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Gunmen assassinate Sunni Iraqi city leader
By wire services
Published February 8, 2006
BAGHDAD - Gunmen assassinated a Sunni community leader Tuesday in the former extremist stronghold of Fallujah - part of an insurgent campaign to prevent Sunni Arabs from joining the U.S.-backed political process.
Bombs and bullets killed at least 11 other people, including four Marines who died in a pair of bombings in Anbar province.
Sheik Kamal Nazal, a Sunni preacher and chairman of the Fallujah city council, was gunned down in a hail of bullets from two passing BMWs as he walked to work, police Chief Brig. Hudairi al-Janabi said.
Suicide bomber kills 13
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - A suicide bomber on a motorcycle plowed into a guard post Tuesday at a police headquarters in this former Taliban stronghold, killing 13 people and wounding 11 - most of them Afghan police.
The Taliban were behind the explosion, said Qari Mohammed Yousaf, a purported spokesman for the hard-line militants. His claim could not be independently verified.
Ten of the dead and five of the wounded were police guarding the headquarters, said Mamoon Khan, a doctor at Kandahar city's Mirwaise Hospital. The rest of the victims were civilians.
Canada unveils enormous Pacific nature preserve
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Canada unveiled a 16-million acre preserve Tuesday, including parkland covering an area twice the size of Yellowstone, teeming with grizzly bears, wolves and wild salmon in the ancestral home of many native tribes.
Closing another chapter of the wars between environmentalists and loggers, the Great Bear Rainforest is the result of an accord between governments, aboriginal First Nations, the logging industry and environmentalists.
It will stretch 250 miles along British Columbia's rugged Pacific coastline. The area also sustains a rare white bear.
Kuwaiti emir names his brother crown prince
KUWAIT CITY - Kuwait's new emir named a crown prince and prime minister Tuesday, closing out an unprecedented leadership crisis in the tiny oil-rich U.S. ally.
Emir Sheik Sabah Al Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah turned to his 68-year-old brother as the new crown prince and successor to the throne.
The brother, Sheik Nawwaf Al Ahmed Al Sabah, had been interior minister and deputy prime minister in the Cabinet that resigned Jan. 30, the day after the new emir ascended the throne.
Sheik Nasser Al Mohammed Al Sabah, 65, was appointed prime minister and directed to form a new government.
Sheik Nawwaf must be approved by Parliament. No date has been set for a vote.
Report: Most in Gitmo not accused of violence
WASHINGTON - More than half of the terror suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay have not been accused of committing hostile acts against the United States or its allies, two of the detainees' lawyers said in a report.
Compiled from declassified Defense Department evaluations of the more than 500 detainees at the facility in Cuba, the report released Tuesday says just 8 percent are listed as fighters for a terrorist group, while 30 percent are considered members of a terrorist group and the remaining 60 percent were just "associated with" terrorists.
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