4 WORLD NEWS The Nation Special, Sunday October 5, 2008 5
Struggling in polls, O.J. Simpson and his sister Carmelita Durio (L) arrive in court after
being notified a verdict was reached for his trial at the Clark County
Top Qaeda planner of NE WS IN BRIEF
McCain regroups Baghdad bombings slain: US
Regional Justice Center. Simpson and co-defendant Clarence “C.J.”
Stewart were found guilty on all charges after standing trial for crimes
including felony kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy related
to a 2007 confrontation with sports memorabilia dealers in a Las
Vegas hotel. The verdict comes 13 years to the day after Simpson was BAGHDAD (AFP) - US forces precision operation.” killed in the attack and four oth-
French FM to revive peace talks
in Arizona
JENIN (AFP) - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner was meeting Pales-
Law finally
acquitted of murdering his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald have killed an Al-Qaeda militant The military statement said ers were kidnapped and later
Goldman (AFP) who planned some of the biggest Abu Rami’s group was respon- killed. tinian officials in the West Bank on Saturday, the first day of a two-day trip aimed at
bombings in Baghdad and who sible for suicide bomb attacks in An insurgent alliance led by reviving the Middle East peace process ahead of a year-end deadline for a deal.
killed a group of Russian diplo- Baghdad on Thursday . Al-Qaeda later claimed it had On Sunday, he will get together with outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and
mats in 2006, the military said on In one incident, a man blew carried out the murders of the with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, who is seeking to form a new coalition govern-
FLAGSTAFF (AFP) - With president” that he would follow Saturday . himself up at the gate of Al-Ra- Russians after Moscow failed to ment following her election last month to head the ruling Kadima party.
poll numbers slipping, Republi- through on efforts to prevent fore- Mahir Ahmad Mahmud al- sool mosque in the Jadida neigh- heed an ultimatum to pull out of Kouchner will urgently renew a call to Israel to reduce restrictions on travel in the
can John McCain on Saturday closures. Zubaydi, also known as Abu bourhood and killed 12 people. Chechnya and free Muslim pris- Palestinian territories, which is stifling the local economy, a senior French diplomat
struggled to inject fresh energy A slew of polls have put Obama Assad or Abu Rami, was killed A suicide car bomb on the same oners from Russian jails. said.
into his White House campaign a firmly ahead both nationally and
catches up
along with an unidentified wom- day in the Zafaraniyah neigh- Abu Rami had ties to senior
little over four weeks before the in key swing states such as Ohio,
Top Russian officer dead in blast
an in Baghdad’s Sunni district bourhood killed eight people, in- leaders of Al-Qaeda in Baghdad
US presidential elections. Florida and Pennsylvania ahead of Adhamiyah on Friday, a state- cluding three Iraqi soldiers. and was also responsible for at-
As the clock ticks down to No- of the polls. ment said. Abu Rami was reportedly also tacks in Baghdad, Salaheddin
vember 4, McCain has yet to seize And they have suggested that Intelligence reports led US responsible for multiple car and Diyala provinces, the state- MOSCOW (AFP) - A top officer was among seven Russian soldiers killed in a car
the upper hand from his Demo- voters blame Republicans for forces to a building in Adhami- bombings and mortar attacks in ment said. bombing in the Georgian rebel city of Tskhinvali, Russian media reported Saturday,
cratic rival Barack Obama and the country’s economic woes and yah where Abu Rami was holed Sadr City in 2006 and 2007, in- Originally a member of Ansar amid conflicting reports on the incident.
has been left trailing in the polls. trust Obama more with fixing the up. cluding the car bombings on No- al-Islam, Abu Rami joined Al- The death of Colonel Ivan Petrik, head of the Russian military’s joint staff for the
Even a gutsy debate perfor- downturn. The troops came under attack vember 23, 2006 that killed more Qaeda in 2004 and became the South Ossetia conflict zone, was first reported by Kommersant newspaper and con-
mance by Republican VP pick New figures showed the sput- from inside the building and than 200 people. group’s head of Baghdad’s Ru- firmed to Interfax by a spokesman for Russian land forces, Ivan Konashenkov.
with O.J.
