US army surgeons donned body armor to remove a high-explosive bullet from a soldier's head during a tense five-hour operation.
Non-essential staff at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan were evacuated during the surgery to remove the Taliban bullet, which contained two ounces of high explosives powerful enough to kill the entire surgical team.
Medics succeeded in delicately extracting it and their unnamed patient - a member of the Afghan National Army, who was injured in a bomb blast - was recovering tonight, The Sun reports.
Sergeant William Carter, a member of the surgical team who performed under lockdown at the military hospital, said, "It was a real concentrated effort on everyone's behalf to ensure that we were all safe, and the patient was safe as well."
In half a century, US medical teams tackled fewer than 50 cases involving the removal of deadly explosives from patients.
"This type of situation is remarkable," Carter said.
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Geez, this ammo sounds worse then even the dreaded Depleted Uranium.
I'm sure the Taliban can expect a strongly worded letter from Human Rights Watch deploring it's use in no uncertain terms...
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So what explosive compound, two ounces, in a bullet, can kill an entire surgical team?
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It looked like a 14.5mm High Explosive Incendiary bullet, so the entire bullet weighs 2oz. It is unlikely to kill the surgical team, but it will end a surgeon's career. No need to mention the headache an exploding bullet will give the patient.
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I remember seeing a x-ray of an ARVN soldier with a 82mm mortar rounds inside his chest cavity. Around 1970 or so.
A U.S. Air Force tilt-rotor aircraft crashed in southeastern Afghanistan, killing three service members and one government contractor, NATO said Friday. Other personnel aboard were injured and were taken to a military base for treatment, NATO said.
The CV-22 Osprey went down about 7 miles (11 kilometers) from Qalat, the capital of Zabul province, NATO said. The cause of the crash was under investigation.
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In the seventies, Canadair(today Bombardier, then
a General Dynamic's subsidiary)built five
CL 84 Dynaverts for 85 million dollars.
It was controlled by purely mechanicals from an
armored control box. It had twice the payload of
the useless osprey, twice the speed and
twice the range.
Alas, at the time, the communist hippies had
won the psychological war in Viet Nam and everywhere.
So, they made sure nothing came of it.
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They where rough prototypes put together in a few
months powered by 1,500 hp Lycomings engines,
discount gearboxes, off the shelf helicopter tail
rotors and a boxy fuselage.
The design was brilliant, being bullet proof
as the osprey die from a thousand misdesigns
or a bullet or two from the jihadis..
These prototypes where doing nearly as good with
a QUARTER of the 12,000 hp of the Osprey!
The final version WAS going to more than double
the Osprey performances.
I flew with one of test pilots and he was
ecstatic about the machines.
Yes, he had to bail out a couple times but
it was due, he said, to cheap gearboxes installed
AFTER the project was unofficially canceled...
Look at the osprey's specs...CREW OF FOUR!!!
to the one on the Dynavert...
worse than a Russian plane!!!
In case of, say, volcanic ash, the Dynavert can
land with two dead engines, while the Osprey
go down like a rock...no auto rotation
and no wings!!!
Having cost nearly a hundred billions, the thing
would have been canceled long ago if the country
had real leaders.(2Bushes, Clinton, Obama,
the quartet of jokers!)
Look like Melon-head Hussein will only have time
to keep his own head on his shoulder,
after selling the country down the river...
[Quqnoos] A Taliban commander and two of his bodyguards were killed Wednesday in Marjah district in southern Helmand province, officials said
"Mullah Burhan along with some of his men were busy in making bombs in an abandoned house in Marja district late Wednesday night but suddenly
Suddenly!! To the surprise of all involved.
the device went off, killing three persons including Burhan," Provincial governor spokesman Daud Ahmadi said.
"Quick, Peter, cue the heavenly choir!"
"For that bunch? Let the guys finish their lunch, that bunch aren't headed in our direction."
"Exactly why I want them singing "Hallelujah!"
He added that Mullah Burhan was an important commander in Marja, a former hub for Taliban's narco-trade and a safe haven for foreign insurgents.
Golly, what happened to change things?
The militants often make homemade bombs from explosive devices and use them in carrying out suicide and roadside bombings.
Taliban militants have not made any comment so far.
Mr Ahmadi hoped that the elimination of Mullah Burhan would further help the government to strengthen its authority in Marja district, which was captured last February in a major offensive.
