US vetoes motion on Gaza attack
The US has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning an Israeli attack in Gaza that killed 18 civilians, including women and children.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6139968.stm
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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D5D2D4D5-E2D8-4BC5-81FA-EDF85EE4BBBE.htm
International anger at Israeli attack
The death of 18 Palestinians, including eight children, during an Israeli attack in Beit Hanoun has provoked condemnation from around the world.
The special UN envoy for the Middle East, Alvaro de Soto, said he was “deeply shocked and appalled” by the shelling of civilian homes by Israeli forces.
In Cairo, the Arab League denounced the Palestinian deaths as a massacre and called an emergency meeting of foreign ministers from its 22 member nations.
Amr Moussa, the organisation’s secretary general, said: “These massacres of children, women and civilians are unjustified and incomprehensible and unexpected.
“Israeli policies in the Palestinian territories have gone too far.”
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, the Emir of Qatar, called Ismail Haniya, the Palestinian prime minister, to condemn the attack.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/71D9A2C8-C1AC-4F5D-AFF6-F0A40E482F8F.htm
Ex-priest jailed for child sex
A FORMER Anglican priest was jailed for 12 months today for having sex with a teenage male organist he mentored more than 30 years ago.
Israeli shelling kills 18 in Gaza
At least 18 Palestinians have been killed and 40 wounded by Israel tank fire in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, Palestinian sources have said.
Israeli tank fire kills sleeping families
Israeli tanks have killed at least 12 Palestinians, including sleeping women and children, in Gaza.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/947BD007-AAEA-4B18-89E1-21CCB6593268.htm
Sacked sex-scandal pastor confesses: I am a liar
FIRST it was: “I never meet this man.” Then it was: “I bought drugs off him but I never used them, and I never had sex with him.” But by Sunday, it was time for confession.
Ted Haggard, former head of the 30 million-member National Association of Evangelicals — the man with President George Bush’s ear — finally told all: he was a hypocrite and a liar. The overseers of the New Life Church in Colorado, which he founded, sacked him for “sexually immoral conduct”.
It was the most spectacular downfall of an evangelical leader since the Reverend Jim Bakker was embroiled in a sex and accounting scandal in 1987.
In a letter read out to the Sunday congregation at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Pastor Haggard said: “I am guilty of sexual immorality, and I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar.”….(continued in article)
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/11/06/1162661617824.html?from=top5
Let’s see now there’s Ted Haggard, Jim Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart…..
Cheney accused of endorsing torture
Dick Cheney, the US vice-president, has been accused of endorsing torture after agreeing that a “dunk in water” may be an acceptable means of getting terrorist suspects to talk.
Asked during a US radio interview on Tuesday if a “dunking a terrorist in water” was an acceptable practice, Cheney replied, “It’s a no-brainer for me.”
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/C4A36AA0-BB7E-4843-B737-2F6F19B604EC.htm
US airstrike kills six in Iraq
Another normal day in Iraq…
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/56BCCC09-B4A5-45AC-8B86-2EAEF25DB53B.htm
