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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 6, 2004, Winnipeg, Manitoba A8 Canada / world Winnipeg free press tuesday july 6, 2004 Israel deceiving . On outposts says watchdog by Peter enav two picture combo released Jerusalem ? in a display Likely to by peace now increase . Displeasure with Israel shows an an opposition legislator and former outpost in 2002 general yesterday showed photos of left and then four West Bank outposts he said prove the government is deceiving washing again in 2004 ton by expanding the enclaves instead right proving of taking them Down. The israeli the settlement watchdog group government peace now said it has counted 53 out is deceiving posts Israel is required to dismantle Washington by under the .-backed Road map expanding peace plan or nearly twice the 28 the enclaves a named in a government list handed to legislator says. The americans last week. There is a Clear Cut Case of flagrant deception and a breaking of the Promise to the americans legislator chief Avi Dichter had told the Cabinet Ephraim Sneh from the labour party he was concerned about growing Mili told reporters in displaying the Tancy among those opposed to the gov before and after photos. Ern ment a planned evacuation of 8,000 . Officials in Israel declined com settlers in 2005, As part of a withdraw ment. However they have publicly Al from Gaza and parts of the West rebuked Israel in recent weeks a sign Bank. Of growing impatience with its Han some settler leaders and rabbis in doing of the outposts seen As seeds of the West Bank and Gaza have por future settlements. Traded settlement evacuation As a Asaf Shari an aide to prime minis crime implying that violent resistance Ter Ariel Sharon said the governments is justified while insisting they Are not list of 28 is accurate and declined com urging settlers to break the Law. Ment on the deception charge. Officials in the latest such comment Uri said last week that of the outposts on Elitzur a settler Leader and former top Israel a list fewer than half would be aide to sex prime minister Benjamin removed and others were being Legal Netanyahu told Israel radio on Day that to remove someone from his also yesterday rabbis representing soil is worse than jewish settlers accused the head of As Well the head of the in atomic Israel a Shin bet Security service of watchdog Agency is expected to push inciting against them. The Shin bet the jewish state this week for at least tacit acknowledgement that it has Homes in each outpost. By 2004, they nuclear weapons or the Means to make had permanent structures and paved them. Roads. Israeli policy is to neither confirm the photos were taken by peace nor deny it has such arms and the now which said it plans to Issue a new International atomic Energy Agency report on outpost expansion in the com will not comment on How hard Iaea ing Days. Head Mohamed Elba Radei will press the Road map plan launched last officials during his two Day visit Start year requires Israel to dismantle out ing today. Posts established after March 2001, Elba Radei himself has said that when Sharon became prime minister. Israel should Start talking seriously according to peace now 53 outposts about a Middle East free of nuclear fall in that category and another 44 arms whether or not it owes up to own were established before the cutoff ing them. Earlier this year he con Date. The Road map never got off the damned the imbalance caused in the ground with both Israel and the pales Middle East because of Israel sitting winians failing to fulfil their obligations. On nuclear Israel has dismantled a few outposts in his presentation on outposts Sneh most of them uninhabited. Peace now showed reporters photos he said Docu estimates that about 1,500 settlers live ment the expansion in four enclaves. In the enclaves. Photos taken in 2002 show a few Mobile ? associated press scandal inquiry Grants Access sex pm Gagliano get full standing by Jim Brown o Ottawa ? Jean Chr Tien and Alfonso Gagliano will have full Legal standing before a Public inquiry into the Federal sponsorship scandal Justice John Gomery ruled yesterday. The decision Means lawyers for the former prime minister and former pub Lic works minister will have Access to All documents and will be permitted to Cross examine witnesses. Those Are important Legal tools in protecting the interests of their clients who say their reputations Are at Sake in the inquiry. Gomery agreed that Chr Tien and Gagliano have a substantial and direct interest in the proceedings and should be granted standing. Others who will get the same treat ment include Jean Pelletier Chr Tien a former chief of staff Chuck Guit the retired bureaucrat at the Centre of the affair and Jean Lafleur head of Lafleur communication a Montreal and Agency that benefited from government Busi Ness. The Federal conservative party and the bloc sub Cois were not so Lucky in their quest to participate in hearings. Gomery granted them intervenor Sta Tus meaning their lawyers can Monitor proceedings but can to directly question witnesses. They will have to ask com Mission counsel to raise any Legal Points they consider important. Both parties had requested full stand ing. Partisan interests Gomery concluded however that it is not at All apparent that any political party has a direct stake in the inquiry other than its partisan such partisan concerns play an Essen tial role within the political system but should not form part of the commissions proceedings Gomery said. In the blocs Case he also rejected the party a Contention that it would bring a unique perspective to the inquiry because it is the Only Federal party that supports Quebec sovereignty. Gomery said the proper place to debate that kind of Issue is in a political forum not a judicial inquiry. All individuals and groups whether they have full standing or intervenor Sta Tus will be Able to apply to Gomery for Public funds to pay their Legal fees and some other expenses. Decisions will be made on a Case by Case basis with rulings to be announced july 19. Gomery a judge of Quebec Superior court was named by prime minister Paul Martin to investigate the sponsor ship program that saw millions in Public funds flow to Liberal Friendly and Agen cies and Public relations firms. Auditor general Sheila Fraser has said that although the ostensible purpose was to fight Quebec separatism in the late 1990s, it is questionable whether Ottawa got value for its Money. ? Canadian press indonesians facing presidential run off Jakarta Indonesia ? indonesian Vot ers frustrated by persistent corruption and poverty dealt a harsh blow to pres ident megawatt Sukarno utri with a Pri vate poll yesterday showing a former general pulling ahead to Force a run off in the country a presidential election. Susilo Bambang Yud Toyono appeared to ride a wave of Public dissatisfaction with megawatt who was locked in a tight race to even get a spot in the run off vote against Yud Toyono. Megawatt came to Power in 2001 after former president Abdurrahman Wahid was forced out of office by parliament. Voters complain of her perceived aloof Ness and failure to improve the Economy. A Runoff election in september appeared certain but it was not immediately Clear whether Yud Toyono would face megawatt or another sex general Miranto. Yesterdays vote took place six years after the ouster of longtime dicta Tor Suharto and was seen a key step in the transition to democracy in the worlds largest Muslim country. Yud Toyono failed to win the 50 per cent of votes needed for an outright Vic tory in the election according to the poll by the Washington based National democratic Institute. The democratic institutes poll of votes cast at 2,500 polling stations showed Yud Toyono ahead with 33.9 per cent. Sukarno utri was second with 24.9 per cent and Miranto had 23.8 per cent ;