[Dawn] Afghanistan's military says 27 Taliban insurgents have been killed in ground fighting and air strikes in a western province.
Western Afghanistan corps commander Gen. Jalandar Shah Behnam says troops dropped by parachute behind Taliban lines in Badghis province helped trap the militants in an offensive launched by NATO and Afghan forces.
He said fighting continued from the pre-dawn hours well into Tuesday afternoon.
He said that in addition to the 27 Taliban bodies collected, one Afghan soldier was killed and five wounded. One US soldier was wounded.
Behnam described the targeted area as one that had emerged as a Taliban stronghold in the past three years. It lies on a key highway.
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[Quqnoos] A NATO-led air strike has killed four civilians, including two women and a child, while targeting suspected militants, the military said Tuesday
The incident on Monday in the Nahr-e Saraj district in Helmand province came after ISAF admitted killing three women in an overnight raid on a village in eastern Afghanistan in February, having initially denied involvement.
"Insurgents were using the compound as a firing position when combined forces, unaware of the possible presence of civilians, directed air assets against it," the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.
"Later, once they were able to enter the compound, combined forces found four dead civilians -- two women, an elderly man and a child -- inside," a statement read.
"Four males, suspected insurgents, were also found dead inside the compound."
ISAF said a joint investigation with Afghan security forces had been launched into Monday's incident "to review the factors leading up to this unfortunate loss of civilian life".
Such losses are often used by Afghan politicians and the Taliban to whip up public opposition to the presence of foreign troops.
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WAFF > ALEXANDER TIKHOMIROV'S LIFE ILLUSTRATES THE CHALLENEG RADICAL ISLAM POSES IN RUSSIA.
versus
WMF > US LOGISTICS CONVOYS [trucks] IN AFPAK, CENTRAL ASIA HUBS SIGNALS US DESIRE TO EXPAND ITS CONTROL IN ASIA. US WILL FOLLOW MILITANT PROXIES FROM AFGHANISTAN INTO XINJIANG.
SAME > US REDOES THE LONG MARCH OF HANNIBAL TOWARD ASIA: US MOVES MASSIVE NUMBERS OF TROOPS, MATERIEL ACROSS SEVEN COUNTRIES FROM IRAQ INTO AFGHANISTAN. US MOVES A BALL THROUGH A NARROW TUBE.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the creation Wednesday of a separate permanent operational group for antiterrorism in the North Caucasus Federal District. The new task force, which came out of an emergency meeting held in the Dagestani capital of Makhachkala after terrorist attacks in Moscow and Dagestan killed more than 50 people, should start operation from April 19, the Kremlin press office said.
Federal Security Service head Alexander Bortnikov, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev and Security Council chief Alexander Bastrykin would be responsible for the establishment of the new group.
The president also ordered officials to draft proposals before April 30 on a new program to combat crime and terrorist acts in the North Caucasus. Prosecutor General Yury Chaika, Bastrykin and presidential administration head Sergei Naryshkin were also ordered to submit proposals aimed at toughening punishments for terrorists' accomplices before May 15.
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"The Great Game" by Hopkirk gives a detailed historical description of the on going tension in this area. Wonder if the Brits are involved again? Nah it's a brave new world.
SEOUL, April 7 (Yonhap) -- North Korea sentenced a detained U.S. man to eight years of hard labor and a hefty fine for illegal entry into the communist state and hostility toward it, its official media reported Wednesday. The move contrasts with Pyongyang's release in February of an American activist detained also for illegal entry, suggesting that the regime is trying to use the latest case as a negotiating card amid a nuclear standoff with Washington. Eight years? He'll never make it. The Norks will dangle him as bait for yet another concession ...
The trial took place Tuesday, attended by unidentified officials of the Swedish embassy in Pyongyang, the Korean Central News Agency said in a four-paragraph dispatch monitored in Seoul. North Korea last month identified the American as Aijalon Mahli Gomes, who crossed into North Korea through the border with China on Jan. 25. He was a former English teacher in South Korea with reportedly deep religious convictions.
"His guilt was confirmed according to the relevant articles of the criminal code of the DPRK at the trial. On this basis, the court sentenced him to eight years of hard labor and a fine of 70 million won," the KCNA said. "The accused admitted all the facts which had been put under accusation."
