European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                June stars and stripes Page is general surge provokes insurgents Petraeus acknowledges real concerns about Baghdad neighbourhoods by Lara Jakes Jordan the associated press Washington the continuing violence in Iraq Over the last four months in insurgents response to coalition military forces going on the the top Mander there said David Petraeus described an Ebban flow of sectarian murders in Bagh dad and said there has been a stunning rever Sal in the Anbar a former Al Aida stronghold West of the City where tribes have begun to help fight the terror he real con Cerns in some neighbourhoods in and around Baghdad where sunni and shiites continue to the fact is that As we go on the the enemy is going to that is what has Petraeus said from certainly it is a and that is what i have tried to convey in my assessments that we Are ahead in some areas and we need to do some serious work in in a required quarterly report to Congress on political and economic develop ments in the Pentagon last week concluded that casualties among troops and civilians have edged higher despite the Security push in the covering the february May be also raised questions about prime minis Ter noun Alma lims ability to fulfil a pledge made in january to prohibit political interference in Security operations and to allow no Safe havens for sectarian the report said it was too soon to judge whether the Security crackdown was the ambassador in Ryan described the situation in Iraq As a mixed but certainly not a Hope less he said Mere Are but also signs of and cautioned about the ramifications of a precipitous withdrawal of in terms of the political clearly we Petraeus Crocker Are frustrated with the slow Progress that is being made on the legislative Crocker said the iraqis Are frustrate they Are working hard on these the fact is they Are difficult to difficult in and of and difficult in the current Security he said the iraqis Are very close to agree ment on a plan for managing the country Oil production and share he said the recent buildup of forces is just now Complete and is showing signs of Progress in establishing particularly in Anbar to charges that the plan has produced a whack a mole result in which insurgents Are routed in one Only to pop up in Aneth Crocker what we Are now positioned to is whack a whole lot of moles Simuta the Security operation was launched the Pentagon is required by Congress to provide its initial assessment of the operation in Petraeus and Crocker will submit another report in september that could address How Long and How Many will need to remain in Iraq to help stabilize both men declined to comment on what the re port will it will be a but that film cant be developed until were there in Crocker Petraeus cautioned that final Resolution in Iraq could take just about everybody out there recognizes that a situation like this with the Many challenges that Iraq is contending with is not one that going to be resolved in a year or even 2 in even counterinsurgency operations have gone at least nineto10 Petraeus in their september Crocker said he and Petraeus owe it to civilian leadership at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue to explain what the consequences might be if the mounts a Quick he said Iran and Syria Are playing distinctly unhelpful roles in Iraq and weve got to consider what May happen if the pulls out before Iraq is Able to stand on its Petraeus spoke on Fox news and Crocker also was interviewed from Baghdad on abcs meet the a baby giant Manta Ray swims inside a huge fish tank saturday at the Okinawa Chu Aumi aquarium in the female Manta was born earlier in the becoming the first Manta to be born inside a fish officials the Okinawa Chu Aumi aquarium a birth of Manta Ray at Okinawa aquarium believed to be first in Captivity by maw Yamaguchi the associated press Tokyo what is believed to be the first giant Manta Ray born in Captivity has arrived at a Southern japanese the facility said the baby a was born late sat urday in a huge fish tank at the Okinawa Chu Aumi More than a year alter its parents the aquarium said in a state ment posted sunday on its web in a video capturing the the baby rolled up like a came sliding out of the Mother then quickly spread its fins and began swimming the prerecorded scene was broadcast by National broadcaster Nhok on the event Marks the first birth of a Manta in according to the which started raising Manta rays in Noriyasu an official at the Izumoto sea Paradise commercial Aqua zoo in Western said he thought the birth in Captivity could be a world Ive never heard of any other Case he aquariums that raise Manta rays Are rare to begin because they get so according to the Newborn Manta was More than six feet aquarium official Minoru Spda said Little is known about the life of Manta and the record of pregnancy and the birth would pro vide valuable scientific data to the studies of the we unfolded some of the mysteries about the life of Manta including the length of their Toda now we have to make sure the baby grows in Good report Man arrested for illegal abortions new Delhi police have arrested a Man for allegedly per forming abortions without a License for the past 13 years mostly to get rid of female fetuses in a Northern Indian a news report said in fetal gender determination and abortions on the basis of gender have been illegal since the Law is widely the accused earned up to for each prenatal sex determination and abortion in Saryana states Pat Audi the times of India newspaper Many Indian families regard daughters As a Pope Benedict decries fighting in Middle East Italy Pope Benedict on a pilgrimage to the birth place of tolerance preaching lamented the horrors of fighting and terror ism in Iraq and the holy land and decried the illusion that Force could resolve the Pope journeyed to this umbrian Hill with its Steep and Stony to Mark the 800th anniversary of the conversion of Francis of Benedict said he considered it his duty in Francis Birthplace this City of peace to make a pressing and Heartfelt Appeal so that All the armed conflicts that bloody the Earth May so that weapons May go silent and so hate gives Way to offence to forgive Ness and discord to report British Church found to be racist London Black and asian clergy members Are unlikely to reach High office in the Church of England and minorities Are sometimes marginalized in Par ish an internal review will a newspaper reported according to the sunday Tele the report says Little has been done to confront institution Al the report was commissioned by the archbishops of Canterbury and York and completed ahead of the Church Gen eral Synod next a spokesman for the Church of England said no official comment could be made on the reports con tents until it is China accuses Man of enslaving workers Beijing police caught a labor Boss accused of starving and beating workers to keep them enslaved in Brick state Media reported Heng accused of using slave workers since was captured after a nationwide the Xinhua news Agency re adding that the total num ber of workers freed had risen by 20 to had become the chief target in the which has shocked China and exposed links Between communist party officials and the Kiln National leaders have ordered a from the associated press