BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces found 50 surface-to-air missiles in a weapons cache near Baghdad on Saturday, an Iraqi military spokesman said.
“These were Russian-made surface-to-air missiles that were still useable,” said Brigadier Qassim Moussawi, spokesman for the Iraqi general in charge of a new security crackdown in Baghdad. Moussawi did not give the location of the cache, one of the largest to be found since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. He said no arrests had been made.
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Crackdown on two Islamic charities
Monday 2/19/07
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday ordered a renewed crackdown on two Islamic charities blacklisted for their suspected links with Al-Qaeda.
The Interior Ministry said in a statement that it had directed all Government departments to "reinforce action" against Al-Rasheed and Al-Akhtar charitable trusts. Both are on a United Nations list of entities linked to Al-Qaeda and Taliban.
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http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/19/stories/2007021902421600.htm
Rafsanjani: Islamic world can neutralizes US plots
Tehran, Feb 18, IRNA
Iran-Syria-Rafsanjani Chairman of Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani in a meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad here Saturday said Islamic world with the vigilance of its political and religious leaders can neutralize the US plots.
According to the EC's Public Relations Office report, Rafsanjani said creating disunity among Shia and Sunni Muslims in the region, especially in Iraq and Lebanon, is an American plot.
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PARIS: Four of six Muslims being held in France on suspicion of recruiting Islamist fighters for Iraq were remanded in custody on Sunday, a police source said.
The men were among a group of seven men and a number of wives who were detained for questioning this week as part of a Franco-Belgian operation against a group suspected of having links with al Qaeda.
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Four dead, 49 injured as bombs rip through Thai Muslim south
19/02/2007
YALA, Thailand - At least four people were killed and 49 injured when a series of coordinated explosions, arson attacks and shootings hit Thailand's restive Muslim-majority south, police said.
Fifteen explosions injured 26 people and killed one in Yala province, one of three insurgency-torn southern provinces bordering Malaysia, while in nearby Narathiwat province, one person was killed and 23 injured in seven bombings. An unknown number of arson attacks and blasts hit Pattani province, one of which temporarily cut the provincial capital's electricity. Two villagers in Pattani were also shot dead in an ambush Sunday night.
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http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapcf/02/18/india.train.ap/index.html
20 feared killed in India train fire
NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- Twenty passengers were feared killed when two coaches of a train traveling to Pakistan caught fire early Monday in northern India, a news report said.
An explosion was believed to have caused the fire, which engulfed two coaches of the Samjhauta Express, the only train link between rival India and Pakistan, the Press Trust of India news agency said. The fire occurred near Deewana, a railroad station about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of New Delhi, it said.
The train was traveling from New Delhi to Atari, the last railroad station before the land border with Pakistan, PTI said.