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JERUSALEM - In an unprecedented measure, Israeli police barred Palestinians from Jerusalem s Old City on Sunday in response to stabbing attacks that killed two Israelis and wounded three others, as Israel s prime minister vowed a harsh offensive to counter rising violence.Tensions have flared in recent weeks over an Old City holy site sacred to Muslims and Jews, a series of so-called lone wolf attacks on Israelis and a security clampdown, which on Sunday saw Israeli troops launch a bloody arrest raid in the West Bank.The violence comes as diplomatic relations between Israel and Palestinian officials appear to be reaching a new nadir. Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said last week at the U.N. that he would no longer be honoring his signed agreements with Israel.Abbas -- citing among other things the clashes in the Old City -- called the state of affairs in Israel unacceptable, and he repeatedly slammed Israeli leaders for breaking promises as an occupier. As a result, Abbas said, the Palestinian people will no longer recognize any agreements they have signed thus far with them. They are not listening to the truth, Abbas said. The latest spike in violence comes at a time when many Palestinians no longer believe statehood th adidas campus herren rough negotiations with Israel adidas samba herren is possible. Israeli commentators raised the possibility of a third uprising, thou adidas samba og gh Abbas has so far prevented major outbreaks of violence despite his growing friction with Israeli Prime Minister B Vggp U.S. Warplanes Pound Fallujah
KABUL, Afghanistan Hundreds of millions of dollars from Kabul Bank were spirited out of Afghanistan 151; som stanley flask e smuggled in airline food trays 151; to bank accounts in more than two dozen countries, according to an independent review released on Wednesday about massive fraud that led to the collapse of the nation s largest financial institution.The report, which was financed by international donors, offers new details about how the men at Kabul Bank and their friends and relatives got rich off $861 million in fraudulent lo stanley thermos ans in what the International Monetary Fund has called a Ponzi scheme that used customer deposits and operated under nascent banking oversight in the war-torn country.The report describes Kabul Bank as a sophisticated operation with one set of books for the eyes of regulators and another in the back room that logged how those running the bank and others were fattening their wallets.Loans were made, but rarely repaid. Borrowers took out loans to pay back loans. Company documents and financial statements were fabricated. The bank s credit department used more than 100 corporate stamps for fake companies to make documents look authentic. The bank operated some of its more than 100 branches without a permit from the government.The 87-page report, which was conducted to satisfy one of several benchmarks the IMF asked the Afghan government to meet in cleaning up the scandal, points to poor oversight by Afghan banking regulators, political interference in the cri

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The Dow closed above 29,000 for the first time Wednesday, with yeezy slide investors cheered by the U.S. and China signing a preliminary deal that eases, if not ends, the fierce two-year trade fight between the nations.President Donald Trump and China s chief negotiator, Liu He, signed the Phase 1 agreement before a group of corporate executives and press at the White House. The pact eases some sanctions on China. In return, Beijing has agreed to step up its purchases of U.S. farm products and other goods.The Dow added 91 points, or 0.3%, to close at a record high of 29,031, finally passing the 29,000 mark it had flirted with since the start of year. The broader SP 500 and tech-heavy also scaled new nike dunk high heights Wednesday.Despite the agreement, Wall Street analysts cautioned that trade tensions are likely to remain. The fragile truce brought by the Phase-one trade deal should prevent a further escalation of China-U.S. tensions ahead of the 2020 elections, Gregory Daco of Oxford Economics told investors in a report. However, while the deal is a step in the right directio yeezy n, further tariff rollbacks should not be expected until after the elections, and broken promises could lead to tariffs snapping back in the coming months. China s tall taskOne reason caution is warranted: Hundreds of billions in U.S. tariffs will remain on Chinese goods as talks continue. In the meantime, both sides will have to deal with some of the more contentious trade issues as they move ahead with nego Bibn Groundbreaking fashion on display
