More Suicide Bombers in Islamabad as Benazir Bhutto set to leave for Dubai
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In a video Op-Ed by documentary filmmakers Molly Bingham and Steve Connors, Iraqis explain the roots of the insurgency.
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Iraq says curbing PKK movements, supply lines
Reuters - 1 hour ago
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities have set up more checkpoints to restrict the movement of Kurdish rebel fighters and cut supply lines to their mountain hideouts, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Wednesday.
US giving Turkey intelligence on PKK in Iraq Reuters AlertNet
Turkish army confirms 15 Kurdish rebels killed near Iraq border RIA Novosti
A fragile truce in the Swat valley of northwest Pakistan collapsed on Wednesday as troops targeted militant hideouts with artillery and helicopter gunships in retaliation to overnight attacks on them.
The attacks on armed followers of pro-Taliban cleric Maulana Fazlullah in and around Matta were launched after the militants carried out overnight attacks on police posts near Kabal and Saidu Sharif, officials said. There were reports that the militants, who were armed with rockets and assault rifles, fired at a helicopter flying over Matta town, prompting the security forces to target their positions with mortars. TV channels reported that there were several explosions and exchanges of fire in the mountains around Matta. There was no information on casualties in the latest fighting. The militants had called a unilateral truce on Monday ostensibly to allow both sides to retrieve and bury bodies of those killed in clashes since October 26. Officials, however, believe the militants had used the lull to regroup and strengthen their positions.Heavily armed militants were shown patrolling the streets in several towns and villages by a news channel. There were also reports that the militants had forcibly taken away several cars from automobile showrooms as well as from police posts in the region.
Meanwhile,Pakistani law enforcement agencies are desperately hunting for 11 suicide bombers active in the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, police sources have said. They said that some of them were involved in the suicide attack near President Pervez Musharraf