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[Quqnoos] Afghan security forces have arrested five would-be suicide bombers Thursday in Kabul -- the largest group of suicide bomber ever detained in the capital
"If this team had made it through it would have been a disaster as we've seen in past instances," said Abdul Ghafar, deputy commander of the Afghan National Police crisis unit.
The arrest has apparently avoided a repetition of last February's coordinated attack on an Indian guesthouse and a shopping mall in Kabul, in which at least 17 people, including 9 Indian nationals, were killed.
The group was arrested in southeastern part of the city.
The bombers were sent by the Al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network, operating along the Pakistani-Afghan borders.
"Today's operation marks a big success," Ghafar said. "Our capacities are improving day by day and also our ability to uncover such plots is improving day by day."
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Sudan's Umma Party leader Sadeq al-Mahdy on Thursday agreed to his party's decision to boycott the upcoming elections. Umma Party, one of the main opposition parties, said late Wednesday it would boycott next week's presidential, legislative and gubernatorial polls, blighting the credibility of Sudan's first multi-party polls in 24 years.
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir had hoped to win the Apr.11 polls in defiance of an International Criminal Court warrant for his arrest to legitimize his rule in Africa's largest country.
"The elections will be fair and free and clean and exemplary," Bashir told a large gathering in northern Sudan on Thursday.
They will be clean, because "elections are a religious duty," the Islamist-leaning leader said at the event, which was broadcast on state television.
Umma Party
"We have decided to boycott the electoral process at all levels," Sarah Nugdalla, head of Umma's political bureau, told a group of journalists after a party meeting on Wednesday in Omdurman, across the River Nile from Khartoum.
The credibility of the three-day elections was already in doubt after another opposition party, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement, widened its boycott of the vote and EU monitors pulled out of Darfur.
Umma was among a group of opposition parties that had given the Sudanese government four days from Apr. 2 to put into place key reforms in return for a pledge to take part in that elections that would be pushed back to May.
"The political bureau discussed the issue over the past two days," Nugdalla said.
"Several points of view were heard. In the end, we came to the conclusion that our conditions for postponing the elections had not been accepted."
Nugdallah said Umma party leader Mahdi had been granted the right to "take action in the national interests," but three party officials said this would not affect the decision to boycott the elections.
Two party sources earlier said Mahdi may consider taking a position similar to that of the ex-southern rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), which on Tuesday announced a boycott in the north, except in the central Blue Nile and South Kordofan states.
Boycott
Mahdi was the last democratically elected leader of Sudan in 1986 and was one of Bashir's two main challengers in the presidential polls.
Umma had won the previous legislative elections in 1986, only to be removed from power later by current president Bashir.
The upcoming presidential, legislative and local elections are seen as a prelude to a referendum on independence for southern Sudan that is scheduled for January 2011.
But the former southern rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement said late on Tuesday that it was extending its boycott of the election to include the northern states in Sudan including Darfur.
However, it still plans to field candidates in the sensitive border states of Blue Nile and South Kordofan, where it enjoys support.
Umma's leader, former prime minister Sadek al-Mahdi, met Wednesday with SPLM secretary general Pagan Amum, before the party's decision to boycott the elections was announced.
The Democratic Unionist Party, which came second to Umma in the 1986 contest, said on Tuesday it would present Hatim al-Sir as presidential candidate, after an initial decision to boycott.
The favorite to threaten Bashir, SPLM candidate Yasser Arman, withdrew last week citing major fraud and the continuing conflict in Darfur, sparking a crisis of confidence in the elections and leaving a loose opposition alliance in disarray.
On Wednesday the biggest international observer mission, from the European Union, said it was withdrawing its observers from war-torn Darfur because fighting and kidnappings were restricting the movement of its staff, undermining their ability to observe election preparations.
The Communist Party, the Umma breakaway Reform and Renewal and other smaller parties announced a full boycott last week.
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Al-Shabab fighters have seized a compound housing the United Nations Operations in town of Wajid, in Bakool region, in southern Somalia.
Hundreds of heavily armed al-Shabab fighters entered the compound on Thursday, disarmed around 150 security guards and ordered them to leave the area, a Press TV correspondent reported. Hope they weren't paying those boys much.
The fighters confiscated equipment and foodstuffs from the United Nations' World Food Programme, and stopped civilians from entering the compound.
