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...recent years, three workers for the U.N.-Afghan commission overseeing the Oct. 9 presidential vote count were snatched from a car. They were identified as Annetta Flanigan of Northern Ireland, Shqipe Habibi of Kosovo and Angelito Nayan of the Philippines. Responsibility for the abductions was claimed by a Taliban splinter group. Suffocation Inquiry THAILAND Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra pledged that an independent inquiry would investigate the deaths of 78 Muslim men who were crushed and suffocated to death in military custody, and that "wrongdoers" would be punished. Several bombs shook Thailand's mainly Muslim south, killing at least two people...
...CLANCY'S SPLINTER CELL PANDORA TOMORROW...
...here and gone by Sunday, when the European Parliament results were due. British voters remain so deeply divided about what place they want for their country within the European Union that they were expected to hand more than 10% of the parliamentary vote to an anti-E.U. splinter group called the U.K. Independence Party (UKIP). And the UKIP was likely to pull votes from the famously (but more moderately) Euro-skeptical Tories - who stood to lose as many as a third of their M.E.P. seats, bringing Howard's celebration to a quick end. UKIP's brand of fire-breathing...
...year’s first Faculty meeting, professors broadly criticized aspects of the plan, ranging from the process behind it to the fear that moving some science across the river would splinter...
...Badr Brigade. Grand Ayatullah Ali Husaini Sistani, the most prominent Shi'ite leader in Iraq, has ordered all Shi'ite factions to avoid further confrontation with al-Sadr's men, fearing it would lead to fratricidal Shi'ite violence, but, Iraqi intelligence sources say, Thulfiqar could be a splinter faction of the Badr Brigade working independently. Those sources think Thulfiqar may also be receiving support from Iran's intelligence services, which may fear that al-Sadr's anti-U.S. militancy could jeopardize the expected establishment of a Shi'ite-dominated government...