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A senior leader of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP who declared the group was responsible for the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris has been killed in a U.S. airstrike, CBS News correspondent David Martin confirms. In this image made from militant video posted on the Twitter account of Yemen s al Qaeda branch on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2015, Nasr al-Ansi, a top commander of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, speaks about last week s deadly assault on a French satirical newspaper. AP Nasr al-Ansi, who had been serving as an ideological leader, was among several fighters killed in a CIA drone strike on April 21, Martin confirms. adidas samba adidas Washington considers AQAP to be the most powerful in the terrorist network.Al-Ansi s death was announced by al Qaeda operative Khaled Batarfi in a video posted on the Internet. Batarfi did not say when or where in Yemen he was killed, adding only that al-Ansi s eldest son, Mohammed, and several fighters were killed in the same airstrike. Paris newspaper attacked 21 photos adidas og mizuno laufschuhe Al-Ansi, believed to have been close to al Qaeda s late leader Osama Bin Laden, has made several video appearances on behalf of the group s Yemen branc Vgtb Monaco s Prince Rainier Dead At 81
Tens of thousands of Shiite Muslims shouting No to America marched through the southern Iraqi city of Basra Thursday to back their spiritual leader s call for early elections, a stand that could stymie a U.S. blueprint for transferring power to a new Iraqi administration.The demonstration in Iraq s second largest city followed a string of violent incidents across the country, including a car bombing in Baqouba and a series of clashes between U.S. troops and insurg stanley cup usa ents, which left 20 people dead.An estimated 20,000 to 30,000 Shiite Muslims turned out in support of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani s demand for an interim legislature to be elected directly and not chosen in provincial caucuses as called for under a U.S. plan.The massi stanley cup ve show of support showed that the United States cannot afford to take lightly al-Sistani, the most powerful cleric of Iraq s majority Shiites.In other developments:A military spokesman says American soldiers stationed in pro-Saddam Hussein areas of central Iraq killed seven alleged insurgents in separate clashes. The clashes happened Tuesd stanley thermobecher ay around the volatile city of Baqouba. One U.S. soldier was wounded.Two foreign civilian drivers were killed during an attack near Tikrit on a convoy operated by U.S. contractor Kellogg, Brown Root, said military spokeswoman Maj. Josslyn Aberle.U.S. authorities bear a criminal responsibility in the deaths of two reporters killed when a tank fired at a Baghdad hotel because troops had not been

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Travelers are canceling flights amid the summer surge in COVID-19 cases. The Transportation Security Administration reported its lowest air travel numbers of the summer on Tuesday and Wednesday after hitting its highest traffic of the year at the beg adidas yeezyslide inning of August.More than 1.4 million people went through TSA checkpoints Tuesday and 1.5 million on Wednesday, the agency reported. It s a large decrease from the 2.2 million reported in early August.A new survey from Cars found rising concerns forced a fifth of those planning to fly to cancel their tickets and drive instead. There s a lot more anxiety with airlines, with hotels, with cruise lines and all members of the travel industry right now compared to just a couple of months ago, said travel analyst Henry Harteveldt.Harteveldt said business travel could take a hit, too. We re going to see more and more of these meetings getting moved online as companies try to figure out how to keep their employees safe, he said. In Maryland, Louise Miller, who is immunocompromised, should be on her way to North Carolina to see friends, but with COVID deaths spiking due to the highly transmissible Delta variant, her plans changed. It just seemed like a lot of travel to an area that I didn t feel particularly comfortable in, Miller said. When you re 70. Life s too short. Some of adidas campus 00s ficials are urging travelers to reconsider their pla chanclas yeezy ns. Hawaii s governor is discouraging incoming travel as hospitals are at capacity. The European Un Xsbe Iraqi POW Abuse Report Excerpts
