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Current events of the month of September 2004

Wednesday the 1st er September 2004

• Nepal: in protest following the assassination in Iraq of the twelve Nepalese hostages retained for ten days by the islamist group Ansar al-Sunna, near to Al-Qaida, the thousands of demonstrators has been descended in the streets from the capital Katmandou and set fire to the Mosquée Jama Masjid in the center of the capital, and destroyed the seat of the Saoudi airline company and Qatar IE, as well as the company of recruitment étasuniennes Morning Star which had sent these Nepaleses in Iraq. Certain demonstrators also tried to enter the embassy of Egypt. Two people were killed by the police force during these demonstrations.
• Ossétie of North, Russia: a group of armed men took in hostages schoolboys, parents and teachers in a school of Beslan, in Ossétie of North, federation of Russia located in the north of the solid mass of the the Caucasus and close to the Chetchnia.

Thursday September 2nd 2004

• presidential Election in the United States: end of the convention of the Republican party to the Madison Square Garden of New York. The republican delegates decided to carry candidates the current president George W. Bush and her vice-president Dick Cheney vis-a-vis the democratic ticket of John Kerry and John Edwards, and to the ticket independent of Ralph Nader.
• Lebanon: the Safety advice of the United Nations adopts in the urgency, on the initiative joint of the France and the the United States, by 9 votes out of 15 (with 6 abstentions), the resolution N° 1559 calling with the respect of sovereignty and political independence of the Lebanon, with the withdrawal of all the foreign troops of its ground and with a free and equitable presidential election, with an aim of preventing the result of the operations of the Syria, directed by the Alaouite Bachar el-Assad, to obtain the re-election of the current president, Emile Lahoud.
• Weimar: set fire to library Anna Amalia. 30.000 books of the German inheritance destroyed.
• France: assassination of two factory inspectors by a farmer with Saussignac.

Friday September 3rd 2004

• France: died of the writer Andre Stil, member of the Academy Goncourt, at the 83 years age.
• Lebanon: being unaware of the number resolution the 1559 adopted day before in the urgency by the Safety advice of the United Nations and the pressures of the international community, the Lebanese Parliament, under the influence of the Syria, adopted an amendment with the Constitution making it possible to prolong three years the mandate of the current president (prosyrian) Emile Lahoud, which was normally to expire the next November 24th.
• Ossétie of North, Russia: release of the hostages who had been retained by a commando pro-tchétchène for three days in a school of Beslan in Ossétie of North after sudden attack a “and not planned” of the Russian special forces. The operation proceeded in greatest confusion and gave place to true scenes of chaos. The assessment of this bloody outcome is very heavy: more than 320 died, including 155 children and more than 500 wounded, including 283 children. Twenty-seven out of the takers of hostages were killed, ten of them are Arab nationals of country, four were made prisoners and three are in escape.

Saturday September 4th 2004

• the United States of America: three weeks after the passage of the Hurricane Charley which because the death of 27 people in the State and trained billion dollars of damage, the Florida is on the point of “accommodating” Frances . The state of alert is maximum, and 2,8 million people received the order to leave their residence. It is the greatest evacuation ever decided in the history of the Florida.
• Iraq: at least 20 people were killed and 36 others wounded in an car bomb attack caused by a kamikaze in front of the police academy of Kirkuk.

Sunday September 5th 2004

• the United States of America: the eye of the hurricane Frances touched the Eastern coast of the Florida to 1 a.m. (5 hours UTC) with winds blowing from 165 to 175 km/h according to the National center of the hurricanes. The Florida tries to resist this Sunday morning the devastations caused by the violence of the wind and the torrential rains. Roofs were carried. Electricity is cut in many places and plunderers entered in action.

Monday September 6th 2004

• $the Hague, Netherlands: opening of the third annual meeting gathering the representatives of the 94 States which signed the treaty creating the International penal court. The Procureur Luis Moreno Ocampo hopes for the vote by the assembly of a budget of 70 million Euro S for 2005.
• Two investigations are in hand since 2003 on crimes committed in Democratic republic of Congo and Uganda since July 2002. The prosecutor hopes to begin the first lawsuits with the beginning of the year 2005.
• funds of compensation for the victims is set up and directed by public personalities like, inter alia, Simone Veil, Desmond Tutu and the queen of Jordan Ramin Al-Abdullah.

