The Taliban assailants apparently thought they were attacking an unprotected Christian-run day care center. But they mistakenly burst into the compound next door, where American government contractor Roots of Peace employees were heavily armed and ready, according to accounts that the contractor and the Afghan police gave on Friday of a wild four-hour shootout here.
Afghan officials said all five Taliban attackers were killed, including one who did away with himself. The corpse count also included two Afghan civilians, one of them a young girl. Two Roots of Peace guards were maimed. The shootout was the latest in a series of deadly attacks on foreign journalists, aid workers and visitors since January, in the midst of heavy security for the Afghan presidential election campaign.
Friday's attack took place in Kabul's well-to-do Karte Seh area where many foreign aid groups have offices and homes. Afghanistan has more than 2,000 registered nongovernmental organizations, most with offices in the capital. Most live in unguarded or lightly guarded guesthouses or individual homes, but those with government contracts, like Roots of Peace, often employ guards.
The residents in the group's house included the two Americans and an Australian, a Malaysian and a South African, who was the group's security adviser. The group runs agricultural and demining programs in Afghanistan, as well as in Israel, Croatia and Vietnam.
A four hour engagement? Local police and quick reaction force out of town at the time, or are Christian-run day care centers a lower level response category ?
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ALL OF THE ABOVE : police and qrf were at a sensitivity training course (make people more aware of their own prejudices and more sensitive to others, Taliban included.) As far as the ranking of Christain Daycare Centers in the heart of Mooslimb Country - well lets say they rank below a jewish wedding party - Christian-run day care centers are at lower level response category
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Local police and quick reaction force out of town at the time, or are Christian-run day care centers a lower level response category ?
Apparently the police went to the daycare center first, evacuated it, then set up a security perimeter. I suspect that took time, what with terrified kiddies and soft (judging by the picture)civilians involved.
And evaluating the various news reports, it was a room-to-room search-and-clear (flash-bang grenades, etc.,) something I suspect took time, what with a rabbit-warren of rooms, local cops not having done that sort of thing regularly, civilians in the way and all.
But then again- what do I know - I only trained in doing search-and-clear for a few years. Granted, that was a decade or two ago, but I'll bow to the more experienced commenters on this thread.
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Quick Reaction Force [QRF] perimeter security team and assault team tasks, clearing, etc, can run concurrently. From the relative safety of my rocking chair and front porch, four hours appears a bit lengthy. But again, my chair and front porch. Just saying.
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Perhaps. We're talking local cops who, again, likely haven't done this before. It occurred in a well-to-do expatriate area. Meaning most of the security is private and the local cops are not familiar with individual buildings. Given any kind of incident like this, there was also probably interference from higher-up, both Afghani and foreign.
Rocking chair, front porch - got it. However, given that it's Afghanistan, a place you've more familiarity with than I, I'm surprised you thought four hours was too long.
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All of what you've said, spot on. My thinking was more along the lines of high-profile Karte Seh area of Kubal, the nation's capital and the embarrassment of another Taliban security breach. Once again, you'd have to be there to sort it out, and thankfully I wasn't.
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Daisies got roots. Pushing them up is very peaceful.
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My thinking was more along the lines of high-profile Karte Seh area of Kubal, the nation's capital and the embarrassment of another Taliban security breach.
Wasn't that one with inside contacts? Might be something for our illustrious SecState to bring up with Karzai, when the former isn't trying to get the Israelis to commit slow-suicide...
[Tolo News] At least five insurgents, including their commander, were killed in clashes with Afghan forces in north-eastern Badakhshan province over the course of the past 24 hours, local security officials said Sunday morning.
Mr. Saleem said the operation successfully cleared the Germ district of insurgents.
The confrontation began in the Soch village of Jurm district, when militants initiated an attack on Afghan soldiers on patrol, said Jawid Saleem, a spokesman for the Afghan Commando division in the region.
The commander of the militant contingent, Sayed Shah, was killed during the clash.
No civilian or military casualties were reported.
Mr. Saleem said the operation successfully cleared the Jurm district of insurgents. The district has traditionally be one the most insecure parts of Badakhshan, however, if officials' reports are accurate then its stabilization comes at an opportune time, just days before the presidential and provincial council elections.
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Unable to stop next Saturday's Afghan presidential election, the Taleban and their allies are ramping up violence, even killing children, to create a climate of fear and discredit the poll.
For many Afghans, the renewed spike in violence is a reminder of the fear that beset voters the last time they were asked to head to the polls.
