Asaki.or.id – Jkt, Ukurannya yang tergolong mungil ternyata tidak menghalangi keenam gadget rekomendasi Cosmo berikut untuk menghadirkan fitur yang memukau :

1. Creative Travel Sound 200, portable speaker berdimensi 56x175x68mm, yang bisa digunakan untuk portable CD, MP3, dan notebook ( harga: Rp. 339.000,- )

2. Sanyo Xacti VPC-C6, digital movie trendy dengan dimensi 68x108x23mm dan total resolusi hingga 6.37megapixel, lensa zoom high refraction glass, format rekaman MPEG-4 dan dilengkapi digital image stabilizer. (harga: Rp. 5.500.000,- )

3. Samsung YP-Z5F, portable audio player dengan ukuran 42.2×89.8×12.3mm, memori internal 4GB, 3D surround sound, raduo FM, voice recorder, photo slide show. ( Harga : by request )

4. Nokia 7380, stylish phone berukuran 114x30x20mm dan berat 80 gram, dengan fasilitas MP3, bluetooth, 52MB memori internal, kamera VGA 2megapixel. ( Harga : Rp. 4.000.000,- )

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Asaki.or.id – Jakarta, Pada tanggal 5 – 13 Agustus 2006 akan diselenggarakan Pameran Produk Indonesia 2006, yang merupakan ajang pameran dari Departemen Perindustrian setiap 5 tahun sekali, untuk tahun ini berlokasi di Pekan Raya Jakarta. ASAKI sebagai anak dari Direktorat Jenderal Industri Kimia Hilir akan juga berpartisipasi dalam pameran ini dengan menghadirkan 20 booth yang diisi oleh anggota – anggota ASAKI, antara lain: Mulia Keramik, Milan, TOTO, American Standard, Haengnam Sejahtera Indonesia, Lucky Indah Keramik, Arwana, Kemenangan Jaya, Kanmuri, Roman, Essenza dll. Tiap – tiap produsen keramik anggota ASAKI ini akan berada dalam 1 area yang dinamakan Pavilliun ASAKI. Dengan didukung pelaksanaannya oleh DEBINDO, pameran ini sangat diharapkan dapat menampilkan citra produsen keramik dalam negeri.

Asaki.or.id – Miami, MIAMI – Seven people were arrested Thursday in connection with the early stages of a plot to attack Chicago’s Sears Tower and other buildings in the U.S., including the FBI office here, a federal law enforcement official said.

The official told The Associated Press the alleged plotters were mainly Americans with no apparent ties to al-Qaida or other foreign terrorist organizations. He spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to pre-empt news conferences planned for Friday in Washington and Miami.

Miami U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta said in a statement that the investigation was an ongoing operation and that more details would be released Friday.

“There is no imminent threat to Miami or any other area because of these operations,” said Richard Kolko, spokesman for FBI headquarters in Washington. He declined further comment.

FBI Director Robert Mueller, questioned about the case during an appearance on CNN’s “Larry King Live,” said he couldn’t offer many details because “it’s an ongoing operation.”

“We are conducting a number of arrests and searches” in Miami, Mueller said, which were expected to be wrapped up Friday morning.

Managers of the Sears Tower, the nation’s tallest building, said in a statement that they speak regularly with the FBI and local law enforcement about terror threats and that Thursday “was no exception.”

“Law enforcement continues to tell us that they have never found evidence of a credible terrorism threat against Sears Tower that has gone beyond criminal discussions,” the statement said.

Residents living near the warehouse said the men taken into custody described themselves as Muslims and had tried to recruit young people to join their apparently militaristic group.

The residents said FBI agents spent several hours in the neighborhood showing photos of the suspects and seeking information. They said the men, who appeared to be in their teens or 20s, had lived in the area about a year.

The men slept in the warehouse, said Tashawn Rose, 29. “They would come out late at night and exercise. It seemed like a military boot camp that they were working on there. They would come out and stand guard.”

She talked to one of the men about a month ago: “They seemed brainwashed. They said they had given their lives to Allah.”

Rose said the men tried to recruit her younger brother and nephew for a karate class. “It was weird,” she said.

Benjamin Williams, 17, said the group had young children with them sometimes. Sometimes, he added, the men “would cover their faces. Sometimes they would wear things on their heads, like turbans.”

Xavier Smith, who attends the nearby United Christian Outreach, said the men would often come by the church and ask for water.

“They were very private,” said Smith, 33. “The spoke with like an accent, sort of a Jamaican accent.”

The warehouse owner declined comment. “I heard the news just like you guys,” George F. Mobassaleh told the AP. “I can’t talk to you.”

Gov. Jeb Bush was briefed on the situation Thursday, according to his spokeswoman, Alia Faraj.

“We have great confidence in the federal, state and local law enforcement agencies who are committed to keeping our country safe,” Faraj said.

She added that there has been greater communication between state and federal agencies since the 2001 terror attacks.

