Following an offensive, which included NATO air strikes, launched by Afghan and international forces over four days, 29 Taliban militants were confirmed dead in Baghlan province. [Al-Arabiya, 6/14] June 23: US President Barack Obama dismissed commander of multinational forces in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal after he made critical comments about senior administration officials that appeared in a profile in Rolling Stone magazine. Tribesmen in eastern Yemen blew up an oil pipeline that linked the Ma'arib province to the Red Sea coast in retaliation for an army raid on the houses of several tribesmen in the area who were believed to be sheltering al-Qa'ida militants.
The Afghan Election Commission rejected President Hamid Karzai's call for an April presidential election, and delayed the poll to August 20, 2009, citing security concerns as well as preparatory time necessary for international observers to ensure a fair election. Yemeni President 'Ali 'Abdullah Salih rejected a US plan to send 94 Yemeni Guantanamo detainees to Saudi Arabia for terrorist rehabilitation, instead stating that Yemen would construct a rehabilitation center to accommodate returning prisoners. Since 2002, 13 Yemenis had been released from the prison.
Revealing that the left-over dangers from eight years of that war have not ended, UN inspectors charged with verifying and monitoring Iraq's disarmament warned in their latest report of the continuing threat that munitions and expertise left behind by the war still pose even as insurgents mount new types of chemical attacks. The class action lawsuit targeting alleged Western chemical suppliers to Hussein's government, originally filed in 1994, has failed to gain traction in U.S. and European courts.
...Legal consequences from the IranIraq War, on the other hand, will be rippling through t...
US-led coalition forces killed 14 Afghans who they claimed were militants, despite the Khost provincial governor's assertion that the men were security guards watching a road construction crew. According to court reports, Lloyd was speaking with Salam outside of Kandahar on November 4, 2009, when he ignited a pitcher of fuel and doused her with it, inflicting second and third-degree burns over 60% of her body. [YT, 10/28] Nov. 3: A US military tribunal at Gguantanamo Bay, Cuba, found 'Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, a Yemeni national and former media secretary to Usama bin Ladin, guilty of conspiring with al-Qa'ida, soliciting murder, and providing material support for terrorism.
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According to provincial officials, the attack caused more than 147 casualties, many of whom were civilians. According to a US military spokesman, intelligence suggested that Mullah Mustafa had ties with individual members of Iran's Quds Force. The demonstrations took place in Aden, the former capital of South Yemen, and Mukallah. Since the beginning of 2009 there had been sporadic clashes involving south Yemenis protesting their treatment by the government in the north.
Several political and economic news updates in Iran-Iraq are presented. Among other things, according to a featured story in the April 5 Christian Science Monitor, Arab journalists in Iraq say that they face greater dangers than their Western colleagues because they are often in the crosshairs of both the coalition forces and Iraqi insurgents. The article described a Baghdad incident in which a driver, reporter, and cameraman for the Arab Al Arabiya satellite news channel were denied permission by US officials to film the scene of a rocket attack at the American military check point.
QANDIL RANGE, Iraq -- Off a rocky mountain road meandering through creek beds, a small, stone military outpost is hidden near the Iraq-Iran border. Peach, pomegranate and fig trees tremble in the hot breeze. Under a thatched-roof awning, leafy vines cover the outer walls and offer a little relief from the intense sun. A young Iranian guerrilla listens to music on an iPod as his comrades hang Kalashnikov assault rifles, ammunition belts and walkie-talkies on a beam behind the vines.
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