The Palestinian mastermind of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre that killed 11 Israeli athletes, Mohammed Oudeh, dies.
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A man claiming to be an Iranian nuclear scientist kidnapped by the US says he has escaped from custody, in a video shown on Iranian TV.
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Airport police in Manama say capsules weighed one kg, had street value of quarter of million dollars -paper.
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A Saudi religious policeman who stopped a young woman for walking with a man in an amusement park in Saudi Arabia received a rude shock – the woman repeatedly hit him, a British daily reported.
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Pakistan’s ambassador to Iran is in hospital after being attacked by an Afghan man in the capital Tehran, officials say.
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UPDATE 2: Officers arrest man at Karachi airport after batteries and electrical circuit found in shoes.
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Here’s an odd story:
Algerian authorities have arrested an Israeli Mossad agent carrying a fake Spanish passport in the city of Hassi Messaoud near an Egyptian office providing service for oil companies, Algerian Ennahar El Djadid newspaper reported on Tuesday.
According to the Algerian sources, the Mossad agent entered Algeria under the fake identity of a 35-year old Spanish man named Alberto Vagilo, and spent over ten days in the country prior to his arrest.
The report came a week after an Israeli citizen who went missing for several days in Algeria, who was also carrying a Spanish passport, raised suspicions that he might have been kidnapped by al-Qaida.
The man notified the Foreign Ministry that he contacted his family and that he was safe.
The Algerian paper also reported that the Mossad man received entry visas through a European embassy before traveling to the country via Barcelona.
According to the Algerian sources, deputy director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), John Pistole visited Algeria last Thursday to negotiate on behalf of the Israeli citizen, as there are no diplomatic relations between Israel and Algeria.
Ennahar El Djadid went on to report that the man has a good command of Arabic, is well acquainted with the city, and even participated in the Muslim prayers in the Bilal Ibn Rabah mosque.
There are reports elsewhere that up to six Israelis have been arrested in Algeria, and that the affair is causing an inter-regime raucus. It’s all extremely strange — what would an Israeli operative be doing in Algeria, why would he be in oil-producing areas, what’s the role of the Egyptian firm involved, and how come this is all happening as Algeria’s state-owned oil company, Sonatrach, gets a new CEO after months of corruption investigations and apparent attempts at political destabilization? And how does it fit in the looming succession crisis over Bouteflika’s success, for now, in creating a relatively strong presidency? And what does it have to do with the War on Terror in the Sahel?
An Egyptian man in Lebanon, accused of murder, is beaten to death by an angry mob that overpower police.
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This is where Pat Lang sees the man … SST/ here
“… Israel is an interested party in this matter. Are we to take their word for it? What does US intelligence say of this? This Hiatt editorial quoted Jeffrey Feltman a lot. Feltman’s bias is clear. Why is he still at the State Department as Assistant Secretary for the Near East? Don’t we need a new ambassador in Iceland?”
A man who was suspected of arranging the kidnap in Pakistan of a British boy, has been killed in a botched rescue attempt enroute to court.
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