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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — A Pentagon prosecutor said, tantalizingly, at the war court Tuesday that Osama bin Laden’s driver was captured in Afghanistan in 2001 while ”on a mission” for alleged al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed.
Lawyers solved the riddle at a recess.
With U.S. forces closing in, the alleged 9/11 mastermind, Mohammed, told the driver ”to evacuate a number of women and children out of Kandahar,” said defense lawyer Navy Lt. Cmdr. Brian Mizer.
And so, driver Salim Hamdan, 37, spared three women, three children and another man from the November 2001 U.S.-allied Battle for Kandahar, a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan.
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American leaders say publicly they are unsure whether Osama bin Laden is still living.
The opinion of a top-ranking official from Afghanistan: the al-Qaida leader and the figure accused of organizing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is likely dead.
American forces might not have killed him, but a medical condition may have, the attorney general of Afghanistan said during a recent visit to Park City.
During an invitation-only event at a Park City mansion, Abdul Jabar Sabet told a small crowd of Parkites and people from Salt Lake City bin Laden was sick when al-Qaida was pushed out of Afghanistan after Sept. 11.
Bin Laden might have succumbed to a kidney ailment after being unable to undergo dialysis treatment, Sabet said.
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BEIJING, July 16 (Reuters) - Chinese forces in Kashgar in the restive far western region of Xinjiang have so far this year broken up 12 overseas-based terrorist cells, a report on a government website said on Wednesday.
The report, carried on www.china.com.cn and citing Kashgar’s deputy Communist Party boss Huang Sanping, named the East Turkestan Islamic Movement and Hizb ut-Tahrir as two of the groups involved.
The East Turkestan Islamic Movement was listed by the United Nations as a terrorist group in 2002 and has links to al Qaeda. But Hizb ut-Tahrir, which says its goal is to establish a pan-national Islamic state, denies espousing violence.
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New York — A group of Americans, Canadians and Israelis who say Hezbollah rocket attacks injured them and killed relatives have accused two banks of helping finance the terrorist attacks and have sued them for $650-million.
The 85 plaintiffs say in court papers the American Express Bank Ltd. of New York and the Lebanese-Canadian Bank SAL of Beirut unlawfully transferred millions of dollars for Hezbollah from 2004 to 2006, and that the money was used to finance the launch of thousands of rockets on Israeli cities in 2006.
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The satirical American magazine, New Yorker, has depicted US presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife as terrorists.
The cover shows the Democratic presidential candidate dressed as a Muslim, raising his fist in a power salute.
His wife is dressed as a terrorist, standing in the Oval Office in combat boots and an assault rifle.
The illustration is titled “The Politics of Fear.”
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Israel is a tale of family tragedies lived out within small distances. Consider the Harans and the Goldwassers, two families in Nahariya linked by shocking killings nearly 30 years ago that have returned anew to break mothers’ hearts.
Their stories have reopened wounds in a nation that now plans to swap a terrorist who killed three members of the Haran family for the corpse of a Goldwasser son taken hostage just across the border in Lebanon.
Around midnight on April 22, 1979, Samir Kuntar, 16, a Lebanese Druze, slipped from a small boat onto one of Nahariya’s beaches along with three other teenage fighters from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. That bloody night is seared into the Israeli national conscience.
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DHAKA (AFP) — The leader of Bangladesh’s biggest Islamic party Jamaat-e-Islami has been freed on bail after a two-month detention on corruption charges, police said Tuesday.
Matiur Rahman Nizami, who served as industries minister in the country’s most recently elected government, was arrested over the awarding of a container handling contract to a local firm in 2003.
“Nizami has just been released from prison,” national prisons chief Brigadier General Zakir Hassan told AFP.
“He has been granted bail by the High Court in a graft case. We have released him after we received the bail order.”
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A vice-president of Jatiya Muktijoddha Parishad (JMP) yesterday said they receive “donations” from Jamaat-e-Islami for the “welfare” of freedom fighters and to mobilise freedom fighters in different activities.
Vice-president of JMP Engineer Abdur Rob said he along with many of the JMP leaders have great respect for Jamaat leaders. He also said many of their leaders support Jamaat even though they are not directly involved in Jamaat.
Meanwhile, several freedom fighters yesterday said three persons holding key positions in Jatiya Muktijoddha Parishad are not freedom fighters at all even though the JMP constitution claims that they are freedom fighters.
When asked whether the three (two JMP vice-presidents and its president) are freedom fighters as claimed by the JMP constitution, President of JMP Engineer Moslem Uddin and Secretary General Muhammad Iqbal refused to talk.
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LAHORE: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Qazi Hussain Ahmad has warned against any foreign aggression on Pakistani soil, saying it would be countered with full force.
He expressed these views while talking to newsmen and addressing the party workers at Markaz Islami Peshawar on Sunday.
Qazi said if America intervened inside Pakistani territories, masses will resist them with all available force. Qazi said “every American move will be reciprocated accordingly. Their animosity will be reciprocated in the same coin, while their friendship will be welcomed in the same spirit,” he added. Qazi demanded of the Americans to stop antagonism against them, let them live honourably besides withdrawing American forces from Afghanistan and Iraq immediately and ridding the Palestinians from Israeli aggression. Qazi also demanded of the rulers to review their policies and particularly reverse the pro-American policies, which had badly damaged the national security, unity and solidarity. Qazi said there was no danger of Taliban’s […]

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ARLINGTON, Va. — A former Navy SEAL who was the only member of his team to survive a fierce fight with the Taliban didn’t get everything quite right when he recounted the battle and his subsequent rescue at an event this spring in Washington.
Marcus Luttrell, who was awarded the Navy Cross for his actions in Afghanistan, spoke April 24 at the Army and Navy Club in Washington as part of an event sponsored by the American Veterans Center.
Stars and Stripes recorded Luttrell’s comments and included them in a profile of Navy Lt. Michael Murphy, the SEAL team leader who was awarded the Medal of Honor for exposing himself to enemy fire to call for backup.
But after the story ran, Stripes learned some of what Luttrell said was wrong.
Luttrell, who wrote the book “Lone Survivor” about what happened in Afghanistan, told the audience at the Army and Navy Club that one […]

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