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Top Stories January 12, 2007Bush addresses nation, calls for more troops in IraqIn a televised address on Wednesday night, President Bush finally announced a new US strategy in Iraq, which includes sending 21,500 additional troops to Baghdad and Anbar province. Bush relies on Congress to implement the plan, but may find that approval is tough going — at a time when the American public tires of the costly war effort, Democrats have said they will oppose the $6.5 billion troop surge. The president called the situation in Iraq "unacceptable" and admitted that mistakes had been made in the war strategy. Nearly four years after the US-led invasion ousted Saddam Hussein, 132,000 American troops are currently deployed in Iraq. - CF US launches air strike in SomaliaA US air offensive targeting Islamist fighters reportedly killed dozens in southern Somalia on Sunday. US warships swarmed to the Somali coast in recent weeks after Ethiopian troops launched an offensive to oust the Islamists from their strongholds. It is unknown if those killed were militants or civilians, and critics fear that the US intervention will further destabilize the region. US and Somali officials say the strikes killed al Qaeda terrorists, though not, as originally hoped, a top operative involved in the 1998 American embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. The US has not had a military presence in Somalia since 1994. Following that failed peacekeeping mission, the country has been virtually run by militant groups. - CF Europe seeing red as Russia cuts oil supplyAfter accusing Belarus of illegally siphoning off oil supplies in December, Russia turned off the taps on crude oil passing through the country on Monday. Russia's solution to the ongoing trade scuffle proved unpopular with European Union countries further down the pipeline, which are also dependent on Russian oil supplies. The shutoff has the EU scrambling for ways to meet long-term energy needs, and coincides with a European Commission initiative launched Wednesday to set down a common energy policy. Germany, which is particularly dependent on Russia for fossil fuels, is considering a return to nuclear energy to be more self-reliant. - CF |
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