Arab Nations to Demand U.N. Council Meeting

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Arab Nations to Demand U.N. Council Meeting
Monday, Mar 24, 2003; 7:39 PM

UNITED NATIONS - Arab nations at the United Nations decided Monday to ask for an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on Iraq as demanded by their respective foreign ministers, Syria▓s U.N. ambassador said.

The current rotating chairman of the Arab group is Iraq▓s U.N. ambassador, Mohammed Aldouri, who intends to write a letter to the council this evening requesting the meeting.

Syria▓s U.N. ambassador, Mikhail Wehbe, said the Arab group of nations decided to ask ⌠for an emergency meeting of the Security Council to discuss the matter of the American-British invasion of Iraq and to ask for the immediate withdrawal of the troops from Iraqi territory.■

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Bush, Blair to Meet Thursday
Monday, Mar 24, 2003; 7:59 PM

Bush will meet with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at Camp David on Thursday, an administration official said.

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The Arab league can "demand" whatever they want. Bush and Blair dont have time so waist on their pointless demands anyways.

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U.S. Calls Bus Bombing an Accident
Monday, Mar 24, 2003; 10:52 PM

DAMASCUS, March 24 - A U.S. general said on Monday an aircraft taking part in the U.S.-led war on Iraq bombed a bus by accident, killing civilians, while attacking a bridge near the Syrian border.

Syria said five Syrians were killed and an unspecified number wounded in what it described as a "criminal act" by U.S. and British forces.

The bus was carrying Syrian civilian workers home from Iraq, it said.

"This act represents a breach of the 1949 Geneva Convention on protecting civilians during war...therefore the Syrian Arab Republic condemns this act and reserves the right to demand compensation in line with international law," a Syrian statement said.

In Washington, Major General Stanley McChrystal, vice director for operations for the U.S. military's Joint Chiefs of Staff, expressed regret.

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We shall see that soon, right?

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Early Morning Explosions in Baghdad
Tuesday, Mar 25, 2003; 12:05 AM

BAGHDAD, March 25 (Reuters) - Sporadic, distant explosions could be heard in Baghdad and to the south early on Tuesday as U.S.-led forces closed in on positions of the Republican Guard guarding the southern approaches to the capital.

"The explosions went on during the night," Reuters reporter Khaled Yacoub Oweis said from central Baghdad.

A U.S. defence official said U.S. and British warplanes flew more than 1,500 sorties over Iraq on Monday with a variety of aircraft including B-2 stealth bombers and B-52 bombers.

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