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...Explosions and heavy gunfire rattled the city for several hours as Afghan security forces battled back, eventually cornering the last of the insurgents in an office building. Six hours later, the streets were quiet again. Karzai told reporters that security forces had regained control of the city and were searching for any militants who might still be hiding. Authorities said at least five people - three security forces and two civilians - were killed and 71 people were wounded. The U.S. embassy in Kabul immediately condemned the attack and pledged that the U.S. would "continue to stand with the Afghan people...
...Kabul has been battered by bomb blasts over the last several months - including an Oct. 28 attack on a U.N. guesthouse that left 11 people dead - but Monday's attack represented a sharp escalation in the violence. Farida Nekzad, an Afghan journalist based in Kabul, told TIME that the insurgents targeted places frequented by foreign diplomats and ordinary civilians alike. Authorities said several insurgents stormed the Ferushgah shopping center and ordered people to get out before firing shots from the roof and then setting the building ablaze. Other militants reportedly struck a movie theater, a hotel popular with Westerners...
...assault was in reaction to the government proposal to "reconcile" with and "reintegrate" Taliban fighters into mainstream society. "We are ready to fight and we have the strength to fight and nobody from the Taliban side is ready to make any kind of deal," another Taliban representative, Zabihullah Mujahid, told the Times. "The world community and the international forces are trying to buy the Taliban and that is why we are showing that we are not for sale." (See pictures of Afghanistan's dangerous Korengal Valley...
Police described the apartment block in the city's downscale Hatikvah neighborhood as a slum harem. "The living conditions of the women were tragic," Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told TIME. "When I entered one of the houses, I was shocked by what I saw. The filth was horrible, and there was nowhere to walk without stumbling on something. It was a three-bedroom apartment, where 10 women and 17 children were living." (See the top 10 crime stories...
Ratzon had built a reputation for spiritual redemption (which is what goel means in Hebrew) by way of a center in Tel Aviv that combined teachings on the Kabbalah with healing. In 2000, he told a reporter that he had had a vision of a "soul" appearing to him and telling him that the secrets of the Torah would be revealed to him, allowing him to no longer work hard in his life. He became known as a healer for young women, some of whom fell in love with him. One of his "wives" said she was smitten after...