By empty (7/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

A suicide bomber has driven a taxi into a convoy of US-led troops in Afghanistan, killing himself and a child, officials say. Officials say that the attack happened in the Yaqubay district of Khost province, and that two US soldiers and three other children were injured. Officials blamed the attack on al-Qaeda and Taleban militants, who have mounted a series of attacks throughout 2006.

By empty (7/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

Kazakhstan has begun to deliver oil to China by the oil pipeline going across Alatau to the oil storages, built in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, in the north-east of the country. So, the commercial operation of the first direct oil pipeline going across the Chinese border has been started, the Xinhua News Agency reported on Wednesday. According to Zhu Minjie, an officer of the Chinese customs service, within 15 days, after the filling up of the intermediary oil tank, oil will start coming to the oil refinery in Dushanzi, the biggest in China.

By empty (7/12/2006 issue of the CACI Analyst)

“Armenia raises false, imaginary, unreal and faked accusations against Turkey, and try the notorious “genocide” to be approved in Europe. That is, it shows that they are in a hostile position,” said President Ilham Aliyev in an interview to Turkey’s Cumhuriyet newspaper. The Head of State then stressed, “First, there was not any genocide.