The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Baghdad - A senior official in Iraq's education ministry has been shot and fatally wounded in Baghdad in the second assassination of a top government official in as many days, a ministry official says. Kamal al-Jarrah, 63, director-general for cultural relations, was attacked by gunmen as he left his house in western Baghdad on Sunday morning. Kabul - Ten militants linked to a faction of a fundamentalist warlord and his Taliban allies are being held over the killing of 11 Chinese workers in north Afghanistan last week, the provincial military commander said on Sunday. The men were detained in different parts of Kunduz province, where the killings took place, said General Dawood. Riyadh - Saudi and U.S. authorities yesterday were still searching for U.S. engineer Paul Johnson, who al Qaeda claimed it had kidnapped on Saturday. The U.S. embassy said he was missing. The kidnapping added a new twist to al Qaeda's campaign to drive Western "infidels" from the kingdom and oust the Saudi royal family who they deem "ungodly and subservient to America." Los Angeles - Senior U.S. military officials tried to crack down on alcohol abuse at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq weeks before investigators uncovered prisoner mistreatment there, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing soldiers.
