October, 2006

• 27 October

  Reward of $ 50,000 Offered For a Captured US Soldier For Butchering

  Woman who lost son in battle in ar-Ramadi with Americans offers reward to anyone who can help her kill an American soldier, the Al Basrah reported An elderly woman from ar-Ramadi whose son had been killed in battle with the US occupation forces in

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• 27 October

  At least 80 civilians were killed in southern Afghanistan

  At least 80 civilians were killed in Nato bombings in southern Afghanistan earlier this week, according to local government officials and witnesses. Nato admitted that it had received credible reports that several civilians were killed in Panjwai but insisted that 48 Taliban fighters had died during the heavy fighting.

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• 27 October

  Iraqi Mujahideen Responded To Bush’s Speech

  Responding to a speech made on Wednesday, October 25, 2006, by Bush, the Ministry of Information in the Islamic State of Iraq issued a statement on October 26, 2006. Converse to Bush’s discussion of future U.S. strategy for Iraq as a means to victory, the group finds only success for …

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• 27 October

  Finland’s Government Demands FSB TerroristsTo Stop Extortions

  Finland is calling on Russia’s secret police, the FSB, to stop levying extortion fees for crossing the border with Finland. The demand includes both the illegal fees that had been charged by FSB border guards at the Svetogorsk crossing adjacent to Imatra, as well as so-called legal ones.

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• 27 October

  Russians Unwilling To Recognize Their Holocaust of Ukrainians

  The chauvinistic Russia’s foreign ministry on Wednesday bristled at Ukrainian officials’ push for declaring a Russian-provoked  Great Famine that killed up to 15 million people as genocide. Up to 15 million Ukrainians died in the 1932-33 Great Famine, which was provoked by Russians as part of their campaign to

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• 27 October

  Israel accused of attacking German ship in Lebanon

  Germany and Israel are at odds over an incident involving attack on a German naval vessel patrolling the Lebanon coast as part of an international peacekeeping force, reported Reuters. While German Defence Ministry spokesman Thomas Raabe says that six Israeli F-16 jets had flown very low over the

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• 27 October

  Over 12 US Invaders Wiped Out in Iraq on Wednesday

  Iraqi Mujahideen fighters attacked a US checkpoint located in the al-Mal’ab in ar-Ramadi, about 110km west of Baghdad,  inflicting dead and wounded on the Americans. Two American ambulances were seen racing to the stricken checkpoint, the Al Basrah  reported.

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• 27 October

  Israel kills 7 in Gaza raid

  GAZA CITY (AFP) — Seven Palestinians were killed by Israeli fire in a raid on the Gaza Strip Monday during festivities marking the end of Ramadan, in an operation President Mahmoud Abbas slammed as a “massacre”.

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• 27 October

  Hardliner set to join Olmert gov’t

  OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, in a bid for political survival, struck an alliance Monday with a tough-talking politician who has called for stripping Arab Israelis of their citizenship, executing lawmakers for talking to Hamas and bombing Palestinian population centres.

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• 27 October

  Ahmadinejad says Iran’s nuclear capability increases despite Western pressure

  TEHRAN (AP) — Iran’s nuclear capability has increased “tenfold” despite Western pressure to roll back the country’s nuclear programme, the country’s firebrand president said Monday.

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