BAGHDAD, Iraq - Coalition Forces killed three terrorists, wounded one and detained two other suspected terrorists in a raid Tuesday morning targeting an al-Qaida weapons dealer in the Baghdad area.
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Violence claims 10 lives in renewed violence in Sri Lanka
NEW DELHI, Jan 1 - Violence Monday claimed 10 lives in the Northern and Eastern parts of Sri Lanka in renewed violence in the island nation. Suspected cadres of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) triggered a claymore mine, killing two policemen and injuring another in Vavuniya in the island nation, today evening, news agencies reported.
This incident occured after another claymore mine was triggered by LTTE against a Sri Lankan army patrol, killing one soldier and injuring two others in Jaffna in Northern Sri Lanka also on Monday, the news agencies said.
In two separate incidents in Eastern Sri Lanka, three bodies belonging to minority Tamils and four others from the majority Sinhala community were recovered by Sri Lankan Army today, the news agencies reported.
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Suspected Tunisian terrorists picked up in Algeria
ALGIERS, Jan 1 - Algerian army forces arrested two Tunisians linked to an international terrorist network, who came here to join an armed group in Algeria, a security source said here Monday.
An Algerian military patrol picked up two Tunisians in Meftah, Blida, around 50 km south of Algiers, on the evening of December 29, an Algerian security source told the Algerian Radio.
Security investigations showed that the Tunisian terrorists admitted that they belonged to an international terrorist network and came here to join the armed Salafi Group for Call and Combat in Algeria, the source added.
They also admitted that they came to Algeria via Libya with the help of persons who belonged to the Algerian armed organization. The armed Salafi Group for Call and Combat in Algeria said a couple of months back it had joined Al-Qaeda organization.
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Tehran, 2 Jan. - Iran's top spiritual and political figure, Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei is seriously ill and will have to be replaced in the coming months as he is no longer capable of holding office, according to Assembly of Experts member Ayatollah Nasseri. The powerful clerical body appoints and oversees the country's supreme leader.
"Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei is gravely ill - he can no longer see very well, has difficulty hearing, and is no longer able to properly perform his duties," Nasseri told a women's group.
Iranians have speculated for sometime about Khamenei's health. But talk of the 67 year-old Khamenei's health is taboo and officials have denied he is seriously ill, although United States sources had previously said Khamenei had cancer. He is widely regarded as the figurehead of the country's conservative establishment. The survivor of an assassination attempt, his supporters call him a "living martyr."
The country's supreme leader since 1989, Khamenei succeeded the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, as president in 1981 and served two terms. His death or removal from office by the Assembly of Experts will trigger a power struggle within Iran's clergy, according to observers.
The names of three possible successors to Khamenei are currently on the lips of Iranians: Khamenei's son, Mjtaba; Iran's former reformist president, Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani; and Gholam Ali Mesbah Yazdi, the ultra-conservative ayatollah who is considered the spiritual father of Iran's current hardline president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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Iran: Three Death Sentences In First Two Days of 2007
Tehran, 2 Jan. - In the first two days of 2007, three people have already been sentenced to death in Iran while in Sanandaj, in Iranian Kurdistan, a 22-year-old who was sentenced to death when he was only 17 was hanged. Nasser Batmani was arrested at 16 and convicted of murder a year later.
Iranian jails currently host 21 youths awaiting capital punishment who were convicted while still underage. The three sentenced to death in the past two days are Arab independentists who were found guilty of "actions against national security" by a court in Mahshahr, in the Khuzestan province in southwestern Iran.
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Germany: Move To Legalise Anti-Terror Shotting Of Planes Rekindles Row
Berlin, 2 Jan. - Germany's interior minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble is seeking controversial changes to the constitution that would allow the military to shoot down terrorist controlled aircraft. Schaeuble, a member of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union, was quoted by the Sueddeutsche Zeitung on Tuesday as saying such an amendment would create a so-called "de facto defence situation," enabling the prevention of attacks like the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United Nations that killed close to 3,000.
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Never send a soldier to make an arrest. They're not trained that way. Something to remember in case of martial law being declared in this country.