Asia Times PodCast for the week ending February 3, 2007

News and analysis from Asia Times Online

NASA experts caution crews on Chilean miners' rescue

COPIAPO, Chile, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- NASA experts helping Chilean authorities rescue 33 miners trapped underground cautioned relief crews against inappropriate food and drink for the men as preparations for large-bore drilling went under way.

Bangladeshi major sacked over cough syrup

DHAKA, Bangladesh, Sept. 3 (UPI) -- A Bangladeshi army major has been discharged and sentenced to a year in prison for selling hundreds of bottles of illegal Phensedyl cough syrup.

SYDNEY, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- U.S. intelligence agencies are dysfunctional and are contributing to a "quagmire" in Afghanistan, a former CIA officer complained.

Threat of new Palestinian uprising grows

RAMALLAH, West Bank, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- The killing of four Israeli settlers in the West Bank Tuesday just before Israeli-Palestinian peace talks resumed in Washington has intensified fears the Palestinians could unleash a new intifada, or uprising.

U.S. staying out of Iraqi deadlock?

BAGHDAD, Sept. 2 (UPI) -- Washington hasn't stated a position on who it would like to see emerge as the next prime minister of Iraq, the Iraqi vice president said.

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