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US covers up killings of its troops in Kuwait By Jack Fairweather in Kuwait City (Filed: 22/12/2002) Attacks on American forces in Kuwait are being covered up and played down because of concerns that further disclosures will destabilise military preparations for war against Iraq. Incidents have either gone unreported or have been passed off as harmless recreational shooting by hunters, a senior Kuwaiti government official told The Telegraph. "The Americans have told us to downplay these incidents for fear of creating the sort of climate in which further attacks can happen," the official said. One United States marine has been...

Friday, 6 December, 2002, 15:54 GMTGaza killings prompt Palestinian rage Two Palestinian homes were targeted in the raidThousands of angry Palestinians have taken to the streets of the al-Bureij refugee camp in the Gaza Strip to bury 10 people killed in overnight fighting with Israeli troops. Mourners, some wearing masks, followed the bodies of those killed through the narrow streets of the camp chanting "revenge, revenge". Mourners called for revenge"We are committed to the continuation of jihad and martyr operations until our land is liberated," members of the militant group Hamas shouted through loudspeakers. There is ongoing controversy about the...

ISLAMABAD - While Pakistan fights global terrorism alongside the United States and its allies, the country's women are engaged in their own war against the terror of escalating "honour" killings. Such murders -- where a man kills a woman he views as having sullied his "honour" -- are on the rise, the independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRC) says, "with more and more reported from areas where they had once been unknown". In 2001, at least 226 women in the southern province of Sindh were killed -- usually by their husbands or brothers -- while some 227 honour-related killings...

Annan condemns Hebron shooting as 'despicable terrorist attack' UNITED NATIONS - In an extraordinarily harsh statement, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan deplored the killing of Jewish worshippers in the attack in Hebron on Friday, calling it a "despicable terrorist attack" and urging Palestinian groups to halt the violence. Annan has spoken out against Israeli military actions over the past 26 months of fighting, but Friday's statement was one of his toughest on Palestinian terrorism. Annan didn't describe any of the victims as Jewish settlers. Annan said he was "horrified by the despicable terrorist attack in the West Bank... that killed...

"We have caught the sniper like a duck in a noose." I would like to hear Freepers' comments about this still-bizarre statement relayed by the Moose from one of the sniper suspects. Most of you have read the story this quote seemed to reference; it features a rabbit that catches a duck in a noose, but the duck flies away, carrying the rabbit and dropping him in a hollow tree stump, where he is trapped for some time. I see two possible interpretations: First is the interpretation I have heard from all the news outlets and radio talk shows so...

HOMELAND INSECURITY New al-Qaida training tape shows another side of terror Captured video reveals plans for home break-ins, killing police, drive-bys, golf course assassinations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: September 4, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Joseph Farah © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com An al-Qaida training videotape, captured in Afghanistan, shows Osama bin Laden's terrorists are not only planning attacks with weapons of mass destruction but are preparing to kill Americans with drive-by shootings and home break-ins, through ambushes of law-enforcement officers and targeted assassinations on golf courses, WorldNetDaily has learned. The videotape was produced, U.S. analysts believe, for al-Qaida's internal use and did not...

HOMELAND INSECURITY 2 'Hispanics' sought in D.C.-area hunt Be-on-lookout alert describes shooters' race Posted: October 4, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Paul Sperry © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com By Paul Sperry ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Police in the Washington suburb where five people were gunned down in two days are looking for two "Hispanic" men in the fatal shootings, according to a police bulletin that federal authorities shared with WorldNetDaily. Montgomery County Police in press conferences have described only the gender, not the race, of the two suspects -- one a driver and the other the shooter. The be-on-the-lookout, or BOLO, alert that...

/Courtesy of the Henry County Sheriff's Department Mary Hall Short and Michael Wayne Short were killed; their daughter, Jennifer Renee Short, is missing. Friday, August 16, 2002 9-year-old Henry County girl missing after her parents are found shot to death in home Killings lead to anxious search "We have to presume she's been abducted," said Henry County Sheriff's Captain Kimmy Nester. By MIKE ALLEN THE ROANOKE TIMES    OAK LEVEL - A nationwide search for a missing 9-year-old Henry County girl began early Thursday after her parents were found shot to death in their home alongside U.S. 220.     Authorities...

Albania feuds invade graveyard, breaks ancient codeBy Benet Koleka TIRANA, June 6 (Reuters) - A revenge killing at a funeral in Albania has angered the Roman Catholic Church for desecrating hallowed ground but, worse, has outraged many for violating the country's centuries-old code of blood feuds.   Army colonel Gjergj Fierza was shot dead last month at the funeral of Geg Tollozi, a convicted killer who escaped from prison during the anarchy of 1997 and was gunned down two weeks ago while trying to avoid recapture.   Witnesses were quoted as saying Fierza was killed by Gjon Tollozi to avenge...

Receive FREE updates by email: The Truth About North KoreaBy Reed Irvine and Cliff KincaidApril 2, 2002 A recent Gallup Poll found that while Americans generally have a negative opinion of North Korea, these attitudes were less negative than views of Iran and Iraq – the other two "axis of evil" countries identified by President Bush in his State of the Union Address. Gallup said that, to some degree, this was because "Americans know less about North Korea than the other two countries." Dr. Norbert Vollertsen is trying to change that. He is the German doctor who spent 18...

CHICAGO, March 11 (IslamOnline) - Demanding the imposition of President's rule in India, and the dismissal of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Lal Krishna Advani, Muslims and peace activists held a hastily organized demonstration on busy Devon Street in Chicago over the weekend in protest against the killings of thousands of Muslims in Gujarat, India. Despite chilly weather conditions, hundreds of protestors marched from Warren Park to California Avenue chanting slogans like: quot;Indian Hitler Advani,quot; quot;Down, Down BJP,quot; quot;Down Down VHP,quot; and quot;Stop Killing Innocent Muslims.quot; Before the march, Amjad Hashmi of the Consultative Committee of...