LONDON: A British newspaper citied Taliban warlords has claimed that Osama Bin Laden has fled Pakistan into Afghanistan.
The al-Qaeda chief escaped as Pakistan stepped up its military campaign on its lawless border area.
Qari Hussain - wanted for training suicide bombers - said he had met Bin Laden in Quetta near the Afghan border.
He said: "He recently left for Afghanistan. The military operation left him with no choice."
The claim was supported by Taliban warlord Shamim Mehsud, holed up in Pakistan.
The news came as US Defence Secretary Robert Gates confessed they had received no decent intelligence on Bin Laden's location for "years".
He added: "If we did, we'd go and get him."
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Monday, December 7, 2009
Friday, December 4, 2009
Blast rocks cafe in Perm, Russia. 100 dead 90 injured
An explosion has occurred in a cafe in the Urals city of Perm, a local police source told RIA Novosti by phone on Saturday.
The blast occurred late on Friday. Casualties were reported.
"The blast occurred at 23:15 Moscow time [20:15 GMT]... According to preliminary reports, some were killed or injured, their number is being established," the source said.
He added that no fire followed the blast.
Firefighters, rescuers and doctors are working at the scene.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Monday, October 26, 2009
US raids free child prostitutes
FBI officials in the US say they have rescued more than 50 children from prostitution rings.
Nearly 700 hundred people were arrested in 36 cities over three days, officials said, in an operation targeting a number of prostitution hotspots.
Most of those rescued were girls under 18 with the youngest just 10 years old. Dozens of pimps were also arrested.
The raid was part of a larger FBI operation which has so far recovered nearly 900 children from prostitution.
More than 1,500 FBI agents and police officers took part in the raids, which were based on intelligence provided by local police forces.
Nationwide effort
The FBI said that information provided by those arrested in such raids often uncovered organised prostitution rings and could lead to further rescues.
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Kevin Perkins, the Assistant Director of the FBI's Criminal Division, said that despite recent success, child prostitution remained "a significant problem" in the US.
Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, welcomed the arrests of hundreds of people, including 60 pimps who had been forcing the children into prostitution to make money.
"Child trafficking for the purposes of prostitution is organised criminal activity using kids as commodities for sale or trade.
"These kids are victims. They lack the ability to walk away. This is 21st Century slavery," Mr Allen said
source: bbc.co.uk
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