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World News 02-06-2005
who: President Jalal Talabani
what: Says Saddam Hussein will go on trial within two months
where: Iraq
when: This week
snippet: Addressing a conference in Atlanta via a live satellite link, Mr Talabani condemned the former dictator as a war criminal and said that "there will be no need for coalition forces in Iraq" in another 18 months, reports Andrew Ward in The Financial Times. Meanwhile, the violence against the new government continues. The BBC reports that at least 16 people were killed and 42 hurt in a series of car bombs in Iraq on Thursday. In one attack, a suicide bomber drove his car through the front of a restaurant where bodyguards of the Kurdish deputy prime minister were eating, killing ten people. On Tuesday, 30 people were left dead and more than 100 injured in dual suicide attacks in Hillah, south of Baghdad, on the second day of Operation Lightning, which The Independent calls "the biggest security sweep in the capital since the war ended in 2003". Meanwhile, there have been mixed reports concerning the fate of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who is reported to have been wounded. [... more]
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