Tuesday, December 22, 2009

December 22nd Morning Readbook

Yemeni soldiers flashing the V for 'victory' sign. Two people were killed and 10 wounded in two explosions at the site of a suspected Al-Qaeda training camp in southern Yemen which was hit by an air strike last week that also killed 49 civilians. (AFP/File/Khaled Fazaa)


Swindler duped CIA over Al-Qaeda decoding scam: report
A con artist convinced the CIA and other US agencies in 2003 that he could decode secret messages sent by Al-Qaeda through Al-Jazeera broadcasts, Playboy magazine reported.


Al Qaeda in Yemen says it is fighting the US



N. Iraq Suicide Bombing Kills District Council Chief
Iraqi officials say suicide bombing in the north killed 2 people, including a district council chief.


Iraq to challenge Opec on 'fair share' of output
Iraq has set the stage for a fight with fellow Opec members about production levels, warning it has been "deprived of its fair share" of oil output for a long time.


Iran says Iraq border incident a "misunderstanding"
ran on Tuesday described a border incident with Iraq, which caused oil prices to rise late last week, as a "misunderstanding" and called for experts from both countries to look into border demarcation issues.


Police say suicide bomber kills 3 in NW Pakistan
A suicide bomber detonated his explosives outside a press club in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, leaving three people dead in the latest attack against the city of Peshawar since the military launched a major offensive near the Afghan border.


Troops, Taliban race to build up local governments
The governor of this remote district in southern Afghanistan has employees he can't afford to pay, a school he struggles to staff with teachers, a clinic where doctors are scarce and a police force of mostly illiterate farmers.


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