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...that "if these doses weren't enough, we are prepared with the help of Allah to inject further doses." Hanning's analysts figured he was referring to the April 11 synagogue bombing on the Tunisian island of Djerba that killed 21, including 11 German tourists; and the May 8 ambush in Karachi that killed 11 French naval engineers. The attack on the French tanker Limburg off Yemen just days before the broadcast only heightened suspicions. Al-Zawahiri seemed to be describing a campaign to punish Europe - specifically, France and Germany - for supporting the U.S. in its war against al-Qaeda...
...terrorists linked to al-Qaeda. The blast closely resembled al-Qaeda's October 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden. Two days after the tanker blast, members of a Kuwaiti terrorist cell that had "pledged allegiance" to bin Laden staged an apparent suicide ambush on U.S. Marines on the Kuwaiti island of Failaka. After killing one service member, the Kuwaitis were shot to death by U.S. forces. The attackers had reportedly trained in terror camps in Afghanistan. Arab officials say that al-Qaeda leaders, in communications with rank and file, are using the potential campaign...
...disguise his annoyance that the jeep was alone at such an obviously dangerous flashpoint in the first place, and he issues firm orders to border police commanders not to send their men into Nablus without his knowledge. Tibon strides to an observation point and trains his binoculars on the ambush site. He's ordered retaliation on the area from which the Palestinian shots originated. The thumping reports of a tank machine gun crash around the valley. "It's a punishment," he says. "Nobody's going to shoot at my soldiers and get away with it." If the surrounding houses...
...terrorists linked to al-Qaeda. The blast closely resembled al-Qaeda's October 2000 bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden. Two days after the tanker blast, members of a Kuwaiti terrorist cell that had "pledged allegiance" to bin Laden staged an apparent suicide ambush on U.S. Marines on the Kuwaiti island of Failaka. After killing one service member, the Kuwaitis were shot to death by U.S. forces. The attackers had reportedly trained in terror camps in Afghanistan. Arab officials say that al-Qaeda leaders, in communications with rank and file, are using the potential campaign...
RUSSIA Chechen Ambush Russian troops and pro-Russian Chechen military police were on high alert throughout Chechnya for the sixth anniversary of Chechen rebels' capture of Grozny during the first Chechen war - and for good reason. Ten members of the Chechen military police were killed and at least eight injured when their vehicle hit a radio-controlled landmine in the southern Shatoi region...