In the Mahala Najat district of Kandahar city — the former capital of the Taleban regime when they ruled Afghanistan from 1996 until the US-led invasion in 2001 — shopkeeper Ahmad Gul sits under a tired orange awning. He recalls how during the last election day on August 20 2009 a group of Taleban fired four rockets just metres from his shop at the provincial governor's residence, frightening the local population and contributing to a record low voter turnout for Kandahar — just five per cent.
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And these are the people Obama and Company thinks we should negotiate with. Or he would if he thought he could get away with it.
A town in the Hiiraan region known as Moqokori is reported of have being seized after a strong battle took place last night between co-allied Somali National Army and African Union troops against Al-Shabaab terrorist insurgents.
Witness accounted that the encounter arose late during the night in Moqokori with Al-Shabaab Islamist militants provoking the pro-government troops. Reports indicate that gunshots were fired from automatic weapons although specific numbers of wounds sustained are unclear.
Government security officials in Moqokori claim that after Al-Shabaab terrorists attacked the army and were compelled to retaliate. He also mentioned that none of his soldiers or of the African Union troops were injured.
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Physical confrontations occurred between Somali National Army soldiers backed by the African Union troops in Somalia (AMISOM) against Al-Shabaab in Gendershe, Lower Shabelle region.
Yesterday, fighters from the Al-Shabaab terrorist insurgents staged an attack on a military base belonging to the African Union troops and Somali National Army.
Until now, casualties sustained in Gendershe are unclear although locals are reporting that the situation in the town is peaceful.
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An IED bomb was planted underground in Mogadishu and detonated as an African Union convoy passed by near Suuqa Xoolaha. The AMISOM soldiers halted the movements of citizens and public transports immediately after the blast.
Precise numbers of casualties have not been announced although it is speculated that the bomb was targeted at the African Union troops.
Witnesses tell Shabelle that the soldiers immediately fired gunshots to scatter away the onlookers near Suuqa Xoolaha.
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[An Nahar] An Egyptian minister on Sunday accused an editor of Al-Jazeera ... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means the Peninsula, as in the Arabian Peninsula. In recent years it has settled in to become slightly less biased than MSNBC, in about the same category as BBC or CBS... television of helping leak classified intelligence documents in an espionage case involving deposed president Mohammed Morsi ...the former president of Egypt. A proponent of the One Man, One Vote, One Time principle, Morsi won election after the deposal of Hosni Mubarak and jumped to the conclusion it was his turn to be dictator...
The accusation came a day before a trial of three journalists with the Doha-based broadcaster resumes in Cairo on charges of spreading false news and supporting Morsi's Moslem Brüderbund.
Interior minister Mohammed Ibrahim charged that Amin El-Serafi, secretary to Morsi, leaked the intelligence documents to Ibrahim Mohammed Hilal, who he said was Al-Jazeera's news editor and also a member of the Moslem Brüderbund.
Hilal allegedly facilitated a meeting between a Paleostinian go-between, a Qatari official and an operative with an unspecified intelligence agency.
A source in Al-Jazeera dismissed Ibrahim's accusation.
"No one is going to take this seriously," the source told Agence La Belle France Presse on condition of anonymity.
"Instead of picking up yet another silly conspiracy theory, the Egyptian authorities should be concentrating on releasing our journalists whom they have been holding unjustly for months."
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[Ynet] Three Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,gunnies who infiltrated into Sinai from Gazoo were tossed in the calaboose Please don't kill me! on suspicion of conspiring to assassinate former Egyptian defense minister Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who is running for president, according to Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai.
The three carried a coded letter with instructions to execute the liquidation, passed by a senior Moslem Brüderbund official who escaped to Gazoo.
[Ynet] Egyptian security officials say suspected gunnies have attacked a military bus carrying coppers in the restive Sinai Peninsula, killing the soldier driving it.
They say three police were maimed in the Sunday ambush in the town of Sheik Zuwayed on the road to Rafah on the border with Gazoo.
[An Nahar] Chadian soldiers sent to repatriate their compatriots from the Central African Republic opened fire on residents in Bangui, killing at least eight people, the African peacekeeping force MISCA said Sunday.
The incident happened on Saturday when some Chadian soldiers "opened fire on residents of the northern neighborhoods (in Bangui), leaving at least eight people dead and several maimed," an officer with the MISCA force who requested anonymity told Agence La Belle France Presse.
"We don't know at present what led to the firing on the residents... but we are trying to gather information to find out what exactly happened," he said, adding that the number of dead and maimed could be higher.