The first ann stanley france iversary of the start of the war that ousted Saddam Husse stanley termoska in was a day like many others in Iraq: a mortar attack in a northern city, an attempt to kill a politician, and news of a U.S. Marine cut down by rebel fire.Overa stanley cup ll, Saturday was average by recent Iraqi standards.The millions of Iraqis who exulted in Saddam s downfall did not publicly celebrate the day, nor were there street protests from those who enjoyed his patronage - partly because public gatherings are vulnerable to suicide attackers, car bombs, shootings and other violence. Also, even those who opposed Saddam are uncomfortable with the invasion and extended occupation of Iraq by foreign armies, observers say.Many Iraqis fear daily they will be caught in the crossfire of the conflict between U.S. forces and anti-American insurgents and other shadowy assailants, and said they felt more insecure now than they did before the United States launched military strikes.Hours after U.S. Marines officially took control Saturday from the 82nd Airborne Division of a swath of territory west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said rebels had killed a U.S. Marine in the area, Anbar province, a day earlier. Two Marines also died in combat Wednesday in Anbar, which includes parts of the so-called Sunni Triangle where guerrilla attacks have been fierce. At the handover ceremony at a U.S. base in Ramadi, Marine commander Maj. Gen. James Mattis issued a warning to insurgents. We expect to be the best friends to Iraqis

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LAGOS, Nigeria -- Rescue workers say 45 people died and they have rescued 105 survivors from a colla yeezy psed guesthouse at the campus of renowned Nigerian preacher T.B. Joshua s Synagogue Church of All Nations.Joshua is broadcasting a video purporting to show a plan yeezy adidas og e flying low over the building four times before it collapses on Friday. He says the building was attacked by Islamic extremists using an aircraft. It is on the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria s commercial capital in the southwest.National Emergency Management Agency spokesman Ibrahim Farinloye said Monday the collapse likely was caused by construction to add two stories to the four-story structure without any fortification of the foundations.He said church members initially tried to impede rescue workers but that the search continued Monday for more bodies and survivors. ponent--type-recirculation .item:nth-child 5 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-73a39aa3-60d8-4965-b5f7-e60da8124900, right-rail-recirc-item--id-73a39aa3-60d8-4965-b5f7-e60da8124900 display: none; inline-recirc-item--id-73a39aa3-60d8-4965-b5f7-e60da8124900 ~ .item:nth-child 5 display: block; Exzo China approves coal power surge, risking climate disasters, Greenpeace says
At least 1,000 people were detained in Moscow on Wednesday in an attempt to prevent ethnic clashes, police said, after weekend rioting by racist hooligans fueled rumors that minorities were planning to retaliate.Resentment has been rising among Slavic Russians over the growing presence in Moscow and elsewhere of people from the southern Caucasus region, the home of numerous ethnic groups, most of them Muslim. People from other parts of the former Soviet Union, including Central A cups stanley sia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, also face ethnic discrimination and are frequent victims of hate crimes.New scuffles erupted Wednesday outside the Kievsky train station, which is popular with street merchants from the Caucasus. Hundreds of riot police were deployed and they detained young men and teenagers shouting racist slogans.Some men who appeared to be from the Caucasus also were detained, while others were let go after a quick check. Most of those detained Wednesday were rounded up at the Kievsky station, where officers also confiscated dozens of knives and other stanley quencher weapons, police spokesman Viktor Biryukov said.The area around Kievsky station was feared to be a target of those who rioted outside the Kremlin, mainly soccer fans, who chanted Russia for Russians! during Saturday s clashes that left d stanley cups uk ozens injured. Many soccer fans are linked with neo-Nazis and other radical racist groups that mushroomed in Russia after the 1991 Soviet collapse. Russian media have been abuzz with rumors that som

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An Israeli amateur diver found a large, 900-year-old sword dating back to the Crusades at the bottom of Mediter adidas campus 00s ranean Sea last week, Israeliresearchers saidon Monday.The diver, identified as Shlomi Katzin from Atlit, Israel, discovered the weapon on Saturday among other artifacts on the Mediterranean seabed, including ancient stone anchors, other anchors made of metal, and pottery fragments, according to the Israel Antiquities Authority IAA . The sword has a blade over 39 inches long and a hilt measuring nearly 12 inches, and it likely once belonged to a crusading knight.Katzin brought the sword ashore after fearing it could be further buried under the sea s shifting sands. He then reported his find to the IAA and was given a certificate of appreciation for good citizenship, an IAA spokesperson said. The sword, which has been preserved in perfect condition, is a beautiful and rare find and evidently belonged to a Crusader knight, said Nir Distelfeld, inspector for the IAA s robbery prevention unit. It was found encrusted with marine organisms, but is apparently made of iron. It is exciting to encounter such a personal object, taking you 900 years back in time to a different era, w yeezy slide ith knights, armor and swords. A sword believed to have belonged to a Crusader who sailed to the Holy Land almost a millennium ago stands in the water near to where it was recovered from the Mediterranean seabed by an amateur diver. crocs schuhe Ufxk Iraq Photos: lt;br gt;Dec. 12 -- 18
Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam told politicians trying to get a peace deal back on track Tuesday to reflect on the potential price of failure. All people have to do is look at the pain and suffering that violence is producing elsewhere in the world today. I hope we can make good progress, Mowlam, the minister in charge of the British province, told reporters.She spoke as talks reopened in the provincial capital aimed at ending a deadlock over guerrilla disarmament that has held up progress on a peace deal signed a year ago.Earlier this month, the British and Irish prime ministers, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, published a compromise plan for forming the new Belfast government, the inten stanley cup ded centerpiece of last year s peace accord.But the Irish Republican Army and its allied Sinn Fein party rejected it. The premiers proposal called for Sinn Fein to receive its two allotted posts in the envisioned 12-member government if, in exchange, the IRA promised to start disarming within a month. That was the two prime ministers best guess as to how we might move forward, Mowlam said. But let us not be under any illusion. Any altern stanley canada ative must be acceptable to both traditions. Otherwise, this is not going to work. If people are only prepared stanley cup to fight their own corner, then progress cannot be made ... and nothing that the prime ministers can do will help. Protestant leader David Trimble insisted the IRA must hand in some arms before its Sinn Fein political wing takes up its

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The U.S. Navy announced Wednesday it tested a laser weapon and destroyed a floating target in the Mideast, a system that could be used to counter bomb- mizuno volleyballschuhe laden drone boats deployed by Yemen s Houthi rebels in the Red Sea. The Navy released images of the test on Twitter, with the caption: adidas campus 80s Bring Out THE LASERS. Bring out THE LASERS 128165; USSPortland conducted a high-energy laser weapon system demonstration on a static surface training target, Dec. 14, while sailing in the Gulf of Aden. NavyCapability pic.twitter/AasAmjDDV1mdash; U.S. Navy @USNavy December 15, 2021 The test Tuesday saw the USS Portland test-fire its Laser Weapon System Demonstrator at the target in the Gulf of Aden, the body of water separating East Africa from the Arabian Peninsula.The Navy s Mideast-based 5th Fleet describ samba rose ed the laser as having successfully engaged the target in a statement. Previously, the Portland used the laser to bring down a flying drone in May 2020. The USS Portland fires a laser weapon system at a target floating in the Gulf of Aden on December 14, 2021. Staff Sgt. Donald Holbert/AP The Navy has previously released video showing the laser weapon system hit targets mounted aboard a speeding boat.The Gulf of Aden sits along the southern coast of war-torn Yemen, which has been at war since Iranian-backed Houthi rebels seized its capital, Sanaa, in 2014. A Saudi-led coal Hciu U.K. police demand Julian Assange turn himself in
Israel took over the Palestinian town of Jenin on Friday in one of the largest raids in months mdash; a delayed response to a deadly bus bombing mdash; but pulled some troops out of another West Bank town.The Jenin raid and the redeployment in Hebron came as Assistant Secretary of State William Burns wrapped up talks with skeptical Israelis and Palestinians on a new Mideast peace plan that envisions a provisional Palestinian state by 2003 and full independence by 2005.In a very public snub of Yasser Arafat, Burns held talks with a Palestinian legislator Friday only a few yards from the Palestinian leader s headquarters in the West Bank town of Ramallah.The United States has been boycotting Arafat, saying he has broken promises to rein in militants.Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer called Jenin a capital of terror, saying w stanley cups uk e don t have a choice but to go in and try to clean up what it s possible to clean up. Two teenage Jenin residents, members of the militant Islamic Jihad group, blew up an Israeli bus on Monday, killing themselves and 14 Israelis.An Israeli army commander, briefing reporters near Jenin, said soldiers were looking for about 20 Palestinian militants. We intend to cover the entire city, imposing a curfew, conducting searches and setting up stakeouts to get t stanley mug he terrorists, he said on condition of anonymity.The of stanley mugs ficer noted that Monday s bombers managed to leave Jenin and reach Israel after Israeli troops eased restrictions in the area

