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Iran test fires surface-to-surface missileTehran (AFP) Aug 20, 2010 Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi announced on Friday that Iran has test fired a surface-to-surface missile, Qiam, a day before it is due to launch its Russian-built first nuclear power plant. State television showed images of the sand coloured Qiam (Rising) blasting into the air from a desert terrain, amid chants of "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest). The words "Ya Mahdi" were written on the side of the missile, referring to Imam Mahdi, one of the 12 imams of Shiite Islam, who disappeared as a boy an ... read more |
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Baghdad (AFP) Aug 20, 2010Baghdad residents are gripped by fear over the rumoured return of "the Shiite butcher," a militant who earned his gruesome nickname by slaughtering dozens of Sunnis in the Iraqi capital. While officials insist Ismail al-Lami, who goes by the noms de guerre Hajj Ismail and Abu Dira (father of the shield in Arabic), has not come back to the sprawling Shiite neighbourhood of Sadr City, their as ... more  
Kabul (AFP) Aug 22, 2010Four US soldiers were killed on Sunday while fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, NATO said. The four died in three separate incidents, in eastern and southern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. ISAF spokesman US Air Force Master Sergeant Jason Haag confirmed all four were Americans. The deaths bring to 451 the total number of foreign soldiers to ... more  
Jerusalem (AFP) Aug 22, 2010Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Sunday named his candidate to head Israel's military, after weeks of media speculation over a "war of the generals" to succeed Gabi Ashkenazi as chief of staff. General Yoav Galant, the army's commander for southern Israel, has been chosen as chief of staff and Barak will submit his name for cabinet approval next week, the defence ministry said. The general ... more |
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Mastermind of Hassan killing escaped a year agoBaghdad (AFP) Aug 22, 2010 The convicted Iraqi mastermind of the killing of British aid worker Margaret Hassan escaped from prison almost one year ago, a government minister admitted for the first time on Sunday. Ali Lutfi Jassar al-Rawi, sentenced to life last year for Hassan's murder, busted out of Central Baghdad Prison, formerly known as the infamous Abu Ghraib jail, on September 10, 2009, the same day a riot broke out there. Judicial officials have in recent months said Rawi was "missing," forcing several postponemen ... read more |
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