THE United Nations is to pull its non-essential foreign staff out of Afghanistan after a deadly Taliban attack on a guesthouse for UN workers, a spokesman said today.
"Around 600 non-Afghan staff will be temporarily relocated," Dan McNorton told AFP.
"The only people who will remain are regarded as essential staff.... This is to ensure the safety of all our staff in Afghanistan."
Nearly all the 600 will leave the country although a small number could be relocated within Afghanistan, he added.
The decision would be regularly reviewed and was expected to be effective for "a number of weeks."
The move comes eight days after a Taliban attack on a hostel in Kabul in which five UN workers were killed.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon held talks with security advisors in Kabul earlier this week in the wake of the attack at the Bekhtar guesthouse.
Speaking in the Afghan capital on Monday, Ban said the United Nations would not be deterred from its work in the war-torn nation by acts of violence.
"There has been speculation that the United Nations will evacuate Afghanistan.... We will not be deterred, cannot be deterred and must not be deterred and the work of the United Nations will continue," said Ban.
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"There has been speculation that the United Nations will evacuate Afghanistan.... We will not be deterred, cannot be deterred and must not be deterred and the work of the United Nations will continue," said Ban.
At least till we feel slightly violated again when we shall have a risk assessment and withdraw totally ... tossers
I think hes getting deferred and deterred muddled up .
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Australian Special Forces soldiers have broken up several Taliban strongholds in Afghanistan, seizing weapons and other equipment, the Defence Force says.
Last month's raid of insurgent bases by the Special Operations Task Group (SOTG) and Afghan and Coalition forces resulted in the seizure of weapons, munitions and components used in making improvised explosive devices.
The soldiers also recovered stolen Afghan army uniforms and 100 kilograms of opium resin.
The Commander of Australian Forces in the Middle East, Major-General Mark Kelly, said the operation sent a clear message to the Taliban.
"This stronghold has, until now, provided a secure base area from which to sustain the insurgency throughout southern Afghanistan," he said.
"What this operation says very clearly to the insurgency is that it doesn't matter where you are, we can find you and strike you."
"It also highlights our commitment to using the full suite of our Special Forces to protect the local population, ADF elements and to work in partnership with other coalition forces."
About 1,500 Australian soldiers are in Afghanistan.
[Quqnoos] Abdullah Abdullah, President Karzai main challenger in election on Wednesday said that election commission took an "illegal decision".
Speaking in a news conference in Kabul, Dr Abdullah lashed out at President Karzai for being unable to fight against corruption in his next government.
Abdullah, speaking after the Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced Karzai as the elected President said that current government, cannot bring legitimacy to the troubled nation.
"The decision (declaration of Karzai as president) has no legal base the government doesn't represents Afghan people's wills, so it cannot fight terrorism, poverty, unemployment and hundreds of other obstacles forward," Abdullah said.
But he reiterated on his promises to the Afghan people as he made during the election and said that he would observe the government doings and anytime the "national interest demands, he would be ready for sacrifices".
About the reasons lies behind his pull out he said that because his "reduced and simple" conditions were not met, he decided not to take part in the runoff.
When asked what his reaction was to the declaration of Karzai as president, Abdullah said that he left that to the people of Afghanistan to judge.
About his plan to the future Abdullah said that as an Afghan he would further speed up his effort to implement rule of law, democracy and people's centric strategy in Afghanistan.
The Afghan election went to runoff after the Karzai enough tallied votes have been tossed out that had been considered the way of pulling out the country form post election crisis.
The Afghan election process concluded after a long term controversies and violence that left many people dead in the surge of violence by Taliban as they speeded up their attacks terming it as an American process.
President Karzai was declared the elected president after the withdrawal of Abdullah Abdullah, the sole Karzai's challenger.
Karzai's sitting for the second termed raised question about his legitimacy as his tally votes were below 50%, the level needed for outright victory according to the Afghan election law.
