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NABLUS, West Bank, Jan. 3 - Israeli forces launched military operations in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank early Thursday, hours before taking a Katyusha rocket in the Gaza Strip set fire to bottom harmless crashed near the Israeli town Ashkelon.

At least nine Palestinians were killed while Israeli tanks and helicopter attacks in the Gaza Strip, including five members of one family killed near the central city of Khan Younis, Palestinian officials said.

, Said the Israeli official Katyusha attack was the deepest strike ever undertaken in Israel from the Gaza Strip. Katyushas are Soviet missiles with a range of about a dozen miles, about twice as high as the maximum distance provisional Palestinian rocket known as Qassams.

Israeli Army said that the operations in the Gaza Strip, which began shortly after midnight, was against Palestinian attacks and the recent rocket strikes. Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank city of Nablus in search of Palestinian fighters. The Katyusha was fired at about 8:30 am Thursday, she said.

"What we saw today is the beginning of a situation where it is not only in the cities and towns adjacent to the line of fire, but up to a quarter of a million Israelis," said a spokesman for the Israeli government, Mark Regev. "Existing missile attack represents an escalation, upgrade, a larger missile with a range of over, the house is not something, but some thing in the Gaza Strip increased from the outside. "

Citing concern that more weapons has been suggested that in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli government had a day earlier Egypt has condemned the decision to open a crossing point for pilgrims returning from Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

The Israeli operation, the largest offensive in the Palestinian territories, and more than two months, residents said.

In Nablus, Palestinian officials have said 33 people were injured and conflicts, some of which are rubber ball bearings. Echo shootings and clouds of tear gas blowing across the city, much during the day. Three residents of militants suspected of activities have been jailed, a spokesman for the Israeli military said.

The violence occurred as President Bush prepared to visit Israel and the Palestinian territories in an attempt to build the momentum for peace.

"With President Bush, as soon as possible, we can hope to see, in the positive sense on the Palestinian people, but we will see quite the opposite," said Jamal al-Muhaisen, the governor of Nablus. Whereas Nablus is long regarded as a stronghold of militant groups launching attacks against Israel, the Palestinian Authority, it has stepped up efforts in law enforcement over the past few months.

"I think this move as an attempt to destroy our security, which is to work," said Muhaisen.

Visit of Mr. Bush is time to build on the peace talks in November in Annapolis, Md. These meetings include Israeli and Palestinian officials, but no representatives of Hamas, the armed Islamic movement, controls the Gaza Strip.

[Hamas, said a Palestinian fighter was killed Friday in a battle with Israeli troops in northern Gaza Strip near the town of Beit Hanoun, Reuters reported from Gaza City.]

The attack in Bani Suhailah, east of Khan Younis, were killed Fayad Karima, her daughter Asma, 20, and son Sami, 28, and Ahmed, 31, grenades of the shell struck their country. Israeli officer said when the man was before the work of rotation of Israeli forces refuge in the house. Imbibés blood on the walls of two-storey housing and olive trees in the courtyard.

Given that the bodies were removed and white coffins, neighbours and relatives wept and shouted, "There is no god except Allah!"

"I did not say goodbye," cried Maria Fayad has lost her stepmother and three brothers and sisters in the attack. Another died in clashes on Fayad in the region. "How can they all in a minute

20 years, woman pulls list of more than 700 deaths suffered noncombat

A drunken night in Iraq, is a soldier behind
20 years, woman pulls list of more than 700 deaths suffered noncombat
The sun was not yet at Taji. A young soldier was the only one in the dirt. She was alive, but only slightly. Your ribs were crushed and their spleen, broken. Your right-hand page was marked by the tread pattern edged a tire.

Pfc. Gunterman Hannah McKinney was 20 years old, brown eyes of his mother, a child son, were reviewed, as it appears in the light the passage of a Humvee on a perimeter of the streets in one of the most important for States United in the military camp in Iraq.

Thirteen hours later, in Redlands, California, and Matt Heavrin Barbie, had three children, the military learned that she had lost her oldest daughter "were injured as a vehicle", the army like the first time.
But there was even more on the story. For Heavrins, the events of September 4, 2006, the leadership of Camp Taji is bit by bit. McKinney's last hour, they learn with alcohol, sex and decorated a reservist, who was responsible for the look of the junior soldiers as her daughter.

His case lies in a litany of noncombat deaths in Iraq, more than 700, falls, suicides, illnesses and accidents show that the truths sometimes chaotic life in a war zone.

The cases are possible, especially for parents, the sudden loss of a child and the struggle to understand why. In McKinney's Fall, many details in the pages 1460 and a log file of the court martial arts, reinforced by the "Washington Post", the "Freedom of Information Act.

Well, the parents want their story told completely. They may not themselves be compatible with the idea that that terrible day in Taji, his daughter remained.

In the first days after the death of McKinney, Heavrins say they were prepared by staff of the Army says that her daughter "may have been, when they pass through the road crossing in the dark, while , in a custody From near a latrine.

