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  • Bomber Uses Cart to Kill 8 In Kandahar 25 Dec 2009 01:37 GMT
    ... KABUL, Afghanistan - A horse-drawn cart carrying explosives blew ... near a guesthouse frequented by foreigners and government officials, shook the central part of the ... specific target,” said Ahmad Shah Farooqi, the deputy provincial police chief. “The police spotted the ...

  • 2003 was defined by war 25 Dec 2009 01:35 GMT
    ... a random international relations scholar in any political science department, they would have been skeptical ... North Texas had deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan at least once, and some had done ... Fort Worth school district 2004 — Arlington voters approve bonds for Cowboys Stadium ...

  • Targeting Terror in Yemen 25 Dec 2009 01:33 GMT
    ... al-Wahayshi, the regional al-Qaida leader, and his deputy, Saeed al-Shihri, alongside Anwar al-Awlaki, were presumed ... Department of State: We cooperate with the government of Yemen and other governments around the ... are they somehow tied to people in Afghanistan and Pakistan? Well, it's -- the simple ...

  • Senate OKs landmark health care bill 25 Dec 2009 01:16 GMT
    ... that began with huge hopes following his election victory. His public approval level now hovers ... copes with high unemployment, increasing violence in Afghanistan and the divisive health care debate. Obama ... passage of the bill and said his government is now "finally poised to deliver on ...

  • Health care overhaul 25 Dec 2009 01:16 GMT
    ... that began with huge hopes following his election victory. His public approval level now hovers ... copes with high unemployment, increasing violence in Afghanistan and the divisive health care debate. Obama ... passage of the bill and said his government is now "finally poised to deliver on ...

  • Yellow book ranks China 7th in overall strength 25 Dec 2009 01:10 GMT
    ... of Social Sciences' World Economics and International Politics Institute. The nations were also evaluated on ... is still bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan, therefore, the figure is likely to increase. ...

  • Yemen strikes al-Qaida in U.S.-backed assault 25 Dec 2009 00:51 GMT
    ... turn this fragmented, unstable nation into an Afghanistan-like refuge in a highly strategic location on ... safe havens with tribes angry at the government and carrying out attacks in Yemen and ... Yemen's deputy defense minister, Rashad al-Alaimy, told parliament Thursday that three important leadership members were ...

  • Malton soldier upbeat overAfghanistan mission 25 Dec 2009 00:47 GMT
    ... away from family and friends in war-torn Afghanistan. Lieut Col David Colthup is the commanding ... "The Afghan National Army represents the Afghan Government far more than the Afghan National Police. ... Police. "Its soldiers are impartial from local politics. They do not have a problem connecting ...

  • Iran: Bin Laden daughter at Saudi Embassy 25 Dec 2009 00:15 GMT
    ... of bin Laden's children since they fled Afghanistan ¡ª most notably Saad and Hamza bin ... to have held positions in al-Qaida. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on a TV talk ... who lives abroad, appealed to the Iranian government to let his family there be reunited ...

  • Christmas threats stoke fear among Pakistani Christians who suffered anti-minority violence 25 Dec 2009 00:10 GMT
    ... condemnation from the Pope and Pakistan's prime minister, and highlighted how religious extremism has left ... a suicide bomber killed five people near government buildings and a church in the northwestern ... dangerous countries for minorities, after Somalia, Sudan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Myanmar and Congo. The government stressed ...

  • US Congress raises govt debt ceiling to $12.4 trln 24 Dec 2009 23:56 GMT
    ... noted that the debt exploded during the administration of Obama's predecessor, Republican President George W. ... time in the country's history. "The US government is in a hole, fiscally speaking, but ... 2001, thanks to wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, tax cuts and the recession, which has ...

  • The Lede: Airstrike in Yemen Targets Outspoken Radicals 24 Dec 2009 23:55 GMT
    ... in southeastern Yemen, according to the country's government. On Wednesday Al Jazeera published an interview ... downtrodden Muslims and to commit crimes in Afghanistan.” According to The Washington Post, Mr. Awlaki's ... Post, Mr. Awlaki's father, a former government minister, stressed that his son was a natural-born ...

  • Iran confirms Bin Laden daughter at Saudi Embassy, says it's unclear how she entered country 24 Dec 2009 23:37 GMT
    ... to have held positions in al-Qaida. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on a TV talk ... wives and their children with him to Afghanistan in the late 1990s after he was ... who lives abroad, appealed to the Iranian government to let his family there be reunited ...

  • Bin Laden's daughter "in Saudi embassy in Tehran" 24 Dec 2009 23:35 GMT
    ... wants to leave the country, Iran's foreign minister said on Thursday. Manouchehr Mottaki spoke a ... and children who disappeared from bin Laden's Afghan camp at the time of the 9/11 attacks ... only rarely for shopping trips. "The Iranian government did not know what to do with ...

  • Yemen strikes al-Qaida chiefs in US-aided assault 24 Dec 2009 23:32 GMT
    ... the U.S. fears could turn into an Afghanistan-like refuge for the terrorist network. Yemen's military ... we've said previously, the president supports the government of Yemen in their efforts to take ... Yemen's deputy defense minister, Rashad al-Alaimy, told parliament Thursday that three important leadership members were ...


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