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ISTANBUL, Turkey - In a small Turkish town, just two miles from the border with Syria, CBS News met a man who said he fought with ISIS.He was too frightened to show his face on ca adidas originals donna mera or give his name. He s a father of two children, and he used to be a hairdresser.But when the Syrian civil war began three years ago, like many others he took up arms against the country s brutal dictatorship. Before fighting for ISIS, the man was a hairdresser. At first he joined the so-called moderate rebels, a rag tag group, who are backed by the U.S. But he found them disorganized and corrupt.In frustration, late last year he joined ISIS, because he said they re courageous on the battlefield and honest. When I joined ISIS, I gradually started to see the righteous path, he said. They re fighting for the Sunni Muslims, and for Islam. ISIS has a brutal approach to those who aren t Sunni Muslims. The group has massacred and crucified those who don t fit its narrow vision of Islam. Those found guilty get what they deserve, he told CBS News when asked about the group s brutality. Massacres committed by the Syrian regime are ignored, but when ISIS mass yeezy acres the infidels, everybody talks about it. He doesn t behave like an Islamic extremist -- unlike most conservative Muslims he smokes -- but Syria s blood dunk pand y civil war has radicalized him. CBS News asked him about the murders of U.S. journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff. No one gets ki Qvgh ISIS decides fate of 300 abducted workers after questioning their religion
A car bomb attack killed one of Lebanon s stanley quencher top military generals and at least two others Wednesday, the military and state media said, putting even more pressure on the country s delicate political situation.The target of the attack, Brig. Gen. Francois Hajj, a top Maronite Catholic in the command, was considered a leading candidate to succeed the head of the military, Gen. Michel Suleiman, if Suleiman is elected president.Hajj, 55, also led a major military campaign against Islamic militants over the summer.The blast is the first such attack against the Lebanese army, which has remained neutral in Lebanon s yearlong political crisis and is widely seen as the only force that can hold the country together amid the bitter infighting between parliament s rival factions.The political division stanley termosy s have paralyzed the government and prevented the election of a president, leaving the post empty since Nov. 23 in a dangerous power vacuum. Under Lebanon s sectarian division of political posts, the president must be a Maronite, like the army commander. The slaying of Hajj and its timing amid the deadlock over the presidency raised immediate speculation over who was behind the bombing, which blasted Hajj s SUV as he drove through a busy street of Baabda district.Anti-Syrian politicians blamed Dama stanley cup scus, as they have for a string of bombings over the past two years that killed eight prominent opponents of Syria. Damascus has denied any role in those killings.Telecommunications Minister M

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SANAA, Yemen Sitting by her sonrsquo hospital bed, Houdaid Masbah looks at her 5-year-old boyrsquo skeletal body and sunken cheeks, helplessness engulfing her like a thick cloud - a desperation she shares with many other mothers in Hodeidah.Even before the war, Hodeidah was one of the poorest cities in Yemen, the Arab worldrsquo most impoverished nation. Now, the destruction of the port cityrsquo fishing boats and infrastructure by the Saudi-led coalitionrsquo airstrikes over the past 18 months of war has deprived the townspeople of their prime livelihood. adidas originals uomo adidas original campus CIA insider: Yemeni rebel struggle could strengthen al Qaeda 03:33 adidas sambarose The U.N. estimates that about 100,000 children under the age of five in the city and the surrounding province, also called Hodeidah, are at risk of severe malnutrition.Life became harder for the people in this Red Sea city after March 2015, when the coalition of nine Arab Sunni countries began bombing Yemenrsquo Shiite Houthi rebels to help the internationally recognized government of President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi return to power. The Houthis had pushed Hadi into self-imposed exile in Saudi Arabia and captured large chunks of the country, including the capital, Sanaa.The coalition suspected the Houthis were using Hodeidah fishermen to smuggle weapons across t Jalw U.S. airstrikes kill 40 militants in Somalia