Tuesday September 7th 2004

• Baghdad, Iraq: a commando of a score of armed men, circulating, according to witnesses, on board three vehicles, made irruption into full afternoon in the offices of two ONG in the center with the capital Iraq ienne. Simonetta Bet and Simonetta Torreta, two Italian young people working for the ONG Italy “a big shot per Baghdad”, as two Iraqis of the ONG “Intersource” were removed. This double abduction was not asserted yet.
• China: according to an assessment published this day, at least 143 people died and of tens of others are reported missing after the floods and the landslides caused by the torrential rains which touched the south-west of the China these last days.
• Gaza, Palestinian Authority: on Monday night, during a raid of helicopters of the Israeli army , fourteen members of the Palestinian islamist movement Hamas were killed, and fifty wounded people. That does of them one of most fatal against the Hamas since the beginning of the Intifada.
• They were members of the Brigades Ezzedine Al-Qassam which were involved with the handling of the weapons on a football field with Al-Choujaïa, a district in the east of Gaza.
• the Hebrew State indicated to have led this operation in reprisals to the double Suicide bombing of last week to Beer-Sheva, in the south of Israel, which had made sixteen died.

Wednesday September 8th 2004

• Turkey: 19 workmen died asphyxiated in the fire of a tunnel in construction in a copper mine.
• the United States: failure of the mission Genesis with the crushing of the probe on the ground, the parachutes not having functioned.

Thursday September 9th 2004

• North Korea: a mysterious explosion was located thanks to mushroom of smoke which it caused, but no Sismographe located jolt and no Radiation was detected either. It could be a question of a Accident in the preparation of a test Nucléaire, because the Explosion took place near a base of Missile S nuclear.
• Sunday September 12th, the Foreign Minister North-Korean announced with a British diplomat that the purpose of the explosion was to demolish a mountain for a project of hydro-electric Barrage.
• Iraq: bombardment by the army of the the United States to Falloudja, in Iraq. At least four killed children, two women and two men and one would count sixteen wounded according to the doctors. According to the Pentagon, the bombardment is “an air attack of precision of the multinational force against terrorists”. Article.
• Another attack took place has Tar Afar killing seventeen people and by wounding fifty and one. This attack “is conducted to restore the legitimate Iraqi mode in this town of insurrectionists”, comments on the Pentagon. Article.
• Indonesia: an car bomb attack in front of the embassy of Australia to Jakarta made at least eight died and a hundred and seventy wounded. The Australian government indicated that he suspected the islamist terrorist network of Southeast Asia Jamaah Islamiyah, been dependant on Al-Qaida, to be the instigator of this attack and “that he would not yield to terrorism”.
• Pakistan: aviation Pakistan ease bombards the area of the Southern Waziristan Article.
• France: six people (3 couples) accused in a related business with famous the business of Outreau were released without judicial control after several years of preventive prison. Their lawsuit, initially envisaged in October 2004 was deferred sine-die . The lawyers of certain accused denounce an attempt at smothering of the business by fear of a reproduction of the legal cataclysm of June 2004.

Friday September 10th 2004

• Cuba: the dissenting cuban poet Raul Rivero, condemned to twenty years of prison, is in “an health condition engraves” and the penitentiary authorities prohibit the access to the drugs to him. 59 years old, Raul Rivero, current president of the inter-American Company of press (SIP), was stopped in March 2003 with seventy-four other opponents at the time of the vagueness of repression the most severe impetus by the dictatorship of Fidel Castro. Shown “treason of the fatherland” and “collaboration with a foreign power” during a summary lawsuit, he was condemned to twenty years of prison.

Saturday September 11th 2004

• the orthodoxe patriarch Greek Pétros VII finds death in an accident of Hélicoptère above the Aegean Sea.
• Celebration of homage to the victims at the time of the third birthday of the air attacks of New York, the United States of America, last before the rebuilding of the World Trade Center and the construction of the Freedom Tower.
• 31 years ago, in 1973, a Coup d'etat put an end to the Démocratie with the Chile, and caused the death of the president elected Salvador Allende. A Documentary film of Patricio Guzman, Salvador Allende , leaves to Europe on the presidency Allende.
• on September 11th, 2004 has 1:00 of the morning terrible a tempette abbat on the commune of co. Foy de Pyrolières fesant of enormous property damage.

Sunday September 12th 2004

• HongKong, China: elections to renew half of the 60 seats of the Legislative council of the special Autonomous region of HongKong.
• the participation of 55,6% of the registered voters is strongest since the introduction of the Vote for all during the last years of British colonization .
• the coalition of the democratic parties obtained approximately 60% of the voices vis-a-vis the parties favorable to the Popular republic of China. The democrats gain 3 seats compared to the outgoing Council, but remain minority.

