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...Acebes said the arrest by French police of three men suspected of belonging to the Basque terrorist group ETA had destroyed the "logistical nucleus of ETA in France." The two Spaniards, José Candido Sagarzazu and Juan Miguel Illarramendi, and Frenchman Claude Recart were captured when French antiterrorist officers raided their house in Cahors. Police also discovered 448 kg of explosives and a number of firearms. Not So Immune, After All ITALY Two of the four parties in Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ruling coalition threatened to quit after Justice Minister Roberto Castelli tried to block an investigation into Berlusconi...
...resentment of occupation even among many Iraqis who had loathed Saddam - the fact that it took an American invasion and occupation to get rid of him deepens their humiliation, and hasn't necessarily endeared the U.S. to them. That sense of alienation may be reinforced by incidents a raid Sunday on a Baghdad house where U.S. forces believed Saddam was sheltering, during which four innocent Iraqis were reportedly killed and a number wounded in the course of U.S. efforts to secure the location. U.S. officials say the victims were in two cars that ran a roadblock, although that account disputed...
They didn't find him. But the raid did turn up some serious firepower: 50 lbs. of C4 plastic explosives, a cache of rifles hidden in the garden and seven AK-47 magazines wrapped in plastic and sunk into a pile of rotting chicken parts. The soldiers also found a Republican Guard uniform and posters of Saddam, and from a field beyond the house they unearthed a telltale box of star-cluster signal flares. "They initiate ambushes with these," says Lieut. Colonel Steve Russell. The flares are further evidence that the Tikrit area, home base for Iraq's fallen leader...
...long fight, in which case they would have steeled themselves for the likelihood of sustaining significant losses - even Saddam himself. For that reason, some key events that played out in Washington and New York Tuesday will ultimately be as important to the future of Iraq as the raid in Mosul...
When military police were ordered to raid a Phnom Penh office suspected of harboring an illegal phone scam last Tuesday, officers figured it was probably just another instance of small-scale Cambodian corruption. But what they found was pricey, high-tech telecommunications equipment?and evidence that boiler-room scams may have spread to Cambodia under the guise of supposedly charitable nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Police detained 20 foreigners in the raid, including 14 Britons, who remain under guard in a Phnom Penh hotel. According to officials, the group allegedly set up an illegal telephone network and had made nearly...