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- Halloran in good spirits
- Egypt’s foreign minister says Syria may participate in Palestinian…
- PSV book quarter-final spot
Halloran in good spirits
The Age – Mar 10, 2005
Peter Halloran, 56, a former head of Victoria’s Homicide Squad,was convicted in a Sierra Leone court on February 21 of theindecent assault of a girl, 13, and faces 18 months in the squalidPademba Road jail in the capital, Freetown. He has consistently protested his innocence and said hisconviction was the result of a corrupt legal system. Halloran went to Sierra Leone in January last year to serve witha United Nations task force investigating war crimes committedduring the country’s 1991-2002 civil war. He was acquitted of three other more serious charges and hasprotested his innocence throughout, saying he was the victim of acorrupt system. On March 3, a High Court judge rejected Halloran’s bail request,made ahead of an appeal against the conviction, saying thatgranting bail to a convict awaiting an appeal ran counter toaccepted practice. Submissions by lawyers for Halloran said he suffers bronchialasthma, severe hypertension and pulmonary embolism. Halloran was later moved from his cell to the prisonhospital.
Egypt’s foreign minister says Syria may participate in Palestinian…
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Mar 10, 2005
–> COPYRIGHT 2005 Financial Times Ltd. (From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of report in English by Egyptian news agency MENA Cairo, 10 March: Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmad Abu-al-Ghayt conferred Thursday [10 March] with his Sierra Leone counterpart Momodu Koroma on boosting bilateral ties and several African and regional issues. Addressing a joint press conference with Koroma, Abu-al-Ghayt said Egypt intends to continue support for development and reconstruction efforts in Sierra Leone.
PSV book quarter-final spot
RTE.ie – Mar 10, 2005
“That proved fatal for Monaco, but it was a great result for us. We must be the team with the smallest budget of all the qualified teams. In the third minute, a strike from 35 metres by Monaco’s Sierra Leone international Mohammed Kallon saw PSV’s Brazilian goalkeeper Heurelho Gomes produce a smart two-handed diving save. Monaco continued to press down the flanks and were rewarded with a corner that midfielder Lucas Bernardi just headed wide. Kallon should have had the first goal in the 10th minute, played in by Jaroslav Plasil to a tight one-on-one with Gomes who got to the ball first after the striker’s chest down proved too heavy. With Monaco pressing, Gomes was in action soon again, snaffling a cross in to Javier Saviola under pressure. After a great through ball by Ernesto Chevanton and lay-off by Saviola, Plasil snuffed a clear chance on goal, drilling the ball straight at a defender.