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http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/019087.php
December 10, 2007
Jihadist targets bus full of schoolchildren
Feel the love. “Suicide bomber rams bus; children hurt,” by Simon Gardner and Augustine Anthony for Reuters (thanks to all who sent this in):
A SUICIDE bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a schoolbus near an air force base in northwest Pakistan today, killing himself and wounding about nine people, including several children.
“A terrorist targeted a schoolchildren’s bus,” said military spokesman Major-General Waheed Arshad.
“The driver and the guard who were sitting in the front have been seriously injured”.
“Because of the timely reaction of the driver, the children were saved. Only about six or seven children were injured,” he added.
“It was outside the Kamra air base. It was specially targetting the schoolchildren’s bus.”
Posted by Robert at December 10, 2007 8:13 AM
British troops have been put on high alert to intervene in a possible war in Kosovo, Nato has announced. Military leaders fear renewed fighting in the breakaway Serbian province, where final negotiations for a peace deal have broken down.
"This is in Europe's backyard and European nations need to show real leadership," said David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary. He warned of a repeat of the wars that cost hundreds of thousands of lives. "We know from the mid-1990s the cost of Europe wringing its hands and failing to provide leadership."
Nato holds three battalions, each of some 800 soldiers, in reserve to its main peacekeeping force of about 16,000 troops in Kosovo. Of those, a German battalion has already been sent to the province. An Italian battalion and 800 British servicemen and women have been put on heightened alert for deployment to the region in case of an outbreak of ethnic violence in the coming weeks. They would be able to deploy within a week of commanders on the ground requesting assistance.
The escalation in tension in the Balkans comes ahead of Monday's official deadline for a report on talks between Serbia, which refuses to give up Kosovo, and ethnic Albanians, who demand independence.
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/08/wkosovo108.xml
EU Gathers to Present United Front on Kosovo
Dec.10,2007
The deadline for reaching an agreement on Kosovo's future was Dec. 10 but, as expected, the talks failed. Now the EU is hoping to unite in recognizing a unilateral declaration of independence while Russia warns of a "chain reaction" in the region.
The Dec. 10 deadline for negotiations on Kosovo's final status has arrived and hardly anyone is surprised that the talks have failed. Four months of negotiations could not succeed in getting past the crucial points of difference: Kosovo Albanians want independence and Serbia will only agree to autonomy. Now the clock is ticking towards a unilateral declaration of independence by the Kosovo Albanians, expected in the first two months of next year.
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,522366,00.html