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WASHINGTON - U.S. officials said Monday the United States has taken the first step in nike dunk its planned expanded fight against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ISIS militants, going to the aid of Iraqi security forces near Baghdad who were being attacked by enemy fighters.The U.S. Central Command said in a statement released Monday that it conducted two airstrikes Sunday and Monday in support of the Iraqi forces. Strikes destroyed six ISIS vehicles, near Sinjar and southwest of Baghdad. The airstrike southwest of Baghdad was the first strike taken as part of our expanded efforts beyond protecting our own people and humani salomon xt 6 tarian missions to hit [ISIS] targets as Iraqi forces go on offense, as outlined in the President s speech last Wednesday, the statement said.The strikes represent the newly broadened mission authorized by President Obama to go on the offensive against the ISIS group wherever it is. Previous U.S. airstrikes in Iraq were conducted to protect U.S. interests and personnel, assist Iraqi refugees and secure critical infrastructure. These strikes were in direct support of Iraqi forces fighting the militants.Central Command said the strikes destroyed six ISIS vehicles and one of the group s fighting positions that was firing on the Iraqi security forces. U.S. officials said the Iraqi forces requested assistance when they came under fire from militants. Those offici nike af als spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the mission publicl Pfbw Israel grounds to a halt for Yom Kippur
Less than a week after the Oscar broadcast showed Hollywood embrace the Bollywood-influenced Slumdog Millionaire, luminaries from the American film industry travelled to Iran to talk about world cinema. CBS Sid Ganis left , president of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, and eight other well-known Hollywood figures arrived in Tehran on Friday, reports CBS News Leily Lankarani. kubki stanley Mohammad Mehdi Asgarpour, managing director of Iran s House of Cinema, said that the group will hold seminars this week to discuss filmmaking subjects like screenwriting, directing, acting, production, documentary filmmaking, marketing and distribution.The group will also visit the Cinema Museum stanley flasche in Tehran, a film school, and attend a press conference on March 7, Asgarpour said. Iran s House of Cinema a.k.a. the Khaneh Cinema is hosting Ganis, actresses Annette Bening and Alfre Woodward, producer William Horberg The Kite Runner , screenwriter Frank Pierson Dog Day Afternoon , documentarian James Longley Iraq in Fragments , writer-director Phil Robinson, AMPAS Special Events Programmer and Exhibitions Curator Ellen Harrington, and former Universal Pictures Chairman Tom Pollock.Longley has been working stanley mug on a couple of projects in Iran, one of which is about the MKO Mujahedin Khalgh Organization and Iran-U.S. ties. Although the visit s organizers and the Academy insist that the surprise visit is solely a cultural and educational trip, the delegation s journey comes only

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GENEVA -- Ukraine is willing to offer amnesty to the armed separatist groups who have carried out violence and seized buildings in the east, if Russia agrees to pullback support for those pro-Russian groups and withdraw the 40,000 troops that it has positioned on Ukraine s border. If Russia does not, the U.S. and European Union are preparing to hit Russian officials and business leaders with another round of sanctions within days. airmaxplus Uk yeezy raine prepares to fight pro-Russian forces 02:27 Unrest continues in eastern Ukraine 05:59 Flash Points: Is Russia posturing by massing troops on Ukraine s border 04:13 air max 98 Russia-Ukraine tensions 49 photos Secretary of State John Kerry landed in Geneva on Wednesday night to att Hzew Storm Callum: Worst flooding in 30 years hits Wales
Two bombs rocked the southern Philippines on Tuesday, killing at least two and wounding dozens. A military spokesma stanley deutschland n said it was too early to link the blasts, which appeared to be the work of two different Muslim rebel groups.First, a motorcycle bomb exploded on a southern island where al Qaeda-linked militants are active, killing at least two and wounding two dozen. Hours later, a car bomb in predominantly Christian Iligan city wounded at least 11, including two soldiers, pol stanley us ice said.No group has claimed responsibility for either one.The motorcycle in downtown Jolo was parked across from a store that was wrecked in the early morning blast, killing the store owner instantly, police and the military said.At least two were confirm