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  • From: "Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>
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  • Subject: [Homestead] *one*-day summary
  • Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 13:49:56 -0700

http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusintl/ap10-22-125746.asp?reg=mideast&vts=102220041328



Developments concerning Iraq

ASSOCIATED PRESS

Oct. 22 - Developments concerning Iraq on Friday:



- Trembling, haggard and weeping into a tissue, Margaret Hassan, the
kidnapped British aid worker who has spent nearly half her life delivering
food and medicine in Iraq, begged Britain to help save her by withdrawing its
troops, saying these ''might be my last hours.'' Hassan's statement,
televised by Al-Jazeera, came a day after <>Britain agreed to a U.S. request
to transfer 850 British soldiers to the Baghdad area to free American forces
for new offensives against insurgents.


- The Macedonian Foreign Ministry confirmed that three Macedonian
contractors kidnapped in Iraq on Aug. 21 had been beheaded by their captors.
A Turkish welder, Abdurrahman Yildirim, escaped this week from his Iraqi
captors, who left a door open, his uncle Mehmet Balli said.


- U.S. troops battled insurgents with small arms, rocket and artillery
fire near Buhriz, a former Saddam Hussein stronghold about 35 miles northeast
of Baghdad. U.S. troops killed nine suspected insurgents but suffered no
American casualties, the military said.


- Trial dates were set for two soldiers accused of abusing Iraqi
inmates at the Abu Ghraib prison. Spc. Charles Graner Jr., 36, of Uniontown,
Pa., will face court-martial on Jan. 7, while Sgt. Javal Davis, 26, of
Maryland, will stand trial Feb. 1.


- A car bomb exploded near an American armored vehicle in the northern
city of Mosul, wounding five U.S. soldiers, the military said.


- Roadside bombs near the southern port city of Basra hit two patrols,
wounding three Danish soldiers, the Danish military said.


- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's appeal for international troops
to protect U.N. monitors during Iraq's elections next year is unlikely to get
a reply from Europe before the U.S. elections, analysts and diplomats said.
However, analysts believe a John Kerry victory could increase pressure on
French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to
send in troops.



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  • [Homestead] *one*-day summary, Toni Hawryluk, 10/22/2004

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