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:: Saturday, October 20, 2001 ::
Is This The Uss New Vietnam? WASHINGTON-based think-tank GlobalSecurity.org says the US and UK forces should prepare for a long fight. Leading member John Pike said: "US and British troops face what is called mission creep - short-term operations that drag out year after year. What happens then is you get into nation building. It's a situation where the US has to prop up some government in Kabul and that starts to look like a puppet regime. This was a problem the US faced in Vietnam.'' :: Dataghost 11:59 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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UNs smallpox terror alert. Governments around the world have been warned to prepare against a terrorist smallpox attack which could kill millions. The World Health Organisation has told them to ensure they can produce enough vaccine to protect their population against the disease, and is preparing to order mass precautionary vaccination of all citizens. 'The unthinkable is no longer unthinkable and we need to prepare for that,' said a spokesperson for the WHO, the United Nations' health agency. 'There has been a lot of concern about a smallpox outbreak. The numbers it would kill are scary.' :: Dataghost 11:56 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Egypt accuses Sharon of seeking excuse to suspend peace contacts. Egypt blamed Israel on Thursday for renewed violence in the Palestinian territories, accusing hardline Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of seeking an excuse to suspend budding new peace contacts with the Palestinians. “We reject and condemn the Israeli policy of (targeted) assassinations (of Palestinian militants), which can only provoke more violence,” Foreign Minister Ahmad Maher said, quoted in the newspapers. “It seems to me that Sharon's basic principle is one of refusing to negotiate, because whenever he is obliged to engage in negotiations with the Palestinian side he seizes on whatever opportunity to pull out.” :: Dataghost 11:49 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Peace hopes collapse as Israeli tanks roll in. The car ahead screeched to a halt, its driver frantically trying to find reverse. His Palestinian passenger glanced nervously through the rear window as the sound of gunfire clattered across hills and valleys. Passing him too fast we were confronted by the reason for the driver's panic: the olive bulk of an Israeli armoured car bristling with weapons - a main battle tank close on its tail - grinding and fighting their way down the suburban streets, as residents and Palestinian gunmen scattered. :: Dataghost 11:48 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Gunships blast Bethlehem house; six West Bank cities blockaded. IDF helicopter gunships attacked a house in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Saturday night. The helicopters fired a number of missiles at the house, which is just a few hundred meters from the city's Palestinian security headquarters. 15 people were wounded in the attack, four seriously. :: Dataghost 11:46 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Islam has become its own enemy. Muslims everywhere are in a deep state of denial. From Egypt to Malaysia, there is an aversion to seeing terrorism as a Muslim problem and a Muslim responsibility. The meeting last week of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference in Qatar condemned the 11 September attacks, but refused to accept any responsibility. Instead of taking the lead in tackling the problem, once again they are being railroaded into joining a 'global coalition'.
(Why are they ''being railroaded into joining a 'global coalition'? Simply put, the Muslims refuse to openly admit that they are responsible for allowing terrorism to fester in their midst, now they're going to be led to eventually accept that grave responsibility. Just goes to show that you can't hope that the 'Ostrich Manuever' will ever work...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 11:44 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Applications rocket for online US terrorism course. Applications for a US college's online courses in national security and terrorism have rocketed since September 11. The American Military University courses include Homeland Defence, Chemical and Biological Defence and Forecasting Terrorism. :: Dataghost 11:35 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Iraq claims U.S. created anthrax scare. An Iraqi government newspaper claimed Saturday that the United States government organized the global anthrax scare to gain support for its war on terror. In addition, Saddam Hussein accused the U.S. of 11 years of terrorism against Iraq through sanctions and by aiding the Baghdad regime's enemies. :: Dataghost 11:34 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israel Warns U.S. Of Egyptian Military Buildup. Israel has warned the United States of Egypt's military buildup. Israeli diplomatic sources said the warning was relayed by the Defense Ministry to the U.S. Defense Department. They said Israel warned that Egypt's military buildup of Western weapons was eroding Israel's qualitative superiority. :: Dataghost 11:32 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Mubarak: Bin Laden never talked of Palestinians before WTC. Egypt will applaud if the United States captures Osama bin Laden, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said in an interview published Saturday, but he cautioned terrorism ``can't be stopped,'' only lessened. Asked in an interview in Newsweek if he believed the United States could capture Saudi militant bin Laden, the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States that killed nearly 5,400 people, Mubarak said: ``If you catch him, we will clap our hands for you.'' :: Dataghost 11:31 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Hacker cries foul over FBI snooping. The world's most infamous computer hacker, out of jail and eking a living as an actor in a television drama, has denounced the new Patriot Act - which would allow FBI and police to snoop on emails and monitor US internet activity in their efforts to counter terrorism. Kevin Mitnick, 38, imprisoned for breaking into the computer systems of America's leading telephone companies, told The Observer that the legislation proposed in the wake of the 11 September attacks was 'ludicrous'. :: Dataghost 11:28 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Saddams surprise message. Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has for the first time offered condolences to the American people for those who died in the 11 September attacks. He was replying to an e-mail from an American who appealed to him to take a stand toward removing terrorism, hunger and strife around the world. :: Dataghost 11:25 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Annan invites Musharraf to Assembly meet. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today invited Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf to attend the UN General Assembly Session starting November 10. Foreign Office Spokesman Riaz Mohammad Khan said Mr Annan called up Mr Musharraf and requested him to visit New York and attend the General Assembly Session as there is a considerable interest in the world community about the development in this region because of the Afghan war and Pakistan’s “courageous’’ role in it. :: Dataghost 11:22 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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A Leading Role for the Security Council. In the past month, the world has witnessed something previously unknown: a common stand taken by America, Russia, Europe, India, China, Cuba, most of the Islamic world and numerous other regions and countries. Despite many serious differences between them, they united to save civilization. It is now the responsibility of the world community to transform the coalition against terrorism into a coalition for a peaceful world order. Let us not, as we did in the 1990's, miss the chance to build such an order. Concepts like solidarity and helping third world countries to fight poverty and backwardness have disappeared from the political vocabulary. But if these concepts are not revived politically, the worst scenarios of a clash of civilizations could become reality.
