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Israel completes pullout from Lebanon
Sep 30 2006 11:11PM (CT)
MOSHAV ZARIT, Israel (AP) - Israeli military officials said the army withdrew the last of its troops from Lebanon early Sunday, fulfilling a key condition of the cease-fire that ended a monthlong war with Hezbollah guerrillas.
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Baghdad shut down on suspicion of attack
Sep 30 2006 9:32PM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The U.S. military said a captured al-Qaida suspect and members of his cell were "in the final stages" of planning an attack on the Green Zone. An unprecedented curfew prompted by the arrest left millions of Baghdadis stranded at home on Saturday without supplies during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
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Palestinians: Israeli airstrike kills 2
Sep 30 2006 8:22PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - An Israeli airstrike in the southern Gaza Strip killed two Palestinian militants and wounded three people, medical officials said.
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Thousands in Gaza protest salary delays
Sep 30 2006 5:57PM (CT)
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Thousands of government employees and security officials burned tires, blocked roads and fired shots in the air on Gaza streets Saturday to protest delays in receiving long-awaited salaries.
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Jordan's king pardons 2 Islamist MPs
Sep 30 2006 4:20PM (CT)
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) - Jordan's King Abdullah II on Saturday pardoned two Islamist lawmakers who had been convicted of stirring sectarian strife for their praise of the slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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Kurdish guerrillas declare cease-fire
Sep 30 2006 12:56PM (CT)
QANDIL MOUNTAIN RANGE, Iraq (AP) - A Kurdish guerrilla group declared a unilateral cease-fire Saturday in its more than 20-year fight for autonomy in Turkey's southeast, but said it would not immediately give up its weapons.
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Al-Zawahri: Bush a liar in war on terror
Sep 30 2006 6:24AM (CT)
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Osama bin Laden's deputy described President Bush as a "deceitful liar" in a new video statement and called a U.N. resolution to send peacekeepers into Sudan's war-torn Darfur region a "Crusader plan," imploring the Muslims of Darfur to defend themselves.
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Detained guard suspected of Iraq attacks
Sep 30 2006 3:50AM (CT)
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The detained guard of a prominent Sunni politician is suspected of belonging to al-Qaida in Iraq and planning a major suicide car bomb attack inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, the U.S. military said Saturday.
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