Under the North Korean trade bank's official exchange rate, the fine amounts to about US$700,000.
"North Korea is announcing the legal process concerning Gomes has ended," Yang Moo-jin, a professor at the University of North Korea Studies in Seoul said. "It is likely to hold out the release of Gomes as a icebreaker when and if it negotiates with the U.S. over its possible return to nuclear talks."
The announcement came days after North Korea threatened to stop preserving the remains of U.S. soldiers missing from the 1950-53 Korean War, a move likely aimed at opening direct talks with the U.S.
In December, a Korean-American missionary named Robert Park entered the North to publicize human rights abuses in the country, but was released in early February. Separately, two American journalists were released in August last year, months after they accidentally entered the North while reporting on North Korean defectors along the border with China.
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Is this guy a complete idiot? What did he think he was going to do, convert North Korea to his beliefs. I'd say 8 years in NK is a death sentence unless of course he is used as bait.
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There's a lot of that kind of thing around, JohnQC. Quite a few of them have rung my doorbell over the years... and one is a favourite niece that my husband has decided to cut off for her insistent refusal to accept that she needs to respect the religious choices of others.
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They would be well advised to keep him in solitary. He has years of exposure to freedom and news that could infect the entire prison camp like a disease. That is a quick way to have a full fledged slave revolt.
Aijalon: Aijalon (also spelled Ayalon) is a place in ancient Israel first mentioned in the Book of Joshua Mahli: Mahali (also Mahli) was a son of Merari of the house of Levi according to Exodus 6:19, born in Egypt.
Gomes = Gomez
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ok ed, I will correct myself. He was crossing into NK, screw him
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Well, the precedent used to be that countries were afraid to let anything happen to Americans. *I guess no more.
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Let me assure everyone that the US State Department considers Americans in trouble abroad the equivalent of a nasty cockroach problem that never goes away no matter how much you spray.
Maoist rebels killed at least 75 police by setting off explosives and firing from hilltops around dense forest in central India on Tuesday, in one of the worst attacks by the insurgents in years.
The ambush by more than 700 Maoist fighters in Chhattisgarh state highlights the strong rebel presence in large swathes of India, especially remote rural areas left out of the booming economy.
Recent attacks on police have raised questions over how well prepared security forces are to tackle the Maoists, especially during a counter-offensive by security forces this year.
"Something has gone very wrong," Indian Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram said.
"They seem to have walked into a camp or a trap."
Police said the Maoist rebels, who control several areas rich in mineral resources, had retreated into the forest in the Dantewada district of the Bastar region, home to government-owned iron ore miner NMDC Ltd, the largest in India.
Tuesday's attack left mining operations unaffected, but mining officials were rattled.
"There is an absolute panic," S.P. Himanshu Kumar, the deputy general manager of NDMC, frequently attacked by Maoists.
Reinforcements trying to collect the bodies came under fire by the Maoists who had surrounded the area. Two Indian Air Force helicopters were used in a rescue operation.
"This is a big disaster and it shows the paramilitary forces are obviously not trained to tackle the Maoists' rebellion and they don't seem to have enough intelligence,"
said retired Major General Ravi Arora, editor of Indian Military Review.
Maoists regularly attack rail lines and factories, hurting business potentially worth billions of dollars in mineral-rich and often remote regions. They extort more than $300 million from companies every year, the government says.
"The growing activities of Maoists in Bastar in Chhattisgarh are threatening iron ore mining," said Ashok Surana, head of a leading industrial body, Mini Steel Plant Association.
"The iron ore miners fear that the authorities might end up ceding control of Bastar's ore reserves in five years if the dominance of the area by the insurgents is not checked urgently."
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TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > INDIA: NO AIRPOWER TO BE USED IN OFFENSIVE AGZ NAXALS.
Given the CRASH RECORD of the Indian AF, I truly don't know whether to cry for the Indian Grunts + Para-police, OR APPLAUD THE IAF FOR TRYING TO STOP [mostly] POOR + UNEDUCATED NAXAL-MAOIST MILITANTS FROM BECOM "ACES" BY CAUSING IAF PILOTS/PLANES TO CRASH ON THEIR OWN.
