A member of a radical Nigerian Islamist sect that attacked security forces in July, unleashing a bloodbath in which 700 people died, says he received bomb-making training in Afghanistan.
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Nigeria militant describes training in Afghanistan (AP via Yahoo! News)
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By HARLAN ULLMAN UPI Outside View Commentator WASHINGTON, Sept. 2 (UPI) — Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan, has just submitted his first assessment of what needs to be done to turn the tide in that battered and war-torn nation long known as the graveyard of empires dating back to Alexander. While classified, that assessment summarizes the situation as …
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Outside View: The NATO-Afghanistan dilemma (UPI)
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A suicide bomber killed at least 23 people in eastern Afghanistan, including the country’s powerful deputy head of intelligence, in an attack on Wednesday the Taliban claimed as a high-profile assassination.
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Afghanistan deputy spy chief among 23 dead in blast (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
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