Gunman kills the troops of the NATO to Kabul airport

Kabul--NATO members eight service and a contractor were shot and killed by an army officer Afghan, on Wednesday, while participating in a meeting of foreign and Afghan officers on the military side of Kabul International AirportAccording to statements by Afghan and NATO spokesman.

The filming took place at a meeting between American and Afghan officials, said colonel Bahader, a spokesman for the Afghan Army Air Corps. NATO did not confirm the nationality of the soldiers. None of the dead were Afghan troops, said General Mohammed Zahir Azimi, a spokesman for the Afghan Defence Ministry.

The gunman, according to senior aid to the Afghan army, was an old officer named Hamid Gul, who had been trained in 30 years when the Soviet Union occupied the country. The Afghan army refused to speculate on his motives. "You can read the mind of a person,", said Colonel Bahader, who like many Afghans, uses only one name. He described a chaotic scene in which some soldiers and officers flee dam bullets, jumping from second and third floor windows.

"They had suffered minor injuries, and some were injured with broken glass," said.

The Taliban claim responsibility for the attack, but identified the assailant as a Taliban militant of a district of Kabul Province named Azizullah. A spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said in a telephone interview that the aggressor "" lived in Kabul and he is wearing an Afghan military uniform, and when it short of ammunition, he was killed by foreign and Afghan soldiers. ""

In April, five Americans were killed when a suicide bomber detonated his charge at a joint meeting of Afghan-NATO to an Afghan army base in the Province of Laghman. Last November, six border police officers were killed by an officer of the ROE Afghan army. It was the fourth incident in the past two weeks, in which a person wearing a uniform of the Afghan security force attacked with in a Government compound.

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Thai, Cambodian troops clash again on the border is in dispute - Reuters India

Thai soldiers to carry their comrade injured near the border in the province of Surin, April 22, 2011.

Credit: Reuters/Daily News newspaperBy Prak Chan Toul

PHNOM PENH. Saturday, April 23, 2011 10 pm IST

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Thai and Cambodian troops delivered again Saturday on their disputed border, a day after four Thai and three Cambodian soldiers were killed in the worst bloodshed since the Organization of the Nations United called a cease-fire in February.

Thousands of villagers were evacuated the thick jungle on the Ta Moan and Ta Krabei temples, approximately 150 km (93 miles) West of the temple of Preah Vihear 900 years, which saw a deadly stalemate in February.

Two Cambodian journalists to Banteay Ampil, a town about 15 km (nine miles) by fighting, said Reuters, another Cambodian soldier was killed and two injured Saturday according to army radio.

The latest confrontation began before dawn and lasted several hours. Witnesses said heavy shelling had stopped but of small arms fire could still heard.

Chhum Sucheat Cambodian Defence Ministry spokesman described the clashes as more intense than the fighting Friday and charged with operating Thailand "spy planes" in the region.

Both sides blame the other for starting the fighting, the most serious since three Thai and eight Cambodians were killed and dozens of people injured in the course of 4-7 February during the bloody border clashes in nearly two decades.

Under a ceasefire agreement, the Thailand and Cambodia agreed on 22 February, to allow military observers non-armed with the Indonesia to be placed along their border.

But this arrangement - negotiated at a meeting of the Association for South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Jakarta at the urgent request of the Organization of the Nations United - not yet implemented. International observers said Thailand are not required, insisting that the two countries should resolve the issue bilaterally.

"There is a mechanism in place, so there is no need to cry for ASEAN and the international community," Foreign Minister Kasit Piromya Thais told journalists later Friday in Bangkok.

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The Thailand and Cambodia were locked in a stalemate since July 2008, where Preah Vihear has obtained the status of world heritage of UNESCO, which has opposed on the grounds that the lands around the temple had never been demarcated in the Thailand.

An International Prize Court temple in Cambodia 49 years ago, but both countries claim a patch of 4.6 square miles (1.8 square miles) of land around it.

The temple of Preah Vihear, Cambodia, and Khao Phra Viharn in Thailand, sits on land that forms a natural border and has been a source of tension for future generations.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Singapore said that he is "deeply concerned" and called for restraint and dialogue. The Indonesia, the current Chairman of ASEAN, has urged both parties to stop fighting.

Indonesia "strongly calls for the immediate cessation of hostilities between Cambodia and the Thailand." "for the two parties to continue to settle their disputes by peaceful means", he said in a statement.

The reasons behind the deadly skirmishes of this year are obscure and both sides typically blame the other, but the border dispute has become a bone of contention in tense domestic policy of the Thailand.

Some analysts say some hawkish Thai generals and ultra-nationalist allies, with the Thai King of yellow color, events may be trying to create a pretext for a coup and cancel the elections expected in June or July.

Others say that it is perhaps a breakdown in communication at a time of tense relations between the neighbours and unease after a coup rumor of military State imminent swirled in the day to the next Thailand. The army dismissed the rumors as baseless.

