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US Urges Hamas to Stop Firing Rockets At Israel
By Kent Klein Washington 28 December 2008

 

 

 

 

The United States is blaming the Palestinian militant group Hamas for breaking a cease-fire and attacking Israel, which retaliated with airstrikes that have left more than 200 people dead. U.S. officials called for a restoration of the cease-fire and urged Israel to avoid civilian casualties. 

After the bloodiest day of Mideast fighting in years, the White House called for the cease-fire to be restored.

White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said it was "completely unacceptable" for Hamas, which controls Gaza, and which the United States considers a terrorist organization, to launch attacks on Israel after a truce that lasted six months.

Johndroe said Israel has a right to defend its people against terrorists, and he called Hamas "nothing but thugs."  He also called on Israel to avoid civilian casualties. "Israel has said that they are targeting security and headquarter elements of Hamas. We have asked and urged Israel to avoid civilian casualties. We want the cease-fire to be restored. But we understand that Israel is reacting to the hundreds of rockets that have been fired upon the innocent people of Israel over the last few days," he said.

Johndroe spoke from Texas, where U.S. President George Bush has been spending a Christmas vacation at his ranch. 

Johndroe also said President-elect Barack Obama, who is on vacation in Hawaii, was receiving security briefings on the situation in Gaza.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said she holds Hamas responsible for breaking the cease-fire that ended last week and for the renewal of violence in Gaza.  She said the cease-fire must be restored immediately and called on all concerned to address the urgent humanitarian needs of Gaza.
 

Israeli Airstrikes Kill More Than 270 in Gaza
By VOA News 28 December 2008

 

 

 

 

Palestinians carry a body from the rubble following an Israeli missile strike in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, 27 Dec 2008

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is saying the Palestinians could have avoided the ongoing attacks by Israel if the militant group Hamas had continued its six-month truce with the Jewish state.

Mr. Abbas Sunday in Cairo called on his rivals to renew their truce with Israel in order to prevent further bloodshed in Gaza.  Egypt's foreign minister Ahmed Abul Gheit also called on Hamas to extend the truce.

Palestinian officials say Israel's massive, two-day military assault on Gaza has killed at least 271 people.  Israel says the attack is in response to last week's series of rocket and mortar attacks that wounded Israeli civilians.

Airstrikes today included the destruction of a mosque in Gaza city.  Two people were killed.  Israeli officials say the mosque was being used as a base for terrorist activities.

Israeli warplanes and helicopters destroyed more than 40 Hamas security installations across Gaza Saturday, including compounds hosting graduation ceremonies for new recruits.  

Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak has warned the operation against Hamas will expand as necessary.  Officials say Israel's Cabinet today approved a callup of reserve soldiers for its Gaza offensive.

Hamas has vowed to avenge the attacks with more rocket strikes and suicide bombings.  Palestinian militants fired more than 50 rockets into southern Israel Saturday, killing one person.

The head of the Hamas government in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, said the group would not back down.  

In Damascus, exiled Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal urged Palestinians to wage a new intifada or uprising against Israel.

Palestinian medical officials and Hamas said the majority of those killed were Hamas members, including Gaza's police chief and another security official.  They said at least 15 Palestinian civilians were among the dead.  Another 700 people were wounded Saturday in one of the bloodiest days for the Palestinians in their conflict with Israel.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said civilian casualties would be avoided in Gaza, and that Hamas is Israel's target.  He also pledged to avert a humanitarian crisis.

Tensions between Israel and Hamas have escalated since a six-month cease-fire expired earlier this month.  The Israeli raid follows days of rocket and mortar attacks on Israel by militants in Gaza.

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Kosovo Speaker Lashes Out at Serbia
By VOA News 27 December 2008

 

 

 

 

The speaker of Kosovo's parliament is demanding Serbia release 10 men accused of war crimes carried out by ethnic Albanian guerrillas.

Jakup Krasniqi condemned the arrests Saturday and said the Serbian action was meant to provoke the not yet year-old country.

Serbian police arrested the men Friday after searching the southern town of Presevo, a predominantly ethnic Albanian area. Serbian officials say the 10 had been members of the Kosovo Liberation Army and committed war crimes during the Kosovo conflict.

Serbia's Interior Minister Ivica Dacic says Saturday the arrests do present a security risk and acknowledged the possibility of some retaliation. Serbian officials have said the arrests were carried out on the orders of the war crimes prosecutors.

Spokesman for Serbia's war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said the men are accused of killing at least 51 civilians and abducting 159 more between June and October of 1999.

The spokesman says they are also accused of torturing, looting and raping both Serb and non-Serb civilians in the eastern Kosovo municipality of Gnjilane, near the border with Serbia.

The sole ethnic Albanian member of Serbia's parliament, Riza Halimi, expressed surprise at the arrests and said they would do little to contribute to the stability of the region.

South Korean President Says Country's Economy May Shrink in 2009
By VOA News 27 December 2008

 

 

 

 

South Korea's president said Saturday that his country's economy could shrink during the first half of 2009 for the first time since the Asian financial crisis of 1997.