Al-Shabab said that they have made the UN compound their main base from where they will henceforth conduct their activities.
Reports say that the fighters have also seized control of a local airstrip that is used by UN agencies to distribute humanitarian aid in southern regions of the country.
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[Maghrebia] A French-Lebanese couple escaped an attempted kidnapping Wednesday evening near the French embassy in Nouakchott, ANI reported on Thursday (April 8th). Witnesses reported that around 10 pm, two turbaned men approached the foreigners as they were exiting their car. The assailants fired a weapon to reportedly force the victims back into their vehicle, but fled when police arrived on the scene. According to Journal Tahalil, it is unclear if the incident was an attempted carjacking or a failed terrorist kidnapping.
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Nouakchott is in Mauritania, and near the Atlantic Ocean.
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[Maghrebia] A roadside bomb explosion on Wednesday (April 7th) near Boumerdes killed two Algerian gendarmes and injured three civilians, including an 8-year-old girl, Liberte reported. The morning attack in Tidjellabine targeted a convoy of trucks transporting explosives. According to witnesses, gunfire was exchanged after the blast. The attackers fled the scene.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday arrested a Pakistani national in the capital suspecting him to be an organiser in Bangladesh of Pakistan-based outlawed outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
The arrestee, Mobashwer Shahid Mubin alias Yahia, 25, got involved with LeT in 1998 and came to Bangladesh in guise of a buying house businessman in 2006, Rab legal and media wing director Commander Mohammad Sohail told a press briefing yesterday.
Sources say Yahia was first held by an intelligence agency from Shahjalal International Airport area in December 2008 on his way to Pakistan. Later on January 6 last year he was handed over to airport police and shown arrested in a currency counterfeit case.
Before his arrest, Yahia was working for recruiting local youths for LeT and carrying funds for its activities in Bangladesh from Pakistan as assigned by the top Lashkar leaders, they add.
The sources say apart from LeT, he used to look after the interest of different local and foreign militant organisations as an ISI agent. He used to reside in Uttara Sector 4.
Hailing from Karachi, Yahia is skilled in using various types of firearms including AK47.
"We are trying to determine how many people he recruited, his source of funding, network in Bangladesh and whether he maintained connection with other militant organisations in Bangladesh," Commander Sohail said replying to a query.
Rab officials say they arrested Yahia in Chankharpool around 11:30pm on Wednesday with a laptop and a notebook. They add he came out of jail a couple of weeks ago on expiry of a four-month detention but was always under their surveillance.
Speaking anonymously, a senior official of Dhaka Central Jail however said Rab arrested Yahia at the jail gate soon after he was released on bail.
Yahia's seized passport reveals before his arrest he visited Pakistan 12 times and once he entered Bangladesh via Dubai.
Earlier, Detective Branch of police arrested a number of top LeT leaders from India and Pakistan who were residing in Bangladesh. The detectives also arrested four suspected LeT operatives in Chittagong and Dhaka last year on charge of devising a plot to attack the Indian and US missions in Dhaka.
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A female suicide bomber has attempted to shoot the Nazran police chief, but missed and injured another police officer and then blew herself up in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, a local police spokesman said on Friday. Joe Friday never had to deal with stuff like this
"A woman approached a group of police officers and fired a gun at the Nazran police chief, but instead shot another one, injuring him," the spokesman said. "Missed me by that much, oh...you ok, Muldoon?"
"Just a scratch, Chief."
He added that police officers opened return fire on the attacker and hit her. Bang, Bang, Kapow..."Ouch!"
She then fell and an explosive device was detonated. KABOOM!
The spokesman said none of the police officers was killed in the attack. But the dry cleaning bill is going to be massive
[Al Arabiya Latest] A Qatari diplomat who sparked a national security scare by joking about setting fire to his shoe on an airplane will be released without charge, a U.S. law enforcement official told AFP on Thursday.
"It's expected that he's going to be turned over today to Qatari officials. I don't know if he's still with the FBI or if he's been turned over to the Qatari officials yet," the official said.
Mohammed al-Modadi, 27, the third secretary and vice consul of the Qatari embassy in Washington was confronted by air marshals late Wednesday after smoking a cigarette in an airplane bathroom and joked he was trying to ignite his shoe.
