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News: Ex-CIA man Edwin Wilson, jailed for selling arms to Libya, dies Romney pulls in big bucks in southern California Pakistani bounty placed on anti-Islam filmmaker Egypt's Mursi says Iran is vital to ending Syria's crisis Libyan Islamist militia swept out of bases Obama seeks victory in Wisconsin under clouds of recall, Ryan Ex-Guatemalan Army commander accused in massacre faces charges in U.S Panetta's Asia visit shows balancing role U.S. hopes to play Tunisia president's former aide gets suspended jail sentence Opposition says Georgia vote a choice between "good and evil" Texas governor Perry's debate gaffe due to lack of sleep: book France's Hollande hits new low in popularity poll Somali lawmaker shot dead in latest militant attack Opposition boycott and apathy threaten Belarus election Sudan, South Sudan move towards security deal as U.N. deadline expires U.N. investigator urges Morocco to end police torture Fiat, Italy govt to examine export-focused measures Al Qaeda foe survives Yemen suicide bombing U.S. stops 20 Iran officials attending U.N. assembly Two Islamist militias in Libya's Derna say disbanding: residents Egypt Salafi urges U.N. to criminalize contempt of Islam Free Syrian Army rebel leaders move from Turkey to Syria Senate votes to shield U.S. airlines from EU's carbon scheme Venezuela's Capriles says he'll fix country's problems, not world peace Militants or no, Islamist fighters praised at Benghazi hospital U.S. says Benghazi protests show Libyans won't accept tyranny Spotlight on Romney fundraising host Leder German ex- finance minister wants lender-financed bank bailout fund Norway oil workers reach preliminary wage deal, say negotiators China envoy warns Canada against politicizing Nexen deal Merkel, Hollande pledge to consult on EADS Strauss-Kahn group rape inquiry to be shelved: report Turkey deploys heavy weapons to Syrian border: TV Libyan Islamist militia swept out of Benghazi bases Congo could allow oil exploitation in parks: minister Opponents of legalizing marijuana focus on risk to teens Cameroon sentences ex-minister to 25-year jail term Cameroon sentence ex-minister to 25-year jail term Yemen minister says Saleh trying to spoil transition Afghanistan bans Pakistani papers over "propaganda" Ex-CIA man Edwin Wilson, jailed for selling arms to Libya, dies Sat,22 Sep 2012 07:55 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Former CIA operative Edwin P. Wilson, who was found guilty in 1983 of selling arms to Libya but released from prison in 2004 after a judge threw out the conviction, has died at age 84, a funeral home director said on Saturday. When Wilson was sent to prison, his was the biggest arms-dealing case in U.S. history. Wilson died on September 10 of complications from heart valve replacement surgery, said Craig Emmick, director at Columbia Funeral Home and Crematory in Seattle. ... Full Story Top Romney pulls in big bucks in southern California Sat,22 Sep 2012 07:38 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Having declared that his presidential campaign does not need a makeover, Republican Mitt Romney raised millions of dollars at two fundraisers in southern California on Saturday to help bankroll the final weeks of the race. "I'm not even going to be able to go home today. We're just coming to town to see you and keep the campaign going," Romney told a well-heeled crowd at the Grand Del Mar Resort hotel in Del Mar, California, about 12 miles from his beachfront house in La Jolla. ... Full Story Top Pakistani bounty placed on anti-Islam filmmaker Sat,22 Sep 2012 06:37 PM PDT Reuters - PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - A Pakistani minister offered $100,000 on Saturday to anyone who kills the maker of an online video which insults Islam, as sporadic protests rumbled on across parts of the Muslim world. "I announce today that this blasphemer, this sinner who has spoken nonsense about the holy Prophet, anyone who murders him, I will reward him with $100,000," Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour told a news conference, to applause. "I invite the Taliban brothers and the al Qaeda brothers to join me in this blessed mission. ... Full Story Top Egypt's Mursi says Iran is vital to ending Syria's crisis Sat,22 Sep 2012 05:56 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Islamist President said on Saturday that having a strong relationship with Iran is important for Egypt at this time to be able to work out a way to end the bloodshed in Syria. Speaking in a televised interview, his first to state TV since his election last June, President Mohamed Mursi described Iran