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11/17/2005:

"Israel wants US to pull out from Iraq"

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak today called upon the United States to reduce its forces in Iraq, saying Washington had ''made mistakes'' and its continued presence in that country would complicate the problem with fallout in the entire West Asia.

''After a brilliant military victory, America has made mistakes in Iraq...American presence will become a part of the problem after the Iraqi polls and an American failure in Iraq will have an adverse effect in the extended West Asia,'' he said in his address at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit here.

The remaining US forces could be concentrated on Iraq's border with Jordan so that the country's ''Sunni triangle'' did not have a visible US military presence. He said the attack on Iraq was not based on a stable enough premise, that there were WMD's in Iraq.

Linking the war against terror to nuclear proliferation, he said that nuclear power in the hands of mature powers promotes stability.
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And here is a shining example of what defines a 'mature power'...
Not guilty. The Israeli captain who put 17 bullets into a Palestinian schoolgirl
11/16/05 "The Guardian" -- -- An Israeli army officer who fired the entire magazine of his automatic rifle into a 13-year-old Palestinian girl and then said he would have done the same even if she had been three years old was acquitted on all charges by a military court yesterday.

The soldier, who has only been identified as "Captain R", was charged with relatively minor offences for the killing of Iman al-Hams who was shot 17 times as she ventured near an Israeli army post near Rafah refugee camp in Gaza a year ago.

The manner of Iman's killing, and the revelation of a tape recording in which the captain is warned that she was just a child who was "scared to death", made the shooting one of the most controversial since the Palestinian intifada erupted five years ago even though hundreds of other children have also died.