August 4, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BEIRUT — Fadia Ballout can no longer nurse her son as he screams with hunger. Traumatised by her family’s escape from a southern Lebanese village close to Qana, where an Israeli air strike killed 60 people on Sunday, her breastmilk has stopped. As 18-month-old Hussein latched onto his mother’s breast, …
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August 4, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
TYRE — A stinging odour hangs over the Palestinian refugee camp of Bass, at the entrance to the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, the chosen site for a mass grave for the dozens of victims of Israel’s blistering bombardment of the area. “Tyre has now become the morgue for the …
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August 4, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
AARIDA, Lebanon — The topsy-turvy world of conflicts in the Middle East has also made its mark at the only remaining safe passage out of Lebanon, the remote Aarida post on the border with Syria. An Iraqi family passing through had had enough of their so-called holiday away from the …
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August 4, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
TIKRIT, Iraq (AFP) — Four US soldiers accused of killing three Iraqi prisoners refused to give evidence on Thursday as a military hearing heard that one of the captives’ brains were blown out as he lay injured. The troops followed the lead of several of their superior officers, invoking their …
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August 3, 2006 Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
Practically every week military units of Dagestani Front eliminate Russian kafirs (infidels) and their local proxies in Russia-occupied Caucasian state of Dagestan, says a press release issued today, August 3, by Mujahideen of Dagestani Front and Sharia Jamaat, which was sent to the Kavkaz Center news agency.
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August 3, 2006 Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
Five Russian soldiers were killed on Thursday in the war-torn republic of Chechnya, puppet police said. The puppet soldiers were burned alive when the vehicle they were travelling in exploded in Chechnya’s second biggest town, Gudermes. The vehicle veered off the road, crashed into an electricity pole, overturned and caught …
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August 3, 2006 Kavkaz, Kavkaz News
6 Russians kafirs (infidels) from occupation special troops were killed in a special operation of the Chechen Mujahideen in the area of village Eshelkhatoi on August 2, reports a spokesman of Military Committee of the CRI Majlisus Shura State Defence Council.Â
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August 3, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
Hizbollah fighters fought fierce battles with Israeli troops across a broad front in Lebanon’s south Tuesday, hours after the government in Israel ordered its army to punch all the way to the Litani River and hold the ground until an international peacekeeping force comes ashore.
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August 3, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Not wanting to end its three-week blitz on Lebanon empty-handed, Israel scrambled to clear Hizbollah fighters from a large strip of the south Tuesday before a ceasefire is announced.
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August 3, 2006 Middle Orient, Middle Orient News
BAGHDAD (AP) — Bombings and shootings killed at least 70 people Tuesday — including a US and a British soldier — in a surge of violence as US troops prepare to take back Baghdad’s streets from the gunmen. The dead included 20 Iraqi troops killed in a bus attack in …
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