Saturday, March 11, 2006

Images: Paris Riots 2006, Sat. 11 Mar.

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Paris Riots 2006: Summary, Sat. 11 Mar.

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Students are stopped by gendarmes as they demonstrate against the terms of a new youth contract for first-time job seekers (First Labour Contract) near the Sorbonne university in Paris March 10, 2006. Students oppose the job plan, based on a new employment contract which they say will increase job insecurity for the young and will not reduce unemployment. The new job contract, known as the CPE, would allow firms to hire people aged under 26 for a two-year trial period before offering them a permanent job. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier COMMENTLINE
For your inspection, a followup to French Students Clash With Police, Fri. 10 Mar., in a summary of news stories detailing events of the recent Paris student protests. In this post:

A nighttime raid against 200 protesting students at Paris's Sorbonne university increases tensions caused by the French government's attempts to address unemployment ... and highlights a deep rooted resistance to change within the French population.

Sorbonne protesters leave trashed offices and destroyed books.

French prime minister to attempt to diffuse student anger while implementing reforms.

France defends raid, use of tear gas on students.

French students revive spirit of 1968 protest movement.

NEWSLINE
"This is what happens when you call for disorder."

NEWSBYTES
Reform Meets Resistance in Sorbonne Raid
PARIS (AP) -- A dramatic nighttime police raid to evict protesting students from Paris' best-known university has increased the furor over the conservative government's effort to reduce unemployment - and exposed how widespread resistance to change remains in France. Riot police stormed into...

Sorbonne left ransacked after French protests
PARIS (Reuters) -- Riot police stood guard at Paris's Sorbonne university after breaking up a three-day sit-in there on Saturday and a clean-up operation began as France tried to quell student protests over job reforms.

French prime minister in bid to defuse tension over jobs
PARIS (AFP) -- French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin was set to try to defuse student anger after police stormed the Sorbonne university with teargas to smash protest against a controversial new labour law.

France defends raid on Sorbonne
(BBC) -- The French education minister has defended the use of force to evacuate almost 200 protesting students from the Sorbonne university in Paris.

Police teargas French elite students
PARIS, France (Reuters) -- French riot police used teargas on Saturday to break up a protest at Paris's Sorbonne university, which students had occupied to press the government to abandon its youth jobs plan, police and witnesses said.

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French students revive spirit of 68
May 1968

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Friday, March 10, 2006

French Students Clash With Police, Fri. 10 Mar.

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Pakistan Bans Kites After Boy's Throat Cut

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Youths flying kites during the 2005 Basant in Lahore, Pakistan. Pakistan's eastern Punjab province banned kite-flying ahead of a popular festival, following a series of deaths caused by glass-coated or metal strings(AFP/File/Jewel Samad) COMMENTLINE
In a followup to yesterday's story, In Pakistan, Fear of Kites as Weapons Nets 1,000 Arrests, we find authorities have banned the flying of kites after a 4-year-old boy's throat was slit by a low-flying, glass-coated kite string.

Also, 21 children and five women were killed when a crowded wedding bus they were riding in hit an anti-tank mine in southwest Pakistan.

NEWSLINES
Shayan Ahmad became the seventh kite-string victim in the nation's cultural capital, Lahore, in the past two weeks, prompting the Punjab provincial government to announce the ban late Thursday.

NEWSBYTE
Pakistan Bans Kites After Boy's Throat Cut
LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) - -The death of a 4-year-old boy whose throat was slit by a low-flying kite string coated with glass has prompted authorities to forbid kite-flying in eastern Pakistan.

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21 Children Among Dead in Pakistan Blast
QUETTA, Pakistan -- A crowded bus carrying a wedding party hit an anti-tank mine Friday in a volatile region of southwestern Pakistan, killing at least 30 people and wounding eight, a doctor and officials said.

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Images of Tension: Muslim Cartoon Protests, Fri. 10 Mar.

