Posted here Saturday, April 10, 2004 at 9:21:44 AM 
Iraq, and the world.. what a complex chess game. (these are from Google news, so no direct links. sorry)
China
Cheney to push reactors in China
Fort Worth Star Telegram (subscription), TX - 4 hours ago
WASHINGTON - On a trip to China next week to discuss high-stakes issues such as terrorism and North Korea, Vice President Dick Cheney will have another task ...
Taiwan
Taiwan Riot Police Battle Election Protesters
New York Times - 20 minutes ago
AIPEI, Taiwan, April 10 Riot police fought with demonstrators and used water cannon mounted on armored cars as a large rally turned unexpectedly violent here on Saturday night here in front of the presidential palace.
Japan
Japan appeals for Iraq hostage release
Reuters - 45 minutes ago
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi has appealed for the release of three Japanese hostages in Iraq as protesters called for Tokyo to withdraw its troops to save the captives' lives.
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Cheney arrives in Japan for visit
Xinhua, China - 3 hours ago
TOKYO, April 10 (Xinhuanet) -- US Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in Tokyo late Saturday, kicking off a four-day tour. Cheney ...
Europe
US heading for disaster in Iraq, say Europeans
Straits Times, Singapore - 18 hours ago
BERLIN - There was dismay throughout Europe on Thursday with the fighting in Iraq, with some commentators predicting that the United States was now fully ...
Bush whitehouse
Key document warned of possible al Qaeda scenarios
CNN - 8 hours ago
CRAWFORD, Texas (CNN) -- -- The president's daily intelligence briefing delivered to President Bush a month before the September 11 attacks warns of various scenarios of al Qaeda's intentions to strike inside the United States, sources confirm to CNN.
and, in official think
Intolerable Casualties
Washington Post - 12 hours ago
Lawrence F. Kaplan [op-ed, April 3] says a survey shows that the American public will "tolerate" 29,853 fatalities among our troops in Iraq, and that it is our leaders who get happy feet when casualty rates rise, not average Americans. His conclusion is ...
Senate
http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en60700&;F_catID=&f_type=source
WASHINGTON: Thirteen of the most powerful opposition US senators released a letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld asking to explain the role of civilian contractors in Iraq, a foreign news agency reported on Saturday.
The letter follows the killing and mutilation of four US security contractors in Fallujah, Iraq, on March 31. In a letter to Rumsfeld dated April 8 -- but released Friday -- the senators expressed concern about "private armies operating outside the control of governmental authority." The letter also questioned if there were adequate numbers of US troops in Iraq. Signers included Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, former first lady Hillary Clinton, Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts, as well as Carl Levin of Illinois.
read Billmon for balanced analysis, http://billmon.org/archives/001364.html
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