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Charity plans to stay in Afghanistan despite murders KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – A Christian charity said Monday it had no plans to leave Afghanistan despite the brutal murders last week of 10 members of its medical aid team, six of them Americans. Police were holding the lone Afghan survivor for question-
ing, insisting he is not a suspect although authorities have lingering questions about his account of the horrific massacre in northern Afghanistan. The attack, far from the main theaters of the war in the east and south, underscored the growing insecurity in the region.
It was also the biggest assault on foreign Christians since the 2007 kidnapping of 23 South Korean missionaries by the Taliban in Ghazni province. Two male hostages were slain before the South Korean government negotiated their release the following month.
The survivor of last week’s attack, a driver named Saifullah who had worked for the humanitarian group for four years, was flown to Kabul on Sunday from Badakhshan province. Also taken to the capital were the bodies of the six Americans, two Afghans, a Briton and a Ger-
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Hezbollah accuses Israel of assassination BEIRUT – The leader of Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants presented aerial reconnaissance footage Monday that he said implicates Israel in the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. But Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, who has been in hiding since his Shiite Muslim group battled Israel in a monthlong 2006 war, acknowledged the material was not absolute proof.
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) – North Korea fired about 110 rounds of artillery Monday near its disputed sea border with South Korea, the South’s military said, amid high tension over the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship blamed on North Korea. The firing came shortly after South Korea ended five-day naval drills off the west coast that the North called a rehearsal for an invasion, vowing to retaliate. All the artillery shells harmlessly landed into the North’s waters and caused no damage to
UN: Pakistan’s misery tops tsunami, Haiti
Iran to expunge ’dirty’ dollar and euro reserves TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s vice president says the country should get rid of its “dirty” dollar and euro reserves in response to U.N. sanctions over its nuclear program. Mohammad Reza Rahimi says Iran will only conduct business in Iranian rials and the currencies of countries with which they trade.
Colombia VP has heart bypass surgery BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombia’s brandnew vice president underwent heart bypass surgery Monday. Angelino Garzon was rushed to the hospital with severe chest pains just two days into his term. Tests revealed “heart disease in multiple vessels.” ENTERPRISE NEWS SERVICE REPORTS
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US military judge seals sentence for Gitmo inmate GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) – A U.S. military judge on Monday ordered that a plea agreement capping the sentence of an Osama bin Laden aide be sealed, shrouding in secrecy the first Guantanamo conviction under President Barack Obama. The judge, Air Force Lt. Col. Nancy Paul, said the deal limiting how much more time detainee Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi spends in confinement will not be revealed until after his release. She said that condition of the plea bargain was requested by
the government and agreed to by the detainee’s lawyers. The sealing of the sentence is a first for the military commissions system, which the Obama administration has pledged to make more transparent. A spokesman for prosecutors, Navy Capt. David Iglesias, said he could not comment on the reasons for the secrecy. But he said it was consistent with federal courts’ handling of matters involving national security and claimed it was also in al-Qosi’s best interest. “We don’t want to create a disincentive for a detainee to plead guilty,” he said.
IAEA: Iran activates enrichment equipment VIENNA (AP) – Iran has activated equipment to enrich uranium more efficiently in a move that defies the U.N. Security Council, the International Atomic Energy Agency said Monday. The Vienna-based nuclear watchdog said Iran has started us-
ing a second set of 164 centrifuges linked in a cascade, or string of machines, to enrich uranium to up to 20 percent at its Natanz pilot fuel enrichment plant. Another cascade there has been producing uranium enriched to near 20 percent since February.
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ISLAMABAD – The number of people suffering from the floods in Pakistan exceeds 13 million – more than the combined total of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 Kashmir earthquake and the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the United Nations said Monday. The death toll in each of those three disasters was much higher than the 1,500 people killed so far in Pakistan.
man who were gunned down after finishing a two-week medical mission treating Afghan villagers in the remote Parun valley of Nuristan province. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the Thursday murders, alleging that the group was trying to convert Muslims.