stanley fr ed dead, but the number of fatalities was expected to rise because many of the wounded - including two policemen - were in critical condition, said regional military commander Maj. Gen. Juancho Sabban. Most of the wounded were students on their way to school, and authorities suspended classes in Jolo for fear of more attacks.Sabban said a bomb squad was defusing a roadside explosive discovered close to the Jolo Roman Catholic cathedral when the motorcycle bomb went off nearby.Jolo Mayor Hussin Amin said the motorcycle was left unattended for a few hours, arousing suspicion. The bomb exploded just as three officers were approaching the vehicle, wounding them.Sabban blamed the bombing on Abu Sayyaf militants, the target of a major military operati

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MAUMERE, Indonesia The six people swept up and killed by hot lava from an erupting volcano in eastern Indonesia had refused to leave the area for safer ground when the mountain began rumbling last year, an official said Sunday, one day after the eruption.Officials continu adiletten original ed searching Sunday for the bodies of two children buried by the hot lava as rumbling could still be heard from Mount Rokatenda on the small island of Palue in East Nusa Tenggara province.Nearly 3,000 people have been evacuated from the area since the volcano erupted early Saturday morning, according to the National Disaster Mitigation Agency. The volcano had been active since last October.Tini Thadeus, head of the local disaster agency, said the six victims, who died while sleeping in a beachside village, were among those who had refused to leave last year when evacuations were carried out to establish a safety zone around the volcano. On their belief, if all the old villa adidas samba gers abandoned the red crocs winterstiefel danger zone, then lava will destroy the residential area, Thadeus said from Kupang, the provincial capital. Among the dead was a 58-year-old woman, the grandmother of the two children who also died. But unfortunately, not like in the past, lava from Saturday s eruption flowed northward and hit them, Thadeus said, adding that during earlier eruptions since the 1930s, volcanic material had always flowed southward.On nearby Flores island, Mutiara Mauboi, an official at the command post helping evacuees, said Rqgx London riots spread to second day
Iraq urged the world s nations Friday to stand up to blackmail and keep their diplomatic missions in the country despite a claim by an al Qaeda wing that it killed Egypt s top envoy.Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed in a Web posting that it had killed the Egyptian diplomat, Ihab al-Sherif, and warned it would go after as many ambassadors as we can to punish countries that support Iraq s U.S.-backed leadership.Meanw stanley cup hile, the top U.S. commander in the Iraqi capital said Friday U.S. and Iraqi forces have mostly eliminated the ability of stanley cup insurgents to conduct sustained, high-intensity attacks in Baghdad.In other recent developments:Italy plans to begin withdrawing some of its troops from Iraq in September, Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Friday. Islamic ex stanley cup tremists have been using Iraq as a planning center for attacks around the world since losing Afghanistan as their base in 2001, the government s chief spokesman said Friday.Speaking about Thursday s blasts in London that killed more than 50 people, Laith Kubba said we don t know exactly who carried out these acts but it is clear that these networks used to be in Afghanistan and now they work in Iraq. In violence Friday, a roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier and wounded three in Balad, about 50 miles north of Baghdad, the military said. The soldiers belonged to the 29th Brigade Combat Team. A roadside bomb and small arms fire wounded three U.S. soldiers in an attack on a coalition convoy south of Baghdad near Suwayrah, according

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi confirmed Sunday she will visit four Asian countries this week but made no mention of a possible stop in Taiwan that has fueled tension with Beijing, which claims the island democracy as its own territory.Pelosi said in a statement she airmax plus is leading a congressional delegation to Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan to discuss trade, the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, security and democratic governance. Pelosi has yet to confirm news reports that she might visit Taiwan. Chinese President Xi Jinping warned against meddling in Beijing s dealings with the island in a phone call Thursday with President Biden.Beijing sees official American contact with Taiwan as encouragement to make its decades-old de facto independence permanent, a step U.S. leaders say they don t support. As head of one of three b nike sb dunk ranches of the U.S. government, Pelosi would be the highest-ranking elected American official to visit Taiwan since then-Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1997. The adidas samba og Biden administration didn t explicitly urge Pelosi to avoid Taiwan but tried to assure Beijing there was no reason to come to blows and that if such a visit occurred, it would signal no change in U.S. policy. Under the strong leadership of President Biden, America is firmly committed to smart, strategic engagement in the region, understanding that a free and flourishing Indo-Pacific is crucial to prosperity in our nation and around the globe, Pelosi s statement said.Taiwan and China split Vhda Gunman Kills 7, Wounds 15 in Slovakia