Assailants killed eight members of a Shiite family in a village outside Baghdad on Monday, shooting some and beheading others, just one of a series of pre-election shooting and car bombing attacks that swept the country, killing 22 people in all.Attacks stanley polska on civilians were commonplace at the height of the sectarian fighting in 2006 and 2007. The targeting of civilians on Monday, especially the beheadings considered a hallmark of Sunni insurgents, raised concerns that the vicious sectarian violence that nearly tore the country apart could resurface.Associated Press television video of the attack on the family in Wahda, a mixed Shiite-Sunni village 20 miles south of Baghdad, showed a blood-soaked mattress and carpet, and stuffed animals strewn across the floor.The Baghdad-area security command said in a statement that a terrorist group using silencers shot and beheaded eight members of a sing stanley cups le family. Author stanley kubek ities did not say how many were shot and how many were beheaded, and provided few other details of what they described as an ugly crime. AP video from the nearby police station showed four people who authorities said were responsible, but no further details were given. The police statement did not indicate who might have carried out the attack. A Baghdad police officer and witnesses said the family belonged to Iraq s Shiite Muslim majority. They all spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the incident.Although sectarian violence dramatically dimini

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Be er Sheva, Southern Israelmdash; As the mizuno running international community ramped up pressure for a cease-fire deal, senior Hamas officials laid out their conditions on Wednesday for a truce with Israel to end the current cycle of bloodshed in the Mideast. But as Israel s leader stressed that the airstrikes on Gaza would continue until Hamas stops firing rockets, the militant group s terms seemed unlikely to bring a breakthrough.As the fighting continued for a 10th day, official yeezy slide s in Gaza said 227 people had been killed by the intense Israeli airstrikes, including 64 children. In Israel, 12 people have been killed by the ongoing barrage of rocket fire from Hamas, including two children.The airstrikes continued in Gaza overnight, with the Israeli military saying it had attacked dozens of underground Hamas targets. Hamas and its allies continued firing rockets from Gaza at Israel, launching at least 50 early on Wednesday, 10 of which fell short, the Israeli military said.Hamas officials confirmed the group s negotiating position to CBS News on Wednesday, saying it would only stop launching rockets at Israel if two conditions were met, both pertaining to Jerusalem: That Israeli forces and police agree to never again enter the al-Aqsa mosque, as they did earlier this month, and that Palestinians living in the Sheikh Jarrah asics neighborhood in disputed east Jerusalemnot be evicted by Jewish settlers from homes their families have lived in since the 1950s. A Palestinian demonstra Ucxu Trump tweaks U.N. with tweet days after Israel vote
A car bombing outside a busy Baghdad restaurant popular with police officers killed at least seven people and injured more than 80 on Monday, shortly after insurgents waging a relentless campaign against the security services gunned down a top national security official.The American military also announced Monday that five U.S. soldiers were killed in northern Iraq on Sunday mdash; four in separate roadside bomb attacks and one in a vehicle accident. T stanley flask he largest joint U.S.-Iraqi military offensive in Baghdad also resulted in the detention of 300 suspected insurgents, the military said.In Baghdad s busy Talibia neighborhood, a car bomb detonated at lunchtime outside the Habayibna restaurant. The car was parked in front of the restaurant before it exploded, police Lt. Zaid Tarek said. He said the explosion occurred at 2:15 p.m. 1015 GMT when police officers usually meet at the restaurant for lunch.Casualties were taken to th stanley mug ree Baghdad hospitals, including three dead and 54 injured at al-Kindi hospital, according to admission records. At least 10 more were taken to Imam Ali hospital and five to the Medical City hospital. Earlier, two carloads of stanley water bottle gunmen killed Maj. Gen. Wael al-Rubaei, a top national security official, and his driver in Baghdad s latest drive-by shooting.In other developments:A suicide bomber killed five people and injured 13 when he drove an explosives-packed pickup truck into a crowd of people outside a municipal council office in Tuz Khormato, 50 m

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The following is a transcript of an interview with CBS News election law expert David Becker that aired Sunday, November 8, 2020, on Face the Nation. MARGARET BRENNAN: We want to take a closer look now at some of the legal questions the President s team is raising, with CBS News Contributor and Election Law Expert David Becker. Good morning to you.DAVID BECKER: Good morning, Margaret.MARGARET BRENNAN: You just heard the senator from Pennsylvania and his description of what s going on in his state. What- what s your reaction DAVID BECKER: Well, he s right about a couple of things. He s right that right now President- Vice President Biden- President-elect Biden leads by a margin outside of the recount margin. And actually that margin is likely to grow. It s a adidas campus damen round