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4 arrested after attacks at Ivory Coast border
Published: 01.13.07, 15:29
Ivory Coast's security forces have arrested four people after attacks on two checkpoints near the border with Ghana in which two military police and a customs officer were killed, the army said in a statement.
Army spokesman Colonel Hilaire Babri Gohourou said two of the attackers had also been killed in Friday's violence, raising the death toll to five. (Reuters)
CAIRO - Egyptian security forces detained five members of the banned opposition Muslim Brotherhood on Sunday, security sources said, in the latest round-up of Islamist critics of the government.
Security sources said the five Brotherhood members were arrested on charges of belonging to an illegal organisation and possessing Muslim Brotherhood leaflets and documents.
SNIP:The Brotherhood said that those arrested on Sunday included Mohamed Ali Bashar, a member of the Brotherhood's Guidance Office which acts as its executive, as well as Essam Hashish, an engineering professor at Cairo University.
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1499718.htm
Al Jazeera TV journalist detained in Egypt
14 January 2007
CAIRO — Egyptian authorities detained Saturday a journalist from the pan-Arab Al Jazeera TV network for fabricating scenes of torture staged inside Egyptian police stations, an interior ministry statement said.
Egyptian TV producer Howaida Taha Matwali was banned earlier this week from traveling to Qatar, the headquarters of the Al Jazeera network, after airport police seized 50 video tapes she was carrying in her luggage, the statement said.
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Police failing to identify who’s behind NWFP blasts
Sunday, January 14, 2007
PESHAWAR: The NWFP police and federal intelligence agencies have failed to identify the cause behind bomb blasts and suicide attacks in the province, which has seen a number of attacks in recent months that have heightened tensions between the provincial and federal governments.
It is not clear who is behind the bombings in Peshawar – the most serious of which killed at least nine people in October 2006. Police have set up checkposts within the city and its suburbs, but they have not made any arrests or managed to control terrorist activities.
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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007/01/14/story_14-1-2007_pg7_9