Monday September 13rd 2004

• the United States: the rifle of war M16 is again marketed in the United States, ten years after its prohibition during the administration Clinton.
• This authorization occurs a few days after the judgment of the manufacturer and the salesman of the weapon of John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo. They will have to compensate the three wounded ones and the family for the ten dead ones caused by the two men, in the area of Washington (D.C.) in October 2002.
• France, Iraq: Jacques Chirac declared that “one had opened a Pandora's box” in Iraq, implying that, in its optics, with this intervention, the world opened the door with a whole series of evils which one will have great difficulty to calm.
• Netherlands: Agriculteur S Dutch affirm that the Tabasco can replace advantageously the Pesticide S to move away the Rongeur S and other undesirable. TV5
• Indeed, the rodents, which do not support the Odeur of this prickly Sauce, would flee as soon as they reniflent it.
• It would be necessary from 4 to 5 Fiole S of Tabasco to treat a surface of field equivalent to 1 Hectare
• No serious study was not made on this subject, this information is thus to take with the conditional one, but the Agriculteur S Dutch hope well to make classify Tabasco like official Pesticide in order to be able to use it with large scales.

Tuesday September 14th 2004

End of the edition of World cup of hockey gained by Canada.

Wednesday September 15th 2004

• Iran: the Institute for science and international safety (Institute for Science and International Security) thinks that Iran could make nuclear tests with 30 kilometers in the south-east of Teheran, in the base of Parchine (which received forever the visit of the International Atomic Energy Agency). It should be specified that Iran thinks ready to cooperate, that the Institute having made the advertisement is based on satellite photos and that it is close to the CIA.

Thursday September 16th 2004

• the United States of America: the mythical group The Ramones has just lost its third emblematic figure, the guitarist Johnny Ramone, dead at the 55 years age of a Cancer of the Prostate. Article on Libé.
• France: searching in the residence of Charles Pasqua within the framework of the investigation into the traffic of weapons towards the Angola. In addition, Bernard Guillet the diplomatic adviser of Charles Pasqua was put in examination for concealment of abuse of corporate asset. article on Reuters and in the express
• African Union: inaugural session of the Panafrican Parliament with its seat of Midrand, with a score of Kilometer S of Johannesburg in South Africa. The Panafrican Parliament is the legislative institution of the African Union, and it should start to exert its legislative powers in 2009.
• 45000 Amerindian S are mobilized and expressed against the policy of Alvaro Uribe in Colombia RISAL Liberation Le Monde

Friday September 17th 2004

• Opening of the paralympic Plays of summer 2004 with Athens. They will gather until the September 28th approximately 4.000 athletes Handisport.

Saturday September 18th 2004

• Europe: beginning of XXIe European Journées of the inheritance which puts, this year, the accent on sciences. Eleven million people is awaited in seventeen thousand sites for this demonstration launched in France in 1983.
• Sudan: the Safety advice of UNO adopts a resolution on the Darfur (resolution 1564). The text threatens Sudan of oil sanctions if it does not fill the commitment to restore safety in Darfur and with the African Union does not cooperate to this end. Article

Sunday September 19th 2004

• Germany: the elections of Saxony and in the Brandebourg were marked by the bad results of the two great parties the CDU and SPD. The party of Extrême right-hand side NPD gained twelve seats at the Parliament, adding up 9,2% of the votes.

Monday September 20th 2004

• Iraq: assassination of Eugene Armstrong, American hostage, asserted by the group directed by Jordanian Abou Moussab Al-Zarqaoui.
• Haiti: the Ouragan Jeanne made more than seven hundreds died and wounded (September 21st estimates at the evening).
• Indonesia: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono is elected with the presidency of the Republic, vis-a-vis the outgoing president Megawati Sukarnoputri, with a score from at least 60% according to the partial calculations.
• Quebec: bys-election in four electoral constituencies. The democratic Action of Quebec makes elect its candidate, Sylvain Légaré, in Vanier. The PLQ preserves the district of Nelligan. As for the PQ, it preserves Gouin and takes Bay-tree-Dorion.

Tuesday September 21st 2004

• the United States, Washington (D.C.): organization of immense a Pow wow for the inauguration of the National museum of the American Indians ( National Museum off the American Indian ).
• Iraq: assassination of Hensley Jack, American hostage, asserted by the group directed by Jordanian Abou Moussab Al-Zarqaoui.
• France: marriage with Paris (IVe district) of the actor and singer Patrick Bruel, 45 years, and of his/her partner Amanda Maruani, 24 years.

