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Violence In Afghanistan

Vicky Hunter - Sep 29, 2005 / 8:20 am | Story: 12542

Increased violence in Afghanistan has created fears that Iraqi-style terror tactics are being imported. At least 10 people died Wednesday when a suicide bomber attacked a military centre in Kabul set up by United States forces to train a new national army. CBC News
A wind-whipped brush fire quickly tripled in size early Thursday to more than 7,000 acres, destroying at least one home and prompting evacuations as a ridge of flames was visible for miles. CNN News
A 56-year-old diver on Thursday became the second person in less than a week to lose his life in a crocodile attack in the far north of Australia. He was diving with a companion at Cape Don on the Cobourg Peninsula in the Northern Territory when he was taken by a crocodile. News24
Streams of cars filled with business owners started to make their way back into newly reopened sections of hurricane-ravaged New Orleans on Thursday, and they pledged to rebuild their city. CTV News
U.S. House majority leader Tom DeLay resigned on Wednesday after a Texas grand jury indicted him and two associates on charges of conspiracy in fundraising. A defiant DeLay insisted on his innocence and called the prosecutor a "partisan fanatic." CBC News
Gunmen killed at least nine people, including four police officers, and wounded 11 Thursday in attacks around Iraq, police said. Attackers opened fire on a carload of teachers near Baquba, killing one of them. The three other teachers in the car survived the attack. CNN News
John A. "Junior" Gotti, 41, was released from a federal lockup in Manhattan after spending the last six years behind bars. After posting a $7 million US bond, he went home to his Long Island Gold Coast mansion, where he will remain under house arrest. CBC News
Al Qaeda is the main enemy to peace and stability in the Middle East and the terrorist group is seeking to acquire -- and use -- weapons of mass destruction there, a top U.S. commander in Iraq told Congress. CNN News
German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder plans to resign on Monday to clear the way for a grand coalition government led by Angela Merkel who came in first in Germany's inconclusive national elections, a media report said. News24
Five sub-Saharan Africans have been killed and 50 others wounded as they and hundreds of others scaled tall fences in a bid to enter a Spanish enclave on Morocco's northern coast, officials said. CNN News