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[NIGERIANEYE] No fewer than 20 Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... detainees have been rubbed out in a shoutout that ensued this morning at the Department of State Security Service in the Asokoro a district of Abuja.
It was learnt that the shoutout erupted when some of the suspected Death Eaters attempted to free their members and leave the detention facility, which is by the precincts of the Presidential Villa.
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[An Nahar] Two members of Yemen's auxiliary Popular Resistance Committees were killed in an overnight ambush by presumed al-Qaeda members in the south, a member of the pro-government militia said on Sunday.
He said the men were bumped off on the road between Loder and Moudia northeast of Zinjibar, the capital of Abyan ...a governorate of Yemen. The region was a base to the Aden-Abyan Islamic Army terrorist group until it dropped the name and joined al-Qaeda. Its capital is Zinjibar. In March 2011, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula declared the governate an Islamic Emirate after seizing control of the region. The New York Times fastidiously reported that those in control, while Islamic hard boyz, are not in fact al-Qaeda, but something else that looks, tastes, smells, and acts the same. Yemeni government forces launched an effort to re-establish control of the region when President-for-Life Saleh was tossed and the carnage continues... province.
The attackers, who escaped after the killings, "are presumed to be in al-Qaeda", he added.
The global jihadist network's Yemen branch, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), is viewed by Washington as its most dangerous and has claimed repeated deadly attacks, including in the heart of the capital Sanaa.
Members of the Popular Resistance Committees, who are recruited from tribes, backed a government offensive that led to security forces retaking Abyan province in June 2012 after it was under AQAP control for a year.
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[An Nahar] A Bahraini court on Sunday tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... 16 Shiites for life and two others 10 years for an attack that maimed two coppers in a village near Manama, a judicial source said.
Authorities in the Sunni-ruled, but Shiite majority, kingdom, who have been facing a Shiite-led unrest since 2011, increased last year the penalties for those convicted of violence, introducing the death penalty or life sentences in certain cases.
Those sentenced Sunday were charged with "possessing molotov cocktails and using them to attack police" in the Shiite village of Athari earlier this month, the source said.
They were also accused of "burning down a vehicle belonging to the interior ministry" and "taking part in an unauthorized protest."
Bahrain, home to the U.S. Fifth Fleet, remains deeply divided three years after a quashed Shiite-led uprising, with persistent protests sparking festivities with police, scores of Shiites tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... on "terror" charges and reconciliation talks deadlocked.
The International Federation for Human Rights says at least 89 people have been killed in Bahrain since the uprising began in February 2011.
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A terror suspect who trained the ringleader of the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London has been allowed to set up an Islamic primary school, teaching children as young as three, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
As a member of a banned extremist group, Sajeel Shahid, 38, called for violence against British troops and ran a training camp in Pakistan where known terrorists learned how to make bombs and fire rocket- propelled grenades.
One of his 'graduates' was Mohammed Siddique Khan, who led the gang of four suicide bombers on the deadliest terrorist attack ever committed in Britain, killing 52 people on the London Underground and a bus on July 7, 2005.
Shahid also allegedly trained four convicted terrorists who tried to blow up the Bluewater Shopping Centre in Kent and London's Ministry of Sound nightclub in a foiled plot.
The jihadist -- who was raised in Britain but spent years in Pakistan after the 9/11 attacks -- was detained for three months in 2005 by the Pakistani security forces over his suspected links to Al Qaeda. He had been running the Pakistan branch of the banned British extremist group Al-Muhajiroun. After his detention he was expelled from the country.
So even though he repudiates everything Britain stands for, the Brits took him back after the Paks said he was too crazy for them...
But despite being known to British security services, on his return to the UK he was given permission to set up an independent primary school, where he taught lessons and employed his brother -- who also has a history of extremism -- as head of IT.
The Department for Education said last night it was 'urgently' looking into Shahid's case, which critics said exposed the lack of checks on potentially dangerous individuals who set up schools in the UK.
They're now looking into after letting him back into the country in 2005?
Lord Carlile, the Government's former adviser on counter-terrorism, said: 'It is a matter of real concern that somebody should be able to slip through the net and run a school where there has been substantial concern about his activities in the past.
'People who have been involved in terrorist activity anywhere in the world should not be allowed to run schools, unless there is the clearest evidence they have rejected the views that made them turn towards terrorism.'
Keith Vaz, chairman of the Home Affairs Committee which is investigating terrorism, including extremism in schools, said: 'It's extremely worrying a person with such a history, which should be of concern to the relevant authorities, should be in such a position. The DfE needs to look into this urgently.'
How about expelling the man to Mauritania?
