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...death of 10 French paratroopers in a Taliban ambush Monday was the largest combat loss for France since the Beirut barracks bombing of 1983. Yet neither France's political class nor its public opinion appears ready to second-guess the nation's commitment to the NATO-led military operation in Afghanistan. However unpopular the war in Iraq has been in France, public support has remained solid for beating back Islamist extremists and creating stability in a democratic Afghanistan. Still, the deadly Taliban offensives this week have rekindled demands that France and its partners come up with a clear and viable...
...Tuesday, when a suicide bomber detonated a car packed with explosives outside a police academy while scores of new recruits lined up to register for training. The strike in the town of Boumerdès, about 22 miles east of Algiers, came just hours after reports that an ambush by Islamist extremists on Sunday killed 12 people in eastern Algeria. That assault followed two earlier attacks in August that left eight dead and over 50 injured. Though the extremist Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has only claimed responsibility for one of those massacres, experts fear they were all part...
Were they alive? No proof of life was ever given by Hizballah. And a medical report carried out a week after the ambush stated that in all likelihood, the two soldiers probably died of wounds soon after they were captured. Even with that grim knowledge, Israeli pressed ahead with the war, in a fruitless attempt to crush the Lebanese militia. When the war ended, Israel began in earnest to seek Regev and Goldwasser's return, even if that meant collecting two coffins...
...This threat comes almost as an ambush. The region's economies had previously shown resilience in the face of a global credit crunch and troubles in the U.S. India, in particular, was supposed to weather a downturn relatively well because its economy depends largely on domestic consumption rather than massive exports as does China's. But there's nowhere to hide from higher oil prices, and several factors make the crunch particularly painful in Asia. The vast majority of countries in the region are net importers of oil. Only Malaysia and Vietnam are able to produce enough crude...
...course of the trip was probably when we were embedded with the troops in Afghanistan. These guys are targets. Al-Qaeda targets them. Taliban targets them. The week before we got to the base where were staying, there was a mortar attack on the base. There was a Taliban ambush on the governor?s convoy. There?s so many things that at any moment these guys could suddenly become target practice. That?s a scary place to be. You?re protected and you feel safe, but at the same time - you know we?re driving down the road and about...