Timeline 2006 September
Return to home
2006 Sep 1, US
military forces launched a rocket interceptor that destroyed a mock
warhead in outer space.
(SFC, 9/2/06, p.A5)
2006 Sep 1, US federal agents
began rounding up illegal immigrants in Stillmore, Georgia. More than
120 illegal immigrants were loaded onto buses bound for immigration
courts in Atlanta. Hundreds more fled Emanuel County. The Crider
poultry plant was left scrambling for workers.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 1, Disrupting the start
of the Labor Day weekend, the remnants of Tropical Storm Ernesto
drenched the Mid-Atlantic region, cut power to more than 400,000
customers and forced evacuations. 3 people were reported killed in
North Carolina and Virginia.
(AP, 9/2/06)(SFC, 9/2/06, p.A8)
2006 Sep 1, Nellie Connally (87),
the former Texas first lady who was riding in President Kennedy's
limousine when he was assassinated, died in Austin, Texas.
(AP, 9/1/07)
2006 Sep 1, In Afghanistan
fighting across the volatile south killed nine Afghan policemen, at
least 13 suspected Taliban and a British soldier.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 1, Brazil pressured
Google to turn over data from Web sites that the government said were
used by criminals. Authorities gave Google 15 days to comply or face a
daily fine of $23,000.
(SFC, 9/2/06, p.C1)
2006 Sep 1, Cambodia’s PM Hun Sen
pushed a bill through the lower house of parliament banning
extra-marital affairs. The legislation could get adulterers up to a
year in jail.
(Econ, 9/9/06, p.46)
2006 Sep 1, In Chad US Senator
Barack Obama held talks with President Idriss Deby Itno on the crisis
in Sudan's Darfur region and on Chad's oil production, on the final
stop of the African-American politician's tour of the continent.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, In Colombia Jesus
Ignacio Roldan led special prosecutors and investigators to the alleged
grave of Carlos Castano, former right-wing paramilitary leader, near
the town of Valencia. Roldan says he killed Castano in April 2004 on
the order of Castano's older brother, Vicente Castano.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, Greece beat the
Americans 101-95 in the semifinals of the world championships in
Saitama, Japan.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, Hungarian poet Gyorgy
Faludy (95), a legend of resistance to the rise of Nazism and
Communism, died at his home in Budapest. He spent 1950-1953 in the
Stalinist concentration camp at Recsk. Faludy won international fame
with his autobiographical novel "My Happy Days in Hell" in the 1960s,
which related his escape from fascist Hungary and his return, and
imprisonment, in a country under communist rule.
(Reuters, 9/2/06)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.96)
2006 Sep 1, Iran underlined its
disregard for the UN deadline to halt uranium enrichment, now expired,
when its president vowed never to give up its nuclear program and
accused the West of misrepresenting Tehran's nuclear activities.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, In northeastern Iran a
Russian-made Tupolev 154 airplane with 148 people on board skidded off
the runway and caught fire, killing 29 people.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, Kurdish leader Massoud
Barzani ordered the Iraqi national flag to be replaced with the Kurdish
one in his northern autonomous region. Gunmen fatally shot one
policeman in each of two towns outside of Baghdad in separate
incidents. Police said they found the body of a Saddam Hussein-era
intelligence officer who had been kidnapped and shot. A US soldier died
from wounds sustained during action in Anbar province.
(AP, 9/1/06)(AP, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 1, Shinzo Abe, the
front-runner to be Japan's next prime minister, announced his
candidacy, promising to defend Japan's interests and maintain the
security alliance with the US.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, In Mexico City riot
police, steel barriers, and water cannons surrounded Mexico's Congress
as protesters vowed to stop President Vicente Fox from delivering his
final state-of-the-nation address. Mexican lawmakers, protesting
conservative Felipe Calderon's victory in the July 2 presidential
election, stormed the congressional stage and refused to yield, making
Fox the first president in modern Mexican history not to deliver his
annual address to Congress. Fox handed in a written copy of his report
and delivered it over television.
(AP, 9/1/06)(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 1, Morocco’s Interior
Ministry said security agents broke up a group planning terrorist
attacks on tourist sites and government facilities, arresting 56 people
who included soldiers and the wives of two pilots at the state airline.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, A strike paralyzed
Pakistan's restive Baluchistan province after the controversial burial
of a top rebel leader whose killing sparked days of deadly rioting.
Partial strikes also hit southern Sindh and central Punjab provinces.
(AFP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, World donors pledged
$500 million in aid for Palestinians, including $55 million for a UN
emergency appeal for humanitarian help. Carin Jamtin, Sweden's aid
minister and host of the donors' conference held in the Swedish
capital, said a total of $114 million of the money pledged will go
toward humanitarian aid, with the rest going to rebuilding
infrastructure and other projects.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, Spain's Cabinet
approved sending 1,100 troops to the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon,
calling it a "legitimate" mission to help maintain peace in the region.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, In Spain
self-contained, nonsmoking areas with their own ventilation systems,
became requisite for larger restaurants and bars.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, Sri Lanka's navy said
it sank 12 Tamil rebel boats overnight, including five suicide craft,
and killed as many as 100 rebel fighters during a fierce six-hour sea
battle off the country's northern coast.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 1, Human rights activists
and African Union officials said the Sudanese government has launched a
major offensive against rebels in war-torn Darfur.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1, UN Secretary-General
Kofi Annan said that Syria had pledged to step up border patrols and
work with the Lebanese army to stop the flow of weapons to Hezbollah.
(AP, 9/1/06)
2006 Sep 1-2006 Sep 2, Separatist
Kurdish guerrillas killed 7 Turkish soldiers and wounded two in
stepped-up attacks against the military in southeastern Turkey.
(AP, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 2, In Nevada’s Black Rock
Desert the Burning Man art festival culminated with the burning of a
40-foot wooden man. It included a Belgian art installation titled
“Uchronia” (aka the Belgian Waffle), a 250,000, 15-story wooden cavern
funded by Jan Kriekels and constructed by 90 Belgium artists.
(SSFC, 9/3/06, p.B1)
2006 Sep 2, Bob Mathias (b.1930),
2-time Olympic decathlon champion (1948, 1952), died at his home in
Fresno, Ca. He also served in the US House of Representatives for 4
terms (1967-1976). He starred as himself in the film “The Bob Mathias
Story” (1954).
(SSFC, 9/3/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 2, Walter Redman (75),
aka Dewey Redman, tenor saxophonist and bandleader, died in NYC. He cut
his 1st album in SF in 1966.
(SFC, 9/7/06, p.B7)
2006 Sep 2, A NATO Nimrod
reconnaissance aircraft crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing 14
British servicemen. The alliance said there was no indication hostile
fire was involved. The Nimrod MR2 exploded after an air-to-air
refueling operation. A later investigation said that leaking fuel
ignited by a hot pipe was the most likely cause of a fire that
destroyed the plane. British patrol NATO and Afghan forces began
Operation Medusa in southern Afghanistan. Dozens of insurgents were
killed during the fighting.
(AP, 9/2/06)(AP, 9/3/06)(AP, 12/4/07)
2006 Sep 2, The UN said opium
cultivation in Afghanistan is spiraling out of control, rising 59% this
year to produce a record 6,100 tons, nearly a third more than the
world's drug users consume.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 2, Bangladesh's trade
shipments ground to a virtual halt as shipping companies refused to use
the nation's main port in a protest over container fees. Operations
began to resume the next day after 2 shipping companies agreed to
withdraw their boycott.
(AFP, 9/2/06)(AFP, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 2, British police
arrested 14 people in overnight raids and said they suspected the men
had been involved in training and recruiting for terror attacks. Two
others were arrested in an unrelated terror investigation in Manchester.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 2, In Chile miners at
Escondida returned to work following a 25-day strike that cost the
company some $200 million in lost profits. Their new deal included a
bonus of $12,000 on account of high copper prices.
(Econ, 9/9/06, p.40)
2006 Sep 2, In China’s Guizhou
Province a mine gas explosion killed at least 8 people. Six miners died
when their pit in central Hubei province flooded.
(Reuters, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 2, A small boat of
African migrants from Eritrea was intercepted off the coast of Sicily.
They said eight people died during their grueling trip. They had left
from Libya 10-12 days earlier.
(AP, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 2, Indonesia said it will
send up to 1,000 troops to southern Lebanon by the month's end, after
Israel dropped objections to its participation in the U.N. peacekeeping
force.
(AP, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 2, President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad vowed Iran would defend the aims of its nuclear program
during any negotiations as the EU gave Tehran extra time to show it was
serious about talks. Iran offered to help support the cease-fire in
Lebanon in talks with UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, and insisted
that diplomacy is the only way to resolve Tehran's nuclear dispute with
the West.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 2, In Iraq attacks killed
13 Pakistani and Indian pilgrims south of Baghdad and three bombings
left six people dead.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 2, Italian soldiers
poured into Lebanon, part of the first large contingent of
international troops dispatched to boost the UN force keeping the peace
between Israel and Hezbollah guerrillas.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 2, Hezbollah announced
the death of Hajj Ali Mohammed Saleh Bilal, a military commander, from
wounds suffered in monthlong fighting with Israel.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 2, At least eight boats
carrying 674 migrants from Mauritania reached the Canary Islands in the
space of 24 hours.
(AP, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 2, The former Stella
Polaris, a historic ocean liner (1927-1970), sank overnight off Japan's
southeastern coast. The Swedish company Petro-Fast AB had planned to
operate the ship, renamed the Scandinavia, as a hotel-restaurant in
Stockholm.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 2, Unpaid teachers shut
down thousands of schools across the West Bank and Gaza Strip, the
first day of the school year, in a major challenge to the Hamas
government.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 2, In Romania liberal
leaders expelled Mona Musca, one of the country's most popular
politicians, from the party after she admitted to having collaborated
with the Securitate secret police under the communist dictatorship of
Nicolae Ceausescu.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 2-2006 Sep 3, In
northwestern Russia hundreds of people looted shops and burned a
restaurant belonging to Caucasus businessmen in Kondopoga in Karelia.
The outbreak of racial violence was triggered by the recent killing of
two locals.
(Reuters, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 2, Sudan's president
ordered the release of an envoy of Slovenia's president who was
convicted of espionage in the war-torn region of Darfur and sentenced
to two years in prison. Tomo Kriznar, the Slovenian president's envoy
to Darfur, was arrested in July and convicted on Aug. 14 by a court in
the North Darfur capital of el-Fasher.
(AP, 9/2/06)
2006 Sep 3, It was reported that
47% of US development aid is spent on overpriced technical assistance.
70% of US aid was contingent upon the recipient spending it on American
stuff including American-made armaments. In total 86 cents of every
dollar of US aid was said to be phantom aid, in that it never shows up
in recipient countries.
(SSFC, 9/3/06, p.E1)
2006 Sep 3, Andre Agassi retired
after losing the third-round match at the US Open.
(AP, 9/3/07)
2006 Sep 3, An apartment fire in
Chicago killed six children ages 3 to 14.
(AP, 9/3/07)
2006 Sep 3, Nina Reiser (31) of
Oakland, Ca., went missing. On Oct 10 police arrested Hans Reiser (42),
her estranged husband on suspicion of murder. In 2008 Reiser confessed
to strangling Nina in exchange for a reduced sentence and was sentenced
15 years to life in prison.
(SFC, 10/11/06, p.B1)(SFC, 8/30/08, p.B1)
2006 Sep 3, NATO and Afghan forces
hit the Taliban with air strikes and artillery in Operation Medusa in
southern Afghanistan. Four NATO soldiers, including 3 Canadians, and
more than 200 insurgents were killed in the first two days of a major
anti-Taliban operation under way in the Panjwayi district, about 10
miles from the city of Kandahar.
(AFP, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 3, Another 4 boats
carrying 522 migrants from Mauritania reached the Canary Islands. This
brought the total for 2 days to nearly 1200.
(AP, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 3, The SMART-1
spacecraft, Europe's first moon probe launched Sep 27, 2003, signed off
its mission on schedule by crashing into the lunar surface, completing
a project scientists hope will tell them more about the moon's origin.
(Reuters, 9/3/06)(SSFC, 9/3/06, p.A5)
2006 Sep 3, Indonesia reported
that 18% of its population of some 220 million are officially poor. The
government benchmark was based on an income of $16.80 per month. Use of
a $1 a day benchmark would raise the poverty number to over 80 million.
(Econ, 9/16/06,
p.53)(http://indonesiaupdate.org/2006/09/)
2006 Sep 3, Iraq's national
security adviser said that Iraqi and coalition forces had arrested the
second most senior figure in al-Qaida in Iraq. Hamed Jumaa Farid
al-Saeedi, known as Abu Humam or Abu Rana, was captured north of
Baghdad "along with another group of his aides and followers. A later
report dated his capture to June 19. At least 16 Iraqis and two US
soldiers were killed in bomb attacks and shootings nationwide. A US
soldier died from wounds in Anbar province and 2 Marines were killed
while fighting there.
(AP, 9/3/06)(AP, 9/5/06)(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 3, In Pakistan Abdul
Rahim Muslim Dost and his brother, Badruz Zaman Badar Dost, published
“The Broken Shackles of Guantanamo,” an account of their 3 years in
detention at the US prison. On Sep 29 Abdul was jailed by the Pakistani
intelligence service in apparent response to criticism of the agency’s
role in the US-led war on terrorism.
(SFC, 12/28/06, p.A17)
2006 Sep 3, A bomb damaged a gas
pipeline in southwestern Pakistan, cutting supplies to thousands of
homes in the region.
(AP, 9/3/06)
2006 Sep 3, In southeastern Turkey
a remote-controlled bomb exploded in a tea garden, killing two people
and wounding seven.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Lt. Col. Marshall
Gutierrez (41), whistleblower on food overcharging for the Iraq war,
was found dead in his quarters in Kuwait. A Kuwaiti contractor had
accused Gutierrez of seeking bribes.
(WSJ, 10/20/07, p.A1)
2006 Sep 4, Tropical storm Ernesto
soaked the East Coast of the US claiming 6 lives and left 19,000
customers in the new York area without power.
(WSJ, 9/5/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 4, In south-central
Montana a wildfire had spread across 180,000 acres, over 280 sq. miles,
since it was sparked by lightning on Aug 22. It was only 20% contained.
(SFC, 9/5/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 4, In Newry, Maine, 4
people were found killed at the Black Bear Bed & Breakfast. The
victims were shot and then dismembered. Christian Nielsen (31), a
resident at the inn for 2-months, was arrested. The dead included owner
Julie Bullard (65), her daughter Selby (30), her friend Cindy Beatson
(43), and Arkansas resident James Whitehurst.
(SFC, 9/8/06, p.B2)
2006 Sep 4, In southern
Afghanistan 2 US warplanes accidentally strafed their own forces,
killing one Canadian soldier and seriously wounding five others. A
British soldier attached to NATO was also killed in a Kabul suicide
bombing, which left another four Afghans dead. 16 suspected Taliban
militants and five Afghan police died in separate Afghan violence.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Steve Irwin (44),
world-famous Australian "crocodile hunter" and television
environmentalist, was killed by a stingray blow to the chest while
filming a documentary on the Great Barrier Reef. His "Crocodile Hunter"
show, in which the adventurer appeared in his trademark khaki shorts
and shirt, was first broadcast in 1992 and has been shown around the
world on the Discovery cable network ever since.
(AFP, 9/4/06)(Econ, 9/9/06, p.82)
2006 Sep 4, Global press titan
Rupert Murdoch launched a new free title: thelondonpaper, a 48-page
color paper, dominated by gossip and real-life stories, in the city
centre. The first free paper in London was launched seven years ago, in
1999. Metro, a daily morning paper published by Associated Newspapers,
has a circulation of around a million copies in the capital and 13
other big towns.
(AFP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, In CongoDRC a boat
overloaded with passengers and freight sank in choppy waters on Lake
Kivu, killing at least 35 people.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 4, In Cyprus 3 British
holidaymakers were charged with willful manslaughter over the death of
a Cypriot teenager in a hit-and-run accident in the coastal resort of
Protaras last month. A rented Opel "repeatedly rammed" the moped in
what police described as a revenge attack following a fight outside a
Protaras disco in which a friend of the accused was beaten up.
(AFP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, In Egypt a passenger
train collided with a cargo train north of Cairo, killing 5 people and
injuring 30 others.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, In France the Airbus
A380, the world's largest passenger jet, took off with a full load of
passengers for the first time. Carrying 474 Airbus employees, the
308-ton jet left from Toulouse, southern France, on the first of four
test flights.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, In Iraq a popular
Iraqi soccer star was kidnapped. 33 bullet-riddled bodies were found in
Baghdad and 2 more in Kut. At least two people also were killed and six
were wounded in and around Baqouba. Two suicide bombers slammed into a
checkpoint on the outskirts of Baghdad, killing an Iraqi soldier and
wounding eight. Gunmen in Ramadi killed Maj. Gen. Mohammad Thumeil, who
had served in former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's military. An
American soldier was killed by a roadside bomb north of Baghdad, while
a 2nd soldier died of non-combat related injuries. 2 US Marines and one
sailor were killed in fighting Anbar province.
(AP, 9/4/06)(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 4, Nabeel Ahmed Issa
al-Jaourah opened fire on tourists near a popular Roman ruins site in
Jordan's capital, killing Christopher Stokes, a British man, and
wounding five other foreigners and a local police officer. Police
overpowered and arrested the attacker at the scene. Al-Jaourah was
sentenced to death in December.
(AP, 9/4/06)(AP, 12/21/06)
2006 Sep 4, In Lebanon US civil
rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson met with Hezbollah officials and
called on them to show proof that two captured Israeli soldiers are
still alive. A UN spokesman said Secretary-General Kofi Annan has
agreed to requests by Hezbollah and Israel that he mediate in
negotiations over the release of two abducted Israeli soldiers. Qatar
announced that it would contribute 200 to 300 troops to the UN
peacekeeping force in Lebanon, making the Persian Gulf state the first
Arab country to commit soldiers to the peace effort in Lebanon.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Philippine marines
clashed with nearly 200 al-Qaida-linked rebels on Jolo Island. 6
government troops were killed and 19 wounded in the monthlong US-backed
offensive. In Dec the military said Khaddafy Janjalani, head of the
al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf, was killed in the fighting and that his
remains had been found. DNA evidence confirmed his death.
(AP, 9/4/06)(AP, 12/27/06)(AP, 1/20/07)
2006 Sep 4, Somalia's weak
government and an Islamic militia that controls much of the south
signed an agreement to eventually form a unified national army.
(AP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Sri Lanka President
Mahinda Rajapakse said security forces had captured Sampur, a key town
used by Tamil Tigers to target artillery at a major naval port.
Rajapakse urged the rebels to return to peace talks.
(AFP, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 4, Sudan said it would
allow African troops to remain in Darfur only under African Union
control and accused Washington of attempting "regime change" in
Khartoum by trying to bring in a UN force.
(Reuters, 9/4/06)
2006 Sep 5, Pres. Bush named Mary
Peters, former Federal Highway Administrator, to replace Norm Pineta as
transportation secretary.
(SFC, 9/6/06, p.A4)
2006 Sep 5, The Academy of
American Poets announced that Michael Palmer (63), a resident of San
Francisco, has been selected as the recipient of the 13th Wallace
Stevens Award for "outstanding and proven mastery in the art of
poetry." The award included $100,000.
(http://tinyurl.com/gcmho)
2006 Sep 5, Dan Rather said he has
donated $2 million to his alma mater, Sam Houston State University, the
largest single monetary gift in the school's 127-year history.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 5, Chevron and Devon
energy announced successful oil production from a new deep water region
in the Gulf of Mexico estimated at 3-15 billion barrels of oil plus gas.
(WSJ, 9/5/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 5, Bill Ford stepped
down as CEO of Ford Motor Co. and was replaced by Alan Mulally, a top
Boeing executive. Mulally will get a base salary of $2 million and an
immediate payout of $18.5 million which includes a $7.5 million hiring
bonus and $11 million to offset forfeited performance and stock option
awards from Boeing.
(SFC, 9/6/06, p.C3)(WSJ, 9/9/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 5, The US FDA granted
Abiomed approval to sell AbioCor, the world’s first implantable
artificial heart.
(SFC, 9/6/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 5, The lower deck of the
SF Bay Bridge reopened after being shut down for the 3-day Labor Day
weekend due to demolition work.
(SFC, 9/5/06, p.B1)
2006 Sep 5, The Wireless Silicon
Valley Project picked Silicon Valley Metro Connect, a collaboration of
Azulstar Networks, Cisco systems, IBM and Seakay, to build and operate
a wireless network across 38 cities in the SF Bay Area.
(SFC, 9/6/06, p.C1)
2006 Sep 5, A cook was charged
with shooting and dismembering the owner of a Maine bed-and-breakfast
and three other people in a Labor Day weekend killing rampage.
Christian Nielsen has since pleaded not guilty to murder by reason of
insanity.
