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378 Battle of Adrianople, Visigoth Calvary defeats Roman Army
480 -BC- Persia defeats Spartan king Leonidas at Thermopylae
1778 Capt Cook passes through Bering Strait
1786 1st ascent of Mt Blanc
1790 Columbia becomes 1st US flagged ship to voyage around the world
1803 1st horses arrive in Hawaii
1829 "Stourbridge Lion" locomotive goes into service
1831 1st US steam engine train run (Albany to Schenectady, NY)
1842 US-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty
1848 Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with the Free Soil Party nominating Martin Van Buren for president
1854 Henry David Thoreau publishes "Walden"
1893 1st US bowling magazine, Gut Holz, published in NY
1930 Betty Boop debutes in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes
1936 Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal of Berlin Olympics
1942 British arrests Indian nationalist Mohandas K Gandhi
1945 US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki
1946 1st time all major-league baseball games (8) are played at night
1956 1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama
1956 South African women demonstrate against pass laws
1960 Race riot in Jacksonville Florida
1961 James B Parsons is 1st black appointed to Federal District Court
1972 Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct the Space Shuttle
1973 USSR launches Mars 7
1974 Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th pres
1976 USSR launches Luna 24, last Lunar flight to date from Earth
1981 6 English lifeguards set relay swim record the English Channel (7:17)
1988 Just 1 day after 8/8/88 NY's daily number is 888
1990 12 Arab leaders agree to send pan-Arab forces to protect Saudi Arabia
1992 25th Olympic Summer games close in Barcelona, Spain
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Jerusalem Post
Netzarim, Gadid settlers hand in their weapons
By JPOST.COM STAFF
In a decision that may symbolize the Gaza settlers' acquiescence to the inevitability of the disengagement plan, residents of the isolated Gaza settlement of Netzarim decided on Tuesday to hand in their weapons to the security forces.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1123553937020
IDF seals off Ganim and Kadim
By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
OC Central Command Maj.Gen. Yair Naveh imposed a closed military zone on Ganim and Kadim in northern Samaria Tuesday afternoon, after residents of the two communities expressed fears that extremists would attempt to hamper the evacuation from their homes.
Recognizing the settlers' intentions to leave their homes willingly and in an orderly fashion, Naveh declared the area from the Jalameh checkpoint crossing and the access route leading to the two settlements a closed military zone.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1123553939560
IDF on high alert along northern border
By DAVID RUDGE
IDF troops along the northern border have been placed on a high state of alert and preparedness in case of any attempted attacks from Lebanon prior to or during disengagement from the Gaza Strip.
Reports in the Lebanese press on Tuesday said Hizbullah had also increased the alert level of its forces deployed on the Lebanese side of the border.
According to the A-Nahar Beirut daily, Hizbullah has taken widespread defensive measures out of concern that Israel may try and launch an operation against its forces.
Senior IDF sources however dismissed the reports as being part of Hizbullah's psychological warfare against Israel. The sources said the misinformation was being distributed to the Lebanese media to serve the interests of the extremist Iranian-backed Shi'ite Muslim organization.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1123553939617
US to invest millions in checkpoints
By MARGOT DUDKEVITCH
At a meeting between Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, PA Minister Mohammed Dahlan and World Bank envoy James Wolfensohn on Tueday night in Jerusalem, it was decided that the US would invest $50 million to improve major checkpoint crossings in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Security officials said the finances would be used to equip the Erez and Karni crossing in Gaza and the Tarkumiya and She'ar Ephraim crossing in the West Bank with new electronic equipment.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1123553941084
Our World: Netanyahu's great gamble
As I interviewed now former finance minister Binyamin Netanyahu last Wednesday, it was clear that he was in the midst of a personal struggle. As he laid out the ways he felt his presence in the government had mitigated some of the enormous damage the Sharon-Peres government's withdrawal and expulsion plan from Gaza and northern Samaria will cause to Israel's security, it was evident to me that for him it was not enough. And he was right.
Netanyahu has led the campaign to refuse the bizarre American demand that Israel rearm the Palestinian Authority's militias which themselves are deeply involved in terrorism. But, as he stated, the government's recent decision to relinquish control over the strategically vital Philadephi Corridor, which connects Gaza to the Sinai, together with its intention to enable the creation of a seaport in Gaza over which Israel will exert no security control, "will create a highway for the transfer of terrorists and terror materiel."