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[Maghrebia] Touareg leaders from the Mali regions that border Algeria, Mauritania and Niger gathered in Kidal on Tuesday (November 3rd) to discuss the threat from al-Qaeda-linked armed groups, El Khabar reported. The meeting, reportedly arranged by the Mali government a fortnight ago, seeks to involve tribal notables from Kidal, Gao and Timbuktu in the fight against arms trafficking.
To persuade individuals to surrender their weapons, Algeria, England, Canada and the US are helping fund an incentive programme, Some 10,000 people will benefit from development, employment, vocational training and social inclusion projects in the region.
"Many people living along the Algeria and Mali border feel safer when they have a weapon," El Khabar quoted the Kidal regional governor as saying. "The withdrawal of 10 thousand pieces of weapons distributed in northern Mali is a first step to counteract the extent of organised crime and terrorist groups."
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[Bangla Daily Star] Lutfozzaman Babar, in collusion with former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu and his brother Moulana Tajuddin, used banned Harkatul Jihad al Islami (Huji) to execute the August 21 grenade attack, said Criminal Investigation Department (CID) sources.
Former BNP state minister for home Babar, who was taken on a fresh remand yesterday for four days, disclosed it during the five-day interrogation by the CID investigators.
Meanwhile, senior Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Abdul Kahar Akand of CID, also the investigation officer of the case, yesterday told the court the unexploded grenades recovered from the spot could have been the most important evidence with the fingerprints of the criminals, but Babar had arranged to destroy those in a hurry without the court permission.
Abdul Kahar Akand also said Babar did not register the case in the monitoring cell of the home ministry to hide his own criminal acts and save the real culprits. Rather he tried to mislead the case by cooking up a Joj Miah episode.
The CID investigator told the chief metropolitan magistrate's court that as Babar divulged a lot of important information about smuggling of illegal arms, grenades and explosives during interrogation he needs to be put on a further 10-day remand for more information.
Second Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Habibur Rahman Siddique, however, granted a four-day remand.
Huji founder Moulana Sheikh Abdus Salam, also the convenor of Islamic Democratic Party (IDP), is now on a six-day remand in connection with the August 21 grenade attack on an AL rally that killed 23 people and injured over 300 others on Bangabandhu Avenue in 2004.
Huji chief Mufti Abdul Hannan also gets a grilling by the CID officials.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The Detective Branch of police has identified seven attackers and 53 accomplices in the bomb attack on Awami League lawmaker Fazle Noor Taposh, said a DB source.
The 53 people provided the attackers with information about the areas surrounding Taposh's law chamber in Motijheel but stayed away from the scene where the bomb was exploded by a remote control on October 21, said the source.
The DB personnel are about to complete the probe and have submitted a primary report on the findings to higher authorities.
"Now, we are waiting for directives from the government high-ups to arrest the suspects," said a DB official.
The DB used electronic devices to track the perpetrators, the source said.
However the DB is yet to get any important information from the people arrested over the bomb attack.
The motive behind the attack is not clear yet, said investigators. The attack might not be aimed at derailing the trial of Bangabandhu murder case. It's also unlikely that any of Taposh's rivals had orchestrated it, they said.
Earlier Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner AKM Shahidul Haque told The Daily Star that they identified the attackers and masterminds behind the bomb attack.
The source further said all suspects have been under close watch of law enforcers.
Meanwhile, Ataul Huda, 38, nephew of Bangabandhu murder convict Maj (retd) Bazlul Huda, was arrested with links to the bomb attack on Taposh, a prosecution lawyer in Bangabandhu murder case.
Our correspondent from Kushtia reports, law enforcers arrested Ataul, son of late Rabiul, at Hatboalia village in Chuadanga at around 3:30am.
Chuadanga police said Ataul was later taken into DB custody in the capital.
Mehnaz Rashid Khandaker, eldest daughter of Bangabandhu murder convict Lt Col (retd) Khondker Abdur Rashid, was taken on a fresh three-day remand in the bomb attack case.
DB has so far arrested seven people in connection with the bomb attack. Five of them are relatives of Bangabandhu murder convicts.
On October 23, detectives arrested Kamrul Haque Swapan, younger brother of the convict in Bangabandhu murder case Maj (retd) Dalim, Mehnaz on October 24, and Nazmul Hasan Sohel and Mahbubul Hasan Emran, sons of another convict Lt Col (retd) Mohiuddin Ahmed on October 27.