Sarah Palin late Thursday, in tering economy lost 159,000 jobs fired back, killing Abu Rami and The latter attack, in the sprawl- safa district in 2007. “It’s really the case. We’re not hiding his death,” Konashenkov said.
which she performed better than in September, as the weight of the woman. ing Shiite district of some two The military said Abu Rami Earlier Russia’s military said seven servicemen had been killed and seven others
expected against her Democratic the housing collapse and credit The troops later found explo- million people, was one of the specialised in car bombings and wounded in Friday’s car bomb blast at the Russian forces’ base in Tskhinvali, but
rival Joseph Biden, appears to crunch hit a broad swath of in- sives inside the building and deadliest assaults in Baghdad suicide bombings and personally did not identify the victims.
not have been enough to turn the dustries. detonated them, according to the during the peak of sectarian vio- selected the targets.
race around. Palin, the first time Alaska gov- statement. lence across the capital. “He allegedly ordered and di-
On Thursday the McCain cam-
paign pulled out of Michigan,
ernor plucked from obscurity by
McCain in late August, stood her
The killing of Abu Rami has
dealt a severe blow to Al-Qaeda
Abu Rami was also alleged to
have planned and participated in
rected a car-bombing attack May
1 that killed one American soldier
Mao’s personal plane up for sale
effectively surrendering the mid- ground against Biden late Thurs- in Baghdad, US spokesman Ad- several kidnappings and execu- and wounded three soldiers and BEIJING (AFP) - Mao Zedong’s personal airplane has been put up for sale by the
Simpson
western state to the Democrats, to day in the only vice presidential miral Patrick Driscoll said. tions. three Iraqi civilians. Detainee re-
focus instead on six swing states. debate of the 2008 White House owner of a shopping centre in southern China to make more space for parking.
“His removal from the AQI (Al- “In a video recording from June porting puts him at the scene of Wang Zhilei, general manager of property developer Ridong Group in Zhuhai, a
And with more bad news on the race. Qaeda in Iraq) network will send 2006, Abu Rami is seen shooting the crime,” the military said.
economic front, McCain was to A record 69.9 million people in city in southern Guangdong province, confirmed the company had put the 46-metre-
shockwaves through Baghdad’s one of four Russian diplomats,” In a separate statement the long plane up for sale.
retreat to his Arizona ranch for the United States tuned in, eclips- terrorist bombing networks,” he the statement said. military said its troops have
the weekend, in a highly unusual ing the previous best mark set in “There are not enough parking spaces, so we decided to sell the plane,” Wang
said in the statement. On June 3, 2006, a group of detained 10 other suspected Al- told AFP.
disappearing act at the height of 1984 when 56.7 million watched “Its ability to conduct grisly at- Russian diplomats were attacked Qaeda militants in raids across
the campaign. Geraldine Ferraro’s televised tus- But he would not comment further on prospective buyers or on the price Ridong
tacks against Iraqi civilians and by gunmen in the the upmarket northern and central Iraq since was seeking for the plane, and referred to a report by the Southern Metropolis Daily,
Missouri, where Thursday’s sle with George H.W. Bush. coalition and Iraqi forces has Baghdad district of Mansur. Friday .
debate was held, is one of the key Palin’s performance thrilled a Chinese newspaper.
been severely crippled by this One diplomat Vitaly Titov was
states in play -- along with Flor- the party’s conservative base, fol-
ida, North Carolina, Virginia, lowing days of concern over her
Indiana and Ohio -- and Repub-
licans there acknowledged there
was work to be done.
ability, and she told Fox news on
Friday that she had a ball doing
the debate.
More nations pull suspect products 38 killed in rebel-army fighting
ANKARA (AFP) - Fifteen Turkish soldiers and 23 Kurdish rebels were killed dur-
“Senator McCain has to win
Missouri to win the White House.