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1123467496854
Haaretz
Last update - 01:15 10/08/2005
Israel, PA agree on plan to raze evacuated settlements
By Amos Harel, Haaretz Correspondent
Israel and the Palestinian Authority agreed during a Tuesday meeting on the details of a plan to demolish the houses in Gaza Strip settlements set for evacuation under the disengagement. The plan must still receive final approval.
According to the plan, an international body, probably the World Bank, will oversee the demolition.
The meeting, held at Jerusalem's King David hotel, was attended by Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz, Palestinian Minister Mohammed Dahlan and the Quartet's Middle East envoy James Wolfensohn.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/610578.html
IDF: Forced evacuation to begin August 17 in Gaza
By Amos Harel and Yair Ettinger, Haaretz Correspondents
Israel Defense Forces officers distributed letters Monday afternoon to Gaza settlers telling them their presence in the Strip will be considered illegal as of August 15. Starting from midnight August 17, the IDF will evacuate any settlers still in Gaza.
The letters, which were signed by GOC Central Command Dan Harel and Brigadier General Guy Tzur, also offer IDF assistance in the evacuation for those who decide to leave voluntarily by midnight of August 16.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/610039.html
Palestinian fatwa forbids attacks that might delay the pullout
By Arnon Regular, Haaretz Correspondent
A senior Palestinian religious leader has issued an edict banning shooting attacks against Israeli security forces and settlements, out of concern they might lead to a postponement of the pullout from the Gaza Strip and part of northern Samaria.
"Anyone who causes the delay of the withdrawal of the occupation, or prolongs its existence on Islamic soil, is committing a crime according to Islamic law," Sheikh Jamal al-Bawatna, the mufti of the Ramallah district, says in a fatwa issued in the past few days.
He was responding to a question from Fatah institutions in the region, asking what should be done to those who "disturb the completion of the Israeli withdrawal."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/610066.html
Haaretz poll: Netanyahu gets 47%, Sharon 32%, in Likud runoff
By Yossi Verter, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service
Former finance minister Benjamin Netanyahu would beat Prime Minister Ariel Sharon by a substantial margin in a race for the Likud Party leadership if the party primary were held today, according to a new poll of Likud members conducted for Haaretz by Dialogue.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/610570.html
The Mail and Guardian has the most accurate estimation of the nuclear activities of Iran.
Iran sets off diplomatic scramble
Michael Adler Vienna, Austria
09 August 2005 02:45
Amid intense diplomacy, Britain, France and Germany circulated a draft resolution on Tuesday, ahead of a key meeting of the United Nations atomic watchdog, urging Iran to stop nuclear fuel work that has raised concerns of a possible weapons programme.
But diplomats said the tactic is running into opposition from non-aligned and other states that warned that cracking down on Iran could isolate it, as with North Korea.
They said the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), due to meet at 3pm GMT, is backing away from referring Iran to the UN Security Council, which could impose sanctions.
It follows Iran resuming nuclear fuel-cycle work that it had suspended in line with a deal with European Union negotiators Britain, France and Germany.
The United States, which claims the work is a front for developing nuclear weapons -- a charge Tehran strongly denies -- and the so-called EU-3 appeared to be having problems on Tuesday winning a consensus for a resolution condemning Iran, despite French Minister of Foreign Affairs Philippe Douste-Blazy having called the situation a "grave crisis".
He said French officials had received a letter from Tehran rejecting a package of EU incentives offered in exchange for Iran continuing to suspend nuclear work.
Iran says it has the right to the peaceful use of nuclear energy under the Non-Proliferation Treaty, a position supported by IAEA board members, such as Brazil, which have their own nuclear programmes.
Iranian Defence Minister Ali Skamkhani said Tehran will "resist" mounting international pressure and is unworried about threats of UN Security Council intervention.
A diplomat from one of the EU-3 states said they are circulating a draft resolution "that calls on the Iranians to stop activities in Isfahan", where the Iranians resumed uranium-conversion work suspended last November.
The resolution does not mention the harsher measure of taking Iran before the Security Council, said the diplomat, who asked not to be named.
