Missing U.S. Diplomat Found Dead In Cyprus
allheadlinenews.com ^ | Monday, July 02, 2007 | Komfie Manalo
Posted on 07/02/2007 6:35:03 AM CDT by rawhide
Nicosia, Cyprus (AHN) - A senior U.S. envoy in Cyprus who had been missing since Thursday has been found dead in a remote part of the Mediterranean island.
Tom Mooney, a U.S. defense attaché and army attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Cyprus was reported missing on Thursday. A search on Mooney led authorities to a remote area in Cyprus where they found his lifeless body. He has the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
A local radio station said authorities found the U.S. diplomat near the capital Nicosia. Although police have yet to establish the cause of his death.
Cyprus is one of the safest countries in Europe with the lowest crime rates. Attacks on foreign diplomat are rare in the region.
The 45-year-old U.S. official was last seen leaving the U.S. embassy in his Chevrolet Saloon car Thursday.
On Sunday, the U.S. embassy sought the assistance of Cyprus authorities to locate Mooney. The embassy posted “important announcement” on its Web site, saying “one of our embassy employees, Thomas Mooney, has not been in touch with the embassy for more than 48 hours.”
The appeal adds, “anyone with information which might be helpful in locating him should contact the local police station.”
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This might not be good.......
Well, I can’t find anything about the action in Anbar, but ran across this on my good (or at least not bad) news hunt.
IDF troops kill Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade commander in W. Bank
By Avi Issacharoff, Haaretz Correspondent, and Haaretz Service
Israel Defense Forces troops killed an Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade commander in a pre-dawn gunbattle in the West Bank refugee camp of Jenin early Monday.
Also Monday, defense establishment sources announced that the Shin Bet security service had recently arrested 11 Hamas militants in East Jerusalem.
25-year-old Mohammed Abu al-Heija, a leader of the Fatah-affiliated Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades in the Jenin refugee camp was also the deputy of Zakariya Zubeidi, one of the top commanders of the Fatah-linked armed group.
The incident took place at about 2:00 A.M. in the camp, a longtime focus of Palestinian militancy.
The IDF said soldiers carrying out operations in the camp had come under small-arms fire, and that a bomb was thrown at them. “He had an M-16 (assault rifle) with a telescopic sight,” an IDF spokeswoman said of the dead man. “During the incident, an explosive charge was thrown and the Israeli force came under fire.”
Al-Heija was considered a close associate of Zubeidi, perhaps the most high-profile wanted Palestinian commander in the West Bank.
Across the West Bank Sunday night, a total of six wanted Palestinians were arrested, among them members of Hamas, the Islamic Jihad, and Fatah.
Link: http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/877299.html