The Conservative Party faithful hope their new leader, David Cameron, can live up to the hype that casts him as the Tories answer to Tony Blair.Cameron, 39, won his post Tuesday on a wave of excitement and high expectations within the party, which is now on its fifth leader since Blair swept into power cups stanley in 1997.The Conservatives long-demoralized supporters believe this time is different.They re desperate to see Cameron take advantage of Blair s saggi stanley cup ng popularity and lead them to back to power after three straight election defeats. And they believe he has the same traits: youth, vigor and political savvy that helped the prime minister lead the Labour Party to office.Cameron says the Conservative stanley deutschland s, widely seen as stodgy and traditionalist, must remake themselves if they want to connect with voters. No more grumbling about modern Britain, he said after his lopsided victory over leadership opponent David Davis. I love this country as it is, not as it was, and I believe our best days lie ahead. ... I want us to give this country a modern compassionate Conservatism that is right for our times and right for our country. He acknowledged that the Tories have a tough job ahead, but said they could win the election expected in 2009 if they unite and move to the center.The party, led by political giants such as Winston Churchill and Margaret Thatcher, dominated the 20th century but is now viewed by many voters as out of touch with modern, multicultural Britain.The boyish-look

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Syria, a country on the U.S. list of nations sponsoring terrorism, won a seat Monday on the prestigious 15-nation U.N. Security Council.The vote for Syria was 160 votes among 178 members present in the U.N. General Assembly. The vote was by secret ballot.Guinea and Cameroon, also running unopposed, received 173 and 172 votes respectively, for seats reserved for Africa. Bulgaria won 120 votes against 53 for Belarus for the Eastern European seat.Mexico, in a run-off vote for the Latin American and Caribbean seat, beat the Dominican Republic by 138 to 40, thereby ac stanley termohrnek hieving the necessary two-thirds vote required.Syria s candidacy stanley thermosflasche h stanley cup price as been assured since March when it ran unopposed as a member of the 50-nation Asia regional grouping. In the absence of a rival candidate from an Arab nation, there was little Washington could do to stop the election of Syria, which last served on the council in 1970-71. Under U.N. practice an Arab nation gets a council seat each year, alternating between the African and the Asian group. No Middle East nation opposed Syria, which will replace Tunisia on the 15-member council in January.Even before the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and the Pentagon, diplomats said there was no action by the United States to find a challenger from another Arab nation, a near impossibility.Since the attacks, Washington has bid for Syria s cooperation in its global campaign to fight terrorism, despite opposition from Israel and an appeal to President Bush from 38

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Russi adidas samba adidas a s main domestic security agency said eight people were arrested over an explosion on a bridge that links Russia to the Crimean Peninsula.Russia s Federal Security Service, known by the Russian acronym FSB, said it arrested five Russians and three citizens of Ukraine and Armenia in the attack on the Kerch Bridge. A truck loaded with explosives blew up while driving across the bridge Saturday, killing four people and causing sections of road to collapse.The span opened four years after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, serving as a symbol of Moscow s regional dominance as well as a crucial route for gettin adidas samba herren g military supplies to Ukraine and Russian travelers to a popular vacation destination.The FSB alleged the detained suspects acted on orders of Ukraine s military intelligence to secretly move the explosives by a convoluted route into Russia and forge accompanying documents.The Russian security services have pointed the finger at Ukraine s intelligence directorate and its head, Kyrylo Budanov. Ukraine s Defense Ministry on Wednesday dismissed accusations of Ukrainian involvement. Biden says Putin cannot threaten use of tactical nuclear weapons with impunity 05:01 dunk pand The entire activity of the FSB and the Investigative Committee is nonsense, Defense Ministry spokesman Andriy Yusov tol Dhpw Pakistan Troops Surrender To Militants
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SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea said Wednesday that an American woman who frequently visited the North over nearly 20 years had been deported for plot-breeding and propaganda. The short announcement by the North s state media contained few details and it wasn t clear if the woman had been detained in the North crocs schuhe and if her deportation had taken place adidas campus 00s or would soon.The American was identified as Suh Sandra, likely following Korean style of using the surname first. It did not give her hometown.The statement alleged that the woman traveled to North Korea several times under the pretense of humanitarianism, but she had secretly produced and directed anti-North Korean videos and photos because of her inveterate repugnancy toward Pyongyang.A U.S. Embassy official in Seoul didn t immediately have details about the report. North Korea has occasionally detained Americans and other foreigners for what the cloistered country considered missionary work or anti-state activities that it sees as attempts to bring down its authoritarian government.Analysts say past detentions have been attempts to wrest outside concessions out of Washington. Authoritie yeezy slide s in Pyongyang have also in the past staged news conferences, during which foreign detainees appeared before the media and made statements that they then recanted after their releases.However, Wednesday s report appeared to be the first word about Suh Sandra.Pyongyang said it decided to deport the American because of her old age Ctrk U.S. Solider Among 30+ Deaths In Iraq
