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Saturday, August 15, 2009 GAZA CITY: Islamic radicals from an al-Qaida-inspired group battled Hamas security in the Gaza Strip Friday in shootouts that killed at least 13 people.The fighting began when Hamas forces surrounded a mosque in the southern Gaza town of Rafah where about 100 members of Jund Ansar Allah, or the Soldiers of the Companions of God, were holed up, including some armed with suicide belts and rifles, according to residents of the area.The confrontation was triggered when the leader of the group defied Gaza's Hamas rulers by declaring in a Friday prayer sermon that the territory was an Islamic emirate.Jund Ansar Allah and a number of other small, shadowy radical groups seek to enforce an even stricter version of Islamic law in Gaza and have criticized Hamas for not doing so. They are also upset that the Hamas regime has honored a cease-fire with Israel for the past seven months.Hamas has said it seeks to set an example and does not impose its views on others. It...

Tuesday, July 14, 2009 BOGOTA: Colombian right-wing paramilitaries have admitted to killing 21,000 people, prosecutors said on Monday. "We are up to 21,000 murders that have been confessed to," Luis Gonzalez, of the public prosecutor's office, told local radio. The confessions by the former fighters spanned a three-year period and are part of a peace deal that includes a drive to demobilize 31,000 former fighters, know as the United Colombian Self Defense Forces, or Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia Gonzalez told radio Caracol that the full extent of the "horrors" may be unknown "because there are still many murders to confess to. "We have documented around 246,000 cases that occurred in the regions that had the Autodefensa forces," he said.