Portal:Current events/2005 October 7

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• Conflict in Afghanistan: U.S. Troops kill four Afghan police, after mistaking them for militants in the Girishk district of the Helmand Province. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4318862.stm (BBC)]
• Militants kill at least 8 members of the Ahmadiyya faith inside a Mosque as worshippers were performing Salah. The attack occurred in Mandi Bahauddin in Punjab, Pakistan. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4317998.stm (BBC)]
• Conflict in Iraq:
• At least twenty-nine Iraqi fighters and six U.S. Marines are killed in major fighting in western Iraq. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4319388.stm (BBC)] [http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/MAC727404.htm (Reuters)]
• British forces have detained 12 people, including three police officers, in connection with a series of deadly attacks on UK forces in southern Iraq. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4318340.stm (BBC)]
• The UN International Atomic Energy Agency and its Director General Mohamed ElBaradei share the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts to limit the spread of atomic weapons. [http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/10/07/nobel.citation/ (CNN)] [https://web.archive.org/web/20051230114714/http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1129781.ece (Aftenposten)] [http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/2005/index.html (Nobel Prize)]
• Three Hamas members are kidnapped from their homes in the West Bank. A group, supportive of the Palestinian National Authority, calling itself the "Omar Ben al-Khatib Warriors" claims responsibility for the kidnappings of the three, and one is later freed. [http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3152141,00.html (Ynetnews)]
• According to the BBC, the industrial solvent gamma-butyrolactone (GBL) is being used in the UK as a club drug, with lethal results. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4261788.stm (BBC)]

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