KABUL (Pajhwok Afghan News): Engineer Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai, president of the Hezb-i-Iqtedar-i-Islami (Islamic Supremacy Party) and a leader of the grand opposition alliance, fears long-term foreign military presence may undermine Afghanistan’s vital interests.
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Seven Afghan aid workers killed
KABUL (Pajhwok Afghan News): Six Afghan aid workers were shot dead by suspected Taliban militants Thursday on the Kabul- Kandahar highway in the southern province of Zabul, when they were transporting a body of a man who was killed in neighbouring Helmand a day before
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UK national held for Al Qaeda links
PESHAWAR, May 18: The authorities have arrested a British national suspected of holding links with the Al Qaeda terror network, officials said on Wednesday. The man, who identified himself as Shehzad, was arrested four days ago from the small town of Shabqadar, some 25 kilometres north of Peshawar, a security official told AFP requesting anonymity.
The secret service agents arrested him with the help of the anti-terrorism police force during a raid on a house and recovered computer and compact discs from the room, he said. “We think he is an Al Qaeda man,” the official said but declined to give further information about the investigation.
“We are gathering other information about him and his Pakistani national identity card gave us an address in Hyderabad,” the official said. Shehzad, 25, told interrogators that he was from London and arrived in Pakistan last year in March. The authorities this month arrested a number of Al Qaeda suspects, including Abu Faraj Al Libbi, allegedly a key aide of Osama bin Laden.
OPINION: "JUST SAY NO" comes to mind when speaking about Mulla Omar's and Hekmatyar's "amnesty."
Of course, my opinion could be wrong if...
SNIP: 20 May 2005 Muslim protesters today called for the bombing of New York in a demonstration outside the US embassy in London.
There were threats of "another 9/11" from militants angry at reports of the desecration of the Koran by US troops in Iraq. Some among the crowd burned an effigy of Tony Blair on a crucifix and then set fire to a Union flag and a Stars and Stripes.
Led by a man on a megaphone, they chanted, "USA watch your back, Osama is coming back" and "Kill, kill USA, kill, kill George Bush". A small detail of police watched as they shouted: "Bomb, bomb New York" and "George Bush, you will pay, with your blood, with your head."