There is no mention of this scenario in the case. But this is what they believed Heavrins above their heads their money in the coffin from the church in the family, red roses and notes, next to her daughter dunkelhaarigen.

Barbie has Heavrin McKinney's son, Todd, had not yet 2, his coffin to adopt the auction.

"Mom sleep? Called the young man, tätschelnd front.

The Heavrins described his daughter as attractive and deliberate, with the singing talents and a good sense of humour sanded ziemend childhood Nickname: Happy Hannah. They constantly read books - loved "Gone with the Wind" - and wanted a career in marketing.

"She was young, spontaneous, very sparkling, laughing nervously, laughing," said Spec. Annette Mack, his roommate at Taji. Another close friend, Spec. Nicole Cabral, said his son McKinney's teddy bear in the war, in which she slept the night.

The death was all the more bitter because McKinney was on his last performance of the civil war there shortly after his return, the soldier, it was a small Thursday Shortly before the ceremony deployment. McKinney, and Christopher, then 21, a beautiful marriage project at Christmas, Heavrins church.

"We had a burial in the church," said the mother.

Hannah McKinney had recruited in the army reserve in 2003 and was pregnant with Todd in 2004. In connection with their father Todd fell apart, she drew back to California. But in the year 2005, in the hope of good pay and benefits to support her son, she decided to become actively obligation to ensure that his family, a single mother is not delivered at the war. It was while they were romantic with Christopher McKinney.

Just months army training, Hannah McKinney has been set up to Taji, north of Baghdad, the 542nd Maintenance Company, 44 Corps Support Battalion. She was soon drawn travels with a machine gun and another soldier guard along the perimeter of the camp.

Not far away, a warm September night, three sergeants gathered to celebrate the end of their touring to come, according to their reports in the files. Among them was Damon D. Shell, then 25, a High School Quarterback-time for his second round. After his MySpace page, Ohio's interests as sports teams, women, beer and karaoke games drunk.

Although alcohol was forbidden in the fight against the zone, one of the sergeants, he had managed to buy vodka, and they drank a cocktail party, a night in the barracks, according to testimony. Later, drunk, accumulated in a Humvee sergeants of the auction to allow women a tour of custody, according to testimony.

On the tour, Shell tent, the two women soldiers to kiss her, but she refuses, in his own words. It was 3 am, when the group could no longer be McKinney's watch. Shell has it, and it occurred in the Humvee.
A crime is not an accident

The information provided in this night began deploying to McKinney's funeral when she told investigators Barbie Heavrin asked for "full details". You will know that there is not unhappy trip to a latrine. McKinney's death was a criminal.

According to reports from environment during interviews and examinations Poly graphic, McKinney received "drunk after only a drink of vodka and orange juice in the barracks. While other soldiers skidded in her bed, and McKinney had a sexual encounter, he said.

Heavrin crawled to hear, as the details. McKinney had violated military orders, she knew, using their posts and drink. For McKinney's mother, sex is not suitable with her daughter in the foreground, their marriage. She thought about McKinney's low tolerance for alcohol. Your .20 autopsy showed a blood-alcohol.

Shell said he tried to investigators, the return to their custody McKinney, but she was in any form "enter. It was 5:15 pm at the request does towermate Shell, Pfc. Rachelle Anderson , the coverage of her, if the next layer happened.

"I told him that I would be not to participate at all," Anderson said in a statement.

Shell left, the tower at 5:35 am McKinney 10000 pounds Humvee, continued downward in a cul-de-sac, then a U-Turn, after acknowledging his error. On this journey, he pointed out McKinney's door open and close, he said.

Back on the main road, he moved into a gap in a convoy near. In the seat beside him, he saw McKinney hunched forward. As he continued south, he heard the back door open and felt a familiar belly, where dirt and gravel, cement, "he says.

Unexpected, there was a second bump, he said, "as I ran about something."

He saw. The door was open, and McKinney had disappeared. He tried to note if it had come, but he said: "I knew it was a possibility that I might run."

He did not pause to consider, he said in a statement. "I thought I met him," he said, "but at the time I did not know what I was thinking of this kind of thing."

Shell led to the barracks and went to bed as McKinney was in the street, their clothing and zerzauste a boat missing.

the former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif

LAHORE, Pakistan - In the lobby with polished marble of his house, the former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif held two lions ausgestopften wild. They were purchased in Africa, and they welcomed the attention of visitors with piercing.

Sharif and his mark of lions and tigers have been raging in the walls of his poster campaign across Pakistan. In a sense, they take a metaphor for a man who was once on the brink of extinction policy, but was again presented as a powerful force in a tense period.

