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(FILES) In this photograph taken on October 29, 2009, Pakistani soldiers stand on a hill in a village of the Sherwangi region of South Waziristan. Around 30,000 troops are taking part in the offensive against an estimated 1012,000 militants in the semiautonomous and lawless tribal belt.
Yudhoyono receives Soros at Tampaksiring PAGE 8
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Hit list draws fire in wake of leaked US documents Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – When it comes to war, killing the enemy is an accepted fact. Even amid the sensation of the WikiLeaks.org revelations, that stark reality lies at the core of new charges that some American military commando operations may have amounted to war crimes. Among the thousands of pages of classified U.S. documents released Sunday by the whistleblower website are nearly 200 incidents that involve Task Force 373, an elite military special operations unit tasked with hunting down and killing enemy combat-
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ants in Afghanistan. Denouncing suggestions that U.S. troops are engaged in war crimes in Afghanistan, military officials and even war crimes experts said Monday that enemy hit lists, while ugly and uncomfortable, are an enduring and sometimes un-
avoidable staple of war. Some, however, cautioned that without proper controls that mandate the protection of innocent civilians, such targeted hits could veer into criminal activities. Buried in the documents are descriptions of Task Force 373’s
missions, laying bare graphic violence as well as mistakes, questionable judgments and deadly consequences — sometimes under fire, other times not. In June 2007, the unit went in search of Taliban commander Qari UrRahman. According to the files, U.S. forces, under the cover of night, engaged in a firefight with suspected insurgents and called in an AC-130 gunship to take out the enemy. Continued on page 6
Foxconn shuts India plant after workers hospitalized Agence France Presse
TAIPEI – Taiwan’s troubled IT giant Foxconn has suspended operations at a factory in India after 250 workers were hospitalized in an incident thought to be linked to spraying of pesticide. Work at the facility in Chennai, southern India, was halted on Monday and is expected to resume in about a week, Foxconn said in a statement late Monday. It said the incident took place on Friday last week and that some
workers had “experienced sensations of giddiness and nausea”. While the problem was being investigated, it “may have been caused by the routine spraying of pesticide at the production facility,” Foxconn said. The company said 250 workers — about half the workforce — had been hospitalized, however all but 28 had been released after treatment, with the remainder remaining under observation in hospital. Continued on page 6
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An ambulance is seen at the entrance of a factory operated by Taiwan-based IT giant Foxconn at Sriperumpudur, in the outskirts of Chennai, on July 27, 2010.