Police foil Moscow ‘car bomb’
Moscow: Police claim to have foiled a car bomb attack on a busy thoroughfare in Moscow used almost daily by President Putin (Jeremy Page writes).
Officers found mines and explosives in a Lada after they stopped the car early on Saturday. The discovery was put down to anti-terrorist measures that were introduced after the Beslan school siege. But the death of the Lada’s driver after he was detained has raised concerns about the security forces’ new powers.
Police said that the driver died of a heart attack, but the Moscow Prosecutor’s Office said it would investigate after initial inquiries showed that he died of bodily injuries.
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Suspects held
Islamabad: Pakistan’s Government has ordered 35 Pakistanis just freed from the US military centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to be held for three months in a high-security jail, officials said. The men, arrested after they returned to Pakistan on Saturday, would be “debriefed by the security agencies”. (AP)
Pulitzer man dies
New York: Eddie Adams, the photojournalist who won a Pulitzer Prize for a 1968 picture of a communist guerrilla being shot dead in a Saigon street during the Vietnam War, has died aged 71. He suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. (AP)
Hamas death
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Jerusalem: Khaled Abu Selmia, 32, a Hamas military commander, was killed and five other people were injured in an Israeli missile strike on a car in Gaza, yards from where the Islamic militant group’s leader, Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi, was killed in an identical attack in April.