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Top Stories March 16, 2007Gonzales sweats as attorney controversy heats upThe US Justice Department is under scrutiny over its recent firing of eight federal attorneys. While the department maintains that performance issues were the cause, critics believe that the lawyers were let go because they showed insufficient loyalty to the current administration. Documents revealed that the White House green-lighted the dismissals as early as two years ago. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales admitted that "mistakes were made" in the handling of the dismissals, though he resisted calls to step down. However, Kyle Sampson, Gonzales' chief of staff who carried out the termination plan, resigned on Tuesday. President Bush condemned the confusion surrounding the incident, but maintained that the firings were justified. - BH Moscow silences N-word in TehranRussia has withheld shipment of mission-critical fuel rods to Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant, which is being built by Russian agency Atomstroiexport, claiming that Tehran is in arrears with the atomic contractor. On Monday, Atomstroiexport announced that Iran has failed to make its construction payments, some $25 million per month, for the last two years. Tehran angrily denied the financial dispute. The announcement marks a change of course for Moscow, which has long defended Iran against Western pressure to halt its nuclear program. The shipment delay postpones completion of the reactor, originally scheduled for September, until later in the year. - CN Sudan and UN clash again over DarfurOn Tuesday, Sudan's president rejected the United Nations' latest proposed peacekeeping deployment to war-torn Darfur. The revised plan, which calls for an interim force to assist poorly funded African Union troops, was dismissed by Omar Hassan al-Bashir, who argued that it violates last May's Darfur Peace Agreement. Al-Bashir's principle concern — that UN commanders not control AU troops — has remained unchanged since Sudan rejected UN intervention last August. This latest disagreement comes after months of contentious negotiations, worsened by Sudan's expulsion of a UN envoy in October last year. Meanwhile, pressure mounts on Khartoum after last week's report by the UN's Darfur committee which formally accused the government of orchestrating attacks on the region's civilians. - ED |
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