"At this stage, options should be kept open," the diplomat added, saying the Iranians have only started on the first stage of conversion, itself a first step in enriching uranium into what can be fuel for nuclear power reactors but also the explosive core of atom bombs.
"We want to get a unified response from the board of governors," the diplomat said.
The EU must win support for a resolution condemning Iran from board members Russia -- which is building Iran's first nuclear power plant -- and China, a big client for Iranian oil.
A diplomat close to the IAEA said China, Russia and South Africa are working on a proposal that would allow Iran to do conversion work, with the uranium gas made from this process given to another country to distil into enriched uranium.
The Iranians seem to have won a political victory by ending the suspension and limiting the diplomatic reaction, diplomats said.
"The idea was to stop the Iranians from doing something but they've already done it and so the board is stymied," a Western diplomat said.
The diplomat described Tuesday's IAEA board meeting as "the beginning of a process" rather than the international community's definitive response to the Iranians, who have been under investigation for almost two years for failing to declare sensitive nuclear activities.
The board, whose meeting was delayed from the morning to the mid-afternoon in order to allow time for closed-door negotiations, had been expected to meet for one day but will now continue at least until Wednesday, diplomats said.
"While the Europeans would like to get a resolution, some don't think they will. The best they will get will be a simple statement from the chairman of the board," a Western diplomat said.
"The threat [of referral] is being held for a second meeting," a diplomat close to the IAEA said on Monday.
But another said the EU-3, the United States, Canada and Australia are discussing among themselves imposing economic measures against Iran, beyond a US embargo already in place, if the IAEA board fails to act. -- Sapa-AFP
http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=247592&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
Globe and Mail
Canadian stem cell star shuns U. S. riches
By CAROLYN ABRAHAM
Tuesday, August 9, 2005 Updated at 8:37 AM EDT
From Tuesday's Globe and Mail
A leading stem-cell scientist has turned down a multimillion-dollar offer in the United States in favour of heading Canada's first stem-cell research centre.
Mick Bhatia, a 35-year-old developmental biologist who specializes in the controversial study of human embryonic stem cells, is to become scientific director of a research centre now being built at McMaster University in Hamilton.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050809.wxstemcells09/BNStory/specialScienceandHealth/
Chicago Tribune
Founder of Ebony Magazine dead at 87
The Associated Press
Published August 8, 2005, 3:53 PM CDT
John H. Johnson, who with the creation Ebony magazine single-handedly ended the stereotypical coverage of blacks and made corporate America recognize the existence of the black consumer market, died today. Johnson was 87.
Born January 19, 1918 in Arkansas City, Arkanas, Johnson moved to Chicago with his family at age 15. After graduating from public schools, Johnson attended the University of Chicago and Northwestern University.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050808johnsonobit,1,5420082.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Behave yourself on Michigan Avenue
By Jason George
Tribune staff reporter
Published August 8, 2005
Stand on Michigan Avenue and look up to the spire of the Water Tower. You'll see history in the Gothic Revival architecture.
The future, however, is staring back.
Surveillance cameras peer down from rooftops at the tower square, while others scan from one passing face to another. Then there are those hidden in tinted globes. The Park Hyatt Chicago has one. So does Giorgio Armani.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0508080145aug08,1,7163844.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Judge threatens contempt for Patterson lawyer who walked out on hearings
By Mike Robinson
Associated Press Writer
Published August 8, 2005, 3:22 PM CDT
An attorney for former death row inmate Aaron Patterson could be held in contempt of court and fined for twice storming out of the courtroom in tears and delaying the start of his drug and firearms trial.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050808patterson,1,2891692.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Starbucks is grinding out hits as well as coffee
Joe purveyor adds music to its assets
By Bob Gendron
Special to the Tribune
Published August 7, 2005
More than 40 years after he got his start there, Bob Dylan is returning to the coffeehouse. Like older favorites such as Joni Mitchell and Carole King, the famous singer-songwriter has hitched his horse to the delivery wagon of Starbucks, the coffee purveyor and suddenly influential music retailer.
