Six people were killed and an unknown number were injured on 22-23 February when commanders loyal to former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani's Jamiat-e Islami party clashed in Faryab Province's Pashtunkot District with commanders loyal to Deputy Defense Minister General Abdul Rashid Dostum's Junbish-e Melli party. Iranian radio reported that the fighting began after an Interior Ministry delegation arrived to replace Faryab Province Governor Mohammad Saleh Zari. Hindukosh news agency cited General Abdul Sabur, an official from the Mazar-e Sharif military corps, which is allied with Jamiat-e Islami, as saying forces loyal to General Dostum initiated the battle when they attacked troops led by Abdul Rasul, a commander loyal to Jamiat-e Islami. Sabur said the fighting ended on 23 February. Zari is believed to be loyal to Dostum. I wonder how it came out in the end, though? I view Rabbani with more suspicion than I do Dostum, but at the same time I'd like to see Karzai's central government authority extended to the north...
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Iraqi President Saddam Hussein indicated in an interview that he has no plans to comply with a UN demand to destroy his banned Al-Samoud 2 missiles, even as the US and its allies formally submitted a draft resolution early today to the UN Security Council seeking authority to disarm Iraq by force. Saddam flatly denied that even his most advanced Al-Samoud missiles violate UN restrictions, indicating he does not intend to destroy them as demanded by chief UN inspector Hans Blix, CBS television anchor Dan Rather said on CBS Radio after conducting the exclusive exchange. That's what he said on the teevee. Let's see if he backs down now. If not, it's a go, regardless of what the UNSC says...
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02/25/2003 5:04:39 AM ||
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Four U.S. soldiers were killed in Kuwait on Tuesday when their helicopter crashed during training in the desert, the U.S. military said. Their UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter went down near Camp New Jersey, a temporary U.S. military base 30 miles north of Kuwait City, while conducting night training, a U.S. military statement said. The four were the only people aboard. The soldiers' identification is being withheld pending notification of next-of-kin. The cause of the crash is under investigation. Good guys, each one. Rest in peace.
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Tajikistan's Supreme Court has sentenced 11 Islamic militants to death and jailed 74 of their comrades after finding them guilty of murder and kidnapping. The gang previously fought for the United Tajik Opposition under renegades Rahman Sanginov and Masur Muaklov, who were killed by government forces in 2001. The impoverished Central Asian republic was ravaged by civil war in 1992-1997. The chief military judge of the Tajik Supreme Court said the defendants were guilty of massacring civilians, hostage-taking, looting and terrorising the capital Dushanbe and other districts during and after the war. The 11, who were sentenced to death at two separate trials, will face the firing squad. One man was freed on health grounds while the others received jail terms ranging from 18 months to 25 years. A Supreme Court spokesman said the gang had committed more than 400 murders and taken many hostages between 1995 and 2000. The attacks were carried out despite a United Nations-brokered peace deal which ended five years of fighting between warring factions in the former Soviet republic in 1997. Another UN brokered gang war.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