The Thailand and Cambodia are both members of the regional grouping of ASEAN, which plans to form a single market for European style by 2015.

(Written by Jason Szep;) (Editing by Robert Birsel)

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Clashes between Cambodian, Thai troops end: Cambodian military - Xinhua

(PHNOM PENH, April 22 Xinhua) - armed clashes between Cambodian and Thai troops is completed in the border area disputed Ta my Thom temple and temple of Ta Krabek in Oddar Meanchey province, said a commander military Cambodia Friday.

Clashes begins at 6: 00 Friday and ends to 10: 30 a. m., said Deputy brigade commander 42 Neak Vong, Ta my Thom Temple.

"The victims in the fighting have not been accounted yet," he told Xinhua by telephone.

On the Cambodian side accused Thai troops to open fire. "Cambodian troops just exercising legitimate rights and to protect our territory," said PICH Sokhin, Governor of the province of Oddar Meanchey of Cambodia.

The military confrontation reappeared just more than two months after the clash murderer from 4 to 7 February at the disputed side area of the temple of Preah Vihear, World Heritage Site.

The Indonesia, the current ASEAN Chair, has proposed to send observers to the area near the temple of Preah Vihear in dispute, and the United Nations and ASEAN have called on both sides to resolve the conflict through peaceful way.

Cambodia expressed its home. But the meetings held earlier this month Indonesia failed to resolve the situation

The border between Cambodia and the Thailand was never completely enclosed and the issue of the temple of Preah Vihear was a centuries-old conflict.

Temple of Preah Vihear of Cambodia was enlisted as a World Heritage Site, July 7, 2008. A week after enrolment, in Cambodia and the Thailand were border conflict by Thai claim of ownership of 4.6 square kilometres of Bush next to the temple, triggering an escalation military along the border, and periodic clashes between Thai and Cambodian soldiers resulted in the death of troops from both sides.

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France sends troops to advise the Libyan rebels - CNN International

Will there be a Libya military intervention for humanitarian reasons?New: France sends troops to the rebels, UNICEF says 20 children were killed and many more wounded in MisrataOpposition spokesman: at least 27 people were killed in Misrata this weekA rebel spokesman said he did not want international veterans join military officers rebelsBritish will work with the Libyan opposition

Tripoli, Libya (CNN) - France will send a group of officers to the Libya to advise the rebels, the French Government said Wednesday, a day after Britain made a similar announcement.

Efforts to strengthen the rebellion come as main opposition organization the Libya pleaded for international military intervention.

Libyans are "being slaughtered every day" by the forces of leader Libyan Muammar al-Gaddafi, rebels Shamsiddin Abdulmolah Tuesday said CNN spokesman.

The High Commissioner of the United Nations in the human rights said Wednesday that some of the attacks of the Libyan Government on the siege of Misrata city may constitute international crimes.

Government spokesman French Fran?ois Baroin said the French troops being sent to the Libya will notify the National Council of transition from the rebels.

G?rard Longuet French Defence Minister exclude still send ground troops to fight alongside the rebels. "It's a real question that deserves an international debate", he said, adding, "We are working for the resolution of 1973," a reference to the United Nations resolution authorizing the action in Libya. "You cannot please everyone all the time," he said.

Britain said Tuesday that he sent a contingent of officers experienced in an advisory role to the stronghold of rebels in Benghazi. The team will work with the National Council of transition on how the opposition can improve military organisational structures, communications and logistics, said the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It will also help the delivery of critical assistance.

"This deployment is fully under resolution 1973 both preparedness and its provision expressly excluding a force of foreign occupation on Libyan soil," said Foreign Secretary William Hague.

In Libya, increase aid appeals.

Aid agencies are afraid to go to such areas as Misrata, that is targeted by Gaddafi troops daily, militant opposition that Mohamed Ibrahim said. "Some of them, they come." But most of them, they come close... they hear the bombing and everything, and they go back, "he says.

At least 27 people were killed and 142 were injured this week, according to a spokesman of the opposition who wanted to be identified only as "Mohammed" for security reasons.

On Wednesday, the UNICEF - Agency for children of the Organization of the United - Nations said 20 children have been killed and "countless others wounded" in single Misrata.

Aid groups were trying to pull the desperate people of Misrata, which is hampered by the forces of Gaddafi on three sides.

The only way to escape is by port of the city - a witnesses in the region, said also was bombed by the forces of Gaddafi.

For those who have left behind, witnesses said, the disastrous situation continues to deteriorate. The city is still without water, electricity and telecommunications, Mohammed said Tuesday. "Bombing has moved out of the industrial areas to residential areas, and it is still in progress."

Rebel spokesman Abdulmolah said that the National Council of transition the opposition does not oppose a humanitarian mission on the ground.

"Something must be done so that we can stop the bloodshed of our people," he said.

But "we don't want any military presence foreign or any veterans international with our rebels," he added.

NATO is leading an international military operation which includes targeting military resources of Gaddafi with airstrikes.

