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Published: October 5, 2008
Bolivia tells U.S. it does not need its help in fight
LA PAZ, Bolivia -- President Evo Morales said yesterday that Bolivia does not need U.S. help to control its coca crop, stepping up his anti-Washington rhetoric days after rejecting an American request to fly an anti-drug plane over Bolivia's territory.
Morales also compared U.S. counter-drug efforts in the country to espionage.
"It's important that the international community knows that here, we don't need control of the United States on coca cultivation," the president told a gathering of coca farmers. "We can control ourselves internally. We don't need any spying from anybody."
Nine more bodies are found in Tijuana, Mexico, area
TIJUANA, Mexico -- Police have found nine more bodies dumped around the Mexican border city of Tijuana, where nearly 50 people have been killed in a week of violence related to the drug trade.
Municipal police found five of the bodies yesterday between two small shopping centers in the eastern part of the city. The bodies of two beheaded men were found wrapped in blankets on a road elsewhere in the city, according to the Baja California state Attorney General's Office.
8 terror suspects returned to Kenya without charges
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Eight terror suspects have returned to Kenya after being held for more than a year in secret Ethiopian prisons without charge, and it was unclear yesterday if they would face charges in Kenya.
Al Amin Kimathi, a lawyer with the Kenya Muslim Human Rights Forum, said he was advising the suspects to sue the Kenyan government for deporting them.
Dozens of terror suspects were detained in Somalia and Kenya in early 2007, after Ethiopian troops supporting the shaky U.N.-backed government routed an Islamist administration that had taken control of the capital and much of the south.
American al-Qaida member uses video to assail U.S.
CAIRO, Egypt -- An American member of al-Qaida pointed to economic troubles in the United States as proof that "the enemies of Islam" face defeat, in an English-language video released yesterday.
In a half-hour video message, California-native Adam Gadahn urged Pakistanis to unite against their government and U.S. forces, and taunted Americans over their economic crisis, relating it to their military interventions.
Gadahn, 29, grew up in Riverside County, east of Los Angeles. He was indicted by a federal grand jury on one count of treason and two counts of supporting foreign terrorists.
Britain denies reputed claim that Afghanistan is doomed
LONDON -- The British government denied yesterday a claim that it believes the military campaign in Afghanistan is doomed to failure after a French newspaper published what it said were comments made by London's ambassador to Kabul.
France's weekly Le Canard Enchaine, a weekly publication known for its investigative stories, said that a leaked French diplomatic cable recounted talks between Britain's Ambassador Sherard Cowper-Coles and a French official.
Cowper-Coles was quoted as saying that Afghanistan might best be "governed by an acceptable dictator," the French newspaper reported Wednesday.
It also said that Cowper-Coles was quoted as saying that "the American strategy is destined to fail" and that the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan was "part of the problem, not the solution."
Tropical storm Marie hovers far off the coast of Mexico
MEXICO CITY -- Tropical Storm Marie hovered far off Mexico's Pacific coast yesterday, barely moving on its northwestern path.
A tropical depression off the Mexican resort city of Acapulco was forecast to strengthen into a tropical storm today, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
Marie is the sixth hurricane of the eastern Pacific season.
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