Pakistani supporters of the opposition Islamic alliance participate in a protest rally in Islamabad March 10, 2006. Demonstrators protested against the cartoons and caricatures depicting the Prophet Mohammad on Friday and many took the opportunity to criticise the government and the U.S. REUTERS/Mian Khursheed
Pakistani supporters of the opposition Islamic alliance participate in a protest rally in Islamabad March 10, 2006. Demonstrators protested against the cartoons and caricatures depicting the Prophet Mohammad on Friday and many took the opportunity to criticise the government and the U.S. REUTERS/Naveed Mirza
Bangladeshi Islamist activists march during a protest in Dhaka March 10, 2005. The Islamic Solidarity Movement, an Islamic organisation, held the protest on Friday to protest the printing of cartoons and caricatures depicting the Prophet Mohammad in western newspapers. REUTERS/Mohammad Shahidullah
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Images of Tension: Eyewitness Iraq, Fri. 10 Mar.

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New Bush Poll Biased by the Numbers

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President Bush speaks at the Georgia Republican Party's annual Presidents Day dinner in Atlanta, March 9, 2006. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque COMMENTLINE
Once again AP-Ipsos presents us with flawed poll numbers in Bush's Approval Rating Falls to New Low . The poll is stacked in most of its demographics to favor pro-Democrat results and is used to present a situation that would seem dire when taken at face value. When we look at the data, the whole story becomes questionable.

Amazingly, the article sourcing the poll makes the statement that more Republicans now disapprove of Bush's performance ... when the survey actually fails to poll enough Republican respondents to base the claim upon.

Of polled:
Republicans: 29%
Democrat: 35%
Independent: 20%
None: 14%
Actual -- in last election: 37% each for Republicans/Democrats, the rest with third party or no party affiliation.

Of polled:
Religion: 19% said they had none.
Actual -- in last election 10% said they had none.

Of polled:
Race: 69% white
Actual -- 77% white

Source: Ankle Biting Pundits
Source: Ipsos

NEWSLINE
A first-year student in statistics would be flunked for turning in poll results as obviously bad as this AP-Ipsos poll. Yet thousands of articles will appear in all media, across the nation and the world in the next few days, based on this poll. John Armor

NEWSBYTES
Bush's Approval Rating Falls to New Low
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More and more people, particularly Republicans, disapprove of President Bush's performance, question his character and no longer consider him a strong leader against terrorism, according to an AP-Ipsos poll documenting one of the bleakest points of his presidency.

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Thursday, March 9, 2006

Images of Tension: Eyewitness Iraq, Thu. 9 Mar.

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Images: Katrina Aftermath, Thu. 9 Mar.

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In Pakistan, Fear of Kites as Weapons Nets 1,000 Arrests

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Kites are displayed at the kite market in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, February 28, 2005. Already kite-flying is banned for all but 15 days of the year but a provincial minister warned kite-flyers this week that any who cause injury or death with string made from metal or coated with glass could be tried under anti-terrorism laws. REUTERS/Mian Khursheed
A Pakistani kite vendor displays kites ahead of the Basant festival in Lahore March 8, 2006. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza
Pakistani protesters burn kites during a protest in Lahore. Pakistan has detained 1,000 people for flying kites and warned they could be tried as terrorists after 10 people were killed in a week by strings coated with glass or made from metal.(AFP/Arif Ali) COMMENTLINE
Kite flying.

If you stay away from power lines, where's the danger?

There's no danger unless you are in Pakistan where kite battles are a sport and folks use strings coated with a paste containing glass powder or with iron wool to sever the strings of rival kites.

It looks like telling someone to "Go fly a kite!" now takes on a whole new and sinister meaning.

NEWSLINE
Most are killed when the strings fall across roads at head height and slit the throats of people on motorbikes.

NEWSBYTES
Pakistan arrests 1,000 kite-flyers under terror laws
LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) -- Pakistan has detained 1,000 people for flying kites and warned they could be tried as terrorists after 10 people were killed in a week by strings coated with glass or made from metal.

Go fly a kite? Not in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) -- Flying a kite in Pakistan is a dangerous pastime.

Pakistan arrests dangerous kite-fliers
LAHORE, Pakistan, March 9 (UPI) -- Pakistan police have arrested 1,000 people for flying dangerous kites after 10 people were killed in a week by kite strings coated with glass or made of metal.

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Poll: Negative View of Islam Increasing

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Pakistani Shiite Muslim women hold anti U.S. placards during a rally to condemn the bombing on the Golden Mosque, one of Shiite Islam's holiest sites in the Iraqi city of Samarra, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Feb 26, 2006. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil) COMMENTLINE
I'll go a step farther than the article and say the survey reflects the growing tension between Islamic culture and everything that is not Islam.