(AP, 9/5/07)
2006 Sep 5, In southern
Afghanistan US artillery and airstrikes killed between 50 and 60
suspected Taliban militants, the fourth day of a NATO-led offensive.
NATO said 700 Taliban were trapped by the offensive.
(AP, 9/5/06)(WSJ, 9/6/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 5, A federal judge in
Argentina ruled unconstitutional a 1990 presidential pardon extended to
Jorge Rafael Videla, who led Argentina's military junta during the
worst periods of the so-called "Dirty War" crackdown on dissidents
between 1976 and 1983. A day earlier the same judge ruled that pardons
for Albano Harguinday, the interior minister under Videla, and Jose
Martinez de Hoz, the economy minister under Videla, were also
unconstitutional.
(http://tinyurl.com/0)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.47)
2006 Sep 5, Burundi Vice-President
Alice Nzomukunda resigned over corruption and human rights abuses that
she says are hampering her nation's progress.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5316690.stm)
2006 Sep 5, Danish authorities
said they foiled a serious terror plot with the arrest of nine men
accused of preparing explosives for a planned attack in Denmark. The
suspects were Danish citizens between the ages of 18 and 33. Eight of
them had immigrant backgrounds. In 2007 a jury in Copenhagen handed
down guilty verdicts to Mohammad Zaher (34), Ahmad Khaldhadi (22), and
Abdallah Andersen (32). Riad Anwer Daabas (19) was acquitted. Zaher and
Khaldhadi, described as the two most active, were each sentenced to 11
years in prison, while Andersen was given a four-year sentence.
(AP, 9/5/06)(AP, 11/24/07)
2006 Sep 5, Cellular telephones
were found inside four prisoners in El Salvador's maximum-security
prison after suspicious officials took X-rays of each of the inmates.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 5, French oil and gas
field surveyor Geophysique said it will buy US rival Veritas for $3.1
billion in cash and stock, establishing a major new global player in
the booming oil exploration industry.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 5, The Iraqi parliament
voted to extend the country's state of emergency for 30 more days.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 5, Israeli forces left
five villages in southern Lebanon and were replaced by Lebanese troops,
who also moved into the center of a Hezbollah stronghold devastated by
weeks of fighting.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 5, In Kyrgyzstan Maj.
Jill Metzger (33), a US Air Force officer, went missing while shopping
in the capital of Bishkek. Metzger reappeared 3 days later and said she
had been seized by three young men and a woman in a minibus and held in
a rural area about 30 miles from the capital.
(AP, 9/6/06)(AP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 5, In south Lebanon a
remote-controlled bomb wounded a senior police intelligence officer who
played a key role in the investigation into the slaying of a former
Lebanese prime minister. Four of the officer's aides and bodyguards
were killed in the sophisticated attack.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 5, The president of
Mexico's top electoral court recommended that the full tribunal uphold
the slim lead of ruling party candidate Felipe Calderon. Marcelo Garza,
the top police investigator for Nuevo Leon, a northern Mexican state
that borders Texas, was shot to death by a lone gunman outside an art
gallery.
(AP, 9/5/06)(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 5, Pakistan's government
and pro-Taliban militants signed an agreement in Miran Shah to ensure
"permanent peace" in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, seeking to
end five years of violent unrest in the area. Under the truce the
Pakistan army pulled back to barracks tens of thousands of troops that
had been involved in bloody operations against suspected Taliban and
al-Qaida hideouts, and militants agreed to halt attacks in Pakistan and
over the border against foreign troops in Afghanistan. Tribal elders
were supposed to police the deal. The truce ended in July 2007.
Lawmakers from a coalition of six Islamic groups threatened to vacate
their parliamentary seats if the government changes a rape law
criticized by human rights activists.
(AP, 9/5/06)(AP, 9/5/06)(AP, 7/16/07)
2006 Sep 5, Palestinian security
officers went on the rampage in Gaza City to demand back pay from the
cash-strapped Hamas-led government. Israel pressed ahead with its
offensive against Hamas militants, killing five with airstrikes in the
Rafah refugee camp.
(AP, 9/5/06)(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 5, Russian President
Vladimir Putin met South African leader Thabo Mbeki at the start of a
visit intended to forge closer ties between the mineral and diamond
superpowers.
(Reuters, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 5, Turkey became the
first Muslim country with diplomatic ties to Israel to pledge troops to
an expanding international peacekeeping force that will monitor a
fragile cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 5, In Somalia thousands
of people massed in Mogadishu vowing to fight any foreign peacekeepers
sent to the embattled nation, while a coalition of East African nations
approved an ambitious plan to deploy troops in Somalia by early next
month.
(AP, 9/5/06)
2006 Sep 5, Police in Uruguay
arrested 27 people suspected of trafficking drugs to Europe and seized
a record 770 pounds of cocaine.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 6, Pres. Bush
acknowledged that the CIA had subjected dozens of detainees to “tough”
interrogation at secret prisons abroad and that 14 remaining detainees
have been transferred to the detention center at Guantanamo Bay.
(SFC, 9/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 6, In Phoenix, Arizona,
police arrested Mark Goudeau (42), a construction worker, for 2 sexual
assaults. In December police identified Goudeau as the Baseline Killer
and recommended charging him with 71 counts including 9 murders
committed from August, 2005, to June, 2006.
(www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=39736)(SFC,
12/8/06, p.A13)
2006 Sep 6, In Chicago George Ryan
(72), former Illinois governor, was sentenced to 6½ years in
prison for offenses including racketeering, conspiracy and fraud.
(SFC, 9/7/06, p.A4)
2006 Sep 6, Philadelphia’s Art
Commission voted 6-2 to move a 2,000-pound bronze statue of Rocky
Balboa, commissioned by actor Sylvester Stallone, out of storage and
onto a street-level pedestal near the steps of the Philadelphia Museum
of Art.
(SFC, 9/7/06, p.A2)
2006 Sep 6, Andy Ross, owner of
Cody’s bookstore in Berkeley, Ca., announced that the store had been
sold to Yohan Inc., a book company based in Tokyo.
(SFC, 9/7/06, p.C1)
2006 Sep 6, Intel announced it
would cut more than a tenth of its workforce as part of a drive to
become more efficient in the face of tough competition in the computer
chip market.
(AFP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 6, Reporting in the
Annals of Internal Medicine, European researchers said virgin olive oil
may be particularly effective at lowering heart disease risk because of
its high level of antioxidant plant compounds.
(Reuters, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 6, Research reported in
Nature magazine said thawing permafrost, due to global warming, is
releasing trapped methane at a much higher rate than was assumed.
(WSJ, 9/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 6, Afghan President Hamid
Karzai and Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf held talks on
counterterrorism in Kabul. NATO forces killed 21 militants in air and
ground attacks in southern Kandahar province. Afghan police killed four
Taliban fighters in southeastern Paktiya province. 3 British soldiers
were killed.
(AP, 9/6/06)(AP, 9/7/06)(WSJ, 9/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 6, Six junior members of
British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government resigned to protest his
refusal to set a date to leave office amid a growing Labour Party
revolt.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 6, State media said
hundreds of people in northwestern China have been hospitalized with
lead poisoning that was likely caused by pollution from a nearby
smelter. The first sign of trouble in the villages of Xinsi and Moba,
Gansu province, came on Aug. 18.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 6, In eastern India 50
miners were killed after an explosion inside a state-owned coal mine in
Jharkhand state.
(AP, 9/7/06)(AP, 9/8/06)
2006 Sep 6, An Indonesian appeals
court sentenced four Australian members of a drug smuggling ring to
death, prompting a protest from the Australian government. Scott Rush,
Tan Duc Than Nguyen, Si Yi Chen and Matthew Norman had originally
received life terms for trying to take home more than 18 pounds of
heroin from Indonesia's resort island of Bali last year.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 6, Iran unveiled its
first locally manufactured fighter plane during large-scale military
exercises. The report said the bomber Saegheh is similar to the
American F-18 fighter plane, but "more powerful."
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 6, Iraq executed 27
"terrorists" convicted by Iraqi courts of killings and rapes in several
provinces. 2 bombs exploded in northern Baghdad within minutes of each
other, killing at least nine people and wounding 39 others. In
northeastern Baghdad, gunmen opened fire on a procession of pilgrims
heading to the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad,
killing one person and wounding two. Mortar attacks in residential
areas in Diyala province, north of Baghdad, killed three people: a
2-year-old child in the Khan Bani Saad area and two people in
Muqdadiyah. In Baqouba gunmen killed three construction workers waiting
for a bus. An employee in the Diyala police and army coordination
office was shot to death as she left her house in the city's Tahrir
neighborhood. Gunmen also killed the owner of a food store in the same
area. Gunmen, in Baghdad kidnapped the nephew of Iraq's parliament
speaker, Mahmoud al-Mashhadani. 2 American soldiers were killed in
separate incidents. Attacks across Iraq left 36 dead and 29 corpses
were found.
(AP, 9/6/06)(AP, 9/7/06)(WSJ, 9/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 6, Japan's Princess Kiko
gave birth to the royal family's first male heir in four decades. The
male heir was named Hisahito, meaning "virtuous, calm and everlasting"
(AP, 9/6/06)(AP, 9/12/06)
2006 Sep 6, In Macau Steve Wynn,
American gambling mogul, opened his $1.2 billion Wynn Macau, a near
replica of his Nevada casino.
(WSJ, 9/7/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 6, Mexico’s newly
declared President-elect Felipe Calderon began building his government
and his supporters called on backers of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez
Obrador to end weeks of national protests over the disputed July 2
election. Gunmen barged into a bar in central Mexico and tossed five
human heads on the dance floor. An avalanche left 10 villagers dead in
northern Mexico.
(AP, 9/6/06)(AP, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 6, Mexican authorities
arrested Jaime Maya Duran, a reputed major figure in one of Colombia's
largest and most feared drug cartels responsible for nearly half of the
cocaine smuggled into the US. He was flown immediately to New York,
where he is under indictment on drug trafficking and money laundering
charges.
(AP, 9/8/06)
2006 Sep 6, Unpaid employees in
the Palestinian prime minister's office joined a widespread strike that
is challenging the survival of the Hamas-led government. Sinn Fein
leader Gerry Adams met with a Hamas legislator in the West Bank and
advised Israel and the Palestinians to solve their problems using the
Northern Ireland formula, negotiations.
(AP, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 6, The Philippine
government said it will take full control of Manila airport's
controversial new airport terminal despite an international court
ruling to return it to its builders. Philippine International Air
Terminals Co Inc (PIATCO) built the terminal under a
"build-operate-transfer" contract, but in 2002 President Arroyo revoked
the contract on the grounds that certain terms were illegally
renegotiated by Joseph Estrada, her deposed predecessor.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 6, A fire broke out
aboard the Daniil Moskovsky, a Russian nuclear submarine in the Barents
Sea, killing two crew members and injuring another. The navy said there
was no radiation threat.
(AP, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 6, More than 80
international scientists and academics released a letter that condemned
South Africa's AIDS policies as ineffective and immoral and called for
the firing of the health minister in a letter to President Thabo Mbeki.
(AP, 9/6/06)
2006 Sep 6, Sudanese security
forces in Khartoum fired tear gas and beat demonstrators with sticks in
a crackdown on protests against price increases for basic goods, after
thwarting similar protests a week ago. In Khartoum the beheaded body of
Mohammed Taha Mohammed Ahmed, editor-in-chief of the independent daily
Al-Wifaq, was recovered, a day after he was kidnapped by gunmen. He had
been accused of insulting Islam. A group claiming to be al-Qaida's
branch in Sudan said that it killed the chief editor. In 2007 ten
people were sentenced to death for the murder and beheading of Ahmed.
(Reuters, 9/6/06)(AP, 9/7/06)(AP, 9/13/06)(AP,
11/10/07)
2006 Sep 7, American officials
said the US government has ordered Venezuela to close its military
purchasing office in Miami after suspending arms sales to the South
American country.
(AP, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 7, Former Deputy
Secretary of State Richard Armitage confirmed he was the source of a
leak that had disclosed the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame,
saying he didn't realize Plame's job was covert.
(AP, 9/7/07)
2006 Sep 7, Mohammad Khatami,
former president of Iran (1997-2005), spoke at Washington National
Cathedral as part of a 2-week speaking tour in the US. He urged
dialogue instead of threats. A group of Jewish Iranians, who say their
missing relatives were kidnapped and tortured by the Iranian
government, filed suit in Manhattan against Khatami. They delivered the
summons to him directly the next day as he visited the US.
(SFC, 9/8/06, p.A13)(AP, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 7, BP America, the US arm
of British energy giant BP, said it will spend more than 550 million
dollars (432 million euros) over the next two years on improvements to
its Alaskan oil fields, including pipeline repairs.
(AP, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 7, Hewlett-Packard
disclosed that an investigator, hired by its board of directors, had
secretly obtained phone records of 9 journalists as part of an effort
to unmask information leaks to the media. Director George Keyworth
resigned after he was found to be the source of the leak.
Sub-contractors engaged in pretexting, the use of false pretences, to
obtain personal information. HP faced Congressional hearings over the
tactics used to unveil Keyworth.
(SFC, 9/8/06, p.A1)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.70)
2006 Sep 7, Britain’s PM Tony
Blair reluctantly promised to resign within a year, hoping that
revealing a general time frame for his departure will appease critics
who are calling for him to step down.
(AP, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 7, Burundi's government
and the country's last rebel group, the National Liberation Forces
(FNL) signed a permanent cease-fire as the central African nation
emerges from 12 years of civil war.
(AP, 9/7/06)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.57)
2006 Sep 7, Chad Pres. Idriss Deby
and Chevron CEO David O’Reilly met in Paris for talks on oil taxes.
Chad said Chevron agreed to pay back taxes.
(SFC, 9/9/06, p.C1)
2006 Sep 7, Cyprus impounded a
Panama-flagged vessel on arms smuggling suspicion. It carried 18 North
Korean mobile radar units and 3 command vehicles due for delivery to
Syria.
(WSJ, 9/8/06, p.A1)(Reuters, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 7, Gunmen held up a truck
in a restricted area of Guatemala City's international airport and made
off with $8 million of $22 million that was to be shipped from the Bank
of Guatemala to the U.S. Federal Reserve.
(AP, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 7, Coalition forces
handed over control of Iraq's armed forces command to the government.
Initially, this would apply only to the 8th Iraqi Army Division, the
air force and the navy. The other nine Iraqi division remain under US
command, with authority gradually being transferred. Six bomb attacks
targeting police patrols in Baghdad killed at least 17 people and
wounded more than 50. A British soldier died of injuries sustained when
his patrol came under fire in Qurnah.
(AP, 9/7/06)(AP, 9/8/06)
2006 Sep 7, Ivory Coast PM Charles
Konan Banny announced the resignation of his cabinet over the Aug 19
toxic waste scandal.
(Reuters, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 7, Workers at Lebanon's
only airport prepared to receive a full flow of commercial flights.
Israel began lifting its air blockade of Lebanon, but the naval
blockade will remain in place until troops from the new UN
international force are in place.
(AP, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 7, In Mexico a landslide
buried buses and cars on a highway in the central state of Puebla and
killed at least four travelers.
(AP, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 7, Russia's state-owned
nuclear power company said it was seeking to build Morocco's first
nuclear plant, as Russian President Vladimir Putin signed cooperation
deals with the Moroccan king as part of an economic mission to expand
Russia's African reach.
(AP, 9/8/06)
2006 Sep 7, In Siberia a blaze
broke out in the Darasun gold mine in the Chita region. 64 miners were
working underground when the fire broke out. 31 were rescued or
evacuated, including 15 who were hospitalized. Rescuers recovered 12
bodies. Eight miners emerged from the burning mine after two days. The
fate of at least nine others remained unknown in the accident that
killed at least 16. Rescuers on Sep 10 found the bodies of the last
four miners trapped deep underground at a remote Russian gold mine,
bringing the final death toll to 25. On Sep 11 Rescuers recovered the
bodies of the last of 25 miners.
(AP, 9/8/06)(AP, 9/9/06)(Reuters, 9/10/06)(AP,
9/11/06)
2006 Sep 7, Medical experts said a
killer strain of drug-resistant tuberculosis has been found in at least
28 hospitals across South Africa and that it jeopardized efforts to
deal with AIDS.
(SFC, 9/8/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 7, A Thai court decided
to extradite a Vietnamese dissident to face charges of violating
airspace for a stunt that involved hijacking a plane and dropping
50,000 anti-communist leaflets over Ho Chi Minh City. Ly Tong, a South
Vietnamese air force veteran who later became a US citizen, hijacked
the twin-engine plane from Thailand in November 2000.
(AP, 9/7/06)
2006 Sep 8, The Bush
administration said it has blocked access to the US financial system by
Iran’s Bank Saderat. The bank was alleged to have helped transfer
hundreds of millions of dollars to terrorist organizations including
Hezbollah and Hamas.
(WSJ, 9/9/06, p.A4)
2006 Sep 8, The United States
Naval Air Station Keflavik (NASKEF) closed at Iceland’s Keflavik Int’l.
Airport.
(Econ, 10/11/08,
p.70)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Keflavik)
2006 Sep 8, A Senate report
faulted intelligence gathering in the lead-up to the 2003 US invasion
of Iraq, and said Saddam Hussein regarded al-Qaida as a threat rather
than a possible ally, contradicting assertions President Bush had used
to build support for the war.
(AP, 9/8/07)
2006 Sep 8, Walter C. Anderson
(52), US telecom mogul, pleaded guilty to evading over $200 million in
federal and local taxes in an offshore scheme from the sale of
Mid-Atlantic Telecom. His plea agreement only covered transactions from
1998-1999.
(WSJ, 9/9/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 8, The Miami Herald
reported that 10 South Florida journalists, including three with the
Herald's Spanish-language sister paper, received thousands of dollars
from the federal government for their work on radio and TV programming
aimed at undermining Fidel Castro's communist regime. The Herald fired
3 of the journalists.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 8, SF Mayor Gavin Newsom
said 50 new security cameras will be installed in public housing
projects around San Francisco over the next 18 months.
(SFC, 9/9/06, p.B1)
2006 Sep 8, In Minneapolis ground
was broken for the new Masjid An-Nur mosque, the 1st mosque in
Minnesota.
(Econ, 9/23/06, p.32)
2006 Sep 8, The Day fire in
California’s Los Padres National Forest burned out of control for a 5th
day and blackened over 11,500 acres (18 square miles).
(SFC, 9/9/06, p.B2)
2006 Sep 8, In Florida Melinda
Duckett (21) shot herself to death one day after taping a TV interview
with Nancy Grace for CNN. Duckett had reported that her 2-year-old son
had been kidnapped on Aug 27.
(SFC, 9/14/06, p.A13)
2006 Sep 8, A suicide car bomber
struck a convoy of US military vehicles in downtown Kabul, killing at
least 16 people, including two American soldiers, and wounding 29
others. It was the Afghan capital's deadliest suicide attack since the
Taliban's 2001 ouster.
(AP, 9/8/06)
2006 Sep 8, Opponents of President
Evo Morales stayed home from work and blocked key streets in four
cities to protest the governing party's handling of an assembly that is
rewriting the Bolivian constitution.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 8, The Toronto
International Film Festival got off to a multi-cultural start night
with the premiere of "The Journals of Knud Rasmussen," a drama about
Canada's Inuit people being stripped of their traditions by
Christianity.
(Reuters, 9/8/06)
2006 Sep 8, In southern China
crowds angered by alleged police mishandling of a school teacher's
death attacked government offices in Rui'an City, sparking arrests and
beatings by riot troops. Students and local residents claimed police
falsified a report and colluded with the wealthy husband of high school
English teacher Dai Haijing, 30, to have her Aug 18 death classified as
a suicide.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 8, The UN's humanitarian
chief called for an end to the rapes plaguing women in war-battered
Congo and said the perpetrators, including those wearing military
uniforms, must be severely punished.
(AP, 9/8/06)
2006 Sep 8, In western India 2
bombs rigged to bicycles struck in the crowded streets of the city of
Malegaon, Maharashtra state, as Muslim worshippers were returning from
afternoon prayers, killing 31 people and wounding 100. 8 suspects later
arrested for allegedly planting bombs in Malegaon were all members of
the Students' Islamic Movement of India, or SIMI.
(AP, 9/8/06)(AP, 11/27/06)
2006 Sep 8, A roadside bomb in
Baghdad and a mortar attack on Shiite pilgrims south of the capital
killed five people. A roadside bomb also struck an Iraqi army convoy in
a village near Karmah, 50 miles west of Baghdad, killing four Iraqi
soldiers. An American soldier died after being wounded in a roadside
bomb explosion south of Baghdad. 3 mortar rounds landed on a procession
of pilgrims heading to Karbala for a ceremony, killing at least three
and wounding 22. A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol In Baghdad
killed two people and wounded six.
(AP, 9/8/06)
2006 Sep 8, Israel lifted its
nearly two-month naval blockade of Lebanon after European warships
began patrolling to keep out weapons shipments for Hezbollah guerrillas.