The other two arrestees are leaders of Freedom Party.
All arrestees except Ataul are remanded in DB custody.
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In abstentia, of course. If we didn't have the gutless, clueless Bambi as president, I'd suggest calling the Italian ambassador in and asking him to explain why this happened, and how he's going to persuade his government to reverse it, or else explain to his government why we sent him and his entire embassy staff home.
MILAN (AP) -- An Italian judge found 23 Americans and two Italians guilty Wednesday in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect, delivering the first legal convictions anywhere in the world against people supposedly involved in the CIA's extraordinary renditions program.
Classic show trial missing only a groveling defendant ...
Human rights groups hailed the decision and pressed President Barack Obama to repudiate the Bush administration's practice of abducting terror suspects and transferring them to third countries where torture was permitted. The American Civil Liberties Union said the verdicts were the first convictions stemming from the rendition program.
The Obama administration ended the CIA's interrogation program and shuttered its secret overseas jails in January but has opted to continue the practice of extraordinary renditions.
The Americans, who were tried in absentia, now cannot travel to Europe without risking arrest as long as the verdicts remains in place.
That might not be a punishment.
One of those convicted, former Milan consular official Sabrina De Sousa, accused Congress of turning a blind eye to the entire matter. "No one has investigated the fact that the U.S. government allegedly conducted a rendition of an individual who now walks free and the operation of which was so bungled," she said, speaking through her lawyer Mark Zaid.
Despite the convictions capping the nearly three-year Italian trial, several Italian and American defendants - including the two alleged masterminds of the abduction - were acquitted due to either diplomatic immunity or because classified information was stricken by Italy's highest court.
The case has been politically charged from the beginning, with attempts to mislead investigators looking into the cleric's disappearance and derail the judicial proceedings once the trial was under way. But the Italian-American relationship, conditioned on such issues as participation in the Afghan campaign, is unlikely to be hurt by the convictions.
Pity, it should be.
Three Americans were acquitted, including the then-Rome CIA station chief Jeffrey Castelli and two other diplomats formerly assigned to the Rome Embassy, as well as the former head of Italian military intelligence Nicolo Pollari and four other Italian secret service agents.
Only two Italians were in the courtroom to hear the verdict, including Marco Mancini, the former No. 2 at Italian military intelligence, who embraced his lawyer outside the courtroom after he was acquitted.
Former Milan CIA station chief Robert Seldon Lady received the top sentence of eight years in prison. The other 22 convicted American defendants, including De Sousa and Air Force Lt. Col. Joseph Romano, each received a five-year sentence. Two Italians got three years each as accessories.
U.S. State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said the Obama administration was "disappointed about the verdicts."
You shouldn't be 'disappointed', you should be hopping mad.
The State Department is being sued by De Sousa, a former State Department employee who denies she was a CIA agent and who believes she should have been granted diplomatic immunity by U.S. officials. The judge's verdict, however, did not extend diplomatic immunity to consular officials charged.
Zaid, De Sousa's American lawyer, told The Associated Press in Washington: "The Italian conviction merely confirms the U.S. government's betrayal of our diplomatic and military representatives overseas."
No, it demonstrates Italian perfidy ...
Romano, who was one of only two Americans who received permission to hire his own lawyer, had tried to have the jurisdiction moved to a U.S. military court in the last weeks of the trial.
"We are clearly disappointed by the court's ruling," Defense Department press secretary Geoff Morrell told a Pentagon press conference Wednesday.
The Americans, all but one identified by prosecutors as CIA agents, were tried in absentia as subsequent Italian governments refused or ignored prosecutors' extradition request - a position that casts doubts on the Italian government's political will to enforce the sentences.
But it won't stop some goof-ball lefty lawyer from swearing out warrants, calling Interpol, and in general being a nuisance, to wit:
Prosecutor Armando Spataro said he was considering asking Rome to issue international arrest warrants for the fugitive Americans on the strength of the convictions. The government of Silvio Berlusconi, a close ally of President George W. Bush, has previously refused.