Wednesday September 22nd 2004

• France: budget 2005 by Nicolas Sarkozy, Minister for Finance announces. After a fall of 10% carried out at the time of the two preceding exercises, this year ago of reduction in the tax rate of the Income tax.
• Israel: A terrorist explodes himself with a bus stop Jerusalem-Is, killing two Israeli frontier guards.

Thursday September 23rd 2004

• Haiti: the provisional appraisal at September 25th morning of 1.160 died and more than 1.250 missings after the passage of the hurricane Jeanne. The famine settles and risks it epidemics is done increasingly precise. The bodies are buried as fast as possible without same being recognized.

Friday September 24th 2004

• France, Honfleur (Apple-brandy): died of the écrivaine Francoise Sagan of a pulmonary Embolism at the 69 years age. Article on Nouvelobs.com LeMonde.fr.
• the United States of America: the singer Cat Stevens converted with the Islam attacks the United States which drove back it territory. Cat Stevens, born Steven Georgiou, is called from now on Yusuf Islam. Article on LeMonde.fr

Saturday September 25th 2004

• Failures: with Swiss Brissago in , the International federation of the failures organizes a match between the Russian Vladimir Kramnik and the Hungarian Peter Lékó. This match could be a stage towards a reunification of the players within the FIDE.
• France: Opening for the private individuals of the World of the car of Paris.
• New Zealand: The New Zealand forces which had been in Iraq for one year regained their country today, and the Prime Minister Helen Clark declared on this occasion that it was not very probable that new troops leave for this country.

Sunday September 26th 2004

• Saudi Arabia: an employee of the French defense group Thalès is killed with Djeddah.
• France, elections senatorial: renewal of the third of the seats of the Upper House of the Parliament French (20 metropolitan departments of R with V, the Ile-de-France, two Overseas departments, two Communities of overseas and part of the senators representing the French from abroad).
• Swiss, double referendum on a reform of the naturalization: the majority of the Swiss Cantons and the people voted against a reform which would have allowed the born foreign citizens and having grown in Switzerland to be able to more easily become Swiss citizen; a third bearing referendum on an inscription of the public service of the post office was also rejected; a last bearing referendum on the introduction of a leave maternity 14 weeks was on the other hand accepted.
• Syria: Ezzedine Sheik Khalil (40 years), one of the executives of the radical Palestinian islamist movement “Hamas”, presumed head of the military wing of the movement out of the Palestinian territories, was killed in an car bomb attack with Damas. Recognized implicitly by Israel, which however did not assert it officially, this operation of “targeted elimination” is the first carried out by the Hebrew State abroad since an attempt fallen through in Jordan in 1997. The armed wing of the Hamas proclaimed its desire at once to avenge its chief, threatening to extend his fight against the Israeli interests abroad.
• France - Turkey - EU: Nicolas Sarkozy, minister and candidate with the presidency of the majority party UMP, comes to a conclusion for the organization of a referendum about the adhesion of the Turkey to the European Union. It is followed the following day by Michel Barnier, Foreign Minister, who known as favorable to this option “with personal capacity”. Without it being explicit, it is probable that these two persons in charge wish the organization of a referendum preliminary to the poll envisaged with the autumn 2005 aiming to the ratification of the European Constitution, with an aim “of disconnecting” the two questions. The prospect for an accession of Turkey indeed deeply seems to divide the French, and of many analysts fear that it comes “to pollute” the debate on the European constitution.

Monday September 27th 2004

• Australia: Aborigènes of Australia leave today for the Sweden in order to recover bones of their ancestors, that one had taken to them one century ago for scientific research, for alleged studies on the evolution of the races. The remainders of 14 human beings of the area of Kimberley in Western Australia will be given to a delegation of 11 representatives of the community aboriginal in end of the week at the time of a ceremony to the Swedish Museum of Ethnographie.
• France: the teacher Georges Lopez, main character of documentary film of Nicolas Philibert To be and to have , which had brought proceedings against the producers and the realizer of work to require a compensation for “violation for the right to the image”, although it initially gave his agreement to the realization and the diffusion of film, was débouté. It is a victory for all those which for some time denounce the exaggerations to which a very restrictive jurisprudence had led these last years in this delicate and complex matter of the Droit to the image.
• Iraq: diplomat Iranian Fereydoun Jahani, the removal the last August 5th was asserted the August 8th by the Islamic army in Iraq, which also holds the two French journalists Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot, was released after 55 days of detention.
• France: spectacular flight of two Diamond S of a global value of 11 million euros to Biennial of the antique dealers, the Carousel of the Louvre. The flight took place during the day, no alarm, no camera did not supervise the jewels.