forty one thousand right now and it s likely to grow beyond President Trump s victory margin of twenty sixteen of forty four thousand lat adidas samba og er today. So it s very unlikely it ll be an automatic recount in Pennsylvania. He s also right that the election overall was very good for Republicans. They did very well nationwide. They held the Senate, they gained seats in the House. They did very wel airmaxplus l in state legislative races. And any baseless accusations that the election lacked integrity actually cast doubt on those results, as well as the president s results. I think in Pennsylvania specifically, there are some claims regarding observers that are false. We know from Republican election officials in Philadelphia that observe Bjbv As U.S. mulls lethal aid to Ukraine, Russia is a concern
AP WASHINGTON - The U.S. has helped five nations completely clear out their stocks of highly enriched uranium since President Obama outlined his plans for securing all weap stanley quencher ons-usable materials worldwide, officials say, citing it as progress in the administration s efforts to prevent nuclear weapons from getting in terrorists hands.Anne Harrington, the National Nuclear Security Administration s nonproliferation chief, said that since Mr. Obama s April 2009 speech in Prague announcing his plans, the U.S. has helped remove enough material from about a dozen countries to make almost 30 warheads. She added that several global leaders are expected to use a nuclear security summit in Seoul, South Korea, which starts Sunday, to announce similar advances.Arms control experts say the most difficult part of building an atomic bomb is acquiring the weapons-grade uranium or plutonium needed for the explosive core of the weapon. Locking up or eliminating these materials is crucial to preventing nuclear-armed terror.U.S. exempts 11 nations from Iran sanctionsKhamenei: Iran will strike back if attackedObama decries Iran s electronic curtain Harrington sai stanley termoska d that s the administration s top national security concern: Issue No. 1 ... above anything else, keeping this material out of the hands of terrorists, she said. Over the past three years, officials say, the U.S. has helped Romania, Libya, Turkey, Chile and Serbia completely clear out their stockpiles of weapons- stanley mug usable uranium.

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SARASOTA, Fla. mdash; A Florida man is sharing what it was like to hold on to a hang glider while desperately trying not to fall. The entire ordeal was caught on video.As Chris Gursky was about to take off, it became clear his pilot had not attached his harness to the glider. Right after my feet left the ground it was just like, Is this how it s supposed to be Something s not right here, he said.He could barel hoka laufschuhe y hang on, clinging for life 4,000 feet in the air for more than two minutes. At one point I looked down and I saw the scenery down there, it was all the treetops changing colors and the little farm houses and I actually thought to myself, That is beautiful. I am going to fall to my death here, Gursky said. I probably had five seconds left in me because my h dunk panda and was starting to slip off that bar. The incident happened last month on what was supposed to be an adventure trip to Switzerland. Gursky s wife took off before him and was unaware of what was happening. I didn t really dwell on it, he said. I just thought, I m just going to hang on as hard as I can for as long as I can. Gursky said he hit the ground going about 45 mph, breaking his wrist and tearing a muscle. Now back to work at a car dealership in Sarasota, Florida, he s talking about the near-death experience mdash; and grateful his wife air max 1 had a different pilot.Gursky said he realizes his pilot made an error, but credits him for trying to pull him up during the frightening flight. In fact, he Ixza Bush Aides Defend War
Unable to move, speak or see, Vincent Humbert programmed his death with hi stanley quencher s mother s help, even mounting stanley cup a media campaign to publicize the plan beforehand. Only the date was not revealed.Humbert, 22, died Friday morning, two days after Marie Humbert allegedly injected her son with barbiturates during a hospital visit. His death revived a debate in France over an age-old taboo, legalizing euthanasia.In Western Europe, only Belgium an stanley cups uk d the Netherlands permit mercy killings, but within a strict legal framework.Humbert s mother said she wanted to give her son the gift of death, after having given him life and defied the law to do so.However, the plan went askew. Marie Humbert was detained by police for questioning Wednesday as her son slipped into a coma. Breaking with a tradition of medical discretion, doctors said Friday that they had decided to limit active treatment of the young patient. He died hours later.Vincent Humbert was severely disabled in an auto accident in 2000 and spent three years at a hospital in the Normandy town of Berck-sur-Mer, the first nine months in a coma.Only the thumb of his left hand was mobile. He communicated through an arduous system of thumb pressure in response to letters of the alphabet.Over time, the young man understood that he did not want to go on living. In November 2002, Humbert beseeched President Jacques Chirac to accord him the right to die. Chirac wrote and telephoned him in the hospital but explained he could not

