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18 Apr 2005 04:50:04 AM |
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When the first shot is fired
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1462187,00.html
As Sharon prepares to pull out of Gaza, tensions between the settlers
and other Israelis are coming to a head
Daphna Baram
Monday April 18, 2005
The Guardian
Three Israeli divisions and more or less the entire police force are
now ready for one of the biggest military operations in Israel's
history: the evacuation of about 8,000 settlers - most from the Gaza
Strip, and a few hundred from the northern West Bank. Ariel Sharon's
unilateral "disengagement" plan is about to move to an operational
stage. The political tension between most Israelis, who back Sharon's
plan, and the settlers and their supporters is rising. The 8,000
settlers, out of a total of 400,000 in the occupied territories, are to
be paid compensation and returned to Israel proper. The rest are
bracing themselves for what they regard as an existential struggle.
Daphna Baram
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Licensed to kill?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1462137,00.html
In January 2002, Russian soldiers killed six innocent Chechen
civilians. During their trial for murder, they said they were just
following orders - and were acquitted by the jury. But now a retrial
has been ordered which could result in members of the Russian
government being tried for crimes against humanity. Nick Paton Walsh
reports
Monday April 18, 2005
The Guardian
Dusk had begun to hang heavy over the remote Chechen village of Dai,
when the radio crackled into life. "You have six 200s," the officer
told Captain Eduard Ulman from Russia's elite special forces. Ulman
asked the officer to repeat himself, holding the receiver out for his
colleagues to hear. "You have six 200s," the voice allegedly intoned.
The phrase - military slang for "six corpses" - spelled death for the
Chechen civilians cowering in the farmyard ditch below Ulman's men. The
unit had held them there in the snow since mistakenly shooting up their
bus when it approached their checkpoint that morning, on January 11
2002. Ulman's men calmly handed out ammunition among themselves and
then told the civilians to walk out of the ditch towards the
mountainous road. Then they opened fire. A final shot to each head
ensured Ulman soon had "six 200s", as apparently ordered.
Chechnya
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Russia
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Nick Paton Walsh
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'I feel ashamed'
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1462215,00.html
Hilde Schramm spent 20 years writing to her father in jail in an
attempt to understand his Nazi past. Here, in a rare interview, she
tells Henrik Hamr=E9n how it really feels to be the daughter of Albert
Speer
Monday April 18, 2005
The Guardian
Before Hilde Schramm was nominated for the Moses Mendelssohn prize, few
Germans even knew the prize existed. But suddenly, at the end of last
year, the Jewish philosopher and his prize for "tolerance and
reconciliation" were on everyone's lips. The German media were
especially taken with the controversy over the prize ceremony, which
was planned for one of Berlin's synagogues. When the identity of the
winner was announced, the Jewish community refused point blank to host
the ceremony in a synagogue. The community spokesman, Albert Meyer,
stressed that Schramm was in no way an unworthy prizewinner - on the
contrary.
Hilde Schramm
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22&num=3D100&hl=3Den&lr=3D&safe=3Doff&sa=3DN&tab=3Dgn
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nG=3DSearch+Directory&hl=3Den&cat=3Dgwd%2FTop
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Chinese rebuff Japan's attempts to ease tension
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=3D630524
By David McNeill in Tokyo
18 April 2005
China and Japan appeared to be locked in a potentially disastrous
stand-off when thousands of protesters defied government warnings and
took to the streets of China for another day of violent anti-Japanese
rallies.
The protesters, carrying pictures of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
dressed as Hitler and placards saying "Japanese Pigs Out", overturned
Japanese cars and stoned shops, as Tokyo's Foreign Minister, Nobutaka
Machimura, had a dressing-down from his Chinese counterpart Li
Zhaoxing.
A Pipeline to Peace
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/18/opinion/18perkovich.html
By GEORGE PERKOVICH and REVATI PRASAD
A natural gas pipeline from the Persian Gulf to India would benefit all
parties involved. All the United States has to do is stay out of the
way.
Ralph Reed's Zeal for Lobbying Is Shaking His Political Faithful
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/18/politics/18reed.html?pagewanted=3Dall&pos=
ition=3D
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
and PHILIP SHENON
The former head of the Christian Coalition finds himself carrying some
baggage: his ties to the Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
Ralph Reed
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=3D100&hl=3Den&lr=3D&safe=3Doff&sa=3DN&tab=3Dgn
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0&hl=3Den&lr=3D&tab=3Dnw&ie=3DUTF-8&sa=3DN
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earch+Directory&hl=3Den&cat=3Dgwd%2FTop
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U=2ES. Outreach to Islamic World Gets Slow Start, Minus Leaders
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61213-2005Apr17.html
Effort Involves No Muslims; Hughes Will Not Arrive Until Fall
By Robin Wright and Al Kamen, Page A02
The Bush administration's outreach to the Islamic world is in no hurry.
And it includes no Muslims.
Finding Consensus On Global Economy
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61452-2005Apr17.html
Finance Chiefs Agree on Need for Change
By Paul Blustein, Page A08
A serious danger looms over the otherwise robust global economy, and
the tough measures needed to reduce it are clear. On that score, there
was almost unanimous agreement among the dark-suited policymakers from
around the globe who converged on Washington this weekend for the
spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
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