American troops clashed with Shi'ite militiamen yesterday in southwest Baghdad in what a U.S. general called a defining battle in the fight for security in the capital. By nightfall, residents said, families were hiding in their houses, huddled in the dark in whatever room was the farthest from the street in case the armed militia made good on shouted vows of revenge. "We woke up at 4:30 a.m. with two huge explosions, then we started hearing a firefight with hundreds of bullets being fired. It was like a war, and it came from all sides of the street," said one young man in the southwest Baghdad neighborhood of al Elam. He would identify himself only as Amer. Minutes afterward, perched on the roof, he saw three men running down the street. "They set down a mortar launcher stand just 10 [yards...
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 Troops in Iraq 'under-equipped' |
British troops fighting in Iraq are under-equipped and overstretched, a group of MPs has warned. The all-party defence committee said the soldiers needed more helicopters and better-protected patrol vehicles to shield them from roadside bombs. Committee members visited Iraq in June and also say operations in Afghanistan are being done on a "shoe string". Defence Secretary Des Browne insisted that British forces in the country were "stretched, but not overstretched". And he claimed that many of the equipment problems were being dealt with. Committee chairman James Arbuthnot, a Conservative MP, said the troops now faced a "significantly higher threat" in southern Iraq. ...
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| UN attacks Lebanon aid 'disgrace' |
The UN's top humanitarian official has criticised Israel and Hezbollah for hindering access to southern Lebanon, calling the situation a "disgrace". Jan Egeland said both sides could give aid agencies access in a "heartbeat". Hospitals in south Lebanon are also said to be low on food and fuel. The warning came amid more violence across the Israel-Lebanon border. Hezbollah rockets killed two Israeli Arabs, as Israel continued air strikes. Israeli planes also dropped leaflets on southern Beirut, warning residents of three districts to leave immediately. More than 1,000 Lebanese, most of them civilians, have now been killed in the hostilities, the Lebanese government has said. Some 121 Israelis, most of them soldiers, have also been killed. ...
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| Southern Afghanistan violence kills 20 |
Fighting in Afghanistan's south left 12 suspected Taliban and eight police dead, while a roadside bomb Thursday killed two Afghan civilians in an eastern province, officials said.The roadside bomb went off in Jalalabad while Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry — the top U.S. general in Afghanistan — visited a U.S. base in the city.The bomb killed an Afghan man and his grandson who were selling vegetables at a street stall and five other people were wounded, Eikenberry told The Associated Press.Mohammad Husain, secretary of the provincial police chief, said the blast went off about 20 minutes after Eikenberry and other officials passed in a convoy of vehicles, but U.S. military spokesman Tom Collins said the general did not travel on that road and was unlikely the target.Collins said the general was at a U.S. provincial reconstruction team base in Jalalabad at the time, and only visited the site of the blast two hours later....
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| Bush has said a plot to bomb US-bound flights from the UK is a "stark reminder" that the US is still at war with Islamic extremists. Plays the Boogieman song again |
Bush said it showed "Islamic fascists... will use any means to destroy those of us who love freedom". He said the US was more secure now than before the attacks of 11 September 2001, but was not "completely safe". The UK said it had thwarted a plan to detonate explosives in hand luggage on board planes. The US government has raised the state of terror alert to its highest level for flights from Britain, and has increased the general level of security for all domestic and international flights. Extra sky marshals are being deployed on flights between the US and UK as part of increased security measures. If your wetting your panties over the new Boogieman scare, be it real or contrived, and think giving Government more power will solve your problem of wetting yourself, please don’t call yourself an American. Real Americans would never think of giving up any freedoms, for any reason. The question is, is there enough real Americans left to stop this or should we all just give up?...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4781185.stm
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| Bomb Threats Posed By Everyday Items Experts Say Anything With Battery May Need To Be Banned From Planes |
The next terrorist attack could be carried out by airline passengers who hide bomb ingredients in hair gel or baby milk bottles and assemble their weapon in a locked restroom, security experts warn. The announcement Thursday of a foiled plot to blow up jetliners flying from London to the U.S. using explosives hidden in hand luggage could be the opening of a new chapter in air travel. Experts said travelers can expect hours-long security checks, visual inspections of prescription drugs and bans on everyday items. Bomb experts and troubleshooters for airline security interviewed by The Associated Press said mobile phones, computers, wrist watches or anything else with a battery should be prohibited from flights. Are we so scared of the Boogieman that we will give up our way of life and let our former Servants Rule over our sorry asses? Is this American the land of the brave and the free? Or a country of wimps who are willingly trading what freedoms we had, for illusionary safety?...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/10/terror/main1882146.shtml?source=RSS&attr=U.S._1882146
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