["MEN[Militanst] WHO STARE AT GOATS [IAF PLanes to crash]" here].
* KELLY'S HEORES > ODDBALL > "THE BRIDGE IS STILL THERE.....NO, IT TAINT... YA SEE WHAT DEM NEGATIVE WAVES DID, MORIARITY"!
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Alal NEWS KERALA > the ruling BJP PARTY is vowing a "WAR TO THE END/FINISH" agz the NAXALS-MAOISTS.
* SAME > MAOIST LEADER: CHHATTISGARH ATTACK A [direct] CONSEQUENCE OF THE GOVT'S "OPERATION GREEN HUNT" OFFENSIVE | TIME HAS COME TO ENGAGE/CHALLENGE THE CENTRAL GOVT IN DIRECT BATTLE.
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Both the Maoists and the Marxists report to Beijing.
After some Japanese companies announced plans to scale up their investments in India, the CPI bigwigs visited Beijing. On their return, the unions began wildcat strikes against Japanese companies operating in India.
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[Dawn] At least ten suspected militants have been killed as security forces pounded their hideouts in different parts of the Orakzai Agency.
Security forces also claim to have destroyed five militant hideouts in the agency.
Sources said troops targeted militant hideouts in Kasha, Saragara and surrounding areas and killed ten suspected militants.
Ground troops backed by tanks, artillery, helicopter gunships and fighter jets have stepped up the offensive to root out militants from the troubled agency.
The total death toll from the last 14 days of the relentless military offensive has now reached to at least 300 militants.
Security forces also claim to have taken complete control of the Lower Orakzai Agency.
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FALLUJAH, Iraq (AFP) - A 10-year-old Iraqi boy allegedly recruited by Al-Qaeda was about to blow himself in a suicide attack on Wednesday just east of Fallujah when police spotted and arrested him, a senior officer said.
A hearty "Well done!" to all involved!
The incident occurred near a police checkpoint in Amariyat Al-Fallujah, a village 15 kilometres (nine miles) east of the former Sunni rebel bastion of Fallujah and due west of Baghdad, said Captain Anas al-Issawi.
"The 10-year-old boy had been used by Al-Qaeda in the past to place bombs," Issawi said, adding that the child disappeared from his family home in Amariyat Al-Fallujah four days ago. "Three men aboard a van drove him to the isolated village of Shitsher (75 kilometres west of Baghdad) to prepare him for the suicide operation," the officer said, quoting the boy's own testimony.
Wednesday morning the men helped the boy don an explosives-rigged vest under the traditional dishdasha (long robe) and drove him at dawn to the outskirts of Amariyat Al-Fallujah.
They instructed him to blow himself up as soon as the place began milling with people, the officer said, quoting the boy's testimony.
"The boy said he followed the instructions and when he saw people gather he approached them (ready to blow himself up) but a policeman saw him and shouted for him to go away.
"He panicked and fled but we caught up with him and found that he was wearing an explosives vest," the officer added.
The boy, whose identity was not revealed, gave the police information about the van which the Al-Qaeda suspects drove and three of them were arrested, Issawi said.
The security situation in Fallujah, once a hotbed of Sunni insurgency, has improved dramatically although militants still carry out sporadic attacks.
Since 2006, Sunni tribesmen and former rebels have joined forces with the US military against Al-Qaeda, slashing the jihadists' presence in the western region.
An influential Shiite movement did not back either front-runner in a poll on who to support for Iraq's next prime minister, further muddying on Wednesday the political situation in the aftermath of the inconclusive March elections.
In a survey, supporters of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr voted 24 percent for him to support Shiite politician Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who was interim prime minister from 2005 to 2006, the movement's spokesman Salah al-Obeidi announced.
Iraq's incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and his chief rival Ayad Allawi received only 10 percent and 9 percent of votes respectively.
Al-Obeidi left open whether al-Sadr would follow the guidance of his supporters in the course of future negotiations, saying that "each event has its own way," but the results seemed certain to at least add further complications to the already long drawn-out negotiating period that has followed the March 7 election.
Allawi's bloc came out ahead in the vote by two seats over al-Maliki's coalition, but both parties are far short of the necessary majority needed to govern alone. The candidates are now scrambling to muster the support needed to form a government.
