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Baghdad, Iraq
U.S. unveils military timeline
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Two weeks before U.S. midterm
elections, American officials unveiled
a timeline Tuesday for Iraq’s Shiite-led
government to take specific steps to
calm the world’s most dangerous capital
but said more U.S. troops might be
needed to quell the bloodshed.
U.S. officials previously said they
were satisfied with troop levels and had
expected to make significant reductions
by year’s end. But a surge in sectarian
killings, which welled up this past
summer, forced them to reconsider.
At a rare joint news conference with
the American ambassador, the top U.S.
commander in Iraq, Gen. George Casey,
said additional U.S. troops could come
from inside or outside Iraq to “improve
basic services for the population of
Baghdad.”
“Now, do we need more troops to do
that? Maybe. And, as I’ve said all along,
if we do, I will ask for the troops I need,
both coalition and Iraqis,” Casey said.
day in the hands of Palestinian gunmen
who abducted him at gunpoint in Gaza
– the latest in a string of kidnappings
of foreigners in the chaotic area.
Emilio Morenatti, 37, was brought
before midnight to the office of
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
by Fatah officials. It was not immediately
clear who kidnapped him, though
officials said he was taken by criminals.
The government and main
Palestinian groups denounced the
abduction. No demands were made for
his release.
Morenatti was seized as he headed
out of his Gaza City apartment for an AP
car, where Majed Hamdan, an AP driver
and translator, was waiting. Hamdan
said four gunmen grabbed his keys
and cell phone and told him to turn
away, pressing a gun to his head and
threatening to harm him if he moved.
They took Morenatti, shoving him
into a white Volkswagen Golf and driving
off, Hamdan said.
vienna, austria
Allies draft new resolution
Gaza City, gaza strip
AP photographer freed in Gaza
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An Associated Press photographer
was released Tuesday after a harrowing
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The U.S. and its allies want the
U.N. Security Council to ban the sale
of missile and atomic technology to
Iran and end most U.N. help for its
nuclear programs, moves diplomats said
Tuesday are narrowly focused in hopes
of winning Russian and Chinese backing
for sanctions.
The diplomats, who spoke with
The Associated Press on condition of
anonymity because the draft resolution
was not yet public, said the proposal
also would commit U.N. member nations
to denying entry to Iranian officials
involved in developing missiles or
nuclear systems.
A Security Council resolution passed
last week imposed similar sanctions
on the sale or transfer of technology
that could contribute to North Korea’s
nuclear and ballistic missile programs
after that nation’s test explosion of a
nuclear bomb.
One of the diplomats described
all three measures aimed at Iran as
moderate in impact, saying that was
an attempt to win Russian and Chinese
support. Moscow and Beijing could be
formally presented with the draft later
this week, the diplomat said.
Both Russia and China have agreed
in principle to imposing sanctions over
Iran’s defiance of a council ultimatum to
freeze uranium enrichment and sharply
improve cooperation with the U.N. probe
of suspect Iranian atomic activities.
But both continue to publicly push
for dialogue instead of U.N. punishment,
despite the collapse last month of a
European Union attempt to entice Iran
into talks. The EU proposed Iran at least
temporarily freeze enrichment as a
condition for multilateral talks meant to
erase suspicions it may be trying to build
nuclear arms in violation of its treaty
commitments.
As permanent members of the
council, Russia and China hold the power
to veto its actions, as do the United
States, France and Britain, which drew
up the sanctions resolution.
Iran insists it won’t halt uranium
enrichment, which it says is intended
solely to produce fuel for nuclear
reactors that will generate electricity.
But enrichment also can produce
material for nuclear warheads, and the
U.S. and others are suspicious of Iran’s
intentions.
Beijing
N. Korea may be willing to talk
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China gave its first full public account
Tuesday of its mission to North Korea,
saying it got no apology from top leader
Kim Jong Il for the atomic explosion but
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did receive assurances there were no
plans for a second nuclear test.
The North’s reclusive leader also
expressed a willingness to return to
six-nation talks over its nuclear program
if financial restrictions levied by the U.S.
are first resolved, said Chinese Foreign
Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao.
Chinese State Councilor Tang Jiaxuan
met with Kim last week during a trip to
Pyongyang with Beijing’s top nuclear
envoy and vice foreign minister that
analysts and diplomats had called a
critical opportunity to assess the North’s
intentions.
The meeting resulted in no
breakthroughs, but China cast the
discussions in a positive light.
Tang was told during meetings with
Kim and other North Korean officials
that the regime has no plans currently
to carry out a second nuclear test, Liu
said. “But if it faces pressure, North
Korea reserves the right to take further
actions,” he added, citing Tang.
A second nuclear test has been
widely believed to be a possibility.
Earlier this month, U.S. media reported
that Pyongyang may be preparing for
another blast, citing suspicious activity
at a suspected test site in the country’s
northeast.
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