What happens if the Berlusconi government falls? Italy isn't exactly the model of political stability ...
The Americans and Italian agents were accused of kidnapping Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, on Feb. 17, 2003, in Milan, then transferring him to U.S. bases in Italy and Germany. He was then moved to Egypt, where he says he was tortured. He has since been released, but has not been permitted to leave Egypt to attend the trial.
Spataro had sought stiffer sentences ranging from 10 to 13 years in jail, citing a conspiracy between U.S. and Italian secret services to abduct Nasr, who was under surveillance by Italian investigators building their own terror case against him. Nasr was suspected of organizing the movement of would-be suicide bombers to the Middle East, and Spataro noted in his closing arguments that the timing of his CIA-led abduction, as the United States was preparing to invade Iraq, indicated his potential importance.
So we say that Nasr is a bad boy. The Italians haven't contradicted that. He was operating on Italian soil, so -- supposedly -- our CIA and the Italian secret police pinched him, popped him, whacked him, and shipped him. And I'm supposed to be unhappy about any of this?
CIA Director Leon Panetta said at his confirmation hearing in February that the administration would continue the practice of rendition for prisoners captured in the war on terrorism, but promised to get assurances first that prisoners would not be tortured or have their human rights violated once transferred.
Then what's the point of rendition? The whole idea is to get Nasr and his buddies to understand that it's in their interest to talk to the American interrogator holding a cup of coffee instead of the Egyptian interrogator holding a truncheon ...
The CIA declined to comment on the convictions.
Ken Anderson at the Volokh Conspiracy describes the motivation and implications behind this show trial. Take a look.
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Let's see, who freed the Italians from German occupation?
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Do read the Ken Anderson musings on Volokh. I thought it was well written, but wonder what it would be like if he didn't have time to "say anything substantive about this now". The good kind of lawyer, I think. Made me smile.
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Note to judgie-wudgie:
"Spata me luchi e hace ma goo, tu piccolo mierda."
[Al Arabiya Latest] Bosnia's Islamic leader on Wednesday accused a senior U.S. diplomat in the country of being behind a report carried in the local media that alleged Bosnia's top Muslim officials were linked in a criminal network.
"Now we know who is behind a project to satanize everything Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim)," the Dnevni Avaz daily quoted Mustafa Ceric as saying. Bosnia's top Islamic cleric was referring to Raffi Gregorian, the U.S. deputy to the top international envoy to Bosnia, Valentin Inzko.
Earlier this week, the Dnevni Avaz and the weekly magazine Global published excerpts of the report and a criminal network diagram, allegedly prepared under Gregorian's supervision that featured a number of top Bosnian Muslim political, religious and business leaders.
Ceric and Fahrudin Radoncic, the owner of the country's largest newspaper publisher Avaz, were shown at the centre of the criminal network, which also included the Muslim member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency Haris Silajdzic and the leader of the Muslim main Party of Democratic Action (SDA), Sulejman Tihic.
Both the Dnevni Avaz and the Global are published by Radoncic's company.
According to the newspapers, the report said that the officials shown in the diagram drew "their influence and motivation from their political power, accumulation of wealth, support to criminals and also by strengthening and extending the influence of Islam in the region and globally."
Ceric said the published documents resembled the "(Nazi Germany's) final solution for Jews in Europe."
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Turkish police detained around 20 students on Wednesday after they pelted Israel's ambassador with eggs to protest the Jewish state's treatment of Palestinians, forcing him to cancel a university visit.
The protest took place outside the university in the Black Sea port of Trabzon as ambassador Gabby Levy arrived in his car, Anatolia news agency reported.
"Israel is a murderer," television footage showed the students shouting.
The ambassador left without getting out of his vehicle and police detained the group of around 20 students who defied orders to disperse, Anatolia said.
Levy was already embarrassed Tuesday in nearby Rize, where local mayor Halil Bakirci condemned Israel's "policies of expansion and occupation" and said that self-defense should not involve "killing children."