The concept of Starbucks selling music isn't new. Since purchasing Hear Music in 1999, the Seattle-based chain has carried compilations unobtainable elsewhere. Hear Music developed into a recognizable in-house label and sprouted the popular "Artist's Choice" series.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-0508070302aug07,1,6214291.story?coll=chi-entertainmentfront-hed
Forest-preserve raccoons seeking food, water in city
Drought and a ruined berry crop are driving a new population into the neighborhood
By Kelly Kennedy
Tribune staff reporter
Published August 8, 2005
A combination of the drought and a late freeze has sent Chicago's raccoons foraging for food and water in unusual places.
Like McDonald's.
"There was a late freeze just when many of our wild fruity trees and bushes were budding," said Robert Frazee, a natural resources educator from the University of Illinois Extension service. "When the berries didn't set on, it became really hard to find food, so the raccoons have been raiding many of the towns and villages."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-0508080091aug08,1,5080695.story?coll=chi-entertainmentfront-hed
LA Times
Federal Probe Sought in Toddler's Death During Police Shootout
By Wendy Thermos, Times Staff Writer
Lawyers for the family of the toddler killed by police during a firefight with her father last month announced today they are seeking a federal probe into the child's death.
During a press conference outside LAPD headquarters, attorney Luis Carrillo said the Los Angeles Police Department has a conflict of interest when investigating the shooting of 19-month-old Suzie Marie Peña.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-080805baby_lat,0,439115.story?coll=la-home-headlines
Another way to cut medical costs: Split your pills
More health insurers are endorsing the practice, but some physicians say it's risky.
By Timothy Gower, Special to The Times
Smart shoppers can't resist a two-for-one sale. But should you purchase prescription drugs the same way you buy pizza or canned corn? For years, people who take daily medications have saved money by asking their doctors to prescribe pills with double the dose they need, which they then cut in half with a knife.
Although skeptics say the practice may be unsafe, a growing number of health insurers are encouraging patients to split pills as a way to combat the rising costs of prescription drugs. In June, UnitedHealthcare, one of the nation's largest managed-care companies, advised members in Wisconsin to discuss pill splitting with their physicians. The insurer plans to introduce the program nationwide before the end of the year.
http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-pillsplit8aug08,0,5169585.story?coll=la-home-headlines
How Bush thinks: intuition over intellect
AS SOMEBODY WHO doesn't have the slightest feeling one way or another about baseball star Rafael Palmeiro, I have to say that it seems pretty clear Palmeiro has used steroids. Palmeiro recently tested positive for steroid use. And then there's former teammate Jose Canseco's allegation that he and Palmeiro both used steroids, which is impossible to verify but would seem to explain why Palmeiro's annual home run total nearly doubled after Canseco joined him on the Texas Rangers. None of this is ironclad proof, but it seems the simplest way to reconcile the available data.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-oe-chait5aug05,0,6079158.column?track=hpmostemailedlink
World News Mideast
Bird-Filled Emirates Wetlands Diminishing
August 08, 2005 — By Jim Krane, Associated Press
UMM AL-QUWAIN, United Arab Emirates — The Khor al-Beidah lagoon is a pristine tidal flat teeming with wildlife, including endangered birds, sea turtles and manatee-like dugong that swim among its tangles of mangroves.
But a bevy of dredges and construction gangs are about to begin transforming a 1,500-acre parcel into a $3.3 billion luxury conglomeration of homes, shops, marinas and beach resorts aimed at foreign buyers and tourists.
http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=8459
Musharraf snubs Miandad ceremony
BBC ONLINE, LONDON
Aug 6: Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has snubbed an invite to a celebration of the wedding of ex-cricketer Javed Miandad's son to a fugitive's daughter.
Junaid Miandad had married Mahrukh Ibrahim, daughter of Dawood Ibrahim, a man the US suspects of al-Qaeda links.
The post-wedding party drew more than 1,200 guests in Karachi on Thursday but not the president nor prime minister. Miandad had earlier expressed anger at the "negative propaganda" in the Indian media of the 23 July wedding in Dubai.
The lavish post-wedding party - or walima - was held in a five-star hotel in the southern port city of Karachi.
http://independent-bangladesh.com/news/aug/07/07082005sp.htm#A28
Former President Bush, Cheney visit Saudi king
Bush, Cheney, Powell: The visit is meant to show the importance of the nations' relationship
By Salah Nasrawi
The Associated Press
Vice President Dick Cheney, center, and former President Bush pay their respects Friday to new Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah in Riyadh. (Saudi Press Agency/The Associated Press )
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - A U.S. delegation led by Vice President Dick Cheney paid respects Friday to King Abdullah, a visit intended to show the importance Washington attaches to close ties with oil power Saudi Arabia.
