KHAR, Pakistan - Some 200 gun-toting Islamist militants smashed car cassette players and mobile phone cameras on Saturday and ordered tribesmen in a Pakistani region to grow beards, part of a drive to impose Taliban-style values.
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Navy destroys two LTTE boats
May 6, 2007
Sri Lanka's Navy destroyed two LTTE boats during a pre-dawn clash off the country's east coast yesterday killing at least 12 Tiger terrorists, the Media Centre for National Security said. The clash broke out after the Navy spotted a cluster of Tiger boats off the coast of Pulmoddai, military spokesman Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe said.
The cluster included 10 large boats, 12 small boats and four suicide boats to ram into naval vessels. The Tigers opened fire and the Navy retaliated, destroying and sinking two of the larger boats and killing 12 terrorists, Samarasinghe said. Two sailors suffered minor injuries in the attacks, he said.
CAIRO -- Rescuers searched the Sinai Sunday for a plane carrying members of a team responsible for security arrangements between Israel and Egypt. The plane belonging to the Multi-National Force disappeared in clear weather about 80 miles from al-Nakheel in the Sinai, reported KUNA, the Kuwait news agency.
Authorities fear the plane may have hit a mountain before crashing, KUNA reported. The Multi-National Force is responsible for security arrangements between Israel and Egypt, as stipulated by the Camp David peace treaty.
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Afghan police raid Taliban ‘suicide prep school’
Wed, 04/04/2007
Afghan police acting on a tip stormed a madrassa in western Farah province seizing 22 Taliban members, according to officials. The raid targeted well known Taliban commander Mullah Hayatullah Khan but was not amongst those arrested. Most of those arrested are teenagers thought to be undertaking suicide bomb indoctrination.
Farah province has recently seen an upsurge in Taliban related violence including a spate of suicide bombings and high profile assassinations. The targeting of Mullah Hayatullah Khan and other known commanders is the latest tactic to be widely employed by ISAF and Afghan forces intent on spoiling the Taliban’s military objectives.
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