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Officials killed minister: Karzai
Afghanistan’s interim leader Hamid Karzai said yesterday that rogue senior security officials of the Afghan interim administration assassinated Aviation and Tourism Minister Abdul Rahman. In a statement read out on his behalf by Culture Minister Sayed Raheem, Karzai said four people had been arrested, among them two military generals. Another three had escaped with Afghans who went for Haj, he said, adding the Saudi authorities had been asked to repatriate the fugitives. Karzai said the killing had been carried out “for personal reasons.” Speaking after the statement had been read, Karzai told reporters that the case against those arrested was based on “absolute, multiple eyewitness accounts.” The killing “had nothing to do with Haj pilgrims,” Karzai said. Earlier, officials had said Rahman was beaten to death by furious pilgrims who had waited more than two days for a flight to the Kingdom.

In another development, Afghan police fired shots into the air and set off smoke bombs to control fans as a long-awaited “Game of Unity” between a Kabul team and foreign troops degenerated into mayhem yesterday. German and Dutch soldiers used batons and shields to hold back thousands of people without tickets to the match, some of whom threw stones at them and into the stadium.
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Israel-Palestine
Israelis kill two, knock down buildings
Israeli warplanes carried out a raid on the Jabalia refugee camp for Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip, killing one person and wounding 25 others, Palestinian security officials said. One Palestinian was shot dead by troops earlier in the day. Abdel-Salam Yunis was found dead under the rubble of the Palestinian public security headquarters in the area destroyed by the raid, according to the same sources. Israeli planes fired three rockets. Among those wounded in the Israeli strike are civilians and members of the Palestinian security forces, Palestinian medical sources said.

Moaweyah Abu Hassanein, chief of emergency at Shifa Hospital in Gaza said the hospital received one slain Palestinian public security officer and 25 injured. Witnesses said nurses and firefighters were trying to remove the body of another killed public security officer from underneath the rubble of the destroyed building. The witnesses said the F-16 flew over Gaza for about 10 minutes before starting to fire rockets at the building, adding that three big explosions were heard in the area. They said ambulances and firefighters arrived at the scene to battle the flames.
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Southeast Asia
Gov’t, MILF to form monitoring groups in 11 areas
The government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have agreed to set up ceasefire teams in at least 11 areas in the southern island of Mindanao to monitor and record truce violations by both parties. In a joint statement signed on Feb. 12, both parties said they supported the Coordinating Committee on the Cessation of Hostilities (CCCH) quest for “a peaceful mechanism to prevent conflicts” between government and MILF forces. Eid Kabalu, MILF spokesman, said the teams would be posted in the provinces of Maguindanao, Lanao del Sur, Lanao del Norte, Cotabato province, Sarangani, Zamboanga del Sur, Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga Sibugay, Basilan, Sultan Kudarat and South Cotabato.
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