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Thursday 12 August 2004 (25 Jumada al-Thani 1425)

Etisalat to Provide 1 Million Mobile Lines in 6 Months
P.K. Abdul Ghafour & Amna Ehtesham
JEDDAH/DUBAI, 12 August 2004 — The Etisalat-led consortium, which won the license to set up and operate the Kingdom’s second mobile network, plans to launch full-scale GSM services in major Saudi cities...  Full Story 
 
 
Naif Approves Rules on Driving Others’ Vehicles
Staff Writer
JEDDAH, 12 August 2004 — Interior Minister Prince Naif yesterday approved new regulations to authorize a person to drive other people’s vehicles. A joint panel of the interior and justice ministries...  Full Story 
 
 
Militant Shot Dead in Makkah
Hassan Adawi, Arab News Staff
JEDDAH, 12 August 2004 — Security forces shot dead a militant who was wanted for security-related matters after the man threw a hand grenade at them in Makkah yesterday. “Police opened fire at the...  Full Story 
 
 
Court Presented Evidence Against Cole Bombers
Khaled Al-Mahdi, Arab News
SANAA, 12 August 2004 — Prosecutors presented to a Sanaa counter-terrorism court yesterday first physical evidence of the involvement of six suspects in the October 2000 bombing of the US destroyer...  Full Story 
US Prepares Final Najaf Assault
Naseer Al-Nahr • Arab News
BAGHDAD, 12 August 2004 — US Marines yesterday said they were preparing a final assault on the Mehdi Army militia in Najaf but a militia leader warned they would retaliate by bombing vital oil pipelines...  Full Story 
 
 
Bomb Kills Two Palestinians at Checkpoint
Hisham Abu Taha • Arab News

 
JERUSALEM, 12 August 2004 — In the first such attack for six months, a bomb exploded between two Israeli Army checkpoints on a busy road outside Jerusalem yesterday, killing two Palestinians and wounding...  Full Story 
 
 
Editorial: The Scourge of Locusts
12 August 2004
$25 million buys many tens of thousands of tons of food aid as well as its air transport and onward trucking to people, generally in Africa, whose crops have failed. How odd therefore that international...  Full Story 
 
 
When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do
Dr. Mohammad T. Al-Rasheed
I guess part of the media’s purpose is, to put it in vulgar terms, to ‘rake muck.’ Had that not been the case, Nixon would still occupy the White House even. The Al-Jazeerah television station has...  Full Story 

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