Iraq States Retaliation Against Saudi Arabia And Kuwait
Iraq's ruling Baath party on Monday vowed military retaliation against Saudi Arabia and Kuwait for their part in the U.S. and British strikes around Baghdad on Friday that Iraq said left three dead and 30 wounded.
British Intelligence Spies On U.K. Mosques
In a damning revelation, the British daily, The Guardian, reported Sunday that M15 (British domestic intelligence) and police had ordered an Algerian asylum seeker to illegally break into British mosques in order to gather information on alleged Muslim "militants".
Israel And U.S. Conduct Missile Exercises
An Israeli army spokesman declared that Israeli and U.S. defense forces will on Monday begin a five-day exercise in which Patriot missiles will be fired against a simulated Scud missile attack.
Rights Groups Protest Israel's Court Pardon Of Jewish Killer
Human rights groups on Sunday criticized an Israeli supreme court decision releasing a Jewish settler, Yoram Skolnick, who had been sentenced to life imprisonment eight years ago for the murder of a Palestinian man who had been tied up and shot in the back.