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Afghanistan's 'Bravest Woman' Pins Hopes on USA, Not Obama
8 hours ago ago from Baltimore Nonviolence Center
Published on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 by New American Media Afghanistan 's 'Bravest Woman' Pins Hopes on USA, Not Obama by Aaron Glantz Malalai Joya has been called Afghanistan's bravest woman. When the Taliban ruled her country, she braved death, running an underground girls school. When the US military overthrew the Taliban she ran for parliament. But that doesn't mean she's a supporter of the U.S. military, or ...
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20 hours ago ago from Australia India Sri Lanka South Asia News
Two powerful explosions, including a grenade attack, in two busy markets in Assam’s Sonitpur district Thurday killed four people and left wounded at least 34 others, officials said. A police spokesperson said both the attacks took place in northern Assam’s Sonitpur district. The first blast took place around 3 p.m. at a daily market at Missamari town, about 220 km north of Assam’s main city of Guwahati. The market was teeming ...
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14 hours ago ago from SAMOTALIS
Somali Speaker says suicide bomber was Danish 1 of 1 Full Size By Ibrahim Mohamed MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A suicide bomber who killed 22 people including three government ministers in Mogadishu last week disguised as a veiled woman was a 26-year-old Danish citizen of Somali descent, Somalia's parliament speaker said. Western security agencies say young Somalis abroad are abandoning the ...
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15 hours ago ago from SAMOTALIS
Take Back Mogadishu By Abdisalam M. Garjex December 10, 2009 President Franklin D. Roosevelt once proclaimed December 7th, 1941, the attack of Pearl Harbor, as a date which will live in infamy . There is no doubt in my mind that the day the student graduates, medical doctors, parents and Government officials were massacred in Mogadishu was a black day. Unlike any other incident during the civil war, the images of that day will ...
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20 hours ago ago from The Irish Newspaper
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Top UN official in Afghanistan to leave in March
14 hours ago ago from PopEater
KABUL -The top U.N. official in Afghanistan said Friday he will not renew his contract when it expires in March after a two-year tenure marred by controversy over his handling of the country's fraud-marred presidential election and a deadly attack on U.N. workers. Kai Eide, a Norwegian diplomat, said he is not stepping down but has asked U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon to start searching for a replacement. "I'm not resigning," Eide told ...
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1 day ago ago from PopEater
MORELIA, Mexico -At least seven federal police officers and a civilian were killed in Michoacan state in several attacks by gunmen against federal agents in less than 24 hours, state prosecutors said. Two federal agents were killed Thursday night in a shootout with gunmen in the port city of Lazaro Cardenas. Earlier Thursday, a passer-by was killed in the same city when he drove into a shootout between agents and gunmen outside a hotel where ...
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11 hours ago ago from U.S. News
Experts: Somali Islamists improving tactics, bombs NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Somali Islamist insurgents have imported terrorist tactics and technology used with deadly results in Iraq and Afghanistan, threatening the African country's beleaguered government and causing alarm as far as Washington. Somali fighters over the past two years have gone from simply throwing grenades into crowded rooms to building advanced remote-controlled bombs. ...
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1 day ago ago from Media General - TBO.com
A U.S. government official says a top al-Qaida operative has been killed in a drone attack in western Pakistan. The official would not immediately identify the target of the attack, which he said occurred very recently. However, he said it was neither Osama bin Laden nor Ayman al-Zawahiri, the terrorist network's top two leaders. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the classified program ...
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