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...common in Afghanistan in the past year. A German engineer and four of his Afghan colleagues were kidnapped a day before the South Koreans. Earlier this month a German aid worker was kidnapped in broad daylight from outside a shop in the capital. She was freed in a police raid a few days later and government officials said her abduction was a criminal act likely motivated by money and not politics...
...Reinado's original beef was with the Fretilin government, which he accused of ill-treating people from the country's west. Now he says he has a new score to settle, arising from a March raid by dozens of Australian special-forces troops on his former hideout at Same, 110 km south of Dili. Reinado, who escaped the raid along with most of his men, claims the troops shot one of his armed supporters dead while he was asking for a parley, killed two unarmed civilians, and broke the necks of two wounded men. "The way they do operation...
...Australian Defence Force says it is investigating Reinado's claims but will not comment on them until the after-action report on the Same raid is complete. Reinado, who believes he is still being hunted, wants the Australians to leave East Timor. "Australia cannot be an impartial force in this country," he says. If ISF troops attack his men, he warns, they will fight back. "Then it will be worse," he says. "Day after day [the Australians] will have loss of life...
Wednesday's raid in Sadr City targeting a so-called "secret cell" of Moqtada Sadr's Mahdi Army was a reminder that even as they press their campaign against al-Qaeda aligned Sunni militants, U.S. forces are ramping up operations against what they see as a more serious long-term threat: Shi'ite militias supported by Iran. The attack killed, by the U.S. military's count, 30 men allegedly involved in receiving weapons and training from Iran. Attacks of that scale in the militia's stronghold are not unheard of, but they are rare. Since the two sides declared...
...fact that the latest raid came on a day when al-Maliki was in Tehran for talks underscored the fact that the U.S. may now be turning toward a more aggressive posture against elements of Sadr's militia. Al-Qaeda in Iraq remains a formidable threat; a senior U.S. military official in Baghdad called it the organization most likely to push Iraq's vicious sectarian conflict into a full-blown civil war. But American efforts to turn tribal leaders and armed Sunni groups against the jihadists in their midst have borne fruit in the security realm this year, although such...