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December 13, 2004
Quick Tour of the MSM:
Topics:I'll be late blogging today so here is a "Drudge-like" (plus) tour of the MSM.
Hopes for Middle East peace suffered a blow again
Pravda (Russia)01:48 2004-12-13
Moderate Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas's
chances of winning a presidential election to replace Yasser Arafat
appeared to be sealed after his main rival Marwan Barghouthi pulled out
of the race.
But hopes of Middle East peace, raised since Arafat's death in Paris on Nov. 11, suffered a blow when militants burrowed under an Israeli post on the Gaza-Egypt border to kill four soldiers in the deadliest attack on the army for seven months.
The militants set off 1,500 kg of explosives in a tunnel dug under the army post, turning some buildings into a pile of rubble and setting others on fire.
The militant Islamic group Hamas and an armed group in Fatah claimed responsibility for the multi-pronged attack at the Rafah crossing to Egypt in which gunmen charged at wounded soldiers as militants in Rafah pounded the army post with mortar bombs, says ABC News. Read More...
Suicide Attack Kills 13 in Baghdad
My Way News, Dec 13, 5:25 AM (ET)
BAGHDAD,
Iraq (AP) - A suicide car bomber killed 13 people Monday next to the
heavily fortified area in central Baghdad housing the interim
government and U.S. embassy, and eight U.S. Marines died in combat in
western Iraq. Read More...
Afghan President: Bin Laden Is Nearby
My Way News, Dec 12, 11:45 AM (ET)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday that Osama bin Laden is "definitely" in the region and eventually will be caught, even though American and Pakistani generals admit the trail is cold.
Speculation on bin Laden's whereabouts has long focused on the mountains along the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the al-Qaida leader slipped away from Afghan and U.S. forces three years ago.
"It's very difficult to say where he is hiding. He cannot be away from this region. He's definitely in this region," Karzai told CNN's "Late Edition.""We will get him sooner or later, trust me on that."
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Posted by Hyscience at December 13, 2004 5:50 AM
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