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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 2006
Page
3
Pakistani security forces arrested hundreds of Islamic hard-liners and deployed troops to seal Islamabad while gunfire and tear gas quelled protests over Prophet Muhammad caricatures. Authorities blocked gatherings of more than five people as violence and riots spread across the Muslim world.
In Baghdad talks on a national unity government stall amid deep policy splits between Shiite and Kurdish blocs. U.S. hopes for troop drawdown hinge on broader coalition. Separately a German private plane wreckage was found in northeastern Iraq with five Germans and one Iraqi dead. Gunmen killed four Iraqi truck drivers delivering construction material for U.S. forces. A police general died in a roadside bombing in northern Iraq.
The IRS continues to collect a 3 percent excise tax on local and long distance phone calls despite three federal appellate losses and court challenges. A CBO report estimates 52 billion dollars in tax receipts over the next decade while courts decide the legality of the levy.
Researchers identify 38 illnesses crossing from animals to humans in 25 years and warn bird flu H5N1 could mutate to spread easily. They note 58 percent of 1 407 human pathogens originate in animals and urge renewed focus on containment in the animal world, with poultry sacrificed to curb the virus.
Health officials in western India began slaughtering hundreds of thousands of chickens on Sunday to stop the H5N1 bird flu. Europe, led by France facing its first reported case, sees faltering poultry demand and billions of dollars in losses. John Woolhouse notes rapid pathogen emergence but cautions humans may still adapt over time.
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