Hezbollah leaders vowed this week to lead the reconstruction of Lebanon but insisted that they will hold on to their guns as they rebuild their shattered homeland -- a neat symbol of the checkered and contradictory role that the Islamist movement has played almost since its inception. The militant Shi'ite group pulled off a string of spectacular attacks on U.S. and Western military and diplomatic sites in the 1980s, and launched bloody attacks on the Israeli Embassy and a Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires in the 1990s. It trains and equips Palestinian militant groups targeting Israel. Hezbollah now stands accused of provoking a monthlong war with Israel that has left much of Lebanon in ruins and hundreds of civilians dead on both sides of the border. ...
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 Iraq Doubles Money Allocated for Oil Imports Because of Worst Fuel Shortage Since '03 Invasion. We were told Iraq Oil would pay for our invasion, and they can’t even supply enough for Iraq. |
Iraq has doubled the money allocated for importing oil products in August and September to tackle the country's worst fuel shortage since Saddam Hussein's 2003 ouster, a senior Iraqi official said Thursday. Even though Iraq has the world's third-largest proven oil reserves, it is forced to depend on imports because of an acute shortage of refined products such as gasoline, kerosene and cooking gas. Sabotage of pipelines by insurgents, corruption and aging refineries have been blamed. Falah Alamri, head of the State Oil Marketing Organization, which is responsible for Iraq's imports of oil products, said the money normally allocated by the government to buy oil products was doubled in August, to $426 million. The normally allocated amount would be doubled for September, too, Alamri told Dow Jones Newswires. A gallon of gasoline now sells on the black market in Baghdad for about $4.92, although its official price is $0.64. ...
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| U.S. Airstrike Kills 10 Afghan Police |
A bomb dropped by a U.S.-led coalition aircraft killed 10 police in southeastern Afghanistan Thursday, the deputy national chief of border police said. The U.S. military said the "incident is under investigation." The policemen were killed when coalition aircraft mistakenly "dropped a bomb" on a two-vehicle border police patrol in Turwa area of southeastern Paktika province at 10:30 a.m., said Gen. Abdul Rahman, Afghanistan's deputy chief of border police. There were no survivors, he said. Earlier, a U.S. soldier was killed when his vehicle struck a Soviet-era mine in eastern Afghanistan, officials said. Also, two suicide bombers targeted U.S., Afghan and NATO troops, killing one civilian and wounding at least nine others, including a U.S. soldier, in the latest violence to hit southern Afghanistan, officials said. Col. Tom Collins, a spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition, said they were aware of the reports of the friendly-fire bombing that killed policemen, ...
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| Detective: Quadruple-Slaying Suspect Chose House Because Front Door Was Open |
A man accused of killing a musician and his family told police after his arrest that he had been searching for a house to rob and noticed the front door to their house was open, a police detective testified. After the slayings, Ricky Jovan Gray and an alleged accomplice made off with a computer, a wedding ring and a basket of cookies, a prosecutor said Wednesday during Gray's trial."The point was to steal," prosecutor Matthew Geary said in his opening statement. "There came a point in time where Mr. Gray decided to kill everybody."Gray has pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of capital murder in the New Year's Day killings of Bryan Harvey, 49, his wife, Kathryn, 39, and daughters Stella, 9, and Ruby, 4. His trial continues Thursday....
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| Hunt for Ethiopia flood survivors |
Search and rescue teams are scouring flood waters in southern Ethiopia as bad weather continues to hamper a round-the-clock hunt for survivors. The number of deaths has risen to 364 after the Omo river and tributaries burst their banks - with fears the toll countrywide could now top 800. Local Ethiopian officials are appealing for assistance saying they cannot cope with the scale of the flooding. A southern relief official told the BBC that at least 6,000 were at risk. Disaster co-ordinator in the Omo region, Deftalgne Tessema, told the BBC's Network Africa programme that despite help from the federal government and the UN, so far just 14 motorboats were trying to evacuate people from islands cut off by the swollen waters. "The boats very small. We are trying our best," he said ...
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| Jurors Deliberate After Partial Verdict for Ex-CIA Contractor Charged With Beating Afghan |
Jurors resumed deliberations Thursday under a judge's orders after reaching a partial verdict in the case of a former CIA contractor charged with beating an Afghan detainee who later died. U.S. District Court Judge Terrence Boyle sealed the partial verdict, reached Wednesday after about 7 hours of deliberations, and ordered the jury to continue working on the remaining charges in the case against David Passaro. Passaro, 40, is charged with four assault counts against detainee Abdul Wali in June 2003. He is accused of beating Wali during questioning about rocket attacks on a remote base where Passaro was stationed in 2003 along with U.S. and Afghan troops. He is not charged in Wali's death. He could be sentenced to 40 years in prison if convicted of two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon a black metal flashlight with intent of bodily harm, and two counts of assault resulting in serious bodily injury. ...
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