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US to withdraw military intervention in Libya

i America is to support Libya and  return back from its decision for military intervention in the country. The United States is to follow the strategy of removing warplanes from Libyan front, revealed a NATO official on Monday.

The plan has been envisaged in the wake of high criticism of US actions on Libyan issue in the Congress. Turkey and Italy took initiative recently to secure a ceasefire in Libya and offered aid to rebels. The changeover in US strict strategy toward Libya seems to be an immediate response to these initiatives.

The international community took initiative to intervene in Libya following the continuous mass-level demonstration in the country to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi’s government.  The White House changed its policy from Monday regarding its role in the Libyan crisis. Now the other nations France, the United Kingdom and NATO are left to participate more actively in the Libyan fiasco in terms of making aerial strikes against Gaddafi supporting security forces.

Though formal declaration regarding America’s stepping back from military intervention is yet not been made, it is expected to implement the same in two-three days.  However, the United States has clearly stated that it would continue to help the global community with Awacs surveillance and planes for supervising the situation.

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Pro-Gaddafi forces refuse to follow ceasefire in Libya

Pro-Gaddafi forces refuse to follow ceasefire in Libya

Libyan crisis does not seem to reach any end so far. The call for ceasefire by the outrageous rebellions who have been continuously fighting with the pro-government security forces has been rejected. The forces did not leave the cities despite demonstraters’ demand for the same.

Gaddafi government’s spokesperson Mussa Ibrahim called it a madness of the rebellions to ask pro-government forces to withdraw from their own cities in Libya.

The rebellions called for a ceasefire after the pro-government security forces suppressed them violently amidst the air strikes by NATO forces in support. However, despite the pressure of international community and direct intervention by the NATO-led forces, Gaddafi’s stand against the rebellions has not changed a bit.

Mustafa Abdel Jalil, a representative of the anti-Gaddafi rebellions in Libya stated that pro-government forces should step back fromwestern cities as per their demand for ceasefire, however there was no response to this call from Gaddafi’s side and the security forces continued their oppression against the protesters.

The rebellions proposed for ceasefire following an statement by Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the NATO-led international security forces would not accompany the US jets.

So far the United States has sent 90 aircrafts to support Libyan rebellions. Following their withdrawal from Libya, only NATO-led coalition would remain at Libyan front. This includes Qatar, UAE, Sweden, France and UK with 193 aircrafts altogether.

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US court to interrogate Ex-Somali PM Samantar

A US court has justified questioning former Somali premier over charges of abuses and war crimes.

A judge in the US state of Virginia has decreed that an ex-Somali prime minister can be interviewed under oath over allegements of abuses and war crimes. Mahamed Ali Samantar, who was Somalia’s DoD government minister and prime minister in the 1980s, has denied wrongful conduct.

He is impeached of controlling his forceds to confine, torment, and kill fellow members of Somalia’s Isaaq clan. The judicature opinion means that the Somalis who appealed and filed the case will for the first time be able to interview him.

Mr Samantar’s legal representative appealed to the court on Friday to dismiss the cases against him. US District Judge Leonie Brinkema stated that he had not asked to dissolve the issue.

The original case was filed in 2004 by some Somalis who lived in the United States. The lawsuit was filed under 1991’s Torture Victim Protection Act.

A federal court decreed that Mr Samantar should be given diplomatic immunity, however, the US Supreme Court restored the case.

The US Department of State ordered that Mr Samantar should not be given immunity against the case.

Somalia did not have a proper functional government as warlords forced President Siad Barre in 1991.

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Unemployment reduces in US by 8.8 per cent

The people of the United States may consider it a reason to smile seeing the statistical figures for unemployment lowering down by 8.8 percent. The rate of unemployment has reduced from its level two years back when companies started hiring after the recessing recession.

The US economy has an increase of 216000 jobs as per the reports of the Labor department. The new jobs has been created mainly in health care sectors,

retail sector, education, Factories,  and and professional as well as in financial sectors.

AThe United States showed a sign of recovering economy in last few months with increasing number of jobs created every month. However the unemployment rates did not decrease at the same rate as more people joined the race of job search after recession ended.

