"And the fourth river is Euphrates."
Genesis 2:10-14
Afghan Investigators Probe Allegation That
U.S. Troops Burned Taliban Bodies
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBH9YQE5FE.html
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A team of top Afghan officials was in
the country's south Sunday to investigate charges that U.S. soldiers
burned the remains of Taliban fighters they had killed and then used
the scene for propaganda purposes.
Cremating bodies is banned by Islam, and Muslim clerics in Afghanistan
reacted angrily after a video broadcast by Australian television last week
purported to show American soldiers burning two dead Taliban fighters.
The Cannibals of Ma'arra
http://utah.indymedia.org/news/2003/10/6476_comment.php
Crusaders out of fanaticism and their religious fervor lead them to
view the Muslims as lower than animals.
The Christian soldiers started to cannibalize Muslim Men, Women and
Children. Men and Women were boiled then eaten. Children were
barbequed on spits, somewhat like a shish-kabob. In a letter to the Pope
one of the Crusader commanders wrote; Radulph of Caen wrote explicitly
how: "In Ma'arra our troops boiled pagan adults alive in cooking-pots;
they impaled children on spits and devoured them grilled."
C.I.A. to Avoid Charges in Most Prisoner Deaths
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/23/international/asia/23intel.html?hp&ex=1130126400&en=51717b70c87e17a5&ei=5094&partner=homepage
WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 - Despite indications of C.I.A. involvement
in the deaths of at least four prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan,
C.I.A. employees now appear likely to escape criminal charges in
all but one of those incidents, according to current and former
intelligence and law enforcement officials.
[Photo] Manadel al-Jamadi died in Iraq in November 2003 after
being beaten by members of the Navy Seals and turned over to
C.I.A. interrogators.
Three killed in Egypt church riot
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4366232.stm
Three people have died during a riot outside a
Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt, after a
protest against a play accused of offending Islam.
Police used sticks and tear gas to hold back a crowd
of some 5,000 protesters who marched on St George's church.
On Wednesday, a Muslim man stabbed a nun in protest
at the sale of a DVD of the play, staged at the church
in 2003.
Entitled I Once Was Blind But Now I See, the drama tells
the story of a poor young Copt who is drawn to Islamist
militants who then try to kill him.
Coptic Christian leaders have said the play depicts the
dangers of extremism, not of Islam.
US is logging gains against Al Qaeda in Iraq
September 28, 2005
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0928/p01s01-woiq.html
BAGHDAD AND CAIRO – In a succession of intelligence
breaks, the US says it has killed two key members of
Al Qaeda in Iraq in recent days, including the
organization's No. 2 man who is suspected of orchestrating
a series of suicide bombings in Baghdad since April.
How big a blow this is to the insurgency in Iraq remains unclear.
Four U.S. Contractors Killed in Iraq
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1241487&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312
BAGHDAD, Iraq Oct 23, 2005 — An angry mob of insurgents
attacked a convoy of American contractors last month when
they got lost in a town north of Baghdad, killing four and
wounding two, the U.S. military said on Sunday.
The Sept. 20 attack in the mostly Sunni Arab town of Duluiyah,
about 45 miles north of Baghdad, was reported for the first time
on Saturday by the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph and
confirmed by the military on Sunday.
Twelve Iraqis Killed, Including Family of Five Hit by Roadside Bomb
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBMSHXF5FE.html
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A roadside bomb struck a car being driven by
a police colonel in northern Iraq on Sunday, killing him and his
two sons as well as two young girls nearby, and insurgents killed
more than 15 other Iraqis in shootings, bombings and suicide attacks.
Five U.S. soldiers were wounded in three bombings in the capital.
The attacks came after a week in which 23 U.S. troops were reported dead,
raising to 1,996 the number of military personnel killed since the war
began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press Count.
Also Sunday, the U.S. military confirmed that insurgents killed
four American contract workers and wounded two last month when their
U.S.-escorted convoy got lost in a town north of Baghdad.
The command did not say why the deaths had not been reported earlier.
Bin Laden's deputy tells militants to stop attacking civilians in Iraq
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article318037.ece
Al-Qa'ida's second-in-command has urged Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,
the terrorist group's top operative in Iraq, to reduce attacks
on Iraqi civilians and focus on killing Americans, US officials say.
The instructions were conveyed to Zarqawi in a 6,000-word letter
from Ayman al-Zawahari, Osama bin Laden's deputy, dated in early July.
The document was apparently discovered by US forces in Iraq.
Sunni area 'rejects Iraq charter'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4367356.stm
Partial results of the vote on a new Iraqi constitution
suggest at least one Sunni province has rejected it.
The 20% sample said 81.5% had rejected the draft in Salahuddin,
but in Diyala - which has a slight Sunni majority - it was
approved by just over 50%.
No figures were given for the other two Sunni provinces of
Anbar and Ninevah. A two-thirds rejection of the charter in
both would torpedo the project.
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