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an word="back">backan> an word="up">upan>
a
perception
that both beaches and seafood have been
taint
ed by oil.
Lebanese security officials say troops have killed the suspected leader of al-Qaeda inspired militant Islamist group Fatah al-Islam. Security forces
ambush
ed Abd-al-Rahman Awad and two associates as they were traveling through the town of Chtaura. Jim Muir reports from Beirut.
Abd-al-Rahman Awad was already high on the Lebanese wanted list. He’d been
condemn
ed to death in absentia on charges relating to a number of bomb attacks and killings over the past three years. He’s believed to have taken over the leadership of Fatah al Islam after its three-month battle with the Lebanese army at the Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared near Tripoli in northern Lebanon in 2007, in which around 400 people died.
Police in Mexico say members of drug cartels