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Eta blamed for Spain bomb death
* THE PHOTO [© BBC]: Policeman Pinuel-Villalon was trapped under the rubble.
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Thursday, 15 May 2008
A policeman was killed and four people injured when a car bomb exploded in Spain's northern Basque region.
No group has said it carried out the attack, but the region's governor blamed the Basque separatist group Eta.
Juan Jose Ibarretxe said the group was ruining the name of the Basque people with its campaign of violence.
The bomb exploded outside a police barracks in the small town of Legutiano, near
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Why has the US dropped 9/11 charges?
* THE PHOTO [© AFP]: Mohammad al-Qahtani was a suspect in the first capital case at Guantanamo.
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Wednesday, 14 May 2008
By Adam Brookes
BBC News, Washington
The American government has given no reason why charges against the man it has alleged was the "20th hijacker" in the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US have been dropped.
Mohammad al-Qahtani has been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002, following his detention in Afghanistan.
In February, he was charged with conspiracy, terrorism, and murder in v
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Bush offers help for Lebanon army
* THE PHOTO [© AFP]: The Lebanese army command has warned its unity is at risk if the crisis in the capital drags on.
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Tuesday, 13 May 2008
President Bush on his Middle East solution
The US is prepared to help strengthen Lebanon's army so it can disarm Hezbollah, US President George W Bush said in an interview with the BBC.
He said the Shia Muslim Hezbollah movement had acted against its own people and was destabilising Lebanon.
He made the remarks ahead of a trip to the Middle East later this week.
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Iraq al-Qaeda chief not captured
* THE PHOTO [© AFP]: Masri is believed to have formed al-Qaeda's first cell in Baghdad.
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Monday, 12 May 2008
The United States military in Iraq says a man detained in the northern city of Mosul is not in fact the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
An earlier statement from the Iraqi defence ministry said that al-Masri had been captured.
But an American military spokeswoman, Peggy Kageleiry, said Abu Ayyub al-Masri had not been arrested.
She said confusion had arisen because a man with a similar name to the al-
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