(AP, 9/8/06)
2006 Sep 8, In Mexico a small
plane crash near Ensenada on the US-Mexico border killed three American
medical volunteers.
(AP, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 8, In Pakistan a bomb
killed at least five people in restive Baluchistan province. 21 other
people were wounded in the explosion near a bus station in the town of
Barkhan.
(AP, 9/8/06)
2006 Sep 8, Engineers covered in
head-to-toe protective gear inserted a neutralizing solution into bombs
filled with a nerve agent, officially starting the work of Russia's
first plant for destroying the deadly chemicals.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 8, It was reported that
Saudi Arabia’s religious police have issued a decree in Jiddah and
Mecca banning the sale of the pets, seen as a sign of Western influence.
(AP, 9/8/06)
2006 Sep 8, In South Africa Hilda
Bernstein (b.1915), a London-born anti-apartheid activist and author,
died. Her husband was tried for treason alongside Nelson Mandela in
1964. Rusty Bernstein (d.2002) was the only defendant acquitted and
freed. Police harassment made life afterward so difficult for the
Bernsteins that the couple was forced into exile, leaving their
children behind. They crossed the border to Botswana on foot, a journey
described in Hilda Bernstein's book "The World That Was Ours."
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 8, Sudan's President Omar
al-Bashir agreed to release American journalist Paul Salopek and his
Chadian assistants after meeting with New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 8, The UN General
Assembly adopted a long-awaited strategy to combat terrorism, though
many nations lamented that it does not include a definition or say
anything about states that commit terrorist acts.
(AP, 9/8/06)
2006 Sep 9, Space shuttle Atlantis
and its six astronauts blasted off on a mission to resume construction
of the international space station for the first time since the
Columbia disaster 3 1/2 years ago.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, Joanna Veil, aged 28
and pregnant, vanished after leaving work in Ben Lomond, Ca. Her body
was found Sep 14 in a remote area of Santa Cruz County. In 2007
authorities named Michael McClish (38) a suspect in the case. McClish
was convicted in 2007 for another murder and sentenced to 18 years in
prison. In 2008 he was charged with Veil’s murder.
(SFC, 9/16/06, p.B1)(SFC, 5/8/08, p.B2)
2006 Sep 9, Clair Burgener (84),
5-term US Republican congressman from San Diego (1973-1983), died.
(SFC, 9/15/06, p.B9)
2006 Sep 9, Elisabeth Ogilvie
(89), writer, died at her home in Cushing, Maine. Her 46 books included
the Tide trilogy, which centered on the Bennet family and
lobster-trapping life.
(SFC, 9/15/06, p.B9)
2006 Sep 9, Afghan and NATO
soldiers killed at least 40 suspected Taliban militants in fierce raids
that destroyed insurgent hideouts and a weapons-making factory in
Kandahar province. One NATO soldier died. 2 coalition soldiers training
Afghan troops were killed in combat. 2 policemen were killed when
dozens of Taliban rebels attacked their post in western Farah province
with machine guns and rockets. Gen. Ray Henault, chief of NATO’s
military committee, said he would ask the 26 alliance members for up to
2,500 more soldiers.
(AP, 9/9/06)(AP, 9/10/06)(SSFC, 9/10/06, p.A19)
2006 Sep 9, In Brazil Ubiratan
Guimaraes, the police colonel accused of ordering a 1992 jail massacre
of more than 100 inmates, was shot dead in his apartment in Sao Paulo.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 9, British PM Tony Blair
arrived in Tel Aviv for talks with his Israeli counterpart Ehud Olmert
and other key players in the region on the stalled Middle East peace
process.
(AFP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, Five central Asian
countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan) signed a nuclear-free zone treaty, but it did not cancel
out a 1992 agreement to allow Russia to transport and deploy nuclear
weapons there under certain circumstances.
(SSFC, 9/10/06, p.A18)
2006 Sep 9, In CongoDRC it was
reported to take 155 days to register a business at a cost of 5 times
the average annual income of $120.
(Econ, 9/9/06, p.60)
2006 Sep 9, In Finland leaders and
top officials from 38 Asian and European nations gathered in Helsinki
for the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM). The agenda included security
issues, trade and global warming.
(AFP, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 9, In India recent
estimates by conservationists and some officials put the population of
Bengal tigers at 1,200 to 1,500. The government insisted the tiger
population was stable at around 3,500.
(Econ, 9/9/06, p.46)
2006 Sep 9, Iran's top nuclear
negotiator met with the European Union foreign policy chief for crucial
talks seen as the last chance for Iran to avoid U.N. sanctions over its
nuclear defiance.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, In Iraq the US-led
coalition said an Iraqi court has convicted 38 people of charges
related to the insurgency, including kidnapping and murder. Their
sentences ranged from six months to life. At least 15 violent deaths
were reported across the country. Millions of Shiite pilgrims thronged
Karbala for a religious festival that ended peacefully amid tight
security. Authorities found the bullet-riddled bodies of 6 people
dumped in Mahmoudiya. One unidentified body, blindfolded with hands and
feet bound, was found in the Tigris River in Suwayah.
(AP, 9/9/06)(AP, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 9, The 10-week Israeli
military operation, code named Summer Rains, left 230 Gazans dead,
including over 60 children. It had no noticeable impact on militant
activities.
(Econ, 9/9/06, p.47)
2006 Sep 9, Italy's PM Romano
Prodi said Syria has agreed "in principle" to a European Union presence
on its border to help stem the flow of weapons into Lebanon.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, The Chinese movie
"Still Life" won the top award at the Venice Film Festival.
(AP, 9/9/07)
2006 Sep 9, In Indian Kashmir
suspected Muslim militants shot dead two policemen in an attack on a
police check post. They also looted arms and ammunition.
(AFP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, The ship Moubarak
heading from Madagascar to the Comoros Islands sank in the Indian Ocean
this weekend in bad weather. Of the 76 people on board, 43 people were
rescued after the boat sank. 33 people were missing.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 9, It was reported that
some 15,000 students from Saudi Arabia were enrolling on college
campuses across the United States this semester under a new educational
exchange program brokered by President Bush and Saudi King Abdullah.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, In northern Sri Lanka
at least 26 troops were killed and over 125 wounded in new fighting as
Tamil rebels resisted an army advance into guerrilla-held territory.
(AFP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 9, Sudan authorities
confiscated all copies of the independent al-Sudani newspaper, the
latest move in a resurgence of censorship since the beheading of a
journalist last week. Paul Salopek was released from a prison in the
war-torn Darfur region where he was held for more than a month on
espionage charges.
(Reuters, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 9, Tens of thousands of
red-clad protesters thronged Taiwan's capital, demanding that President
Chen Shui-bian resign over a series of alleged corruption scandals
involving his family and inner circle. Shih Ming-teh, a former chairman
of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), began camping with fellow
protesters in the center of Taipei.
(AP, 9/9/06)(Econ, 9/23/06, p.48)
2006 Sep 9, Pope Benedict XVI
began a six-day homecoming to his native Bavaria.
(AP, 9/9/06)
2006 Sep 10, Peyton Manning and
the Indianapolis Colts defeated Eli Manning and the New York Giants
26-21 in the first NFL game to feature two brothers starting at
quarterback.
(AP, 9/10/07)
2006 Sep 10, Golf pioneer Patty
Berg (88) died in Fort Myers, Fla.
(AP, 9/10/07)
2006 Sep 10, Bennie Smith (72),
St. Louis blues guitarist, died.
(SFC, 9/15/06, p.B8)
2006 Sep 10, Florence intensified
into the second hurricane of the Atlantic season as it headed for
Bermuda, where residents installed storm shutters and hauled their
yachts onto beaches.
(AP, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 10, Afghan President
Hamid Karzai formally opened a 25-million-dollar Coca-Cola bottling
plant, one of the most significant investments in Afghanistan since the
ousting of the Taliban five years ago. In eastern Afghanistan Gov.
Abdul Hakim Taniwal (63) was killed with his nephew and bodyguard in a
suicide attack outside his office in the Paktia capital of Gardez. The
US military warned that a suicide bombing cell is targeting foreign
troops in Kabul. In the Panjwayi district of Kandahar 94 Taliban were
killed and one was wounded in four different engagements overnight. The
alliance offensive near the main southern city of Kandahar killed
another 92 suspected Taliban fighters, pushing its 10-day toll of
militant dead past 510. Gunmen kidnapped a Colombian aid worker and two
Afghan employees of a French-funded nongovernment organization west of
Kabul.
(AP, 9/10/06)(AFP, 9/10/06)(AP, 9/11/06)(SFC,
9/11/06, p.A3)(AP, 9/12/06)
2006 Sep 10, Daniel Smith (20),
the son of Anna Nicole Smith (38) died suddenly in the Bahamas, three
days after the former Playboy Playmate gave birth to a girl. A second
round of toxicology tests revealed that he died of a toxic combo of
methadone and the antidepressants Zoloft and Lexapro.
(Reuters, 9/11/06)(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 10, in Bangladesh police
used batons to break up a protest, where demonstrators took to the
streets across the country in another general strike ahead of elections
in January.
(AFP, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 10, In Brazil
international trade officials sought to strike a positive tone at the
end of a two-day meeting aimed at restarting negotiations for the
stalled World Trade Organization's Doha Round. The talks were billed as
a High Level Meeting of the Group of 20 (G20) developing nations, but
they represented the first time nearly all the parties involved have
come together since the Doha talks were suspended.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 10, China announced
detailed controls on the distribution of news by foreign news agencies,
banning all content that violates its own tight media restrictions.
(AP, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 10, In Cuba leaders of
the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) of 116 developing nations began
gathering for a 6-day summit (Sep 11-16). NAM was founded in 1961.
(Reuters, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 10, Wrangling forced
Iraq's parliament to suspend debate on a bill that Sunni Arab groups
fear would break up the country. At least 27 people were killed across
Iraq. In Kut 6 bodies bearing signs of torture were found in the Tigris
River. 2 bodies were found in Musayyib and 3 more near the Duluiya
bridge.
(AP, 9/10/06)(SFC, 9/11/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 10, The Chinese film
“Still Life” won the top award as the 11-day Venice Film Festival came
to a close. The Chinese film was about the Three Gorges Dam project.
(SFC, 9/11/06, p.D5)
2006 Sep 10, Montenegrins voted in
the first parliamentary elections since the tiny state split from
Serbia. Police announced a crackdown on an alleged ethnic Albanian
terrorist group authorities said had threatened the ballot. The
coalition of PM Milo Djukanovic headed for an absolute majority with a
projected 41 seats in the 81-seat parliament.
(AP, 9/10/06)(SFC, 9/11/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 10, In southwestern
Pakistan a bomb explosion outside a roadside restaurant wounded 14
people in Quetta. In northwestern Pakistan suspected Islamic militants
killed a tribal elder.
(AP, 9/10/06)(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 10, One ethnic Russian
man was killed and three were injured in a brawl with ethnic Armenians
at a cafe in the town of Volsk in the Saratov region, fueling fears of
a rise of ethnic violence across Russia.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 10, Islamic militants
controlling much of southern Somalia shut down a radio station for
playing love songs and other music, the latest step to impose strict
religious rule which has sparked fears of an emerging, Taliban-style
regime. Islamic militants, who closed down a Somali radio station,
allowed it back on the air so long as it does not play music or love
songs.
(AP, 9/10/06)(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 10, Officials said Sri
Lanka's military had lost 28 soldiers in 3 days of stiff artillery and
mortar attacks as it advanced slowly toward northern Tamil Tiger rebel
strongholds. The rebels accused Colombo of ignoring moves by Norway to
end the latest bloodshed.
(AFP, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 10, Taufa’ahau Tupou IV
(b.1918), King of Tonga, died in New Zealand. He was the son of Queen
Salote Tupou III and her consort Prince Tungi, and served as the King
of Tonga from the death of his mother in 1965.
(WSJ, 9/11/06,
p.A1)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taufa'ahau_Tupou_IV)
2006 Sep 10, Armed Yemeni
tribesmen kidnapped four French tourists in the east of the country to
press for their relatives to be released from jail.
(AP, 9/10/06)
2006 Sep 11, The nation paused to
remember the victims of 9/11 on the fifth anniversary of the terrorist
attacks. In a prime-time address, President Bush invoked the memory of
the victims as he argued for a continued military campaign in Iraq.
(AP, 9/11/07)
2006 Sep 11, It was reported that
Florida’s St. Lucie County was planning a $425 million plasma-arc
gasification facility to vaporize its garbage. The plant by Geoplasma,
a subsidiary of Jacoby Development Inc., was expected to go operational
in 2 years.
(SFC, 9/11/06, p.C4)
2006 Sep 11, The memorial statue
titled, 'To the Struggle Against World Terrorism', by Russian artist
Zurab Tsereteli, was dedicated in Bayonne, N.J. The 100-foot-tall
bronze monument with a 40-foot steel teardrop at it's center, a gift
from the Russian government and Tsereteli, is dedicated to victims of
terrorism.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, In SF measures to
turn back a surge in violence included police enforcement of a
long-ignored curfew for young teenagers as well as more police in high
crime neighborhoods.
(SFC, 9/12/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 11, GlaxoSmithKline
agreed to pay $3.4 billion to settle a US tax dispute covering the
period 1989-2005.
(SFC, 9/12/06, p.D6)
2006 Sep 11, The Pacifica,
California, town council voted to ban smoking on its public beaches
fishing pier.
(SFC, 9/13/06, p.B10)
2006 Sep 11, In eastern
Afghanistan a suicide bomber struck in the Tani district of Khost
province at a funeral for Gov. Abdul Hakim Taniwal, a provincial
governor assassinated by the Taliban a day earlier. Five people were
killed and 30 wounded, but four Cabinet ministers at the service were
unhurt.
(AP, 9/11/06)(www.wcbs880.com/pages/81058.php?)
2006 Sep 11, Osama bin Laden's
deputy warned that Persian Gulf countries and Israel would be
al-Qaida's next targets, according to a new videotape aired by Arab
broadcaster Al-Jazeera on the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, China said it will
send 1,000 peacekeeping troops to Lebanon.
(WSJ, 9/12/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 11, In Cuba a weeklong
summit of the Nonaligned Movement began with poverty, health care and
the Middle East at the top of the agenda. It will culminate with the
meeting of 50 heads of state, including anti-American leaders from Iran
and Venezuela.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, In Helsinki, Finland,
European and Asian leaders representing nearly half the world's
population promised to work to reduce global warming, to get world
trade talks back on track and to keep up the battle against terrorism.
They pledged to set new carbon dioxide emissions targets that go beyond
those now set for 2012 under the UN's Kyoto Protocol.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, Joachim Fest (79),
German journalist and historian, died. He worked closely with Adolf
Hitler's architect Albert Speer on his memoirs. Fest's biographical
portrait "Hitler," published in English in 1974 the year after its
German release, is widely regarded as the best, among many, on the
dictator.
(AP, 9/12/06)
2006 Sep 11, Leaders of the
breakaway Georgian region of South Ossetia said they would hold a
referendum on independence in November, a move likely to infuriate the
government in Tbilisi and stoke already spiraling tensions.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, In Haiti 3 gang
members surrendered their guns in the first handover of weapons in a
UN-led effort to disarm hundreds of Haitian criminals.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, Iran closed down two
opposition newspapers, one of which had recently poked fun at hard-line
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the way his government has handled
nuclear talks with the West.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, In Iraq a mini bus
carrying a bomb exploded outside an army recruiting center in Baghdad
and killed 16 people, the deadliest of a string of attacks that left 29
Iraqis dead. A US soldier also died over the weekend.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, Kazakhstan hosted the
Second Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Astana.
(Econ, 12/16/06,
p.81)(www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=7191&geo=3&size=A)
2006 Sep 11, Nicaragua officials
said at least 35 people have died from drinking methanol-laced
sugarcane liquor in the past week and nearly 600 have fallen ill,
overwhelming hospitals in Nicaragua's worst health crisis in recent
history.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, Taxi drivers in
Sierra Leone went on strike, bringing the capital to a standstill after
police jailed 100 of their colleagues for driving with bald tires,
broken lights or without a valid license.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, In Lebanon an angry
protester accusing Tony Blair of complicity in the Israeli bombardment
of Lebanon disrupted a news conference. Thousands of demonstrators
shouted outside as the British prime minister visited Beirut. Blair
pledged help in rebuilding war-ravaged Lebanon.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, Pakistan's government
agreed to a compromise deal with hardline Islamic lawmakers over
proposed changes to a law that has long made punishing rapists almost
impossible in the country. Senator S.M. Zafar said the government had
agreed to compromise by letting rape victims choose between prosecuting
suspects under the four-witness rule, the 1979 Hudood Ordinance,
or under Pakistan's civil penal code.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas and PM Ismail Haniyeh agreed that their moderate Fatah
and militant Hamas parties would form a coalition government.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, President Vladimir
Putin gave final orders for a battalion of Russian engineers and
explosives experts to travel to Lebanon to help repair the damage
inflicted by Israel's campaign to uproot Hezbollah guerrillas.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, In southern Russia a
military helicopter crashed on the outskirts of Vladikavkaz, the
provincial capital of the republic of North Ossetia, killing at least
10 servicemen and injuring another four.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, Sri Lankan troops and
Tamil Tiger rebels exchanged mortar and artillery fire across their
northern front lines. The military said the death toll from five days
of heavy fighting rose to 148.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, A top Ugandan rebel
leader, Lord's Resistance Army deputy Vincent Otti, arrived at a
neutral camp in southern Sudan as part of a truce to end 19 years of
conflict with the government.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 11, Uruguay arrested 7
former army and police officers in an investigation of dissidents who
disappeared during the South American country's military rule in the
1970s.
(AP, 9/11/06)
2006 Sep 12, In California Gov.
Schwarzenegger signed a minimum wage bill that will boost the hourly
rate by 75 cents in January and another 50 cents a year later to $8 an
hour.
(SFC, 9/13/06, p.B3)
2006 Sep 12, Hewlett-Packard named
CEO Mark Hurd to succeed Patricia Dunn as board chairman as of
mid-January 2007 following the recent furor over phone probes of board
members.
(WSJ, 9/13/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 12, Joan Valerie
Bondurant, former spy and UC prof. of political science, died in
Tucson, Az. She had translated documents for the CIA in India where she
met Gandhi and grew fascinated by satyagraha, a thesis of nonviolent
resistance. Her books included “Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian
Philosophy of Conflict” (1958).
(SFC, 9/21/06, p.B5)
2006 Sep 12, Hurricane Florence
headed toward north Atlantic shipping lanes after blowing out windows,
peeling away roofs and knocking out power to thousands in Bermuda.
(AP, 9/12/06)
2006 Sep 12, Afghan forces killed
12 suspected Taliban militants in a shootout south of Kabul. More than
30 suspected insurgents were detained as security forces fought back
against a deadly spike in violence. The UN urged NATO forces to take
military action to destroy the opium industry in southern Afghanistan,
saying cultivation of the crop is out of control.
(AP, 9/12/06)
2006 Sep 12, In Bangladesh police
in Dhaka baton-charged thousands of opposition supporters in violent
clashes outside the prime minister's office that left at least 110
people injured. A 14-party opposition alliance led by the Awami League
is demanding electoral reforms ahead of January's national elections.
(AP, 9/12/06)
2006 Sep 12, Canada and the United
States formally signed an agreement to end a protracted dispute over
Canadian softwood lumber.
(Reuters, 9/12/06)
2006 Sep 12, Pope Benedict XVI
delivered a speech at Regensburg Univ. that included brusque words
about Islam. He quoted a 14th century Byzantine emperor as saying “Show
me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find
things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the
sword the faith he preached.” The speech quickly provoked criticism
from the world’s Muslim communities. The pontiff later said he
regretted that Muslims were offended.
(SFC, 9/15/06, p.A17)(AP, 9/12/07)
2006 Sep 12, Iraqi PM Nouri
al-Maliki made his first official visit to Iran since taking office and
planned to ask Tehran to prevent al-Qaida members believed to be in
Iran from crossing into Iraq to carry out attacks. A parked car bomb
detonated in Baghdad's upscale Mansour neighborhood, killing at least
six people and wounding 18 others. Bombings, mortar attacks and
shootings overnight and during the day left at least 24 people dead and
dozens wounded around the country.
(AP, 9/12/06)
2006 Sep 12, An Israeli military
court ordered the release of 18 imprisoned Hamas lawmakers, including
three Cabinet ministers, and raised questions about the army's case. A
spokesman for the outgoing Hamas-led administration said the group is
prepared to back peace efforts with Israel as part of the new coalition
government being formed by the Palestinians. Hamas militants killed an
Israeli soldier during a gunbattle in the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 9/12/06)
2006 Sep 12, In Mexico gunmen
ambushed and killed Enrique Barrera, police chief of the town of
Linares in the border state of Nuevo Leon, in the latest slaying of a
law officer in a region ravaged by a war between drug gangs.
(AP, 9/13/06)
2006 Sep 12, Montenegro's election
authorities said the governing pro-Western coalition led by Prime
Minister Milo Djukanovic won last weekend's parliamentary elections.
