Interested in maladministration. Estd. 2005
RTEs Sarah McInerney ? Fianna Fail?supporter? Anthony
Joe Duffy is dishonest and untrustworthy Anthony
Robert Watt complaint: Time for decision by SIPO Anthony
RTE in breach of its own editorial principles Anthony
Waiting for SIPO Anthony
Public Inquiry >>
Promoting Human Rights in IrelandHuman Rights in Ireland >>
Energy Geopolitics in a Putin-Trump World Mon Feb 24, 2025 07:00 | Tilak Doshi
In a world reshaped by Putin and Trump, the Daily Sceptic's Energy Editor explains how a thaw between Russia and the US could change the global energy game, sidelining Europe and lifting the Global South.
The post Energy Geopolitics in a Putin-Trump World appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Mon Feb 24, 2025 01:15 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
BP Faces ?Existential Crisis? After Ruinous Attempt to Go Green Sun Feb 23, 2025 19:00 | Richard Eldred
BP's big green energy gamble has backfired, leaving profits in freefall and activist investors circling like sharks ? now, desperate to stay afloat, it's making a frantic dash back to oil and gas.
The post BP Faces ?Existential Crisis? After Ruinous Attempt to Go Green appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Migrant Powder Keg: Turmoil in Ireland Amid 300% Rise in Asylum Seekers Sun Feb 23, 2025 17:00 | Richard Eldred
With asylum claims up 300%, Ireland is ablaze with anti-migrant rage, with Dublin now a warzone of bus-smashing thugs, street machete fights and all-out brawls.
The post Migrant Powder Keg: Turmoil in Ireland Amid 300% Rise in Asylum Seekers appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Firemen Are Too Male and Too White, Say Chiefs Sun Feb 23, 2025 15:00 | Richard Eldred
Britain's fire service is too male, too white and stuck in the Dark Ages of bigotry, according to a report for the National Fire Chiefs Council.
The post Firemen Are Too Male and Too White, Say Chiefs appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Lockdown Skeptics >>
Voltaire, international edition
Voltaire, International Newsletter N?121 Sat Feb 22, 2025 05:50 | en
US-Russian peace talks against the backdrop of Ukrainian attack on US interests ... Sat Feb 22, 2025 05:40 | en
Putin's triumph after 18 years: Munich Security Conference embraces multipolarit... Thu Feb 20, 2025 13:25 | en
Westerners and the conflict in Ukraine, by Thierry Meyssan Tue Feb 18, 2025 06:56 | en
Voltaire, International Newsletter N?120 Fri Feb 14, 2025 13:14 | en
Voltaire Network >>
international |
anti-war / imperialism |
news report
Friday July 08, 2005 00:54
by iosaf
printable version
Digg this
del.icio.us
Furl
Reddit
Technorati
Facebook
Gab
Twitter
View Comments Titles Only
save preference
Comments (2 of 2)
Jump To Comment: 2 12 are arrested in Baghdad in connection with the kidnapping of the Algerian ambassador and his aide.
On Monday, al-Iraqiya TV broadcast part of an interview with Interior Minister Bayan Jabr, who referred to the detentions.
"More than 30 cars from the special security intelligence forces surrounded the place and they detained two related to the kidnapping," Jabr was qouted as saying by the AP. "They are now under investigation. We were expecting that we would find the Algerian ambassador there, but we found some related persons to the kidnapping."
Gen. Hussein Ali Kamal, a ministry security adviser, did not say who the suspects were nor when they were picked up in last week's abduction of Algeria's top envoy to Iraq, charge d'affaires Ali Belaroussi, 62, and another Algerian diplomat, Azzedine Belkadi, 47.
The two Algerians were kidnapped at gunpoint last Thursday along with their driver in west Baghdad's upscale Mansour district, police and Algerian officials said.
On Saturday, an Internet statement Saturday attributed to al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for kidnapping the Algerian diplomats, saying their government had ignored warnings against deepening ties to the U.S.-backed Iraqi leadership.
Algeria's leading Islamic militant group congratulated al-Qaida for kidnapping two Algerian diplomats in Baghdad, according to an Internet statement cited by Reuters.
That same group are welcoming back an extremist imam who was deported by France this week.
"a welcoming congregation indeed".
on the 53rd anniverary of the Egyptian revolution.
Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack and said it had kidnapped the chief of the Algerian mission in Baghdad earlier this week, according to an Internet statement in the name of the Abudal Azzam brigades in Syria and Egypt.
"Algeria rushed to obey the crusaders by sending its envoy to Iraq ... did you not learn from the fate of the ambassador of the Egyptian tyrant?" asked the statement on an Islamist Web site frequently used by the group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Algerian mission chief Ali Belaroussi and the diplomatic attache were snatched by gunmen in Baghdad on Thursday.