Zambia ready to turn over London bombings suspect to UK News
Zambia ready to turn over London bombings suspect to UK

[JURIST] Zambian authorities said on Wednesday that a suspect in the July 7 London bombings will be deported to Britain. Haroon Rashid Aswat [Wikipedia profile], a British man being held by Zambian police [JURIST report], is under investigation for 20 phone calls he allegedly made to some of the bombers from his cell phone. He is also alleged to have connections to previous terrorist plans, and told investigators that he was once a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden. Although Aswat's return to Britain is proceeding, the return of Hamdi Isaac, arrested in Italy in connection with the July 21 attempted bombings [JURIST report] in London, may take weeks. AP has more.

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UN General Assembly approves Palestine partition plan

The UN General Assembly approved UN Resolution Resolution 181 (II) on November 29, 1947, recommending that the British Mandate for Palestine be split into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an international zone for Jerusalem. The vote in the assembly was 33 for to 13 against, with 10 abstentions. The resolution sparked a war between Palestinian Arabs and Jews in 1947 and a wider war after Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, and Lebanon invaded the new State of Israel in 1948. Read Resolution 181 (II).

UN divided Palestine between Arabs and Jews

On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly voted to partition Palestine into Jewish and Arab territories, leading to the establishment of a Jewish state the following year. Read UN General Assembly Resolution 181.

Defense Secretary Robert McNamara resigns during Vietnam Conflict

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