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BAGHDAD - Five car bombs tore through Iraq's capital
yesterday, killing at least 172 people and injuring more than 220 in the
deadliest day of violence in the city since U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a
much-publicized security crackdown two months ago.
KANO, Nigeria - Nigerian soldiers killed at least 25
suspected Islamic militants yesterday while battling extremists who attacked a
police station a day earlier, a military spokesman said.
MUGABE SAYS BRITS FAILED TO TOPPLE HIM. President Robert
Mugabe declared yesterday he had overcome British-backed efforts to topple him,
leading muted independence celebrations for a country beset by recent
political violence and a plummeting economy. Looking robust, the Zimbabwean
leader, 83, described the opposition Movement for Democratic Change as "the
shameless local puppets" in a conspiracy by Britain, the former colonial ruler,
to remove him from power.
Suspected insurgents killed. U.S. troops killed five
suspected insurgents, captured 30 and recovered explosives during a raid in
Anbar province west of Baghdad, a day after police uncovered 17 decomposing
corpses beneath two school yards. The U.S. military also reported that a
suspected insurgent was killed and eight captured in two raids north of Baghdad
and that some were believed linked to al-Qaida in Iraq and to a militant cell
that has used chlorine in car bombings.
WASHINGTON - President George W. Bush warned Sudan's
president yesterday that he has one "last chance" to end the violence in Darfur
before the United States imposes strict economic sanctions and considers "even
sterner" options against his country.
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