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Iraq |
59 killed, 120 injured in Iraq bombings |
2007-09-27 |
Bomb attacks killed 59 people and wounded more than 120 across Iraq on Wednesday when suspected Al Qaeda militants stepped up a campaign of violence coinciding with the holy month of Ramazan.
US wrath on non-supportive nations: US President George W Bush threatened nations with retaliation if they did not vote for a UN resolution backing the Iraq war, according to a transcript published Wednesday of a conversation he had with former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar. In the transcript of a meeting on February 22, 2003 — a month before the US-led invasion of Iraq — published in El Pais newspaper, Bush tells Aznar that nations such as Mexico, Angola, Chile and Cameroon must know that the security of the United States is at stake. More funds for Iraq, Afghanistan war: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is seeking nearly 190 billion dollars to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008, the largest war funding request ever in the six-year-old ‘war on terror’, the Pentagon said Wednesday. Gates was scheduled to testify later before a Senate committee on the request, which was 42.3 billion dollars greater than the administration’s estimate when it presented its 2008 budget request in February. |
Posted by:Fred |
#1 Bush tells Aznar that nations such as Mexico, Angola, Chile and Cameroon must know that the security of the United States is at stake. I must be slower than usual today. All I see is a statement of fact, not a threat. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2007-09-27 11:11 |