Tuesday September 28th 2004

• France, Ales: fire has brooded for two months in basement following a forest fire dating from the last July 26th. Fire consumes the carbonaceous basement of old a Terril, the mountain of Rochebelle. No intervention until now could come to end.
• Great Britain: EWS, British Railway company specialized in goods transport, decided to equip its engines with rear view mirrors. It is about a first in this country, whereas it is the rule with the the United States.
• Iraq:
• the two hostages Italian, Simona Pari and Simona Torretta were released and given to the Italian person in charge with Baghdad.
• the United States Air Force bombarded during the night a supposed den of rebels in favor of the group of Jordanian the Abou Moussab Zarqaoui with Falloudja, the sunnite city located at 50 km in the west of Baghdad, making an unspecified number of victims among the activists.
• Of other bombardments took place also during the night on the disinherited Shiite quarters of Sadr City, in the North-East of Baghdad, where two million people lives, deprived of electricity because of strike American, according to television channel Al Djazira.
• Towards 11:40 local (9. 40 with Paris), a series of strong explosions has been heard in the center of Baghdad, on the side of the Haïfa district, theater of many fixings between rebels and soldiers American, for a few days.
• Israel - Palestine: the fourth birthday of Intifada was marked by the death of a killed Palestinian with Jenin in the West Bank. After four years of violences, the Israeli and Palestinian authorities continue to be opposed on the solutions to leave the conflict, caused by the visit of Ariel Sharon the September 28th 2000 on the Esplanade of the Mosques to Jerusalem. According to official figures of the Palestinian Authority 3.549 Palestinians (of which 772 minors) were killed for this period. In same time, 1.017 Israelis lost the life, according to the Israeli service of internal security, the Shin Beth.
• Peru: three hundred Peruvian peasants, growers of Coke, in strike for eight days, accompanied by students, have occupied the Temple of Koricancha, built at the 13th century, in the old capital of the empire INCA Cuzco and retain inside the French and German tourists.
• World, economy: the price of the barrel of Pétrole reached the unequalled price of 50,50 USD.
• Thailand: a case worrying of suspicion of contamination of human to human of the virus of the Avian flu was revealed. WHO remains careful as for its conclusions.
• Haiti: the final assessment gives a report on 2.200 dead following the passage of the hurricane.

Wednesday September 29th 2004

• France: it is learned today, of legal source, that the parquet floor of Paris opened legal information the last September 20th to inquire into the human consequences of the French nuclear tests. This investigation makes following a complaint against X for involuntary “manslaughters” and “attacks with the physical integrity” deposited the November 28th 2003 in the name of the “Association of the veterans of the nuclear tests” (Swallow-hole) and association Polynésie “Moruroa E armadillo”, to obtain compensation for damage undergone because of the pathologies developed by personnel civil and military, present on the sites of the nuclear tests carried out by the French Army between 1960 and 1996, as well in the the Sahara Algérie N as in Polynésie, of the fact, according to them, of these tests. An abnormally high number of premature deaths and cancerous pathologies were recorded, according to the plaintiffs.
• France: the pilot French motor bike Richard Sainct, 34 years, was victim of a fatal accident during the fourth stage of the Rallye of the Pharaons.
• France: bill of Gilles de Robien, Minister for transport, on the privatization of the Airports of Paris (ADP) in public limit company and thus the opening of its capital.

Thursday September 30th 2004

• the United States: As from this day, come into effect of new measures of precaution taken by the American authorities for the foreign travellers penetrating on the territory of the the United States. The nationals of 22 European countries, as well as Australia, Japan, of New Zealand, Bruneï and Singapore arriving at the the United States will have to subject themselves to new frontier checks, and to agree to leave their “biometric data” in particular the catch of the digital fingerprints, which will be recorded by an electronic scanner, and of a numeric photography. These intended measures to reinforce safety were installation as of the month of January 2004 for other countries.
• Iraq: three car bomb attacks and with the rocket in the Al-Amel popular quarters with Baghdad. Thirty-seven children died whereas they looked at the inauguration of a pumping station of waste water, organized by the Americans. At least three men and a woman are also among the victims. One counts more than two hundred wounded.

• According to the Agency France-Press and the Taiwanese Minister for defense, Lee Jye, the Popular republic of China will increase the number of missiles aiming at the République of China from 600 to 800, from here 2006. The China maintains the same relationship with Taiwan as the Iraq Saddam Hussein with the Kuwait.

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