Algeria: Leading Qaeda Dead
April 26, 2007 -- AL QAEDA
Algeria Says Leading Qaeda Figure Shot Dead -APS
Algerian armed forces shot dead the coordinator and second-in-command of Al Qaeda's North African branch on Thursday, official news agency APS reported, quoting security sources. (Reuters)
IRAQ
9 Dead In Iraqi Army Checkpoint Attack
A suicide car bomb attack on an Iraqi army checkpoint in northern Iraq killed at least nine soldiers Thursday, police said. (AP)
U.S. Soldier Accused of Aiding the Enemy
A U.S. Army lieutenant colonel has been charged with nine offenses, including aiding the enemy, the U.S. military announced Thursday. (AP)
Veto Awaits Iraq Troop Withdrawal Bill
President Bush next week is expected to receive, and swiftly reject, legislation ordering U.S. troops to begin coming home from Iraq this fall. The veto could fall on the fourth anniversary of the president's Iraq "victory" speech. (AP)
US House Votes For Iraq Deadline
The US House of Representatives has narrowly approved a bill making further funding of the war in Iraq conditional on a timetable for a US troop pullout. (BBC)
U.S.
Body Found In Burned Home After Manhunt
The smoldering ashes of a quiet farmhouse and the body found inside left investigators with many questions but no certainties even whether the dead person was the suspect authorities had been pursuing in three shootings of state troopers, one fatally. (AP)
U.S. Sting Busts Major Human Trafficking Operations
An undercover sting operation called "Triple-X" has cracked a thriving network of Southeast Asian crime rings that trafficked in women and children and produced professional-grade counterfeit travel documents to smuggle their human cargo and other aliens into the United States, ABC News has learned. (ABC News)
Alleged Terror Leader Arrested In Queens
A senior leader of the Sri Lankan terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was arrested Wednesday in Queens, New York, where he had been quietly living for the past several years while funneling money to fund an ongoing guerrilla war that has claimed over 62,000 lives, federal prosecutors said. (ABC News)
RUSSIA
Russia in Defence Warning To US
Russia may stop implementing a key defence treaty because of concerns over US plans for a missile shield in Europe, President Vladimir Putin said. (BBC)
SOMALIA
Premier Claims Somali 'Victory'
Ethiopian and government troops are in control of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, after nine days of battles, the prime minister says. (BBC)
IVORY COAST
Attacks Increase in Ivory Coast
There has been a sharp increase in attacks on civilians since a five year old buffer zone dividing Ivory Coast was taken down, an aid group says. (BBC)
U.K.
Terror Leaks: Both Home Office and Police Implicated
The row over allegations that lives were endangered by leaks about major anti-terrorism operations deepened last night as it emerged that there were a series of disclosures about one highly sensitive investigation. (The Guardian)
UK Widens Probe into Nuclear Plant Autopsy Tests
Britain widened an investigation on Thursday into the collection of human body parts for scientific tests at nuclear plants, after authorities said more sites may have been involved than initially disclosed. (Reuters)
IRAN
Powers Consider Iran Nuclear Proposal
The United States and other world powers may be ready to allow Iran to keep some of its uranium enrichment program intact instead of demanding its complete dismantling, foreign government officials said Tuesday. (AP)
ANALYSIS & OPINION
Ranting at Reality on Iraq
If President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney believe the belligerently partisan and misleading things they have been saying about Congress's war spending bill, their grip on the few options left in this disastrous war is even more tenuous than we'd guessed. (NY Times)
Bush Is Destroying What's Left Of His Presidency
The disconnect that is destroying what's left of the Bush presidency was clear in an image from the Oval Office this week. President George W. Bush was sitting warily in his chair, pursing his lips as if he had just eaten a bad radish, as a reporter asked about the performance of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in recent congressional testimony concerning the firing of United States attorneys. (Daily Star)
Real Change in China?
The phrase "regime change" is associated with the doctrine of preventive war as applied to Iraq. But another sort of regime change has been the crux of U.S. policy toward China through most of the 35 years since President Richard Nixon's opening to that nation in 1972. (Washington Post)
Analysis: Poll Shows Support for FEMA
A large majority of Americans believe that the Federal Emergency Management Agency was damaged by being absorbed into the Department of Homeland Security and ought to be restored to the status of an independent agency. (UPI)
The Temperature Rises in Kirkuk
The latest wave of deadly attacks to hit the oil-rich, ethnically combustible city of Kirkuk appears to be a prelude of worse to come, with a referendum looming to decide its status by the end of the year. (Asia Times)
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