UPDATE...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4909378.stm
Last Updated: Friday, 14 April 2006, 15:05 GMT 16:05 UK
"Knife attacks on Egypt churches"
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "One person has been killed and at least 12 others injured by knife-wielding attackers at three churches in northern Egypt, police have said.
The attacks happened in Coptic Christian churches in Alexandria.
The simultaneous incidents took place during Friday Mass. Police say they have three men in custody.
Witnesses said clashes erupted between Christians and Muslims outside the churches, the Associated Press news agency reported.
Hundreds of Christians had gathered outside the churches in protest at the attacks, the agency said.
According to police reports, two people armed with knives attacked three churches. A third man was prevented from entering another church by security guards.
But the government later said there had been one assailant, who had attacked worshippers in two churches and been stopped from entering a third, AP reported."
ARTICLE SNIPPET #2: "Three people died and many were injured in Alexandria in October 2005 after Muslim demonstrators attacked a church which had put on a play seen as offensive to Islam."
ON THE NET...
http://www.tkb.org/Group.jsp?groupID=96
Group Profile:
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia
Mothertongue Name: Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia (FARC)
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ON THE NET...
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1615222/posts
FARC guerrillas' link to £70m cocaine haul
Scotsman ^ | 14 Apr 2006 | JEREMY MCDERMOTT
Posted on 04/14/2006 2:23:08 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
MEXICAN authorities yesterday began investigations into the involvement of Colombian guerrillas in the shipment of 5.5 tons of cocaine seized from a commercial aircraft.
The high-purity cocaine, the biggest seizure in recent years, was found amid 128 pieces of luggage on a US passenger airline, Aero Flight, which left Caracas in Venezuela and made an unregistered stop in Ciudad de Carmen, Mexico, where soldiers found the drugs. The cocaine is valued at £70 million.
Santiago Vasconcelos, of the Mexican attorney general's office, said there was evidence that the drugs came from guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), who have long-standing agreements with Mexican drug cartels to supply cocaine in exchange for weapons and ammunition. The two pilots, Poot Pérez and Pérez de Gracia, have been arrested before in connections with a drug flight, but managed to escape prosecution. They are unlikely to do so again.
These 5.5 tons make up the first major shipment linked to the FARC since the US attorney general, Alberto Gonzales, issued 50 indictments covering most of the FARC senior command structure, on charges of drug-trafficking.
"We believe these men are responsible for not only manufacturing and exporting devastating amounts of cocaine, but enforcing their criminal regime with violence," Mr Gonzales said.
It is significant that the drugs came via Venezuela, because the Colombian army has long alleged that Venezuela's socialist president, Hugo Chavez, is sympathetic to the Marxist rebels.