The poll of al-Sadr's supporters was widely viewed as a way for the cleric to give himself the opportunity to back someone other than al-Maliki, under the guise of following the people's will.
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It still amazes (and angers) me that we let al-Sadr go. He is responsible for the deaths of many American Soldiers and Iraqi civilians, and he has close ties with Iran. The fact that this man continues to have such political sway is a testament to how poorly this war was handled in its first four years. We had al-Sadr cornered more than once early on, let him go, and watched as he helped spur brutal sectarian violence while spearheading an Iran backed insurgency. By my second tour in Iraq his militia controlled the Iraqi Ministry of Transportation, complete with its own fleet of vehicles and paramilitary forces. Their members worked quasi-openly in places like Baghdad International Airport, and they had financial support from the Iraqi government which they used to wage war against our military and innocent Iraqi civilians. The US Military is full of men and women with the heart and courage to do the difficult right rather than the easy wrong. Too bad we can't say the same for the politicians who send them to war. Al-Sadr is alive and kicking only because of politics; because he comes from a powerful family with ties to the fledgling Iraqi government; because our politicians and bureaucrats didn't have the balls to take him down and piss off his buddies for a few years. Al-Sadr was the head of the snake in a militant organization that was structured much differently from modern al-Qaeda forces. The long term stability produced by his death wouldve far outweighed any short term consequences. Al-Sadr is an entrenched remnant of the same fast track policies that spurred President Bushs 2003 victory celebration (one I distinctly remember since Id been getting shot at not 8 hours before I watched it), and such is the case with much of the rest of the Iraqi government. Thankfully, Mr. Bush, who I truly admire, finally fired Rumsfeld and got a real strategy for Iraq. Unfortunately, the poor decisions he allowed early on will continue to haunt the Iraqi political system.
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On FNC: Julian Assange, a WikiLeaks editor, acknowledged to Fox News in an interview Tuesday evening that "it's likely some of the individuals seen in the video were carrying weapons." A little tip to reporters who want to inbed with the enemy: The U.S. Military shoots the enemy. The enemy can clearly be identified carrying weapons meant to harm us or our allies. If you are in a hostile area, with people who carry weapons, and are not friendly to the U.S. you might be shot at without warning.
Kinda like the DUI on Bush fifteen years after the fact.
I am still baffled by these leftist that seem to revel in embarrassing the US
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Its not clear at this time iff these reporters were merely working to get a story for Reuters, or else were wilful accomplices colluding wid Ilsamists. WHATEVER THE REAL REASON, THEIR MISTAKE THAT DAY COST THEM THEIR LIVES.
Iff the Emglish tranlation of the Video is correct, IIUC the US HELOS were seemingly FIRED UPON after discovering this group of civilians, several of whom were clearly armed wid weapons. Also, the IGA had times announced that any ordinary civilan = NON-IGA ARMY, POLICE, UNDERCOVER OR OTHER SECURITY, ETC WALKING OVERTLY IN THE STREETS WID WEAPS MAY BE TREATED AS INSURGENTS, + AS SUCH SUBJECT TO IMMEDIATE ARREST IFF NOT ATTACK BY US-IGA FORCES, AT PAIN OF INJURY OR DEATH TO SAME.
These Reuters employees should've known this already.
The above being said, personally I'm more concerned about the welfare + post-Attack mindset of the kidz in the Black Van, vee OLD DREAM/VISIONS OF THIS SINGLE EVENT, + FUTURE TIME-EVENTS [Kids > future ADULTS] AS LINKED TO THIS TRAGEDY IN THEIR LIVES.
SIX bombs have shaken Baghdad, killing at least 35 people, the second time the capital came under attack in three days, fuelling fears insurgents are making a return due to a political impasse.
The explosions today destroyed residential buildings in mostly Shiite neighbourhoods, and a security spokesman said Iraq was in "open war" with the remnants of al-Qaeda and loyalists of executed dictator Saddam Hussein.
"Six bomb attacks in several neighbourhoods of Baghdad occurred, and seven buildings collapsed," an interior ministry official said.