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Residents of a displaced persons camp in northern Syria say a Syrian army helicopter dropped two barrel bombs on them on Wednesday, Reuters reports.Videos on YouTube appear to show the corpses of women and children at the camp in Idlib prov crocs badelatschen ince, as well as burning tents and people scrambling to save the wounded, according to Reuters. Barrel bombs: Syrian regime s diabolical new weapon 02:25 It s a massacre of refugees, a man can be heard saying in one of the videos. Let the whole world see this, they are displaced people. Look at them, they are civilians, d adidas campus shoes isplaced civilians. They fled the bombardment. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which tracks violence in the civil war, said 10 civilians died, although in one of the videos a man says the death toll was as high as 75.The death toll and the attack itself could not be independently verified. The Assad regime has been repeatedly accused of targeting civilian populations sympathetic to rebels seeking the president s ouster during the course of the three-year-old civil war. adidas originals Syrian official pleads ignorance of deadly barrel bombs 01:02 In J Feaa The largest iceberg in the world just broke off from Antarctica
Italian officials carrying out a s stanley fr urvey of the country s Gypsy population will only fingerprint those who don t have a valid ID, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday, apparently dropping plans to fingerprint all Gypsies after critics called it discriminatory.The ministry said stanley cups the new guidelines were sent to local authorities in Rome, Milan and Naples, where tens of thousands of Gypsies live in hundreds of shabby encampments built on the cities outskirts.Officials in the cities had already begun taking information from the inhabitants with varying methods after the government ordered the census as part of a crack down on street crime, which Italians blame mostly on foreigners.Government officials had said the census would include fingerprinting those living in camps, adults and children alike.That plan provoked a storm of criticism from center-left opposition as well as from the European Union and human rights groups. Opponents say the campaign is a discriminatory measure that singles out a minority. More than 700 encampments have been built, mainly around Rome, Milan and Naples, populated almost entirely by Gypsies, also known as Roma.The conservative government of Premier Silvio Berlusconi maintains the census is needed to establish who is living in the country illegally, and to spur efforts to get Gypsy children to attend school.The ministry guidelines issued Tuesd stanley cup usa ay say fingerprints will be taken from adults and children above 14 only if they don t have a valid ID.

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SRINAGAR, India -- Doctors in the flood-ravaged Himalayan region of Kashmir said Wednesday that they were seeing outbreaks of gastroenteritis among people crowded into shelters after their homes were inundated two weeks ago.Patients were also dying due to a lack of basic medical equipment, Dr. Tariq Ahmed Tramboo said. Many adidas sambarose hospitals were engulfed when the floods swamped more than 80 percent of Indian-controlled Kashmir s main city of Srinagar. As I was examining a 1-year-old child who could barely breathe, he died right there in my lap because there was no oxygen to give him, Tramboo said. He still doesn t know the cause of the child s illness, with many of the region s diagnostic facilities having been destroyed. This is clearly an alarming situation, he said. A Kashmiri woman and her daughter wade through a flooded street in Srinagar, Indian Kashmir, Sept. 15, 2014. REUTERS The floods engulfed much of Kashmir two weeks ago, leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless in both the Indian- and Pakistani-administered areas of t adidas campus 80s he disputed territory. Thousands of villages have also been hit in Pakistan s Punjab province. The region has been left littered with garbage, debri adidas yeezy s and countless bloated cows, chickens and dogs floating in the floodwaters. The stench of rotting flesh hangs heavy in the air. Xykb Boris Yeltsin s Legacy: Very Mixed