as "a main player in the region that could have an active and supportive role in solving the Syrian problem. ... Full Story Top Libyan Islamist militia swept out of bases Sat,22 Sep 2012 05:36 PM PDT Reuters - BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The two main Islamist militias in Derna, a city in eastern Libya known as an Islamist stronghold, withdrew from their five bases on Saturday and announced they were disbanding, residents said, a day after a militia was driven out of Benghazi. The Abu Slim and Ansar al-Sharia militias' announcements were apparently motivated by events in Benghazi, where Ansar al-Sharia, a group linked with last week's deadly attack on the U.S. consulate, withdrew from all its bases in the city late on Friday amid mass demonstrations in support of the government. ... Full Story Top Obama seeks victory in Wisconsin under clouds of recall, Ryan Sat,22 Sep 2012 05:20 PM PDT Reuters - MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (Reuters) - President Barack Obama took his re-election campaign to Wisconsin on Saturday, as a new poll shows him surging in the state where liberal and conservative political ideologies have been sparring over unions, budgets and the public sector. "We don't think government can solve every problem, but it's not the source of every problem, any more than all the folks that you hear are to blame out of Washington - you know, gays or immigrants or unions or corporations for that matter," Obama said in a speech at the Milwaukee Theater. ... Full Story Top Ex-Guatemalan Army commander accused in massacre faces charges in U.S Sat,22 Sep 2012 05:06 PM PDT Reuters - LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A former Guatemalan army commander accused of taking part in the massacre of more than 200 people during that country's civil war has been returned to the United States to face charges he lied about his past to gain U.S. citizenship, authorities said on Saturday. Jorge Sosa, 54, arrived at Los Angeles International Airport accompanied by U.S. Marshals on Friday evening following his extradition from Calgary, Canada, where he was arrested in January, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokeswoman Lori Haley said. U.S. ... Full Story Top Panetta's Asia visit shows balancing role U.S. hopes to play Sat,22 Sep 2012 04:32 PM PDT Reuters - ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's week-long visit to the Asia-Pacific region helped deepen the U.S. military's strategic shift to the area, even as it illustrated the balancing role that Washington may have to play to maintain peace and stability. The trip, which concluded on Saturday, took Panetta to Japan, China and New Zealand and coincided with a flare-up in tensions between Tokyo and Beijing over a disputed island group in the East China Sea. Anti-Japanese protests took place in dozens of cities across China while Panetta was in the region. ... Full Story Top Tunisia president's former aide gets suspended jail sentence Sat,22 Sep 2012 04:23 PM PDT Reuters - TUNIS (Reuters) - A Tunisian military court handed down a suspended prison sentence to President Moncef Marzouki's former aide who criticized the army's role, in a case that may raise concerns about freedoms in the birthplace of the Arab Spring revolts. Ayoub Massoudi publicly accused the head of the army Rachid Ammar in August of throwing his weight behind the Islamist-led government's decision to extradite Muammar Gaddafi's prime minister Baghadi al-Mahmoudi to Libya in June. ... Full Story Top Opposition says Georgia vote a choice between "good and evil" Sat,22 Sep 2012 03:39 PM PDT Reuters - TBILISI (Reuters) - Voters in Georgia face a stark choice between "good and evil" in parliamentary elections on October 1, said opposition leader Bidzina Ivanishvili on Saturday, following days of protests over state prison brutality that have left the ruling party reeling. "We should make a choice between good and evil on October 1," Bidzina Ivanishvili, told a crowd in Zugdidi in western Georgia. "We promise to come to power and to restore justice," said the billionaire leader of the "Georgian Dream" opposition coalition. ... Full Story Top Texas governor Perry's debate gaffe due to lack of sleep: book Sat,22 Sep 2012 03:33 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Texas Governor Rick Perry's embarrassing inability to remember a government department he would eliminate if he became president, perhaps the biggest gaffe of the 2012 election campaign, was due to chronic lack of sleep, a new book says. "Oops," a diary of covering the Perry campaign by Texas Tribune correspondent Jay Root, says Perry suffered from insomnia for weeks before the gaffe. The blunder occurred during a Republican presidential debate in Rochester, Michigan on November 9, 2011. ... Full Story Top France's Hollande hits new low in popularity poll Sat,22 Sep 2012 03:09 PM PDT Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande's approval ratings have tumbled to their lowest level since he first took office in May, a new poll showed on Sunday, as France's grinding economic stagnation and record unemployment show little sign of easing. According to the Ifop poll for Sunday newspaper JDD, Hollande now has a 43 percent positive rating, down from 54 percent in August - one of the sharpest drops in over a decade. Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault also saw his own approval rating drop to 50 percent, from 57 percent, the poll said. ... Full Story Top Somali lawmaker shot dead in latest militant attack Sat,22 Sep 2012 03:03 PM PDT Reuters - MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a Somali lawmaker on Saturday, witnesses said, the first assassination of a member of the war-torn country's newly appointed parliament. The unidentified assailants fired several shots at Mustaf Haji Mohamed shortly after evening prayers in Mogadishu's Waberi district, the latest in a wave of militant attacks since the assembly elected President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on September 10. ... Full Story Top Opposition boycott and apathy threaten Belarus election Sat,22 Sep 2012 03:01 PM PDT Reuters - MINSK (Reuters) - A Belarussian parliamentary election on Sunday is likely to reinforce hardline President Alexander Lukashenko's grip on the small former Soviet country despite a boycott call from the dispirited opposition. The two main opposition parties have urged people to go fishing and mushrooming rather than vote in what they see as a sham exercise to produce a chamber which largely rubber-stamps Lukashenko's directives. ... Full Story Top Sudan, South Sudan move towards security deal as U.N. deadline expires Sat,22 Sep 2012 02:52 PM PDT Reuters - ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Sudan and South Sudan have taken a step towards a border security agreement that will allow oil exports to resume, officials said on Saturday, paving the way for their leaders to sign a deal to end hostilities at a summit in Ethiopia. Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir and his southern counterpart Salva Kiir are expected to hammer out the border agreement in Addis Ababa on Sunday, to meet a deadline set by the U.N. Security Council. The neighbors reached an interim deal in August to revive southern oil exports that must transit the north to reach Red Sea ports. ... Full Story Top U.N. investigator urges Morocco to end police torture Sat,22 Sep 2012 02:44 PM PDT Reuters - RABAT (Reuters) - The United Nations' special rapporteur said on Saturday torture against people suspected of national security crimes in Morocco was systematic and urged the country to quickly end ill treatment in its prisons and police detention centers. At the end of a rare fact-finding mission at the invitation of Moroccan authorities, Juan Mendez told reporters there was also evidence of torture being inflicted on people held in prisons and detention centers in the disputed Western Sahara, which Rabat controls. ... Full Story Top Fiat, Italy govt to examine export-focused measures Sat,22 Sep 2012 02:40 PM PDT Reuters - MILAN/ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Fiat and the Italian government said on Saturday they will look for ways to improve the company's manufacturing efficiency, as the automaker pledged to keep building cars in Italy while shifting its focus to foreign export markets. Fiat's decision in late August to freeze planned investments to avoid further losses in a weak car market has sparked a firestorm of criticism from trade unions and politicians. Unions are worried about potential job losses if the company eventually shifts manufacturing to countries where wages are lower. ... Full Story Top Al Qaeda foe survives Yemen suicide bombing Sat,22 Sep 2012 02:16 PM PDT Reuters - ADEN (Reuters) - A suicide bomber failed on Saturday in an assassination attempt on a former Islamist in Yemen who helped drive al Qaeda militants out of a southern region this year, a security source and resident said. Abdul-Latif al-Sayed had just got into a parked car with three others after dining in a restaurant in the southern port city of Aden when the bomber struck, the security source said. The bomber died in the explosion and the four victims were in hospital with serious injuries. ... Full Story Top U.S. stops 20 Iran officials attending U.N. assembly Sat,22 Sep 2012 02:14 PM PDT Reuters - DUBAI (Reuters) - The United States has denied visas to about 20 Iranian government officials hoping to attend next week's United Nations General Assembly, including two ministers, Iran's Fars news agency reported on Saturday. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a regular at the assembly since he took office in 2005, will give his final speech there on Wednesday and will address a meeting on the "rule of law" on Monday. But of the 160-or-so visas requested by the Iranian delegation two months ago, about 20 were turned down, Fars said. ... Full Story Top Two Islamist militias in Libya's Derna say disbanding: residents Sat,22 Sep 2012 02:03 PM PDT Reuters - BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - The two main Islamist militias in Derna, a city in eastern Libya known as an Islamist stronghold, withdrew from their five military bases and announced they were disbanding, residents said on Saturday. "Abu Slim had three camps and Ansar al-Sharia had two. So it's five. Empty. All empty," Siraj Shennib, a 29-year-old linguistics professor who has been part of protests against the militia, said by telephone. (Reporting by Peter Graff; Writing by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Ralph Gowling) Full Story Top Egypt Salafi urges U.N. to criminalize contempt of Islam Sat,22 Sep 2012 02:00 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's president and other Muslim leaders should demand the U.N. criminalize contempt of religion after the release of an anti-Islamic film and cartoons which demonstrate growing racism, said the leader of the biggest ultra-orthodox Islamist party. Despite doctrinal and political differences with President Mohamed Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood, the Salafist Nour Party played a key role in supporting it during presidential elections in June. Led by Emad Abdel Ghaffour, it now ranks as the second-largest party in parliament and plays a formidable force in Egypt's new politics. ... Full Story Top Free Syrian Army rebel leaders move from Turkey to Syria Sat,22 Sep 2012 01:47 PM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - The rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA) has moved its leadership for the first time from Turkey to parts of Syria that are now controlled by rebels, the group's commander-in-chief said on Saturday. The FSA has been based in Turkey for more than a year as fighters have struggled to battle forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad. Although rebels now control large swathes of Syria, they face air and artillery attack from Assad's forces. ... Full Story Top Senate votes to shield U.S. airlines from EU's carbon scheme Sat,22 Sep 2012 01:27 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate unanimously passed a bill on Saturday that would shield U.S. airlines from paying for their carbon emissions on European flights, pressuring the European Union to back down from applying its emissions law to foreign carriers. The European Commission has been enforcing its law since January to make all airlines take part in its Emissions Trading Scheme to combat global warming, prompting threats of a trade fight. ... Full Story Top Venezuela's Capriles says he'll fix country's problems, not world peace Sat,22 Sep 2012 01:25 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's opposition standard bearer Henrique Capriles mocked President Hugo Chavez's grandiose campaign pledges two weeks before the election, and vowed to fix voters' daily problems if he wins. Capriles, a 40-year-old state governor, said the socialist leader was more interested in promoting his self-styled revolution around the globe than in addressing local issues such a power cuts, unemployment and high crime rates. ... Full Story Top Militants or no, Islamist fighters praised at Benghazi hospital Sat,22 Sep 2012 01:21 PM PDT Reuters - BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Before the Ansar al-Sharia fighters came and took over security, al-Jalaa hospital was a terrifying place to work. Now that the militia has been swept out of Benghazi on a wave of public anger after the killing of the U.S. ambassador, Dr Abdulmonin Salim is one person who will miss them. "Really honestly? They were very nice guys," he told Reuters inside a ward in what is one of the biggest trauma hospitals in eastern Libya, now guarded by a military police unit that arrived after the militia fighters left the previous night. U.S. ... Full Story Top U.S. says Benghazi protests show Libyans won't accept tyranny Sat,22 Sep 2012 12:47 