The official said 35 people were killed and 140 wounded, but several victims are thought to be trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings.
Ambulance sirens wailed throughout the city as emergency service workers rushed to the scenes of the blasts, and a large plume of smoke rose from near a destroyed building in the neighbourhood of Allawi, central Baghdad.
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The building housed several apartments with shopfronts on its ground floor, and workers used heavy machinery to lift large pieces of rubble in a bid to find those buried under the collapsed structure.
Dozens of passersby gathered at the site of the blast, close to a secondary school, to sort through the rubble in hopes of rescuing survivors as military helicopters flew overhead.
"I was picking up bricks and sand to find victims, and just when I succeeded to remove the rubble, the man I saw died," said a 25-year-old man who gave his name only as Mustafa.
"His wife came to me to see if I had seen him, and I told her he died."
Bombs were planted inside empty apartments, officials said.
An army officer in Allawi said that three days before the attacks, two unidentified men approached the owner of the destroyed building wanting to rent one of the unused shopfronts for a falafel restaurant.
"Yesterday, they brought lots of equipment, and today there has been an explosion in that shop," said the officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
"We have sent someone to find the owner."
Along with the Allawi blast, which destroyed two buildings, two bombs struck Shurta Rabiyah, west Baghdad, while at least one detonated in Chikouk, which houses a camp for internally displaced persons in the north of the capital.
Bombs also hit Shuala, north Baghdad, and Al-Amil in the south.
"We are in a war. In our case, it is an open war with remnants of al-Qaeda and the Baath" party of Saddam Hussein, Baghdad security spokesman Major General Qassim Atta told Al-Arabiya television.
"There has been support for terrorist groups from outside Iraq, from people who don't want to see the political process be a success."
The latest explosions came after three suicide vehicle bombings minutes apart targeted regional and European embassies on Sunday, killing 30 people and wounding more than 200.
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, who said those attacks bore the signature of al-Qaeda, attributed the bombings to groups who wanted to derail the formation of a new government.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's State of Law Alliance finished with 89 seats in the 325-member parliament after March 7 parliamentary elections, two fewer than ex-premier Iyad Allawi's Iraqiya bloc.
Mr Allawi has accused Iran of seeking to prevent him becoming prime minister again by inviting all major parties to Tehran except his secular bloc.
Security officials had warned that protracted coalition building could give insurgents an opportunity to further destabilise the country.
In Damascus today, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad condemned the "terrorist attacks" and pledged that Syria "stands alongside the brotherly people of Iraq."
Although the frequency of attacks by insurgents has dropped significantly since peaking in 2006 and 2007, figures released on Thursday showed 367 Iraqis were killed in violence last month - the highest number this year.
Commenting on the recent spate of attacks, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the US commander in Iraq General Ray Odierno "believes that this does not threaten our ability to draw down our forces later in the year."
Obama has ordered all US combat troops be withdrawn from Iraq by the end of August and for all American soldiers to be out of the country by the end of 2011.
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Al Qaeda is trying to derail the formation of a new government? Well, gosh, we were told by Kerry, Pelosi, Obama, Clinton, et al that it was the American presence in Iraq that was fueling the violence. They didn't tell us that Al Qaeda wanted to kill Shiites and fellow Sunnis to tople an oil-rich Arab state. You mean all our favorite Democrats were wrong???
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You mean all our favorite Democrats were wrong???
No, not wrong, just liars.
But then you knew that already, they were Politicians/Democrats and they are unable to tell the difference, so Lying is Natural to them.
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Too bad they declared victory. Now they will be burdened with responsibility for the subsequent defeat, something they managed to avoid in Viet Nam.
MISSAN / Aswat al-Iraq: Policemen on Tuesday found two Iranian-made bombs in central Amara, deputy police chief said.
That's an act of war. Not that anyone seems to care about such things nowadays.
"The forces found the two bombs in al-Emarat al-Sakaniya region, central Amara," Colonel Sadeq Abdulazeem al-Helw told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "Anti-explosives experts defused the two bombs and took them to the police department," he added.
Amara, the capital of Missan, lies 390 km south of Baghdad.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Joint forces on Tuesday 11 arrested armed infiltrators on the borders along Syria, west of Mosul, the U.S. army said in a statement.
