An explosion has been heard near the Italian embassy in Yemen, according to witnesses.
A security official in the capital, Sanaa, said the blast had apparently been caused by a hand grenade or a bomb.
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“The Navy, and probably the Department of Defense, recognized the importance of the region to the south of the United States that includes the Caribbean and western side of the Atlantic and the eastern side of the Pacific and all our partners down there,” Navy Rear Adm. James W. Stevenson Jr., commander of U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command, said in a teleconference with online journalists and “bloggers.”
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead announced the 4th Fleet’s re-establishment April 24.
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During a visit to Mexico City, US defense secretary Robert Gates said April 29 that the arrival of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Gulf should be seen as a reminder of US military power in the region. He flatly denied the US was preparing the ground for military strikes against Iran.
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“The size of our naval presence in the Gulf rises and falls constantly,” he said. “This deployment has been planned for a long time. I don’t think we will have two carriers there for a protracted period of time. So I don’t see it as an escalation. I think it could be seen, though, as a reminder.”
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An Iraqi court on Tuesday began hearing the case against Tariq Aziz, one of Saddam Hussein’s best-known lieutenants, over charges of allegedly ordering the execution of dozens of merchants for profiteering.
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Several hundred U.S. Marines engaged in a dramatic firefight Tuesday with an army of rebels in a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan.
The battle against insurgents came during the first large-scale American operation in the area in years.
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Ten North Koreans may have been killed in an Israeli air strike on Syria in September, NHK-the Japanese Broadcasting Corp. reported on its Web site, citing unidentified South Korean intelligence officials.
Read more here:DEBKAfile
This would appear to confirm the conclusion of US and Israel that Syria was on the way to producing radioactive “dirty bombs” – not a nuclear bomb - at the facility which Israel destroyed last September. Its product, radiological dispersal devices (RDD) - which cause more disruption than destruction - would have been made available to terrorist groups for use against Israel, used by Syria itself or if Iran so decided, against American or other targets.
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Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division are working with Iraqi army troops to help create a Daughters of Iraq program to complement the work done by the Sons of Iraq.
The Iraqi women in the program would be able to search other females at security checkpoints, expanding the capabilities of the Sons of Iraq currently manning the checkpoints.
Read more here:dvidshub.net
Militants firing rockets and automatic rifles attacked the Afghan president at a ceremony in Kabul on Sunday, missing their target but killing three and wounding eight others.
Read more here:Fox News
Iran says a U.S. attack is unlikely since Washington has been overwhelmed by its problems Iraq and Afghanistan.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini says it is “unlikely” that U.S. forces embroiled in Iraq and Afghanistan would be able to invade a new country, adding it would have unpleasant consequences for the region and the world.
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