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Former British prime minister Tony Blair defended the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on Friday, saying the September 11 attacks on the United States meant Saddam Hussein had to be disarmed or removed.
The al Qaeda strikes against U.S. cities had transformed the global security picture, raising the risk that militants could kill even more people if weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from a rogue state were to fall into their hands, Blair said.
The Senate voted Thursday night to strengthen existing sanctions against Iran and impose new ones aimed at its gasoline supplies as part of the U.S. effort to dissuade Tehran from pursuing nuclear weapons and cracking down on internal dissent.
“We have all watched the Iranian regime oppress its own people on the streets of Iran and continue to defy the international community on nuclear issues,” Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said in a statement following a voice vote that approved the bill. “That is why it is so important that we move this legislation forward quickly.”
Israel has sent the UN a response to the Goldstone report, which accused both it and Hamas of war crimes during Israel’s Gaza operation.
Defence Minister Ehud Barak said it showed no army was as “responsible… moral and accurate…even under impossible conditions,” as Israel.
The document will explain how Israel is investigating its own conduct, a senior government official said.
Taliban leaders will decide soon whether to join talks with the Afghan government, a militant spokesman said on Friday, after President Hamid Karzai invited them to a peace council aimed at ending the Afghan war.
In the country’s south, suicide attackers launched an assault in the capital of Helmand, Afghanistan’s most violent province, with gunmen holed up in three buildings, battling government and NATO troops who returned fire with helicopter strikes.
أعلن المكتب الإعلامي لحكومة دبي الجمعة 29-1-2010 أن شرطة دبي تعرفت “على المشتبه بهم في جريمة مقتل” القيادي في حماس محمود المبحوح ومعظمهم “يحملون جوازات سفر أوروبية”.
وقال بيان صادر من المكتب إن المشتبه بهم غادروا البلاد قبيل العثور على جثمان المبحوح في أحد فنادق دبي.
ورجحت التحقيقات الأولية أن الجريمة قد ارتكبت على يد عصابة إجرامية متمرسة كانت تتبع تحركات المجني عليه قبل قدومه إلى الإمارات.
ذكرت مصادر طبية وشهود عيان ان قتالا عنيفا اندلع وسط العاصمة الصومالية مقديشو بين وحدات من قوة حفظ السلام الافريقية وقوات حكومية من جهة، ومسلحين صوماليين قيل ان لهم صلة يتنظيم القاعدة.
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Egypt turned up for the Africa Cup of Nations in Angola with only one intention, to defend their status as African champions, and by any assessment they’ve made a pretty good fist of achieving that aim.
Thursday’s 4-0 wipe out of eight-man Algeria put the six-time champions into Sunday’s final against a Ghana side that has overcome a spate of injuries to star players to make their first final in 18 years.
One of Egypt’s goalscorers in Benguela, Mohamed Zidan, said: “We were one million times better than Algeria. We haven’t won five games here in this competition to lose the final.”
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ذكرت صحيفة “ويست فرانس” الفرنسية أن مصر تقترب من تحقيق “انجاز فرعوني” فى حال فوزها على غانا فى المباراة النهائية الاحد المقبل بلواندا وحصولها على بطولة كأس الامم الافريقية للمرة الثالثة على التوالي.
وأكدت الصحيفة – على موقعها الالكتروني صباح الجمعة – أن مصر بفوزاها على الجزائر (4/0)فى اللقاء الذى جمع بينهما مساء أمس ببنجيلا ثأرت من فريق الخضر الذي تأهل على حسابها الى كأس العالم 2010.
Yemen’s government has promised urgent political and economic reform to help fight al-Qaeda, in a statement drawn up ahead of international talks.
Gordon Brown called the London meeting to galvanise support for the Gulf state after the alleged bid to blow up a US airliner on 25 December 2009.
Lord Goldsmith has admitted he changed his legal view of the Iraq war but said it was “complete nonsense” to claim he did so because of political pressure.
Until a month before the 2003 invasion, the ex-attorney general believed it was “safer” to get a fresh UN resolution.
But he gave the “green light” after deciding force was justified by UN accords on Iraq dating back to 1991.