Iraqi-U.S. forces arrested on Tuesday (April 6) 11 Iraqi infiltrators on borders with Syria, west of Mosul,' said the statement received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency. The joint forces found seven machine guns and mobile phones with the infiltrators,' it added.
It gave no more details.
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They were just taking a walk with their machineguns and got lost. Everyone knows that there are no foreign fighters in Iraq, that's just a lie that George Bush made up.
Six mortar shells were fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, but landed in Palestinian territory and injured six Gazans, according to Palestinian sources. The mortar shells were aimed toward the Eshkol region of the western Negev, but landed in on Palestinian land, one of them hitting a house in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, sending shrapnel flying and lighting a small fire inside.
Six Palestinians were injured, one of them seriously, Gaza emergency services chief Mo'aweya Hassanein said. The shells were fired just two days after the Islamic Jihad in Gaza announced that it would cease firing rockets into Israel.
Earlier in the week on Sunday night, Gaza militants fired a Qassam into Israel, which hit an open area in the northwestern Negev area. There were no casualties and no damage was done. The attack came after Hamas said they would try to reduce rocket attacks against Israel.
Hamas spokesman Ayman Taha on Friday told the BBC that Hamas is working to curb rocket attacks against Israel by Gaza militants. "The government in Gaza is in charge of the situation, and it does know clearly who launches rockets," Taha told the BBC. "It is working hard to deter any faction from acting individually."
[Al Arabiya Latest] A young Israeli Arab on Tuesday was sentenced to almost six years in jail for spying on Israel's armed forces chief for Lebanon's Hezbollah militia at the gym where they both worked out. "This is Agent 739! The general used a blue towel today! I can say no more!"
Rawi Fuad Sultani, 23, passed on information on Lieutenant General Gabi Ashkenazi, to foreign agents, according to a plea bargain agreement between the state and Sultani. "There is no doubt the indictment represents a serious case of contact with a Hezbollah agent and transferring information to the enemy," said a court in the city of Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv.
The court agreed to a relatively lenient jail term of 68 months for an espionage conviction, noting Sultani had not initiated the contact with the Hezbollah agents.
The agreement, however, dropped charges of conspiracy to commit a crime. The initial indictment had accused Sultani of plotting to assassinate Ashkenazi to avenge the killing of a Hezbollah military commander, Imad Mugnieh.
Mugnieh was killed in a February 2008 car bombing in Damascus, a strike widely blamed on Israel.
Sultani is said to have admitted to meeting a Hezbollah activist in Morocco one year ago and before that in December 2008, when he flew to Poland and met another Hezbollah member to pass on information he had collected on Ashkenazi.
Out of proportion
However, Sultani's father, who was also his defense lawyer, said the case was blown out of proportion because it involved an Arab. "If the case was as serious as it has been made out to be, we could have expected a lot harsher punishment," said Fuad Sultani.
"He is paying too harsh a price because the treatment he received from the security establishment and the media was not proportional," the father told reporters.
A 2006 war between Israel and the Iranian-backed Shiite group Hezbollah killed more than 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and more than 160 Israelis, most of them soldiers.
Over the past 12 months, Beirut has launched a crackdown on espionage rings, arresting dozens of suspected Israeli spies. At the end of March, four people were charged with passing on information about Lebanon's army and Hezbollah.
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What a waste. When you unmask a spy, you almost never want to let him know that he has been fingered. Instead you get your counterintelligence types involved.
This is why spies have to be watched closely. If 99% of what they watch is unimportant, they are probably still under cover. If suddenly they start getting useful intel in a consistent manner, they need to be audited.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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[Dawn] Afghanistan's military says 27 Taliban insurgents have been killed in ground fighting and air strikes in a western province.
[Quqnoos] A NATO-led air strike has killed four civilians, including two women and a child, while targeting suspected militants, the military said Tuesday
[Dawn] At least ten suspected militants have been killed as security forces pounded their hideouts in different parts of the Orakzai Agency.
[Al Arabiya Latest] A young Israeli Arab on Tuesday was sentenced to almost six years in jail for spying on Israel's armed forces chief for Lebanon's Hezbollah militia at the gym where they both worked out.