South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, 27 Dec 2008

President Lee Myung-bak said that while South Korea's economy may see positive economic growth for 2009 as a whole, it could contract during the first two quarters of the year. He cited the global economic slowdown and South Korea's dependence on external markets.

Earlier this month, South Korea's central bank predicted the country's economy would grow 0.6 percent in the first half of 2009 and 3.3 percent in the second half.

South Korea's top two automakers recently slashed sales forecasts by 12 percent. Hyundai Motors and Kia also announced they were implementing "emergency management" and freezing the salaries of their managers.

Earlier this month, another South Korean car company - Chinese-owned Ssangyong Motors - told workers it could not pay them their weekly salaries due to lagging sales.<i>

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US Police Bust Mexican Drug Gang, Arrest 39
By VOA News 24 December 2008

 

 

 

 

U.S. authorities say they have arrested dozens of suspects and broken up a smuggling network that has hauled up to 200 tons of marijuana to the southwestern state of Arizona each year from Mexico since 2003.

The Arizona attorney general's office issued a statement Tuesday, saying 39 people were arrested on felony charges, and nearly 60 people indicted following the investigation. Officials say the network in question, the Garibaldi-Lopez drug trafficking organization, transported drug loads to Phoenix, Arizona, across the remote desert wastes of the Tohono O'Odham Indian reservation, for Mexico's top Sinaloa cartel.

It says the network moved marijuana worth about one billion dollars through Phoenix for redistribution across the United States, and it used so-called "scouts" in the desert to look out for U.S. law enforcement during the smuggling operation.

Authorities say the operation also led to the seizure of cocaine, methamphetamine, thousands of dollars in U.S. currency, vehicles - some of them stolen - and firearms.

Laura Zuniga, center, shown to the press with other unidentified suspects after she was detained with guns and large amounts of cash in Zapopan, Mexico, 23 Dec 2008

Separately, Mexican authorities say a beauty queen from the drug-plagued Sinaloa state has been arrested after she was found riding with suspected traffickers in a truck full of weapons.

Officials say 23-year-old Laura Zuniga was detained late Monday, along with seven men, at a military checkpoint near the city of Guadalajara, in the western state of Jalisco. Officials also say no one expected Zuniga to be in the truck, which they say contained cellphones, cash, pistols, rifles and bullets.

In July, Zuniga won the title of Miss Sinaloa, the northwestern Mexican state where drug lords fight over smuggling routes to the United States.

Zuniga was named "Queen of Hispanic America 2008" in a recent contest, and was to compete in the Miss International 2009 pageant next year.

Earlier this month, Mexico's top prosecutor, Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora, said drug gang-related killings have more than doubled since last year, despite President Felipe Calderon's efforts to crack down on the gangs. He said the official death toll for drug violence in the nation is close to five-thousand-400, a 117 percent increase over last year's total.

Guinea Coup Leaders Meet Civil Society
By Scott Stearns Dakar 27 December 2008

 

 

 

 

Guinea's new military rulers met with civilian leaders Saturday, again promising to hold elections in two years. Senegal's president says the international community should support the junior officers who took power in a coup this past week.

Junta leader, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, speaks at meeting at Camp Alpha Yaya Diallo military camp in Conakry, 27 Dec 2008

Coup leader Moussa Camara welcomed more than 1,000 political, religious, labor, and civil society leaders to Conakry's main army barracks. They were joined by National Assembly speaker Aboubacar Sompare who Guinea's constitution says should have been named interim president following the death of long-time leader Lansana Conte.

But coup leaders toppled the civilian government Tuesday within hours of Conte's death, forcing Sompare and Prime Minister Ahmed Tidiane Souare to hand over power.

Foreign diplomats were to meet with Camara later Saturday. That meeting has been rescheduled for Tuesday. Most of the international community still opposes the military take-over. The African Union, the United States and the European Union have condemned the coup and called for Guinea to quickly return to civilian rule.

But Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade broke with his African Union colleagues Friday, telling reporters in Paris that the international community should support Camara's new ruling council. President Wade said coup leaders deserve international support because they are promising to hold free and fair elections.

Camara says the six civilians and 26 soldiers on the new National Council for Democracy and Development will organize elections in December 2010. President Wade, who spoke by telephone with Camara Friday, said the former army captain and self-declared president is an honest young man who has taken power to fill a dangerous vacuum.

Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade

The Senegalese president called on all countries, in particular former-colonial-power France to take the coup leaders at their word, and, Mr. Wade said, "not throw the first stone."

The French government holds the rotating chair of the European Union. Paris has called on Guinea's new military leaders to hold elections within six months. President Wade said he believes it would take at least eight months to register voters and hold an election.

The Senegalese leader said Camara asked him to be the military government's spokesman to the international community and believes the coup leader has no political ambition and will not be a candidate in future elections.

Camara told civilians assembled at the Alfa Yaya Diallo barracks Saturday that military leaders are freezing all gold mining and will re-examine all mineral contracts signed by the former government. Guinea is the world's largest exporter of aluminum ore and has deposits of diamonds, iron, and nickel.

Camara again criticized the former government, saying those found guilty of corruption will "be judged and punished before the people."

Military leaders Saturday lifted a nighttime curfew in the capital.  

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