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A Palestinian suicide bomber hitches a ride from a wary Israeli motorist and then blows himself up inside a bakery in the Red Sea resort town of Eilat. It is the first Palestinian suicide bombing in Israeil in nine months time. |
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Hassan Kazemi Qumi, Iran’s ambassador to Baghdad, outlined a plan to expand its economic and military ties with Iraq. This is likely to bring additional warnings from the United States. |
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An American helicopter was shot down in fighting near Najaf between gunmen and Iraqi forces backed by U.S. firepower. |
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Thirteen people were killed when a U.S. forces helicopter they were riding in went down northeast of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. |
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On January 11, 2007, at about 5:28 pm EST, China destroyed one of its aging weather satellites, Feng Yun FY-1C, with a ground-based, modified medium-range missile. It is the first known satellite-killing test in space in more than 20 years. The weather satellite hit by the kinetic weapon had circl ... |
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Following an investigation, Maj. Gen. Thomas Turner of the 101st Airborne Division refers murder charges against the soldiers for the alleged crimes that occurred in Mahmoudiya, south of Baghdad, in March. Four U.S. soldiers are accused of raping and killing a 14-year-old girl and slaying her sist ... |
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In a Daily Mail interview, General Sir Richard Dannat, who took on his role as head of the British Army in August, states that UK troops should "get ourselves out sometime soon because our presence exacerbates the security problems". |
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Total US military fatalities in Operation Iraqi Freedom for the month of September 2006 is 73, bringing the total US dead in the conflict to 2715. |
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Iraqi police find 60 bodies, all showing signs of torture, dumped around Iraq's capital city. This drives the total number of bodies discovered in the week commencing 9/24 to 122. The day prior, U.S. Maj. Gen. William Caldwell notes a "tough week" and that murders and executions are now the leadin ... |
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A University of Maryland survey is released showing that most Iraqis think the US presence in their country is doing more harm than good. 71 percent favor a commitment by U.S.-led forces in Iraq to withdraw in a year. It also indicates that six out of 10 Iraqis now actually favor attacks on U.S. fo ... |
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Thailand's new leaders ban all meetings and other activities by political parties, two days after taking power in a military coup. Coup leader Gen Sonthi Boonyaratglin has proposed a year-long transitional period as a constitution is drafted, but opposition leader Abhisit Vejjajiva challenges this ... |
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While Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is at the UN in New York, Thai soldiers under the leadership of Lieutenant General Sonthi Boonyaratglin enter Government House and tanks move into position around the building. |
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Syrian security forces repel an attack by several gunmen on the U.S. Embassy in Damascus. |
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Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri calls on Muslims to step up their resistance to the United States. |
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A bomb planted in a mini van detonates outside the Palestine Hotel in downtown Baghdad, killing at least six people and injuring 16. A bomb also explodes in the town of al-Khalis, on the outskirts of Baqouba just north of Baghdad, killing six and wounding more than a dozen. |
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After two weeks of negotiations, Islamic militants freed Fox News journalists Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig in the Gaza Strip. One of the former captives said they were forced at gunpoint to make statements, including that they had converted to Islam. |
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600 Protestors march through Kennebunkport, Maine and rally near the Bush family compound calling for an end to US involvement in the Iraq conflict. |
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Looters ransack the former British base near the southern Iraqi city of Amarah one day following the pullout of the remaining British troops. Followers of Shiite cleric Muqtada Sadr hail the abrupt exits as a victory over the "occupiers." |
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A bomb strapped to a motorbike kills nine people and injures more than 20 near the busy al-Rashid shopping area. Iraq is presently suffering under a surge of violence with 100 people being killed daily. UK Ambassador William Patey and US General John Abizaid have suggested that civil war is a more ... |
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General John Abizaid tells the US Congress that "Iraq could move toward civil war" if the raging sectarian violence in Baghdad is not stopped. Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, confirmed this likelihood when he also told the panel, "We do have the possibility of that devolvin ... |
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Hezbollah guerrillas fire the largest number of rockets to date into Israel as thousands of Israeli troops seek to establish a buffer zone under their control. |
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Israeli forces operate in the Baalbeck area of northeast Lebanon which is about 50 miles from Lebanese capital, Beirut and near the Syrian border. |
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The US State Department announces that Israel has agreed to suspend air operations over southern Lebanon for 48 hours to investigate the strike on Qana, Lebanon which caused numerous civilian casulties. |
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US President Bush declares his support for a U.N. resolution that would deploy a multinational force to end the crisis in Lebanon. |
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An Israeli air raid strikes a United Nations observation post and kills four U.N. observers in southern Lebanon. |
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Beirut, Lebanon on a diplomatic mission to address the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah forces. |
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The United Nations reports that an average of more than 100 civilians per day were killed in Iraq in June of 2006. registering what appears to be the highest official monthly tally of violent deaths since the fall of Baghdad. |
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Roadside bombs killed three U.S. soldiers Thursday in separate incidents southwest of Baghdad. The total number of U.S. military troops and civilians that have died in the Iraq War now stands at 2429. On Wednesday, Baghdad's morgue reported that 1,091 people were killed in the city's daily violenc ... |
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More than 90 people are reported killed or injured in 3 explosions in the Egyptian resort town of Dahab. |
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The US jury on the first and only trial regarding the 9/11 attacks finds that Zacarias Moussaoui is eligible for the death penalty. He will later be sentenced to life in prison. Other individuals that the United States has captured are not brought to trial, because the United States has tortured t ... |
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