The main force behind pulling US economy back in shape is the private sector employers and they have received highest gains indeed in return. More than 200, 000 jobs have been added continuously for the second month in the United States demarcating a complete end to recession for the US economy.

Experts term the change as a progress in the US labor market. With increase in number of jobs, the rate of unemployment has reduced to 8.8 percent now which was 8.9 percent two months back. There has been a constant remarkable decrease in unemployment rates for last four months continuously. This is also the sharpest decline in unemployment for the United States since 1983.

Experts predict similar trend for rest of 2011 hoping that 2.5 million new jobs will be added by this year. However, there is still much more to be recovered in the job market as the total job loss during recession was 7.5 million in the United States.

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US flays Syrian president Assad for failure to implement reforms

US flays Syrian president Assad for failure to implement reforms

The US administration severely criticizes Bashar al-Assad, Syrian president over inability to address the demands of anti-government protesters.

US President Barack Obama stated that his counterpart lacked capacity to run the administration or do anything to calm down people of Syria. The Syrian government has continuously violated human rights in order to suppress the anti-government demonstrators. Despite promising to appease the protesters, Assad has yet not done anything over meeting the demands of people.

The Syrian president has been close with Iran and supported extremist groups — Hamas and Hezbollah. He also opposed Israel continuously but despite isolating Syria, the United States could not interfere much to stop Assad, neither it could give any financial or political pressure on Syria to force it for a bilateral talk with opponents. Assad and his family has ruled over Syria for more than 40 years so far.

US State Department spokesman Mark Toner stated that only the people of Syria could judge their president and his ability to lead the country forward to meet their aspirations. If Assad fails to bring social and economic reforms in Syria, only people can decide whether they want him to continue.

Instead of caring for protesters’ demand, Syrian president faulted them of conspiring and raising dissent among people. Despite his officials’ suggestions Assad retained emergency law to crush his opponents.

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President Obama approves arming Libyan rebels against Gaddafi regime

President Obama approves arming Libyan rebels against Gaddafi regime

US president approved a secret document that authorized US operations in Libya to assist anti-government rebels with arms.

The document seeks for different ways to help the anti-Gaddafi protesters in Libya through arms and legal help.Though the presidential findings, which Obama approved, does not directly allows immediately giving arms to the rebels but it does pave the way for it in near future.

There has been an official statement issued from the White House declaring that the presidential findings had no comment over intelligence issues related to Libya.

The statement repeated what Barack Obama stated a day before indicating the possibilities of provision of arms to anti-government rebels in Libya to force Gaddafi step down, however it was yet not implemented as a decision.

The statement further clarified that the United States was looking over all the ways and possibilities to reach help to the opposition rebellions in Libya to avoid more killing of civilians by Gaddafi’s suppressive forces. There is a fierce debate over US decision to provide arms to the untrained rebels to fight Gaddafi supporting army in Libya.

The coalition forces including US troops enforced a no-fly zone over Libya trying to force Muammar Gaddafi to resign from his post, however, the Libyan president vowed to suppress the rebels by every mean. To confuse the international troops’ air strikes in support of rebels, Gaddafi’s forces left their tanks and started using pickup trucks and it was now difficult to differentiate troops from rebellions from air.

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US president supports military action against Libyan counterpart

US president supports military action against Libyan counterpart

Barack Obama states that US military interventions in Libya has saved numerous lives there. He said this while addressing the people of the United States on television and emphasized that intervention by the US security forces has helped in avoiding a massacre in Libya.

Obama appealed to the Muammar Gaddafi supporter forces and Libyan people not to support the oppressive ruler anymore and keep struggling for the procedure.

He stated that if the autocratic ruler would not get access to arms and cash and no more support from the people, the international community will find it easy to remove Gaddafi from his post. He added however that the overthrow of the regime might not be so easy as Gaddafi is trying hard to retain his power.

The US president had earlier too expressed his desire to see Gaddifi hand over the Libyan regime to the opposition. He had said so while affirming the UN resolution to declare Libya a no-fly zone.

