Airbornelawyer
11-21-2005, 09:55
From Various Sources:
Middle East
Security incidents in Iraq, Nov 21 (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA125207.htm) (Source: Reuters Alertnet (http://www.alertnet.org))
Ongoing operations (http://www.mnf-iraq.com/releases.htm) – Miscellaneous releases from Multi-National Force Iraq (http://www.mnf-iraq.com/).
Ongoing operations (http://www.mnf-iraq.com/releases.htm) – Miscellaneous releases from U.S. Central Command (http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/release_list.asp).
Mt. Dov: IDF, Hizbullah exchange fire (http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1132475589879&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter) "Hizbullah guerrillas fired mortars on Mount Dov Monday sparking IDF artillery to return fire amid heightened tensions that Hizbullah was planning to kidnap soldiers. Sources in the Northern Command said that attack helicopters were also returning fire. There were unconfirmed reports that Hizbullah shelling also hit the village of Rajar and that three people were wounded, one seriously. The IDF said it was checking the report. The guerrillas fired on five Israeli positions in the Chebaa Farms, an area where the borders of Lebanon, Syria and Israel meet, Hizbullah's Al-Manar television reported. An official in the guerrilla group said its fighters subjected the positions to "intense shelling." In retaliation, Israeli warplanes fired missiles at suspected guerrilla hideouts about 500 meters from the Lebanese-Israeli border, Lebanese security officials in south Lebanon said. Israeli artillery shelled positions in mountainous areas and valleys near the Chebaa Farms, security officials in south Lebanon said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.…" (Source: Jerusalem Post (http://www.jpost.com))
Egyptian police say they shot Sinai bomb suspects (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L2139302.htm) "Egyptian authorities said police shot dead on Monday two men who were behind the bomb attacks on Red Sea resorts and a third who harboured them in the Sinai desert. The police killed the men in clashes in mountains in the Sinai, where the authorities say the suspects took refuge after the bombings in July this year and October, 2004, an Interior Ministry statement said. More than 100 people were killed in the attacks.…" (Source: Reuters Alertnet (http://www.alertnet.org))
South & Central Asia
Foreign hostages in Afghanistan (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L2158093.htm) "Taliban guerrillas have threatened to kill an Indian engineer they are holding hostage unless his company stops work in Afghanistan by Tuesday.…" (Source: Reuters Alertnet (http://www.alertnet.org))
Sri Lanka: Security Situation Report (http://www.army.lk/news/index.html). (Source: Sri Lanka Army (http://www.army.lk))
South Asia Terrorism Update (http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=11/21/2005) (Source: South Asia Terrorism Portal (http://www.satp.org))
East Asia & the Pacific
Philippines Army Kills 10 Rebel Suspects (http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-11-21-voa21.cfm) "Military officials in the Philippines say troops have killed 10 communist rebels and captured at least 14 others in a raid on a meeting in a rice field early Monday on the central island of Leyte. The officials say the men belonged to the New People's Army, the armed wing of the Philippine Communist Party, which has been leading an insurgency since the late 1960s. But some leftists and human rights groups say those killed were not NPA rebels, but were poor farmers and political activists protesting a land reform program. On Saturday, NPA rebels detonated a land mine that tore through a passing army truck, killing nine soldiers and wounding 20 others in the central island of Panay. A policeman was also killed in a separate clash." (Source: Voice of America (http://www.voanews.com))
Vietnam Arrests Rock Star Gary Glitter (http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-11-20-voa23.cfm) "Vietnam police say they have detained disgraced British rock star Gary Glitter for questioning after reports he has been living in that country with a juvenile.The Vietnamese state-run youth newspaper Tuoi Tre reports Sunday that Glitter was arrested while trying to board a plane to Bangkok on Saturday. A British tabloid and one of Vietnam's official newspapers, Thanh Nien, say the 61-year-old ex-rocker had been seen with girls as young as 15 at his villa in southern Vietnam. Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was sentenced to four months in a British jail in 1999. He was found guilty of storing more than 4,000 images of child pornography on his computer. Glitter is best known for the song Rock and Roll, Part 2, which is frequently played at sporting events." (Source: Voice of America (http://www.voanews.com))
