 Chad's government has deployed troops outside the capital, N'Djamena, in case of a rebel attack, but it denies that the city is under threat. Rebels say its advance on N'Djamena has stopped, but its war of attrition against President Idriss Deby goes on. Rebel leader Mahamat Nouri has told the BBC that his rebel allies are just over 200km north of the capital. But a BBC reporter in N'Djamena says the city is tense and hundreds of armed soldiers are patrolling the streets. Earlier, the government said it had retaken two towns near the Sudanese border, a day after rebels seized them, but the rebels said they were withdrawing from the towns. In April, a rebel column advanced from the Sudanese border to the outskirts of N'Djamena before being repelled. ...
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 Olmert, in peace move, says ready to free prisoners |
Israel is ready to release many jailed Palestinians in return for a soldier seized by militants in June, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced on Monday, saying he was reaching out for peace. In a major policy speech, Olmert offered to ease travel restrictions on Palestinians and free up frozen funds if violence against Israel ended. He repeated his readiness to give up some occupied land for an eventual peace agreement. "We are ready and willing to pursue this path, and persevere until we reach the sought-after solution," Olmert said. Within hours of Olmert's address, Palestinian militants in Gaza fired rockets into the Israeli border town of Sderot, despite a ceasefire declared on Sunday. Nobody was hurt. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, part of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction, claimed responsibility for the attack, which followed the killing of two Palestinians in an Israeli raid in the West Bank, where a truce is not in effect...
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| Sheriff Indicted in Drug Scheme Pleads Not Guilty to Impeding Investigation, Money Laundering |
A former sheriff pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges that he took part in a scheme to sell drugs seized from criminals along with 12 former and current officers. Former sheriff H. Franklin Cassell was arraigned in U.S. District Court along with three Henry County sheriff's deputies, all of whom pleaded not guilty in the racketeering conspiracy. Arraignments for the remaining defendants were set through Wednesday. Cassell was glad to get moving with his defense, said his lawyer, John Lichtenstein. The indictment returned Oct. 31 said Cassell, 68, looked the other way as officers sold drugs seized in criminal investigations and stole guns and other evidence. He is charged with impeding federal agents' investigation and money laundering. ...
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| Suicide bomb kills 2 Canadian troops in Afghanistan; report paints bleak education outlook |
A suicide car bomber attacked a Canadian armored vehicle Monday, killing two soldiers a day before NATO leaders gather in Europe for a summit that will focus on the strengthening Taliban insurgency here. A new report, meanwhile, found that despite recent advances in the country's education system, more than half of Afghan children still do not attend school and only one in 20 girls go to secondary school. The suicide bomber attacked a convoy of military vehicles traveling from the main NATO base in Kandahar to the Panjwayi district, an area that's seen heavy fighting between NATO and the Taliban the last several months. "The Taliban cannot defeat us militarily in the field and so from time to time they resort to these very desperate measures," said Brig. Gen. Tim Grant, commander of the Canadian mission in Kandahar. "This was the home where the Taliban movement started. It makes sense the Taliban want to fight here."...
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Editor - 08:05:00 11-27-06
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| 'Helmet cams' bring war home |
An enemy position comes into focus under a clear blue Afghan sky. British accents are heard as one soldier asks another the whereabouts of the Royal Air Force. Suddenly, aircraft engines roar, the briefest glimpse of a bomb appears and the scene explodes. It is just one sequence in a burgeoning library of footage that British forces have shot overseas. An enemy weapon or lump of shrapnel once would do for a battlefield souvenir. Now, growing numbers are using helmet-mounted cameras to bring back personal video from the front line. The results, often uncensored, are entering the public domain in increasing quantities, often via so-called "self-broadcast" Web sites such as YouTube. Although use of the helmet-mounted cameras has given the public unprecedented access to the world of warfare, senior officers are concerned about the trend...
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| Wal-Mart raises questions about November, worries about December |
Wal-Mart Stores' (WMT) shares dipped 2% Monday as Wall Street tried to determine what caused surprisingly weak November sales and looked ahead nervously to a make-or-break December.The world's biggest retailer, which estimated Saturday that November sales fell 0.1% at its U.S. stores open at least a year, gave little detail into sales trends and said nothing about Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving that marks the traditional start to the holiday shopping season.The worries came on a day that Wal-Mart announced it is rolling out its $4 generic drug program to all its pharmacies.Starting Tuesday, all 3,810 pharmacies, in 49 states, will offer the program. ...
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