There were similar sentiments around Jabalya The club hasn't had a cup run for some time, so we're hoping that this is the beginning of a run and not the end of one."It was two Coventry strikers who scored the goals, one mere misfortune, the other auspicious. Fourth-placed Mansfield Town beat lowly Southend United 1-0 at Field Mill to move within a point of automatic promotion.In Scotland, Rangers scored after 12 minutes to beat Livingston 1-0 at Ibrox in their Scottish Premier meeting. Peter Lovenkrands cut in from the left and fed Fernando Ricksen. His 20-yard shot was blocked by goalkeeper Roddy McKenzie only for Christian Nerlinger to net the rebound.. Colchester United were well worth this draw at Highfield Road, and few would have argued if they had caused an FA Cup fourth-round upset against First Division Coventry City. Two goals in five first-half minutes set up the rematch in a tie which showed no gulf in class between the two sides. What the terrorists now have to realise is that they do not only have the majority of the Iraqi people against them but they also have the whole of international opinion against them."Officials in Brussels made clear, however, that EU countries were not immediately contemplating sending troops to help American forces."We agreed that the resolution is really an important step in the right direction," Gerhard Schr?, the German Chancellor, said after the conference call "Many things have been included from what we proposed This led us ... The French and German leaders made their decision while attending a European Union summit in Brussels. They spoke by conference telephone call to the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin.Earlier this week, the United States secured the crucial support of Pakistan, which is expected to consider sending troops to Iraq, and of China. Most surprising, perhaps, was yesterday's decision by Syria, at the last minute, to vote in favour. Syria had been widely expected to abstain or possibly vote against.General Powell said the vote was a "great achievement".
He added: "We have come together to help the Iraqi people and put all of our differences of the past in the past."Jack Straw, the British Foreign Secretary, said the resolution would make things safer in the long term for troops in Iraq "This resolution ... represents an important step on the road to a free Iraq run by the Iraqi people by themselves for the first time in many, many decades," he said."It will not immediately help the security situation but it will over time begin to do so by shifting the climate even more against the terrorists. They won 2-0 at Stockport, David Friio, with his 13th goal of the season, and Graham Coughlan on target and have now gone over 10 hours without conceding a goal. "We were resolute, showed a great spirit and a willingness to throw their bodies in the way." The Bantams broke through once, midfielder Ronnie Wallwork, on his debut at the start of a month's loan from Manchester United, heading in."We have 17 games to go and we're going to have to get another eight or nine wins," was the frank assessment of Bradford's plight by their assistant manager, Colin Todd.In the Second Division the leaders, Plymouth Argyle, march on. Two minutes later Neil Shipperley pounced on an error to make it 2-0, the Eagles' 13th goal in four away games.Thereafter "some of our defending was very pleasing," Dowie thought. "It is not legitimate for the Palestinians to make arrests."We reject that because it means that the Palestinians did it [bombed the American convoy] and that is not true Israel did it."There were similar sentiments around Jabalya. Many Palestinians say they do not believe that Palestinians could have intentionally bombed the Americans because, they say, the Palestinians' quarrel is not with the US.But there are other more hardline voices. There is considerable anti-US sentiment among Palestinians who see the Americans as hopelessly biased in favour of Israel in their attempts to broker peace, and some of the youths who gathered at the scene of Wednesday's bombing were saying that the Americans deserved what happened.. The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a new resolution on Iraq yesterday, giving the UN's blessing to a multinational force in the country and urging the Iraqi Governing Council to draft plans by 15 December for a new constitution and elections. "Even if they arrest the entire Palestinian people this will not be enough to please the US."Mr Laban is no fiery radical: he is a supporter of the former prime minister, Abu Mazen, a moderate whom Israel and the US said they could work with, but who resigned after a power struggle with Mr Arafat."Every day the Israelis make arrests, every day they do raids," said Mr Laban. |
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