The Americas
USSOUTHCOM Headline News (http://www.southcom.mil/pa/News/AOR%20News/Today's%20News.doc) (Microsoft Word format)
Africa
Morocco Arrests 17 Terror Suspects (http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-11-20-voa38.cfm) "Officials in Morocco say the security forces have arrested 17 radical Islamists suspected of forming an al-Qaida-linked terrorist structure.The Moroccan state news agency says the group had links to small groups at the Iraqi border. It said two top suspects were recruiting other extremists, including two Moroccans who had been prisoners at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.…" (Source: Voice of America (http://www.voanews.com))
ETHIOPIA: Gov't says Oromiya unrest quelled (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/98dcd5f4a1c15a1a5adbf91e38689ef6.htm) "The Ethiopian government maintained that unrest in Oromiya has been quelled, despite claims by two rebel groups that dozens of people had been killed in renewed post-election violence. The information ministry criticised the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and accused the separatist group of trying to foment unrest in Oromiya, home to the Oromo community, Ethiopia's largest ethnic group. The OLF announced in a statement on Friday that 10 people had been killed after protests broke out last week in a "popular uprising" that elicited a severe crackdown from the government.…" (Source: Reuters Alertnet (http://www.alertnet.org))
Eritrea says Ethiopia stokes border fears as ploy (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L21783625.htm) "Eritrea's president has accused Ethiopia of raising the spectre of renewed conflict between the two neighbours over their disputed border as a ploy to distract attention from Ethiopia's domestic troubles. Military manoeuvres on both sides of an unmarked 1,000 km (620 mile) frontier between the feuding Horn of Africa neighbours have raised international concern about a possible repeat of their 1998-2000 border war that killed 70,000 people. The growing tension along the border coincided with protests in Ethiopia over a May 15 election the opposition says was rigged, but which Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government says was fair. Ethiopian authorities have accused Eritrea of supporting the biggest opposition party, the Coalition for Unity and Democracy, whose leaders face treason charges and are accused of inciting the violence in which more than 40 people died.…" (Source: Reuters Alertnet (http://www.alertnet.org))
UGANDA: LRA rebels kill 12 in bus ambush in Pader district (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/451b2bb1bd9932b32c683dfcf85d2feb.htm) "Twelve people were killed in northern Uganda on Monday when rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) ambushed a vehicle and set it ablaze with the passengers still inside, the Ugandan army said.…" (Source: Reuters Alertnet (http://www.alertnet.org))
Chad says Sudan using its deserters to fight rebels (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L20772115.htm) "Chad accused neighbouring Sudan on Sunday of deliberately trying to destabilise it by using Chadian army deserters who fled over the border to help fight rebels. Sudanese troops and rebels clashed in heavy fighting on Saturday in Sudan's western Darfur region, where Chad says scores of army deserters who fled their barracks in late September are sheltering.…" (Source: Reuters Alertnet (http://www.alertnet.org))
Europe
Daghestani Police Say Militant Killed in Shootout (http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/11/72F1AF48-CB62-4662-9B79-6406E7BDAD69.html) " Police in Russia's southern republic of Daghestan say they killed one militant and wounded another during an operation today in the town of Buinaksk. Police say they surrounded a house where a group of armed militants were hiding. A gunbattle began after militants refused to lay down their arms and surrender, opening fire on police instead. No casualties were reported among police officers. The regional Interior Ministry said a number of militants managed to escape. Daghestan has recently seen an increase in violence, due to both a spillover from neigboring Chechnya and feuds among rival gangs." (Source: RFE/RL (http://www.rferl.org))
Middle East
Security incidents in Iraq, Nov 21 (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/KHA125207.htm) (Source: Reuters Alertnet (http://www.alertnet.org))
Ongoing operations (http://www.mnf-iraq.com/releases.htm) – Miscellaneous releases from Multi-National Force Iraq (http://www.mnf-iraq.com/).
