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Three gunmen have sprayed worshippers with bullets at the end of dawn prayers at a Sunni mosque in Baghdad, wounding three people. "They wanted to harm the unity of Islam," said imam Walid al-Azari at the Quiba mosque. He said the attack took place when three gunmen got out of a pickup truck and opened fire with Kalashnikov rifles. In Najaf, 110 miles south of the Iraqi capital, more than 10,000 worshippers filled the area around the Imam Ali shrine waiting to hear a sermon from Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, whose brother was assassinated in a huge car bombing outside the mosque...

Gunmen Kill at Least 11 Pakistani Cops QUETTA, Pakistan - Two gunmen on motorcycles sprayed a group of policemen with machine-gun fire in this Pakistani town near the Afghan border on Sunday, killing at least 11 officers and wounding 9, police said. The shooting occurred on Saryab road, Quetta's main thoroughfare, said Rehmatullah Khan Niazi, police senior superintendent in the town in Pakistan's southwest. The policemen were riding in a pickup truck on their way to a training school when the gunmen opened fire. Police would not speculate on the motives for the attack. However, many of the victims were...

SUSPECTED Islamic militants dragged 24 Hindus from their homes and massacred them early yesterday in a remote village in Indian Kashmir. The murders were the bloodiest violence since a new state government was elected seven months ago with a promise to heal the disputed state’s religious strife. The incident was a big setback for embryonic peace moves and will renew tensions in the region. Up to 15 gunmen entered the village of Nadimarg, 30 miles south of Srinagar, the Jammu and Kashmir summer capital, shortly after midnight. Police guards were overpowered and their weapons were seized by the men, who...

MOGADISHU: Militiamen allegedly hired by a Somali businessman stormed a radio and TV station in Mogadishu on Friday night and shut it down after it reported the trader had been mentioned in a book on a group linked to terrorism, station officials said on Saturday. The privately-owned Hornafrik Radio and Television station quoted a book by an Ethiopian author in which it is alleged that Mohamed Daylaf, a wealthy Mogadishu trader, has business relations with a militant Somali Islamic group known as Al-Ittihad al-Islamia. The United States has charged the group has links to al-Qaeda, blamed for the attacks in...

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JULY 07, 05:06 ET Israeli Soldiers Capture Two Gunmen By JACK KATZENELL Associated Press Writer AP/Pier Paolo Cito JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has done much to confront terror, but ``deep problems'' remain, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Sunday in remarks hours after Israeli forces captured two armed Palestinians approaching a Jewish settlement in the Gaza Strip. Sharon credited his outgoing army chief of general staff, Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz, with exerting ``a great effort in confronting terrorism'' over the past four years, particularly in the past two years of steady Israeli-Palestinian violence. ``We have had some victories, but there still...

Gunmen kidnap six Colombian officials Rebels have carried out similar attacks in the past Gunmen have kidnapped six Colombian legislators in an attack on the regional assembly in the city of Cali. The assembly was in session when the armed men entered the building, set off an explosive device and took the officials hostage. During an exchange of fire, a policeman is reported to have been killed. There is no information on who carried out the attack, but left-wing rebels have staged similar kidnappings in the past. Armed raid Local radio reports said as many as 25 armed men dressed...

TERRORISTS STILL HOLDING HOSTAGES IN BETHLEHEM CHURCH ICEJ NEWS - 04/08/2002The standoff at the landmark Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is in its seventh day, as Israeli forces are trying to wait out the some 200 armed Palestinian militiamen and PA police officers that are holding about 40 Christian clerics and laymen as hostages. Several Franciscan clergymen were released over the weekend and confirmed the gunmen busted their way into the church and have been holding those inside against their will. Israel’s deputy foreign minister, Rabbi Michael Melchior, insisted that the Palestinian gunmen had trampled on the time-honored...