European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 24, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              June 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition pages Iraq draft Oil Law to await Cabinet approval Baghdad iraqi officials say a draft Oil Law will soon be returned to the Cabi net for approval after kurd agreed to a Compromise reve nue sharing the United states has pressed the government of prime minis Ter Nouri Almalik to pass the Oil Law and several other pieces of Benchmark legislation As a Means of spurring reconciliation among the country sectarian and ethnic the Law is especially important to sunni who populate regions of Iraq that Are largely without Oil who have big reserves and Active Fields in the North of the walked at previous draft believing it did not guarantee them a fair share of the Revenue from Fields they control or Hope to who control major re sources in the South and who have taken political control of the government after years of oppression under Saddam Hussein minority sunni have been reluctant to share revenues with their former while sunnis feared being shut out of a share of Iraq Oil kurd were arguing that their share of Oil revenues should be Given to them bypassing the Central finance the Bill appears to have re solved that Issue with the provi Sion that Money will be deposited into a Kurdistan regional account in the Central rights group criticizes ruling in Saddam trial new trial of sad dam Hussein had serious flaws that fell Short of International Judi Cial standards in reaching death sentences for the former iraqi president and two senior Mem Bers of his a human rights group said the report by human rights watch which examined an in dependent translation of the proceedings came As a special Tri Bunal in Baghdad neared the end of another trial of top Sadd Amera officials charged with crimes against Saddam and two other top members of his regime were convicted of ordering the execution of More than 140 shiite muslims from the iraqi City of Duvail Fol lowing a 1982 attempt on Sadd ams Saddam was hanged from the associated press nato Afagh 60 killed in fight by Jason Straziuso the associated press Forward operating base Afghanistan nato and coalition forces killed 60 insurgents near the Border with in what was described As the largest insurgent formation crossing the Region in six the military said Satur Pakistan army said a rocket fired during the Battle hit a House on its killing nine civil it denied any insurgents had crossed the nato said militants attacked afghan and Alliance troops late Fri Day in the Bermel District of Patti Kanato and forces returned killing about 60 an Alliance statement these individuals clearly had weapons and used them against our aircraft As Well As shooting rockets against our positions this required their removal from the Martin a said in a Pakistan army spokesman Waheed Arshad said one of sever Al rockets that landed in Pakistan hit a House and killed nine civil ians five three women and one Arshad said there also were re ports of civilians killed on the afghan several including women and straggled into Pakistan to seek medical he said they Are not they Are not they Are civilians who were wound in an attack on coalition troops left one Soldier dead and two others wounded the Mili tary the nationality of the dead and wounded troops was not in its saturday nato said the insurgents who fought in Bermel were the largest formation observed in the area since when forces said they had killed around 130 insurgents crossing from Pakistan elsewhere on a Road Side bomb exploded near a vehicle carrying paramilitary forces in Karzai blasts coalition forces for mounting civilian deaths by Rahim Faiez the associated press Afghanistan presi Dent Hamid Karzai accused nato and forces on sat urday of careless operations that killed More than 90 and said International troops should place a higher value on afghan operations using Aerial bombardments and artillery against targets in residential areas will have no Benefit for Karzai several times in the last the afghan government tried to prevent civilian casual but our innocent people Are becoming victims of careless operations of nato and International an angry looking Karzai said in a mixture of English and his native we do not want any More Mili tary operations without coordinating them with the afghan govern Karzai from now Onward they have to work the Way we ask them to work in police said Friday that a nato airstrike killed 25 civilians along with 20 militants who had fired on nato and afghan troops from a walled compound in the Southern province of nato said the insurgents had hidden among and insisted that it takes great care to minimize civilian casualties and that troops had the right to de fend if the casualties in Gershk would bring the number of civilians killed in nato or military operations this year to according to an associated press tally of figures provided by afghan officials and wit Afghanistan y j Chora uru Zgan i i Gershk airstrike Afghanistan f Kabul o 200 0 200 pm source sri a Ness that would be More than the 169 civilians killed in militant including a spate of suicide Karzai said the incident in Gershk was an example of nato troops using disproportionate Force and exposed a Seri Ous Lack of coordination with the afghan in he More than 90 civilians had died in foreign led operations in the past 10 nato acknowledged thurs Day that civilians might have died during a three Day Battle to repel hundreds of militants try ing to seize the Remote town of Chora in uru Zgan Dick commander of the dutch whose troops were accused militants of executing villagers who refused to fight with them and of slitting the throats of sever Al Farzana afghan president Hamid Karzai Speaks saturday in afghan citing careless operations by nato and forces that have killed More than 90 civilians in the last 10 but Karzai castigated nato for allegedly firing artillery into and said 52 civilians had died you do not fight terrorists by firing a Field gun 30 Kilometres 20 Miles into a tar Karzai that is definitely surely bound to cause civil Ian Karzai also denounced the Tali ban and other militants for kill ing but his anger was mainly directed at nato and other foreign troops in the coun we want to cooperate with the International we Are thankful for their help to of Karzai but that does not mean that afghan lives have no afghan life is not cheap and it should not be treated As Northwestern killing four officials at least one solder was also wounded in the attack near the town of Mir Ali in North where remnants of the Taliban and Al Aida Are believed to be Mohammed a local government said the bodies and the wounded had been taken to a military two estonian soldiers were also killed saturday in a Natoley mis Sion in Southern the estonian military we do what we say say what we do roup from construction to maintenance from supplies to installation weve got in All 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