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Saturday the anger against Islamist militias in Benghazi was a clear sign Libyans were not prepared to allow what it called extremists to dominate. "It's the view of this administration that it's a pretty clear sign from the Libyan people that they're not going to trade the tyranny of a dictator for the tyranny of the mob," said White House spokesman Josh Earnest. ... Full Story Top Spotlight on Romney fundraising host Leder Sat,22 Sep 2012 12:36 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK/MIAMI (Reuters) - Marc Leder, the host of the fundraiser where Mitt Romney labeled 47 percent of Americans as people who paid no tax and believed the government has a responsibility to care for them, has spent most of his career in relative obscurity. But the 50-year-old private equity executive, who made his fortune buying and selling distressed companies, has been thrust into the headlines, finding his way first into the tabloids as the result of a contentious divorce and raucous parties and, more recently, onto the front pages thanks to the Romney event. ... Full Story Top German ex- finance minister wants lender-financed bank bailout fund Sat,22 Sep 2012 11:42 AM PDT Reuters - BERLIN (Reuters) - Former German finance minister Peer Steinbrueck, who could challenge Chancellor Angela Merkel in next year's election, wants to create a bank bailout mechanism funded by lenders rather than governments, a German news magazine reported. "If a bank is on the brink of bankruptcy, it should not be immediately be helped with government money," Steinbrueck was quoted as saying by Der Spiegel, in an advance copy of an interview due to be published on Sunday. "Creditors and shareholders have to do their bit first. ... Full Story Top Norway oil workers reach preliminary wage deal, say negotiators Sat,22 Sep 2012 11:34 AM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Norwegian energy firms and oil services workers reached a preliminary wage deal on Saturday, raising hopes the sides could avoid another strike after labor action in July hamstrung the world's eighth-largest oil exporter. The sides agreed on a 4.5 percent wage increase plus an rise in various supplements, subject to a ballot by the 5,800 employees covered under a collective agreement, negotiators said in separate statements. "Negotiations have yielded a new proposal for next year's wage agreement ... ... Full Story Top China envoy warns Canada against politicizing Nexen deal Sat,22 Sep 2012 11:28 AM PDT Reuters - TORONTO (Reuters) - China's ambassador to Canada warned in remarks published on Saturday against letting domestic politics drive the Canadian government's decision on whether to approve a Chinese state-owned oil company's proposed $15.1 billion takeover of Calgary-based Nexen Inc. "Business is business. It should not be politicized," Ambassador Zhang Junsai said in an interview with Canada's Globe and Mail newspaper. ... Full Story Top Merkel, Hollande pledge to consult on EADS Sat,22 Sep 2012 11:25 AM PDT Reuters - LUDWIGSBURG, Germany (Reuters) - France and Germany pledged on Saturday to consult closely on plans by Airbus parent EADS and Britain's BAE Systems to forge a new aerospace and defense giant, but announced no joint decisions on the $45 billion merger plan. The tie-up would create the world's largest integrated defense and aerospace company with annual sales of $93 billion, but is fraught with national economic and security concerns. "We didn't make any decisions... ... Full Story Top Strauss-Kahn group rape inquiry to be shelved: report Sat,22 Sep 2012 10:33 AM PDT Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - French prosecutors are set to shelve an inquiry into accusations of group rape by former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn and three friends after a crucial witness retracted her allegations, according to an unsourced report by newspaper Le Figaro. The inquiry was opened in May as part of an investigation into Strauss-Kahn's ties to a suspected prostitution ring in the northern city of Lille. It focused on allegations by a prostitute, denied by Strauss-Kahn, that the former IMF chief and friends forced her to have sex in a group in Washington in December 2010. ... Full Story Top Turkey deploys heavy weapons to Syrian border: TV Sat,22 Sep 2012 09:29 AM PDT Reuters - ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's military deployed armored vehicles and heavy weaponry to the border with Syria on Saturday, near a crossing that has seen intense fighting between rebels and government forces, local media said. The deployment is reportedly in an area where earlier this week Turkish civilians