Arabic News Weekly Edition for Local, 8/2/2004
Weekly Edition, Local - Week of August 2, 2004
- Contradictory reports over the number of killing in the confrontations; Iraqi police confirmed controlling the situation in Najaf
The office of the director general of the Iraqi police in Najaf stressed that things were under control and life returned to normal after two days of violent confrontations. Iraq, Military, 8/7/2004 - Three Palestinians killed in the West Bank, Gaza, a detente at Rafah crossing
News reports in Gaza said that the Israeli forces killed one Palestinian and injured another and then detained him when it opened fire at a group of workers seemed to be trying to cross from Sofia crossing to the east of Rafah city late evening yesterday. Palestine-Israel, Military, 8/7/2004 - Aleppo hosts annual Silk- Khan Festival
Aleppo Governor Osama Adi on Friday opened The Days of the Silk Khan Festival which was organized by Aleppo Governorate in cooperation with Aleppo Chamber of Commerce and Yaman Est. for Exhibitions. Syria, Local, 8/7/2004 - Ugarit Acoustics between Eblaic and Arabic: Symposium
Within the alMahabba Festival in Lattakia ( on the Syrian Mediterranean coast ) August 2- 12, an international symposium was held on Ugarit Studies, Ugarit Acoustics between Eblaic and Arabic, and the Ugarit News in the Amarneh Correspondence and the Excavation Activities during the Middle Bronze Age. Syria, Local, 8/7/2004 - Robot made in Singapore to reveal secrets of pyramids
The Supreme Council of Antiquities SCA Secretary-General Zahi Hawwas said the secrets of the pyramids will be revealed next year, noting that the council agreed with a Singaporean University to manufacture a robot for revealing what are behind the secret doors inside the pyramid, especially the second and the third ones. Egypt-Singapore, Local, 8/7/2004 - European jazz festival to resonate next September in old palaces and mansions of Fez
The first festival of European jazz will be held in Fez, next September 10 through 12, under the theme "Jazz in Riads." Morocco, Local, 8/7/2004 - Explosions in Baghdad, clashes continue in al-Najaf
Fightings continued in al-Najaf between the American forces and al-Mahdi army of the Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sader. Iraq, Military, 8/6/2004 - Cincinnati tennis tournament: Morocco's Arazi rolled out Morocco, Sports, 8/6/2004
- Israeli forces kill five Palestinians, bombard a school north of Gaza
Israeli army military helicopters fired yesterday two missiles that fell on a school near a camp for the Palestinian refugees to the north of Gaza where Israeli tanks incurred unde the pretext of preventing the Palestinian resistance from firing missiles at nearby settlements, according to witnesses. Palestine-Israel, Military, 8/5/2004 - Cincinnati tennis tournament: Morocco's Arazi cruises to 2nd round Morocco, Sports, 8/5/2004
- Police arrest Frenchman in possession of 64kg of hashish Morocco-France, Local, 8/5/2004
- One Irish was killed in an armed attack in Riyadh
The Saudi Arabian police stressed the assassination of a resident Irish in his office to the east of the capital Riyadh. One Saudi security source said that the police found the body of the man inside his office in the headquarters of one of the trade establishments in Riyadh noting that the killed man is a civil engineer working in a Saudi company. Saudi Arabia, Local, 8/4/2004 - Al-Sader supporters kidnap 18 policemen in al-Najaf; Explosions in Baghdad
Strong explosions were heard today morning in several areas in Baghdad most of them came from the strongly fortified Green Area. The complex which includes the headquarters of the Interim goverenment and the American embassy. Iraq, Military, 8/4/2004 - Three Palestinians killed in an Israeli incursion in Rafah
Three Palestinians were killed and other 10 were injured by the fire of the Israeli occupation forces in Rafah camp for the Palestinian refugees to the south of Gaza, near the borders with Egypt. Palestine-Israel, Military, 8/3/2004 - U.S. hands over five Moroccan Guantanamo prisoners Morocco-USA, Local, 8/3/2004
- Three Algerians were killed in a bomb explosion
Three persons were killed and a fourth injured in a bomb explosion targeted their car near a workshop for an electricity company in Jejil state on the coast ( 350 Km to the east of the capital.). Algeria, Local, 8/2/2004