Greek police seize terror group's weapons cache

ATHENS, Greece -- Greek police, assisted by American and British agents, raided an apartment Saturday and found dozens of antitank rockets they believe were stolen from the army in the late 1980s by the elusive November 17 terrorist group.

Police now believe they have seized most, if not all, of the terror group's known arsenal.

It was the second such police raid against the group since Wednesday, when weapons and documents were seized from what police said was the group's main hide-out in downtown Athens.

Police estimate the group has less than a few dozen members.

Suspected anarchist groups reacted to the raids with two firebomb attacks in Athens. One slightly damaged a building at a cemetery where Commonwealth soldiers who died during World War II are buried. The other slightly damaged an Athens bank. No injuries were reported from either attack.

Second gang rape suspect arrested

MULTAN, Pakistan -- A suspect in the gang rape of an 18-year-old girl as part of a tribal punishment was arrested Saturday after surrendering to a local newspaper, police said.

Faiz Bakhsh Mastoi was the second man arrested in connection with the June 22 rape in the past two days. Police are searching for two other suspects.

Bakhsh Mastoi went to the office of a local newspaper in Multan, a regional center in Punjab province, and identified himself as one of those wanted in the case.

"I'm surrendering at the newspaper office because I'm afraid that police may kill me in a fake encounter," Bakhsh Mastoi told reporters.

Police said the woman was raped by four men after a tribal council in Meerwala village ordered that her family be punished after her 11-year-old brother was seen walking unchaperoned with a girl from a different tribe.

Eight die, 26 injured in Kashmir

Five suspected Islamic rebels and three government soldiers were killed and 26 other people, mostly civilians, were wounded in violence in Kashmir, according to a news report Saturday.

Two soldiers and two suspected guerrillas were killed in an exchange of gunfire Saturday in the Sopshali-Kokernag area 45 miles south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu-Kashmir state, Press Trust of India news agency quoted a government spokesman as saying.

The fighting erupted as government soldiers raided a rebel hide-out, the spokesman said.

Elsewhere . . .

PAKISTAN: Pakistan's military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf decreed Saturday that any former prime minister who held the post for two terms was ineligible to hold it again.

The move appears aimed at shutting out two former prime ministers -- Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif -- from October elections aimed at returning Pakistan to democracy. Musharraf seized power three years ago, toppling Sharif in a bloodless coup.

KUWAIT: Within six weeks, Iraq will return Kuwait's national archives that were looted during the 1991 invasion, a U.N. envoy said Saturday.

The return of the archives is seen as the sole achievement of the two days of talks between U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri that ended Friday in Vienna.

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