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Two Diplos Expelled from Afghanistan on USA's Orders

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The Telegraph - Dec 30, 2007
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/30/wafghan130.xml

Diplomats expelled 'at behest of the US'

By Eleanor Mayne

Two European diplomats accused of holding secret talks with the Taliban
in Afghanistan were thrown out of the country following a complaint by
the US, intelligence officials in Kabul have told The Sunday Telegraph.

Mervyn Patterson, who is British, and Irish-born Michael Semple were
flown out of Kabul on Thursday after the Afghan government accused them
of "threatening national security".

The pair had been working for the United Nations and the European Union
respectively.

But according to a senior Afghan intelligence source, American
officials had been unhappy about meetings between the men and
high-level Taliban commanders in the volatile Helmand province.

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Sara Jane Moore, 77, Released on Parole; Tried to Shoot Gerald Ford

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Bloomberg - Dec 31, 2007
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=afEPYE__FG9c&refer=us

Sara Jane Moore, Would-Be Ford Assassin, Is Freed, CNN Reports

By Nancy Moran

Dec. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Sara Jane Moore, one of two women who tried to
assassinate former President Gerald Ford in 1975, was released from a
federal prison in California today, CNN reported, citing the U.S.
Bureau of Prisons.

Moore, 77, was freed from a women's prison in Dublin, California, this
morning, CNN said.

She had been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to
attempted assassination, the cable-television channel reported. She
fired a .38-caliber revolver at Ford outside San Francisco's St.
Francis Hotel on Sept. 22, 1975, CNN said.

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USA's Cuban Adjustment Act costs lives

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Granma International - Dec 28, 2007 (posted Dec 31, 2007)
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2007/diciembre/vier28/ajuste-i.html

Cuban Adjustment Act costs lives

CUBA condemned Thursday the policies of the United States that incite
illegal emigration by residents of the island to that country, with
resulting human fatalities, as occurred this past December 22.

Cuban Adjustment Act costs livesAccording to a communication from the
Ministry of the Interior, read out yesterday on the Cuban Roundtable
TV program, two Cubans perished on Saturday, December 22 after the
speedboat in which they were attempting to leave the country capsized
one kilometer off the northern coast of Havana province.

Autopsies performed at the Legal Medicine Institute in the capital
determined that Yosvani Vera Alvarez, aged 29 and Zuleika Rodrguez
P(c)rez, 43, died from drowning.

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Cuban 5: Messages from Guerrero, Labanino

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Radio Havana Cuba
http://www.radiohc.cu/ingles/portada.htm

Year-End Messages Sent by Cuban Five

Message by Ramon Labaino

Dear brothers and sisters of the world:

As the Christmas and New Year 2008 celebrations approach, we want to
send you our congratulations together with all the appreciation and
affection, for supporting us in this cause that unites us: solidarity
with Cuba and freedom for the Five.

For these days one makes an assessment of what was accomplished and
what is to be done. This is why, in remembering all the actions that
were carried out in 2007 in order to gain more solidarity for our
cause, we are filled with strength and more optimism in our inevitable
victory.

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Israeli Soldiers Shoot a Woman to death; wound 7 others

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Prensa Latina, Havana
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Israeli Soldiers Shoot a Woman to death; wound 7 others

Gaza, Dec 31 (Prensa Latina) Israeli soldiers kill a woman and wounded
other seven Palestinians in Erez bordering passage, at the northern of
Gaza Strip, security sources reported on Monday.

Those persons were coming back from the pilgrimage to La Mecca, in
Saudi Arabia, by the frontier of Jordan and Israel and when some of
them got closer to the demarcation line the Israeli soldiers opened
fire, noted witnesses who went there to welcome their relatives.

At least 2200 Palestinian pilgrimages are detained at the Jordan port
of Aqaba from where they are not allow returning to Gaza and force to
pass through the Israeli control post of Karm Abu Salem, according to
the Palestinian deputy Khamis Najjar.

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Unprecedented Protests over Bhutto's assassination

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International Viewpoint #395 - Dec 29, 2007
http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article1396

Benazir assassination - Unprecedented mass reaction

by Farooq Tariq

Pakistan has never seen so many people protesting in the streets as
over the last two days. They were all united in condemnation of Benazir
Bhutto's brutal murder. The news was heard with a great shock;
immediate mass anger erupted. 28th December was the first day of
general strike called by many organizations, ranging from political
parties to various professional groups.

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On Anniversary of Saddam Lynching, Iraq "on Alert"

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AP via Yahoo - Dec 31, 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071231/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Iraq on alert for Saddam anniversary

By PATRICK QUINN
Associated Press Writer

Hundreds of people, including many children, chanted slogans praising
Saddam Hussein on Sunday as they tossed flowers onto his tomb one year
after he was executed.

The muted anniversary of Saddam's death saw little violence, a far cry
from the blood spilled on the day the former Iraqi leader was executed
and the horrific wave of killing that ensued until the surge of U.S.
troops six months later.

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US Says a Gitmo Culag Captive Dead of Cancer

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Reuters via Yahoo - Dec 31, 2007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071230/ts_nm/security_guantanamo_death_dc

Guantanamo prisoner dies of cancer: U.S.

An Afghan detainee has died from cancer at the prison camp at the U.S.
naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, authorities said on Sunday.

Abdul Razzak, 68, who was undergoing chemotherapy treatment for
colorectal cancer, was pronounced dead by a doctor at the base on
Sunday morning, the U.S. military said in a statement.

He was the fifth prisoner to die in captivity since the detention and
interrogation camp opened in 2002, Cmdr. Rick Haupt, a spokesman for
the military's Joint Task Force Guantanamo, told Reuters.

The other four deaths at Guantanamo, which currently holds about 290
prisoners, were the result of apparent suicides, according to the U.S.
military.

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Time for Change in El Salvador

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Granma Daily - Dec 28, 2007
http://www.granma.cubaweb.cu/english/news/art105.html

Time for Change in El Salvador

FMLN finding ways to prevent the reoccurrence of electoral fraud,
says parliament member Jorge Alberto Jimenez

By ARNALDO MUSA

The Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN) may be closer than
ever from taking over the leadership of El Salvador, seized by the
extreme rightwing. Recent polls give the candidates of the former
guerrilla movement an eight to ten point advantage over the National
Republican Alliance (ARENA), in power for the last 18 years and lead
for the last 3 by current President Elias Antonio Saca.

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Osama Dead? If So, He Makes Long Speech from Grave

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Informed Comment - Dec 30, 2007
http://www.juancole.com/2007/12/osc-bin-ladin-vows-jihad-for-liberation.html

OSC: Bin Ladin Vows Jihad for
'Liberation of Entire Palestine' After Iraq

The USG Open Source Center summarizes and partially translates the new
audio release by Usama Bin Laden. He urges a focus on Iraq and Israel,
and he praises the late Abu Musab al-Zarqawi for having attacked...