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Yemen forces kill 100 rebelsThe conflict has intensified since the army began 'Operation Scorched Earth' on August 11, and aid agencies are warning of a humanitarian crisis in the north, where up to 150,000 people have fled their homes since Shia tribesmen launched an insurgency in 2004.
Topix.net Sunday, October 11, 2009Iran sentences 3 opposition members to deathThree defendants in Iran's mass trial of opposition figures accused of fueling the country's postelection unrest have been sentenced to death, an Iranian news agency
reported today.
Topix.net Sunday, October 11, 2009Afghan peril downplayed, officials sayAs the Obama administration reconsiders its Afghanistan policy, White House officials are minimizing warnings from the intelligence community, the military and the State
department about the risks of adopting a limited strategy focused on al-Qaida, U.S. intelligence, diplomatic and military officials told McClatchy Newspapers.
Topix.net Sunday, October 11, 2009Poland Ratifies Lisbon TreatyWARSAW - Poland has signed the Lisbon Treaty which aims to streamline the workings of the European Union. This leaves just one more country, the Czech
republic, to ratify the agreement before it takes effect. In a ceremony Saturday, Poland became the 26th country to ratify the Lisbon Treaty. Despite his personal antipathy towards the European [...]
Eagle World News Sunday, October 11, 2009Clinton: terrorists increasing threat to PakistanBut
clinton and her British counterpart said there was no risk of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal falling into terrorist hands.
Topix.net Sunday, October 11, 2009MI5 'planned to blow up Sinn Fein HQ in Dublin'The British Security Services plotted to blow up Sinn Fein's Dublin headquarters during the height of the Troubles, a
former undercover police officer claimed today.
Topix.net Sunday, October 11, 2009Russia halts TOR-M1, S-300 air, missile defense missiles to IranDEBKAfile's military sources report that Russia's abrupt suspension of consignments of advanced Tor-M1 air defense missiles and S-300 anti-missile systems has left Tehran high and dry for effective weapons to defend itself and its nuclear facilities against attacks. Our Iranian sources disclose that extreme frustration prompted the boasts of Revolutionary Guards Deputy Commander Brig. Gen. Hossein Salami Sunday, Oct. 11, that Tehran's hi-tech missiles can repel any attack.
DEBKAfile Sunday, October 11, 2009Terror suspect worked at British nuclear lab before CERN - reportThe Algerian-born nuclear physicist Dr. Adlene Hicheur, 32, arrested in France on suspicion of links with al Qaeda's North African wing, worked at the Rutherton Appleton Laboratory in Didcot four years ago, conducting nuclear physics research, according to the Sunday Telegraph.
DEBKAfile Sunday, October 11, 2009Pakistan frees 39 army HQ officers seized by Taliban. No word on embattled tunnel link to nuclear arsenalA day and a night after an armed Taliban takeover of Pakistan's main military headquarters in Islamabad, a Pakistani military spokesman said early Sunday, Oct. 11, that all the assailants were killed or arrested and 39 of the 42 hostages they took freed. Three were killed.There was no word on a second Pakistani-Taliban battle for control of a road tunnel which connects the towns of Darra Adam Khel and Kohat in the North West Frontier Province. On May 15, DEBKA-Net-Weekly exclusively named Kohat and Kamra as keys to Pakistan's nuclear and missile arsenals and
reported that Kohat's fall to the Taliban would cut Islamabad and the Pakistani high command from Kamra and its nuclear arsenal.
DEBKAfile Sunday, October 11, 2009Insurgents attack military headquarters in PakistanMilitants staged a deadly attack on the Pakistani army headquarters yesterday in the most audacious indication yet of their willingness to battle the
government, even at the doorstep of the nation's large and powerful security forces.
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