Though the US president clarified that the international security forces did not aim to target Gaddafi or force him to step down under the pressure of armed US troops. Obama confessed that the United Stated had done so in Iraq by forcing Saddam to step down. He further added that American soldiers and politicians had collectively put lot of efforts to improve Iraq’s condition.

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Yamani president to resign following severe demonstrations

Yemen is expecting a power transition after President Ali Abdullah Saleh resigns. The president is negotiation with other leaders showing concern over counterterrorism units and safety of his relatives.

Saleh has been a close ally to the United States and Saudi Arabia.

The negotiation included Gen. Ali Mohsen al-Ahmar’s aide, two opposition leaders beside the president. Gen, Ahmar is a defected leader who supported antigovernment protesters. The capital city Sana had thousands of protesters fighting fiercely with soldiers who were armed with tanks and other weapons to suppress the rebellions trying to overthrow the government.

. The protesters in Sana reiterated their pledge to continue their demonstrations however said that they would try to minimize the possibilities of conflicts with the security forces. The program to march from central Tahir Square to the presidential palace has been postponed

According to some close sources to the negotiators, the Yemeni president was insisting upon quitting only after guarantee of safety for himself and his family. He also wanted to be assured of a transitional authority who can favor him even after stepping down from the president’s post.

Saleh has learned from observing incidents in Egypt, where the former president, Hosni Mubarak after resigning, now faces charges of corruption.

Saleh also demonstrated that he still enjoys control over the security forces as well as support of common people by organizing a rally in the capital city. The broadcast on television showed him challenging the opposition’s capability to take over the power.

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Fight against Radiation roughens in Japan

Fight against Radiation roughens in Japan

Japan is trying hard to control the unprecedented temperature at Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex. The radioactive water is probably leaking from the reactors.

Despite the leakage, the scientists and the workers are still trying to stabilize the hot rods of spent fuel that was lying in the pool and is now under radioactive water. The harmful effects of leakage are ignored in order to control the radiation spread which is considered much more devastating and wide spread.

The workers at the reactor are trying to measure ways to prevent radiation come out into atmosphere however it can not stop it entirely. So, the efforts are concentrated on how to minimize the level, stated a nuclear engineering expert Elmer Lewis, who is a professor at Northwestern University.

The fears of radiation crisis have intensified now with the leakage of radioactive water. Three workers from the nuclear plant have been hospitalized for treatment of radiation burns.

Reports are also revealing that the effect of radiation exposure over skin might reach up to 2000 to 6000 millisieverts. However, the exposure to gamma radiation even for an hour will be deadlier. The current effects are due to shorter-range beta radiation which cause minor skin burns only.

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Israelis attack Gaza

Israelis attack Gaza

Israeli planes raid targeted smuggling tunnels along the Gaza-Egypt border and training camp run by Hamas. On Wednesday a bomb attack led violence in recent days.

The three air strikes over Gaza, an hour after bomb stuck in west Jerusalem in crowded bus stop, killing one person and wounding 30 authorities in the city, was the first major attack in several years.

On Thursday, Hamas which controls the Gaza Strip said the raid targeted smuggling tunnels along Gaza-Egypt border and training camp in Central Gaza.

The next raid hit a power transformer, which caused blackout. To evacuate their personnel was ordered by Hamas

The two targeted tunnels at the south of Gaza strip by the air force and a terrorist target in Gaza, an Israeli Defense spokeswoman Confirmed. The strikes were recent barrage of rockets

In Jerusalem, Bombing of bus stop after two Grad rockets fired hit from Gaza in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva. A 60 years old woman died in the blast  Al Jazeera’s Nisreen El-Shamayleh reported from Jerusalem.

The reaction is to blame Palestinian groups whenever there is an explosion in Jerusalem but police are investigation .The responsibility of incidence was claimed.

A device was plotted in a bag that was left in phone booth near bus station which exploded when bus passed Micky Rosenfeld, a police spokesman, told Al Jazeera. This attack was not a subside attack.

The Israeli PM, Benjamin Netanyahu warned the militants and not to test the iron will and a tough response vowed to the bombing. PM said Israel will act aggressively before boarding a plane to Moscow.