(AP, 9/12/06)
2006 Sep 12, Serbia toughened its
stand on Kosovo as parliament decided that a planned new constitution
would refer to the disputed province as an "integral" part of Serbia,
regardless of U.N.-led negotiations on whether to grant it independence.
(AP, 9/12/06)
2006 Sep 12, In Syria armed
Islamic militants attempted to storm the US Embassy in Damascus. Four
people were killed, including three of the assailants. One of Syria's
anti-terrorism forces was killed and 11 other people were wounded. The
only Islamic militant arrested in the attack died from his wounds, and
authorities were unable to question him.
(AP, 9/12/06)(AP, 9/13/06)
2006 Sep 12, In Turkey a bomb
exploded near a park in a primarily residential area of Diyarbakir and
10 people were killed. 7 children were among the dead. The bomb was
made by hand, placed in a thermos and went off as it was being
transported.
(AP, 9/13/06)
2006 Sep 12, Uganda extended a
September 12 deadline for the rebel Lord's Resistance Army to agree to
a peace deal or lose an amnesty offer for war crimes charges its
leaders face.
(AFP, 9/13/06)
2006 Sep 12, In Yemen a stampede
during a campaign rally for President Ali Abdullah Saleh killed at
least 51 people and injured more than 230, most of them schoolchildren
and teenagers.
(AP, 9/12/06)
2006 Sep 13, A letter from the
office of IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei, sent to the head of the US
House of Representatives' Select Committee on Intelligence, said an
August 23 committee report contained serious distortions of IAEA
findings on Iran's nuclear activity.
(AP, 9/14/06)(SFC, 9/14/06, p.A15)
2006 Sep 13, In California water
users and environmentalists announced a settlement that requires Friant
to release 364,000 to 462,000 acre-feet of water in normal years to the
San Joaquin River, the state’s 2nd longest river.
(SFC, 9/13/06, p.B1)
2006 Sep 13, The SEC froze trade
in the shares of Indigenous Global Development Corp. (IGDC), run by
Deni Leonard, a Native American businessman. An SEC suit said Leonard
claimed to have struck deals with Canadian tribes to develop and
purchase natural gas to be sold to power plants, but no deals were made.
(SSFC, 11/26/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 13, Ann Richards
(b.1933), former Texas Gov. (1990-1994), died after a battle with
cancer. As governor, Richards appointed the first black University of
Texas regent, the first crime victim on the state Criminal Justice
Board, the first disabled person on the human services board and the
first teacher to lead the State Board of Education. Under Richards, the
fabled Texas Rangers pinned stars on their first black and female
officers.
(AP, 9/14/06)(Econ, 9/30/06, p.96)
2006 Sep 13, US financier George
Soros pledged to invest 50 million dollars in a development project
that aims to show how targeted investment can end extreme poverty in
African villages. The Millennium Villages project is involved in 79
villages in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda,
Senegal, Tanzania and Uganda.
(AP, 9/13/06)
2006 Sep 13, Afghan President
Hamid Karzai, while opening a road linking to Pakistan, said Pakistan
and Afghanistan must unite to save their people from the menace of
terrorism. Afghan and US-led coalition forces killed as many as
30 Taliban in raids on three villages in Ghazni province. In southern
Helmand province police killed 16 Taliban in a mountainous area outside
the town of Garmser. NATO announced that suicide bombings have killed
173 people in Afghanistan this year. 151 of the year's suicide attack
victims were Afghan civilians, including children.
(AP, 9/13/06)(AFP, 9/13/06)
2006 Sep 13, NASA scientists said
the ice in the Arctic Sea is melting in winter as well as in summer,
likely due to global warming. The ice was reportedly melting at 9% a
decade.
(SFC, 9/14/06, p.A1)(Econ, 9/9/06, Survey p.6)
2006 Sep 13, The presidents of
Brazil and South Africa, at a trilateral trade meeting in Brasilia,
said they supported changes in international rules to allow India to
buy nuclear fuel and reactors from the United States and other
countries. The trio created the India-Brazil-South Africa Dialogue
Forum (IBSA) in 2003 to promote the interests of their emerging markets.
(Reuters, 9/13/06)(AFP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 13, A man in a black
trench coat opened fire at a downtown Montreal college, slaying a young
woman, Anastasia De Sousa (18), a student at Dawson College, and
wounding at least 19 other people before police shot and killed him.
Officials soon identified the killer as Kimveer Gill (25), resident of
a Montreal suburb.
(AP, 9/13/06)(Reuters, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 13, Chinese Premier Wen
Jiabao vowed to continue his vast country's opening up to the
international community, notably rejecting suggestions Beijing is set
to crack down on foreign media.
(AFP, 9/13/06)
2006 Sep 13, International police
deployed to East Timor in the wake of unrest in May formally handed
over their authority to the UN at a ceremony in the capital. A battle
between rival gangs armed with machetes killed one fighter and injured
five others in Dili.
(AFP, 9/13/06)(AP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 13, The EU's foreign
policy chief and Iran's top nuclear negotiator abruptly postponed talks
on easing tensions over the refusal of the Tehran regime to suspend
uranium enrichment.
(AP, 9/13/06)
2006 Sep 13, In Iraq police found
the bodies of 65 men who had been tortured, shot and dumped, most
around Baghdad. Car bombs, mortar attacks and shootings killed at least
39 people around Iraq and injured dozens more.
(AP, 9/13/06)(WSJ, 9/14/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 13, In Jordan a military
court convicted 10 suspected militants in two separate terrorism cases
that included conspiracies to kill Americans. Lawmakers approved a
measure that would only allow a state-appointed council to issue
religious edicts, a move aimed at denying Islamic hard-liners a forum
for disseminating extremist ideology. The measure will become law with
the expected approval of the upper house of Parliament and the king.
(AP, 9/13/06)(AP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 13, The Palestinian
Cabinet resigned to clear the way for a new unity government, and
President Mahmoud Abbas said he plans to send a delegation to the UN to
try to revive a Mideast peace plan.
(AP, 9/13/06)
2006 Sep 13, Andrei Kozlov (41),
the top deputy chairman of Russia's Central Bank, was shot in Moscow
along with his driver, by unidentified assailants. The driver was
killed immediately and Frankel died the next morning. Officials
suggested the attack was prompted by his efforts to clean up the
country's banking system. In October officials arrested 3 Ukrainian
citizens, who were allegedly hired to kill Kozlov. In Jan 2007 Alexei
Frankel, whose license was revoked by Kozlov in 2004, was charged with
organizing the murder. On Oct 28 a Moscow jury found Frankel guilty of
organizing the murder.
(AP, 9/14/06)(WSJ, 9/22/06, p.A1)(SFC, 10/17/06,
p.A15)(Econ, 1/27/07, p.76)(WSJ, 10/29/08, p.A14)
2006 Sep 13, A helicopter crashed
in Siberia, killing three of the four people aboard, an emergency
official said. The MD-600 helicopter crashed about 12 miles from the
city Novokuznetsk in the Kemerovo region about 1,850 miles east of
Moscow.
(AP, 9/13/06)
2006 Sep 13, In South Korea
hundreds of workers bulldozed homes in a village to make way for the
expansion of a US military base set to become the Americans' new
headquarters, despite strong objections from protesters.
(AP, 9/13/06)
2006 Sep 13, Zimbabwe police
arrested trade union leaders and blocked streets and the main square of
the capital to thwart an anti-government march, and the main labor
federation apparently called off a planned nationwide strike at the
last minute.
(AP, 9/13/06)
2006 Sep 14, US federal health
officials said an outbreak a deadly strain of E. coli (0157:H7) had
left at least one person dead in Wisconsin over 100 others sick and
warned consumers not to eat bagged fresh spinach. The outbreak in 8
states soon extended to 25. The number sickened rose to at least 190.
Most of the spinach crop at this time of the year comes from
California. A special effort was under way in the Salinas Valley of
California, a major leafy-vegetable growing region, to look for any
possible source of contamination there. The outbreak was traced to
California’s Natural Selection Foods of San Juan Bautista, which
recalled all suspect products. This was the same deadly strain that in
1982 had sickened at least 47 people in Oregon and Michigan who ate
McDonald’s burgers. A surveillance system setup after a 1993 outbreak
at the Jack-in-the-Box fast food chain helped single out spinach as the
likely source of this outbreak. A 2nd death on Sep 20, a 2-year-old boy
in Idaho, was attributed to the spinach E. coli. A 3rd death in late
August, a woman (84) in Nebraska, was also attributed to the spinach E.
coli. On Sep 29 the FDA cleared spinach from California’s Monterey, San
Benito and Santa Clara counties.
(SFC, 9/23/06, p.A9)(WSJ, 9/25/06, p.A4)(SFC,
9/30/06, p.A5)(SFC, 10/7/06, p.A6)
2006 Sep 14, In Green Bay, Wisc.,
police arrested two 17-year-olds, suspected of plotting a shooting
spree at East High School. William C. Cornell and Shawn R. Sturtz were
arrested for suspicion of conspiracy to commit first-degree intentional
homicide and conspiracy to commit arson. Police found homemade bombs
and weapons at their homes.
(http://kutv.com/topstories/topstories_story_258075847.html)
2006 Sep 14, In Washington DC 2
people demonstrated prosthesis that moved in response to thoughts.
Their bionic arms were designed by the Rehabilitation Institute of
Chicago.
(SFC, 9/15/06, p.A5)
2006 Sep 14, The Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation awarded $68.2 million to fight parasitic diseases that
included leishmaniasis, trypanosomiasis and hookworm. The new money
will support efficacy trials in India and Africa.
(WSJ, 9/14/06, p.A11)
2006 Sep 14, The hedge fund
Amaranth Advisors, led by Nick Maounis, announced a loss of some $560
million. The name was taken from the Greek word for “unfading.” Brian
Hunter (32), a Canadian energy trader, got caught on the wrong side of
falling natural gas futures.
(WSJ, 9/23/06, p.B5)(Econ, 9/23/06, p.83)
2006 Sep 14, Mickey Hargitay (80),
Hungarian-born actor and world champion bodybuilder, died. He was named
Mr. Universe, Mr. America and Mr. Olympia in 1955. He was married to
sex siren Jayne Mansfield (1957-1964) and his daughter is the
Emmy-winning actress Mariska Hargitay. California Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger played Hargitay in the 1982 TV movie "The Jayne
Mansfield Story."
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 14, Prof. Frederic Evans
Wakemen Jr. (68), leading US scholar on China, died in Oregon. His
books included “Policing Shanghai 1927-1937” (1995) and “Spymaster: Dai
Li and the Chinese Secret Service” (2004). Prof. Wakemen had taught at
UC Berkeley (1965-2006).
(SFC, 9/26/06, p.B5)
2006 Sep 14, Taliban militants
attacked police headquarters in western Afghanistan, raising fears that
insurgents fleeing NATO attacks in the south are opening new fronts.
Two police and two militants were killed.
(AP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, Some 200 Pakistanis
and Sri Lankans reached the Canary Islands in a 40-meter (100-feet)
metal boat. Officials began making arrangements the next day for the
repatriation of the immigrants. Canaries regional President Adan Martin
said 500 African children out of 836 minors who have arrived in the
Canaries this year were to be transferred to the Spanish mainland. Some
20,000 would-be immigrants to Europe had reached the Canary Islands
since the beginning of the year.
(AP, 9/15/06)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.64)
2006 Sep 14, China’s stock market
regulator made official a ban on foreign acquisitions of domestic
stockbrokers and investment banks.
(Econ, 9/23/06, p.84)
2006 Sep 14, Current and former
French officials specializing in terrorism said that an al-Qaida
alliance with the Algerian Salafist Group for Call and Combat, known by
its French initials GSPC, was cause for concern. Al-Qaida's No. 2,
Ayman al-Zawahri, announced the "blessed union" in a video posted this
week on the Internet to mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11
attacks in the United States.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 14, German Chancellor
Angela Merkel said she has again raised human rights issues with
visiting Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao and urged Beijing to respect the
freedom of the press.
(AP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, Three men became the
first rabbis ordained in Germany since World War II.
(AP, 9/14/07)
2006 Sep 14, Ex-Col. Guy Francois,
former army commander twice accused of plotting to overthrow Haiti's
government, was shot to death in an upscale suburb of the capital.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 14, An Indian federal
minister proposed a 1,000 US dollar incentive to encourage people to
break centuries-old taboos and marry across caste boundaries.
(AFP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, An Iranian opposition
figure said Iran has secretly revived a program to enrich uranium using
laser technology, reportedly with favorable results, citing information
from members of the resistance inside the country.
(AP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, Iraqi officials said
Abu Jaafar al-Liby, described by the ministry as either the second or
third most important figure in al-Qaida in Iraq, was killed by police
earlier this week. Car bombs and drive-by shootings killed at least 19
people, including 5 US soldiers, in a series of attacks around central
Iraq. Death squads left behind at least 22 bodies.
(AP, 9/14/06)(AP, 9/15/06)(SFC, 9/15/06, p.A14)
2006 Sep 14, Libya's population
grew by 1.8% per year to 5.3 million in 2006 from 1995. A rare
government census showed that Libya had also cut its illiteracy rate to
11.9% from 19% a decade ago.
(Reuters, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, Nigerian President
Olusegun Obasanjo held talks in Tokyo on the start of a trans-Pacific
trip.
(AP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, Poland will send at
least 900 troops early next year to bolster the NATO mission in
Afghanistan. NATO said the offer did not ease the immediate need for
2,500 additional soldiers in the violence-wracked south.
(AP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, The Swiss central
bank raised its key Libor interest rate by a quarter of a percentage
point to a range between 1.25% and 2.25% to dampen the threat of
inflation.
(AFP, 9/14/06)
2006 Sep 14, Turkey's top Islamic
cleric asked Pope Benedict XVI to take back recent remarks he made
about Islam on Sep 12. He unleashed a string of counteraccusations
against Christianity, raising tensions before the pontiff's November
visit.
(AP, 9/14/06)(SFC, 9/15/06, p.A17)
2006 Sep 14, Ukraine’s pro-Russia
premier suspended a bid to join NATO.
(WSJ, 9/15/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 15, The US joined with
the EU and Canada charging that China has erected illegal barriers to
the sale of U.S. and other foreign-made auto parts there.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 15, US Rep. Bob Ney,
R-Ohio, agreed to plead guilty to two criminal charges in the
congressional corruption probe spawned by disgraced lobbyist Jack
Abramoff.
(AP, 9/15/07)
2006 Sep 15, In Costa Mesa, Ca.,
the new $200 million Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall opened. It
was designed by Cesar Pelli (79).
(www.ocpac.org/about/PressDetail.asp?PressReleaseID=509)
2006 Sep 15, In California Gov.
Schwarzenegger signed legislation requiring the driver use of
hands-free devices for cell phones starting in 2008.
(SFC, 9/15/06, p.B1)
2006 Sep 15, In East St. Louis,
Ill., Jimella Tunstall (23) bled to death after sustaining an abdominal
wound caused by a sharp object. Her body was found Sep 21. On Sep 23
investigators found Tunstall’s 3 dead children in a washer and dryer.
Prosecutors charged Tiffany Hall (24), a family friend, with the murder
of Tunstall and her fetus.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 15, In Jackson,
Mississippi, Mayor Frank Melton was indicted along with 2 police
bodyguards on numerous felony charges stemming from his crime-fighting
tactics.
(SFC, 9/16/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 15, In Missouri Stephenie
Ochsenbine (21) was slashed in the throat and had her week-old baby
stolen. Police recovered the baby on Sep 19. On Sep 20 Shannon Torrez
(36) was charged with kidnapping and assault and ordered held on $1
million bond. On September 12, 2008, Torrez was sentenced to 30 years
in prison.
(AP, 9/20/06)(http://tinyurl.com/3mgvbe)
2006 Sep 15, US automaker Ford
Motor Co. unveiled sweeping job cuts and plant closures to stem losses
and said it has no intention of selling its luxury brand Jaguar. Ford
said it would cut 10,000 more white-collar positions, up from a
previous goal of 4,000, and offer buyout and early retirement to all
75,000 hourly employees. Ford stock closed at $8.02.
(AFP, 9/15/06)(SFC, 9/16/06, p.C1)(WSJ, 9/16/06,
p.A1)
2006 Sep 15, A large
diabetes-prevention study found that the drug Rosiglitazone (Avandia),
made by GlaxoSmithKline, can help keep “pre-diabetics” from developing
Type 2 diabetes. The drug was already being used to treat the disease,
which afflicted over 200 million worldwide.
(SFC, 9/16/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 15, In southern
Afghanistan about 60 suspected Taliban militants attacked a police
checkpoint in Uruzgan province, starting a battle in which four
militants died.
(AP, 9/16/06)
2006 Sep 15, China denounced
accusations by top US officials that it was selling weapons to Iran and
North Korea amid nuclear tensions with the two regimes. State media
said at least four children, among the hundreds of people sickened by
emissions from a lead smelter in western China, are likely to suffer
permanent brain damage.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 15, Cuba took over the
leadership of the Nonaligned Movement from Malaysia, with Defense
Minister Raul Castro standing in for his ailing brother Fidel.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 15, Iraq’s Interior
Minister said the government will ring Baghdad with a series of
trenches and traffic checkpoints to control movement. Police
found 30 bodies bearing signs of torture in Baghdad. A US Marine was
killed in Anbar province just hours after an American soldier was
killed by a roadside bomb northwest of Baghdad. In central Baghdad, a
gunman opened fire from the top of an abandoned building in a Sunni
Arab neighborhood, killing an Iraqi civilian and wounding five others.
Sheik Muhanad al-Gharairi was a spokesman for the Conference of People
of Iraq, a Sunni Arab party headed by Adnan al-Dulaimi, was killed by
gunmen.
(AP, 9/15/06)(SFC, 9/16/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 15, Oriana Fallaci (76),
the Italian writer and journalist best known for her abrasive
interviews and provocative stances, died in Florence.
(AP, 9/15/06)(Econ, 9/23/06, p.97)
2006 Sep 15, Ivory Coast
protesters beat up the transport minister in response to the Aug 19
toxic sludge shipment that sickened 30,000 people.
(WSJ, 9/16/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 15, Latvian President
Vaira Vike-Freiberga joined the race to become the next UN
secretary-general, becoming the first woman vying for the UN's top post.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 15, Mexico’s President
Vicente Fox backed down from a confrontation with thousands of leftist
sympathizers of Manuel Lopez Obrador, moving the annual Independence
Day celebration away from Mexico City's main square to avoid
protesters. Fox decided to move the ceremony to the central town of
Dolores Hidalgo, where Miguel Hidalgo made the first call for
independence from Spain in 1810. Supporters of leftist Andres Manuel
Lopez Obrador ended the street protest that clogged the heart of the
capital for nearly seven weeks, but they vowed to find other ways to
resist the incoming conservative president.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 15, Palestinian gunmen
opened fire on a car in Gaza City carrying Brig. Gen. Jad Tayeh, a top
Palestinian security officer, in a drive-by shooting that killed Tayeh
and four of his bodyguards.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 15, In Singapore Paul
Wolfowitz, the chief of the World Bank, took a hard line on corruption.
Rodrigo de Rato, his counterpart at the IMF, said policy-makers need to
be ready to adapt to a more difficult economic environment in the
coming year as delegates gathered for the sister institutions' annual
meetings. Wolfowitz said that Singapore had damaged its own reputation
by imposing "authoritarian" restrictions on the entry of activists for
the World Bank/IMF meetings.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 15, Alberto Linero (27)
and Alberto Sanchez (24) both privates in the Spanish air force,
exchanged vows in a reception room at Seville's town hall, in the first
known wedding among same-sex members of the military since Spain
legalized gay marriage last year.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 15, More than 100,000
chanting protesters marched through downtown Taipei, trying to pressure
Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian to resign over a series of
corruption scandals.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 15, Tanzania’s energy
minister said ongoing drought in east Africa has forced Tanzania to
impose power cuts seven days a week.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 15, Over strong
opposition from China, the UN Security Council put Myanmar on its
agenda in what US officials called a "major step forward" in American
efforts to increase pressure on the country's military dictatorship.
(AP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 15, The World Health
Organization declared its support for indoor use of DDT to control
mosquitoes in regions where malaria is a major health problem.
(SFC, 9/16/06, p.A5)
2006 Sep 15, In Yemen suicide
bombers tried to strike two oil facilities with explosives-packed cars.
Al-Qaida later claimed responsibility for the attempted suicide attacks
and vowed more strikes against the United States and its allies.
(AP, 9/15/06)(AP, 11/7/06)
2006 Sep 15, Zimbabwe said its
annual inflation rate has reached a new record high of more than 1,200%
in August despite the conversion to a new currency designed to halt the
upwards spiral.
(AFP, 9/15/06)
2006 Sep 16, In SF Zachary
Roche-Balsam (19) was killed when he tried to stop a robbery of 2 women
after a party in the Ingleside Heights neighborhood. In 2007 police
arrested and charged Vernon Anderson Jr. (21) with the murder.
