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Cooper Republic News Alert: U.S. forces in Afghanistan have captured an al Qaeda operative who escaped from the main U.S. military prison in the country last year, a Pakistani newspaper reported on Monday. The man, identified as Abu Nasir al-Qahtani, was captured recently in the southeastern Afghan province of Khost, the News newspaper said, citing Taliban supporters in the Pakistani border region of North Waziristan... ---crn--- Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has appealed for Saddam Hussein's life to be spared, saying the deposed Iraqi president was not beyond redemption. "The death penalty is said to fulfil a preventive function, yet it is clearly a form of revenge," the Nobel peace laureate told reporters as he ended a two-week visit to Japan. "However horrible an act a person may have committed, everyone has the potential to improve and correct himself," he said... ---crn--- Romania has no intentions of withdrawing its troops from the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, President Traian Basescu said Saturday, vowing to stay ''because it's a dishonor to leave your allies.'' In an interview with The Associated Press, Basescu said he empathized with mounting calls to withdraw the country's 608 non-combat personnel in Iraq, including impassioned pleas from the families of those serving. But ''Romania's honor is greater than its feelings,'' he said... ---crn--- Forensic experts said Friday they found a new mass grave in northeastern Bosnia believed to contain the remains of more than 100 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre where Serb forces buried some of the almost 8,000 victims. The grave in Snagovo village, about 30 miles north of Srebrenica, was found after experts received a tip-off from an undisclosed source, said Murat Hurtic, head of Bosnia's Missing Persons Commission. It is the seventh mass grave Hurtic's team has found near Srebrenica, the scene of Europe's worst massacre since World War II... ---crn--- Tears flowed as the poor Muslim farmer recalled the day one of her seven children disappeared after evening prayers. Now, a year later, Rosamoh Sulong simply wants to know if her son, the family breadwinner, is alive. "I'm hopeful that the prime minister will help search for my son," she said, after handing a written appeal to interim Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont... ---crn---  Ethnic violence is spreading in eastern Chad, sending residents fleeing from the region where more than 220 villagers have been killed by gunmen in the past week, the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday. Entire villages have been razed in areas bordering the western Sudan region of Darfur where some 200,000 people have died in more than three years of bloodshed... ---crn--- Suspected Islamist militants hurled a grenade near a mosque in Indian Kashmir during Friday prayers, wounding at least 12 people, police said. The attack came days before top officials of India and Pakistan resume peace talks that aim to resolve decades of enmity between the South Asian rivals, largely centred around the dispute over Kashmir... ---crn--- A group of German neo-Nazis, some shouting "Sieg Heil", rampaged in the eastern city of Frankfurt on Oder and destroyed wreaths placed to mark the anniversary of the 1938 Nazi pogrom against the Jews, German TV said on Friday. German television network ZDF reported the neo-Nazis tore apart floral wreaths and threw away candles placed at a memorial marking a destroyed synagogue in the Polish border city late on Thursday -- 68 years after the Nazis' Kristallnacht or "Night of Broken Glass". ...

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al-Qaeda intensifies recruitment online

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