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US court rules Bin Laden death photos can stay secret

Agence France-PresseMay 21, 2013 16:00
A US appeals court ruled Tuesday that the federal government is not required to release photos that were taken of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden after he was killed by special forces. The Al-Qaeda leader was slain at his Pakistani compound in May 2011 by US Navy SEAL commandos, who took pictures of their target's corpse in order to confirm the success of their mission. In a 14 page opinion, the judges wrote that The Central Intelligence Agency had refused to release the photos "on the ground that the images were classified Top Secret.

Nigeria to release all women held for 'terrorism'

Agence France-PresseMay 21, 2013 15:30
Nigeria said Tuesday it would release several suspects held for "terrorist activities," including all women in custody, in what it called a peace gesture to the Islamists it is battling in the north. The announcement came as Nigeria pressed ahead with a nearly week-old offensive against Islamist insurgents in the northeast of Africa's most populous nation, while the Red Cross said at least 2,400 people had fled violence in the region.

Nigeria to release all women held for 'terrorism'

Agence France-PresseMay 21, 2013 14:15
Nigeria announced Tuesday it will release a number of suspects held for "terrorist activities," including all women in custody, in what it called a peace bid as an offensive targeted Islamists. The announcement came as Nigeria pressed ahead with a nearly week-old offensive against Islamist insurgents in the country's northeast, while the Red Cross said at least 2,400 people had fled violence in the region.

Appeals court rules bin Laden death photos can stay secret

May 21, 2013 10:47
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that the U.S. government had properly classified more than 50 images of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden taken after his death, and that the government did not need to release them. The unanimous ruling by three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected a request for the images by a conservative nonprofit watchdog group. (Reporting by David Ingram; Editing by Doina Chiacu)

UK asks EU to put Hezbollah military wing on terror list: diplomat

May 21, 2013 10:45
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain has formally asked the European Union to put the military wing of Islamist group Hezbollah on its list of terrorist organisations, an EU diplomat said on Tuesday. Britain's move comes after Bulgaria accused the Lebanese militant movement on February 5 of carrying out a bomb attack on a bus in the Black Sea city of Burgas that killed five Israelis and their Bulgarian driver in July last year. (Reporting by Adrian Croft; editing by Rex Merrifield)

EU mission seeks to rebuild Mali army after U.S. faltered

May 21, 2013 08:01
By David Lewis KOULIKORO, Mali (Reuters) - Under a blazing sun and the critical gaze of British and Irish instructors, a line of 11 Malian soldiers lie prone in the dust firing AK-47 rounds at targets, one-by-one. "One out of 10 - not very good," Captain Ibrahim Soumassa, commander of the Malian unit, tells one of the men. "We're at 25 meters. When we're at 100, it'll be difficult."

Iraq bombings kill five

Agence France-PresseMay 21, 2013 04:15
Four bombings in northern Iraq killed five people and wounded 69 on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a spate of violence that has killed more than 370 people so far this month. Two car bombs exploded in a Turkmen Shiite area of Tuz Khurmatu, a town in Salaheddin province, killing three people, wounding 44 and causing extensive damage to 10 houses, police and a doctor said. And two roadside bombs detonated in a sheep market in the city of Kirkuk, killing two people and wounding 25, other officials said.

Car bomb kills 12 in Shiite area of Baghdad

Agence France-PresseMay 20, 2013 14:46
A car bomb near a market in a Shiite-majority area of Baghdad killed 12 people and wounded at least 20 on Monday, a police officer and a medical official said. The bombing in the Shaab area of north Baghdad brings the two-day death toll from violence in Iraq to 63. The car bombing came minutes after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki vowed to overhaul the country's security strategy, amid a wave of violence that has killed 340 people so far in May.

Bombings kill six at Iraq Shiite mosques

Agence France-PresseMay 20, 2013 14:15
Bombings at two Shiite mosques south of Baghdad killed six people on Monday, police and a doctor said, the latest in a string of attacks targeting both Sunni and Shiite places of worship in Iraq. One bomb exploded inside Al-Wardiyah mosque in the city of Hilla, while a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged belt at Al-Graita mosque nearby, the sources said. Both blasts, which also wounded 70 people, occurred during evening prayers. Dozens of Sunni and Shiite mosques have been targets of such attacks in Iraq this year.

8 dead in Iraq bomb attack on Iran pilgrims

Agence France-PresseMay 20, 2013 12:45
A car bomb exploded near a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims north of Baghdad on Monday, killing eight people, Iraqi police and a local official said. The explosion also wounded at least 15 people, they said. The pilgrims were on their way to a Shiite shrine in Samarra, which was bombed in February 2006, unleashing a wave of sectarian bloodletting in which tens of thousands of people died. Iraq is home to some of the holiest sites in Shiite Islam and is visited by hundreds of thousands of foreign pilgrims per year, most of them from neighbouring Iran.
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