government. Like all the Swazi kings before him, he is a polygamist. The monarch is increasingly being criticised for his lavish lifestyle while most of his subjects live in poverty and have to grapple with AIDS (news - web sites), food shortages and severe drought. The king recently attracted sweeping criticism for ordering new palaces worth 14 million dollars for his then 10 wives and two fiancees at a time when the country faces a deficit of around 145 million dollars. His kingdom has suffered its fourth successive year of drought, combined with a serious problem of AIDS, which affects about 38 percent of the adult population, according to the latest government figures.