Referring to Israelis visiting Turkey's Black Sea region, he also told Levy that "due to Israel's policies, we are worried that something undesirable may happen to those tourists and we do our best so that it does not."
Israel's relations with Turkey, its main regional ally, took a downturn in January when Ankara launched an unprecedented barrage of criticism of the Jewish state over its devastating war on the Gaza Strip.
Last month Turkey excluded Israel from joint military drills and said that bilateral ties would continue to suffer unless Israel ends "the humanitarian tragedy" in Gaza and revives peace talks with the Palestinians.
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Speaking of humanitarian tragedies, would the Turkish "students" wish to discuss the Armenian Holocaust?
[Al Arabiya Latest] Pakistan's fashion week began Wednesday with an opulent opening ceremony, against a backdrop of militant violence and security fears that delayed the event and kept away foreign glitterati.
Models will sashay down catwalks for four days, flaunting the latest creations by local designers in the nuclear-armed Muslim nation, where most women cover up and observe varying degrees of Islamic dress.
"We, the members of Fashion Pakistan, feel great to host this colorful event at difficult times of our history when the entire nation is waging a battle against militancy," Ayesha Tammy Haq, the chief organizer of the event, told AFP.
"The situation was so painful in the country that we postponed it for three weeks," she told AFP, referring to a spate of deadly attacks blamed on Taliban militants in which more than 340 people died in October and November.
Islamist extremism has plagued Pakistan for years. The latest surge in violence has been blamed on militants avenging the U.S. killing of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud and a Pakistani offensive in the northwest.
Fashion Week organizers, however, were determined that the show must go on in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi, where the luxury Marriott Hotel is hosting the launch under stringent security.
"We have been maintaining strict security measures in the area but have intensified them for this event," police official Ahsan Zulfiqar told AFP.
The fashion event -- originally scheduled for October -- planned to introduce designers and models from abroad, but the fragile security situation has left organizers counting on local talent.
"We have 32 designers from across the country who will participate in the event," Khaled said. "There is no designer or model coming from abroad due to security reasons."
Karachi is the cosmopolitan hub of Pakistan, complete with glitzy shopping malls and a thriving cafe culture.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says he will not seek re-election in a January ballot because of the lack of progress in peace talks with Israel, Palestinian officials said.
If he follows through on this, he may well be the first PA/PLO high official to walk out of office instead of being carried out in a pine box. On the other hand, one wonders what he sees himself doing afterward, and whether it is connected to high office at the UN or something similar.
Geneva. He could run the UN Commission on Human Rights. Or Vienna, where he could be the next chief of the IAEA.
Mr Abbas will give a speech later Thursday (local time) to explain his decision not to run.
The Western-backed Palestinian leader announced his plans at a meeting of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in the occupied-West Bank.
"The president insists on not running in the upcoming election," an official who attended the meeting said.
But senior Abbas aide Yasser Abed Rabo said the committee's members were still trying to persuade the president to run.
Mr Abbas called the election last month after failing to reach a unity deal with rival Islamist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip.
He has rejected US calls to resume peace negotiations with Israel, saying he was sticking by his demand that Israel first halt all settlement expansion under a 2003 US-backed peace road map.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who met Mr Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday, said Palestinians should enter peace talks first and resolve the settlement issue later.
Mr Netanyahu has agreed to limit construction in settlements in the West Bank, territory Israel captured in a 1967 war, rather than a total freeze.
He says Israel must accommodate the "natural growth" in Jewish neighbourhoods.
Another Palestinian official said Mr Abbas made his decision because of the "stagnation in the peace process and the continuation of settlement activities".
[Al Arabiya Latest] United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Washington does not accept the legitimacy of Israeli settlement activity but believes that getting to talks is the quickest way to achieve a freeze.
"We do not accept the legitimacy of settlement activity and we have a very firm belief that ending all settlement activity, current and future, would be preferable," Clinton said after meeting President Hosni Mubarak.
"Getting into final status negotiations will allow us to bring an end to settlement activity," she added.