Three nearly simultaneous explosions rocked the Egyptian resort city of Dahab on Monday, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 150 in a terror attack at the height of the tourist season.Police said t stanley cup he explosions hit the central part of the city where there are many shops, restaurants, bars and guesthouses. The blasts ripped through the town at 7:15 p.m., shortly after nightfall, when the streets would stanley canada have been jammed with tourists mdash; mainly Egyptians, Europeans, Israelis and expatriates living in Egypt.Egyptian authorities say the attacks were not the work of suicide bombers and that instead terrorists used timers to detonate the bombs, reports CBS News correspondent David Hawkins. A witness told CBS News that the explosions were relatively small and didn t even rattle nearby hotels.CBS News State Department reporter Charles Wolfson reports the U.S. embassy in Cairo has no word yet about possible American casualties. There are reports of several Americans injured, but the reports have not yet been confirmed by State Department officials.The attackers struck a day after al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden issued a taped warning that ordinary Western citizens had be stanley trinkflaschen come legitimate targets of his terrorist organization because of their support of governments that he said were conducting a crusader war against Islam. Michael Scheuer, an expert on Middle East terrorism, told CBS Evening News anchor Bob Schieffer that the attack was similar to other al Qa

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A prosecutor in Bolivia launched an investigation Monday into the mysterious death of the trustee of a bankrupt bank who fell from the 15th floor of a building and his family disputed claims he took his own life.Several of Bolivia s top leaders have demanded an impartial investigation into the death yeezy slide of Carlos Alberto Colodro, 63, who was appointed as trustee of Fassil Bank last month after the government took control of it amid its insolvency and a run on deposits.Colodro, who was tasked with liquidating the bank, was found dead on Saturday, apparently from a fall from a building in the eastern city of Santa Cruz. 27 May 2023, Bolivia, Santa Cruz: A special unit removes the body of Carlos Alberto Colodro after he fell from a high floor of the building, according to an official statement. The circumstances of the death are still unclear. Diego Tejerina/picture alliance via Getty Images af1 Although officials said the death initially looked like a suicide, many immediately raised questions because Colodro s job as the liquidator of the bank had apparently touched powerful interests. airmax plus Fassil was the country s fourth largest in terms of deposits. There are mentions of a fall and various injuries that could have led to the person s fall, Roger Mariaca, a prosecutor in Santa Cruz, said Monday as he announced that the fall was initially being investigated as homicide-suicide. The Ghnt Obama family moves from Bali to Java on Indonesia vacation
U.S. troops have gone on a series of offensives dubbed Operation Iron Hammer in the Baghdad to quell guerilla attacks that have killed nearly five do stanley tumbler zen coalition members this month.Meanwhile, under the pressure of increasing casualties, President Bush is moving to speed up establishment of an Iraqi government to take charge in Baghdad.The death toll from Wednesday s suicide bombing at an Italian paramilitary base rose to 31. It was the deadliest attack against a U.S. ally since the occupati stanley cup website on began. Eighteen of the dead were Italians. Roughly 40 U.S. soldiers have been killed this month.Hours after the bombing, U.S. forces destroyed a dye factory in southern Baghdad, setting off explosions that reverberated through the capital after nightfall Wednesday.A Pentagon spokesman said the facility was a known meeting, planning, storage and rendezvous point for belligerent elements attacking coalition forces. Apache helicopters also chased a group of men who were seen firing mortars in the northern Baghdad area. The group fled in a van, but the helicopter fired on it, killing two occupants. Troops captured several others.The U.S. military also says several insurgents were killed when stanley cups U.S. armored vehicles and paratroopers attacked a mortar crew.In other developments:The forces opposing the U.S.-led military coalition in Iraq total no more than 5,000 insurgent fighters, the top American general in the region said Thursday. Gen. John Abizaid said that despite the relatively

