Tuesday, November 1, 2011 The News-Review
WORLD REPORT DAMASCUS, Syria
Mines placed on Lebanese border Syria is planting landmines along parts of the country’s border with Lebanon as refugees stream out of the country to escape the crackdown on anti-government protests, officials and witnesses said today. A Syrian man whose foot had to be amputated after he stepped on a mine just across from the Lebanese village of Irsal on Sunday was the first known victim of the mines, according to a doctor at a hospital in Lebanon where the man was brought for treatment. He asked that his name not be published out of fear of repercussions by authorities because of the sensitivity of the case. The Syrian exodus to neighboring Lebanon and Turkey has proven a deep embarrassment for increasingly besieged President Bashar Assad, who warned over the weekend that the Middle East will burn if foreign powers try to intervene in his country’s conflict. A Syrian official familiar with government strategy claimed the anti-personnel mines are meant to prevent arms smuggling into Syria.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip
Israel delays Gaza offensive An Egyptian official said today that Israel has agreed to briefly delay expanding its military operations in the Gaza Strip to give Egypt time to try to persuade Palestinian militant factions to halt rocket fire on southern Israel. Israeli aircraft have targeted rocket squads in Gaza in recent days, but the Egyptian official says Israel has also planned a wider operation. The official says Egypt asked for 24 hours to try to bring all factions into an informal ceasefire and Israel agreed to give Cairo until around midnight. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss Egyptian mediation. The military said there have been no Israeli airstrikes since around midnight Monday. Two rockets were fired from Gaza during that time.
PARIS
Palestine now joins UNESCO Palestine won its greatest international endorsement yet on Monday, full membership
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in UNESCO, but the move will cost the agency one-fifth of its funding and some fear it will send Mideast peace efforts off a cliff. In an unusually dramatic session at the Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, there were cheers for “yes” votes and grumbles for the “no’s” and abstentions. When the results were in, many delegates jumped to their feet and applauded and someone let out a cry of “Long live Palestine!” in French. But the jubilation was quickly pierced by reality: The United States said it wouldn’t make a $60 million payment to fill out its contributions for this year and would suspend all future funding. UNESCO depends heavily on that money — Washington provides 22 percent of its budget — but has survived without it in the past: The United States pulled out of UNESCO under President Ronald Reagan, rejoining two decades later under President George W. Bush.
TRIPOLI, Libya
NATO officials end bombing NATO’s triumphant, 7month air campaign against Libya ended Monday, setting the country on the path to a democratic transition less than two weeks after the capture and killing of ousted dictator Moammar Gadhafi. The alliance turned down a Libyan request to extend the protective umbrella for a few more weeks, apparently eager to exit on a high note and wrap up a costly mission at a time of financial austerity. The relatively quick victory in Libya represented a major
boost for a Cold War alliance bogged down in a 10-year war in Afghanistan, a 12-year mission in Kosovo and the seemingly never-ending anti-piracy operation off the Somali coastline. The operation’s critics — including Russia, China and the African Union — have argued that NATO misused the limited U.N. resolution imposing a no-fly zone and authorizing the protection of civilians as a pretext to promote regime change. But with alliance airstrikes helping open the way on the battlefield following a lengthy stalemate, revolutionary forces eventually captured Tripoli in late August and brought an end to the war with the death of Gadhafi on Oct. 20.
WARSAW, Poland
U.S. plane makes crash landing A Boeing 767 from Newark, New Jersey, carrying 231 people on board made a dramatic emergency landing in Warsaw today after its landing gear failed to open. Sparks and small fires erupted when the Polish LOT airlines plane landed on its belly without its wheels, but nobody was injured, officials said. The pilots discovered a problem with the chassis ahead of landing and circled above the airport for about one hour before landing, said Przemyslaw Przybylski, a spokesman for the Warsaw airport. LOT spokesman Leszek Chorzewski said the plane landed with nearly empty fuel tanks after dumping fuel in preparation for the emergency landing.
U.N. identifies signs of Syrian nuclear facility WASHINGTON (AP) — U.N. investigators have identified a previously unknown complex in Syria that bolsters suspicions that the Syrian government worked with A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan’s atomic bomb, to acquire technology that could make nuclear arms. The buildings in northwest Syria closely match the design of a uranium enrichment plant provided to Libya when Moammar Gadhafi was trying to build nuclear weapons under Khan’s guidance, officials told The Associated Press. The U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency also has obtained correspondence between Khan and a Syrian government official, Muhidin Issa, who proposed scientific cooperation and a visit to Khan’s laboratories following Pakistan’s successful nuclear test in 1998. The complex, in the city of Al-Hasakah, now appears to be a cotton-spinning plant, and investigators have found no sign that it was ever used for nuclear production. But given that Israeli warplanes destroyed a suspected plutonium production reactor in Syria in 2007, the unlikely coincidence in design suggests Syria may have been pursuing two routes to an atomic bomb: uranium as well as plutonium. Details of the Syria-Khan connection were provided to
plex, the officials said. The IAEA’s examination of Syria’s programs has slowed as world powers focus on a popular uprising in the country and the government’s violent crackdown. Syria never has been seen as being close to development of a nuclear bomb. There also is no indication that Damascus continues to AP/GeoEye Satellite work on a secret A facility in Al-Hasakah, Syria. nuclear program. If Invesigators at the U.N.’s International the facility in AlAtomic Energy Agency have asked Hasakah was indeed Syria about this complex, in the coun- intended for uranium try’s northwestern city of Al-Hasakah production, those because they believe it closely match- plans appear to have es plans for a uranium enrichment been abandoned and plant sold by the father of Pakistan’s the path to plutoninuclear bomb A.Q. Khan. um ended with the Israeli bombing. the AP by a senior diplomat But Mark Hibbs, an analyst with knowledge of IAEA at the nuclear policy program investigations and a former at the Carnegie Endowment U.N. investigator. Both spoke for International Peace who on condition of anonymity has spoken to IAEA officials because of the sensitivity of about the Al-Hasakah comthe issue. plex, said it is important to The Syrian government did learn more details about the not respond to a request for buildings. comment. It has repeatedly “What is at stake here is the denied pursuing nuclear nuclear history of that faciliweapons but also has stymied ty,” Hibbs said. “People want an investigation into the site to know what did they intend bombed by Israel. It has not to do there, and Syria has proresponded to an IAEA request vided no information.” to visit the Al-Hasakah com-
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