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Newspaper
Odessa American
Location
Odessa, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 2005
Page
9
Federal agents rescued an American woman kidnapped in Texas and held in northern Mexico. Police arrested the captor, Simon Andres Garcia, in Monclova. The woman reported kidnapping on August 16 in San Antonio.
Rockets hit a U S amphibious ship in Aqaba Jordan narrowly missing the vessel and killing a Jordanian soldier in the region s most serious strike since the USS Cole attack. Security forces hunted six suspected militants from Egypt Syria and Iraq linked to al Qaida allied groups claiming responsibility. The Abdullah Azzam Brigades boasted they fired the rockets as the US Marines and sailors aboard the Ashland and Kearsarge deployed from Camp Lejeune.
Masked gunmen killed three Sunni Arabs outside the Dhi al Nourein mosque in Mosul as they promoted voter registration for the October 15 referendum on a new constitution. Witnesses said the victims were dragged to a nearby wall and shot dead before gunmen fled in three cars as a major street was blocked.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told a cheering Gaza crowd that Israel’s Gaza withdrawal came from Palestinian sacrifices and patience and vowed new jobs, free movement, and rebuilt homes once the pullout ends. He hailed “historic days of joy” as militants and residents watched settlers leave Gaza.
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