News Digest
US MILITARY CONDEMNS ABUSE AFTER LATEST AFGHANISTAN CLAIMS
By empty (10/31/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
The US military said it would not tolerate abuse by its soldiers after new claims against American troops in Afghanistan, where they were this month accused of burning the bodies of Taliban suspects.The US-led coalition announced late Sunday that two US soldiers had been charged with allegedly assaulting two detainees in their custody in southern Uruzgan province, including by punching them in chest, shoulders and stomach. \"These alleged offences do not reflect the values of the members of this command,\" coalition spokesman Colonel Jim Yonts told reporters on Monday.THREE ASSOCIATES OF DUDAYEV, MASKHADOV TO RUN IN CHECHEN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
By empty (10/31/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
At least three former associates of Dzhokhar Dudayev and Aslan Maskhadov will take part in Chechen parliamentary elections on November 27. Russian Central Elections Commission chief Alexander Veshnyakov told journalists that former member of the Dudaev\'s Ichkerian parliament Salambek Kunchalov (Grozny\'s Leninsky single-candidate constituency), former Chechen security service head under Maskhadov Ibragim Khultygov (the Vedensky district), and former Defense Minister under Maskhadov Makhmat Khambiyev (No 2 on the Union of the Right Forces\' list) will run in the elections. (Interfax).KOKOITY SAYS GEORGIA SHOULD RECOGNIZE INDEPENDENCE OF SOUTH OSSETIA, ABKHAZIA
By empty (10/31/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Georgia\'s recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia is the easiest way to settle the Georgian-Ossetian and Georgian-Abkhaz conflicts, President of the unrecognized republic of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity told Interfax on Monday. \"I make an official offer to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to recognize the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. This is the easiest and quickest way to settle the Georgian-Ossetian and Georgian- Abkhaz conflicts,\" he said.BRITISH SOLDIER KILLED, FIVE WOUNDED IN AMBUSH IN AFGHANISTAN
By empty (10/30/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Gunmen opened fire on British soldiers in Afghanistan\'s main northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, killing one and wounding five, witnesses and the ISAF peacekeeping force told AFP. Attackers on a motorbike and in a car opened fire on an unmarked vehicle of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) near a junction in front of the city\'s famous Blue Mosque, witnesses said Saturday. The gunmen tried to flee on foot and four of them were detained by onlookers and handed over to police, they said.Visit also
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