So there is a strong commitment
“It was a lot of fun. It was a
great opportunity to get to speak
directly to Americans. That’s how
as China milk scandal spreads ing a rebel attack on a military post near the Iraqi border, the Anatolia news agency
quoted an army spokesman as saying Saturday.
Two other soldiers remained unaccounted for after Friday’s attack on the post in
from the McCain-Palin campaign I looked at it when I walked into SEOUL (AFP) - South Korea, the scandal. “Consumers are advised not to Semdinli town in Hakkari province, General Metin Gurak, the head of the general
to make sure that we deliver Mis- there saying, you know, we’re not Australia and Japan Saturday Mars said while it was com- consume Kirin milk tea made in staff’s press department, said.
souri,” said the party’s state ex- going to be filtered,” Palin said. pulled melamine-contaminated plying with the South Korean re- China,” the organisation said.
ecutive director Jared Craighead. And she said she felt there had sweets and drinks from supermar- quest, the melamine levels detect- The Australian food watchdog
Obama meanwhile campaign-
ing in Pennsylvania vowed to pro-
been “some good chemistry” with
Biden, who on Friday attended a
ket shelves amid a widening scan-
dal over Chinese milk products
ed were too small to pose a health
risk, and called for a standard
has already recalled White Rab-
bit sweets and Chinese-made Press revels in return of ‘Prince of Darkness’
tect taxpayers and homeowners military ceremony in Delaware tainted with the toxic chemical. reporting limit of the industrial Cadbury chocolate eclairs, while
T
from the fallout of the Wall Street for his son, Beau, who like Palin’s Authorities in Seoul ordered chemical across Asia. importers of Lotte Koala Biscuits LONDON (AFP) - Britain’s newspapers said Saturday that Prime Minister Gordon
crisis. son, is being deployed to Iraq. hirteen years after being ther left him at age five, leaving him but aware that one day his legs would over his philandering and her flirting, Yet thanks to a “dream-team” of Mars and Nestle to pull three “Minute traces of melamine are have undertaken a precautionary Brown had either pulled off a masterstroke or miscalculation that might backfire in
“I’m glad to see we finally got Palin also vowed to be more cleared of the horrific in his mother’s care to grow up poor give, he began a less than brilliant ca- began to escalate. In a 911 call on New high-powered lawyers and some products after melamine, which is commonly found throughout the withdrawal of the product. bringing Peter Mandelson back into government.
this dealt with,” Obama told re- available to the media in the com- murder of his ex-wife and and suffering from rickets, a calcium reer as a sports commentator before Year’s Eve, 1989, played at his murder crucial mis-steps by prosecutors, usually used for making plastics, global food chain and melamine A Japanese importer, mean- The national dailies gave front-page coverage to the return of the former minister
porters after the House of Repre- ing weeks after being kept at a dis- her friend in a verdict that and vitamin deficiency that warped setting his sights on Hollywood. trial, Nicole can be heard screaming, the seed of doubt was planted in the was detected in snacks made in levels below 2.5 ppm are not while, began recalling Chinese dubbed the “Prince of Darkness”, who was sent to Brussels four years ago following
sentatives gave final approval to tance by the McCain campaign. shocked the world, the long his legs. He said he was lucky that he came “He’s going to kill me! He’s going to jury’s mind. China by the multinationals. deemed to indicate adulteration chocolates suspected of being his second scandal-tainted resignation from the Cabinet.
the rescue plan under which the “I look forward to speaking to arm of the law has finally caught up Unable to afford an operation to to Hollywood at a time when Ameri- kill me!” Eventually after a trial lasting 10
, The industrial chemical had with melamine,” it said. There contaminated with melamine. Brown appointed the 54-year-old European Union trade commissioner as his
Treasury will buy billions of dol- the media more and more every- with O.J. Simpson. straighten his legs, his mother creat- cans were looking for blacks on the After separating the couple were months, Simpson was acquitted after been found in M&M’s milk choc- was no immediate comment from The western Japanese city business secretary on Friday. Without a House of Commons seat, Mandelson will
lars in mortgage-related debt. day and providing whatever ac- The 61-year-old American football ed crude braces by putting the wrong screen, but the films he chose as ve- formally divorced in 1992. But on only three hours, a verdict that split olate snack and Snickers pea- Nestle Korea. of Osaka said a test showed the be made a lord and enter upper chamber in order to rejoin the Cabinet.