Documents seen by The Mail on Sunday show Shahid was registered as director and proprietor of the Ad-Deen Primary School in Ilford, Essex, which teaches 54 pupils aged three to 11. He is thought to have founded the Â2,000-a-year school in 2009, where, using the pseudonym Abu Ibrahim, he taught children to recite the Koran. He was able to operate his school for five years, despite the DfE launching a Due Diligence and Counter-Extremism Unit in 2010 to prevent individuals with a history of extremist beliefs running schools.
A cursory internet check on Shahid reveals his past as a terror suspect, as he even has a profile on Wikipedia stating his involvement with Al-Muhajiroun, the group founded by Omar Bakri Mohammed.
In 2001, Bakri sent Shahid and his elder brother Adeel, 39, also a member of Al-Muhajiroun, to Pakistan to set up a branch of the group there. In December 2001, Shahid gave an interview to a British newspaper. He said: 'We say the Pakistan army, navy and air-force should be fighting US and British forces which are killing our Islamic brothers and sisters in Afghanistan. We see the US and British governments as the biggest terrorists in the world.'
He also called on Muslims to rise up and 'throw out their rulers implementing kufr [infidel] laws to be replaced by the Islamic law and order,' adding, 'jihad was the only solution for Muslim lands under occupation.'
More of Shahid's history at the link.
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[DAWN] Police foiled a possible terrorist attack by killing a suspected bully boy and recovered a suicide jacket, hand grenade and a pistol from his possession here on Sunday.
DSP Headquarters, Sanaullah Khan told media persons that, in the pursuance the directives of IGP Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... , police started a campaign against unregistered cycle of violences in the city.
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Shifted? Yeah like in a 5 gal slop bucket.
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[DAWN] Three more dead bodies were recovered from a mass grave in Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... 's Khuzdar district on Sunday, a levies official said.
A levies official, who requested anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media, told Dawn.com that three more dead bodies were recovered from a mass grave in Totak area of Khuzdar.
"The dead bodies have been shifted to civil hospital for identification," he said.
The mass grave was discovered on January 25th this year. According to levies, hitherto 16 dead bodies have been recovered from the grave.
Two dead bodies were identified by their relatives, whereas the remaining corpses are yet to be identified.
The recovery of the mass-grave in Balochistan was vehemently criticised by rights groups.
And their severe criticism prompted the Balochistan government to launch a judicial inquiry into the incident.
Similarly, the Supreme Court had also taken suo moto notice of the mass grave.
Baloch nationalists groups and voice for Baloch missing persons claim that most of the dead bodies were of missing Baloch political workers in the province.
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[DAWN] Nineteen people were maimed on Sunday after two blasts in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
Sixteen people were maimed in a blast near Bara Qadeem area of Sarband near the border of Khyber Agency.
Two of the injured are said to be in a critical condition.
Another blast in front of a house in Zargarabad area of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. also left three people injured, including two women and a child.
According to the police, the first blast occurred in an auto-workshop near the Bara Qadeem checkpost but its nature has not yet been confirmed.
In the aftermath the blast rescue teams rushed to the scene of the incident.
The second blast took place in front of a house.
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[Ynet] An attack at a security checkpoint and a suicide boom-mobile in Iraq killed 12 people and destroyed a bridge on Sunday, said officials.
Police officials said the deadlier attack took place when attackers sprayed with bullets a group of troops manning a checkpoint early Sunday, near the city of djinn-infested Mosul ... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn... , 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Storied Baghdad. Police said seven soldiers were killed in the attack.
Thirteen of the 72 New People's Army (NPA) militants who surrendered to the Philippine military in Cagayan de Oro City were children, while a number of them were minors when they joined the insurgency, the military said. Armed Forces chief of staff Gen. Emmanuel Bautista, who flew in for the surrender ceremony Friday, said the recruitment of child warriors is a violation of the rules of war, and is clearly prohibited under the Comprehensive Agreement on Respect for Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law.
According to the military, most of those who surrendered were regular NPA members while the others belonged to the so-called Militia ng Bayan operating in the hinterlands of Caraga and Northern Mindanao regions. Bautista said, "Thirteen of those who surrendered were minors and most of them were from the indigenous communities in the hinterlands of Bukidnon, Agusan and Surigao in the Caraga region."
Bautista said the NPA should stop using children as warriors. He said, "These are just 13 child warriors who, after years of being with the NPA, decided to lay down their arms and try to live a normal life. There could be more (child warriors) out there in the mountains."
