"Japan must not give in to terrorism," Koizumi told reporters. "We will firmly carry out our responsibilities for humanitarian aid and reconstruction (in Iraq). There is no change in this.
"Why does this kind of thing happen? I am furious."
Toshimitsu Motegi, a cabinet minister who had worked with Inoue, said: "I'm sure they'd be upset if their deaths made Japan stop aid -- otherwise, what meaning was there to their efforts?
Japan has also pledged $5 billion in grants and loans to rebuild Iraq, the biggest donor after the United States.

"Australia is moving from a safe system of air traffic separation to a system where the burden of responsibility of (aircraft) separation has moved from the professional air traffic controllers and pilots to the amateur recreational pilot,"
Pilots of large commercial jets and air traffic controllers are concerned that the new rules shift the responsibility on to the least experienced people in the sky.

Bush himself doesn't necessarily accept it. When asked by a British reporter in London recently why protesters hated him, the President replied: "I don't know that they do."

Cook argues that this sort of antipathy is not typical of US politics. Nobody hated Bush's father, or really hated Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter or Gerald Ford. You have to go back to Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson - "Hey, hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?" - to find that level of vitriol.

Sky News reporterDavid Bowden said he saw one with his foot on the chest of a corpse, while a boy, aged eight or nine, was pretending to kick the body. "It was fairly gruesome stuff," he said.

Television footage showed about a dozen young Iraqi men chanting pro-Saddam Hussein slogans and kicking the Spaniards' bodies.

mred- the evil syrian muslim chaplain from g'tmo who was arrested on espionage charges has now actually officially been charged. charged with using a usgovt computer for pornographgy.
we are safe again.