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According to eyewitness reports, American troops were seen taking a group of men out of the Sheraton hotel. They have been blindfolded and handcuffed. Other soldiers were then seen carrying bags, including a briefcase and a holder for a laptop computer. A spokesman for the Iranian embassy told the BBC that the seven men who had been arrested were part of a delegation from the Iranian ministry of electricity. He said they were guests of the Iraqi government and had come to Baghdad to help rebuild power stations. He said the Iranian embassy would be sending a formal letter of protest to the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The arrest of the Iranians came almost immediately after President Bush launched a strongly worded attack on Iran. Justin Webb reports from Washington. "This looks like a conscious effort by the White House to elevate the tension between Washington and Tehran to a new level, an effort which might be designed to avoid the need for armed conflict or might equally be an effort to bring that conflict about. President Bush used a vivid language to describe the threat he believed Iran's nuclear program posed to the Middle East. The threat, he said, of a nuclear holocaust. The President added that he had authorized the American military commanders to confront Iran's murderous activities within Iraq. "
Earlier the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the United States was trapped in a swamp of its own crimes in Iraq and that its power there was rapidly collapsing, leaving a void of power in the region.
A major religious festival which had attracted hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to the Iraqi city of Kabala, is said to be cut short after fierce fighting broke out, killing at least fifty people. Reports from Kabala said gunmen forced their way passed checkpoints in an attempt to take control of the area around some of Shiite Islam's most holy shrines.
European leaders have welcomed the election of a former Islamist Abdullah Gul as the new president of Turkey. The head of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso said Mr. Gul's presidency would give fresh impetus to Turkey's discussions about joining the European Union. An EU spokesman, Amadeu Altafaj Tardio, said Mr. Gul had the necessary background for such talks. "As Foreign Affairs Minister, he showed the determination in his discussions with European counterparts to show us this willingness to confirm his European ambition of farther Turkish society . "
A court in United States has approved the extradition to France of the former military leader of Panama Manuel Noriega once he completes servicing a prison term in Miami in September. The French authorities have requested General Noriega's extradition in connection with a money laundering conviction for which he faces a ten-year jail term.
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The Supreme Court of Chile has confirmed the sentence of life imprisonment, given to a former general for his role in a murder of twelve young opponents of the country's military rule. Our South American correspondent Daniel Schweimler reports.
Hugo Salas Wenzel is the first senior member of Augusto Pinochet's military government to be given a life sentence for human rights abuses committed between 1973 and 1990. He was the head of the intelligence service in National information Center which carried out the killings of twelve young rebels who've taken part in a failed attempt to assassinate the former military leader Augusto Pinochet in September 1986. The military said at the time that the members of the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front had died in gun battles with the security forces. A later investigation found they had been detained and shot in cold blood.
The former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak is to pursue a defense of temporary insanity when she stands trial next month. The 44-year-old mother of three, is charged with burglary, assault and trying to kidnap a woman she believed was her romantic rival. Andy Gallagher reports from Florida. Lisa Nowak made headlines across the world after police say she drove 900 miles across the States wearing adult nappies to avoid toilet breaks. She was arrested at Orlando Airport here in Florida after confronting Air Force captain Colleen Shipman, a woman she believed was a love rival for the space shuttle pilot Bill Oefelein. Now her lawyer said the 44-year-old was suffering from a long list of conditions, including depression, insomnia and a brief psychotic episode. Her defense team planned to say that she was temporarily insane.
Share prices in Europe and the United States have fallen again, the main markets in London, Paris and New York ended nearly 2% lower. The declines were triggered by worries about the economic outlook in the United States.
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