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INTERNATIONAL 8 TUESDAY APRIL 3, 2007 CHINA DAILY ACROSSASIA Taliban: Suicide bombers are ready ISRAEL Olmert’s summit call criticized Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is only for the freedom of Afghanistan cluding children and two troops. Taliban’s Islamist government after drew fi re from across the Israeli Afghan government rejects militants’ from the enemies of Muslims.” After taking serious losses last its leadership refused to hand over political spectrum yesterday for Afghan defense ministry spokes- year confronting NATO forces in Osama bin Laden following the calling Arab nations to convene a threat as ‘psychological war’ tactic man Zahir Azimi dismissed Dadul- conventional pitched battles, the September 11 attacks on the United summit with the Jewish state to lah’s comments as psychological Taliban are retuning to traditional States. discuss a Saudi-drafted peace plan. housands of Taliban suicide Dadullah, the Taliban’s military tactics. guerrilla tactics, especially suicide The Afghan government says Tali- “I invite all the heads of the Arab bombers have been deployed head, said the Islamic guerrillas had “We have two types of war; face-to- bombings. ban’s elusive leader, Mullah Moham- states, including of course the Saudi across Afghanistan to at- the ability and the weapons to fi ght face war and psychological war. The The Taliban and their Islamic allies, mad Omar, and his senior aides live king whom I consider a very impor- tack Western troops and foreign troops for a long time. Taliban have suicide bombers, but including Al-Qaida, are mostly active in Pakistan, the key Taliban supporter tant leader, to hold talks with us,” the government, the group’s “We have sent thousands of Tali- there is no doubt that they are exag- in southern and eastern regions bor- until September 11. Olmert told a joint press conference Tmilitary chief said yesterday. ban suicide bombers to all Afghan gerating the numbers and use it as a dering Pakistan. Islamabad concedes rebels cross with German Chancellor Angela Following last year’s violence, the cities for attacks on foreign troops psychological tool,” he said. Close to 4,000 people, nearly a the border, but denies supporting Merkel in Jerusalem late on Sunday. worst since the Taliban’s ouster in and their Afghan puppets,” Dadul- Suicide attacks, copied from quarter of them civilians, but also the Taliban or that rebel leaders are But the call by the increasingly 2001, this year is regarded as the lah said. militants in Iraq, increased dra- including around 170 Western sol- on its territory. Dadullah said Omar unpopular premier drew jeers from crunch period both for the Taliban “And we will turn our motherland matically in 2006. On Sunday, a diers, hundreds of militants, Afghan and the Taliban leadership were in both left and right in Israel. and US-led Western troops. into the graveyard of the US forces suicide attack on an Afghan army troops and dozens of aid workers were Afghanistan. “Mr Olmert is in such a bad state Speaking by satellite phone from and their families should wait for convoy in the eastern province of killed in fi ghting last year. on the domestic political scene that an undisclosed location, Mullah their dead bodies. The Taliban’s war Laghman killed nine people, in- US-led forces overthrew the Agencies such an invitation is unlikely to score him many points,” said a com- mentator on army radio. CAMBODIA Zoo turns to $5m prize Ruling party wins landslide The Cambodian People’s Party won artifi cial may improve an overwhelming victory in local elec- tions at the weekend, maintaining its insemination leadership in fi rm grip on power in the poor South- east Asian nation, according to party Africa: Annan projections announced yesterday. as ‘porn’ fails Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling AFRICA party clinched control of more than THAILAND 98 percent of Cambodia’s com- A new $5 million prize for good munes in the country’s second local After panda porn failed to spark amor, leadership could spur African heads elections held Sunday, said Khieu Thai zoo authorities turned yesterday of state to govern better, said former Kanharith, the party’s spokesman. to artifi cial insemination in the hope United Nations chief Kofi Annan, who The National Election Committee is of impregnating their lone female will head the committee making the expected to release offi cial results giant panda. award. on April 24. Authorities at the Chiang Mai Zoo The Mo Ibrahim Prize, the world’s in northern Thailand inseminated Lin largest such award, would make Af- Largest drug materials raid Hui with semen from her cage-mate, rican rulers more conscious of their Cambodian police confi scated more Chuang Chuang, yesterday morning records on human rights and democ- than