(SFC, 4/11/07, p.B2)
2006 Sep 16, Thousands of US-led
coalition and Afghan troops launched Mountain Fury, a large-scale
anti-Taliban operation in five Afghan provinces. A bomb blast south of
Kabul killed three Afghan aid workers and wounded another.
(AP, 9/16/06)(SSFC, 9/17/06, p.A5)
2006 Sep 16, In Cuba
representatives of 118 Nonaligned Movement nations condemned Israel's
attacks on Lebanon and supported a peaceful resolution to the US-Iran
nuclear dispute in the final declaration.
(AP, 9/17/06)
2006 Sep 16, Fouad el-Mohandes
(82), one of Egypt's most beloved comedians, died in Cairo. His plays
and movies made over a half century brought him fans across the Arab
world.
(AP, 9/16/06)
2006 Sep 16, Iraq’s PM Nuri
al-Maliki launched a fresh peace bid and the US pledged more troops to
help restore stability in the Iraqi capital. At least eight people were
killed in rebel attacks. Police recovered 48 bodies from across
Baghdad. Most were those of young men who had been tortured,
blindfolded, handcuffed and shot several times. Iraqi police uncovered
a large munitions cache stored in the southern town of Ad Dayr.
(AP, 9/16/06)(SSFC, 9/17/06, p.A23)(AP, 9/17/06)
2006 Sep 16, Ivory Coast named a
new Cabinet, replacing the ministers of transport and environment but
reappointing most others, after a toxic waste dumping scandal prompted
the resignation of the entire 32-member body last week.
(AP, 9/16/06)
2006 Sep 16, In Mexico hundreds of
thousands of supporters of leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador elected
him the leader of a "parallel government" opposed to President-elect
Felipe Calderon's administration. Mexico extradited accused drug
kingpin Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix to the US, making him the first
major Mexican drug lord to be sent north to face trial on drug charges.
He later pleaded guilty to federal charges of selling cocaine in a San
Diego motel. Hurricane Lane, a Category 3 storm, battered Mazatlan.
(SFC, 9/18/06, p.A7)(AP, 9/17/07)
2006 Sep 16, Pakistani
President Pervez Musharraf and Indian PM Manmohan Singh held "historic"
talks on the disputed Kashmir region, on the sidelines of a
developing-world summit in Havana. They also agreed to restart peace
talks suspended since train bombings killed more than 200 people in
Mumbai in July.
(AFP, 9/16/06)(AP, 9/16/06)
2006 Sep 16, Leaders across the
Muslim world demanded Pope Benedict XVI apologize for his remarks on
Islam and jihad. The Vatican said Pope Benedict XVI "sincerely"
regretted offending Muslims with his reference to an obscure medieval
text characterizing some of the teachings of Islam's founder as "evil
and inhuman," but the statement stopped short of the apology demanded
by Islamic leaders. Two West Bank Christian churches were hit by
firebombs, and a group claiming responsibility said it was protesting
Pope Benedict XVI's remarks about Islam.
(AP, 9/16/06)(AP, 9/16/07)
2006 Sep 16, In Singapore top
finance chiefs stepped up pressure on China to relax its grip on its
currency, warning that trade imbalances threaten a flourishing global
economy. G7 finance ministers and central bank governors also called
for a resumption of global free trade talks and a revamp of the IMF,
saying China should be given a louder voice but must also fulfill its
broader economic responsibilities.
(AFP, 9/16/06)
2006 Sep 16, Sten Andersson
(b.1923), a leading figure in Sweden's governing Social Democratic
Party and one-time mediator in the Middle East peace process, died. As
foreign minister from 1985 to 1991, Andersson helped start a dialogue
between the Palestine Liberation Organization and the US.
(AP, 9/17/06)
2006 Sep 16, In southern Thailand
bomb blasts killed four people including a Canadian (29), who became
the first Westerner to die in the two-year Muslim insurgency. At least
five bombs exploded: two in department stories; two in front of a bar
and a parking lot at the Odean Shopping Mall; and a fifth at a nearby
massage parlor in Songkhla province's Hat Yai city.
(AP, 9/17/06)
2006 Sep 16, Togo's Pres. Faure
Gnassingbe named Yawovi Agboyibo (63), an opposition party leader, as
prime minister, bringing the nation one step closer to long-delayed
parliamentary elections.
(AP, 9/17/06)
2006 Sep 16, In Yemen 4 suspected
al-Qaida members who were plotting attacks in San’a were arrested.
(AP, 9/17/06)
2006 Sep 17, In California a fire
in Los Padres National Forest crossed 60,589 acres, or about 93 square
miles, since it began on Labor Day. Containment was estimated at 15%.
(AP, 9/18/06)
2006 Sep 17, Time Warner Inc. said
it is selling AOL Germany's Internet access business to Telecom Italia
SpA for about $870 million.
(AP, 9/18/06)
2006 Sep 17, In South Carolina
Vinson Filyaw (36) was arrested and charged with raping a 14-year-old
girl. Filyaw had abducted the girl on Sep 6 and kept her in an
underground bunker. The girl was rescued Sep 16 after she used Filyaw’s
cell phone to send a text message to her mother.
(SFC, 9/18/06, p.A4)
2006 Sep 17, Elizabeth Blackburn
(57), a biochemist at UCSF, was named winner of the Lasker Award for
Basic Medical Research. She shared $100,000 the award with Carol W.
Greider, a former graduate student, and Jack W. Szostak (53), a Harvard
geneticist and longtime collaborator. Their discoveries included
proteins called telomeres that cap the ends of chromosomes and regulate
the longevity and death of human and animal cells.
(SSFC, 9/17/06, p.B1)
2006 Sep 17, Five Duquesne
basketball players were shot and wounded during an apparent act of
random violence on campus. As of 2007 two alleged gunmen and two women
who allegedly helped facilitate the shooting awaited trial.
(AP, 9/17/07)
2006 Sep 17, Patricia Kennedy
Lawford (82), the sister of President John F. Kennedy and ex-wife of
actor Peter Lawford, died in New York City.
(AP, 9/17/07)
2006 Sep 17, A top NATO general
said Operation Medusa, an offensive aimed at driving Taliban militants
out of their safe havens in southern Afghanistan, has been
"successfully completed." In southern Afghanistan a suicide bomber
plowed his explosive-laden vehicle into a Canadian military convoy,
killing one civilian and wounding five.
(AP, 9/17/06)
2006 Sep 17, In northern Austria a
Czech bus veered off a road and into a ditch, killing 4 people and
injuring 38.
(AP, 9/17/06)
2006 Sep 17, Iran's president made
his first visit to Venezuela, seeking to strengthen ties with a
government that also opposes the US.
(AP, 9/17/06)
2006 Sep 17, In Iraq a series of
attacks, including two suicide car bombings in the northern city of
Kirkuk, killed 24 people and wounded dozens. A series of near
simultaneous mortar and bomb attacks targeting police patrols in
Fallujah killed 4 people, including two policemen, and wounded 10. In
Baghdad a bomb left in plastic bag exploded on the central commercial
Jumhouriyah street, killing two civilians and wounding 8. The
bullet-riddled bodies of 4 unidentified men were found in separate
neighborhoods in east Baghdad. Another two bodies were found in the
Tigris river in central Baghdad. Both had been shot, and one had been
decapitated. Another blindfolded and bound body was found dumped in a
river in the city of Kut. Ahmed Riyadh al-Karbouli (25), an Iraqi
journalist, was killed in Ramadi.
(AP, 9/17/06)(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 17, The Israeli Cabinet
authorized an inquiry into the government's handling of the recent war
in Lebanon, capping weeks of disagreements over the scope of the
investigation.
(AP, 9/17/06)
2006 Sep 17, A strong typhoon
swept toward southwestern Japan with fierce winds and heavy rains,
leaving at least 8 people dead or missing and injuring dozens more.
(AFP, 9/17/06)
2006 Sep 17, Voters in Moldova's
breakaway Trans-Dniester region overwhelmingly approved a referendum
for the separatist government's bid to eventually join Russia.
(AP, 9/18/06)
2006 Sep 17, A Nigerian military
transport aircraft, traveling from Abuja to the southern town of Obudu,
went down in the southeast with a group of military officers on board.
12 of 17 people were killed and most were senior military personnel.
(AP, 9/18/06)
2006 Sep 17, Sister Leonella
Sgorbati, an Italian nun, was shot dead at a hospital in Mogadishu by
Somali gunmen, hours after a leading Muslim cleric condemned Pope
Benedict XVI for his remarks on Islam and violence. The nun's bodyguard
and a hospital worker were also killed.
(AP, 9/17/06)(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 17, Sri Lanka's Tamil
Tiger rebels accused government soldiers in concert with paramilitary
units of killing nearly 100 civilians in the island's embattled Jaffna
peninsula this month. Sri Lanka's navy gunboats and war planes bombed a
suspected Tamil Tiger arms ship.
(AFP, 9/17/06)
2006 Sep 17, Peace activists
around the world staged a day of action to highlight the "forgotten
war" in Darfur where tens of thousands of people have been killed and
more than 2 million left homeless.
(AP, 9/17/06)
2006 Sep 17, In Sweden PM Goeran
Persson, head of the minority Social Democrat government for 10 years,
faced Fredrik Reinfeldt (41), who led the four-party Alliance for
Sweden, after a campaign focused on getting Swedes back into the job
market. The center-right opposition, vowing to streamline Sweden's
famed welfare state, ousted the Social Democratic government with 48.1%
of the vote, ending 12 years of leftist rule. Fredrik Reinfeldt (41),
head of the main opposition Moderate Party, authored the 1993 book "The
Sleeping Nation," in which he criticized the cradle-to-grave welfare
state. Fredrik Reinfeldt renamed his party the “New Moderates.”
(AP, 9/17/06)(Econ, 9/23/06, p.16)(Econ, 9/23/06,
p.60)
2006 Sep 17, Pope Benedict XVI
said that he was "deeply sorry" about the angry reaction to his recent
remarks about Islam, which he said came from a text that didn't reflect
his personal opinion.
(AP, 9/17/06)
2006 Sep 18, The US Commerce
Department said the current account deficit had widened more than
expected in the second quarter to $218.4 billion, as surging oil prices
pushed goods imports higher.
(AP, 9/18/06)
2006 Sep 18, A jury in Santa
Clara, Ca., convicted Dean Schwartzmiller (64) of molesting 2 San Jose
boys. Authorities said he had molested over 100 boys and chronicled his
exploits in a manuscript.
(SFC, 9/19/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 18, Researchers at Intel
and UC Santa Barbara announced new technology using lasers on silicon
chips for optical computing. Practical use was thought to be 5-7 years
away.
(SFC, 9/19/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 18, The body of Luz Maria
Franco-Fierros (49) was found dragged to death in Castle Rock,
Colorado, leaving a trail of blood more than mile long. Police the next
day arrested Jose Luis Rubi-Nava (36) as suspect in the murder.
(SFC, 9/21/06, p.A20)(SFC, 9/22/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 18, Anousheh Ansari (40),
an Iranian-American telecommunications entrepreneur, took off on a
Russian rocket bound for the international space station, becoming the
world's first paying female space tourist. Aboard the space station, an
oxygen generator overheated and spilled a toxic irritant, forcing the
crew to don masks and gloves in the first emergency ever declared
aboard the 8-year-old orbiting outpost.
(AP, 9/18/07)
2006 Sep 18, The 184-nation IMF
approved reforms to increase the voice of China, South Korea, Turkey,
and Mexico to reflect their growing economic sway.
(SFC, 9/19/06, p.D2)
2006 Sep 18, In southern
Afghanistan a suicide bomber on a bicycle killed four Canadian troops
handing out candy to children and wounded 27 civilians. A suicide car
bombing in Kabul killed at least four policemen and wounded one officer
and 10 civilians. In Heart a bombing killed 12 people and wounded 17
including the deputy police chief. An outdoor wedding celebration north
of Kabul was attacked by assailants who threw a grenade, killing five
women and wounding 18. Four suspects were detained after the blast in
the village of Sayadan.
(AP, 9/18/06)(AP, 9/19/06)(AP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 18, In Bangladesh at
least 100,000 opposition supporters rallied in Dhaka demanding
electoral reforms ahead of national elections and using strident
rhetoric against the ruling coalition.
(AFP, 9/18/06)
2006 Sep 18, A court in Belgium
ordered Google to remove all links to French and German language
newspaper reports published in Belgium due to copyright laws.
(SFC, 9/19/06, p.D7)
2006 Sep 18, Britain and Spain
reached a historic deal to resolve side issues stemming from their
300-year-old dispute over Gibraltar, but sidestepped the main one,
their claims to the Rock's sovereignty.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 18, Premier Wen Jiabao
said China will increase its peacekeeping force in Lebanon to 1,000 and
double the humanitarian aid it has pledged.
(AP, 9/18/06)
2006 Sep 18, In Colombia federal
prosecutor Mario Iguaran delivered a televised apology for a scandal
surrounding psychic Armando Marti. In 2005 he had hired Marti, a
self-described clairvoyant, to help his staff deal with a crushing
caseload and to improve relations. The operation was code-named
“Mission Perseus of Zeus” and it granted Marti unfettered access to the
institution, as much as $1,800 a month, and a government-issued armored
car.
(SFC, 9/20/06, p.A8)
2006 Sep 18, In Germany Jacqueline
Battles, the German wife of an American contractor accused of cheating
the US government in Iraq, was arrested on suspicion of money
laundering. In March a US jury ordered contractors Mike Battles and
Scott Custer to pay $10 million for swindling the US government over
Iraqi rebuilding projects in connection with their Middletown,
R.I.-based company, Custer Battles LLC.
(AP, 9/18/06)
2006 Sep 18, The Iraqi army's 4th
division took over operational control of central Salahuddin province
from the US-led coalition. Sheik Fassal al-Guood, a prominent Sunni
tribal leader, said 15 of Ramadi's 18 tribes "have sworn to fight those
who are killing Sunnis and Shiites," and said they had an armed force
of about 20,000 men. Bombers and gunmen killed 8 people in Baqouba as
security forces prepared to further tighten security ahead of the holy
month of Ramadan. In southern Basra police found the body of Lt. Col.
Fawzi Abdul Karim al-Mousawi, chief of the city's anti-terrorism
department. Gunmen killed a former member of the defunct Ba'th Party in
Hillah. Police in Baghdad found the bodies of 3 men, bound, blindfolded
and shot in the head. Six bombs killed 24 people and wounded 84 in
Kirkuk. The tortured bodies of 15 people were found elsewhere. In total
bombers and gunmen killed at least 41 people and wounded dozens across
Iraq, while parliament leaders again put off debate on legislation that
some Iraqis fear could threaten the country's unity and bring even more
violence. 3 US soldiers died, including one killed by a roadside bomb
explosion and another after being shot. A third soldier died from
non-battle-related injuries.
(AP, 9/18/06)(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 18, Israel said it will
consider freeing Palestinian prisoners and releasing millions of
dollars in tax rebates to Palestinians if their government moderates
its hardline views. Israel charged three Hezbollah members arrested in
Lebanon during the recent war with murder for involvement in deadly
attacks on soldiers.
(AP, 9/18/06)
2006 Sep 18, Palestine’s PM Ismail
Haniyeh's bodyguards opened fire outside the parliament building to
disperse a crowd of protesters angry over the government's failure to
end a growing economic crisis in the Gaza Strip.
(AP, 9/18/06)
2006 Sep 18, Russia’s Ministry of
Natural Resources said it would cancel an environmental permit for a
$20 billion oil and natural gas project led by Royal Dutch Shell on the
Far East island of Sakhalin.
(WSJ, 9/19/06, p.A17)
2006 Sep 18, In Somalia a massive
car bomb exploded outside the makeshift parliament building in Baidoa,
killing 11 people, including the president's brother, in an apparent
assassination attempt. As Pres. Yusuf fled, a gunbattle broke out
between his bodyguards and eight suspected accomplices of an apparent
suicide bomber. Six were killed and two were captured.
(AP, 9/18/06)(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 18, In eastern Sri Lanka
the bodies of 11 Muslim men were found hacked to death. Tamil Tiger
rebels and government forces blamed each other for the massacre.
(AFP, 9/18/06)
2006 Sep 18, The Vatican opened
part of its secret archives to let historians review millions of
diplomatic letters, private correspondence and other church documents
to gain insight into how the Holy See dealt with the growing
persecution of Jews before World War II.
(AP, 9/18/06)
2006 Sep 19, President Bush
addressed the 61st meeting of the UN General Assembly with a call for
nations to unite to work for a more peaceful world where "extremists
are marginalized by the peaceful majority." UN Secretary-General Kofi
Annan delivered an emotional farewell address, appealing to the world
to unite against human rights abuses, religious divisions, brutal
conflicts and an unjust world economy.
(AP, 9/19/06)(AP, 9/19/07)
2006 Sep 19, A Georgia judge
struck down the state’s photo ID requirement to vote.
(WSJ, 9/20/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 19, Sam Harris published
his polemic ”Letter to a Christian Nation.” It was a philosophical
attack on the basic tenets held by all major religions.
(WSJ, 9/28/06, p.B2)
2006 Sep 19, Warren Buffet,
billionaire investor, pledged $50 million to help set up an
international nuclear fuel bank that aspiring powers could turn to for
reactor fuel instead of making it on their own.
(SFC, 9/20/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 19, The MacArthur
Foundation announced the 25 winners of its genius awards.
(SFC, 9/19/06, p.B1)
2006 Sep 19, George Lucas, creator
of "Star Wars," announced that his private foundation will give his
alma mater, the University of Southern California, $175 million to
endow and rebuild its School of Cinematic Arts in what amounts to the
largest donation in USC history.
(Reuters, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, Motorola Inc. agreed
to buy Symbol Technologies, a maker of bar-code readers, for $3.9
billion.
(WSJ, 9/20/06, p.A21)
2006 Sep 19, John Nejedly (91),
former 10-year California state senator, died. He helped lead the 1982
fight against the Peripheral Canal and wrote the bill authorizing the
construction of the bridge on Highway 160 near Antioch, which was named
in his honor.
(SFC, 9/22/06, p.B9)
2006 Sep 19, In central and
southern Afghanistan clashes and bombings left up to 34 Taliban
fighters and one policeman dead in five separate incidents.
(AP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 19, In Argentina Miguel
Osvaldo Etchecolatz (77) a former police investigator, was sentenced to
life in prison in connection with the disappearance of six people
during the so-called "Dirty War" against political dissent.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, In Australia Judge
Murray Wilcox granted Aborigines a title claim over Perth, the capital
of Western Australia.
(AFP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 19, Australia and Japan
imposed financial sanctions on 11 North Korean companies, a Swiss
company and its president, based on allegations they helped the
communist nation's weapons programs.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, A British soldier
pleaded guilty to one count of inhumanely treating Iraqi civilians,
while he and his comrades denied all other charges in a landmark
court-martial.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, Cambodia's King
Norodom Sihamoni started the official part of a week-long visit to the
Czech Republic, a country where he spent 13 years from 1962-1975 and
considers as his "second home."
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, Supporters of Congo's
presidential challenger barricaded streets, stopped traffic and threw
stones in Kinshasa, a day after a fire at his headquarters destroyed
the party's television and radio stations.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, In southern Germany a
US AH-64D Apache Longbow attack helicopter crashed on a training
mission, killing two American soldiers.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 19, Some 2,000-3,000
protesters stormed the headquarters of Hungarian state television and
forced it off the air briefly in an explosion of anger. The protests
began after a recording of PM Gyurcsany's comments made in May was
leaked to Hungarian media. In his speech to a meeting of Socialist
deputies, the prime minister admitted that the government had lied
about the state of the economy in order to ensure victory in the
elections.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, In India at least two
people were killed and more than 100 detained during violent protests
against a court-ordered crackdown on illegal shops in New Delhi. At
least 20 people were killed in coastal villages in eastern India after
a major storm swept in to the Bay of Bengal and destroyed hundreds of
mud huts.
(AFP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 19, Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed the UN General Assembly and took aim at
US policies in Iraq and Lebanon. He accused Washington of abusing its
power in the UN Security Council to punish others while protecting its
own interests and allies.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, The Iraqi government
said it will shut down all offices belonging to the Kurdistan Workers
Party (PKK) around the country. The chief judge in Saddam Hussein's
genocide trial was replaced amid complaints he was being too easy on
the deposed Iraqi leader. A rocket attack on a Shiite neighborhood in
southern Baghdad killed 10 people and wounded 19. In northern Iraq at
least 17 people were killed and 11 wounded in twin bombings in the town
of Al-Shurqat.
(AP, 9/19/06)(AFP, 9/20/06)(AP, 9/19/07)
2006 Sep 19, Police in southern
Italy arrested scores of people in an overnight crackdown on organized
crime, including on clans that had a grip on the local tourist industry.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, Ivory Coast
authorities arrested 2 French executives of Trafigura Beheer BV, the
Dutch commodities company implicated in the recent dumping of toxic
waste. Claude Dauphin and Jean-Pierre Valentini, charged with
poisoning and infractions of toxic waste laws, were sent to
prison.