The returnees received compensation for the guns they surrendered. In addition to financial assistance, the militant returnees will also be placed in the Social Integration and Livelihood Program, under which they will be given farms to tend.
Two policemen were killed and three others were injured by a bomb while on the way to provide security for a polling unit in Rueso district of Narathiwat province on Sunday morning.
The incident occurred while five policemen were heading to the polling unit for the Senate election. A bomb planted on the road was activated by terrorists militants while the police vehicle passed over it.
The explosion toppled one of the pickup trucks carrying five officers, overturning the vehicle and scattering debris. Police found a long detonation chord attached to the bomb that was detonated by an unknown group of attackers thought to be hiding in a roadside bush.
Pol Lt Col Ekkapol Leknok said intelligence reports indicated that Humsan Useng, a key member of a local separatist group, had stolen two empty gas cylinders in the area on Saturday. He said police investigators believe Mr Humsan is connected to the attack and are attempting to track him down for questioning.
[An Nahar] The so-called Free Sunnis of Baalbek Brigade on Sunday published a picture of a man it identified as Abdul Qader Taan, describing him as the jacket wallah who blew up Saturday an army checkpoint in Arsal's outskirts.
"This is the picture of the martyr hero Abdul Qader Taan, who blew up the 'Crusader army' in Arsal," reads the caption of the photograph that was published on the group's Twitter account.
The shadowy Brigade did not mention the man's nationality or age.
The group had grabbed credit for the deadly attack overnight Saturday, saying it was in retaliation to the army's killing of the runaway Sami al-Atrash during a raid in Arsal.
On Saturday evening, three Lebanese soldiers were killed and four others maimed in a suicide kaboom on a military checkpoint in the area of Wadi Ata in Arsal.
The runaway al-Atrash died in hospital on Thursday after he was critically maimed in an exchange of gunfire with an army patrol that raided his house in Arsal.
An army statement said al-Atrash "was wanted on charges of preparing bomb-laden cars; firing rockets and mortars at Lebanese villages and towns; kidnapping citizens; taking part in killing four citizens in Arsal's Wadi Rafeq and several soldiers in Arsal's Wadi Hmayyed; and plotting to assassinate an officer with an bomb."
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[Ynet] Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Before going into the family business Pencilneck was an eye doctor. If he'd stuck with it he'd have had a good practice by now... 's regime is continuing to use chemical weapons, according to claims by the Syrian National Coalition, a member of the opposition to the Syrian government.
The organization said the Syrian army attacked a suburb of Damascus with poisonous gasses on Friday. They claim three people were killed and 25 injured in the attack.
A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden car targeted a Lebanese army checkpoint near the Syrian border on Saturday evening, killing three soldiers, the Lebanese military said.
The attack near the eastern border town of Arsal killed three soldiers and wounded another four, a military statement said. Military helicopters rushed to rescue the wounded from the rugged mountainous area, said the army statement.
The Ahrar al-Sunna in Baalbek Brigade, an extremist group,
...who??...
claimed responsibility for the bombing. The group described the attack as a âheroic operation that targeted the crusader army in Arsalâ in a message posted on Twitter.
The group said the bombing was to avenge the Lebanese army killing of a suspected militant during an arrest raid on Thursday, and for Hezbollahâs participation in the Syrian conflict. The group âshould not think it will not be punished for killing innocents in Syria,â one message read.
The bombing shook windows in the town of Arsal, less than a mile (one kilometre) away, said deputy mayor Ahmad Fliti.
Following the bombing, a woman and child were killed by Lebanese soldiers who opened fire on their vehicle after the drive did not stop at another Arsal checkpoint, Lebanonâs state news said.
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Another Sunni Muslim group with suspected links to al Qaeda called Liwa Ahrar al-Sunna in Baalbek.
The group is opposed to Hezbollah's involvement in the Syrian war. Killed Senior Hezbollah leader Hassan al-Laqqis, who fought in Syria's civil war for the Lebanese Shi'ite militia, was shot dead outside his home on December 4 2013.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Afghan officials said all five Taliban attackers were killed, including one who 
Unable to stop next Saturday's Afghan presidential election, the Taleban and their allies are ramping up violence, even killing children, to create a climate of fear and discredit the poll.
... an Arab news network headquartered in Qatar, notorious for carrying al-Qaeda press releases. The name means 
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A terror suspect who trained the ringleader of the 7/7 terrorist bombings in London has been allowed to set up an Islamic primary school, teaching children as young as three, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
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A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden car targeted a Lebanese army checkpoint near the Syrian border on Saturday evening, killing three soldiers, the Lebanese military said.
