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Pentagon admits Taliban’s military successes
The Pentagon has admitted the Taliban's military successes and warned that the Taliban has regrouped the forces of Mujahideen in Afghanistan. The new report by the US Department of Defense says that the Taliban have "coalesced into a resilient insurgency" 7 years after their initial fall from power when they left Kabul.
BBC reported: "Noting that insurgent violence has climbed, the report said that despite U.S. and coalition efforts to capture and kill key leaders, the Taliban is likely to "maintain or even increase the scope and pace of its terrorist attacks and bombings in 2008.""
Earlier this week the US command reported, "Insurgent attacks in eastern Afghanistan have increased 40 percent this year over last year".
Hajj and reading the Koran declared to be a ‘crime’ in China
On photo: Protest rally in front of Chinese Embassy by Uighurs living in Belgium
A court in China's far-western region of Xinjiang has sentenced five imams to seven years in Chinese concentration camps for "illegally" organizing Hajj pilgrimages to Mecca in Saudi Arabia, the World Uighur Congress reported.
The clerics were also charged with illegally providing copies of the Koran at a recent sentencing rally in Xayar County, near Xinjiang's Aksu City, said the Munich-based spokesman of the Congress.
More than 300 people attended the rally organized by the County People's Court, said the spokesman.
Military junta assumes offensive on Taliban
In Pakistan near the city of Peshawar the troops of military junta of General Musharraf destroyed several fortifications of the Taliban, as some Western media claim.
Islamabad announced that 700 troops are involved in the operation against the Taliban so far. According to other reports, the number of the troops is much higher and it could be a large-scale offensive instead of a local operation.
Pakistani military said that they took the area near the Afghan border under control. They claim that after several hours of battle the Taliban retreated to the mountains.
Meanwhile leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsood, suspended the truce negotiations with the military junta.
Coup in Turkey was scheduled for July 7
Documents seized by Turkish police indicate that a shadowy, ultra-nationalist illegal organization, Ergenekon, planned to trigger a coup to unseat the government, newspapers reported on Thursday.
The mass-scale arrests were conducted July 1, the day of the official hearing on the closure of the ruling AK party under Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan (who was banned from party membership for five years). Retired generals and government officials related to the Ergenekon group were arrested.
The documents seized in recent raids by the security police revealed the abortive coup, the Turkey's dailies Sabah and Yeni Safak said on Thursday.
Mujahideen attack Somali puppet government HQ
Heavily armed Somalia Mujahideen have attacked the so-called "presidential palace" and key installations in the Somali puppet government's Baidoa headquarters, killing at least four puppets, officials said on Tuesday.
Witnesses said mortar bombs fired by the Islamic fighters late on Monday also hit the airport and a large refurbished warehouse that serves as the "parliament" of the Western-backed "interim administration".
"Several mortar shells landed on us, killing three troops," Ibrahim Ali Isak, a guard at Baidoa's high-walled presidential palace, said by telephone.
Seven of his colleagues were injured and taken to hospital, where medical sources said one of them died.
The attack was carried out by fighters of the al-Shabaab.
Syed Saleeem Shazhad of Asia Times Online propaganda exposed
Recently journalist Syed Saleeem Shazhad of Asia Times online released a video, the video shows Syed Saleem Shazhad interviewing a person who is claiming to be a commander of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, for the provinces of Nooristan and Kunar. Theunjustmedia forwarded this video to the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan official spokesperson, Zabihuallah Mujahid, after watching the video this is what he had to say.
"In Nooristan and Kunar provinces, we do not have any commander with Ziaur Rahman name, nor do we identify the person in this video, who is alleging to be a commander of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Islamic Emirate commander for the provinces of Nooristan and Kunar is Malvi Abdul Raheem. Before, any commander or fighter of Islamic Emirate speaks to a journalist, he must first get permission from the Media department of Islamic Emirate, also any journalist who enters Afghanistan must first get permission from the Islamic Emirate, cause more than sixty percent of Afghanistan in under the control of Islamic Emirate.
Afghan puppets warn foreign troops on civilian deaths
Foreign occupation troops led by NATO and the US military must exercise caution to avoid further civilian casualties while hunting militants in Afghanistan, or people will rise against them, lawmakers have warned.
Civilian deaths and house searches by foreign troops during anti-Taliban operations arouse much anger and are sensitive for Western-backed Afghan puppet President Hamid Karzai, who has been leading the country since the Taliban were ousted in 2001. Over the past week alone, several dozen civilians, among them women, children and a would-be groom, have been killed in separate air attacks by foreign invaders, provincial puppet officials say.
The reported toll brings noncombatant deaths at the hands of the forces to more than 800 since the beginning of last year, according to aid agencies and Afghan puppet officials.
Modesty of Muslim woman poses threat to security of France
Supreme Court of France has turned down the citizenship application submitted by Moroccan woman for the reason that she wears a headscarf. The French court regarded it as "radical practices" incompatible with the key French values such as sexual equality.
Le Monde reported that it was the first time when personal religious practice becomes the reason for denying the citizenship.
The newspaper is asking the question: "Is a Nikab (veil) incompatible with French citizenship?" The edition quotes the saying by Danielle Lochaque, the lawyer who did not take part in the decision. He stressed that it is strange to deny citizenship for excessive obedience to a man.
Taliban crosses into Tajikistan
CA-News reported referring to its sources inside Tajikistan's power structures that units of the Taliban have crossed the border of Tajikistan and attacked the border guard outpost. The Mujahideen have entered a Tajik village and have been retaining the village under their power for over several hours.
It was also reported that the village is located in Shuroabad District of Hatlon Province.
According to the report, 1 Tajik soldier from the so-called "State Committee of National Security of Tajikistan" was killed and several wounded. No casualties among the Taliban have been reported.
This demonstrative attack by the Taliban on a base of the border guards in neighboring Tajikistan has occurred right in the middle of the increase of Taliban attacks in Afghanistan.
Probe into elite Iraq Mujahideen
US forces occupation have captured a man who may help unravel an elite, highly-skilled insurgent group whose rocket-propelled bombs have emerged as the biggest threat to US troops, the top commander of US occupation forces in Baghdad said yesterday.
Maj. Gen. Jeffery Hammond, called the weapon "the greatest threat right now that we face," and he likened the shadowy group behind it to the American military's elite Delta Force.
The weapon is particularly worrying because it is designed to cause catastrophic damage and cannot be stopped once it has been launched, Hammond, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, said in an interview in his office at this US military headquarters compound just west of the capital.
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