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• Militant leader hanged by Iran

  Jundallah’s founder was executed

  23 June, by typewriterking
  Iran hanged the leader of the militant group Jundallah, Abdolmalek Rigi, yesterday, after he was found guilty of nearly 80 criminal charges.
  Rigi was the founder and leader of Jundallah, which have carried out numerous attacks in Iran since 2003, killing 154 people and injuring 320 more. Charges against him numbered 79, including armed robbery, contacting intelligence agents from the United States, NATO, and Israel, kidnapping, and the founding of a terrorist group, which the Iranian (...)
  
  

• Four coalition soldiers die in Kandahar helicopter crash

  Wikinews: Tuesday, June 22, 2010

  22 June, by typewriterking
  Less than two weeks after two Australian soldiers (Diggers) died in the explosion of a roadside bomb, three more Diggers and a US soldier were killed last night in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, while seven other soldiers are being treated for injuries.
  Australian Defence Force Chief, Angus Houston said in a statement this afternoon that two of the crash survivors are in a serious condition and will be moved with the other survivors to the US military hospital in Begram.
  The (...)