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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (5987)	2/16/2006 8:11:51 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

RWANDA: Peace prize for Belgian priest accused of genocide IRIN/Reuters ^ \| 16 Feb 2006 GHENT, 16 February (IRIN) - Belgian Roman Catholic missionary Guy Theunis, who has been accused by the Rwandan authorities of taking part in the 1994 genocide, has been awarded a peace prize. The prize was granted on Wednesday in the Belgian city of Ghent by the Flemish weekly church newspaper Kerk en Leven (Church and Life). The bishop of Ghent, Luc Van Looy, presented a cheque for 3,000 euros (US $3,560) and a work of art to Theunis on behalf of the jury. Van Looy said Theunis, 60, who worked in Rwanda as a member of the White Fathers order from 1970 until 1994, "was mainly active in the fields of human rights, peace and justice". Theunis co-founded a Rwandan association for human rights and was also active in the Rwandan media. After the genocide, he trained church workers in South Africa. "He strongly favoured the option for non-violence, which attracted on him many death threats," Van Looy said. It was Theunis's first public appearance since he arrived in Belgium on 21 November 2005 from Rwanda. Rwandan police arrested him on 6 September 2005 while he was in transit to Belgium from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. He was charged in Rwanda with "incitation to genocide", for reprinting - in a press review mainly intended for diplomats - articles from an extremist publication that incited the country's majority Hutus to kill its minority Tutsi population.

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (5987)	2/16/2006 8:41:57 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Respond to of 9838

US reveals Iraq nuclear operation Abraham called the operation a "major achievement" The US has revealed that it removed more than 1.7 metric tons of radioactive material from Iraq in a secret operation last month. "This operation was a major achievement," said US Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham in a statement. He said it would keep "potentially dangerous nuclear materials out of the hands of terrorists". Along with 1.77 tons of enriched uranium, about 1,000 "highly radioactive sources" were also removed. The material was taken from a former nuclear research facility on 23 June, after being packaged by 20 experts from the US Energy Department's secret laboratories. It was flown out of the country aboard a military plane in a joint operation with the Department of Defense, and is being stored temporarily at a Department of Energy facility. The United Nations nuclear watchdog - the International Atomic Energy Agency - and Iraqi officials were informed ahead of the operation, which happened ahead of the 28 June handover of sovereignty. 'Dirty bomb'? The explosion of a so-called "dirty bomb" in a city by a terrorist group is a major concern of Western intelligence agencies. Rather than causing a nuclear explosion, a "dirty bomb" would see radioactive material combined with a conventional explosive - probably causing widespread panic and requiring a large clean-up operation. Iraq's biggest nuclear complex was the Tuwaitha site south of Baghdad Uranium would not be suitable for fashioning such a device, though appropriate material may have been among the other unidentified "sources". Mr Abraham added that the operation had also prevented the material falling into the hands "of countries that may seek to develop their own nuclear weapons". The 1,000 "sources" evacuated in the Iraqi operation included a "huge range" of radioactive items used for medical purposes and industrial purposes, a spokesman for the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration told AP news agency. Bryan Wilkes said much of the material was "in powdered form, which is easily dispersed". The IAEA has been among organisations which have warned that many countries have lost track of radioactive material. news.bbc.co.uk