Date: Mon, 05 Dec 2005

MOTHER of Canadian hostage held in Iraq pleads for son’s safe … CBC News – Canada
WELLINGTON, NZ (CP) – The mother of a Canadian hostage held in Iraq pleaded Sunday for her son to be freed unharmed, days ahead of the date his captors said …
www.cbc.ca/cp/world/051204/w120454.html

NO oil talk during Iraq tour: Ex-Union Minister P Shiv Shanker Outlook (subscription) – New Delhi,India … was no discussion over oil between the Congress delegation led by party leader K Natwar Singh and Iraqi ministers when they met in 2001 in Iraq, former Union …
www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=339559

MOB Assails Former Prime Minister in Iraq New York Times – United States
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 4 – Former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi was assailed by a mob today during a campaign visit to the Shiite holy …
www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/international/middleeast/04cnd-iraq.html?h
p&ex=1133758800&en=5c16772029d814d2&ei=5094&partner=homepage

20 insurgents killed in Iraq
Japan Today – Tokyo,Japan
… on Sunday the completion of Operation Shank in the provincial capital of Ramadi, resulting in the “detention of four suspected members of al-Qaida in Iraq”. …
www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=8&id=357378

WIFE of British hostage in Iraq pleads his release Xinhua – China
ABU DHABI, Dec 4 (Xinhuanet) — The wife of Norman Kember, a Briton being taken hostage in Iraq along with three others, pleaded with the captors to release him …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/05/content_3878700.htm

Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005

KIDNAPPERS threaten to kill Western hostages in Iraq Japan Today – Tokyo,Japan
BAGHDAD — Kidnappers on Saturday threatened to murder four Western peace activists abducted in Iraq last week as the unrelenting insurgency claimed the lives …
www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=8&id=357335

19 soldiers killed in Iraq terror ambush Ireland Online – Dublin,Ireland
… Earlier this week, President George W Bush outlined his strategy for victory in Iraq, with a key point calling for Iraqi forces eventually to replace US troops …
breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=164742982&p=y64743688

INDIAN minister involved in Iraq oil deal refuses to resign Xinhua – China
3 (Xinhuanet) — Indian Minister Natwar Singh, who was involved in an Iraq oil deal, met Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Saturday but did not resign …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-12/03/content_3873430.htm

AID group makes plea for Western hostages in Iraq Reuters AlertNet – London,England,UK
DUBAI, Dec 3 (Reuters) – The director of an aid group appealed on Saturday to the abductors of four Western hostages held in Iraq to release them, saying they …
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L03226030.htm

US defends paying Iraq newspapers to carry positive news Times of Oman – Oman
… command in Baghdad has acknowledged for the first time that it has paid Iraqi newspapers to carry positive news about US efforts in Iraq, but officials …
www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=22752

Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005

BUSH’S Iraq plan lacks details
The State – Columbia,SC,USA
By CRAIG GORDON. WASHINGTON — For a man trying to convince Americans that he has a way out of Iraq, President Bush had an unusual way of going about it. …
www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/13307500.htm

CONCERN voiced on payment by US for stories in Iraq Boston Globe – United States
… One, for $6 million, was for public relations and advertising work in Iraq and involved planting favorable stories in the Iraqi media, according to a document. …
www.boston.com/news/world/articles/2005/12/02/co
ncern_voiced_on_payment_by_us_for_stories_in_iraq

GERMANY wants to make contact with Iraq kidnappers Malaysia Star – Malaysia
BERLIN (Reuters) – The German government wants to contact the gunmen in Iraq who kidnapped a 43-year-old German archaeologist and have threatened to kill her …
thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/12/2/worldupdates/2005-1
2-02T034831Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-225923-1&sec=Worldupdates

OLD warrior sounds retreat from Iraq
Toronto Star – Canada
History may well record that the beginning of the end of the American nightmare in Iraq came on Nov. 17, when an old warrior said …
www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article
_Type1&c=Article&cid=1133477415468&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968350116795

FROM baker’s assistant to jihadist suicide bomber in Iraq Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) – MN,USA … Nov. 9 near a US military patrol in Iraq after entering the country from Syria a month ago, and was the only person killed. “It …
www.startribune.com/stories/722/5758835.html

EXPERTS Examine Details of Bush Plan for Iraq Voice of America – USA
By Jeffrey Young. Wednesday, President Bush outlined US plans for operations in Iraq. … US involvement in Iraq began with strong Congressional and public support. …
www.voanews.com/english/2005-12-03-voa8.cfm

MILITARY Admits Planting News in Iraq
New York Times – United States
… Senate Armed Services Committee, told reporters after receiving a 25-minute briefing from officials at the Pentagon that senior commanders in Iraq were trying …
www.nytimes.com/2005/12/03/politics/03propaganda.html

KIDNAPPERS issue deadline for hostages in Iraq CTV.ca – Canada
Apparently frightened but healthy, the Canadians among members of a Christian peacemaking group held by insurgents in Iraq appear in a new video threatening …
www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20051202
/hostages_iraq_051202/20051202?hub=CTVNewsAt11

FIVE arrested in Belgium after Iraq suicide bombing Scotsman – United Kingdom
INVESTIGATORS probing a suicide bombing by a Belgian woman in Iraq are holding five people thought to be connected with her on suspicion of participating in …
thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=2343372005