(WSJ, 9/20/06, p.A10)
2006 Sep 19, Einars Repse,
Latvia's former prime minister (2002-2004), accidentally killed a
pedestrian while driving on a remote road. He said he would stop
campaigning for parliament, although he will remain a candidate. The
EU's official statistics agency, Eurostat, said Latvia registered 222
traffic deaths per 1 million residents in 2004, the highest in the
union.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 19, A group of sexual
abuse survivors filed a lawsuit against Mexican Cardinal Norberto
Rivera, claiming he hid evidence to protect a priest accused of
molesting boys. A lawyer for the Chicago-based Survivors Network of
Those Abused by Priests filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior
Court. Rivera, now Mexico's top-ranking cardinal, helped cover up abuse
by the Rev. Nicolas Aguilar involving 50 boys when Aguilar served as a
parish priest in central Puebla state in 1987. Rivera was bishop of
Tehuacan in Puebla state at the time.
(AP, 9/19/06)
2006 Sep 19, Sudan's Pres. Omar
Hassan al-Bashir, on the sidelines of the UN General assembly, said his
country would never allow UN peacekeepers into Darfur and charged that
the West wanted to dismember his country in order to help Israel. He
agreed that the 7,000 AU peacekeepers could stay.
(Reuters, 9/19/06)(Econ, 9/23/06, p.51)
2006 Sep 19, In Thailand a 6-man
military junta launched a coup against PM Thaksin Shinawatra, circling
his offices with tanks, seizing control of TV stations and declaring a
provisional authority pledging loyalty to the king. This was the 18th
coup since 1932.
(AP, 9/19/06)(Econ, 9/23/06, p.27)
2006 Sep 20, Pres. Bush met with
Palestinian leader Abbas in a bid to restart Mideast peace efforts.
(WSJ, 9/21/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 20, A US federal judge
overturned a Bush administration rule that would have allowed roads to
be built through nearly 60 million acres of national forest land.
(SFC, 9/21/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 20, California sued 6
major auto makers for greenhouse-gas inaction.
(WSJ, 9/21/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 20, The second annual
Clinton Global Initiative, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly,
kicked off in Manhattan and collected over $2 billion in pledges in
funds and programs on its 1st day to combat global ills. A day later
British mogul Richard Branson pledged to spend $3 billion in the next
decade on projects to combat global warming and reduce dependence on
fossil fuels. The 3-day summit raised $7.3 billion in pledges.
(SFC, 9/21/06, p.A3)(AFP, 9/21/06)(SFC, 9/23/06,
p.A2)
2006 Sep 20, In Florida Clarence
Hill was executed for the 1982 murder of a Pensacola police officer. He
had argued that Florida’s use of lethal injections amounted to cruel
and unusual punishment, but the US Supreme Court denied him another
stay of execution.
(SFC, 9/21/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 20, Dean Everett
Wooldridge (93), scientist and co-founder of Ramo-Wooldridge (1953),
died. In 1958 Ramo-Wooldridge merged with Thomas Products to become TRW
Corp. Wooldridge helped develop the US intercontinental ballistic
missile program. He also authored 4 books on neuroscience and predicted
the rise of artificial intelligence.
(WSJ, 9/23/06, p.A4)
2006 Sep 20, In Salt Lake City a
2-year-old boy died from kidney failure due to an E. coli infection
attributed to spinach.
(SFC, 10/6/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 20, In southern
Afghanistan police clashed with militants who tried to set fire to an
oil tanker, killing four suspected members of the Taliban. Authorities
found the body of a Turkish national who was kidnapped last month along
with another Turk whose body was already recovered.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 20, The African Union
(AU) agreed to extend the mandate of its peacekeepers in Sudan's
troubled Darfur region for three months until December 31 after
receiving promises of financial and logistical support from the United
Nations and Arab states.
(AP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 20, In Australia arrested
5 Canadian men after cocaine worth A$35 million ($26 million) was found
hidden inside computer monitors. This was believed to be Australia's
fifth-largest illegal drugs seizure.
(Reuters, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 20, EU regulators fined
30 companies a total of $399.1 million for fixing prices for
copper-pipe fittings.
(WSJ, 9/21/06, p.A8)
2006 Sep 20, Henri Jayer (84), a
master of balanced pinot noir, died in Dijon, France. He was viewed by
many connoisseurs to be the finest Burgundy winemaker of his generation.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 20, Hungarian PM Ferenc
Gyurcsany vowed to crack down on rioters. Police blaming the violence
on football hooligans and extreme right-wing groups. Thousands of
protesters demonstrated for a 4th day demanding that PM Gyurcsany
resign.
(AFP, 9/20/06)(SFC, 9/21/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 20, An Iraqi police
headquarters in Baghdad was hit by a suicide truck bomb, killing at
least 7 people. Rebels killed at least 16 people in Iraq in a series of
bombings and shootings.
(AFP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 20, Israeli forces raided
the West Bank cities of Nablus and Jenin, destroying five foreign
exchange depots and a bank and taking funds the army said were
earmarked for terrorism. Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired
two rockets at an Israeli town, wounding a 15-year-old boy and another
person.
(AP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 20, Nationalist candidate
Shinzo Abe won the race for Japan's ruling party leader, all but
clinching next week's election as prime minister and pledging to make
his country a more robust force on the world stage.
(AP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 20, In northern
Kazakhstan a methane explosion tore through a coal mine, killing 41
miners. Seven miners were pulled out alive and hospitalized after it
ripped through the Lenin mine in the town of Shakhtinsk.
(AP, 9/20/06)(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 20, The UN's
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) acquitted former
Rwandan education minister Andre Rwamakuba of murder and incitement
charges related to the country's 1994 genocide.
(AP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 20, Gen. Sondhi
Boonyaratkalin, the army commander who seized Thailand's government in
a quick, bloodless coup, pledged to hold elections by October 2007. He
received a ringing endorsement from the country's revered king.
(AP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 20, In South Africa a
judge dismissed corruption charges against Jacob Zuma after the
prosecution said it was not ready to proceed against a powerful,
populist politician who could be South Africa's next president.
(AP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 20, Sven Nykvist
(b.1922), Swedish cinematographer, died. He began working with Ingmar
Bergman in 1953, eventually became his full-time cinematographer,
pushing the director's work in a new direction. Nykvist won the Academy
Award for Best Cinematography for two Bergman movies, Cries and
Whispers (1973), and Fanny and Alexander (1982).
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sven_Nykvist)
2006 Sep 20, In eastern Ukraine a
methane blast ripped through a coal mine, killing 13 miners and
injuring 36 others.
(AP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 20, Venezuelan President
Hugo Chavez took his verbal battle with the US to the floor of the UN
General Assembly, calling President Bush "the devil." "The devil came
here yesterday," Chavez said. "He came here talking as if he were the
owner of the world."
(AP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 20, In Vietnam Pham Xuan
An (79), journalist and spy, died. He led a remarkable and perilous
double life as a communist spy and a respected reporter for Western
news organizations during the Vietnam War.
(AP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 20, Yemen's President Ali
Abdullah Saleh faced a serious challenger at the polls for the first
time. Roughly 5 million of the 9.2 million eligible Yemenis cast
ballots. Saleh has ruled since 1978, first as president of North Yemen
and then as head of the unified state after the 1990 merger of the
North and South.
(AP, 9/20/06)
2006 Sep 21, The US White House
and rebellious Senate Republicans announced agreement on rules for the
interrogation and trial of suspects in the war on terror.
(AP, 9/21/07)
2006 Sep 21, The US Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention announced it would recommend all
Americans ages 13 to 64 be routinely tested for HIV.
(AP, 9/21/07)
2006 Sep 21, In NYC Venezuela’s
Pres. Chavez visited the Mount Olive Baptist Church in Harlem and
promised to double the amount of discounted heating oil his country is
shipping to needy Americans. His offer included 100 gallons of heating
oil for each of 12,000 households in rural Alaska.
(SFC, 9/22/06, p.A3)(SSFC, 10/8/06, p.A27)
2006 Sep 21, In Santa Cruz, Ca.,
Kirby Scudder (50), former bike messenger, set up 500 giant flashlights
to shine skyward every 30 feet along West Cliff Drive overlooking the
Pacific Ocean in his tribute to International Peace Day. The lights
came on at 9PM.
(SFC, 9/21/06, p.B1)(SFC, 9/22/06, p.B7)
2006 Sep 21, The US space shuttle
Atlantis returned safely to its Florida home port, capping a successful
mission to resume International Space Station construction after the
2003 Columbia accident.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Time Warner Inc. said
it would sell AOL France's Internet access unit to Neuf Cegetel for
$365 million as it overhauls its online business in Europe to boost
advertising.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, In Afghanistan a NATO
helicopter killed 8 suspected insurgents in Helmand province.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 21, The death toll in
Bangladesh and India rose to at least 95 and nearly 1,000 remained
missing after storms capsized boats, toppled houses and washed away
roads.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Chile's President
Michelle Bachelet said her decision to allow the government to
distribute free morning-after contraception pills to girls as young as
14 was a matter of "equality" within Chilean society.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Iraq’s Defense
Ministry said insurgents are no longer using just volunteers as suicide
car bombers but are instead kidnapping drivers, rigging their vehicles
with explosives and blowing them up. Italy formally handed over
security responsibility of the southern Dhi Qar province to Iraqi
forces, the second of the country's 18 provinces to be handed over to
local control. 2 people were killed and another nine were wounded when
a car bomb exploded near an electricity company office in Baghdad. The
number of Iraqi civilians killed in July and August hit a record-high
6,599. An American soldier was killed after his vehicle was hit by a
roadside bombing in eastern Baghdad.
(AP, 9/21/06)(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 21, Israeli forces killed
at least 5 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as gunmen fired rockets into
Israel.
(SFC, 9/22/06, p.A13)
2006 Sep 21, A Japanese court
ruled that an order forcing Tokyo teachers to stand before Japan's flag
and sing an anthem to the emperor violated the constitution, a rare
victory for the country's waning pacifist movement.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Jordan sentenced 7
people to death for triple hotel bombings that killed 60 people in
Amman last November. Sajida al-Rishawi (35), an Iraqi woman, was
sentenced to death. 6 others were sentenced to death in absentia.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Vladimiro Montesinos
(61), Peru's former spymaster, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for
engineering a deal that sent 10,000 assault rifles to Colombian
guerrillas.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 21, In Russia Gennady
Melikyan, deputy chairman of the Central Bank, was appointed top
regulator to replace the recently murdered Andrei Kozlov.
(WSJ, 9/22/06, p.A6)
2006 Sep 21, Thailand's new
military rulers said that four top members of deposed PM Thaksin
Shinawatra's administration had been detained. The regime also assumed
the duties of parliament, which was dissolved when the government was
ousted in a coup earlier this week, and banned meetings by all
political parties.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Elif Shafak, one of
Turkey's leading authors, was acquitted of "insulting Turkishness" in
her novel "The Bastard of Istanbul," that touched on the mass killings
of Armenians during the final years of the Ottoman Empire. The
University of Arizona assistant professor gave birth to a daughter on
Sep 16 and did not attend her trial.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 21, Vietnam deported an
American pro-democracy activist, state-run television reported. Cong
Thanh Do (47) of San Jose, Ca., was accused of plotting to overthrow
the government.
(AP, 9/21/06)
2006 Sep 22, US President George
W. Bush and Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf met at the White
House for key anti-terror talks jarred by his public critiques of US
strategy.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, It was reported that
11 Domino's employees in Pensacola, Fla., hoping to make a little more
dough and get a bigger slice of the profits have formed the nation's
first union of pizza delivery drivers.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, The new list of
Forbes 400 richest people in the US for the 1st time was composed only
of billionaires. As a group they were worth a record $1.3 trillion.
(WSJ, 9/23/06, p.B3)
2006 Sep 22, The US CDC
recommended that all Americans between 13 and 64 be routinely tested
for AIDS.
(Econ, 9/30/06,
p.40)(www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr5514a1.htm)
2006 Sep 22, Hewlett-Packard Co.
Chairwoman Patricia Dunn resigned in the wake of the company's
ill-fated investigation of boardroom media leaks.
(AP, 9/22/07)
2006 Sep 22, Edward Albert
(b.1951), television and screen actor, died of lung cancer in Malibu,
California. He had a meteoric career as a film star in the 1970s after
he starred with Goldie Hawn in “Butterflies Are Free” (1972). He also
starred in “40 Carats” (1973), “The Ice Runner” (1993), and “Guarding
Tess” (1994). Albert was a dedicated environmentalist and worked with
several groups, including the California Coastal Commission and the
state's Native American Heritage Commission.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Albert)
2006 Sep 22, In southern
Afghanistan militants ambushed a bus carrying construction workers,
killing 19 of the laborers. The attack occurred in Kandahar province
when a roadside bomb exploded near the bus. A NATO helicopter killed 15
suspected insurgents in Helmand province.
(AP, 9/22/06)(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 22, Enrique Gorriaran
Merlo (65), a former Argentine rebel, died. He claimed that he led the
squad that killed exiled Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza in 1980.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, In Shanghai health
officials added 3 more items to a list of toxic metals in SK-II
products, made in Japan by US consumer products giant Procter and
Gamble. P&G has pulled its popular SK-II line of beauty products
off the shelf after authorities a week earlier discovered traces of the
two toxic metals in nine SK-II products including powder, foundation,
lotion and cleansing oil products. The company said a hotline had been
set up and that all refund requests submitted by September 21 would be
honored.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, Democratic Republic
of Congo's first freely elected parliament in more than 40 years
convened, with President Joseph Kabila's coalition poised to appoint a
prime minister.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, France and Russia
signed deals in the transport and aviation sectors worth 10 billion
dollars following a summit between Russian Pres. Vladimir Putin and his
French counterpart Jacques Chirac.
(AP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 22, Voters in Gambia went
to the polls in a presidential election widely expected to hand
incumbent strongman Yahya Jammeh a third elected term.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, In northwestern
Germany the high-speed, Transrapid magnetic train, traveling at 125
mph, crashed. 23 of the 29 people aboard were killed and others injured
in the first fatal wreck involving the high-tech system. A gas tank
exploded in a bakery in a south German village, burying a dozen people
in the rubble and injuring several more.
(AP, 9/22/06)(AP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 22, India’s High Court
overturned a ban on the production and sale of Coca-Cola and Pepsi soft
drinks in the southern Indian state of Kerala, but state officials said
they would seek ways to challenge the decision.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, In Indonesia
Christian mobs torched cars, blockaded roads and looted Muslim-owned
shops in violence touched off by the execution in Central Sulawesi of 3
Roman Catholics convicted of instigating attacks on Muslims. Fabianus
Tibo (60), Marinus Riwu (48), and Dominggus da Silva (42), were found
guilty of leading a Christian militia that launched a series of attacks
on Muslims in May, 2000, that left at least 70 people dead. Some 200
prisoners escaped in the town of Atambua, and only 20 had been
recaptured by mid-afternoon.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, In Iraq gunmen opened
fire on Sunni mosques and homes in a religiously mixed Baghdad
neighborhood, killing four people in an attack that drew the
condemnation of Sunni leaders across the city. Muntasir Hamoud Ileiwi
al-Jubouri, an alleged leader of Ansar al-Sunnah, and two of his aides
were captured. He is a leader of the group believed to be behind the
2004 attack on a US military mess hall. An American contractor working
for the State Department was killed in a rocket attack in the southern
city of Basra. Police found the blindfolded and bound bodies of nine
men from a Sunni tribe who had been dragged out of a wedding dinner in
east Baghdad the night before by men dressed in Iraqi army uniforms.
Four other bodies were found in other parts of the capital, again
blindfolded and with their hands and legs tied.
(AP, 9/22/06)(AP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 22, Israelis marked the
Jewish New Year shaken by the inconclusive war in Lebanon, angry at
their leaders and coping with growing gaps between rich and poor.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, Some 800,000
Hezbollah supporters packed a 37-acre square in the suburbs of Beirut
to hear leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah. In his first public appearance
since the start of his group's 34-day war with Israel, he said his
group has more than 20,000 rockets, and that an increased UN
peacekeeping force will not hurt its guerrillas' arsenal.
(SFC, 9/23/06, p.A7)(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 22, Nepal's interim
parliament passed a new law imposing tighter civilian control over the
army which was once fiercely loyal to the nation's royal family.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, In Norway police
accused four men suspected in an attack on Oslo's main synagogue of
also plotting to blow up the US and Israeli embassies. The men were
arrested Sep 19 in connection with an attack on the Mosaic Religious
Community synagogue, which was hit with at least 10 bullets on Sep 17.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 22, Palestinian PM Ismail
Haniyeh of Hamas said he will not head a government that recognizes
Israel, striking a potential blow to President Mahmoud Abbas' attempts
to create a national unity government.
(AP, 9/22/06)
2006 Sep 23, Barry Bonds hit his
734th career home run in the Giants' 10-8 loss to the Brewers, breaking
Hank Aaron's NL record.
(AP, 9/23/07)
2006 Sep 23, Two days of high
winds, heavy rain and tornadoes pounded parts of the US Midwest and the
South, killing at least 10 people and stranding others in trees and
shelters while forecasters warned that the stormy weather was expected
to continue.
(AP, 9/23/06)(SSFC, 9/24/06, p.A2)
2006 Sep 23, Three young children
were found dead in an East St. Louis, Ill., apartment, hours after
Tiffany Hall was charged with killing their pregnant mother and her
fetus in a grisly attack. Hall has since been charged with first-degree
murder in the deaths of Jimella Tunstall and her children, as well as
intentional homicide of Tunstall's fetus.
(AP, 9/23/07)
2006 Sep 23, Etta Baker (93),
blues guitarist, died in Fairfax, Va. In 1991 she won a Folk Heritage
Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her albums
included a 2004 recording with Taj Mahal.
(SFC, 9/26/06, p.D6)
2006 Sep 23, Afghan and NATO-led
security forces backed by war planes killed 40 rebels in Helmand
province's Greshk district.
(AFP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 23, In Bolivia 90% of the
country’s productive land was still owned by just 50,000 families.
Four-fifths of the rural population remained poor.
(Econ, 9/23/06, p.41)
2006 Sep 23, Toomas Hendrik Ilves
(52), a Western-leaning former diplomat and journalist, was narrowly
elected Estonia's president, ousting the incumbent who was favored in
the race.
(AP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 23, Russian Pres.
Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart Jacques Chirac joined German
Chancellor Angela Merkel for a three-way informal summit in a chateau
in Compiegne.
(AP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 23, In northern England
at least 10,000 anti-war demonstrators marched through the city of
Manchester, protesting the presence of British troops in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 23, A French newspaper
reported that Osama bin Laden had died in Pakistan on August 23 of
typhoid fever. The report was not confirmed.
(SSFC, 9/24/06, p.A4)
2006 Sep 23, Gambian President
Yahya Jammeh easily won a third term and called for a concerted effort
to develop the country socially and economically.
(AP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 23, A square in front of
Hungary's parliament overflowed with demonstrators demanding that PM
Gyurcsany quit in the largest protest yet since a recording was leaked
on which he admitted lying to the people about the economy. Hungary’s
current-account deficit reached 9% of GDP and the budget deficit hit
10%.
(AP, 9/24/06)(Econ, 9/23/06, p.64)
2006 Sep 23, In Indian Kashmir
suspected militants shot dead a man and a woman near Srinagar. A border
guard hurt in a bomb explosion died the next day.
(AFP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 23, Indian security
officials in the western desert state of Rajasthan shot dead three
suspected militants who were trying to cross over from Pakistan.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 23, A bombing in the
Shiite slum of Sadr City killed 38 people and wounded 42 as they
stocked up on fuel for Ramadan. The severed heads of 10 Iraqi soldiers
that were tossed into a crowded market in Beiji by unidentified gunmen.
Minority Sunnis began the fasting month of Ramadan. Police Col. Ismaiel
Chehayyan was killed by gunmen while having his Ramadan fast-breaking
dinner at a friend's house. Iraqi security forces arrested a leader of
the al-Ashreen Brigades, a group responsible for attacks and
kidnappings. The leader along with 7 aides were captured in Kharnabat.
5 apparent death squad victims were turned in to the morgue in Kut. The
victims were blindfolded with their arms and hands bound, and showed
signs of torture.
(AP, 9/23/06)(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 23, The TV series “The
Renegades,” directed by Najdat Anzour of Syria, began showing in
Lebanon and the rest of the Arab world. It fictionalized the
devastating effects of terrorism on Muslim families.
(SFC, 10/4/06, p.A7)
2006 Sep 23, In Mexico the
governor of Oaxaca state warned 70,000 striking teachers that they
would be replaced and lose their pay unless they immediately returned
to work.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 23, In Nepal's
mountainous east a helicopter with 24 people aboard went missing.
