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BBC news with Marion Marshal
The commander of American forces in AfghanistanGeneral John Allen says he's
very angry about thesharp rise in attacks on his troops by their
Afghancolleagues. He made his comments in an interviewfor the CBS 60 Minutes
program.
"I'm mad as hell about them, to be honest with you. We're going to go after
this. Itreverberates everywhere across the United States. We're willing to
sacrifice a lot for thiscampaign, but we're not willing to be murdered for
it."
However, General Allen went on to insist that most Afghans supported the
western militarypresence in their country.
General Allen was speaking as international forces in Afghistan
investigated the death ofanother American serviceman. Two thousand US troops
have now died since fighting began 11years ago. A US civilian contractor and
three Afghan soldiers were also killed in the incident inWardak province. The
shooting was initially blamed on a rogue Afghan soldier. But an ISAPspokesman
Lieutenant General Adrian Bradshaw said that may be wrong.
"What was initially reported to have been a suspected insider attack is now
understoodpossibly to have involved insurgent fire."
An angry crowd has turned on Somalis living in the Kenyan capital Nairobi
after a grenadethrown into a Christian Sunday school killed one child and
critically wounded several others.Gabriel Gatehouse is in Nairobi.
Retaliation was swift. No group or individual has admitted carrying out the
attack. But asKenyan troops battle Islamist militants in Somalia, this church
bombing is blamed almostimmediately on al-Shabab. Angers built over into
violence as dozens of men attacked a nearbymosque. Police said 13 people were
wounded but that order has been restored. The church isnear a suburb of Nairobi
called Eastleigh, also known as little Mogadishu where the majority ofresidents
are Somali origin.
In Somalia itself, the Minister of Defense says the operation by Kenyan and
Somali forces tocapture the city of Kismayo is making good progress. He told the
BBC that a strategic locationhas been seized including the port and airport. And
the Somali troops were dug in around thecity. He says special forces were
gathering intelligence inside Kismayo .
A wave of car bombings and shootings across Iraq have killed at least 32
people and woundedmore than 100. One of the worst attacks was in the town of
Taji where four car bombsexploded in quick succession. Rami Ruhayem reports from
Baghdad.
Across Iraq, car bombs went off as army patrols drove by. And gunmen with
silencers attackedarmy checkpoints. It started in and ROUND BAGHDAD but quickly
spread outwards. Thenorthern city of Mosul and the southern city of Kut were hit
in addition to Kirkuk which bordersthe Kurdish region in the north. Civilians
were among those killed and injured. But the aim ofthe attackers seems to have
been to kill as many security personnel as possible whereverthey could reach
them.
World news from the BBC
An Islamist group in Syria has published an online video which, it says,
shows five capturedYemeni officers purportedly sent to Syria to help fight the
rebels. The video shows identitycards of the five men, one of whom appears to be
a lieutenant colonel. A rights group in Yemensaid they were army officers who
had been studying at a military academy in Aleppo andwhose families reported
their missing last month.
Research into the effects of global warming suggests that the size of fish
around the worldcould shrink dramatically over the next few decades. Warmer
ocean temperatures could lead tohundreds of types of fish losing up to 1/4 of
their body weight. Here's Matt McGrath.
Although projections of global temperature rises show relatively small
changes at the bottomof the oceans, the resulting impacts on fish body size are
unexpectedly large, according to thisresearch. As ocean temperature increases,
so do the body temperatures and metabolic ratesof the fish. This means they use
more oxygen to stay alive. And according to the researchers,they have less
available for growth.
A third opposition activist has died in Venezuela following a shooting on
Saturday one weekbefore the closest-fought presidential election in a decade.
Speaking at a rally in the capitalCaracas, the opposition candidate Henrique
Capriles demanded justices and called on hissupporters to defeat violence.
Venezuelan authorities say they've arrested a suspect inconnection with the
attack in Barinas, the home state of President Hugo Chavez.
The Ryder Cup golf tournament between Europe and United States is heading
for a closefinish after the European team mounted a spirited fight back on the
final day. The holders,Europe, drew level by winning five of the first six
matches at the Medinah Country Club outsideChicago. The world No. 1 Rory McIlroy
won his match after arriving at the course only tenminutes before he was due to
tee off after an apparent mix-up over times zones.
BBC news
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