McCain called the financial cess the media would want. My legend was convicted of robbery and shoe on each foot and his legs grew hicles invariably flamed out. June 12 1994, Simpson’s ex-wife and America on racial lines: whites be- nut Fun Size, both produced by A KFDA official said South Ko- chemical had been detected in “His feud with Gordon Brown was so bitter that for years they barely spoke. So it
bailout package passed by Con- life is certainly an open book.” ,
kidnapping on Friday charges that stronger, so strong that eventually he But he did strike it big with white her friend Ron Goldman, were found ,
lieving he was guilty blacks believing Mars, and Kit Kat chocolate bars rea does not allow any level of “Chocolate Pillows” imported shows the PM’s desperation,” said The Sun, Britain’s biggest-selling daily.
gress Friday a necessary “out- Her campaign released tax and stemmed from his ill-judged bid to re- was able to churn up 100 yards in 9.9 corporate America and he proceeded murdered outside Brown’s apartment he was innocent. imported from Nestle Tianjin in melamine in food. “No melamine from China by Osaka-based NS “It is Mandelson’s sensational comeback that could decide Gordon Brown’s
rage” and vowed to clean up Wall income records showing that Pal- trieve personal items from two sports seconds. to cash in with advertisements of in Brentwood. There was to be no public reha- China, Korea Food and Drug Ad- in food is our standard,” he told International. fate”.
Street if elected. in, who regularly tells voters she memorabilia dealers at a Las Vegas He spent a week in detention for Royal Crown Cola, Schick, Foster Brown had been stabbed in the bilitation for Simpson however -- two ministration said. AFP . While there had been no reports The Daily Mail said on its front page: “Arise Lord Sleaze” saying Brown had hauled
“This rescue bill is not perfect, knows what it is like to struggle to hotel room. robbing a liquor store when he was Grant, Treesweet orange juice and throat so savagely she had almost years later a civil trial found Simpson “Mars is recalling these prod- World Health Organisation food of health problems, the city or- his centre-left governing Labour Party “back to its worst days of sleaze”.
and it is an outrage that it’s even pay the bills, earns nearly 200,000 Now Simpson -- who in the court of 15. Upon his release, he was met by Wilson Sporting Goods. been decapitated. Simpson was im- liable for the wrongful death of Gold- ucts because it is legally obligated safety expert Peter Ben Embarek dered the importer to recall some
necessary,” he said. “But we must and has substantial savings. public opinion got away with murder baseball star Willie Mays who urged But it was Hertz that boosted his mediately the prime suspect. man and battery of Simpson, order- to do so following the announce- said earlier this week that many 86,000 packages of the chocolates
at his circus-like trial in Los Angeles him to stay out of trouble and told finances and public recognition at a However when he failed to turn ing him to pay 33.5 million dollars
Choi’s Death Hits Ildong
stop the damage to our economy But while acknowledging Pal- ment by the Korean Food and countries had only recently fixed on the grounds that the company
done by corrupt and incompetent in’s better-than-expected perfor- in 1995 -- faces years behind bars after him to develop his talent. time when it was flagging by portray- himself in for arrest, a manhunt be- damages. Drug Administration (KFDA),” limits for melamine in food as may have violated the food sanita-
practices on Wall Street and in mance during the debate, The being convicted by an all-white jury He got his running legs on the ing him as a smiling businessmen in gan that led to Simpson being chased To this day Simpson has never paid Mars said in a statement. “melamine has nothing to do with tion law.