Particular stress points include the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the recent controversy caused by cartoon depictions of Muhammad, nuclear saber rattling out of Iran, violence between Hindu and Muslims in India, and the political fallout surrounding the Dubai port deal.

NEWSLINE
The poll found that nearly half of Americans -- 46 percent -- have a negative view of Islam, seven percentage points higher than in the tense months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, when Muslims were often targeted for violence.

NEWSBYTE
Negative Perception Of Islam Increasing
Poll Numbers in U.S. Higher Than in 2001
(washingtonpost.com) -- As the war in Iraq grinds into its fourth year, a growing proportion of Americans are expressing unfavorable views of Islam, and a majority now say that Muslims are disproportionately prone to violence, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

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Wednesday, March 8, 2006

Sectarian Conflict India, Wed. 8 Mar.

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Images of Tension: Eyewitness Iraq, Wed. 8 Mar.

U.S. EMBASSY PROTESTS: CARACAS, VENEZUELA

A supporter of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez waves a US flag which reads 'Stop the war in Iraq' during a rally in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 8, 2006. Supporters of President Hugo Chavez are marching to the U.S. Embassy to protest the war in Iraq, carrying a petition demanding an immediate pullout of U.S. troops. Chavez has called the war a glaring example of U.S. imperialism.(AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
Supporters of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez rally outside the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 8, 2006, to protest the war in Iraq, carrying a petition demanding an immediate pullout of U.S. troops. Chavez has called the war a glaring example of U.S. imperialism. The sign at bottom right reads 'Bush out of Iraq, women for peace.'(AP Photo/Leslie Mazoch)
Police officers look at a demonstrator dressed like a devil during a protest outside of the U.S. Embassy building in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 8, 2006. Supporters of President Hugo Chavez are marching to the U.S. Embassy to protest the war in Iraq, carrying a petition demanding an immediate pullout of U.S. troops. Chavez has called the war a glaring example of U.S. imperialism. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)
A supporter of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez holds a poster which reads 'Thirst of energy power' during a protest outside of the U.S. Embassy building in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday, March 8, 2006. Supporters of President Hugo Chavez are marching to the U.S. Embassy to protest the war in Iraq, carrying a petition demanding an immediate pullout of U.S. troops. Chavez has called the war a glaring example of U.S. imperialism. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano) More News Images on THE TENSION

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Images of Tension: Muslim Cartoon Protests, Wed. 8 Mar.

Kashmiri traders shout anti-European slogans as they burn a Danish flag during a protest against the drawing on Prophet Mohammad, in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, March 8, 2006. The traders protested the publication of drawings of the Prophet Muhammad in European newspapers and demanded that the cartoonists be punished. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Kashmiri traders shout anti-Denmark slogans during a protest against the drawings on Prophet Mohammad, in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, March 8, 2006. The traders protested the publication of drawings of the Prophet Muhammad in European newspapers and demanded that the cartoonists be punished. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Kashmiri traders shout anti-Denmark slogans during a protest against the drawings on Prophet Mohammad, in Srinagar, India, Wednesday, March 8, 2006. The traders protested the publication of drawings of the Prophet Muhammad in European newspapers and demanded that the cartoonists be punished. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
Kashmiri protesters shout slogans against Denmark during a protest in Srinagar March 8, 2006. Kashmiri protesters marched through the streets of Srinagar on Wednesday protesting against cartoons depicting caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad that were published in European newspapers . REUTERS/Danish Ismail RELATED
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Regional Aspirations of Iran: Wed. 8 Mar.

MIDDLE EAST

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) board of governors is pictured at the beginning of a session in Vienna's U.N. headquarters March 8, 2006. The United States warned Iran on Wednesday to expect consequences from the United Nations if it failed to halt nuclear research but Iran said it was capable of inflicting 'harm and pain' and could change its oil policy. REUTERS/Herwig Prammer COMMENTLINE
Presented once again for your perusal, the latest international tensions courtesy of Iran. In this post:

Iran threatens the U.S. with reprisals over the possibility of U.N. sanctions.

U.N. to start deliberations over Iran's atomic aspirations.

From New Orleans, the White House said by making threats, Iran only becomes more isolated from the international community.

Russia says it will oppose Iranian sanctions.

Also see: Recent events setting the stage for U.N. Security Council involvement, Q&A.