Cheney, former President Bush and former Secretary of State Colin Powell offered condolences on the death Monday of the new monarch's half brother King Fahd.
http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_2919057
Cheney, Powell, former President Bush pay respects to new Saudi monarch
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
08/06/2005
They reportedly discuss Iraq, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and U.S.-Saudi relations.
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - A U.S. delegation led by Vice President Dick Cheney paid respects Friday to King Abdullah.
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/world/story/8FC14DB615EDD57E862570550007FD43?OpenDocument
High-ranking US officials in Riyadh to pay respects to new King
AP, RIYADH
Aug 5: Vice President Dick Cheney, accompanied by former President George H.W. Bush and former Secretary of State Colin Powell, paid respects Friday to new Saudi King Abdullah and offered condolences on the death of his half brother, the former king.
Reporters in the capital, Riyadh, were barred access to the American delegation, which was to have an audience with the new king after Friday prayers in the deeply conservative desert kingdom.
Oil-rich Saudi Arabia is a major U.S. ally in the Middle East, and Abdullah has worked to repair ties strained by the Sept. 11 attacks, in which 15 of the attackers were Saudis. The Bush family has had close ties with the Saudi leadership for decades.
At King Abdullah's formal investiture Wednesday, Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal said he expected U.S.-Saudi relations to continue improving, and he vowed a "total war" on terrorism.
Abdullah had served as de facto leader for a decade after King Fahd suffered a debilitating stroke. Top clerics Friday called on Saudis to join others in expressing their "bayah," or oath of allegiance, to Abdullah, which they said was every Muslim's religious duty. Tens of thousands of Saudis - tribal chiefs, Islamic clerics, army commanders and commoners - have been pouring into the governor's palace here to pledge loyalty to Abdullah, vowing to "hear and obey" in a traditional Islamic ceremony sealing his status as monarch.
http://independent-bangladesh.com/news/aug/06/06082005ap.htm#A18
Cheney invites new Saudi king to US
US vice President, King Abdullah hold talks on developments on regional, international scenes.
RIYADH - US Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday invited Saudi Arabia's new King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz to visit the United States during talks near the Saudi capital, the official SPA agency reported.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/saudi/?id=14215
Britain warns of terror attack in Saudi
Foreign Office says it has credible reports terrorists are in 'final stages' of planning attacks in Saudi Arabia.
LONDON - Britain said Monday it has "credible reports" that terrorists are in the "final stages" of planning attacks in Saudi Arabia, following the closure of the US embassy in Riyadh.
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/saudi/?id=14227
The Arab News
Abdullah, Cheney Review Ties
Javid Hassan & Mohammed Rasooldeen, Arab News
King Abdullah with members of the US delegation in Riyadh on Friday. (SPA)
RIYADH, 6 August 2005 — Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has been invited to visit the US by Vice President Dick Cheney.
King Abdullah also held a meeting with Cheney at his farm in Janadriyadh, near Riyadh, during which the two leaders reviewed their bilateral relations, and the situations in Palestine and Iraq as well as issues that came to the forefront during the Saudi-US summit at President George W. Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=68033&d=6&m=8&y=2005
New Ambassador to UK Named
Arab News
Prince Muhammad ibn Nawaf
RIYADH, 8 August 2005 — Prince Muhammad ibn Nawaf will be the new Saudi ambassador to Britain, Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal announced here yesterday during a wide-ranging press conference that touched on Saudi-British intelligence-sharing, Saudi-US relations as well as the Kingdom’s interests in preserving global oil-market stability and supporting the new government of Iraq.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=68125&d=8&m=8&y=2005
No Terror Threat, Says Interior Ministry
Mohammed Rasooldeen, Arab News
RIYADH, 8 August 2005 — The US Embassy in Riyadh and its consulates in Jeddah and Dhahran will be closed today and tomorrow due to terrorist threats against the missions’ buildings in the Kingdom, the US Embassy announced here yesterday. Last week, these missions were closed for three days on account of the demise of King Fahd.