Washington.” New York Times blasted her selec- in the gambling haven known as “Sin tough turf of a San Francisco hous- three-piece suit dashing through the at slow speed down a freeway in a a penny of the damages award, mov- Melamine has been blamed for the food chain”. A growing number of coun-
Despite McCain’s dash back to tion as McCain’s running mate. City.” ing project and they propelled him to airport. white Ford Bronco under the full ing to Florida in order to protect him-
Pharmaceuticals
making thousands of infants ill The chemical was added to milk tries throughout Asia as well as
Washington last week to try to get “In the end, the debate did not It could well be the final chapter fame and glory on the football field as In 1977, he met Nicole Brown, then glare of news helicopters. self against legal claims to his assets. and killing four in mainland Chi- before being sold to dairy manu- Africa are banning products over
a deal on the table, Obama was change the essential truth of Ms. of a rags-to-riches life-story that saw a rusher for the Buffalo Bills. an 18-year-old waitress in a Rodeo Eventually apprehended and However Simpson re-emerged into na after it tainted baby milk pow- facturers in a bid to falsely boost the scandal but it has also hit Eu-
widely credited with helping to Palin’s candidacy,” the newspa- Simpson rise from humble origins to He won the coveted Heisman Tro- Drive disco when he was a superstar. charged with double murder, the evi- the public eye in 2006 with news he der in one of the country’s worst protein readings, Chinese author- rope.
break the deadlock among law- per opined. “Mr. McCain made a become a beloved household name phy in 1968 and became the first Na- He soon separated from his first wife dence against Simpson seemed strong had penned a book “If I Did It?”, an ever product safety scandals. ities have said. The European Union recently
makers. wildly irresponsible choice that before his later transformation into tional Football League rusher to gain Marguerite and he and Nicole began as his trial began in early 1995. account of how he would have killed Top actress Choi Jin-shil’s sudden industry.
China is struggling to limit the A fourth Chinese milk product banned all imports on Chinese
Obama said he had lobbied a shattered the image he created for one of the most notorious figures in more than 2,000 yards in a single sea- living together, marrying in 1985. DNA linking him to the crime Brown and Goldman had he been the death Thursday morning was sad for all, Other rumors have started in similar
damage to its food safety repu- has been withdrawn from sale in milk-related products for children
number of Democratic lawmak- himself as the honest, seasoned, American life. son. In 1973, he won the NFL’s Most Friends and Nicole’s family said scene had been recovered, and he had actual murderer. but those with business connections to the ways in the past, such as the ``Celebrity
tation as a growing number of Australia after tests revealed it such as biscuits and chocolate on
ers who wanted assurances from experienced man of principle and Born Orenthal James Simpson on Valuable Player award. that O.J. always wanted control over no alibi for his exact whereabouts on The book’s publication was can- popular celebrity were quick to act to mini- X File’’ ― a giant file of rumors surround-
countries have decided to suspend was tainted with melamine, Food top of a long-standing embargo on
him “as potentially the next judgment.” July 9, 1947 in San Francisco, his fa- Unwilling to leave the limelight Nicole and that confrontations, often the night of the killings. celled following a public outcry . mize the negative impact on their brand ing celebrities and politicians ― which was
imports of Chinese milk products Standards Australia New Zealand Chinese dairy products like milk
image. found to have originated from a securities
or withdraw them from sale over said in a statement. and yoghurt.
Ildong Pharmaceuticals, which had a brokerage in 2005. Celebrity gossip has
12-month contract with Choi, 10 months often accompanied rumors about compa-
Islamists slap US envoy in China for talks Kenyan terror suspects released in Ethiopia, arrive home
of which had passed, immediately pulled ny acquisition and other business-related
Rice in India amid hitches
down all online ads from Web portals and hearsay.
the company’s Web site upon hearing The Korean Times
Sharia law on
news of the suicide.