Related: The State Department's annual report on human rights conditions worldwide, issued Wednesday, includes criticism of China, North Korea, Iran and others.

NEWSLINE
A statement issued by Iran at the IAEA meeting today said: "The United States has the power to cause harm and pain. But the United States is also susceptible to harm and pain. So if that is the path that the U.S. wishes to choose, let the ball roll."

NEWSBYTES
Iran Threatens 'Harm and Pain' to U.S. if Sanctions Imposed
(washingtonpost.com) -- Iran warned today that the United States could suffer "harm and pain" if the United Nations Security Council imposes sanctions over Iran's nuclear program.

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US: Iran likely to get UN warning
(Aljazeera.Net) -- The UN Security Council is likely to call on Iran to halt nuclear research shortly or risk consequences, the US has said in a statement to the nuclear watchdog agency board.

U.S.: Iran remarks 'provocative'
VIENNA, Austria (CNN) -- The United States has dismissed Iran's comments that it can inflict "harm and pain" on Washington for its role in pushing for U.N. Security Council action over Tehran's refusal to halt its nuclear program.

Iran Makes Threats; U.N. to Take Up Case
VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- Iran warned the United States on Wednesday it would feel the "pain" if tough measures were imposed against the Islamic republic for its nuclear program by the U.N. Security Council. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohamed ElBaradei also said the United States should...

Iran warns US of "harm and pain"
VIENNA (Reuters) -- Iran warned the United States on Wednesday it could inflict "harm and pain" to match whatever punishment Washington persuades the U.N. Security Council to mete out over concerns Tehran is secretly seeking atomic bombs.

US: Iran deepening isolation with threats
NEW ORLEANS, United States (AFP) -- The White House warned that Iran deepened its international isolation by threatening "harm and pain" against the United States amid mounting tensions and rhetoric over Tehran's nuclear program.

Iran's Rafsanjani says U.S. will be defeated
Tehran, Iran, Mar. 08 (Iran Focus) -- Iran's former President Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Wednesday that the United States was faced with defeat in the Middle East.

Russian Foreign Minister: Iran Sanctions Won't Work
(VoA) -- Russia's foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has indicated Moscow will oppose U.N. Security Council sanctions against Iran. The Council could begin discussing the Iran nuclear issue as early as next week.

ALSO SEE
Events Leading to U.N. Iran Involvement
(AP) -- The board of the International Atomic Energy Agency has concluded a meeting in Vienna and will send a report to the United Nations in New York seeking a review of Iran's nuclear program.

Q&A: Iran nuclear stand-off
(BBC) -- The UN nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has decided to report Iran to the UN Security Council over its nuclear programme. The BBC News website looks at the issues involved.

RELATED
US Rights Report Critical of Arab Allies, Iran, China, Zimbabwe
(VoA) -- The State Department's annual report on human rights conditions worldwide, issued Wednesday, includes criticism of China, North Korea, Iran and some of the United States' Arab allies including Iraq. Department officials said their efforts to promote human rights have not been harmed by some controversial U.S. practices including the rendition of terrorist suspects.

Chronology of the Iran Nuclear Standoff

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Images: Katrina Aftermath, Wed. 8 Mar.

PRESIDENT BUSH VISITS NEW ORLEANS

President Bush, left, watches as homeowner Jerry Akins places a flag on his home as Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour, right, and his wife Marsha, second right, look on during a visit to a home being reconstructed after it was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in Gautier, in the Mississippi gulf coast region, Wednesday, March 8, 2006. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
U.S. President George W. Bush shakes hands with workers as he tours the rebuilding of the Industrial Canal levee in New Orleans, March 8, 2006. Bush paid a visit to New Orleans and the Biloxi-Gulfport area of Mississippi on Wednesday to view reconstruction progress after the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina last August. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
U.S. President George W. Bush walks with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin (L) and Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco (R) as he tours the rebuilding of a levee in New Orleans, March 8, 2006. Bush visited New Orleans and the Biloxi-Gulfport area of Mississippi on Wednesday to view reconstruction progress after the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina last August. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
President Bush, right, with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, third left, and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, second left, view flood wall construction at the Industrial Canal levee in New Orleans, Wednesday, March 8, 2006. Six months after Hurricane Katrina left its mark on the Gulf Coast, President Bush was making his 10th trip to the slowly rebuilding region Wednesday for another progress report. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) More News Images on THE TENSION

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