The source, who asked not to be named, said that even though smoking in airplane restrooms is a federal crime under U.S. law, the diplomat is not likely to be prosecuted.
"He has diplomatic immunity. If he was a U.S. citizen, that's a violation, but he does have diplomatic immunity," the official said. "Only a foreign government can lift the immunity."
U.S. air marshals subdued a Qatari diplomat on a flight to Denver on Thursday in a bomb scare triggered after he reportedly smoked a cigarette and joked he was trying to light his shoes, officials said.
There were no reports of an explosion on the plane, which landed safely at Denver International Airport from Washington's Reagan National Airport following the disturbance.
Law enforcement authorities initially notified key lawmakers that U.S. air marshals subdued the Qatari national, who had apparently sought to "ignite their (his) shoe" on the flight, a congressional aide told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"Air marshals jumped in, and the cockpit wasn't breached," the official said.
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It's a costly "joke". Other AQ operatives have been suspected of using diplomatic passports, too. Qatar should at a minimum pay up:
Excerpt from FoxNews:
A lot of people kicked into action last night based on a perceived threat," said Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., ranking Republican on the House intelligence committee. "I don't think it's unreasonable" to ask Qatar for the money.
Responding to midair security threats is a multi-agency ordeal that can cost thousands, even tens of thousands, of dollars. This particular incident wouldn't have cost United Airlines much, because the flight did not have to divert to another city, meaning the airline didn't have to take on the expense of sending another plane or lodging passengers in hotels.
But law enforcement still had to respond, and the two F-16s -- which according to the U.S. military cost $7,569 apiece for every hour in the air -- still had to leave base to escort the flight and return.
That's a $15,000 tab if you count the full hour. A military official said the jets were in the air for about 40 minutes total, so the bare minimum cost would be about $10,000.
It would have been much more if the North American Aerospace Defense Command didn't happen to have a base so close by. The two fighter jets came from Buckley Air Force Base, which is just a few miles from the Denver airport where the F-16s landed safely with the United Airlines flight.
David A. Castelveter, a spokesman with the Air Transport Association, said the typical cost to airlines is "pretty sizable" as well whenever there's a security incident.
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said the typical cost to airlines is "pretty sizable" as well whenever there's a security incident.
How "Sizeable" is it when a planeload of passengers goes down?
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The F-16s at Buckley belong to the Colorado Air National Guard. There are two on standby for just this kind of sh$$ every hour of every day. The Guard and Reserves are taking on a larger portion of military duties than ever before. I'm sure they'd appreciate a positive mention from the press, but that's not likely to happen. Maybe the Denver Post said something - I haven't checked it today.
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Todays Denver Postpile had three mentions of F-16's scrambled from Buckley in the article. No mention of the Colorado Air National Guard.
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joked he was trying to ignite his shoe
Nonsense. He knew he had diplomatic immunity and that's pretty much the way he and the other elites treat 'cops'.
I'd be handing Qatar a bill, and strongly suggesting they look into chartering aircraft.
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He needs to be sent pack with his diplomatic status revoked, I.E. PNG the guy. Then place a restricition on commercial flights for all diplomats from Qatari.
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He's been PNG'd, 49Pan. I submitted the article for tomorrow.
Dozens of militants attacked a military checkpoint in a troubled tribal region in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, triggering a gunbattle that left 18 insurgents dead, a military spokesman said.
Lt. Col. Tahir Akram, a spokesman for the Frontier Corps, said the fighting involved insurgents who arrived from the nearby Khyber region to try to retake a checkpoint in the Taliban-infested Orakzai tribal region. He said the security forces repulsed the attack and captured four insurgents. One soldier was wounded.
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[Dawn] Suspected militants detonated three bombs about one hour apart at three government schools before dawn Thursday, damaging the buildings but causing no casualties, police said.
The schools were closed at the time of the attacks, which happened on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar, senior police official Liaquat Ali said.
One facility was a school for girls and the other two for boys.
"Militants damaged a girls' high school, a primary and a middle school, on the outskirts by planting explosive material," provincial education minister Sardar Hussain Babak told AFP.
He blamed the attacks on the Taliban. "The militants, who are on the run in the wake of military offensives against them were targeting schools to create panic," he said.
Senior police official Mohammad Karim Khan also confirmed the attacks and said there were no injuries.
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[Dawn] Two JUI-F activists were killed in a firing incident in Orangi Town, Karachi on Thursday.
