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Palestinians in the village of Beit Fajjar near Bethlehem say that Israeli settlers snuck into their mosque and set fire to it, as well as burning copies of the Quran. Photos of the scene show scorched rugs where the fires were put out, and charred pages of the Muslim holy book. Graffiti in Hebrew calling for ‘revenge’ and a scrawled star of David was left behind.The Washington Post calls for an escalation of the war in (on...) Pakistan, which has roads blocked and bridges blown up in protest of US and NATO raids over the border from Afghanistan.
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The mosque arson and Quran-burning are typical of militant squatter tactics. In the past 18 months they have committed dozens of acts of arson against Palestinian property, including orchards and buildings. Although the Israeli military, which administers the Palestinian West Bank, says it is concerned about such actions, the Israeli perpetrators are almost never punished (the typical pattern in colonial settler regimes). [In Full]
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The closing of the Khyber crossing and the exposure of stalled NATO convoys to attacks by Muslim extremists has roiled Islamabad’s relations with Washington. The Pakistani government appears to have felt that it had no choice but to take some visible action against the US, given the public rage throughout the country over the US attack on the Pakistani checkpoint and US violations of Pakistani sovereignty.As the Terrorist Attack Alert driven police state in Europe continues, and US soldiers are warned not to leave American facilities wearing their uniforms, five German jihadists ostensibly trained in Pakistan were reportedly killed in North Waziristan by a drone strike.
Some 75 percent of supplies (food, ammunition, even military vehicles) and 50 percent of the fuel needed by US and NATO troops in Afghanistan flow from the Arabian Sea port of Karachi in Pakistan’s Sindh Province up highways to Peshawar and then across the Khyber Pass into Afghanistan. The convoys are being impeded not only by the closure to them of the crossing at Torkham but also by all the bridges and highways washed out by Pakistan’s recent massive flooding.
High US officers in Afghanistan are said to be furious about the Pakistani closure of the Khyber pass to their convoys. Some one hundred trucks are waiting at Torkham. After Monday’s attack on more fuel trucks, the officers must be even more angry.
Pakistan receives aid monies in recognition of its help with transiting supplies, and the American officers are reported by Pakistan’s “The News” daily to have threatened Islamabad with a cut-off of that aid if the boycott continues. [More]
Triple bombing hits Afghan convoy
At least nine people, including eight children, reported dead after attack targets police in Kandahar.
05 Oct 2010 19:53 GMT - At least three bombs, which apparently targeted a police convoy in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, have killed at least nine people, including many children, and injured more than 20 others, Al Jazeera has learned.
The blasts took place in a residential area in the west of Kandahar city, in the country's south, on Tuesday.
"We are hearing that the attack was aimed at a police convoy. The first explosion hit this police convoy. Another team [of security forces] rushed to see if they could help the survivors of this explosion when the second and a third explosions went off," Sue Turton, Al Jazeera's correspondent reported from Kabul, the capital.
Eight children were among the dead, Zalmai Ayoubi, a provincial government spokesman, said.
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Japan's central bank cuts rates to around zero
In an attempt to stimulate lending and fight deflation, the Bank of Japan cut its benchmark interest rate to a range of 0 to 0.1 percent...
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