Saturday morning roundup
An air raid in northern Pakistan killed six people associated with a local Taliban leader, according to Al-Jazeera. The raid hit a house in Gariwam, a village in North Waziristan; the militants were affiliated with Baitullah Mehsud's deputy Hakim Ullah, according to the Pakistani military.
The attack was launched by Pakistani fighter jets, not U.S. drones, which have bombed dozens of targets in northwest Pakistan this year.
A roadside bomb near Fallujah wounded an Iraqi tribal leader and killed three other people. The bombing targeted Naeem Saleh al-Halbusi, a local leader of an Awakening Council that has worked with American troops over the last two years. al-Halbusi's son was one of the people killed in the blast.
Somali gunmen kidnapped three foreign aid officials working in a Kenyan border town. Cross-border raids are fairly common in the region, according to Al-Sharq Al-Awsat. The kidnappers were allegedly moving their prisoners deeper inside Somalia.
Somalia's Al-Shabab group denied involvement, and vowed to track down the gunmen.
Militants also kidnapped two French security consultants working in Mogadishu earlier this week.
A group of unarmed Lebanese civilians carrying Hizballah and Lebanese flags crossed into Israel for several minutes yesterday. The protesters reached an abandoned IDF post near Mount Dov, then returned to Lebanon, according to Ha'aretz. IDF soldiers say they decided not to pursue the civilians after noticing they were unarmed.
The border crossing is technically a violation of U.N. Security Council resolution 1701, which prohibits any traffic across the Israeli-Lebanese border.
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Categories: Lebanon, Pakistan, Regional News, War and Terrorism, War in Iraq
Tags: Awakening militias, Baitullah Mehsud, IDF, Iraq, Lebanon, Somalia
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