Thousands of Iraqis streamed to the holy southern city of Najaf on Sunday in response to a call by fiery Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr for a big anti-American protest on Monday. Sadr, who blames the U.S.-led invasion for Iraq's unrelenting violence, has urged Iraqis to protest on a day that marks the fourth anniversary of when American forces swept into central Baghdad."In order to end the occupation, you will go out and demonstrate," Sadr, who accuses U.S. forces of deliberately fomenting civil strife in Iraq, said in a statement.A car bomb killed 17 people and wounded two dozen in the town of Mahmudiya south of Baghdad, officials said, in the latest attack outside Baghdad since a new U.S.-backed security plan took effect in the capital.A suicide car bomb also killed seven people in Baghdad while four U.S. soldiers were killed in an explosion near their vehicle on Saturday north of the capital....
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 Attacks on homeless soaring |
It was a balmy night, the sort that brings the homeless out from the shelters, when the police were summoned to America Street. On the driveway of a condo, just a few paces from the gutter, lay a man.A dying man.He looked to be 50-ish, and a resident of Orlando's streets, judging by the moldy jacket. And he'd been bludgeoned — so badly bludgeoned that he could hardly move.Before being rushed to the hospital, where he died of his head injuries, the man, August Felix, described his attackers. Young fellows did it, he whispered to the officers who got to him first. Kids.Within three months, two 16-year-olds and three 15-year-olds had been charged with second-degree homicide in the March 26, 2006, attack. The motive? "I don't think there was a motive," Sgt. Barbara Jones, a police spokeswoman, said, "other than, 'Let's beat someone up."'...
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Editor - 09:36:00 04-08-07
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| Bishops Warn Zimbabwe Leader Of Revolt Catholic Clergy Calls On Pres. Mugabe To Resign, Warns People's Suffering Will Lead To Mass Uprising |
In an Easter message pinned to church bulletin boards around the country, Zimbabwe's Roman Catholic bishops called on President Robert Mugabe to leave office or face "open revolt" from those suffering under his government. The letter, titled "God Hears the Cries of the Oppressed," was the most critical pastoral message since Zimbabwe won independence from Britain in 1980 and Mugabe assumed leadership of the country for the first time. Once prosperous, the country is reeling under hyperinflation of more than 1,700 percent, 80 percent unemployment, shortages of food and other basic goods and one of the world's lowest life expectancies. "As the suffering population becomes more insistent, generating more and more pressure through boycotts, strikes, demonstrations and uprisings, the state responds with ever harsher oppression through arrests, detentions, banning orders, beatings and torture," the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops Conference said ...
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Editor - 09:35:00 04-08-07
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| On Grueling Mountain Trek, U.S. Troops Patrol a Gray Afghan World, Watched by Taliban |
Rarely do the insurgents take on American troops few but formidable in the Baylough Bowl. But in a gray world where allegiances are fluid and identities are closely guarded, the Taliban are always watching and waiting. No sooner does a patrol leave its primitive mud fort on foot or wheels than the chatter on Taliban frequencies begins: "The Americans have just left. They're coming this way. We will need more reinforcements if they approach any closer …" "They're probably looking at us right now from one of those peaks," says Abdul Farid, an Afghan interpreter and radio monitor as he leaves Forward Operating Base Baylough (rhymes with buy low) in the southeastern province of Zabul. ...
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Editor - 09:32:00 04-08-07
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| Algeria fighting leaves 15 dead |
At least nine Algerian soldiers and six Islamists have been killed in clashes, the authorities say. At least five soldiers had been injured in the clashes, in a wooded area west of the capital Algiers, officials said. There has been an increase in insurgent attacks in recent months after a period of calm in the North African country. According to government figures at least 200,000 people have died in the Islamist insurgency, which began in 1992 after the army cancelled polls. The armed insurgents had ambushed a military patrol in the Zaccar forest in the Ain Defla region on Saturday, security officials said, killing the soldiers during a gun battle. They said the rebels had been killed when backup troops arrived to help the soldiers, AP news agency reports. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. At least 33 people have died in rebel clashes in April, according to figures from AFP news agency. ...
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Editor - 09:30:00 04-08-07
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| Journalist's Afghan Translator Beheaded Taliban Spokesman Claims Kidnapped Translator Working For Italian Media Executed |
The kidnapped translator for an Italian journalist was beheaded on Sunday in southern Afghanistan, a purported spokesman for the Taliban said. The report could not be independently confirmed. Ajmal Naqshbandi, a freelance journalist and translator, was kidnapped along with Daniele Mastrogiacomo of the Italian daily La Repubblica, and a driver in southern Helmand province on March 5. The driver, Sayed Agha, was beheaded, and Mastrogiacomo was released March 19 in a much criticized swap for five Taliban militants. The Taliban made a similar demand in return for the release of Naqshbandi. "We asked for two Taliban commanders to be released in exchange for Ajmal Naqshbandi, but the government did not care for our demands, and today, at 3:05 p.m., we beheaded Ajmal in Garmsir district of Helmand province," said Shahabuddin Atal, who claimed to be a spokesman for regional Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah, known for his cruelty. ...
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