Seven Shiite workers were gunned down today in a religiously mixed area of west Baghdad, and explosions in the capital killed one American solider and shattered a one-day calm after a ban on private vehicles expired. The United States was moving to bolster U.S. troop strength in Baghdad to cope with escalating violence between Sunnis and Shiites. The seven Shiites died in a drive-by shooting near Baghdad International Airport, police Lt. Maitham Abdul-Razzaq said. Two other workers were wounded. Two large explosions struck eastern Baghdad. One killed a U.S. soldier near the Rasheed military camp, the U.S. military said. Another targeted an Iraqi police patrol but killed a civilian. Two rockets exploded later Saturday in the heavily guarded Green Zone, which includes the U.S. and British embassies. There was no report of casualties. If this is winning, I hate to see what they would call losing</n>...
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 Two soldiers killed in Afghanistan |
Suicide bombers killed 2 coalition soldiers and 6 Afghan civilians in 2 near-simultaneous blasts Sat in this southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials said.A purported Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the attacks, which came as NATO prepares to take command of the volatile region. In addition to the dead, 8 soldiers were wounded when a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden car into a coalition vehicle, said Major Scott Lundy, a spokesman for the US led coalition forces. He refused to disclose the nationality of troops killed and wounded. Shortly after first blast, the second suicide bomber approached a crowd of people on foot and detonated his vest, killing 6 Afghans and wounding 20 civilians, said Dawood Ahmadi, a spokesman for the governor of Kandahar. Both suicide bombers died in the attacks. Earlier, Mr. Ahmadi said 2 Canadian soldiers were wounded in the attack on the convoy. Official word on Canadian casualties in the attack was not immediately available...
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Editor - 10:55:00 07-22-06
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| Fire extinguisher explodes aboard Canadian evacuee ship |
A fire extinguisher exploded aboard one of the ships ferrying Canadian evacuees from Lebanon to Cyprus, Canadian officials said Fri, quashing rumors that the vessel had been fired upon by Israeli or Hezbollah forces. Ambra Dickey, a Foreign Affairs spokeswoman in Ottawa, said the Canadian delegation in Cyprus confirmed that the explosion on board the the Larnaca, Cyprus bound Blue Dawn was not due to any missile or artillery attack, but a faulty extinguisher aboard the ship. There were no reports of injuries. Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Peter MacKay said he had asked the Israeli foreign ministry about an unconfirmed report that the boat had been fired upon. The Israel Defense Forces told The A P there was no report of any Israeli firing from the sea, land or air off the Lebanese coast. It also said the IDF had not picked up any distress calls from ships off Lebanon. Canada, which had 38,626 people registered at its embassy in Beirut on Fri, has been bombarded with criticism over...
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/741388.html
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| US-led strikes 'kill 13 Taleban' |
US-led coalition and Afghan forces have killed at least 13 suspected Taleban in a strike in southern Helmand province, local officials have said. Some 15 Taleban fighters are said to have been injured in the strike in which ground forces were backed by helicopter gunships. There has been no comment on the fighting from the coalition. Some 10,000 US-led troops are fighting the Taleban and their allies. Hundreds of people have been killed this year. The latest fighting is said to have taken place in the Garmser district in Helmand - one of two Taleban-held areas which the coalition said it had retaken earlier this week. Not to worry, we are assured that Victory is just around the corner. Does anyone know what we are winning? ...
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| U.S. Speeds Up Bomb Delivery for the Israelis. Who said the US Government was doing nothing |
The Bush admin is rushing a delivery of precision-guided bombs to Israel, which requested the expedited shipment last week after beginning its air campaign against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, American officials said Friday. The decision to quickly ship the weapons to Israel was made with relatively little debate within the Bush admin, the officials said. Its disclosure threatens to anger Arab governments & others because of the appearance that the United States is actively aiding the Israeli bombing campaign in a way that could be compared to Iran’s efforts to arm & resupply Hezbollah. The munitions that the U S is sending to Israel are part of a multimillion-dollar arms sale package approved last year that Israel is able to draw on as needed, the officials said. But Israel’s request for expedited delivery of the satellite & laser-guided bombs was described as unusual by some military officers, & as an indication that Israel still had a long list of targets in Lebanon to strike...
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/22/world/middleeast/22military.html?hp&ex=1153627200&en=ccb5206208860925&ei=5094&partner=homepage
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| Homeless Man in Detroit Finds Bonds Worth Nearly $21,000, Gets $100 Reward |
A homeless man searching for returnable bottles in a trash bin found 31 U.S. savings bonds worth nearly $21,000 in a bag of clothes. Charles Moore, 59, took the bonds to a 24-hour walk-in homeless shelter, where a staffer tracked down the family of the man whose name was on the bonds. "They belong to him," Moore told The Detroit News. "I did the right thing." Ernest Lehto's family had given away many of his clothes shortly after his death in 2004. How the bonds ended up in the trash bin is a mystery, but Lehto's family left Moore a $100 reward. A big $100 reward??? Golly gee whiz, how generous of them. ...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2224117
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