three tons of chemicals used and will repeat the procedure today. racy, said Annan, who stepped down to produce amphetamine-type The artifi cial insemination is a last as UN secretary-general at the end stimulants and arrested 18 people ditch effort to get Lin Hui pregnant, of last year. in the country’s largest seizure of after videos of pandas having sex “I think it will energize civil soci- drug-making materials, offi cials failed to entice Chuang Chuang into ety discussions and encourage the said yesterday. The chemicals were mating with his partner. leaders themselves to understand seized in a raid on Sunday on a “He just didn’t want to mate. He that there is some mechanism to farm located in a remote area about was looking at her as a friend,’’ said judge their performance,” he said 100 kilometers west of the capital Sophon Dummui, director-general in an interview in Geneva, where Phnom Penh, said police Lieutenant of Thai Zoo Organization of Thai- the award’s six-member selection General Luor Ramin, secretary- land which oversees the Chiang committee met for the fi rst time last general of the Cambodian National Mai Zoo. weekend. Authority for Combating Drugs. “We saw that Chuang Chuang Giant pandas Chuang Chuang, left, and Lin Hui in their cage at Chiang Mai zoo in northern Thailand, in 2003. AP Annan said poor governance was wasn’t mating with the female,’’ he a problem in much of his native con- SRI LANKA continued. “If we don’t do artifi cial in- dollars in tourist revenue. among the bear-like bamboo eaters. Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces. tinent, which is the poorest region of semination, then maybe we couldn’t Since then, they have tried every- Thirty-four pandas were born by Giant pandas have a very low the world and suffers severe health Rebel blast on bus kills 16 have a baby this year. We think the thing from putting Chuang Chuang artificial insemination in 2006 in fertility rate because they are sexu- problems including high rates of HIV/ Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tigers bombed a artificial insemination is the best on a special diet to holding a mock China and 30 survived, both record ally inactive. Female pandas become AIDS, malaria and other diseases. civilian bus in island’s restive east option.’’ wedding before resorting to artifi cial numbers for the endangered species. pregnant only once a year and deliver “There are leaders in Africa who yesterday, killing 16 people, mostly Thailand rented 6-year-old insemination. Artifi cial insemination has also been two cubs at most each time. are doing well and there are others women and children during a Bud- Chuang Chuang and 5-year-old While the technique is being tried used at zoos in the United States. The fertility of captive giant pandas who are not doing so well, and per- dhist holiday, military offi cials said, Lin Hui from China for $250,000 on pandas for the fi rst time in Thai- The panda is one of the world’s is even lower, experts said. haps do not take the interests of their but the rebels denied involvement. in October 2003 for 10 years. They land, it has been used for more than 50 rarest animals, with about 1,590 liv- people to heart the way they should,” The government condemned what are expected to generate millions of years in China to trigger a baby boom ing in the wild in China, mostly in Agencies the 68-year-old Ghanaian said. it called a “cowardly terror” attack, Annan, a career diplomat, did not which took place in the eastern mention any African ruler by name. district of Ampara, taking the death “What is exciting is that civil toll from a rash of incidents over- society has become more engaged, night in the north and east to 33. Hillary’s presidential bid more active in pressing their leaders to respect democracy and to respect JAPAN human rights,” he said. raises record $26 million “You have a younger generation Slain Briton caught on camera of educated bright Africans whom I A 22-year-old British woman found hope would also go into politics and dead in a bathtub full of sand near UNITED STATES By comparison, Massachusetts Senator John maintain this pressure.” Tokyo last week was caught on a Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in The annual award, set up by Suda- cafe security camera minutes before New York Democratic Senator Hillary Rodham Clin- 2004, had $10.2 million in his campaign coffers nese businessman Mo Ibrahim, will police believe she was killed, Japa- ton has raised a record $26 million since announcing by the end of the fi rst quarter of 2003, the year go to former presidents and prime nese media said yesterday. her presidential candidacy in what is shaping up as before the 2004 elections, according to FEC ministers from sub-Saharan Africa Video pictures broadcast by the most expensive race in history, her campaign said fi gures.