A funny thing happened on the way to a failed summit. It seems the talking never stop water bottle stanley s when Middle East negotiations are involved, even when officials announce the talks have ended.At 10:50 p.m. Wednesday night, National Security Council spokesman P.J. Crowley, speaking for White Ho stanley cup use spokesman Joe Lockhart, told reporters The summit has come to a conclusion without reaching an agreement. Palestinian president Yasser Arafat was rumored to be headed toward Andrews Air Force Base to return to the Middle East. Israeli Prime Minister Barak was due in Frederick, Maryland, for a news conference to explain the Israeli position.Then came the evening s biggest surprise: Two hours after his spokesman declared a conclusion to the summit, President Clinton appeared at the Thurmont Elementary School press center to tell reporters Barak and Arafat had agreed to stay at Camp David and continue to work with Secretary of State Albright while Mr. Clinton headed to Japan for an economic summit. Nobody wanted to give up. After all these years, as hard as these issues are, they didn t want to give up, said the President. Mr. Clinton will not return from Japan before Sunday evening. Everyone hopes for a little progress, but the first thing on the minds of negotiators at Camp David is to get some sleep. They ve been pulling all nighters, as college kids like to say, for the last four nights.Sometime Friday Secretary Albright will assemble the U.S. team and work out ways to move things

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Milan - Anita Ekberg, the Swedish-born actress and sex-symbol of the 1950s and 60s who was immortalized bathing in the Trevi fountain in La Dolce Vita, has died. She was 83. nike af Anita Ekberg 1931-2015 23 photos Ekberg s lawyer Patrizia Ubaldi confirmed she died in Rome Sunday morning following a series of illnesses. She had been hospitalized most recently after Christmas. Ubaldi said that in her last days Ekberg was saddened by the illness and her advancing age. She had hoped to get better, something that didn t happen, she said.Ekberg had long lived in Italy, the country that gave her worldwide fame thanks to the iconic dip opposite Marcello Mastroianni. The scene where the blond bombshell, clad in a black dress, her arms wide open, calls out Marcello remains one of the most famous images in film history. A 1960 picture of Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni L and his Swedish colleague Anita Ekberg R in Ro samba shoes me s f air max plus amous Fontana di Trevi during the shooting of the Federico Fellini movie La Dolce Vita . Getty Images Her curvaceous body and glamorous social life made her a favorite of tabloid press in the 1950s and 1960s. She married twi Rmqe Twin Blasts In Venezuela Capital
Gunmen killed two Afghans working for a German relief agency in southeastern stanley deutschland Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, another blow to the country s shaky security in the run-up to October elections.A field officer and a driver for the Malteser aid group were fatally wounded in the attack Tuesday in Paktia province, said Mohammed Nader Farhad, a spokesman for the U.N. s refugee agency.The German group said it suspended its activities in the region.It was not immediately clear who carried out the attack.Civilians have been increasingly targeted in a wave of violence that has left more than 700 people dead in Afghanistan this year, including 24 aid workers kille stanley cup d in attacks blamed mainly on Taliban militants. The last fatal assault on an aid group was the June 2 shooting of five members of Doctors Wi stanley polska thout Borders in the northwest. The medical relief group announced last week it was pulling out of Afghanistan.The U.S. military warned anew that attacks on soft targets would continue in the run-up to the presidential vote set for Oct. 9, as militants turned away from punishing confrontations with American forces.Dozens of insurgents were reportedly killed in fighting with Afghan troops and U.S. warplanes near the Pakistani border on Monday. Two Afghan soldiers also died.Spokesman Maj. Scott Nelson said earlier Wednesday that a major attack on civilian targets in Kabul was also possible. We re going to do everything we can to stop them, but that may happen. The Mal