THREE INJURED IN CHITWAN ACCIDENT Kathmandu, 25 Aug : Three people have sustained injuries in a road accident on Saturday morning near Kurintar of Chitwan district along the Prithvi Highway, RSS reports from Cjitwan. One driver and two passengers were seriously injured when a jeep with the registration no. Lu 1 Cha 4293, which was carrying chickens and heading for Kathmandu from Munglin and a truck Na 3 Kha 6020 heading for Munglin from Kathmandu collided with each other. Jeep driver trapped in the jeep was rescued with the help of a crane and two passengers have been sent to a medical store at Kurintar for primary treatment, the District Police Office said. Those injured are not identified yet. The Kurintar portion of the road is obstructed because of the accident. The truck driver is at large, police said. The site is six kms towards Kurintar from Munglin. Nnnn US TROOPS WARNED OF EXPOSING SENSITIVE INFORMATION AS BOOK ON OSAMA BIN LADEN APPEARS NEXT WEEK Kathmandu, 25 Aug.:The US special operations chief has warned his troops, current and former, that he would take legal action against anyone found to have exposed sensitive information that could cause fellow forces harm. AP reports from Washington. The threat comes as a new book with a firsthand account of the deadly raid on Osama bin Laden appears next month. “We will pursue every option available to hold members accountable, including criminal prosecution where appropriate,” Adm Bill McRaven wrote in an open, unclassified letter emailed to the active-duty special operations community yesterday and obtained by The Associated Press. A retired Navy commando has revealed he is publishing a firsthand account of the raid that killed bin Laden in Pakistan a little more than a year ago. Pentagon officials say they have not been given a chance to review the book, No Easy Day, which comes out on September 11, the anniversary of the 2001 attacks. The warning to troops also follows a media campaign by special operations veterans decrying alleged leaks by President Barack Obama’s administration of secret operations and criticising Obama’s highlighting the bin Laden raid as part of his reelection campaign. McRaven also took former special operators to task for ‘using their celebrity status to advance their personal or professional agendas’. He acknowledged that former service members are ‘well within their rights to advocate for certain causes or write books about their adventures’, but he cautioned against claiming to speak for all special operations troops and endangering troops by what they write. The author of the bin Laden raid book, listed under the pseudonym of Mark Owen, was identified yesterday by Fox News as Matt Bissonnette, who retired from the Navy last summer. One current and one former US military official confirmed the name, speaking on condition of anonymity. Penguin Group (USA)’s Dutton imprint, the publisher, asked news organisations yesterday to withhold his identity. “Sharing the true story of his personal experience in No Easy Day is a courageous act in the face of obvious risks to his personal security,” Dutton Spokeswoman Christine Ball said in a statement. “That personal security is the sole reason the book is being published under a pseudonym.” Bissonnette changed the names of the other SEALs in the account, the publisher says. Efforts to locate Bissonnette for comment were unsuccessful. McRaven’s plea for discretion comes as a number of special operators publish memoirs or appear in the media. Best-seller American Sniper was published this year by recently retired SEAL Chris Kyle, detailing his 150-plus kills of insurgents from 1999 to 2009. Many of the special operations advocacy groups that are critical of Obama also openly identify members. One group is run by retired Navy SEAL Ryan Zinke, who touts his time years ago at SEAL Team 6, the top secret unit that carried out the bin Laden raid. Even Special Operations Command made an exception to its normal reticence with the media when it signed off on this year’s movie Act of Valor, which followed active duty SEALs carrying out training exercises that were turned into what looked like real action scenes for the film. The author of No Easy Day is scheduled to appear on the CBS News program 60 Minutes on September 9th. The book is already listed as one of the top 10 books on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com. Nnnn