Security at the 110-floor Sears Tower, a Chicago landmark, was ramped up after the Sept. 11 attacks, and the 103rd-floor skydeck was closed for about a month and a half.

A spokesman for Gov. Rod Blagojevich said Illinois officials had been in contact with the FBI about the arrests. He would not comment further, referring additional questions to the FBI.

The FBI’s headquarters in Miami sits near a residential neighborhood just east of Interstate 95.

A huge crowd — up to 250,000 people — was expected downtown Friday for a parade to honor the NBA champion Miami Heat. Security measures consistent with such an event were in place, city officials said, and the raids were not expected to affect it.

Several terrorism investigations have had south Florida links. Several of the Sept. 11 hijackers lived and trained in the area, including ringleader Mohamed Atta, and several plots by Cuban-Americans against

Fidel Castro‘s government have been based in Miami.

Jose Padilla, a former resident once accused of plotting to detonate a radioactive bomb in the U.S., is charged in Miami with being part of a support cell for Islamic extremists. Padilla’s trial is set for this fall.

Asaki.or.id – Baghdad, BAGHDAD, Iraq – U.S. forces killed two Iraqi women — one of them about to give birth — when the troops shot at a car that failed to stop at an observation post in a city north of Baghdad, Iraqi officials and relatives said Wednesday. Nabiha Nisaif Jassim, 35, was being raced to the maternity hospital in Samarra by her brother when the shooting occurred Tuesday.

Jassim, the mother of two children, and her 57-year-old cousin, Saliha Mohammed Hassan, were killed by the U.S. forces, according to police Capt. Laith Mohammed and witnesses.

The U.S. military said coalition troops fired at a car after it entered a clearly marked prohibited area near an observation post but failed to stop despite repeated visual and auditory warnings.

“Shots were fired to disable the vehicle,” the military said in a statement e-mailed to The Associated Press. “Coalition forces later received reports from Iraqi police that two women had died from gunshot wounds … and one of the females may have been pregnant.”

Jassim’s brother, who was wounded by broken glass, said he did not see any warnings as he sped his sister to the hospital. Her husband was waiting for her there.

“I was driving my car at full speed because I did not see any sign or warning from the Americans. It was not until they shot the two bullets that killed my sister and cousin that I stopped,” he said. “God take revenge on the Americans and those who brought them here. They have no regard for our lives.”

He said doctors tried but failed to save the baby after his sister was brought to the hospital.

The shooting deaths occurred in the wake of an investigation into allegations that U.S. Marines killed unarmed civilians in the western city of Haditha.

The U.S. military said the incident in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, was being investigated. The city is in the heart of the so-called Sunni Triangle and has in the past seen heavy insurgent activity.

“The loss of life is regrettable and coalition forces go to great lengths to prevent them,” the military said.

The women’s bodies were wrapped in sheets and lying on stretchers outside the Samarra General Hospital before being taken to the morgue, while residents pointed to bullet holes on the windshield of a car and a pool of blood on the seat.

Khalid Nisaif Jassim, the pregnant woman’s brother, said American forces had blocked off the side road only two weeks ago and news about the observation post had been slow to filter out to rural areas.

He said the killings, like those in Haditha, were examples of random killings faced by Iraqis every day.

The killings at Haditha, a city that has been plagued by insurgents, came after a bomb rocked a military convoy on Nov. 19, killing a Marine. Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record), D-Pa., a decorated war veteran who has been briefed by military officials, has said Marines shot and killed unarmed civilians in a taxi at the scene and went into two homes and shot others.

Military investigators have evidence that points toward unprovoked murders by Marines, a senior defense official said last week.

In his first public comments on the incident, President Bushsaid he was troubled by the allegations, and that, “If in fact laws were broken, there will be punishment.”

Former Iraqi Foreign Minister Adnan Pachachi told the BBC that the allegations have “created a feeling of great shock and sadness and I believe that if what is alleged is true — and I have no reason to believe it’s not — then I think something very drastic has to be done.”

“There must be a level of discipline imposed on the American troops and change of mentality which seems to think that Iraqi lives are expendable,” said Pachachi, a member of parliament.

If confirmed as unjustified killings, the episode could be the most serious case of criminal misconduct by U.S. troops during three years of combat in Iraq. Until now the most infamous occurrence was the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse involving Army soldiers, which came to light in April 2004 and which Bush said he considered to be the worst U.S. mistake of the entire war.

Once the military investigation is completed, perhaps in June, it will be up to a senior Marine commander in Iraq to decide whether to press charges of murder or other violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.

The incident has sparked two investigations — one into the deadly encounter itself and another into whether it was the subject of a cover-up. The Marine Corps had initially attributed 15 civilian deaths to the car bombing and a firefight with insurgents, eight of whom the Marines reported had been killed.

“People in Samarra are very angry with the Americans not only because of Haditha case but because the Americans kill people randomly specially recently,” Khalid Nisaif Jassim said.