on NKorea nuclear deal
It discontinued airing radio and tele-
with nuclear pact
NAIROBI (AFP) - Eight Ke- several detention facilities in Ethi- the United Kingdom, and Canada. Western intelligence agencies vision commercials for popular vitamin
Somalia town
nyans held in Ethiopia without opia. Human Rights Watch, MHRF Other detainees included Somalis, have warned that Somalia, a na- supplement Aronamin Gold and healing
charge since 2006 on suspicion of and other rights groups said sev- Ethiopia Ogadenis and Eritreans. tion without a functional govern- agent Mediform. She has represented
BEIJING (AFP) - US envoy in November 2007 under the pact ties to Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists eral of them were tortured. Kimathi told AFP that the ninth ment since the 1991 ouster dicta- these products since 2005 on an annually
Christopher Hill held talks Satur- with South Korea, Japan, Russia, have been released and arrived Kimathi, who led a campaign for suspect, Abdulkadir Mohamed tor Mohamed Siad Barre, risks renewed contract.
NEW DELHI (AFP) - US Secretary of strong and deep” relationship with In- MOGADISHU (AFP) - Islamists in a town in south- day with his Chinese counterpart the United States and China. home in Nairobi on Friday, a hu- their release or prosecution, wel- Aden, remained in Ethiopian cus- becoming an haven for extrem- Following the news, the drug maker’s
State Condoleezza Rice arrived in India dia, she said. ern Somalia have imposed Sharia law in line with their amid stepped up efforts to salvage But it announced last month it man rights official and police said. comed their arrival home. tody for unknown reasons. ists. stock price fell slightly, closing at 27,600
Saturday to showcase a historic bilat- But Daryl Kimball, executive director vow to bring back Islamic theocracy to areas where a crumbling North Korean nuclear had halted work in protest at Wash- “The government has confirmed “It has been a very painful and “But I suspect there is a conten- On Wednesday, the HRW issued won Thursday, down 1.43 percent from
eral nuclear deal, but last-minute hitches of the US Arms Control Association and they were ousted two years ago, a spokesman said disarmament deal, a US embassy ington’s refusal to drop it from the to us that eight out of the nine Ke- tragic experience for the detainees tion over his nationality because a 60-page report entitled “Why Am the previous trading session. The financial
raised doubts that the pact would be a strong critic of the nuclear pact, said Friday. spokesman said. US blacklist of countries support- nyans held in Ethiopia have been and their families that should not he worked with Somalia Red Cres- I Still Here?” investigating the fate market was closed Friday for a holiday.
signed on her trip. the Indians were likely to be unhappy The Mujahideens of Southern Somalia, a group Hill briefed top nuclear nego- ing terrorism, as promised under freed and they arrived back in Ke- be allowed to happen again,” he cent when he was arrested. He is of the detainees, and urged Addis Her agency SBM Korea’s share price
A signing delay would be another bump with a promise Rice made to Congress allied to the radical Shebab movement on Thursday tiator Wu Dawei on the outcome the deal. nya today,” Ali-Amin Kimathi, the said. Kenyan and I have his passport,” Ababa to release them, some 15 to also showed little fluctuation, but the
in a three-year rollercoaster for an agree- in return for its quick adoption. named a 23-member board to enforce the law in Cel- of his discussions this week with Washington says the North must chairman of Kenya’s Muslim Hu- “The governments of Kenya, So- he added. 21 months after they were first ar- shocking suicide of the much-adored ``na-
