Portal:Current events/2006 September 3

September 3, 2006 (Sunday)

Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Egyptian daily Al Akhbar reports that three Palestinian terrorists are planning to carry out attacks on Israelis on holiday on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula. (Haaretz)
Europe's first lunar probe, SMART-1, successfully crash-lands onto the Moon, ending its 16-month mission. (BBC)
Iraqi insurgency
- Mouwaffak al-Rubaie, Iraq's National Security Advisor, announces the capture of Hamed Jumaa Farid al-Saeedi, the second most senior figure in al-Qaeda in Iraq. (CNN)
Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan
- More than 200 Taliban rebel and four Canadian troops die in a major offensive in Kandahar. (CTV) Archived 2006-09-06 at the Wayback Machine
Kayaking world record
- The Swedish adventurer Lasse Schmidt finishes the first solo crossing of the Baltic Sea in a kayak. The crossing between Sweden and Estonia took three days to complete without sleep.(Documentation and media)