Ethiopia's prime minister said in an interview published Tuesday that suspected terrorists from Canada, Britain, Pakistan and elsewhere have been among those taken prisoner or killed in the military operations in Somalia.
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was quoted by French newspaper Le Monde as saying that he didn't know the exact number of prisoners in Somalia "because it changes constantly." "But many international terrorists are dead in Somalia," Meles was quoted as saying. "Photographs have been taken and passports from different countries have been collected. The Kenyans are holding Eritrean and Canadian passport holders. We have injured people coming from Yemen, Pakistan, Sudan, the United Kingdom."
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Gaza terrorists seek to use Katyushas
Jan. 9, 2007
A number of Palestinian terror cell members have recently left the Gaza Strip and traveled abroad to learn how to manufacture and effectively launch short-range Katyusha rockets, high-ranking defense officials told The Jerusalem Post on Monday.
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KARACHI - Just as the Taliban move across the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan with impunity, so does the money needed to sustain the Taliban-led insurgency flow unrestricted between the countries.
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Would-be suicide bomber recounts paradise-quest in Afghanistan
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
KABUL: Hainuallah’s days in a destitute border village in Pakistan all seemed exactly the same: a trip to the madrassa (religious school), the return home, dinner, and then creeping into bed. Of course it was boring, says the Pakistani teenager from the border province of Waziristan. Then one day, a preacher told him about a way out of the boredom - a sure ticket to a paradise filled with voluptuous virgin nymphs and milk and honey running under fruit-laden trees.
“I came to Afghanistan to carry out a suicide attack on Americans,” Hainuallah, who uses only one name, told an AFP reporter. “The mullah said it would earn me entry into Paradise where you live with houris and streams of milk and honey forever.”
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China admits fear of Muslim terror as police kill 18 in mountain battle
January 10, 2007
Uighurs accused of al-Qaeda links
Chinese say they found arms cache
China revealed the depth of its fear of Islamic-linked violence yesterday when police disclosed that they had killed 18 terrorists and captured another 17 after a fierce battle at a secret training camp in a remote northwestern region.
It was the first time that China had announced the discovery of such a camp in its territory. Officials said that they had uncovered links between the activists and international terrorist groups, hinting at connections to al-Qaeda.
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