ment aimed at lifting a ban on US-Indian Rice pledged to push as hard as waq, about 650 kilometres (400 miles) southwest of North Korean officials on the fal- first accept strict outside verifica- man Rights Forum (MHRF), told malia and Ethiopia broke humani- Officials said the deal was rested. tion’s actress’’ shook the stock market, es-
civilian nuclear trade imposed after India’s she can to have the NSG “amend its Mogadishu. tering deal to halt the communist tion of the nuclear inventory that AFP. tarian, international and national reached after Nairobi sent a team “The dozens of people caught pecially because the malicious rumor that
first nuclear test in 1974. guidelines to prohibit the transfer of en- “This administration will govern the town using laws state’s nuclear ambitions, he said. Pyongyang handed over in June -- “I can confirm they (Kenyans) laws in the treatment of these peo- to Addis Ababa in August to nego- up in the secret Horn of Africa drove her to her death reportedly emerged
Rice, who was due to meet Indian richment and reprocessing technology of the Holy Koran,” its spokeman Mohamed Osmail The US diplomat Friday de- a key topic in Hill’s discussions in have arrived home,” a police offi- ple,” he said, accusing Washington tiate their freedom amid mounting renditions in 2007 have suffered from the financial industry.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and to states that haven’t signed the NPT,” Indhobur told AFP. scribed as “very substantive” the Pyongyang. cial said. of pressuring these African gov- pressure from the detainees’ fami- in silence too long,” said Jennifer Police investigation said Choi suf-
Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee, said Kimball said. Celwaq, near the border with Kenya, is home to tens talks during his visit to Pyongyang, US officials had said earlier Hill Government spokesman Alfred ernment to violate rights. lies and rights groups. Daskal, senior counterterrorism fered mental stress in recent weeks amid
the problem was bureaucratic rather than India badly wants such technology of thousands of people, boosted by refugees who have but gave no further details, saying could offer the North a face-saving Mutua was expected to make a for- US and other intelligence ser- Ethiopian troops invaded Soma- counsel at HRW and author of the groundless rumors that she had lent mon-
substantive. which can be used for both peaceful fled fighting in the rest of Somalia. he must first brief other parties to compromise in hopes of settling mal announcement on Saturday. vices interrogated several foreign lia in late 2006 to bolster the coun- report. ey to actor Ahn Jae-hwan, who had killed
“There are a lot of administrative de- and military purposes, Kimball said. It has escaped much of the civil war, but local mi- the six-nation agreement. the verification dispute. They were among a group of at nationals while they were being try’s feeble government against Is- The rights panel said that while himself in early September over mounting
tails that have to be worked out,” Rice told Prime Minister Singh has had a litia allied to Islamists have moved in to plug a power A dispute over inspections of the Under the plan, North Korea least 150 who were detained by Ke- detained in Nairobi and Ethiopia, lamist insurgents accused of ties most suspects were sent home debt.
reporters on her flight to New Delhi. rough ride over the deal at home. vacuum in recent weeks. North’s nuclear facilities threatens may first give China a plan that nyan forces on its border with So- where they were denied access to with Al-Qaeda. when the interrogations ended, Rumors quickly spread online through
“I’ll let you know (if the signing is on) The main opposition Hindu nation- Islamist fighters, accused of ties to Al-Qaeda, gained to wreck last year’s agreement un- includes sampling of nuclear ma- malia as they fled Ethiopia’s war legal counsel and their consular Although the Islamists, who some remain abandoned in Ethio- blogs and other Web channels.
