Crisis Around The World Updates

U.S Chinook down by RPG

2011-08-06T10:21:00.000-07:00

Mystery of the fall of U.S. helicopters in Afghanistan, which killed 38 people in it, began to lift. Local government spokesman and commander of Afghan forces in the region mengeatakan helicopter crashed after being hit by a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) fired by Taliban insurgents.

"U.S. helicopter shot down last night because of the Taliban while on takeoff. Rocket fired by the rebels right on target and destroy at once the helicopter," said Shahid Shahidullah, government spokesman Wardak province, eastern Afghanistan, where the incident occurred on Friday (5 / 8 / 2011) night.
The death toll was composed of 31 U.S. soldiers and seven Afghan soldiers. Everything inside the Chinook helicopter that would take them home after an operation to complete. According to ABC News, as many as 25 U.S. soldiers who were killed were members of the elite Navy SEALs.
Based on the record of AFP and CNN, this is the largest number of victims killed in the coalition forces in one single incident that occurred since the US-led coalition forces attacked Afghanistan, 2001.
According to the Taliban before, they are running the operation raid a house where Taliban insurgents in the gathering of Zayd Abad district, Wardak, which is located in the southwest of Kabul. Both Shahid and the Taliban said eight Taliban insurgents were killed in the attack.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, President Barack Obama, and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen to say condolence to the families who are victims of coalition forces. "Their deaths remind us tremendous sacrifice our military personnel and their families, including all personnel who had served in Afghanistan," Obama said in a statement released by the White House on Saturday (08/06/2011).
Until now, the Pentagon and NATO has not confirmed the cause of the crash. However, if the Afghan official statement is true, this incident such as repeat incidents fall Chinook helicopter in June 2005 in Kunar Province, Afghanistan.
At that time, four members of Navy SEALs caught in unequal battle with hundreds of Taliban militias now running Operation Red Wing, a covert operation aimed at capturing one of the leaders of the Taliban.
When about to rescue the soldiers, Chinook helicopters which contains eight members of a special aviation regiment 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) and eight other members of the Navy SEALs, was shot down by Taliban militia with RPGs, killing everyone inside.

Israel Fighter Attack Gaza

2011-08-01T20:16:00.001-07:00

Israeli warplanes on Tuesday (2 / 8), attacked the Gaza Strip, witnesses said.

"Air strikes are directed to a tunnel dug under the border between southern Gaza and Egypt, near Rafah," Palestinian witnesses said.

There has been no reports of casualties in the attack.

Two blasts also rocked Gaza City. Source of the explosion is unknown.

A spokeswoman for Israel's questioning was not willing to confirm or deny the air strike.

"A woman suffered minor injuries when a rocket fired from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip fell in southern Israel, Monday night," said Israeli military spokeswoman.

Car Bombs Kill 12 Afghan Police

2011-07-31T20:20:00.001-07:00

Suicide car bomb attack killed 12 Afghan policemen and a child in the southern town of Lashkar Gah on Sunday (31 / 7).

The bombing occurred near the office of chief of police in the provincial capital, and seems aimed at a joint patrol of police and Afghan army.

The interior ministry condemned the attack in a statement and described it as anti-Islamic and inhuman.

The statement said 12 policemen and a child were killed.

"The bombing also wounded 12 people, consisting of nine policemen and three civilians," said Daoud Ahmadi, spokesman for the governor of Helmand Province.

The attack came after a series of assassinations of high officials in Afghanistan, including the brother of President Hamid Karzai.

It happened just days after a suicide attacker with a gun killing 19 people, mostly children.

Commander and Chief of the Turkish Army Resign

2011-07-30T15:31:00.001-07:00

Commander of Turkish Armed Forces to resign along with the Chief of Staff of the Army, Navy, and Air-reported number of Turkish media.

The reason of resignation Gen. Isik Kosaner and the third chief of staff was still unclear.

