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(CBS/AP) WASHINGTON – The U.S. is carefully expanding efforts to provide intelligence, training and at times small numbers of forces to African nations, to help counter terrorist activities in the region, the top American military commander for 밀양출장샵 Africa said this week. Speaking to a conference that included representatives from African nations, Gen. Carter Ham, head of U.S. Africa Command, says coordinated moves by several Africa-based terrorist groups to share their training, funding and bomb-making materials are worrisome and pose a threat to the U.S. and the region. Ham claimed Africa’s three largest Islamist terrorist groups – Boko Haram in Nigeria; al Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb (AQIM), which is spread across the Sahara; and al Shabab in Somalia – have been sharing money and explosive materials while training fighters together, Reuters reports. While Boko Haram and al Shabab have a strong nationalist bent, Ham claims recent evidence of cooperation – especially between Boko Haram and AQIM – is particularly worrisome to American interests. He pointed to U.S. surveillance in central Africa to try to ferret out rebel leader Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army and said it is the type of thing the U.S. military can do, but only when invited in to partner with African nations. “Do we collect information across Africa? Yes, we do,” said Ham, singling out the LRA. “To have some intelligence collection...

(AP) RAMALLAH, West Bank – Yasser Arafat’s body may be exhumed to allow for more testing of the causes of his death, the Palestinian president said Wednesday, after a Swiss lab said it found elevated levels of a radioactive isotope in belongings the Palestinian leader is said to have used in his final days. Arafat’s widow, Suha, called for an autopsy in the wake of the lab’s findings, first reported by the Arab satellite TV station Al-Jazeera. In an interview with the station, she did not explain why she waited nearly eight years to have the belongings, including a toothbrush and a fur hat, tested. At the time of his death, she refused to agree to an autopsy. The Palestinian leader died at a military hospital outside Paris in November 2004 of what French doctors called a massive brain hemorrhage — weeks after he fell violently ill at his West Bank compound. Doctors, including independent experts who reviewed his medical records on behalf of The Associated Press, have been unable to pinpoint the underlying cause of the hemorrhage. Speculation has lingered in the Arab world that he was killed by Israel, which viewed him as an obstacle to a peace treaty. Israeli officials have vociferously denied any foul play. Francois Bochud, who heads the Institute of Radiation Physics in Lausanne, Switzerland, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that his...

(AP) JERUSALEM – Israel’s prime minister on Tuesday moved to contain the first major crisis in his newly expanded coalition government after his most significant partner threatened to quit in a dispute over how to overhaul the country’s military draft. Benjamin Netanyahu is rushing to meet an Aug. 1 court deadline to end a contentious system that has exempted tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews from serving in the army. The explosive issue is threatening to drive Netanyahu’s new coalition partner, Kadima, out of the government. Kadima, led by Shaul Mofaz, a former military chief of staff, joined the coalition just two months ago with the aim of reforming the draft. “If Netanyahu doesn’t keep his promises, then the crisis is going to be severe and there won’t be a partnership. There’s no middle ground here,” Mofaz told the Yediot Ahronot daily. Mitt Romney to visit Israel this summer The issue of the exemptions has become a major ok 카지노 point of division in Israeli society. Under a long-standing arrangement, ultra-Orthodox seminary students are permitted to skip mandatory military service in order to pursue religious studies. This system, begun six decades ago by Israel’s founding fathers, was originally meant to allow several hundred gifted scholars to revive institutions of Jewish learning following the killing of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust. The numbers of exemptions have swelled over the...