Searchers found the wreckage on Sep 25. The 24 dead included 2
Americans, Nepalese Forestry Minister Gopal Rai, Finnish Embassy Charge
d'Affaires Pauli Mustonen and Canadian Jennifer Headley, a coordinator
for WWF, several Nepali journalists, government officials and four crew
members, two Russians and two Nepalis.
(AP, 9/23/06)(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 23, In Pakistan at least
8 people were killed and 55 injured when a bus collided with another on
the main highway near the Islamabad. According to official statistics
Pakistan has the world's third highest death rate from road accidents.
(AFP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 23, Spain's Basque
separatist group ETA has said it will not give up its weapons until
independence for the Basque region is won, fuelling concerns over the
future of a six-month-old ceasefire.
(AFP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 23, In eastern Turkey
suspected Kurdish guerrillas set off an explosive-laden minibus across
from a police guest house, injuring 17 people.
(AP, 9/23/06)
2006 Sep 23, Yemen's President Ali
Abdullah Saleh was re-elected with more than 77% of votes in the face
of the strongest challenge since he came to power 28 years ago. Faisal
bin Shamlan won almost 22% of the vote. Opposition parties backing bin
Shamlan immediately rejected the election commission's results,
claiming their candidate won at least 40%.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 24, In a combative
interview on "Fox News Sunday," former President Clinton defended his
handling of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden, and accused host Chris
Wallace of a "conservative hit job."
(AP, 9/24/07)
2006 Sep 24, Democrats seized on
an intelligence assessment that said the Iraq war had increased the
terrorist threat, saying it was further evidence Americans should
choose new leadership in upcoming elections.
(AP, 9/24/07)
2006 Sep 24, A survey by the Pew
Internet and American Life Project said machines after 2020 will become
intelligent, evolve rapidly, and could end up treating humans as pets.
(SFC, 9/25/06, p.F1)
2006 Sep 24, Residents in
Richmond, Ca., set up a tent city to protest violence, homicides and
drug dealing in their Iron Triangle neighborhood.
(SFC, 10/11/06, p.A7)
2006 Sep 24, Inco, one of Canada’s
two largest mining companies, agreed to be acquired by Companhia Vale
do Rio Doce of Brazil for $17.8 billion.
(www.secinfo.com/dRY7g.v113.d.htm)(WSJ, 4/25/08,
p.A1)
2006 Sep 24, In China Chen
Liangyu, the Communist Party boss of Shanghai, was sacked for
corruption, toppling the highest leader so far in national party chief
Hu Jintao's drive to root out abuse and enforce loyalty.
(Reuters, 9/25/06)(Econ, 9/30/06, p.49)
2006 Sep 24, In Copenhagen,
Denmark, youths angered at a court decision to evict squatters from a
downtown building hurled stones, bottles and eggs at police during a
protest. More than 200 were detained.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 24, In Ecuador a speeding
bus overturned on a curving mountain road near Quito, killing 47 people
and injuring five children.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 24, India's federal
government called off a six-week truce with separatist rebels in Assam
and ordered the resumption of military operations in the northeastern
state.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 24, Iraq’s PM Nouri
al-Maliki called for Shiites and Sunnis to use the Islamic holy month
of Ramadan to put aside their differences. Iraq's parliamentary groups
agreed to open debate on a contentious Shiite-proposed draft
legislation that will allow the creation of federal regions in Iraq.
Authorities reported that at least 20 people were killed in scattered
violence across the country. Authorities reported that 45 bodies were
received at the morgue, the apparent victims of sectarian death squads.
(AP, 9/24/06)(SFC, 9/25/06, p.A9)
2006 Sep 24, In Indian Kashmir 4
suspected Islamic militants were shot dead by troops in northern Uri
district in a gunbattle with troops. 2 more were killed in nearby
Bandipora.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 24, In Lebanon Samir
Geagea, an anti-Syrian Christian leader, dismissed Hezbollah's claims
of victory in its war with Israel as tens of thousands of his
supporters rallied in a show of strength that highlighted the country’s
sharp divisions.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 24, In St. Petersburg,
Russia, attackers stabbed to death Nitesh Kumar Singh, an Indian
medical student, in the latest in a series of hate crimes there.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 24, In Somalia hundreds
of Islamic militiamen in heavily armed trucks took over the southern
town of Kismayo, one of the last seaports that had been outside their
control.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 24, Swiss voters in a
national referendum backed tougher asylum rules put forth by justice
minister Christoph Blocher, despite fears that the new rules will deny
refugees a fair hearing. 68% approved a new immigration law which was
meant to tackle what authorities say is the lack of integration of many
foreigners into Swiss society.
(AP, 9/24/06)(Econ, 9/30/06, p.61)
2006 Sep 24, Thailand's military
council issued new orders intended to stave off any possible opposition
to their coup, banning political activities at the district and
provincial levels.
(AP, 9/24/06)
2006 Sep 25, US air safety
officials eased restrictions on liquids in carry-ons.
(SFC, 9/26/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 25, It was reported that
the gap in between US debt payments and return from investments abroad
had reached $2.5 billion in the 2nd quarter of 2006. This amounted to a
quarterly debt payment of about $22 for each American household.
(WSJ, 9/25/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 25, A US federal judge
granted class action status to tens of millions of "light cigarette"
smokers for a potential $200 billion lawsuit against cigarette makers.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 25, California Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger signed two bills to bar the state's massive
pension funds from investing in companies in Sudan and to indemnify the
University of California system from liability from divesting its
investments in the country.
(Reuters, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 25, Murphy Oil agreed to
pay $330 million to settle a class-action suit filed by victims of
Hurricane Katrina whose homes and businesses were inundated when
floodwaters carried nearly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil from a
company storage tank.
(WSJ, 9/26/06, p.A12)
2006 Sep 25, The Louisiana
Superdome, a symbol of misery during Hurricane Katrina, reopened for a
New Orleans Saints game. The Saints defeated the Atlanta Falcons, 23-3.
(AP, 9/25/07)
2006 Sep 25, In Afghan 2 gunmen on
a motorbike killed Safia Hama Jan, the provincial director of the
Ministry of Women's Affairs, outside her home in apparent retribution
for her efforts to help educate women. In Khost province a bomb killed
2 policemen and a coalition soldier was injured in a suicide attack. 2
men believed to be suicide attackers were killed when the car they were
in blew up on a road often used by the US-led coalition and Afghan
forces. In Paktika province six suspected rebels were killed when they
were escorting a suicide bomber whose explosives detonated early.
(AFP, 9/25/06)(AFP, 9/26/06)
2006 Sep 25, UCB, a Belgian drug
firm, announced a takeover of Germany’s Schwarz Pharma for €4.4 billion.
(Econ, 9/30/06, p.71)
2006 Sep 25, Deutsche Oper, a
leading German opera house, canceled a 3-year-old production of
Mozart's "Idomeneo" that included a scene showing the severed head of
the Prophet Muhammad, unleashing a furious debate over free speech.
(AP, 9/26/06)
2006 Sep 25, In Athens, Greece, a
gang of robbers wielding machine guns stole an estimated $1.9 million
from a casino's security van after ramming the vehicle with a stolen
truck.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 25, Security forces took
over a Guatemalan prison controlled for more than 10 years by inmates
who produced drugs, lived in spacious homes with luxury goods and even
rented space for stores and restaurants. 7 prisoners died when 3,000
police and soldiers firing automatic weapons stormed the Pavon prison
just after dawn.
(Reuters, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 25, Iraq's feuding ethnic
and sectarian groups moved ahead with forming a committee to consider
amending the constitution after their leaders agreed to delay any
division of the country into autonomous states until 2008. In Basra
British forces shot and killed Omar al-Farouq, a leading al-Qaida
terrorist, more than a year after he embarrassed the US military by
making an unprecedented escape from a maximum security military prison
in Afghanistan in July, 2005. A US soldier died of wounds sustained
from enemy fire in Mosul. A US Marine and soldier were killed in action
in western Anbar province.
(AP, 9/25/06)(AP, 9/26/06)(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 25, In Nigeria an
inauguration ceremony in Lagos featured new bailiffs, a corps of 30 men
and women, all graduates, in uniforms of black trousers, ash-colored
shirts, yellow badges and cowboy hats and handcuffs on their belts.
Former Lagos bailiffs had converted their role as enforcer of court
judgments on property into an extortion racket.
(AP, 9/26/06)
2006 Sep 25, Pakistan's President
Pervez Musharraf’s memoir “In the Line of Fire,” was published. He
noted that the CIA has paid Pakistan millions for catching al-Qaida
fighters.
(SFC, 9/23/06, p.A3)(SFC, 9/26/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 25, Somalia's interim
prime minister called on the UN to partially lift an arms embargo on
his country to allow for the deployment of African peacekeepers, which
he said are necessary to stop the advance of Islamic radicals. A
government order banned human smuggling. Ethiopian troops arrived in
Somalia to support the internationally recognized government in its
faceoff with radicals. The Islamic militia in the seaport of Kismayo
opened fire on thousands protesting the fundamentalists' takeover of
the southern town. Witnesses said a teenager was killed.
(AP, 9/25/06)(SFC, 9/26/06, p.A3)(AP, 10/8/06)
2006 Sep 25, The Sri Lankan navy
said it had sunk 11 Tamil Tiger rebel ships loaded with troops and
weapons during a five-hour sea battle, killing around 70 separatists.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 25, A spokesman for the
AU said the African Union will add 4,000 troops to its extended Darfur
peacekeeping mission, bringing the number of police and soldiers in
western Sudan to 11,000. The UN got its first pledges of troops for a
proposed peacekeeping force in Sudan's Darfur region at a meeting of 49
potential contributing nations.
(AP, 9/25/06)(Reuters, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 25, The United States
donated patrol boats and electronic equipment to help Tajikistan guard
its borders and stem the flow of heroin from neighboring Afghanistan.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 25, Pope Benedict XVI
told over 20 Muslim diplomats that Christians and Muslims must work
together to guard against intolerance and violence as he sought to
soothe anger over his recent remarks about Islam.
(AP, 9/25/06)(SFC, 9/26/06, p.A8)
2006 Sep 25, In Yemen 4 French
tourists kidnapped Sep 10 were freed.
(AP, 9/25/06)
2006 Sep 26, President Bush
ordered release of a declassified version of a government intelligence
report that said the war in Iraq had become a "cause celebre" for
Islamic extremists.
(AP, 9/26/07)
2006 Sep 26, Former Enron chief
financial officer Andrew Fastow was sentenced by a federal judge in
Houston to six years in prison for his role in the fallen energy
company's bankruptcy.
(AP, 9/26/07)
2006 Sep 26, In Florida, brothers
Gilberto Rodriguez Orejuela (67) and Miguel Rodriguez Orejuela (62),
who headed the Colombia’s Cali cocaine cartel, were sentenced to 30
years in prison. They agreed to forfeit $2.1 billion worth of assets
linked to the drug trade as part of their plea agreement. In exchange
half a dozen of their relatives would not face prosecution.
(SFC, 9/27/06, p.A12)
2006 Sep 26, EMI Classics released
a CD of Paul McCartney’s four-movement oratorio “Ecce cor meum.” This
was his 3rd large-scale choral work.
(WSJ, 9/21/06, p.D6)
2006 Sep 26, Paul Allen,
co-founder of Microsoft Corp., announced a $41 million computerized
atlas of the 20,000 genes in the brain of a mouse. The atlas was made
available online at www.brainatlas.org.
(SFC, 9/27/06, p.A9)(Econ, 9/30/06, p.91)
2006 Sep 26, Researchers reported
that Earth’s temperature has climbed to a 12,000-year high and that it
has been warming at a rate of .36° Fahrenheit per decade for the
last 30 years.
(SFC, 9/26/06, p.A5)
2006 Sep 26, Iva Toguri D’Aquino,
(nee Iva Ikuko Toguri, 1916-2006), a Japanese-American convicted in
1949 for being wartime radio propagandist "Tokyo Rose," died in
Chicago. [see Sep 5, 1945]
(SFC, 9/28/06, p.A18)(Econ, 10/7/06, p.93)
2006 Sep 26, In Afghanistan a
suicide bomber struck outside the compound of a southern governor,
killing 18 people, including several Muslim pilgrims seeking paperwork
to travel to Mecca. A bomb in Kabul killed an Italian soldier and a
child.
(AP, 9/26/06)
2006 Sep 26, In Brazil officials
said Rio will spend $1 million to map two sprawling shantytowns as the
first step toward granting land titles to residents who otherwise have
no property rights in the sprawling slums.
(AP, 9/26/06)
2006 Sep 26, In Chile thousands of
public school teachers held a generally peaceful march in Santiago to
demand higher pay.
(AP, 9/26/06)
2006 Sep 26, The European
Commission recommended that Bulgaria and Romania join the EU next year,
but under some of the harshest terms ever faced by new members.
(AP, 9/26/06)
2006 Sep 26, Iraqi security forces
arrested another leader of the 1920 Revolution Brigades, a group
accused of numerous attacks on US forces. A series of bomb explosions
killed at least 21 people and wounded dozens in and around Baghdad,
where police also found 23 tortured bodies, apparently victims of
sectarian death squads.
(AP, 9/26/06)(AP, 9/27/06)(WSJ, 9/27/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 26, In Japan nationalist
Shinzo Abe, a proponent of a robust alliance with the US and a more
assertive military, easily won election in parliament to become the
country’s youngest postwar prime minister. Abe faced a government debt
equivalent to 170% of GDP. Junichiro Koizumi formally stepped down as
prime minister. His achievements included changing the way politics was
carried out, advancing big economic reforms, and extending Japan’s role
in foreign affairs.
(AP, 9/26/06)(Econ, 9/16/06, p.14)(Econ, 9/23/06,
p.44)
2006 Sep 26, Officials said a cow
in northern Japan is suspected of having the country's 29th case of mad
cow disease.
(AP, 9/26/06)
2006 Sep 26, Palestinian militants
fired at least two rockets from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel,
wounding at least one person.
(AP, 9/26/06)
2006 Sep 26, Russia and Iran
signed a deal in Moscow whereby Russia will ship fuel to a
controversial atomic power plant it is building in Iran by March.
(AP, 9/26/06)
2006 Sep 26, In Turkey 56 Kurdish
mayors stood trial, accused in a freedom-of-speech case on charges of
helping terrorists by arguing to keep a Kurdish TV station on the air.
(AP, 9/26/06)
2006 Sep 26, The UN and Sudan
discussed the deployment of UN military advisers to reinforce African
Union peacekeepers in Darfur, in a possible compromise in their
standoff over the war-torn region.
(Reuters, 9/26/06)
2006 Sep 26, The Vatican said it
has excommunicated Zambia’s Archbishop Emmanuel Milingo, for defying
the Holy See by installing four married men as bishops. The prelate had
already angered the Vatican by getting married in 2001.
(AP, 9/26/06)
2006 Sep 26, A former chief of
environmental protection in the US Virgin Islands pleaded guilty to
charges of conspiracy to defraud the islands' government of more than
$1 million. Hollis Griffin (43) acknowledged engaging in a five-year
bribery scheme that paid up to $350,000 in kickbacks to at least four
government officials in exchange for consulting contracts worth $1.4
million.
(AP, 9/26/06)
2006 Sep 27, President Bush hosted
a peacemaking dinner at the White House for the bickering leaders of
Pakistan and Afghanistan, Gen. Pervez Musharraf and Hamid Karzai.
(WSJ, 9/28/06, p.A1)(AP, 9/27/07)
2006 Sep 27, Republicans announced
they would hold their 2008 presidential convention in the Twin Cities
of Minneapolis-St. Paul.
(Econ, 1/13/07, p.30)(AP, 9/27/07)
2006 Sep 27, Jacob "Kobi"
Alexander, the former chief and founder of Comverse Technology Inc.,
was arrested in Namibia, where he awaited extradition to the US to face
criminal fraud charges related to stock options. Alexander had recently
transferred tens of millions of dollars to Namibia. He was released
after 6 days on $1.4 million bail.
(Reuters, 9/27/06)(WSJ, 9/28/06, p.A1)(WSJ,
11/17/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 27, The US FDA approved
Vectibix (panitimumab), a new colon cancer drug developed by Amgen and
Abgenix.
(SFC, 9/28/06, p.C1)
2006 Sep 27, In Bailey, Colorado,
Duane Morrison (53) held 6 girls hostage at Platte Canyon High School
for hours before fatally wounding Emily Keyes (16). He sexually
molested the girls and then killed himself as authorities stormed in.
(AP, 9/28/06)(SFC, 9/28/06, p.A3)(AP, 9/29/06)(SFC,
10/6/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 27, In Charleston, South
Carolina, a video store was held up by a group of children, including a
14-year-old girl suspected of wielding a BB gun that looked like a
pistol. City Council member Larry Shirley, reacting later to the video
store holdup, said parents who can't properly care for their kids
should be sterilized.
(AP, 10/1/06)
2006 Sep 27, Afghan security
forces killed 25 suspected insurgents during a clash in southern
Afghanistan, while a suicide bombing targeting a NATO convoy wounded
one civilian.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, British billionaire
Richard Branson proposed changes to aircraft movements at busy airports
and the way planes land under a plan he said would cut the world's
aviation emissions by up to 25%.
(Reuters, 9/27/06)(Econ, 9/30/06, p.65)
2006 Sep 27, EU air safety
officials backed tightened rules on the amount of liquids and size of
carry-on baggage passengers can bring onto commercial flights.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, France ended a
decades-old system of inequality by bringing lagging pensions of war
veterans from former colonies into line with those of their French
counterparts whose retirement payment is two-thirds higher. The
decision was not retroactive.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 27, A team of French
doctors said they successfully operated on a man in near zero-gravity
conditions on a flight looping in the air like a roller coaster to
mimic weightlessness.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, Germany opened a
conference in Berlin on opening a 2-year dialogue separating Islamic
fundamentalism from Islam.
(Econ, 9/30/06, p.62)
2006 Sep 27, Indonesia’s
government said it will resettle more than 3,000 families whose houses
have been swamped by mud surging from a gas exploration site and will
dump the sludge into the sea to avoid more destruction. The eruption
took place 4 months earlier 150 meters from where PT Lapindo Brantas
was drilling an exploratory well. The company was controlled by the
family of Aburizal Bakrie, Indonesia’s welfare minister.
(AP, 9/27/06)(Econ, 10/7/06, p.51)
2006 Sep 27, In Iraq the US
military said it killed four suspected terrorists and four civilians,
including a pregnant woman, in a raid in Baqouba. An investigation
followed as surviving family members said the attack was unprovoked.
Gunmen killed 10 people near a Sunni mosque at Ramadan prayers.
(AP, 9/27/06)(SFC, 9/28/06, p.A19)(WSJ, 9/28/06,
p.A1)
2006 Sep 27, An Israeli court
released the Palestinian deputy prime minister, the highest ranking
Hamas official to be freed following a crackdown on the Islamic
militant group. But the court temporarily banned him from going to his
government office in the city of Ramallah. Israeli airstrikes on a
house in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah killed a 14-year-old
girl and wounded seven other people.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, Jordan's military
court convicted five men of plotting attacks against US troops in Iraq,
including a cousin of slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, At the Hague,
Netherlands, a UN tribunal sentenced Momcilio Krajisnik (61), the
former speaker of the Bosnian Serb parliament, to 27 years in prison
for war crimes, but acquitted him of the harsher charge of genocide.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, In northwestern
Pakistan drive-by gunmen killed two militants and wounded three in
another car. The militants who came under attack were believed to be
loyal to a pro-Taliban tribesman known only as Hanan, who had started a
campaign to oust Uzbek militants living in the Shakai mountain valley
region north of Wana.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, Russia's chief
election body dismissed a petition aimed at allowing President Vladimir
Putin to run for a third term.
(AP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, The Sri Lanka
government revealed that Tamil Tigers have agreed to resume
face-to-face negotiations and end a seven-month deadlock in talks.
(AFP, 9/27/06)
2006 Sep 27, The Ugandan army
accused rebels of violating the increasingly fragile truce, which was
signed last month, by leaving neutral assembly points.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 27, In Venezuela’s Los
Roques islands Elena Vecoli (34), a newly married Italian woman, was
murdered and her husband, Riccardo Prescendi (46) beaten inside an inn
popular with foreign tourists. Police identified 3 suspects the next
day.
(AP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 28, It was reported that
US federal and state authorities were investigating a mortgage fraud in
Virginia that involved loans totaling about $80 million.
(WSJ, 9/28/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 28, The US Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention warned that travelers to parts of Africa
and Asia are returning with a new mosquito-borne virus. Some people
returning to Europe, the US, Canada, Martinique and French Guyana
reported cases of Chikungunya fever (CHIKV). The virus first emerged in
Tanzania in 1953.
(Reuters 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, It was reported that
Merck saved some $1.5 billion in US taxes by transferring patents and
income to an offshore holding in Bermuda called Project Ryland from
1993-2003. In 2006 the IRS challenged the transactions.
