European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 17, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tuesday april 172007 stars and stripes Page 13 5 Young japanese found dead suicide suspected Tokyo five Young japanese were found dead inside a sealed Van on monday in an apparent group suicide authorities said a passerby discovered the bodies of the three men and two women All believed to be in their twenties slumped in the vehicle parked along the Yasu River Korea american gets nine years for spying Seoul South Korea a South korean court convicted a Kore a american of spying for North Korea and sentenced him to nine years in prison on monday Jang minho a 44yearold naturalized american played a key role the court ruling said setting up meetings Between North korean agents and four other South koreans who were also convicted monday of espionage by the Seoul Central District court report France knew of Hijack plot Early in 01 Paris a French intelligence service Learned As Early As january 2001 that Al Aida was working on a plot to Hijack us airliners and it passed the information on to the Cia a news report said monday Frances be Monde newspaper said it had obtained 328 pages of classified documents on Osama bin Laden terror network that were drawn up by the French foreign intelligence service from the associated press Exchange rates military rates euro costs april Dollar buys april British Pound april japanese yen april South korean won april commercial rates Bahrain British pounds19904 Canada China Denmark Egypt euro 7383 Hong Kong Hungary Israel Japan yen 11966 Kuwait Norway Philippines Poland 282 saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea won 92851 Switzerland Thailand Turkey new military Exchange rates Are those available to customers at military Bank ing facilities in the country of issuance for Japan South Korea Germany the Netherlands and the United kingdom for no local currency Exchange rates in purchasing British pounds in Germa Check with your local military 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ears and you will die said mar a taxi Driver who said he was just about to turn off his phone a similar Rumor prompted a rash of panic Calls to cellular ser vice providers in neighbouring Pakistan last week afghan officials scrambled to Calm alarmed cell phone users we have no reports of anyone answering their Telephone and then bleeding from their noses said Abdullah Fahim a spokes Man for the health ministry Pes your Hometown newspaper Why pay full Price Home delivery Only Peewee kill toll free 08001011270 Germany 0800780265 Italy 08000858827 us 080078073 Belgium 08000225203 Netherlands 0900958303 Spain Dan 3498437 email hours of operation of 07001800 Samsun 07301300 european stars and stripes attn circulation dept unit 29480 Apoate 09211 Pakistan officials hug seen As sinful the associated press Islamabad stans tourism minister says she fears for her life after clerics is sued an edict accusing her of sin Ning by hugging her French Para Chute jumping instructor the state news Agency reported minister of tourism nil far Bakhtiar told a parliamentary com Mittee of her fear on saturday Fol lowing the edict against her by islamic clerics at Lai Masjid or red mosque in Islamabad the associated press of Pakistan reported two clerics said the hug was an illegitimate and forbidden act and without any doubt she has committed a great sin Shakil Adilar about 100000 people rallied sunday in Karachi Pakistan against an islamic mosque and Seminary that launched an anti vice Campaign the protest was organized by a party that strongly supports president Gen Pervez Musharraf who has promoted moderate islam the clerics issued the edict last sunday demanding that Bakhtiar be dismissed her family punish her and she be made to ask for forgiveness after pictures in the Paki Stani Media showed her hugging her Parachute jumping instructor at a fundraising jump in France about 100000 people rallied in Karachi on sunday to protest the seminars anti vice Campaign the mass protest was organized by the Mut Ahida Ami move ment or Mem a party based in the Southern port City that strongly supports Musharraf islam is a religion of peace and there is no place in it for using Force or terrorism said Mem Leader Altaf Hussain who addressed the rally on loudspeakers by Telephone from London a Karachi police official said about 100000 people attended the rally with Many chanting no to extremism us Diplomat Sudan aiding militia in Darfur us Deputy Secretary of state John Negroponte the associated press Khartoum Sudan a top us official said monday that Sudan government actively sup ports the janjaweed militia blamed for atrocities in Darfur after a three Day visit to Sudan Deputy Secretary of state John Negroponte said Sudan faced continued and possibly even intensified International Iso lation if it did not implement a in plan for revamping the Afri can Union peacekeeping opera Tion in Darfur improve Access for Aid agencies there and beef up the regions transitional authority the government of Sudan must disarm the janjaweed the Arab militias that we All know could not exist without the sudanese governments Active support Negroponte said sudanese president Omar Elbashir has described the janjaweed As bandits but Mem Bers of the militia have told the Media they were armed by the government and the International criminal court has accused a Junior Cabinet minister of being the paymaster of the janjaweed and a member of the sudanese Security forces of being one of its leaders charges that Khartoum has denied the denial of visas the harass ment of Aid workers and other measures have created the impression that the government of Sudan is engaged in a deliberate Campaign of intimidation Negroponte told reporters when it comes to humanitarian Access the government of Sudan record is not encouraging Carrier needed for Grafe Woehr Hillesheim and Vilseck for More information please Contact Tom at 01726707342