CIA officers in Afghanistan were so eager to meet the spy they believed would help them crack al Qaeda s leadership they planned a birthday celebration for his visit in December, current and former U.S. officials said.A birthday cake was waiting.But before they could even begin to question their stanley uk golden source, he detonated a powerful bomb, killing himself and seven CIA employees in one of the deadliest attacks in the agency s history.Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi, a 36-year-old doctor who had been recruited by Jordanian intelligence officials, was really a double agent.The account of the planned birthday gathering is the latest evidence that CIA officials at the Afghan base trusted the Jordanian and wanted to build rapport with him. It was confirmed by current and former officials briefed on the case, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter. The bombing not only weakened U.S. intelligence operations, it touched off a sometimes contentious debate within the intelligence community about whether such emotions led the CIA to be too lax with its security.CIA Director Leon Panetta has s stanley cups uk coffed at suggestions that security lapses were to blame for the att stanley becher ack. But it remains unclear why there was such a large contingent around al-Balawi when the bomb erupted.It s not unusual for CIA officers to offer gestures such as a birthday cake or a small gift for spies they are overseeing, former intelligence officials said. Such gestu

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One friar is dead and several more are injured after a man attacked a Spanish monastery, officials said.The man entered the Monastery of Santo Espiacute;ritu adidas originals hombre del Monte in Gilet, Spain around 9:30 a.m. local time on Saturday, the Province of the Immaculate Conception of the Franciscan Order said in a statement. He burst into the premises with a violent and defiant attitude and carrying a blunt object, the statement said.The friars had just finished breakfast and were in their rooms at the time of the attack, the order said.One of the monks at the monastery, identified as Brother Aacute;ngel Ramoacute;n, managed to get the attacker away and called the authorities, the statement said. The country s Civil Guard and the Gilet Local Police responded and provided immediate aid. An agent of Spain s Civil Guard. Europa Press News The order did not identify the injured friars or release information about their condition. There are 48 convents throughout Spainunder the Province of the Immaculate Conception of the Franciscan Order. The Monastery of Santo Espiacute;ritu del Monte is in the province of Valencia, which has been grappling with the aftermath of floodsthat left more than 200 people dead.Authorities continue to search for the attacker, crocs absatz the statement said. He was described as middle-aged.This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. adidas samba Sogm Britain s First Abortion Services Ad Airs
A fire at an unlicensed bar killed at least 26 people and injured eight in a Chinese city near Hong Kong, the government said Monday.The fire broke out at 11 p.m. on Sunday in Zhongshan, which abuts the former Portuguese colony of Macau west of Hong Kong, the official Xinhua News Agency said.It said the cause was under investigation. This small bar is an illegal business inside a restaurant, said an official in the propaganda office of Zhongshan s Communist Party branch. The bar owner has been detained for investigation, said the official, who would not give his name. China Central Television showed pictures of firefighters wading through the charred ruins of the bar. Stools were burned and overturned, and much of the ceiling had collapsed.Police and fire officials in Zhongshan refused to release any i stanley kubek nformation.Zhongshan is part of the bo stanley cups om stanley trinkflaschen ing Pearl River Delta region around Hong Kong whose factories form the heart of China s export-driven manufacturing industries.Witnesses quoted by Hong Kong Cable TV said there was an explosion before the fire. Police were shown cordoning off the building and nearby roads as debris was cleaned up. It was the second time in five years that China has suffered a deadly Christmas Day fire.In 2000, a fire blamed on a welding accident tore through a disco in the central city of Luoyang, killing 309 people who were celebrating the holiday.A court sentenced 23 people held responsible for the disaster to up to 13 years in prison

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Seoul, South Korea mdash; A North Korean missile fired from its capital region exploded soon after liftoff in an appa adidas og rent failed weapons launch on Wednesday, South Korea s military said, amid speculation that the North is preparing to launch its longest-range missile in its most significant provocation in years.Details of the missile explosion weren t immediately known. But the launch, the 10th of its kind this year, shows North Korea is determined to press ahead in its push to modernize its weapons arsenal and pressure its rivals i af1 nto making concessions amid dormant denuclearization talks. The North Korean missile blew up while it was flying at an altitude of less than 12.4 miles, said a South Korean military official requesting anonymity because he wasn t publicly authorized to speak to media on the issue. He said the cause of the explosion wasn t known. South Korea s Joint Chiefs of Staff earlier said that the launch was made yeezy foam from the Pyongyang region at around 9:30 a.m. local time 8:30 p.m. Tuesday EDT but gave no other details. People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a railway station in Seoul, South Korea on March 16, 2022, as South Korea said the North had test fired a missile that blew up shortly after launch. JUNG YEON-JE/AFP via Getty Images Lee Choon Geun, an honorary research fellow at Uekn U.S., South Korea fire 8 ballistic missiles in tit-for-tat show of force vs. North