"Pakistan is in a very serious situation. I am here to do what I can," said Sharif Thursday, sitting in a silk and gold in his rich country thronelike chair at home. "However, the country ' no need for a one-man show. Pakistan has become a laughingstock. We need General Musharraf to step. We need a return to the judges, the return to the rule of law, a return to democracy
In November, after the return to Pakistan of Sharif eight years of exile, it was widely overshadowed by Benazir Bhutto, whose staff and magnetism storied largely dominated the political landscape. Now, a week after the assassination of Bhutto, Sharif is the country which has experienced most of the leaders of the opposition and seen by many as an observer.

Given the death of Bhutto, Sharif, 58, the Prime Minister, while Pakistan, the first atomic bomb and who has even tried to introduce Islamic law, which tries to distinguish itself from an overhaul schmähte -- and allegedly corrupt - in the form of a guide to sustainable situation Regroups different political parties and religious groups. Its capacity to do so, is all the more important at a time when political instability and Islamic extremism, the rise is the increase in security, not only in this region but also in Washington.

His party, the Pakistan Muslim League-N, caution should be officials from the United States, but it has the support of longtime Pakistanis, which in turn thousands, to see Sharif.

Playing his cards right
Journalism commentators have in recent times to call Sharif "Nawaz Light" policy, and experts say it plays its cards well. Once a character which he now denounces the president Pervez Musharraf as a military dictator. And even though she was once a bitter enemy of Bhutto, it has a number of calculating moves well a call to their loyalists.

He rushed Bhutto to visit at the hospital. He laid a wreath at the tomb, "said Sartaj Aziz, Minister of Finance, then foreign minister under Sharif, the prime minister was elected twice in the 1990's. "It is powerful by the conduct, if the country feels at a loss. He learned a lot in exile. "

Sharif is a product of the army. In mid-1980, when he is a businessman unknown, it was protected by the hand of Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, a military dictator of Pakistan, which once Sharif as his "son".

It was, with the blessing of the army, the Minister Sharif was director of the province of Punjab politically important in 1985. He came, finally, as a religion sides alternative to Bhutto, the new and had a secular purpose.

"The West was possessed by Benazir, who was so handsome and charming, and the complaint of a Muslim woman heads. Sharif but is more indigenous. He is the Pakistan," said Ahsan Iqbal, a spokesman for the party Sharif.

With a strain to build a reputation and affectionate for large quantities of rice and lamb kabobs Pakistan, Sharif, are very popular among Muslims observant and respected for Pakistan of the atomic bomb, a cornerstone of national pride against arch-rival India.

He was first elected prime minister in the year 1990 on a platform of ending corruption. He joined in July 1993 after standing enmities with the President of Pakistan at that time, Ghulam Ishaq Khan, had criticized the extent of corruption.

In 1997, he was re-elected Prime Minister Sharif erdrutschartigen after its victory of the opposing party. His accomplishments, the buildings of a South Asia, the longest highways and other development projects.

But it was also Sharif, during the second term Musharraf unanimously appointed as head of the army. It turned out to be a fateful decision: After further charges of corruption against Sharif, and had autocratic tendencies, it was in October 1999 in a coup d'etat without bloodshed by the military . As President Musharraf has been installed.

Bitter enemies
Musharraf Sharif, and remained bitter enemies since. In September Sharif tried to return to Pakistan from Saudi Arabia, where he is on prevention, in a time of prison Deal with Musharraf, he met to repeal a criminal conviction. He spent a few hours at Islamabad airport Musharraf to the new deported. Sharif's return to the Lahore last one with festivals and street cries of "The lion is back, the lion is back!"

The Bush administration has the hat before Sharif, the number of staff that the opinion is to maintain close relationships with the Islamist extremists. But Thursday, Sharif said that the United States Embassy in Islamabad and had contacted him for a meeting - a sign, he suggested that the increase of its popularity.

Elizabeth Colton, spokesman for the Swiss embassy in Islamabad, confirmed that the American officials were ready for a meeting with Sharif, and other political leaders in Pakistan.

Analysts say that perceptions of American Pakistani radical Sharif are very strong and its links with Islamist groups leverage could contribute to a better fight against the threat posed by religious extremism in the region.

"He has an apartment in London, he has taken to make him his hair and look more beautiful, it is a serious businessman," said Talat Masood, a retired educator and political analysts. "He is not an extremist. That's a total misunderstanding. "

In the interview, President Bush has proposed Sharif, we must not forget that in the course of our perception of time, and that the alliances relocate.

"Once there are no long, Americans have the support of Osama bin Laden and the so-called freedom fighters in Afghanistan. Mr. Bush always, although Musharraf Bhutto was killed on his watch. Terrorism grows still under a dictatorship, "Sharif Dit.

Critics say it is not clear how far Sharif has changed. They say that the Taliban in Afghanistan has increased during his tenure, and that its management and inflammation regional tensions by detonating a nuclear weapon in the year 1998, despite the appeals in the United States remember.

On Thursday, when he asked to have made mistakes, Sharif was leaning back in his chair and silence. His eyes seriously, he leaned back and forth.

"My only mistake was to support Musharraf," he says with a depth to compensate for his neck, then a laugh. "It's a mistake