KATHMANDU: Nepal's ruling Maoists on Monday accused the president of attempting a "constitutional coup" by siding with the head of the army in a major political row, and vowed to fight back with street protests.The warning came after Nepal's centrist president, Ram Baran Yadav, attempted to overrule a Maoist decision to sack the head of the national army. "Our party has taken the president's step as a constitutional coup and we will fight against it," Maoist spokesman and cabinet minister Krishna Bahadur Mahara told. He said Maoist Prime Minister Prachanda will address the nation on the crisis at 3:00pm (0930 GMT) Monday.
BAGHDAD: Nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives started shifting to southern Afghanistan."We are probably going to be the beginning of the influx you are going to see to Afghanistan," Lt. Col. Kevin Landers, commander of the Fort Carson, Colo.-based 4th Engineer Battalion, said as crews packed crates and cleaned vehicles for the flight to Kandahar.Obama has ordered 17,000 more U.S. soldiers and Marines to Afghanistan to bolster the 38,000 American troops already battling the resurgent Taliban."We are going to take this footprint out of Iraq," said Landers, whose battalion received word of its reassignment last month just after taking command of clearing roads in Baghdad of bombs and debris.
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