Ongoing operations (http://www.mnf-iraq.com/releases.htm) – Miscellaneous releases from U.S. Central Command (http://www.centcom.mil/CENTCOMNews/release_list.asp).
Mt. Dov: IDF, Hizbullah exchange fire (http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1132475589879&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter) "Hizbullah guerrillas fired mortars on Mount Dov Monday sparking IDF artillery to return fire amid heightened tensions that Hizbullah was planning to kidnap soldiers. Sources in the Northern Command said that attack helicopters were also returning fire. There were unconfirmed reports that Hizbullah shelling also hit the village of Rajar and that three people were wounded, one seriously. The IDF said it was checking the report. The guerrillas fired on five Israeli positions in the Chebaa Farms, an area where the borders of Lebanon, Syria and Israel meet, Hizbullah's Al-Manar television reported. An official in the guerrilla group said its fighters subjected the positions to "intense shelling." In retaliation, Israeli warplanes fired missiles at suspected guerrilla hideouts about 500 meters from the Lebanese-Israeli border, Lebanese security officials in south Lebanon said. Israeli artillery shelled positions in mountainous areas and valleys near the Chebaa Farms, security officials in south Lebanon said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.…" (Source: Jerusalem Post (http://www.jpost.com))
Egyptian police say they shot Sinai bomb suspects (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L2139302.htm) "Egyptian authorities said police shot dead on Monday two men who were behind the bomb attacks on Red Sea resorts and a third who harboured them in the Sinai desert. The police killed the men in clashes in mountains in the Sinai, where the authorities say the suspects took refuge after the bombings in July this year and October, 2004, an Interior Ministry statement said. More than 100 people were killed in the attacks.…" (Source: Reuters Alertnet (http://www.alertnet.org))
South & Central Asia
Foreign hostages in Afghanistan (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L2158093.htm) "Taliban guerrillas have threatened to kill an Indian engineer they are holding hostage unless his company stops work in Afghanistan by Tuesday.…" (Source: Reuters Alertnet (http://www.alertnet.org))
Sri Lanka: Security Situation Report (http://www.army.lk/news/index.html). (Source: Sri Lanka Army (http://www.army.lk))
South Asia Terrorism Update (http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/detailed_news.asp?date1=11/21/2005) (Source: South Asia Terrorism Portal (http://www.satp.org))
East Asia & the Pacific
Philippines Army Kills 10 Rebel Suspects (http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-11-21-voa21.cfm) "Military officials in the Philippines say troops have killed 10 communist rebels and captured at least 14 others in a raid on a meeting in a rice field early Monday on the central island of Leyte. The officials say the men belonged to the New People's Army, the armed wing of the Philippine Communist Party, which has been leading an insurgency since the late 1960s. But some leftists and human rights groups say those killed were not NPA rebels, but were poor farmers and political activists protesting a land reform program. On Saturday, NPA rebels detonated a land mine that tore through a passing army truck, killing nine soldiers and wounding 20 others in the central island of Panay. A policeman was also killed in a separate clash." (Source: Voice of America (http://www.voanews.com))
Vietnam Arrests Rock Star Gary Glitter (http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-11-20-voa23.cfm) "Vietnam police say they have detained disgraced British rock star Gary Glitter for questioning after reports he has been living in that country with a juvenile.The Vietnamese state-run youth newspaper Tuoi Tre reports Sunday that Glitter was arrested while trying to board a plane to Bangkok on Saturday. A British tabloid and one of Vietnam's official newspapers, Thanh Nien, say the 61-year-old ex-rocker had been seen with girls as young as 15 at his villa in southern Vietnam. Glitter, whose real name is Paul Francis Gadd, was sentenced to four months in a British jail in 1999. He was found guilty of storing more than 4,000 images of child pornography on his computer. Glitter is best known for the song Rock and Roll, Part 2, which is frequently played at sporting events." (Source: Voice of America (http://www.voanews.com))