were wounded when stray bullets and shelling crossed the border from the Syrian province of al-Raqqa. CNN Turk television said artillery fire had landed close to the Turkish border overnight, causing panic among local residents. ... Full Story Top Libyan Islamist militia swept out of Benghazi bases Sat,22 Sep 2012 09:13 AM PDT Reuters - BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - An Islamist militia was driven out of the city of Benghazi early on Saturday in a surge of anger against the armed groups that control large parts of Libya more than a year after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi. A spokesman for Ansar al-Sharia, which some U.S. and Libya officials blame for the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi last week in which the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed, said it had evacuated its bases "to preserve security in the city". ... Full Story Top Congo could allow oil exploitation in parks: minister Sat,22 Sep 2012 09:06 AM PDT Reuters - KINSHASA (Reuters) - The Democratic Republic of Congo will allow exploration work inside Africa's oldest national park if significant oil deposits are found there, the country's hydrocarbons minister said on Saturday. Congo is keen to expand its underdeveloped oil sector, which currently produces only 26,000 barrels a day despite oil-rich areas in both the east and west of the country. ... Full Story Top Opponents of legalizing marijuana focus on risk to teens Sat,22 Sep 2012 08:32 AM PDT Reuters - DENVER/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Opponents of legalizing marijuana in three western states are targeting mothers in a fight over ballot measures that for the first time could make recreational pot use legal in parts of the United States. "If people tell you it's not a gateway drug - it's baloney," Colorado state Representative Kathleen Conti, a Republican, told two dozen parents and local residents at a recent meeting in the Denver suburb of Greenwood Village. ... Full Story Top Cameroon sentences ex-minister to 25-year jail term Sat,22 Sep 2012 08:26 AM PDT Reuters - YAOUNDE (Reuters) - A court in Cameroon on Saturday sentenced former presidential hopeful and senior minister Marafa Hamidou Yaya to a 25-year jail term on embezzlement charges related to the botched purchase of a presidential plane in 2004. The court handed down the sentence early on Saturday morning after a marathon overnight trial. The court handed the same sentence to Yves Michel Fotso, former director of defunct state air transport company CAMAIR. Hamidou Yaha was minister of territorial administration until he was sacked in December in a cabinet reshuffle by President Paul Biya. ... Full Story Top Cameroon sentence ex-minister to 25-year jail term Sat,22 Sep 2012 07:54 AM PDT Reuters - YAOUNDE (Reuters) - A court in Cameroon on Saturday sentenced former presidential hopeful and senior minister Marafa Hamidou Yaya to a 25-year jail term on embezzlement charges related to the botched purchase of a presidential plane in 2004. The court handed down the sentence early on Saturday morning after a marathon overnight trial. The court handed the same sentence to Yves Michel Fotso, former director of defunct state air transport company CAMAIR. Hamidou Yaha was minister of territorial administration until he was sacked in December in a cabinet reshuffle by President Paul Biya. ... Full Story Top Yemen minister says Saleh trying to spoil transition Sat,22 Sep 2012 07:27 AM PDT Reuters - SANAA (Reuters) - Ousted Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh is interfering in the Arabian Peninsula state's transition process but Western countries are still reluctant to cut him off completely, a Yemeni government minister said on Saturday. Yemen's Gulf neighbors led by Saudi Arabia sponsored a U.S.-backed deal that allowed Saleh to leave office in February after a year of fighting to suppress an uprising that left over 2,000 people dead. ... Full Story Top Afghanistan bans Pakistani papers over "propaganda" Sat,22 Sep 2012 06:00 AM PDT Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan has banned all Pakistani newspapers over what security officials say is anti-government propaganda aimed at Kabul, an interior ministry spokesman said on Saturday, in a move likely to worsen already tense cross-border ties. Pakistani newspapers are usually filled with statements that the Afghan government does not properly represent its people and that its NATO-led allies are "occupying" the country, rather than offering security support, Ihsanuddin Taheri told Reuters. ... Full Story Top

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