Cairo is Clinton's last stop on a tour of the region during which Arab anger has flared over signs the Obama administration no longer backs Palestinian demands that Israel immediately stop building settlements on occupied territory in the West Bank.
Clinton also said Middle East peace talks must include the disputed city of Jerusalem and said "there is no doubt in anyone's mind that moving toward a state... must include all the issues... and that includes Jerusalem," she said at a press conference.
"We want to assure you that our goal is a real state, with a real sovereignty," she said
U.S. President Barack Obama has eased pressure on Israel over settlements, calling for restraint in construction where he had earlier pushed for a freeze. The change has angered Palestinians who say it has killed any hope of reviving peace talks soon.
Clinton underscored this shift in emphasis in Jerusalem on Saturday when she hailed Netanyahu's offer on settlement restraint as "unprecedented" and urged the Palestinians to drop their precondition for talks without making any similar specific demands of the Israeli side.
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The high performance aircraft coming in from the coast would light up the Syrian air defenses like a Christmas tree, but all pointing towards the coast. While this was taking place, a much slower and heavier aircraft would enter via Iraq, carrying one or more bunker busters.
But it is unlikely that Israel has such an aircraft, that could overfly Iraqi airspace with little notice. It would have been much easier for the US to provide both aircraft and bombs.
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But what of the trace uranium found in the soil samples? Israel must have planted that, said Assad. After all, he said, Syria aspires for a nuclear-free Middle East.
Uh, huh! Caught red-handed and even the Germans know the truth. This(Hadley) predates the American airspace hand-off to Iraq and were probably allowed Iraqi airspace and support and any coastal planes decoys. Unfortunately, any future cooperation cannot be expected with this Admin. Why the Norks' nukes are still standing is beyond me, tho.
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Might need the Norks to do a 'proof of principle' field test of the deep perpetrator bunker buster with an induced sympathetic reaction to 'burn' the material stored so it will look like another 3rd world accident when playing with nasty stuff.
Tehran has dismissed claims that a container intercepted by Israel was carrying 'hundreds of kilograms of Iranian-made arms' to Lebanon.
In remarks that instantly became the focus of Western media outlets, Israeli military sources said they found a large cache of weapons when they stormed a Lebanon-bound ship on Tuesday.
The sources added that the ship, which is currently being unloaded in Israel, was Iranian and the weaponry was destined for the Hezbollah resistance movement either in Lebanon or Syria.
"We found dozens of containers, with hundreds of tons of arms bound for Hezbollah from Iran," Israel's deputy naval commander, Rani Ben Yehuda, told reporters on Wednesday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, in a joint press conference with his Syrian counterpart Walid Muallem on Wednesday, dismissed the allegations out of hand.
His remarks were backed by Muallem, who asserted that contrary to Israeli claims, "the ship was not carrying Iranian-made weaponry for Syria or Lebanon," but was in fact carrying Syrian-made items for consumption in Iran.
"Unfortunately a number of pirates disrupt business activities and frequenting of the ships, these pirates sometimes act in the name of [Iranians]," said the Syrian Foreign Minister.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Iran's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Belgian Ambassador to Tehran over the mysterious death of an Iranian national in a Belgian prison.
"The Islamic Republic condemns the killing of Mr. Mamiani-Asl in the Leuven prison and demands an explanation," said the Director of Iranian Affairs at the Foreign Ministry in a meeting with Belgian Ambassador Philippe Colyn.
According to a recent report by Radio Netherlands, an Iranian inmate was killed by a group of prison wardens at midnight on Friday.
Colyn expressed his deepest regret over the incident and promised to relay the Iranian government's concern to the Belgian authorities.
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Deaths of Iranian citizens in Iranian prisons are, of course, a different matter, right?
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
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Bangla Daily Star] Lutfozzaman Babar, in collusion with former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu and his brother Moulana Tajuddin, used banned Harkatul Jihad al Islami (Huji) to execute the August 21 grenade attack, said Criminal Investigation Department (CID) sources.
[Bangla Daily Star] The Detective Branch of police has identified seven attackers and 53 accomplices in the bomb attack on Awami League lawmaker Fazle Noor Taposh, said a DB source.
