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Two Western Photojournalists Killed in Libya
By not in system - AOL NewsMISRATA, Libya -- Two Western photojournalists, including an Oscar-nominated film director, were killed Wednesday in the besieged city of Misrata while covering battles between rebels and Libyan government forces. Two others working alongside them were wounded. British-born Tim Hetherington, co-director of the documentary "Restrepo" about U.S. soldiers on an outpost in Afghanistan, was killed inside the only rebel-held city in western Libya, said his U.S.-based publicist, Johanna Ramos Boyer. The city has come under weeks of relentless shelling by government troops. Outpost Films / ...
NATO Strikes on Libya an Echo of Serbia Conflict
By not in system - AOL NewsBELGRADE, Serbia -- NATO war planes hit tanks with deadly precision, with the aim of degrading a despot's army and leveling the playing field for a ragtag rebel force. In many ways, the air strikes on Libya mirror the Western alliance's Serbia campaign 12 years ago. Both conflicts targeted easily identifiable villains - Moammar Gadhafi today, Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic back then. On both occasions, NATO scrambled its war planes after both leaders ignored international warnings to cease bloody crackdowns against opponents - Kosovo Albanians then, Libyan citizens now. The parallels ...
Germany: Islamic Extremism Behind Shooting of US Airmen
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsGerman prosecutors are confirming everyone's worst fears: The fatal shooting of two American airmen near Frankfurt was likely an act of Islamic terrorism. The two U.S. airmen were killed and another two were seriously wounded Wednesday when a gunman opened fire on a bus that was picking them up from the Frankfurt airport, en route to an American military base that's used as a hub for Iraq and Afghanistan operations. A 21-year-old Albanian from Kosovo was arrested and is expected to appear in court today. He's been identified as Arid Uka -- reported Wednesday as Arif -- a devout Muslim who ...
Suspect in Killing of US Airmen in Germany Says He Acted Alone
By not in system - AOL NewsFRANKFURT, Germany -- The suspect in the slaying of two U.S. airmen at the Frankfurt airport confessed to targeting members of the American military, a top security official said Thursday, in a case that German officials are treating as a possible act of Islamic terrorism. German federal prosecutors took over the investigation into Wednesday's shooting, which also injured two airmen, one of them critically. They are working together with U.S. authorities. Hesse state Interior Minister Boris Rhein told reporters in Wiesbaden that the suspect, identified as a 21-year-old ethnic Albanian from ...
Two US Airmen Killed in Frankfurt Airport Shooting
By not in system - AOL NewsFRANKFURT, Germany -- A man armed with a handgun attacked a bus carrying U.S. Air Force troops at Frankfurt airport Wednesday, killing two airmen and wounding two others before being taken into custody, authorities said. Boris Rhein, the top security official in the German state of Hesse where the shooting took place, identified the shooter as a 21-year-old from Kosovo. Family members in Kosovo described the suspect as a devout Muslim, who was born and raised in Germany and worked at the airport. In Washington, President Barack Obama promised to "spare no effort" in investigating the ...
Turkish Doctor Arrested in Organ Trafficking Ring
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsA surgeon dubbed "Dr. Frankenstein" by the Turkish media has been arrested on suspicion of heading a Kosovo-based organ-smuggling gang that illegally snatched kidneys and sold them to wealthy customers around the world. Police seized Yusuf Sonmez, 53, on Tuesday evening at his luxury villa in Istanbul, according to Agence France-Presse, on an Interpol arrest warrant filed by a European Union prosecutor in Kosovo. A court freed Sonmez today, pending a trial. He vehemently denies the charges. AFP / Getty Images Turkish police escort Yusuf Sonmez to a local court in Istanbul on ...
Band to Spend New Year's Rocking Troops in Germany, Kosovo
By David Moye - AOL NewsWhat are you doing New Year's Eve? Whatever it is, it probably isn't as exciting as what the up-and-coming modern rock band Acidic is doing. The band, whose members are between 18 and 21, is flying to Germany and Kosovo to entertain the troops who are stationed there as part of an Armed Forces Entertainment tour. The band will perform for troops in several undisclosed locations, sign autographs, pose for photos and extend its gratitude to America's troops. Acidic lead singer and guitarist Michael Gossard can't imagine a better way to spend his New Year's Eve. "We were so happy to get ...
Report: Kosovan Leader Involved in Organ, Drug Trafficking
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Dec. 15) -- Kosovo's Prime Minister Hashim Thaci has been named in a Council of Europe report as the former "boss" of a "mafia-like" criminal network that trafficked heroin, weapons and organs extracted from Serb captives. The document also says that the U.S. and other Western nations were aware of Thaci's alleged crimes but still backed his rise to power The report is the culmination of a two-year investigation by Swiss senator and former prosecutor Dick Marty, who interviewed numerous witnesses too terrified to publicly testify against political figures and former members of the Kosovo ...
World Leaders Mourn 'Bulldozer' Richard Holbrooke
By Lauren Frayer - AOL News(Dec. 14) -- World leaders are paying tribute today to the man they nicknamed the "Bulldozer" -- Richard Holbrooke, the longtime U.S. diplomat who served in Vietnam and wrote a chapter of the Pentagon Papers, negotiated an end to the Bosnian war and most recently served as White House envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan. He died Monday after surgery for a tear in his aorta. He was 69. Here's what leaders around the world are saying about Holbrooke: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai issued a statement today calling Holbrooke "a veteran and seasoned diplomat who had served greatly to the ...
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