But the resignation took place just hours after the court indicted 22 suspects, including several military officers-because doing internet campaign to undermine the government.

Turkey's national television station, NTV, reported that the generals had been asked to retire soon after resigned.

While the news agency said General Kosanier Anatolita resigned because he felt it necessary.

Military Council, which decides the promotion of senior officers, the new plan will have a meeting next week.

In the past few years is often the case with the tension between the military-led government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

And General Kosaner reportedly met with Tayyip Erdogan in a few days later.

General Kosaner was appointed as the Commander of Turkish Armed Forces have not been up to a year.

The military at that time proposed as commander Gen. Hasan Igsiz but rejected by the government because his name was associated in a plot that want to overthrow the government in 2003.

The plot was touted raised at military headquarters in Istanbul and took place shortly after the AK Party leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan came to power.

They reportedly planned the bombing of mosques and provoke tensions with Greece in order to create political chaos so the military could take power.

A total of 17 generals and admirals have been arrested along with 200 other military officers on charges of trying to topple the government.

But the military insisted that it was more of a planning based on scenarios in the event of political unrest.

Demonstrators Back to Tahrir Square

2011-07-29T17:50:00.001-07:00

Thousands of Egyptian demonstrators crowded Tahrir Square in Cairo on Friday (29 / 7), to fill the coffers of Islamist figures.

This is the first time the leaders of Islamic movements, especially among activists of the Muslim Brotherhood, called for demonstrations across Egypt since Hosni Mubarak was ousted from the presidency in February.

Demonstrators called for the establishment of an Islamic state based.

The rally will probably be one of the largest public meetings in Egypt, because the Muslim Brotherhood remains a political movement that most neatly organized in there, although the Islamist group was not prominent in the popular revolt that toppled regime of Hosni Mubarak.

Many of them called for the implementation of sharia, or calling for the establishment of an Islamic state in Egypt.

Political events is a big event to show strength by the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamist groups more radical, Salafist.

In recent days the news spread that the agreement does not mention the content is reached between the Icelandic wing groups and the ruling military council in Egypt.

Regardless of the truth, the news will bring a strong message to the mass of secular demonstrators who until today still dominate the opposition.

NATO Troops in Kosovo Allowed to Return Fire

2011-07-28T22:00:00.000-07:00

NATO peacekeepers from the United States and France were allowed to open fire if attacked border posts in Kosovo with Serbia, a day after the border post was burned by the Serbs, armed with Molotov cocktails.

Over the last few tensions between ethnic Albanians and minority Serbs after Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci ordered a special police unit to take over border posts that had been controlled by ethnic Serbs from the police under the supervision of the European Union.

"We are now responsible for these locations," said NATO spokesman Hans Wichter. "If our safety is threatened, we have been allowed to use weapons."

On Thursday (28 / 7), NATO troops were attacked by groups who use machine guns and antitank missiles. However, the NATO commander in Kosovo Major General Ernhard Buehler said there were no casualties in the incident.

BBC Journalist Killed Afghanistan

2011-07-28T15:35:00.001-07:00

A BBC reporter was shot dead in an attack by the militants in Uruzgan province, in southern Afghanistan.

Ahmad Omid Khpolwak, 25 years, routinely sends reports to the BBC Pashto language last three years.

He also worked for the news agency Pajhwoke and became a presenter for one of the radios in Uruzgan.

Reports indicate he was working in the office of the local television and radio when the place was stormed by gunmen.

Director of BBC Global News Peter Horrocks said the BBC and all the world like to thank Ahmad Omid journalists who dare to take risks to report the news from dangerous places.

Al-Qaeda Leaders Praise Syria Protests

2011-07-28T08:14:00.001-07:00

The new al-Qaeda's leader Ayman al-Zawahri praised the demonstrations in Syria who tried to oust President Bashar Assad.

In the video that was launched in the pages of the extremists on Wednesday (27 / 7), Al-Zawahri also accused bragged that Washington would seek to replace Assad with a leader who will protect the interests of the United States (U.S.) and Israel.