KARACHI, Pakistan - Pakistani commandos regained control of a naval base Monday from a team of Taliban militants who attacked then occupied the high-security facility for 18 hours 151; an exceptionally audacious act of insurgent violence that dealt a humiliating blow to the military.The attackers 151; who may have numbered no more than six 151; destroyed at least two U.S.-supplied surveillance planes and killed 12 security officers. stanley fr At least four of the attackers were killed.The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for stanley trinkflaschen the assault in the city of Kara stanley us chi. The militants said it was revenge for the May 2 American raid that killed al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden and the insurgents were under orders to fight until the death.Special report: The Killing of Osama bin Laden They do not want to come out alive, they have gone there to embrace martyrdom, said spokesman Ahsanullah Ahsan. Between four to six insurgents armed with grenades, rockets and automatic weapons stormed Naval Station Mehran under cover of darkness late Sunday, using ladders to get into the facility, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said.Once inside, they scattered around the compound, setting off explosions and hiding in the sprawling facility.During the day Monday, the militants were holed up in an office building in a gunbattle with commandos, navy spokesman Irfan ul Haq said. Navy helicopters flew over the base, and snipers were seen on a runway control tower.Analysis: Why Pakistan won t dump the I

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The late adidas originals Gianna Bryant, Alyssa Altobelli and Payton Chester were named honorary draft picks by the WNBA on Friday. The three teenage teammates died in a helicopter crash in January, along with Bryant s dad, basketball legendKobe Bryant.The WNBA draft event mdash; which was held virtually this year due to the coronavirus pandemic mdash; began with a tribute to Kobe, who was killed on January 26 along with Gianna, Alyssa, Payton, Sarah Chester, John Altobelli, Keri Altobelli, Christina Mauser and pilot Ara Zobayan. They were heading to the girls basketball game at Bryant s Mamba Sports Academy at the time of the crash. Kobe was not only a legendary basketball star but a devoted youth coach and had a tremendous impact on countless young players, commissioner Cathy Engelbert said from adidas yeezy her home, noting Mr. Bryant s unparalleled passion for women s basketball. These athletes represented the future of the WNBA, Engelbert said of the three girls. They represented the next generation of stars in our league, maybe what would have been c asics alled the Mambacita generation. The WNBA pays tribute to the lives of Alyssa Altobelli, Gianna Bryant and Payton Chester by selecting them as honorary draftees in the WNBADraft 2020. pic.twitter/AqpZnc4xfomdash; WNBA @WNBA April 17, 2020 Payton s father, Chris Chester, Alyssa s siblings, J.J. and Lexi Altobelli, and Gianna s mother, Vanessa Bryant, were all featured in the draft announcement video to thank the WNBA for the tribute. Hjsl Lynndie England Trial Under Way
An International Atomic Energy Agency team began searching Iraqi nuclear sites Saturday. It s the first inspection by a world body in more than a year. The team arrived in Baghdad on Friday for the first visit by monitors from the Vienna-based organization since U.N. weapons inspectors left the country in late 1998 on the eve of U.S.-British airstrikes. We will start our first round this morning, was all that Ahmad Abuzahra, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said as he and five monitors left their hotel. Their job is to make sure Iraq s nuclear stocks are not used for military purposes. Abuzahra said Friday that the inspection was not part of the supervision regime imposed on Iraq by the United Nations after the 1991 Gulf War over Iraq s invasion of Kuwait. We are here to perform routi stanley thermoskannen ne physical inventory checking for nuclear material, he said. The inspection, he adde stanley thermos mug d, was part of the monitoring program imposed on all signatorie stanley cup s to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty. Iraq signed in 1968.The agency visit should have taken place in late 1999, but Iraq, without explanation, delayed issuing visas to the inspectors. IAEA spokesman David Kyd had said the visas may have been held back because of the debate in the U.N. Security Council about setting up a new organization to ensure that Iraq does not have mass-destruction weapons. The IAEA is also responsible for stripping Iraq of its potential to acquire or produce nuclear weapons. Until th