According to police, Abdul Hafeez and Qari Ejaz were killed, while Ahle Sunnat activist Ahmed Siddiqi was injured along with a police officer.
The four men were sitting together outside a bakery near Badar Chowk when unknown gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire. The JUI-F activists died on the spot, while the other two were taken to hospital in critical condition as they suffered from multiple bullet wounds.
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[Dawn] Afghan Taliban have released a Greek man safe and well seven months after he was kidnapped in northwest Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said Thursday.
"He is with us. He is safe. It was a difficult task but our intelligence agencies did this job," Rahmatullah Wazir, the top administrative official in Pakistan's Chitral valley, told AFP by telephone.
Local elders from Chitral had been negotiating with those holding Athanassios Lerounis in the neighbouring Afghan province Nuristan, the official said.
He was kidnapped on September 7 while working for an aid group among the ethnic Kalash community in the mountains of Chitral.
"He was with Afghan Taliban in the Afghan province of Nuristan. The negotiations succeeded. He reached Chitral late last night," Wazir said.
"He's in a good health."
The group had demanded a ransom and that Pakistan release three detained Afghan Taliban leaders, but Wazir said none of their demands had been met and that Lerounis had been released unconditionally.
Mohammad Jafer, a senior police official in Chitral, confirmed the recovery following negotiations for his safe release.
There was no immediate comment from the Greek embassy in Islamabad.
Greece's Athens News Agency reported last October that negotiations were underway for Lerounis's release after his Taliban-affiliated kidnappers demanded a ransom and the release of three Taliban leaders held in Pakistan.
Some Kalash are fair with light-coloured eyes, leading to academic speculation that they might be descended from an ancient Middle Eastern population or even from soldiers of Alexander the Great's army which conquered the area in the fourth century BC.
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Even the Taliban know the Greek's have no money to pay a ransom.
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NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: A gunman was killed and another wounded in a blast from an improvised explosive device they were trying to plant in northern Mosul city on Thursday, a security source in Ninewa said.
The two gunmen were trying to emplace the IED inside a house in al-Rashidiya area, northern Mosul, when it went off, killing one of them and wounding the other,' the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. The army raided the house after the blast and rushed the wounded gunman to a hospital under tight guard,' he added.
Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.
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[Ma'an] Palestinian medical crews found the body of an 18-year-old tunnel worker on Thursday, after a two-day search following the collapse of the smuggling passage beneath the Egypt-Gaza border.
The body was found in the Ash-Sha'ut area of Rafah, and identified as Bilal Abu Riziq, 18, Muawiya Hassanein, director of ambulance services in the Gaza Health Ministry, said.
Hassanein added that the body arrived at the Abu Yousif An-Najjar Hospital, where it was identified. He noted the total number of tunnel related deaths since the start of the Israeli siege had reached 132.
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[Ma'an] Israeli forces withdrew from the southern Gaza Strip late Thursday afternoon, leaving one person moderately injured, officials said hours after Israeli forces used military bulldozers to dig up farmland in the area.
Hani Al-Hur, a man in his 20s, was taken to Nasser Hospital with shrapnel injuries sustained when Israeli forces invaded the Al-Qurara area north of Khan Younis earlier the same day, sources within the de facto security forces told Ma'an by phone.
Muawiya Hassanein, head of emergency and ambulance services in the Gaza Health Ministry, confirmed that a man in his 20s was taken to Nasser Hospital. Hassanein described the man's injuries as moderate.
Meanwhile, a number of Palestinian factions said they launched projectiles at armored Israeli vehicles that drove into Khan Younis. Islamic Jihad's Al-Quds Brigades reported that its forces targeted an armored Israeli vehicle with an RPG east of the southern Gaza city.
The Popular Resistance Committees' Salah Ad-Din Brigades stated that its forces fired nine mortars at a gathering of armored Israeli vehicles that invaded the area of Abasan Al-Jadida east of Khan Younis, the site of deadly clashes late last month.
Israeli forces reportedly entered 300 meters into Gaza's Al-Qurara district hours earlier, destroying civilian and agricultural lands. Five Israeli military vehicles entered south of the Kissufim military base and canvassed the area, apparently to search for resistance fighters, witnesses said.
An Israeli military spokesman confirmed a patrol was operating in the central Gaza area.
