Saturday, March 03, 2007

03/03/2007

* Suspected Insurgents Kill 6 Sunnis Outside Baghdad Police in Iraq say gunmen have shot and killed six Sunni civilians in a raid on a house outside Baghdad.

* Iran president to Saudi on first official trip Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad left on Saturday for his first official trip to Saudi Arabia, a U.S. ally that is leading a diplomatic drive to curb Tehran's growing influence in Lebanon and Iraq.

* US Reports Swift Progress on New Iran Resolution U.S. officials are reporting rapid progress in talks among the major powers on a new U.N. Security Council resolution penalizing Iran for refusing to stop enriching uranium.

* 6 Sunnis Killed Execution-Style in Apparent Retaliation for Talking to Shiites Gunmen stormed the home of a Sunni family threatened with death for meeting with local Shiites, separating out the women and children and executing six men on Saturday, Iraqi police and military officials said.

* Gaddafi says fear drives world economic system Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi criticized the world financial system as a dictatorship based on fear on Friday but said Libya's only pragmatic choice after sanctions was to accept the unfair reality of world trade.

* Putin's Choice Approved as New President of Chechnya Chechnya's parliament has approved a former rebel leader as the war-torn region's president.

* 'No reward' for non-nuclear Libya Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has said his country has not been given adequate compensation for its decision to renounce nuclear weapons in 2003.

* Pakistan military tests missile Pakistan says it has successfully tested a short-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.

* U.S. air strikes target insurgents in Iraq U.S. air strikes in and around Baghdad killed senior insurgents suspected of targeting U.S. helicopters and seven members of what the U.S. military said on Saturday was an al Qaeda cell responsible for car bombings.