(WSJ, 9/28/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 28, Novartis
Pharmaceuticals Corp., the US unit of Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG, said
that at least three out of four patients given an experimental multiple
sclerosis treatment were free of relapses for more than two years.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, William Whalen (66),
former director of the US National Park Service (1977-1980), died of a
heart attack. He served as the 1st director of the Golden Gate National
Recreation Area (1972-1977). In 1980 he implemented the 1971 Alaska
Native Lands Claims Settlement Act, which created 10 national parks in
Alaska.
(SFC, 9/30/06, p.B6) (http://tinyurl.com/2v8onh)
2006 Sep 28, In Bangladesh
thousands of people set fire to power supply offices and attacked
government vehicles Dhaka in protest over electricity shortages.
(Reuters, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Belgian government
officials said the transfer of confidential banking records by a
Belgium-based company to US authorities for use in anti-terrorism
investigations breached Belgian and likely European Union data privacy
rules.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, A leaked UK Ministry
of Defence (MoD) paper said Pakistan's intelligence service, ISI,
indirectly backs terrorism by supporting religious parties in the
country.
(www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=74600)
2006 Sep 28, Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said his country rejected the suspension of
uranium-enrichment activities by Tehran, "even for one day."
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, An explosion on a
natural gas pipeline outside Bazargan, an Iranian border city, shut
down the flow of gas to Turkey. Officials believed the explosion was an
act of sabotage by separatist Kurdish rebels.
(AP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 28, Iraq's Central
Criminal Court said it had convicted 22 suspected insurgents of a range
of crimes, including weapons violations and illegally entering the
country. The bodies of 60 people who been tortured were found in and
around Baghdad in a span of 24 hours. 5 people died from a car-bomb
explosion near a restaurant. Attacks left 21 Iraqis dead. Al-Qaida in
Iraq released an audiotape calling for nuclear scientists to join in a
holy war and urged insurgents to kidnap Westerners.
(AP, 9/28/06)(SFC, 9/29/06, p.A12)(WSJ, 9/29/06,
p.A1)
2006 Sep 28, It was reported that
the industrial city of Shymkent, Kazakhstan, was reeling after learning
that at least 63 children had contracted AIDS through medical
negligence many blame on corruption and the illicit sale of blood. At
least five infected toddlers had died after receiving injections or
blood transfusions. Parents said regional health officials were aware
of the outbreak in March, and have been trying to cover it up by
pulling pages from the infected toddlers' treatment records to
eliminate any mention of blood transfusions.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Jailed Kurdish rebel
leader Abdullah Ocalan has appealed to his Kurdistan Workers' Party
(PKK) to call a ceasefire in its separatist campaign against the
Turkish government.
(AFP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Mexico’s
President-elect Felipe Calderon asked Congress to get tougher on
criminals, create a universal health care system and generate jobs so
millions of Mexicans do not have to migrate to the US to find work.
Calderon also called for reducing the gap between rich and poor and
called for a return to life sentences for hardened criminals, including
violent kidnappers.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Nigeria's vice
president Atiku Abubakar was suspended by his party for three months
because of corruption allegations, preventing him from running for
president on the party's ticket.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Typhoon Xangsane
battered the northern and central Philippines with rains and winds,
killing at least 76 people.
(AP, 9/29/06)(AFP, 10/1/06)
2006 Sep 28, Russia agreed to
grant Cuba credit worth $350 million and restructure some of its recent
debt during a visit by PM Putin. The two countries also signed a
military cooperation agreement.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Singapore banned the
Far Eastern Economic Review magazine after it failed to comply with
media regulations. The Review, published by Dow Jones & Co Inc., is
being sued by Singapore's PM Lee Hsien Loong and his father,
Singapore's founding PM Lee Kuan Yew, over a July article about
opposition politician Chee Soon Juan.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Somali police
investigating a car bomb assassination attempt on the president
arrested three suspected members of a fundamentalist Islamic group and
recovered explosives.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, South Korea and the
US agreed on a program to reshape their military alliance and give
Seoul a bigger role in countering any North Korean attack. The two
sides signed new terms for the decades-old alliance after talks in
Washington.
(AFP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 28, European cease-fire
monitors said at least 200 civilians have been killed in two months of
fighting between Sri Lankan soldiers and separatist Tamil rebels, and
both sides are to blame.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Thailand's auditor
general, Jaruvan Maintaka, told reporters that Gen. Surayud Chulanont
(62), a highly regarded retired officer, would lead the country until
promised elections next year. The US suspended $24 million in military
aid due to the coup.
(AP, 9/29/06)(WSJ, 9/29/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 28, Thailand’s new
Suvarnabhumi Airport, built on an area known as "Cobra Swamp,"
officially opened its doors, more than four decades after the project
originated.
(AP, 9/27/06)(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Uganda state media
reported that rebels have walked out of peace talks aimed at ending a
19-year conflict in which thousands of civilians have died.
(AP, 9/28/06)
2006 Sep 28, Zambians voted to
decide whether President Levy Mwanawasa would stay in office for a
second term despite a strong challenge from opposition candidates who
lambasted his economic policies. Voters jammed polling stations after a
national election campaign marked by bitter debate about the
president's effort to increase foreign investment and combat poverty
and corruption.
(AP, 9/28/06)(AP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 29, Pres. Bush met with
Kazakhstan’s Pres. Nazarbayev and praised him. The meeting was
criticized as an unseemly gesture to an oil-rich ruler who tolerates no
dissent.
(WSJ, 9/30/06, p.A1)
2006 Sep 29, US Rep. Mark Foley, a
prominent House Republican from Florida, resigned after the revelation
that he exchanged raunchy electronic messages with a teenage boy, a
former congressional page. Foley was the chairman of the House Caucus
on Missing and Exploited Children.
(AP, 9/30/06)(SFC, 9/30/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 29, A Rhode Island
nightclub owner was sentenced to four years in prison and his brother
to probation, angering relatives of the 100 people who died in a 2003
fire at their club.
(AP, 9/29/07)
2006 Sep 29, Police in Florida
said 2 Roman Catholic priests allegedly misappropriated more than $8
million from their church and spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on
real estate, travel, rare coins and girlfriends.
(Reuters, 9/30/06)
2006 Sep 29, In Oakland, Ca.,
Anthony J. Quintero, a Brink’s security guard and former Marine, was
shot dead during a daylight robbery. Quintero’s partner, Clifton Wherry
Jr. (28), was soon arrested for the murder and admitted that he had
planned the robbery. On Oct 5 Dwight Omar Campbell (23) was arrested in
San Diego County for allegedly shooting Quintero.
(SFC, 9/30/06, p.B1)(SFC, 10/3/06, p.B3)(SFC,
10/7/06, p.B3)
2006 Sep 29, In Lakeland, Fla., 9
SWAT team members fatally shot Angilo Freeland, a man suspected of
killing a sheriff's deputy a day earlier. An autopsy showed that
officers fired 110 rounds of ammunition at Freeland.
(AP, 9/29/06)(AP, 9/30/06)
2006 Sep 29, In Cazenovia,
Wisconsin, Eric Hainstock (15) walked into Weston High School with a
shotgun. The principal confronted him in a corridor and was shot and
killed. Hainstock was taken into custody and all the children were
reported safe.
(AP, 9/29/06)(Econ, 10/7/06, p.38)
2006 Sep 29, In Bolivia police
killed two coca farmers and injured a third in the first violent
confrontation over coca eradication since President Evo Morales,
himself a former coca grower, was elected last year. An estimate 200
coca growers in the Chapare region ambushed a team of police sent to
destroy their crop, planted illegally inside the borders of a national
park 220 southeast of the capital of La Paz.
(AP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 29, A Brazilian jetliner,
Gol airlines Flight 1907, with 155 people aboard crashed in the Amazon
jungle after reportedly colliding with a smaller executive jet carrying
16 passengers. The Legacy jet stabilized after the apparent collision
and then landed at a Brazilian air force base in the Amazon state of
Para. It was later reported that the US executive jet was at the wrong
altitude and Brazil confiscated the passports of the pilots. In
November it was reported that the flight recorder transcript from the
executive jet involved in the air disaster showed that the jet's
American pilots were told by Brazilian air traffic control to fly at
the same altitude as a Boeing 737 before the planes collided over the
Amazon rainforest. Pilots Joseph Lepore (42), of Bay Shore, N.Y., and
Jan Paladino (34), of Westhampton Beach, N.Y., were allowed to return
to the US on Dec 8 after signing a document promising to return to
Brazil for their trial or when required by local authorities.
(AP, 9/30/06)(AP, 10/1/06)(WSJ, 10/5/06, p.A1)(AP,
11/2/06)
2006 Sep 29, The Nature
Conservancy of Canada announced that Roberta Langtry (1916-2005), a
Canadian teacher who lived a frugal life but gave large, anonymous
donations to people in need, has left a C$4.3 million ($3.8 million)
fortune to the environmental charity.
(Reuters, 9/30/06)
2006 Sep 29, Segolene Royal, who
tops polls as the Socialist choice to run for French president next
spring, formally announced her candidacy.
(AP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 29, Georgia charged four
Russian military officers with spying, while Russian government planes
evacuated dozens of diplomats and their relatives as the diplomatic
dispute worsened between Moscow and the former Soviet republic.
(AP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 29, The World Diamond
Council suggested that all Ghanaian rough-diamond exports be suspended
to ensure that Ivorian diamonds were not being illegally exported.
Rebel-controlled mines in Ivory Coast produced diamonds worth up to $23
million that were being smuggled to Mali and Ghana, violating UN
sanctions and funding the rebel war effort.
(Econ, 11/11/06, p.53)
2006 Sep 29, A senior official
said Indian authorities plan to nearly double the number of treatment
centers providing free drugs and medical care to people battling
HIV/AIDS.
(AP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 29, In central India,
higher cast villagers of Khairlanji attacked and brutally killed the
wife of Bhaiyalal Bhotmanje, a low cast Dalit, along with his 2 sons
(19 & 21) and daughter (17). Bhotmanje had left his ancestral
occupation of handling cow carcasses and successfully set up a small
farm causing envy among neighbors. He escaped the attack thinking his
family would not be bothered. Dalit neighborhoods soon exploded across
Maharashtra state as protesters set vehicles and store fronts on fire.
(WSJ, 12/27/07, p.A1)
2006 Sep 29, In Iraq Kadhim
Abdul-Hussein, the brother-in-law of Judge Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa,
the new judge presiding over Saddam Hussein's genocide trial, was
killed and his nephew was wounded in a shooting in Baghdad. Al-Khalifa
had been deputy to the original chief judge in the trial. 3 other
people died in scattered attacks. 10 bodies with signs of torture were
found in and around Baghdad, apparently victims of the sectarian death
squads. The names of more than 150 people who allegedly spied on their
fellow Kurds for Saddam's mukhabarat intelligence service after the
Kurdish uprising of 1991 were published by the Awina (Mirror) and
Hawalati (Citizen) newspapers.
(AP, 9/29/06)(AFP, 10/1/06)
2006 Sep 29, Ireland’s PM Bertie
Ahern faced mounting pressure to explain why he received money from
Irish businessmen in England, a scandal threatening to torpedo his
leadership after nine years in power.
(AP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 29, Israeli soldiers
killed two Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip. Tens of thousands
of Hamas supporters marched in the Gaza Strip to show their backing for
the militant group, even as its efforts to form a national unity
government appeared stalled.
(AP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 29, A press report said
Japan has decided to stop financial support for the development of
Iran's largest onshore oil field if the Islamic republic continues
uranium enrichment. The move means Japan's virtual withdrawal from its
two billion-dollar contract to develop the Azadegan field. The contract
was signed in 2004 by Inpex Corp., a Japanese oil exploration company
that is supported by the government but also has private stakeholders.
(AP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 29, In Mexico a judge and
four jail guards were killed in separate attacks in the Pacific resort
city of Acapulco.
(AP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 29, A new report by
Amnesty International alleged that Pakistani authorities have illegally
detained innocent people on suspicion of terrorism and secretly
imprisoned them or handed them to the US for money.
(AP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 29, Rosamund Carr, a New
Jersey fashion designer who lived a colorful and tragic life for more
than a half century in tumultuous central Africa, died in Rwanda. In
1999 she authored her memoir "Land of a Thousand Hills - My Life in
Rwanda."
(AFP, 10/3/06)
2006 Sep 29, In Scotland police
found the body of Angelika Kluk (23), a missing Polish student, at
Saint Patrick's Roman Catholic Church in the Anderston area of Glasgow.
(AFP, 9/30/06)
2006 Sep 29, Somalia's Islamic
fighters seized control of Jawill, a strategic village near the
Ethiopian border, widening their grip over much of the southern part of
the country. 3 pro-government militiamen and one Islamic courts fighter
were killed during the gunbattle for the village.
(AP, 9/30/06)
2006 Sep 29, In Sri Lanka war
planes bombed rebels and 8 people were killed in new violence. The UN
warned that fighting between troops and Tamil guerrillas had badly hit
tsunami reconstruction.
(AFP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 29, The UN Security
Council extended the mandate of peacekeepers in Eritrea and Ethiopia by
four months, and threatened to overhaul the mission if the two sides
don't make progress toward demarcating their border.
(AP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 29, The UN Security
Council allowed UN experts, who have recommended sanctions on top
Sudanese officials, to continue monitoring atrocities and arms embargo
violations in Darfur.
(AP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 29, Yemeni government
forces raided a tribal settlement following the kidnappings of foreign
tourists, arresting five suspects but killing two women and wounding
three children.
(AP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 30, Police in North
Charleston, SC, discovered the bodies of Detra Rainey and her 4
children. Michael Simmons (41), her husband but not the father of the
children, was charged the next day with the murders.
(SFC, 10/2/06, p.A3)
2006 Sep 30, Isabel Bigley (80),
Tony Award-winning actress, died in Los Angeles.
(AP, 9/30/07)
2006 Sep 30, Afghan President
Hamid Karzai said that he and the Pakistani president will jointly lead
a series of tribal gatherings along their countries' shared border to
quell attacks by Pakistan-based Taliban rebels. A suicide bomber
detonated his explosives in a pedestrian alley next to the Interior
Ministry in Kabul, killing at least 12 people including a woman and 2
children.
(AP, 9/30/06)(SSFC, 10/1/06, p.A21)
2006 Sep 30, In Canada at least
five people were crushed to death in their cars after the collapse of
an overpass near Montreal.
(AP, 10/1/06)
2006 Sep 30, André
Schwarz-Bart (b.1928), French novelist of Polish-Jewish origins, died
in Guadeloupe. His books included the novel “The Last of the Just”
(1960), based on the Jewish teaching that the fate of the world lies
with 36 just men.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Schwarz-Bart)(WSJ, 12/9/06, p.P12)
2006 Sep 30, India’s PM Manmohan
Singh arrived in South Africa to expand trade links and commemorate the
passive resistance movement initiated by Mahatma Gandhi in the African
nation 100 years ago.
(AP, 9/30/06)
2006 Sep 30, A.N. Roy, Mumbai's
police chief, said his team had cracked the July 11 bombing case and
found solid evidence as that “the whole attack was planned by
Pakistan's ISI and carried out by Lashkar-e-Taiba and their operatives
in India." ISI or the Inter-Services Intelligence agency is Pakistan's
military spy agency while Lashkar is a frontline Islamist group
fighting against Indian rule in the disputed region of Kashmir.
Pakistan and Lashkar rejected the allegations.
(Reuters, 9/30/06)
2006 Sep 30, Baghdad, Iraq, was
put under a day long curfew to help break the cycle of violence. 6
people were killed in scattered violence around the country. Police
found 10 bodies in Baghdad, apparently victims of sectarian death
squads. Two other bodies were turned in to the morgue in Kut.
(AP, 9/30/06)(SSFC, 10/1/06, p.A21)
2006 Sep 30, A Kurdish guerrilla
group declared a new unilateral cease-fire in its war for autonomy in
Turkey's southeast, heeding a call from its imprisoned rebel leader.
(AP, 9/30/06)
2006 Sep 30, In northwest Nigeria
families were swept away in a torrent of water and scores were feared
dead in flooding from a dam collapse outside Zamfara state's capital
city of Gusau. About 40 people were feared dead and 500 houses were
washed away.
(AP, 10/1/06)
2006 Sep 30, Pakistan and United
States signed a letter of acceptance for a multi-billion dollar package
to supply the Pakistan Air Force with F-16 warplanes.
(AP, 10/2/06)
2006 Sep 30, Thousands of
government employees and security officials filled the streets of Gaza,
burning tires, blocking roads and firing in the air to protest delays
and complications in receiving their long-awaited salaries.
(AP, 9/30/06)
2006 Sep 30, Russia said that it
has suspended plans for further withdrawal of its troops from Georgia
amid worsening relations between the two neighbors.
(AP, 9/30/06)
2006 Sep 30, Serbia's parliament
approved a new constitution declaring UN-run Kosovo part of the Balkan
state despite ongoing negotiations on the breakaway province's future.
(AP, 9/30/06)
2006 Sep 30, In Siberia Enver
Ziganshin, chief engineer for Rusia Petroleum, was found shot dead at
his country home. Rusia Petroleum an affiliate of BP PLC’s Russian
joint venture, faced problems over its license to produce natural gas
at the large Konvykta field.
(WSJ, 10/3/06, p.A6)
2006 Sep 30, In South Africa the
4th annual Homeless World Cup tournament ended. It brought together 500
players from 48 countries in a project aimed at helping homeless people
turn their lives around. The first was held in Austria in 2003 with
just five countries competing.
(AP, 9/29/06)
2006 Sep 30, In Tibet Sergiu
Matei, a Romanian cameraman with an expedition climbing Cho Oyu, shot a
video that shows Chinese forces fatally shooting a Tibetan refugee who
was with a group of people trying to flee to Nepal at the 19,000-foot
Nanpa La Pass. Chinese border guards opened fire on some 75 Tibetans
making their way over a 19,000-foot-high Himalayan pass, killing a
25-year-old Buddhist nun and another person. 32 were caught and
detained. In January Jamyang Samten (15), one of those detained,
escaped to India and provided the first reported account of the fate of
the group. Some 3,000 Tibetans continued to sneak across the border to
Nepal and India every year.
(AP, 10/14/06)(Econ, 11/18/06, p.18)(AP, 1/30/07)
2006 Sep, In New Mexico the Second
Chance prison facility opened for non-violent prisoners with
substance-abuse problems. It was founded by Rick Pendery, a
Scientologist and former real-estate developer, based on principles of
L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology.
(WSJ, 1/19/07, p.A1)
2006 Sep, The Bank of San
Francisco began operating as a program to provide banking services to
low income residents not qualifying for regular bank accounts. The
program was formed under the auspices of SF, the Federal Reserve and 15
banks and credit unions.
(SFC, 12/4/07, p.A1)
2006 Sep, Irving, Texas, a city of
some 200,000 people, signed up for the US government’s Criminal Alien
Program (CAP), run by the Immigration and Customs agency. By the end of
2007 some 1,700 people from Irving were handed over for deportation.
(Econ, 12/15/07, p.36)
2006 Sep, In Ethiopia Shane
Etzenhouser, an American software developer, premiered “Tsehai Loves
Learning,” an educational TV show for kids featuring a female giraffe
with an insatiable thirst for knowledge.
(SFC, 12/28/06, p.E1)
2006 Sep, Japan’s government
approved measures to block the transfer of funds to North Korea. The
rules went into effect on Jan 4, 2007.
(Econ, 1/13/07, p.39)
2006 Sep, In Kenya farmers in the
Machakos region built small dams and water retention ponds on the Ikiwe
River with some $70,000 in aid from people in Archbold, Ohio. The
Archbold Mennonite Church project was part of Foods Resource Bank, a
Michigan-based hunger fighting organization that connects urban
churches with rural farm groups.
(WSJ, 4/23/07, p.A1)
2006 Sep, Steve Wynn, a Las Vegas
casino operator, opened an upscale casino in Macao.
(Econ, 1/27/07, p.66)
2006 Sep, In Nepal a warrant was
issued for the arrest of Sitaram Prasain, who was accused of stealing
$4.3 million from his own bank. Members of the Young Communist League
kidnapped Prasain in June, 2007, and handed him over to the police.
(Econ, 6/16/07, p.51)
2006 Sep, In Pakistan scores of
wives, mothers and children began protesting outside government offices
on behalf of hundreds of men arrested in secret and demanded that Pres.
Musharraf release them.
(SFC, 12/28/06, p.A17)
2006 Sep, In Sesena, Spain, a town
of fewer than 10,000 40 km from Madrid, some 13,000 apartments were
under construction. Mayor Manuel Fuentes expected 40,000 new arrivals.
(Econ, 9/16/06, p.61)
2006 Sep-2006 Oct, In Egypt for
the seventh year running, a mysterious black cloud appeared over Cairo,
triggering serious health concerns for the polluted city's 16 million
residents. This year the black cloud coincided with the month of
Ramadan, notorious for its traffic jams.
(AFP, 10/26/06)
2006 Sep, San Marino approved new
regulations on fund management.
(Econ, 3/10/07, p.74)
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