"Palestinians opened fire on the patrol" during a regular military activity involving the search for explosives, the official said, adding that no injuries were reported, but damage was sustained to one army vehicle.
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Israel has launched a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip with its troops entering the south of the long-blockaded coastal sliver.
Israeli tanks and bulldozers advanced about 500 meters into the east of the southern city of Khan Yunis on Wednesday, the Press TV correspondent in Gaza reported.
Late in March, Israeli forces crossed into the southern Qarara region and then invaded Dair al-Balah in central Gaza.
This was days after Israeli armored vehicles crossed into an area near the southern town of Khan Yunis, leaving one Palestinian dead and several others wounded.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Clashes broke out briefly in eastern Lebanon on Thursday when a dispute between members of a Syrian-backed Palestinian faction escalated into violence, the army said. "Preliminary information indicates that the fight was a result of an internal disagreement," an army spokesman told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
A Palestinian official said automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades were fired during the clashes, which broke out at the Liberation of Palestine - General Command (PFLP-GC) group's Ain al-Bayda base near the town of Kfar Zabad in the Bekaa Valley.
One person was injured in the clashes which quickly died down, the Palestinian official added. PFLP-GC commanders were unreachable. "The situation is calm now," the army spokesman said Thursday afternoon, adding that an officer and three other members of the PFLP-GC had turned themselves in to the army.
The PFLP-GC, led by Ahmad Jibril, was founded with Syrian backing during the 1975-1990 Lebanese civil war. Along with Palestinian group Fatah al-Intifada, Jibril's movement has bases in the Bekaa near the Syrian border. The PFLP-GC also has a base in Nehmeh, south of the capital Beirut.
Unlike most Palestinian factions in Lebanon, which are located inside the country's 12 refugee camps and remain loyal to Gaza or the West Bank, Fatah al-Intifada and the PFLP-GC continue to be backed by Damascus.
The two movements' arsenal remains a thorny issue between Lebanon and its powerful neighbor. In January a leader of Fatah al-Intifada said his group would not disarm outside of the camps but was willing to discuss where in Lebanon it holds its arms. The Lebanese government has called for Palestinian groups outside refugee camps to disarm, saying the issue was not up for negotiation.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The Iranian intelligence minister says Tehran has compelling evidence that three Americans arrested in Iran last year were cooperating with intelligence services. You could tell they wuz spies from their earnest young faces. Spies always disguise themselves like that.
In an exclusive interview with Press TV, Heydar Moslehi said Iran will present its evidence to the media soon.
Shane Michael Bauer, Joshua Felix Fattal, and Sarah Emily Shourd were arrested in the western Iranian district of Marivan, at Malakh-Khur border point on July 31.
In November, Tehran chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari-Dolatabadi also said that the trio had entered the country to carry out acts of espionage.
But the United States says they are hikers and has called for their release.
Moslehi also warned neighboring countries against working with Israeli and US intelligence services, emphasizing it would destabilize the region.
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Which one of them had the brilliant idea of hiking through Iran?
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[Quqnoos] A Taliban commander and two of his bodyguards were killed Wednesday in Marjah district in southern Helmand province, officials said
Al-Shabab fighters have seized a compound housing the United Nations Operations in town of Wajid, in Bakool region, in southern Somalia. 
A female suicide bomber has attempted to shoot the Nazran police chief, but missed and injured another police officer and then blew herself up in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Ingushetia, a local police spokesman said on Friday.
[Dawn] Afghan Taliban have released a Greek man safe and well seven months after he was kidnapped in northwest Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, Pakistani officials said Thursday.
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: A gunman was killed and another wounded in a blast from an improvised explosive device they were trying to plant in northern Mosul city on Thursday, a security source in Ninewa said.
[Ma'an] Palestinian medical crews found the body of an 18-year-old tunnel worker on Thursday, after a two-day search following the collapse of the smuggling passage beneath the Egypt-Gaza border. 
[Al Arabiya Latest] Clashes broke out briefly in eastern Lebanon on Thursday when a dispute between members of a Syrian-backed Palestinian faction escalated into violence, the army said. "Preliminary information indicates that the fight was a result of an internal disagreement," an army spokesman told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The Iranian intelligence minister says Tehran has compelling evidence that three Americans arrested in Iran last year were cooperating with intelligence services. 
