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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (7416)	8/29/2004 2:03:22 AM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 32591

For those who wonder why there is still fighting in Iraq - the answer lies also in this snippet Al-Jazeera television said it had received a tape from a group calling itself the Islamic Army in Iraq showing several seconds of videotape with the two hostages. One of them said in poor Arabic, ``We are being held by the Islamic Army in Iraq.'' The second hostage spoke French. The kidnapping could not be independently confirmed. The French Foreign Ministry said it had no information. The station's newsreader said the group described the French law banning religious apparel in public schools as ``an aggression on the Islamic religion and personal freedoms'' and gave the French government 48 hours to overturn the law, without mentioning any ultimatum. -- Gunmen killed five policemen and injured two others in the center of the city of Baqouba, a hotbed of violence 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, said police Lt. Col. Salman Saadoon. -- Police found the bodies of a slain Turkish truck driver and an Iraqi man on a highway near Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, a Turkish diplomat said Saturday on condition of anonymity. It was not known who killed the men. -- A civilian was killed and two other people were wounded, including an Iraqi police officer, when rebels fired a mortar round in Beiji on Friday, the U.S. military said. nytimes.com