but the whole purpose of this trip is to alists and the communists have both control of the southern port of Kismayo five weeks ago der which the North shut down its terial, access to key atomic sites with Somali Islamist rebels late representatives, rights groups had briefly controlled south and pia. After police found Friday that the person
move forward, not to look at where we slammed it as curbing India’s military after battles that claimed dozens of lives. nuclear programme in return for and other verification provisions 2006. have said. central Somalia were ousted early Seven of 19 Kenyans known to responsible for the first malicious posting
are,” she added. options and bringing the country’s for- Islamists were ousted from southern Somalia early fuel aid and its removal from a US sought by the United States. Nairobi put some of those it de- The rights groups said the de- last year, they have since waged have been detained in 2006 are still on Choi was a female employee of a local
Both houses of the US Congress voted eign policy too much under US influ- 2007 after battles with Ethiopia-backed Somali forces, terrorism blacklist. President George W. Bush would tained on flights to Somalia, where tainees included men, women and a deadly guerrilla war against missing. Two were released in Nai- securities firm, it is expected that there will
in favour of the landmark nuclear deal this ence. ending their brief administration that had imposed Is- The hardline North now threat- then provisionally remove the they were handed over to the Ethi- children from more than 18 coun- troops from Ethiopia, Somalia and robi in 2007 and one fled custody in be a crackdown to prevent unsubstanti-
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (C) Even after the accord is signed, US lamic law. opian military and transferred to tries -- including the United States, African Union. Ethopia in February. ated rumors spreading within the financial
week, but President George W. Bush has waves upon her arrival at Indira Gandhi firms cannot do business until Delhi ens an imminent restart of its plu- North from the terrorism list, af- Choi Jin-shil
yet to sign it into law. But they have turned to guerrilla attacks on Ethio- tonium reprocessing plant at Yong- ter which China would announce
International Airport in New Delhi. Rice signs a safeguards agreement with the pian, Somali and African Union peacekeepers, mainly
While Rice did not elaborate on the has arrived in India to showcase a historic IAEA. byon, an issue which Hill called a North Korea’s acceptance of the
administrative snags, she insisted she in Mogadishu, and have had some success. “great concern.” verification plan.
civilian nuclear deal, but last-minute The US Chamber of Commerce said When in power in 2006, the Islamists carried out ex-
did not have to wait for Bush’s signature hitches raised doubts that the pact would with India’s 34-year nuclear isolation Hill left Pyongyang Friday for This would allow Pyongyang to
before initialling the pact herself. ecutions, shuttered cinemas and photo shops, banned Seoul, where he briefed his South assert that the delisting occurred
be signed on her trip AFP now history, a potential 150 billion dol- live band music, flogged drug offenders and harassed
According to Indian foreign ministry Korean and Japanese counterparts before the verification plan was in
sources, however, New Delhi wants the lars (107 billion euros) of new invest- civilians, mainly women, for failing to wear appropriate before heading to China which place.
presidential seal before moving forward. The Bush administration had to lobby ments were expected in terms of new dress in public. chairs the six-nation talks that North Korea, meanwhile, came
The deal offers India access to sophis- hard to win approval for the deal from nuclear generating capacity by 2030. In addition, they banned foreign music, romances forged the deal. under pressure at a meeting of the
ticated US technology and cheap atomic the International Atomic Energy Agency The agreement is a key foreign policy between unmarried teens, all commerce and public In an indication of the challeng- UN atomic watchdog in Vienna on
energy in return for New Delhi allowing UN (IAEA), the UN nuclear watchdog, and the success for Bush who agreed to it with transport during prayer times and decreed that Mus- es facing Hill and the other envoys, Friday to resume the nuclear dis-
inspections of some of its civilian nuclear Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG), which Singh in 2005 as part of a strategic part- lims who do not pray daily can be punished by death. the North was still moving to re- ablement process.
facilities. controls global atomic trade. nership between the two biggest democ- Alarmed by the strict and fundamentalist version of start the plant despite the envoy’s In a draft resolution to the Inter-
Military nuclear sites will remain closed Rice put the agreement in the context racies. Sharia law, the United States led Western concern over Pyongyang visit, the State Depart- national Atomic Energy Agency’s
to international inspections. of a budding US-India strategic partner- During her talks in India, Rice said she a “creeping Talibanization” in Somalia by the Islamists. ment said Friday . general conference, eight member
Critics say it undermines global efforts ship that covers cooperation on defence, would also discuss India’s support for Somalia has had no effective government since the The North, which tested an countries said it was “important”
to curb the spread of nuclear weapons, education, the economy, agriculture and boosting Afghan political and economic in- 1991 ouster of Siad Barre touched off a bloody power atomic weapon in October 2006, that Pyongyang resume disable-
because India has refused to sign the in- other fields. stitutions.She was scheduled to leave for struggle that has defied numerous attempts to restore began disabling its aging reac- ment work.
ternational non-proliferation treaty (NPT). The United States now has a “broad, Kazakhstan on Sunday. stability. tor and other plants at Yongbyon