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...suspected suicide car bomber killed six Spanish United Nations troops in south Lebanon Sunday, signalling what could be the launch of a campaign to drive the 13,500-strong force out of Lebanon. There was no immediate claim for the deadly bombing, the first such attack against the U.N. force, known as UNIFIL, since the end of the month-long war between Israel and Lebanon's militant Shi'ite Hizballah organization last summer. But UNIFIL has been bracing for just such an attack after months of intelligence warnings and threats from al-Qaeda leaders and Lebanon-based groups inspired...
...NATO air strike hit an insurgent base in southern Afghanistan Friday, knocking out some 30 Taliban. The air strike was in retaliation for a militant attack on nearby police posts, but it also killed 25 civilians in the process, including 9 women, 3 children and a village mullah, according to local police...
...thought that upward of 50 civilians may have been caught in the crossfire, though investigations are still being carried out. And on Monday, seven boys were killed when a US warplane bombed a religious seminary in Paktika, eastern Afghanistan. A coalition press statement released shortly after the attack said that the compound, which contained a mosque and a madrassah, was "a suspected safehouse for al-Qaida fighters" and that coalition forces had confirmed the "presence of nefarious activity occurring at the site before getting approval to conduct an air strike on the location." A subsequent statement, following the revelation that...
...2005—Dershowitz attempts to move the University of California Press to careful consideration of its publication of Finkelstein’s book “Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History,” in which the author continues his attack on the academic work of Dershowitz, including a charge that Dershowitz did not actually write—and may not even have read—one of his own books, “The Case for Israel...
...with money and concessions in the West Bank territories will never work, the commander vows. "The Israelis may give him money, but they'll never give Abbas a Palestinian state. The Israelis are still arresting people in the cities and towns. All we have to do is launch one attack in the West Bank and Israel will double back on all of its promises to Abbas." The only answer, the commander said, was for Abbas to renew ties with Hamas and give up on trying to split Gaza off from the West Bank. "This is what the Israelis want...