Al-Zawahri was appointed as the leader of al-Qaeda after the U.S. special forces kill Osama bin Laden in a raid in Pakistan on May 2.

Al-Zawahri tried to describe the turmoil in Syria as the war between Islamic and Western countries and interests in the Middle East. However, Syrian activists call religion has nothing to do in the movement to topple Assad.

Al-Qaeda before trying to associate themselves with the movement that overthrew the government in Tunisia and Egypt.

UK Banish All Libyan Diplomat

2011-07-28T00:05:00.000-07:00

All Libyan diplomats had been ordered to leave Britain in an attempt to show Moamar Gaddafi regime that legitimacy as leader was over.

British Foreign Secretary William Hague said the embassy staff were expelled Gaddafi regime and representatives of the National Transitional Council was invited to replace them.

The move, said Hague, London is the official political statement.

Libya's ambassador to Britain Omar Jelban expelled last May.

It is estimated that there are still eight diplomats at the Libyan embassy in London.

He was asked to leave after the British embassy in the Libyan capital Tripoli was attacked.

Libyan and rebel forces pro-Gaddafi still engaged in combat, five months after the upheaval began on 42 years of rule Gaddafi.

This week the Hague implies that Gaddafi might not have to leave the country but to step down from power.

Hague also outlines the steps taken to disburse the assets to help the Libyans and the National Transitional Council of Britain will be treated as the sole holder of power in Libya.

Oslo tragedy offender under sentence of 30 years in prison

2011-07-28T00:01:00.001-07:00

OSLO. Norwegian police announced the four names of 76 victims killed in a murder committed by Anders Behring Breivik, Friday (12 / 7).
Police memampangkan fourth name in Norway Police Department's official website. In the announcement, three people were victims of a car bomb attack in action in Oslo and one person killed in a shooting on the island Utoeya.
The four names of victims that was announced yesterday by the police, respectively, Gunnar Linaker (23), Ashill Tove Knutsen (56), Hanna M Orvik Endresen (61) and Kai Hauge (32).
Roal Linaker, parents are one of the dead remember the last words of his son by phone when the shooting occurred.
"He said 'Father, father somebody doing the shooting,' and then he hung up," says Roal Linaker quoted by AP.
Announcement of names of victims was released amid criticism of the Norwegian Police work is judged slow in dealing with the bloody tragedy.
Lawyers Anders Breivik Behring, who confessed to mass murder in Norway on Friday, said his client might be crazy.
But he added that it is too early to say whether Breivik will claim asylum.
Police defend themselves
In the attack on the island Utoeya, security forces arrived about a half an hour after the shooting occurred.
"I think we can not be faster than that," said Police Chief of Staff Norwegian, Johan Frederiksen told a news conference at Oslo.
Police dismissed the critics who called police late arrival was not separated due to police helicopter pilot was on holiday when the attack occurred.
Frederiksen said the helicopters available are helicopter supervisor and had no effect in influencing the reaction of the police cope with the incident.
Criticism is inversely proportional to the opinion of the Minister of Justice of Norway, Knut Storberget.
Stoberget earlier praised the police work is judged doing fantastic work in response to horrific events. On Monday (25 / 7), shooting suspects, Breivik presented in court to hear the charges.
He was accused of destroying social order, including the government and raises people's fears. Breivik claimed responsibility for the actions he did, but he refused to terrorism charges. The public prosecutor says Breivik under sentence of 30 years in prison.

Attack on Pakistan Border

2011-07-27T21:11:00.000-07:00

More than 100,000 people have fled their homes in a district bordering Pakistan after the military launched an attack denganAfghanistan offensive against militants, officials said on Wednesday (27 / 7).

Thousands of displaced families from Kurram district after the operation began earlier this month in an area where Pakistan and the Taliban militants active in Afghanistan have bases and training camps.