The Americas
USSOUTHCOM Headline News (http://www.southcom.mil/pa/News/AOR%20News/Today's%20News.doc) (Microsoft Word format)
Africa
Morocco Arrests 17 Terror Suspects (http://www.voanews.com/english/2005-11-20-voa38.cfm) "Officials in Morocco say the security forces have arrested 17 radical Islamists suspected of forming an al-Qaida-linked terrorist structure.The Moroccan state news agency says the group had links to small groups at the Iraqi border. It said two top suspects were recruiting other extremists, including two Moroccans who had been prisoners at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.…" (Source: Voice of America (http://www.voanews.com))
ETHIOPIA: Gov't says Oromiya unrest quelled (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/98dcd5f4a1c15a1a5adbf91e38689ef6.htm) "The Ethiopian government maintained that unrest in Oromiya has been quelled, despite claims by two rebel groups that dozens of people had been killed in renewed post-election violence. The information ministry criticised the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and accused the separatist group of trying to foment unrest in Oromiya, home to the Oromo community, Ethiopia's largest ethnic group. The OLF announced in a statement on Friday that 10 people had been killed after protests broke out last week in a "popular uprising" that elicited a severe crackdown from the government.…" (Source: Reuters Alertnet (http://www.alertnet.org))
Eritrea says Ethiopia stokes border fears as ploy (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L21783625.htm) "Eritrea's president has accused Ethiopia of raising the spectre of renewed conflict between the two neighbours over their disputed border as a ploy to distract attention from Ethiopia's domestic troubles. Military manoeuvres on both sides of an unmarked 1,000 km (620 mile) frontier between the feuding Horn of Africa neighbours have raised international concern about a possible repeat of their 1998-2000 border war that killed 70,000 people. The growing tension along the border coincided with protests in Ethiopia over a May 15 election the opposition says was rigged, but which Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government says was fair. Ethiopian authorities have accused Eritrea of supporting the biggest opposition party, the Coalition for Unity and Democracy, whose leaders face treason charges and are accused of inciting the violence in which more than 40 people died.…" (Source: Reuters Alertnet (http://www.alertnet.org))
UGANDA: LRA rebels kill 12 in bus ambush in Pader district (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/451b2bb1bd9932b32c683dfcf85d2feb.htm) "Twelve people were killed in northern Uganda on Monday when rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) ambushed a vehicle and set it ablaze with the passengers still inside, the Ugandan army said.…" (Source: Reuters Alertnet (http://www.alertnet.org))
Chad says Sudan using its deserters to fight rebels (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L20772115.htm) "Chad accused neighbouring Sudan on Sunday of deliberately trying to destabilise it by using Chadian army deserters who fled over the border to help fight rebels. Sudanese troops and rebels clashed in heavy fighting on Saturday in Sudan's western Darfur region, where Chad says scores of army deserters who fled their barracks in late September are sheltering.…" (Source: Reuters Alertnet (http://www.alertnet.org))
Europe
Daghestani Police Say Militant Killed in Shootout (http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/11/72F1AF48-CB62-4662-9B79-6406E7BDAD69.html) " Police in Russia's southern republic of Daghestan say they killed one militant and wounded another during an operation today in the town of Buinaksk. Police say they surrounded a house where a group of armed militants were hiding. A gunbattle began after militants refused to lay down their arms and surrender, opening fire on police instead. No casualties were reported among police officers. The regional Interior Ministry said a number of militants managed to escape. Daghestan has recently seen an increase in violence, due to both a spillover from neigboring Chechnya and feuds among rival gangs." (Source: RFE/RL (http://www.rferl.org))