September 10, 2004

An air strike in Iraq reportedly kills Habib Akdas , a man thought to be the leader of a terrorist cell responsible for the November 2003 Bombings of two synagogues, a bank, and an embassy in Istanbul . Akdas was thought to have fled from Turkey to neighboring Iraq after the 2003 bombings to escape authorities. (MSNBC)

A train crash in Sweden kills two and injures 30. The accident happened when a passenger train collided with a lorry on a railway crossing in Kristianstad . (BBC)

Zimbabwe sentences British mercenary and former SAS officer Simon Mann to seven years in Prison for his role in attempting the violent overthrow of the government of Equatorial Guinea . (The Guardian)

Questions are raised about the authenticity of memos obtained by the CBS television network and broadcast on its September 7 issue of 60 Minutes . The memos were purportedly written by Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian , one of George W. Bush 's commanding officers in the Texas Air National Guard . One of the memos which was supposed to have been written in 1973 , uses a Proportional Font , Kerning , and Superscript s which were unlikely to have been available in typewriters of the period. See Killian Memos . (CNN)

Abdel Aziz Ashkar, 34, a Hamas chief from the Jabaliya refugee camp, is killed while attempting to fire an Anti-tank rocket at invading Israel i forces in the northern Gaza Strip . (BBC) (Reuters)

Hindu hardliners, the VHP , announce plans to pull down the controversial tomb of Afzalkhan on Sunday, in a grim echo of the 1992 razing of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya that sparked some of India 's worst Religious Riots . (Times of India)

A United States air strike on the Iraq i city of Fallujah kills one and wounds two others. (Reuters)

A team of Astronomer s working on the Yepun Telescope in Chile believe they have made the first direct image of a Planetary System beyond the Solar System . The star, called 2M1207 , is 230 Light-year s away and is much smaller and fainter than the Sun . (BBC)

Three men possessing homemade bullets at an illegal arms workshop are arrested in connection with the March 19, 2004 Assassination Attempt In Taiwan . (BBC) (Channel News Asia)

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