Syria has extradited to Egypt one of its most wanted Muslim militants and the former leader of an extremist group that massacred 58 foreign tourists in 1997. Rifai Ahmed Taha was handed over last month to Egypt, where he had been sentenced to death in absentia nine years ago.
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Fox News reports that Northern Alliance forces claim they have taken the cities of Taloquan and Pol-e-Khomri and that they control five northern provinces. Troops were now advancing on western Badghis â a move that would allow them to link up with Gen. Ismail Khan near Herat.
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OSAMA BIN LADEN has for the first time admitted that his al-Qa'eda group carried out the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, reports London's Telegraph.
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Taliban envoy Suhail Shaheen complained to IRNA about civilian casualties, charging that as many as 300 people were killed by bombing in southern Kandhar. He went on to accuse the US of using chemical warfare and planning to bring back the Communists in Afghanistan.
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Reflecting the Taliban side of the news, Paknews.com reports that NA forces slaughtered women and children of Pashtoon village Kapri near Mazar Sharif.
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Representatives of Afghanistan's neighboring nations asked for the "immediate return" of international aid to Mazar-e-Sharif. In the city, "Men are flocking in barber shops to cut their beards, women are out in the streets, music is played everywhere, people are greeting each others, distributing sweets to people, mostly to the soldiers who liberated the city," a resident said.
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Ayman Zawahri, the right-hand man of bin Laden, has vowed to continue holy war until all American troops had been expelled from Arab territories. Zawahri in the televised statement said the United States wanted to break Qaeda and the Taliban but its raids were only killing innocent Afghans.
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A Taliban spokesman speaking in Peshawar invited Hizb-e-Islami warlord Gulbadeen Hekmatyar to assist the Taliban in their fight against "infidel" forces. Hekmatyar offered his help on November 7th.
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"Hundreds" of the fired-up Pakistani jihadis who had come to fight with the Taliban were deserted by their commanders in Mazar, to be rounded up and jailed by snickering NA fighters.
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Some 3,000 people have called and e-mailed the American Red Cross in the last 10 days, demanding explanations of how the half-billion dollars raised by the charity after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks are being spent. The organization is offering to refund money to donors furious over the amount of donations diverted by the Red Cross to other uses.
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Authorities are dropping charges against all but one of the 18 firefighters arrested after a raucous protest at the World Trade Center site. The firefighters were arrested after five police officers were injured during a Nov. 2 rally, in which firefighters protested their numbers being reduced at the site. The one case that will not be dropped involved a firefighter accused of hitting a police officer.
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Lebanon supports America in its war on terrorism, despite its refusal to call the Hezbollah terrorists and freeze the militant group's assets, says Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
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A Kuwaiti appeals court upheld a 10-year prison sentence against five Iraqis accused of a plot to overthrow the state's rulers. Kuwaiti citizen Faleh Faheed Mahammad, 27, was also sentenced to five years in prison for his role in the plot. The five were arrested in May 2000 when Kuwait stopped two Iraqi spies trying to cross the border with anti-government pamphlets and illicit drugs.
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A Saudi security source yesterday confirmed the arrest of three Kuwaitis on suspicion of involvement in militant activities, but dismissed as "idle press speculation" reports that the authorities had broken up cells of Osama Bin Ladenâs Al-Qaeda network.
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In Malaysia, militant groups, led by students who graduated from a madrasah in Pakistan, had planned to set up an Islamic state after they overthrow the governments of Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines. PM Mahathir Mohamad said, however, the Government had succeeded in detecting their activities early and identifying those involved.
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President Bush addressed the UN General Assembly yesterday. "In this world, there are good causes and bad causes, and we may disagree on where the line is drawn. Yet, there is no such thing as a good terrorist," he said.
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In Pakistan, Islamic cleric Maulana Samiul Haq was placed under house arrest after he led a nationwide strike and called for the ouster of Pakistan's government. He is the head of the Afghan Defense Council, a loose confederation of Islamic groups that organized Friday's strike to protest President Musharraf's support for the U.S. campaign against terrorism, and the bombing in Afghanistan.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
