European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 14 stars and stripes Mideast edition june 2007 in the world Man questioned Over Kenya explosion Kenya a Ken Yan Man on sunday reported to police for a Day after investigators circulated his picture saying he has information about an explosion in the kenyan capital that killed one person and injured Farah Ahmed went with his lawyer and a handful of human rights activists to the police lawyer Ahme Nasir Abdullahi said his client is police have not yet established the motive for or the cause of caused mondays blast outside a Small restau rant near one of Nairobi old est the amb Assadur no one has claimed responsibility for the Iran angry Over Rushdie Knighthood Iran Iran on sunday condemned Britain decision to Grant a Knighthood to author Salman who was forced into hiding for a decade after the islamic republics spiritual Leader or dered his Iran foreign ministry spokesman Mohammad am Hosseini said the decision to Grant Britain highest Honor to who wrote the controversial novel the satanic was an insult to the Muslim Rushdie went into hiding after Iran Ayatollah Khomeini issued a 1989 religious edict ordering muslims to kill the author because his novel the satanic verses allegedly insulted vietnamese Leader to visit United states Vietnam presi Dent Nguyen Minn Triet will make a state visit to the United states on the first by a vietnamese head of state since the end of the Vietnam War and a Symbol of the increasingly close ties Between the former the trip comes As concerns about Vietnam human rights record Are growing in Wash but Triet will try to shift attention from the communist party tight political grip to Hanoi growing embrace of Market Pakistan chief Justice addresses supporters Pakistan thousands of lawyers and opposition activists chanting slogans against president Perez Musharraf welcomed Pakistan suspended chief jus Tice sunday As he arrived i an Eastern City to address a rally opposing military lawyers and opposition sup porters have staged Street pro tests against Musharraf since March when he ousted supreme court chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry for alleged from the associated press Muhammed newly appointed palestinian prime minister Salam shakes hand with palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas on sunday during a swearing in ceremony in the West Bank town of Abbas outlaws Hamas palestinian president swears in new government by Mohammed Darag Meh the associated press West estonian president Mahmoud Abbas swore in an emergency cab inet on sunday and outlawed the militia forces of the islamic Hamas deepening the violent rupture in palestinian Sci Hamas seized control of Gaza last week after routing Abbas Fatah the violence has left the impoverished coastal strip increasingly a Situa Tion worsened sunday when an israeli fuel company Cut off deliver ies to Gas stations the hurried Swearingin Cere Mony of the new Cabinet left the palestinians effectively with two Hamas Leader ship in Gaza and the new Cabinet in the West Bank led by respected economist Salam Abbas issued decrees sunday annulling a Law requiring the new government to be approved by Par which is dominated by and outlawing the islamic groups there is one one Law and one legitimate gun in All areas of our in the West Bank and he said in deposed prime minis Ter Ismail Haniyeh who has ignored Abbas order firing him called the new government illegal and insisted he remains in the Council of ministers consid ers the Steps adopted by president Mahmoud Abbas to have no basis in he the nation Al Unity government asserts Here that we Are fulfilling our duty according to our in an apparent response to Abbas Haniyeh fired the head of internal Security and the director general of the palestinian Hamas Allied Al Asa to the decisions were symbolic because both men moved to the West an retains his Post As finance minister arid will also serve As foreign his Small emergency Cabinet is dominated by including human rights activists and business Interior minister Abdel Razak be Liyeh is one of the few politicians in the in taking Fayyad said the new government would work to end the chaos and provide Security for the we Are going to work with clean he addressing the palestinians in he said you Are in our and the top of our israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert said the new palestinian government would create a new Opportunity for the peace pro in the much of the International including the the european Union and moderate Arab is backing declarations of support were Likely to be followed soon by a resumption of foreign Aid to the palestinian rockets fired from Lebanon hit Israel by Mark Lavie the associated press Jerusalem two Katusha rockets fired from Lebanon fell in Northern Israel on sunday after police and the military no one was but there was some they they were the first rockets fired from Lebanon since last Summers War Between Israel and Hezbollah when almost Rock ets were fired at sundays attack raised the possibility of an israeli reprisal raid and a new flare up Between the two it came As prime minister Ehud Olmert was arriving in the United states for in new an official with Olmert said the prime minister was briefed about the Israel will not succumb to this provocation but will Monitor the situation the official requesting anonymity be cause of the sensitivity of the Situa indicating that Israel would not hit the Hezbollah to Sta Tion in broadcast a Deni Al of Hezbollah involvement in the the rocket attack a new defense forr Rifer Premier and army chief Ehud was about to take Over from Amir Defeated in a party primary Peretz was convening military and Security command ers for a meeting that was planned before the rocket one of the rockets hit a factory and the other hit a Channel 2 tvs Arab affairs Ana Ehud said a splinter palestinian group in Lebanon was probably behind the in there was no immedi ate comment from the lebanese lebanese Security officials or the Hezbollah the rockets exploded near the Northern town of Kiryati hard hit during last Summers the mayor of the Haim called for a Tough response from both the israeli and lebanese guatemalan mob kills injures 2 accused of killing girl the associated press Guatemala City guatemalan villagers killed a woman and attacked two others after accusing them of Kidnap Ping a 9yearold girl who was later found officials said Edgar an official with the local fire said the woman was killed by a mob that hanged her in the main Square of the Eastern Village of Muy Urco on another woman was doused with Gas Oline and set on she was hospitalized with severe Burns after being res cued by a third woman was beaten and later taken to a local the Corpse of the 9yearold girl was found the jailed woman and the hospitalized woman were being investigated for possible involvement in the authorities local radio reports said the women were thought by villagers to have acted As Gobet Weens for adoption agencies looking for but authorities said they did not know Why they were targeted in response to the girls killing and were in Rodrigo Abd a Ingrid Marisol Martinez is seen behind bars saturday in after being saved from Vest gating any evidence linking them a mob and then detained by police investigating the murder to the of a 9yearold girl found dead on
