More US forces have been sent to eastern Afghanistan to bolster military operations in the Tora Bora region. US military were helping Afghan allies in a search of caves in the region for remnants of al-Qaeda forces.
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U.S. warplanes bombed a convoy of tribal elders going to Kabul to attend the swearing in of an interim government, killing 65 people after locals misinformed the Pentagon. But a Pentagon official said the convoy was believed to be carrying leaders of the Taliban or al Qaeda. Sources in the area said that one of the dead was Mohammad Ibrahim, a brother of former mujahideen commander Jalaluddin Haqqani. Haqqani was the tribal affairs minister in the Taliban government.
Oops. Sorry about that.
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US troops and Afghan militia forces are holding some 7,000 Taliban and Al-Qaeda prisoners, the coalition's spokesman said. There was no way as yet of breaking out which were native Afghans and which were al-Qaeda and other foreigners.
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Gunmen killed the brother of Pakistan's interior minister Moinuddin Haider in Karachi. There was speculation that the killing of Ehtishamuddin Haider, 50, could be linked to the minister's tough comments against terrorism in recent weeks. Ehtishamuddin, who had no political office, was leaving a blood donation center when he was gunned down by two men on a motorbike.
"Stop calling us terrorists or we'll kill your family." Yes, that seems to fit the definition.
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White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said while Gen. Pervez Musharraf has condemned the attacks on India and promised to deal with those involved in them, President Bush wants Musharraf to take a tougher stand against the Lashkar-i-Taiba. "The president will support President Musharraf in his efforts against terrorism," Fleischer said, reassuringly.
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Pakistan has declined to accept the bodies of the five terrorists who attacked the Indian Parliament on December 13 and asked India to agree to its proposal for a joint inquiry into the incident.
"Just take the damned things, they're starting to stink."
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Somalia has made a show of its allegiance to the international fight against terrorism by announcing the arrest in Mogadishu of eight foreigners allegedly linked to terrorism. But there were reports that at least some of those detained were Iraqi refugees, dumped in Somalia with no way of leaving. The eight were arrested by a "counter-terrorism task force" in several swoops and were being questioned by intelligence services.
"I don't care. Just arrest somebody. I'm tellin' you, the Americans ain't kiddin' around!"
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In the Jabaliya refugee camp north of Gaza City, Mahmud Abdel Rahman Alemkayad, 17, was killed in crossfire between security forces and militants. A first gunbattle erupted when Palestinian security forces prevented Hamas militants from launching a mortar attack, the kind they're not launching anymore. Five Hamas were arrested and five security officers wounded, one seriously. A short time later, Hamas supporters stormed the scene and threw rocks and opened fire on the security forces as they tried to take the arrested militants to a nearby police station. Twenty people were wounded in the attempt to free the arrested militants.
And a wonderful Palestinian time was had by all, except for Mahmud.
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Three Tunisians suspected of being members of al-Qaida were indicted in Italy on charges they sought to obtain and transport arms, explosives and chemicals. The men -- Riadh Jelassi, Mehdi Kammoun and Adel Ben Soltane -- were part of a group arrested earlier this year in a series of crackdowns on Islamic terrorists. Another four men, arrested as part of the same probe, are seeking a fast-track trial that would allow for a reduced sentence. Among the four is Essid Sami Ben Khemais, the alleged head of bin Laden's European logistics. Spanish police are investigating whether Khemais, who was arrested in April in Italy, met with Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta earlier this year in Spain.
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India is helping Bhutan in its proposed military action to drive out insurgents of the North East from that country. With a December 31 deadline for the insurgents belonging to the United Liberation Front of Asom and National Democratic Front of Bodoland to pack their bags approaching, the Royal Bhutan Army and the countryâs militia units have moved into combat mode. The deadline (loosely translated) said, "Be out of Bhutan by December 31st or we'll kill you." Hope it works better than Nepal's ultimatum to its gunmen. The Big Question: Where are all these Bad Guys getting their money? When you kill the banker, you kill the gunman.
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Hamas has officially announced it will end military operations "inside the occupied lands of 1948 and the halting of the firing of mortar shells until further notice."
Islamic Jihad will have to pick up the slack, while Hamas gives cover to Arafat.
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Islamic Jihad will "continue its resistance" against Israeli occupation, its leader Ramadan Abdullah Shalah vowed in a speech in a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria. He nevertheless assured that his movement would not retaliate to the crackdown on Islamist militants by Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. "We will not go down the slippery slope of the internal conflict, Palestinian blood is for us a red line even if our blood is boiling," he said.
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Pakistan will freeze the assets and accounts of Umma Tameer-e-Nau, accused by Washington of helping Osama bin Laden. An announcement about action against Lashkar-e-Taiba will be made tomorrow.
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Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh told top government and military officials that his government was committed to confronting lawlessness. The government "will continue its efforts by hitting with an iron hand all those who try to infringe on the security of the nation and its citizens," Saleh said.
Suggested new slogan for the tourist office: "Yemen: We're not as lawless as Afghanistan!"
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A new cologne brand named Osama Bin Laden is on sale in Lahore. Several stores in Pakistan are selling items by the name of Bin Laden. Is that the smell of fear? I understand you can get his tee-shirts cheap.
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The Saudi defense minister and the country's newspapers have rebuked the U.S. media, accusing them of campaigning against the kingdom. Newspaper editorials condemned the American press, warning that Saudi patience "has its limits."
What're they gonna do, send another twenty or so people to smash planes into our buildings? Or fund more subversive organizations within the USA? Or send another younger son to start an international band of mercenaries to kill Americans? Or will they do to our country what they did to Dagestan? Good thing American patience has no limits, isn't it?
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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.
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