European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 10, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 10 stars and stripes Mideast edition july 2007 Iran digging tunnels near nuke site by Joby Warrick the Washington Post Washington the sudden flurry of digging seen in recent satellite photos of a Mountainside in Central Iran might have passed for Ordinary Road but the site is the Back Yard of Iran most ambitious and controversial nuclear leading officials and Independent experts to reach another conclusion it appears to be the Start of a major Tun Nel Complex inside the the question Why worries have been stoked by the presence nearby of fortified buildings where uranium is being pro those structures in turn Are now being connected by japanese War orphans of Aid pact by Kana Inagaki the associated press Tokyo thousands of Japa Nese who were abandoned in China after Tokyo defeat in world War ii will receive More Aid from the government after dropping their compensation Law an official said top government spokesman Yasuhisa Shiozaki welcomed the plaintiffs decision to accept the proposal crafted by the ruling Coa once the Aid package is final we Are fully prepared to carry it out so that they will feel truly glad about having returned to Shiozaki told reporters approximately plaintiffs participating in lawsuits at 15 locations around Japan agreed to accept the proposal at a meeting in Tokyo on according to Media they had accused the govern ment of failing to adequately sup port them when they returned to saying Many of them Are now elderly and and that they struggle to survive because they cant speak fluent under the the orphans will receive a monthly pen Sion payment of up from the they currently Media reports they also will receive a special subsidy of up to per month in place of welfare and the government will help cover their nursing care and housing in the Plain tiffs will drop their lawsuits against the the proposal will be officially accepted monday said Yukihiko a member of the plaintiffs Legal thousands of japanese Chil Dren were left behind in China by their fleeing parents As former so Viet troops closed in at the end of the War in Many were adopted by chinese and were too Young to remember their Japa Nese names or their biological Par roads to Iran nuclear site at a where the country recently started production of enriched uranium in Defiance of International the construction has raised concerns at the International atomic Energy the Vien abased watchdog that monitors Iran nuclear on an Iaea spokeswoman confirmed that the Agency has broached the subject with iranian we have been in con tact with the iranian authorities about and we have received said Melissa Flem the she declined to Calls to Iran Mission in Vienna were not Iaea officials plan to press the Issue further in a previously scheduled visit to Tehran later this according to informed the Tunnel Complex certainly appears to be related to said David a former weapons inspector and presi Dent of the Institute for science and International a Washington based nonprofit group that provided copies of the photos to the Washington we think it is probably for Stor age of nuclear officials at several military and intelligence gathering Agen cies said they were aware of the construction and were watching it though none would com ment publicly or speculate on the intended purpose of the a Tunnel Complex would re Duce options for a preemptive military strike to Knock out Iran nuclear according to officials who closely follow Iran nuclear it also could further heighten tensions Between the Bush administration and the government of president Mahmoud who has said he is committed to pursuing a peaceful use of nuclear in response to suggestions by vice president Dick Cheney and others that the United states might consider using Force to halt Iran nuclear Ahmadinejad has shrouded the pro Gram in additional secrecy and threatened to suspend cooperation with International nuclear in on the run Bernat revellers Are chased by a pack of fighting bulls monday on the third Day of the running of the bulls during the san Fermin fiestas in held since the event attracts tens of thousands of foreign visitors each year for nine Days of morning Bull runs and afternoon diaries Blair Cabinet had doubts about Iraq War by Jill Lawless the associated press London prime minister Tony Blairs govern ment colleagues had serious doubts about the inva Sion of a former top aide said in diaries published Alastair Blairs powerful chief spin Doc Tor Between 1997 and wrote that Blair showed no doubts about joining the which divided his governing labour party and the All of i had had pretty severe moments of doubt but he haunt or if he had he had hid Den them even from Campbell wrote in an entry dated March 2003 a Day after parliament voted to endorse now there was no going Back at at a Cabinet meeting a Day Campbell Deputy prime minister John la Bour party chairman John Reid and one or two oth ers looked physically Reid warned Blair we will be judged by the Iraq that replaces Saddam Campbell dissent within the Cabinet was Well known at the Robin who was Blairs first foreign Secre resigned As Leader of the House of commons in protest of the invasion Claire the inter National development had made her reservations though she didst resign until after the the Blair years is boiled Down from voluminous diaries reportedly running to More than 2 million words kept by Campbell during his years at Downing in extracts released Campbell said Blair had considered quitting in More than six months before the invasion of he said in truth Ive never really wanted to do More than two full Campbell Campbell told the sunday times he warned Blair that he risked becoming a lame Duck Premier at a crucial the plan was abandoned As Blair be came increasingly involved in pressing he won a third term in and stepped Down last Campbell resigned in 2003 in the Wake of an inquiry into the death of government weapons scientist David who killed himself after being exposed As the source of a British broadcasting report that accused Downing Street of sexing up Intelli gence to make a stronger Case for the inquiry cleared Campbell of but he stepped Down amid concerns that his notoriety meant rather than was becoming the focus of Media 2 protest ail leaders sentenced in China ministers in chivas unrecognized protestant Church have been sentenced to one year each in a labor Camp on charges of using an evil cult to obstruct the a monitoring group said the two men were detained on june 15 along with four other Church leaders during a worship service in Eastern Shandong prov just South of said the China Aid Germany railway offers wage increase Berlin Germany nation Al railway on thursday made an increased offer in a wage dispute with unions that have staged a series of strikes this two unions said they would halt strike action and resume negotiations with 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