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...troops found the body hanging from an electrical pole a short distance from the office of the new Iraqi security forces commander for the city, Gen. Adnon Thabit. Foot soldiers from the Iraqi national police sent to Samarra in recent weeks had killed the man that morning during a firefight with insurgents, roped him to the back of one of their blue and white trucks by the feet and then dragged him through the city for all to see before stringing him up. The Americans, who've been working with the national police to check sectarian tensions here...
...Major General Giora Eiland, retired head of Israel's National Security Council, says, "military targets in Gaza just got a lot clearer. There's only one color now--and that's Hamas." On June 20, Israel fired missiles at rocket launchers in northern Gaza and engaged in a firefight with militants, killing four. Hamas leaders know that their first order of business is restoring law and order, not starting a war with Israel. Hamas has tried to pressure other militant cells to stop shooting rockets into southern Israel...
...Tunisia and Libya, meanwhile, authoritarian policing has kept extremist groups from taking root. But as the January firefight that left a dozen Tunisian radicals dead after they'd returned from Algeria attests, some degree of regional cooperation already exists for al-Qaeda to build upon. Underground groups in Algeria, Niger, Mali, and Mauritania have long trafficked materiel, weapons and personnel among themselves. A January 2005 attack on a military post in Mauritania by fighters of the Algerian GSPC prompted the U.S. and certain European states to begin funding the $100 million annual Trans-Sahara Counter-Terrorism Initiative, seeking to make...
...Geffrey 'G' Gregg committed suicide last September, aged 25. In 2002, he was serving with the Army in Afghanistan when he was attached as a signaller to an SAS patrol. The team became embroiled in a firefight that left 11 Afghan civilians dead. Some members (not Gregg) later traded claims of cowardice and mutiny, sparking an official inquiry that saw three SAS men return prematurely to Australia...
...city in the northern section of the capital when a homemade bomb exploded as worshipers were leaving Friday prayers. Two were injured in al-Dora, a neighborhood on a bend in the Tigris, when a taxicab exploded. The residents of al-Amel hid in their houses during a firefight between an armed gang and the Iraqi army as U.S. Apache attack helicopters provided cover overhead. Meanwhile, the Shaab market echoed with the sound of workmen shoveling glass and rubble onto flatbed trucks, cleaning up from the day before (which was a bad day because two suicide bombers exploded themselves...