It was unclear whether Hamid Karzai, who is still not dead, would be able to attend talks in Berlin on the new Afghan government himself. He has been in Afghanistan, trying to lure Pashtuns away from the Taliban. "If he doesn't make it, somebody else can go," said his younger brother and spokesman, Ahmed Karzai, concentrating on the business at hand.
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An explosion has rocked the compound of the Presidential Palace in Kabul. AFP news agency reports the explosion was caused by two artillery shells, adding that a palace guard says one civilian was injured. "It was not a large explosion," said Fakhroudin, a palace guard. "Just two kids visiting their uncle who works here, they touched the shells and they went off." He said one of the children was injured but not seriously. "Mahmood! Put that thing down! You'll put somebody's eye out!"
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El Mundo correspondent Julio Fuentes, who was murdered on the road to Kabul, reported on 300 phials of nerve gas discovered at an abandoned al-Qaida base known as Farm Hada, 20 km south of Jalalabad. His report, published yesterday, stated that they were in boxes of 10 which bore, in Russian cyrillic script, the words "SARIN/V-GAS".
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Northern Alliance General Nazir Mahmad have given Taliban holding out in Kunduz until Thursday morning to give themselves up. The ultimatum comes as talks on the surrender of the city appear to come to a standstill. US warplanes are continuing to bomb the area, where local sources say between 3,000 and 9,000 fighters are trapped. Alliance Gen. Mohammed Daoud said thousands of Taliban have defected from the city in recent days.
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It is time to "forget" about the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the United States, Syed Tayyad Agha, spokesman for Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar blathered, as they have been superseded by the U.S.-led war on Afghanistan. Agha said the Taliban have no plans to abandon Kandahar and denied reports that local elders had asked them to leave. "How could they ask for such a thing against the Taliban?" he asked, revealing that he doesn't get out much.
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Osama bin Laden has told aides to kill him before he is captured by American troops. Bin Laden has informed a number of people close and to him that he was living out his last weeks or days and has left a videotaped testament which is to be broadcast after his death. The Taliban says it has lost all contact withbin Laden and has no idea where he is.
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An Indonesian man, Agus Budiman, named in FBI documents as a contact for airline hijacker Mohammed Atta, was arrested and charged with helping obtain false Virginia identification for a contact for Osama bin Laden. Budiman appeared before a U.S. magistrate on a criminal complaint charging him with helping Mohammad Bin Nasser Belfas obtain a Virginia driver's license.
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In Nevada, a former topless dancer who staged striptease shows to promote her first bid, is running for governor of Nevada. Barbara Scott is the first declared Democratic challenger to Republican Gov. Kenny Guinn. Yup. The country's pretty near back to normal.
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Portland, Oregon, police have refused a U.S. Justice Department request for help in interviewing Middle Eastern immigrants as part of its sweeping terrorism investigation, saying it would violate state law.
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With too much time on its hands and nothing better to do, Montgomery County, Maryland, has approved one of the most restrictive anti-smoking measures in the nation, allowing residents to be fined up to $750 if neighbors complain about the smell of cigarette smoke from their homes.
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Khalid Abu-al-Dahab, 37, an Egyptian- born U.S. citizen, says he recruited 10 U.S. citizens into Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda organization during his 12-year residence in California. Bin Laden personally congratulated the Silicon Valley car salesman and confessed member of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad terrorist organization. In his confession to an Egyptian military court, Dahab said he and another admitted terrorist from Silicon Valley, former U.S. Army Sgt. Ali Mohamed, had traveled to Afghanistan in the mid-1990s to report to bin Laden.
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Indian border guards shot dead 12 jihadis in two separate incidents in Kashmir and exchanged fire with Pakistani regulars along the international border.
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Fresh fighting broke out on Jolo island in the southern Philippines as the death toll in an uprising by Moro National Liberation Front gunmen loyal to a rebellious Nur Misuari rose to over 100.
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Protests have begun in Japan over the Government's decision to send 1,300 members of its self defence forces to support the campaign in Afghanistan. One group of demonstrators has begun a hunger strike. I'm having a bagel for breakfast. What are you having? Sure is tasty!
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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.
