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A nationwide alert has been issued for 17 members of the Afghan military who have gone AWOL from a Texas Air Force base where foreign military officers who are training to become pilots are taught English, FoxNews.com has learned. The Afghan officers and enlisted men have security badges that give them access to secure U.S. defense installations, according to the lookout bulletin, "Afghan Military Deserters in CONUS [Continental U.S.]," issued by Naval Criminal Investigative Service in Dallas, and obtained by FoxNews.com. The Afghans were attending the Defense Language Institute at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. The DLI program teaches...

Mar. 4, 2006 10:41 | Updated Mar. 4, 2006 22:16 Man behind Nazareth attack requested asylum from Arafat By YIGAL GRAYEFF, JPOST STAFF, AND AP Police remove the baby stroller which was used to hide the firecrackers. Photo: APChristians attend a mass at the Church of the Anunciation in Nazareth on Saturday. Photo: AP The man who caused a riot in Nazareth on Friday by throwing firecrackers into the Basilica of the Annunciation visited Yasser Arafat two years ago to request asylum. However, police said on Saturday it was unclear why Haim Eliyahu Habibi was seeking refuge in the Palestinian...

KHOST, AFGHANISTAN (April 27, 2003 6:07 p.m. EDT) - For the past year, Hazratuddin Habibi has been the intelligence chief of Khost, appointed by President Hamid Karzai to keep an eye on Taliban or al-Qaida activities in this crucial province along the Pakistani border. Hazratuddin, a former intelligence chief for the Taliban known by his first name, was certainly qualified for the job. But colleagues in the central government's intelligence agency, Amniat, and in other military departments began to notice that raids on Taliban hideouts were coming up empty. Arrests of al-Qaida suspects went awry. It occurred to local political...