BREAKING news: Left comrades in Iraq let Natwar down! Indian Express – New Delhi,India
… This was conveyed to South Block by the Indian mission in Iraq four days later. Admitting that he knew “friend” Natwar Singh …
www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=83211

Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005

BUSH staking rest of term on success in Iraq USA Today – USA
The backdrop for President Bush’s speech on Iraq on Wednesday was designed to send a message to critics who say he has no strategy for winning the war: dozens …
www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-11-30-bush-analysis-usat_x.htm

VA. Man Foresaw Dangers In Iraq
Washington Post – United States
As Tom Fox headed toward the end of his first week in captivity in Iraq, friends said the 54-year-old musician and peace activist was well aware of the dangers …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/30/AR2005113002134.html

SOME foreigners taken hostage in Iraq
Seattle Post Intelligencer – USA
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Insurgents in Iraq have kidnapped at least 235 foreigners and killed nearly 40. Most have been released; those believed still held are: …
seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1107AP_Iraq_Hostages_Glance.html

POLL: Most doubt plan for Iraq victory
CNN – USA
(CNN) — As President Bush launched a new effort Wednesday to gain public support for the Iraq war, a new poll found most Americans do not believe he has a …
www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/30/iraq.poll/

HUNT on for peace activists in Iraq
Deccan Herald – Bangalore,India
As combined US and British special forces hunt for four Christian peace activists kidnapped by militants in Baghdad, British relatives of the oldest member of …
www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/dec012005/foreign16593620051130.asp

Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005

IRAQ: Rights groups urge fairness in Saddam trial Reuters AlertNet – London,England,UK
… The former president could also face accusations of using poison gas against villages suspected of supporting Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq in 1988 and …
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/c6d97ca5a5e907baa2266e4c4f7543f3.htm

CANADA says urgently trying to find Iraq hostages Reuters AlertNet – London,England,UK
… Canada, which refused to take part in the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, has yet to carry out plans to reopen its embassy in Baghdad. …
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N29337112.htm

TO peace activist held hostage in Iraq
Toronto Star – Canada
Toronto peace activist James Loney went to Iraq hoping to end the violence but is today a captive, accused by his abductors of spying for the US-led occupation …
www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Render
& c=Article&cid=1133304615973&call_pageid=968332188492

PHANTOM menace of kidnapping returns to Iraq Xinhua – China
… were accused of being spies. The release marks an end to the lull in the kidnapping of westerners in Iraq. A UK professor Kember …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/30/content_3856796.htm

BUSH to set out ‘strategy for Iraq victory’ Ireland Online – Dublin,Ireland
President George Bush will today set out a defence of his embattled war policy, after he stressed that a US military pullout from Iraq would be a terrible …
breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=164267844&p=y64z6855x

Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005

TWO Canadian aid workers held in Iraq
Globe and Mail – Canada
… Mr. McTeague said the aid agency has not asked for any specific help and “what help we can provide is limited by our physical appearance in Iraq.” Canada does …
www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20051128.wxiraq28/BNStory/International/

IRAQ death squad allegations disputed
Boston Globe – United States
WASHINGTON — President Jalal Talabani of Iraq yesterday rejected as ‘’nonsense” allegations by former Iraqi prime minister Iyad Allawi that his government has …
www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/200
5/11/28/iraq_death_squad_allegations_disputed

BUSH under pressure to change Iraq policy Business Day – Johannesburg,South Africa CRAWFORD — US President George Bush, under political pressure to change his policy on Iraq, thanked the families of troops killed in the region as an exit …
www.businessday.co.za/articles/topstories.aspx?ID=BD4A119438

KEY GOP Senators Implore Bush to Open Up About Iraq Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
WASHINGTON — Amid declining public support for the war in Iraq, two prominent Republican senators urged President Bush on Sunday to be more forthcoming about …
www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-usiraq
28nov28,0,3405981.story?coll=la-home-headlines

MURTHA’S Stand May Mark Turning Point on Iraq: Margaret Carlson Bloomberg – USA
… diminishing the impact of Pennsylvania Representative John Murtha, a venerable Democratic hawk who declared we were doing more harm than good in Iraq and should …
quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&cid=carlson&sid=aDMWnTTpLoC0

IRAQ WRAPUP 1-Saddam harangues judge, trial adjourned again Reuters AlertNet – London,England,UK
… of his trial on Monday before it was adjourned to grant co-defendants time to find new counsel after one of their lawyers was killed and another fled Iraq. …
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28194666.htm

KIDNAP Briton’s peace mission to Iraq
Telegraph.co.uk – United Kingdom
A British anti-war activist abducted in Iraq was investigating human rights abuses with a group called the Christian Peacemakers Team when he was held. …
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/11/29/
nirq29.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/11/29/ixnewstop.html

TWO Britons killed in Iraq ambush
Aljazeera.net – Qatar
Also on Monday, the US Embassy confirmed an American is missing in Iraq – presumably one of four Western aid workers who disappeared over the weekend. …
english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/E8EA2517-3BEC-4ABD-9B48-B2459F13534A.htm

DECLARE victory in Iraq, leave
USA Today – USA
USA TODAY says we should stay in Iraq until a stable government and strong military are in place. If we do that, however, we will …
www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-11-28-letters-iraq-war_x.htm

INJURED Pa. congressman says US should stay in Iraq USA Today – USA
Tim Murphy, one of two members of Congress treated at a military hospital after a weekend accident in Iraq, said Monday that wounded soldiers had told him the …
www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-11-28-congressmen-injured_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA