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Pakistani officials doubt US killed Al-Qaeda no. 2
Pakistani security officials expressed doubt on Sunday over reports from the United States that it had killed the Al-Qaeda second-in-command near the Afghan border. A senior US official said on Saturday that Atiyah abd al-Rahman had been killed in the northwest tribal area of Waziristan on August 22, without divulging…
Gruesome find in Tripoli as rebels call for aid
Libyan rebels have started work to get the capital up and running again, as a gruesome find near a base of Moamer Kadhafi’s elite troops appeared to highlight the brutality of his regime. Rebel fighters said on Saturday they had captured the base of the elite 32 Brigade, commanded by…
Al-Qaeda number two killed in Pakistan: US
Al-Qaeda’s number two Atiyah abd al-Rahman has been killed in Pakistan, the United States said, claiming another “tremendous” blow to the group following the death of Osama bin Laden. News of Rahman’s demise comes as the US gears up to mark the 10th anniversary of Al-Qaeda’s most spectacular attack, on…
Rebels prepare to attack Gaddafi’s home town
British warplanes bombed a bunker in Moamer Gaddafi’s birthplace of Sirte as rebel fighters prepared to attack the town, one of the last major regime holdouts east of Tripoli. As insurgent leaders moved into Tripoli to begin a political transition, the African Union called Friday for that process to be…
Libyans count deadly cost of battle for Tripoli
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Residents of Tripoli dug makeshift graves to bury the dead as evidence emerged of widespread summary killings during the battle for the Libyan capital. A week after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi, the stench of decomposing bodies and burning garbage hung over the city as it faced…
Al Qaeda number two killed in Pakistan: U.S. official
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The number two leader of al Qaeda, Atiyah abd al-Rahman, was killed on August 22 in Pakistan, a senior U.S. official told Reuters on Saturday. Powered by Mochila…
Anti-gay Puerto Rican senator accused of posting naked pics on gay social app
A Puerto Rico senator has become the latest politician placed into controversy after allegedly posting sexual photos of himself online. Senator Robert Arango, who was the Vice Chairman of George W.Bush and Dick Cheney’s Puerto Rico re-election committee in 2004, has been supposedly identified by the Puerto Rican TV show…
80 putrefying bodies found in Tripoli hospital
TRIPOLI — The putrefying bodies of around 80 people were found in a Tripoli hospital on Friday, apparently the unlucky victims of fighting that prevented the wounded from being treated, an AFP correspondent reported. However, 17 patients were found alive, including a child, after having been trapped for days as…
Deadly suicide bomb rocks Nigeria U.N. building
ABUJA — A suicide bomb blast rocked the UN compound in the Nigerian capital Abuja on Friday, killing at least 18 people, leaving others trapped and blowing out large areas of the building, officials said. Witnesses reported that the bomb went off after a suspect forced his way through security…
British planes attack bunker in Gaddafi’s home town
British planes fired missiles at a bunker in Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi’s home town of Sirte, the Ministry of Defence said on Friday. “At around midnight, a formation of Tornado GR4s… fired a salvo of Storm Shadow precision-guided missiles against a large headquarters bunker in Kadhafi’s home town of Sirte,”…
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