NATO said that the operation has destroyed seven bunkers of munitions in the area of Tripoli and equipment in other parts of the country this week.

NATO attacked three regime battle tanks and an artillery piece mounted on vehicle in and around Misrata Tuesday, spokesman for the British Army major-General John Lorimer said Wednesday.

Abdulmolah said the NATO strikes may also prevent more destruction in eastern Libya, particularly near Benghazi.

"We have received reports that Gaddafi forces were mobilizing their troops and their systems of missile mobile/rockets of Brega to Ajdabiya bomb Benghazi." They were the strikes of NATO stopped by (Tuesday), "he says.

But he said that the opposition wants weapons and "technical assistance", "because we are faced with a ruthless tyrant who wants to kill his own people, simply because they asked for freedom and liberty." CNN Saad Abedine, Andreena Narayan, Reza Sayah, Yousuf Basil and Ben Wedeman contributed to this report.

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Iraqis protest against the presence of U.S. troops

Radical imam Moqtada al-Sadr supporters demonstrate troops Saturday in Baghdad against the US presence in Iraq.Protesters want us troops outGates raises the prospect of some remainingThere soldiers were demonstrations throughout the Friday Iraq

Baghdad (CNN) , tens of thousands of demonstrators in Baghdad marked the eighth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime with a protest Saturday against the presence of American troops.

The demonstrators, followers of anti-American Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, rally around Mustansriya Square, where they called us all the troops of is to withdraw from Iraq at the end of the year.

The demonstrators carried the Iraqi flag and banners, with some chanting "Baghdad is a free country, America get out!" and "not for" Occupation, not for America.

One banner read "no, not America," while another said: "Yes, Yes for Koran."

US troops are scheduled to depart from the Iraq end of the year under a bilateral agreement between the Iraqi Government and the United States.

But if increases in violence and instability persists in Iraq, it is possible that the two countries could agree to maintain US troops in Iraq, which has now approximately 47,000 US soldiers. The figure is down from a peak of 171 000 in 2003.

This prospect of US troops in Iraq disrupts many citizens, including thousands who support al-Sadr, a religious appeal of base in the cities and neighbourhoods in Iraq.

Sheikh Salah al-Obaidi, a cleric who has read a statement by demonstrators on behalf of al-Sadr, raised the possibility of US troops remain in Iraq, in the next year and beyond.

"If the invasion forces decide not to leave our country." What happens if they decide to stay? What happens if the US and other troops decide to remain in our land? .... You keep silent? "Al-Obaidi said, Declaration of reading al-Sadr singing of"God is great.""

"If they decide to stay in our country, while we have to do two things: first is to climb the armed resistance and lift the freeze on the Mehdi Army," al-Obaidi said. "".

He was referring to the suspension of August 2007 of the activities of the army of Mehdi, al-Sadr militia.

US military commanders have cited this move as of the main reasons for a decline in violence throughout the Iraq, where the forces of Al-Sadr fought US troops at the height of the war.

Emotions in the street was fuelled by the remarks of U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who made an unannounced visit this week to the Iraq and the presence of US troops discussed with senior officials, including Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

"My message to them was if there must be a presence or they still need help, we are open to that possibility." But it will have to ask, and the clock is ticking in Washington because we have many ongoing around the world and we offer you to make decisions, "Gates said.

"It would obviously be a presence that is a fraction of the size of that which we have here now, but it's really up to the Iraqis at this time."

Friday, the demonstrators in Baghdad and other provinces also focused on the fall of the regime Hussein and grievances arising from the war, including opposition to the US troops presence.

It is a change of theme in recent weeks, when Iraq demonstrators rallied on the same issues are considering that sparked demonstrations across the Arab world.

People were upset about corruption, unemployment, lack of basic services and restrictions on freedom of expression.

Demonstrators in the Sunni district of Adhamiya called for the release of the detainees and compensation for the "victims of the occupation."

"Some of the shouting demonstrators, no to occupation, step of foreign troops," witnesses said.

To place Baghdad Tahrir, about 300 demonstrators carrying banners and Iraqi flags, shouted, "we do not accept life in an occupied country anymore.".

One of the banners read, "Non-American and Iranian occupation." This includes a reference to the Shiite influence of the Iran with the masses and the Government of Iraq.

Women in pictures of their sons and husbands, who have disappeared or were killed during the war.

"In this war, so many women lost son and many others have become widows, only Iraqi step but also American women." "We are those who have paid the price of this war," said Shima Kareem, who was among the demonstrators.

Also proven hundreds in Fallujah, in the largely Sunni province of Anbar in the West and Samarra, in the province of Salahuddin in the North to demand the release of the detainees, compensation for the families of the victims and the departure of US troops.

Since 2003, 4,421 US troops have died in Iraq, according to military figures counted by CNN.

An invasion of the Iraq by the United States in March 2003 has led to the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime on April 9. The iconic reversal of the statue of the former leader Firdous in Baghdad place symbolizes the fall of the regime.

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