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Date Posted: 01/12/07 11:32:35pm
Author: Bob Jordan
Author Host/IP: 67.116.253.248
Subject: excerpts from various sources

From the 12Jan07 NT Times, this: Dragomir Milosevic, the Serbian commander of the troops that encircled Sarajevo and terrorized residents with artillery and sniping, went on trial at the international war crimes tribunal. He is charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity for directing the latter part of the 44-month siege of the Moslem part of the city in the early 1990s in which more than 11,000 people were killed. General Milosevic, who is not a relative of the late Yugoslavian president Slobodan Milosevic, surrendered to the court in 2004 and faces a possible sentence of life imprisonment. His predecessor as commander of the forces that besieged Sarajevo, General Stanislav Galic, is so far the only tribunal defendant to receive a life term, its maximum penalty.

A Protestant cleric in 1620 placed the time of Creation at 4004 BC, this date being noted in the Authorized Version of the Bible until well into the 19th century. From today's NY Times, there's this: "From a new analysis of a human skull discovered in South Africa more than 50 years ago, scientists say they have obtained the first fossil evidence establishing the relatively recent time for the dispersal of modern Homo Sapiens out of Africa. The migrants appeared to have arrived at their new homes in Asia and Europe with the distinct and unmodified heads of Africans. An international team of researchers reported yesterday that the age of the South African skull, which they dated at about 30,000 years old, coincided with the age of skulls of humans then living in Europe and the far eastern parts of Asia, even Australia. The skull also closely resembled skulls of those humans. The timing, the scientists and other experts said, introduced independent evidence supporting archaeological finds and recent genetic studies showing that modern humans left sub-Saharan Afica for Eurasia between 65,000 and 25,000 years ago; probably closer to 45,000 to 35,000 years ago for Europe."

From the 12Jan07 notoriously liberal paper, the Wall St. Journal: "Moves to Stymie Iran Strain U.S.-China Ties." "Beijing---China and the U.S. are at loggerheads over the widening American clampdown on Iran's international business dealings, as Beijing told Washington not to interfere in a possible multi-billion-dollar natural gas deal between Iran and China's biggest offshore oil company. The U.S. expressed its concern last month after Iranian officials said China National Offshore Oil Corp. had sealed a deal to develop Iran's Northern Pars natural gas field. Such a deal could undermine U.S. efforts to isolate Iran for refusing to abandon its nuclear program. Iran is reaching out to Asian investors as the U.S. noose tightens. The Iranian government this week announced that state energy giant National Iranian Oil Co. signed a $20 billion memorandum of understanding with Malaysia's SKS Ventures on the development of the offshore Golshan and Ferdows gas fields in the Persian Gulf. China's soaring energy needs, coupled with stagnating domestic oil and gas production, have forced it to rely on more imports. It is now the world's second biggest consumer of oil, after the U.S.

And this from the same Journal: "Venezuela Says Nationalization Will Include All Power Companies." "Venezuela said it would nationalize all power companies, in the latest step in President Hugo Chavez's push to speed the country's drive to socialism."

And from another "liberal" business paper, the 12Jan07 Financial Times, this article: "Senators Warn Bush Against A Wider War." "Republican and Democratic senators forcefully warned president George W. Bush yesterday that his new Iraq strategy had set U.S. foreign policy on a dangerous course, telling him not to expand the war to Iran and Syria."

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