In a warden’s message issued yesterday, the US Embassy advised all its citizens that its three missions in the Kingdom will remain closed in response to a threat against US government buildings in the Kingdom. It has also requested personnel working in its missions to limit their non-official travel during this period.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=68131&d=8&m=8&y=2005
Legal Mechanism Needs Strengthening, Feel Expats
Javid Hassan, Arab News
RIYADH, 8 August 2005 — Members of the expatriate community have said that the government under Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah should strengthen the legal mechanism for the protection of expatriates.
They also support the Kingdom’s recently announced “Look East” policy and favor a Saudi initiative for an international conference on security and economic cooperation involving the countries of South and Southeast Asia. Among other issues, they want the government to look into the problems of overseas contract workers and re-examine the criteria for the granting of Saudi citizenship to expatriates.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=68087&d=8&m=8&y=2005
Desert Can Be Deadly If You Aren’t Prepared
Mahmoud Ahmad, Arab News
In the desert when things go wrong they can be deadly if you are not prepared for the worst. (AN photo by Roger Harrison)
JEDDAH, 8 August 2005 — Saudi Arabia is a big place, and in the summer months it is a very hot place. These are facts easily overlooked by motorists rolling along through remote areas with their air-conditioners blasting out cold air.
For those traveling through unfamiliar areas or those who have car trouble, that summer jaunt quickly can turn into a life-threatening situation. In the old days, it was commonplace to hear about people getting lost in the desert and dying there. That did serve as a deterrent for the inexperienced traveler.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=68132&d=8&m=8&y=2005
Editorial: Preparing for Withdrawal
8 August 2005
Starting next week, the Israeli Army will do the unprecedented: It will begin evacuating, by force if necessary, about 9,000 Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip. Even the resignation of Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, former prime minister and Ariel Sharon’s main rival in the right-wing Likud party in protest will not prevent it. This first-time event has brought with it unparalleled situations.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=68099&d=8&m=8&y=2005
Lawrence of Arabia Could Have Slipped Through Blair’s Laws
Sarah Whalen, sawhalen@xula.com.edu
His family called him “Ned.”
Like the July 21, 2005 London train bombers, he was as British as cricket.
And like the London bombers, Ned, young, intense and often scowling, with beady, deep-set eyes, blew up trains.
He killed people, destroyed millions of dollars of property, and caused populations to panic.
He sought to topple some governments, some kings and princes, and to place his friends into power.
What would Great Britain’s Prime Minister Tony Blair do about Ned?
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7§ion=0&article=68107&d=8&m=8&y=2005
Abdullah Pardons Al-Hamid, Al-Faleh, Al-Damini, Saeed ibn Zaeer and Libyan Assassination Plotters
Rasheed Abou-Alsamh & P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah chairs the Cabinet meeting, the first after his accession to the throne, in Riyadh on Monday. (SPA)
JEDDAH, 9 August 2005 — In a day of dramatic developments and in a show of magnanimity, King Abdullah just seven days into his reign, pardoned three jailed dissidents and a group of Libyans who had plotted to assassinate him.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=68189&d=9&m=8&y=2005
Thousands of Vacant Positions Await Saudis: Gosaibi
P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News
Dr. Ghazi Al-Gosaibi
JEDDAH, 9 August 2005 — As many as 82,312 jobs in the private sector are available for Saudi applicants, Labor Minister Dr. Ghazi Al-Gosaibi announced yesterday.
He said his ministry had provided jobs to 40,000 Saudis during the last five months after a nationwide campaign to register jobseekers. He called upon unemployed Saudis to approach labor offices across the country and complete the formalities for placement in suitable jobs.
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Renowned Muslim Icon Deedat Dies
Samir Al-Saadi & Abdul Maqsood Mirza, Arab News
Sheikh Ahmed Deedat
JEDDAH, 9 August 2005 — Sheikh Ahmed Hussein Deedat died at the age of 87 in South Africa early yesterday morning. After suffering a stroke in 1996, Sheikh Deedat, founder of Islamic Propagation Center (IPCI) was paralyzed for the past nine years. Yusuf Deedat, Sheikh Ahmad Deedat’s son told Arab News that “It’s a nation’s great loss; he was an incredible debater who will be hard to replace.”
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