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NEWS
AFGHANISTAN
On August 13, 2003 a joint
U.S.-mercenary
Afghan military convoy was
attacked in Paktika province. Islamic fighters
of the Taliban blocked the convoy
with a remote controlled mine explosion and then
opened fire with rockets and
machine guns. According to eyewitnesses of the
location after the attack,
there was carnage in the convoy as eight out of
ten American vehicles were blown
up. Numerous U.S. and Afghan mercenary troops
were killed. U.S. jet fighters
were called in and carried out extensive bombing
of the area. However, the
Taliban melted away before the planes arrived.
[Source: Daily Nawa-e-Waqt.]
According to wire services, the Taliban have
denied Karzai government
allegations that an explosion in a bus which
killed women and children was their
work. The Taliban spokesman told a news agency
that the explosion was
connected to rivalries between war lords and had
nothing to do with the Taliban who
are concentrating on American and European
occupation forces and Afghan
mercenaries.
[A Sign of the Taliban resurgence: A new ability
to rebut dirty propaganda
spread by the Karzai "government.]
INDIA-ISRAEL
DEAL:
[Old news not discussed
in the major
media.]
India has bought $1.2 billion worth of the
latest radar system from
Israel [with the blessings of the U.S.]. [Very
briefly mentioned on
Fox News,
May 28, 2003.]
IRAQI
RESISTANCE:
Attacks on U.S. forces are spreading
outside the "Sunni triangle."
Recent attacks occurred in Kirkuk and Basra
[August 12-14]. Ansar al-Islam, a
Kurdish resistance group is active. More than 70
Kurdish women and children from
this group were killed in U.S. bombing in the
first week of the
U.S. invasion.
The bodies were shown on
al-Jazeera
but were
censored on U.S. TV.
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