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Current AffairsCzech Republic not to accept Guantanamo detainees, says interior minister
The Czech Republic will not accept any former inmates from the Guantanamo
Bay military prison camp, Interior Minister Ivan Langer said on Monday in
response to a US appeal for EU member states to do so. Mr Langer said that
the Czech Republic was not currently equipped to take in any of the
camp’s former detainees but that, as the current head of the European
Union, it would try to negotiate a common European solution to the problem.
Earlier today, I spoke to Markéta Matlochová from the Czech Interior
Ministry, who said that the matter was under consultation:
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One on OneJiří Boudník – still haunted by experiences at Ground Zero in wake of 9/11 attacks
On September 11, 2001, the Czech-born architect Jiří Boudník was working
across the East River from the World Trade Center, on the Brooklyn side of
the Brooklyn Bridge. He tried and failed to reach the Twin Towers on 9/11
itself, but returned the following day and spent six months taking part in
the clean-up operation at Ground Zero, experiencing horrors that stay with
him to this day. More
Current AffairsTwo Czech soldiers in Basra injured in rocket attack
Two soldiers from the Czech contingent in Basra, southern Iraq, were
wounded after a rocket hit their section of the Basra air base early Sunday
morning. The soldiers only suffered light injuries caused by shards of
glass shattered by the blast. This is the second time the Czech section of
the Basra air base was hit by insurgent fire since last April.
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Current AffairsCzech Republic to gradually withdraw troops from Iraq
Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg revealed at the weekend that the Czech
Republic is working on a plan to gradually withdraw most of its troops from
Iraq. At present the Czech contingent consists of around 100 troops in
Basra and a handful of military advisers in Baghdad. There's no date set
yet for the Czech military presence to be reduced but the move is expected
sometime after 2008.
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Current AffairsCzech who aided September 11th rescue efforts remembers the event six years on
Jiri Boudnik is a Czech architect who has been living in the United States
for the last 20 years. On September 11th 2001, he witnessed the fall of
the
Twin Towers from his office in Brooklyn, and rushed to the scene to help.
In the days following on from the September 11th attacks, he continued to
assist the emergency services in their hunt for survivors. How?
By designing a computer model of the World Trade Center as was, to help
the
rescuers find their way through the rubble. To mark the sixth anniversary
of 9/11, Jiri Boudnik spoke to us earlier from his home in New York. I
started by asking him what the mood was like in the metropolis this
morning: More
Current AffairsCzech bullet-proof vests found protecting Iraqi insurgents
Coalition forces in Iraq have come across insurgents wearing Czech-made
bullet-proof vests. American authorities suspected that illegal shipments
of military equipment from the Czech Republic to Iraq could have occurred,
and have asked the Czech police for assistance in investigating the matter.
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One on OneIgor Klimes - stabilisation of Iraq will take decades, says aid worker with first-hand experience of country
Igor Klimes is now a desk officer for People in Need, helping organise the
Czech NGO's operations around the world. But three and a half years ago he
was working on the ground in the southern Iraqi province of Misan, where
the infrastructure had been left in tatters are years of conflict. At
People in Need's headquarters near Prague's Nusle bridge, Igor Klimes
recalled his impressions of Iraq when he arrived in the country in
September 2003, less than six months after the US-led invasion.
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