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Updated 12:46 p.m.LAC-MEGANTIC, Quebec Investigators looking for the cause of a fiery oil train derailment are zeroing in on whether an earlier blaze on the same train may have set off a chain of events that led to the explosions that killed at least 13 people. Searchers, after days of delay, were examining the charred epicenter looking for what could be dozens of additional victims.Nearly 40 people are still missing, not counting the 13 unidentified victims, suggesting the death toll was likely air max plus to rise sharply. Train crash devastates Quebec town 15 photos Officials were looking at a locomotive blaze on the same train in a nearby town a few hours adidas samba before the derailment.Transportation Safety Board investigator Donald Ross said the locomotive s black box has been recovered, and investigators were examining whether the air brakes or the hand brake malfunctioned. The extent to which the fire played into the sequences of events is a focal point of our investigation, Ross said. All but one of the train s 73 cars were carrying oil. At least five of the train s tankers exploded after coming loose early Saturday, speeding downhill nearly seven miles 11 kilometers and derailing into the town dunk homme of Lac-Megantic, near the Maine border.Fears Dpgk Tripoli opened to rebels by sleeper cells, NATO
Yugoslav presi stanley trinkflaschen dent, Vojislav Kostunica, who officially took office on Oct. 7, came out of his first official meeting with Russian President Vladimir on Friday with power of another sort. Putin promised Moscow will soon resume supplying energy to Yugoslavia and called on the international community to help revive Belgrade s shattered economy.Putin also helped boost Kostunica s political power agreeing in the joint statement that Kosovo must remain part of Yugoslavia.Putin told his counterpart that, Russia will re-establish energy deliveries to Yugoslavia - including gas supplies - which were interrupted this year. Russia had cut off gas supplies because of Yugoslavia s $400 million unpaid gas bill. There were no details on the new agreement. But the two agreed to set up a group of expert stanley cup s to discuss immediate help in gas deliveries. Russian gas giant Gazprom had agreed to restructure that debt on the condition that the Balkan state pay for new supplies with cash but Yugoslavia reneged on the deal.Kostunica s political future depends in part on being to improve his country s cups stanley standard of living in the wake of punishing international sanctions and with winter just around the corner, his government needs to supply heating and electricity quickly to stave off discontent. For his part, Kostunica, said, It is necessary that there will be a significant Russian presence in the Balkans. Moscow had been slow to withdraw its support from former President Slobodan Milosevic,

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Multiple Chinese military ships were mizuno de spotted by the U.S. Coast Guard in the waters off Alaska, officialssaid in a news release on Wednesday.Three vessels were detected about 124 miles north of the Amchitka Pass in the Aleutian Islands, and a fourth ship was spotted about 84 miles north of the state s Amuk yeezy foam ta Pass. The ships were seen on Saturday and Sunday.All four ships were in international waters, the Coast Guard said, but were inside the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone, which extends 200 nautical miles from the U.S. shoreline. In these areas, the United States has exclusive rights for exploring and using marine resources.All four ships operated in accordance with international rules and norms, according to Rear Admiral Megan Dean, the Coast Guard district commander. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Kimball off the coast of Japan in 2023. U.S. Coast Guard When contacted by the Coast Guard to ensure there were no disruptions to U.S. interests in the maritime environment around Alaska, the Chinese vessels said that they were in the area for freedom of n hoka wanderschuh avigation operations, Dean said. The naval presence was tracked by the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Kimball, a 418-foot-long national security vessel that has previously conducted joint exercises in the Indo-Pacific region. The cutter is in the area as part of Operation Frontier Sentinel, a Coast Guard exercise designed t Zheq World Press Photo winners
The man who stanley thermos mug refuses to concede defeat after Ivory Coast s presidential election faced two major setbacks Friday as officials cut off his access to the state funds used to pay soldiers and state television remained off the air in much of the country.The attempts by internationally recognized winner Alassane Ouattara to assert his control over state institutions comes amid rising fears that the West African nation once gripped by a 2002-2003 civil war could return to widespread unrest. Already the United Nations has said at least 173 people have been killed.Late Thursday, the 192-nation U.N. General Assembly formally recognized Ouattara as the winner of the Nov. 28 runoff vote and rescinded the credentials of Ivory Coast s U.N. ambassador who is a Gbagbo supporter.Ouattara s allies hope the move by the West African economic and monetary union late Thursday will set the stage fo stanley water jug r mass defections if incumbent Laurent Gbagbo cannot pay civil servants and soldiers in the military that he still controls.Officials with the regional monetary union made the announcement after an emergency session, and later said in a statement that only representatives of Ouattara s government will have signing privileges on state accounts. The regional bank, known by its acronym BCEAO, regroups the treasuries of eight West African countries. There has been stanley uk much speculation in recent days as to whether Gbagbo would be able to pay state salaries, despite nightly assurances on state television tha