(Here's something else previously unknown, a past Soviet Union Leader writing a story for the New York Times...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 11:20 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Eight die in West Bank bloodshed. Eight Palestinians have been killed in clashes with Israeli forces in Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank - the largest loss of life in a single day of violence for two months. Four Palestinian civilians were killed in the Bethlehem area, while two members of the Palestinian security forces died in Tulkarm and a Palestinian policeman and a member of the Islamic militant group Hamas were killed in Qalqilya, according to Palestinian sources.
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U.S. commando raid destroyed targets in Afghanistan. At least one helicopter and anti-aircraft fire could be heard in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, Saturday night following a day of bombardment and two overnight commando raids by U.S. special forces. In Kandahar, where soldiers conducted a raid overnight, an AC-130 gunship could be heard descending over the city shortly after 9 p.m. local time (12:30 p.m. EDT). Kandahar was in a state of chaos, as thousands continued fleeing the city for the Pakistan border. United Nations officials estimated that 80 percent of the city's residents had left. Kandahar was reported without electricty and water, and food was virtually nonexistent. Witnesses also reported seeing looters sacking homes. :: Dataghost 11:14 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Troops Sought Information; Airfield Also a Target. The airborne commando raid into southern Afghanistan overnight Friday attacked a military airfield and a headquarters compound of Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Taliban's leader, in a daring strike to uncover information about the location and activities of Taliban and Al Qaeda leaders, the Pentagon said today. Meeting only light resistance, the predawn assault was conducted in at least two locations about 60 miles apart by more than 100 Army Ranger paratroopers and other helicopter-borne Special Forces troops. :: Dataghost 11:10 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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U.S. locks up rights to spy satellite images. Citing military security, the United States government has bought exclusive rights to images of Afghanistan taken by Ikonos, the world's most powerful commercial imaging satellite. A Pentagon spokesman said the deal was made to prevent Ikonos's high-quality photos from falling into the hands of the Taliban or Osama bin Laden's terrorist al-Qaeda network, which could view the images to monitor American troop movements. Some fear the real reason is to prevent images of civilian casualties from reaching the media, which the Taliban could use as counter-propaganda. :: Dataghost 3:59 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Nigeria: Oil Price Crashes to $19. OPEC said yesterday in Vienna that the price of its oil has dropped to $18.54 per barrel, the lowest since July 30, 1999. The price for the basket of OPEC crudes is more than one-half dollar lower than the 19.07 dollars rate reported by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries secretariat on Wednesday. OPEC's next ministerial meeting is set for Nov. 14 in Vienna. The cartel's official target price corridor is 22 to $28 per barrel, while its current production is 23.5 million barrels per day. :: Dataghost 3:56 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Drug Firm Plays Defense in Anthrax Scare. As the U.S. government moved to begin acquiring stocks of anthrax-fighting medicine, Bayer Corp. yesterday mounted a defense against attempts to allow the sale of less expensive, generic versions of its popular antibiotic Cipro. The federal government has announced plans to purchase about 1.2 billion doses of antibiotics, which would allow the government to treat 10 million patients for 60 days in an anthrax emergency. :: Dataghost 3:55 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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CDC asks FDA for access to militarys anthrax vaccine if necessary. Federal health officials are taking steps to get access to the military's anthrax vaccine in case it's needed, for example, for a civilian allergic to antibiotics who would need some other protection after exposure to anthrax. The vaccine would not be given routinely to civilians. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it could be useful, however, if someone exposed to any of the anthrax-tainted letters circulating the East Coast could not use any of the antibiotics that fend off anthrax. :: Dataghost 3:53 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Serbia: Vojvodina Backlash. A year after the collapse of Slobodan Milosevic's regime in Serbia, politicians in the northern province of Vojvodina are demanding why so little has changed. Frustration is bubbling over at Belgrade's failure to restore Vojvodina's autonomous status, despite promising to do so in the heady days after Milosevic's downfall. On October 9 that frustration came to a head. Nenad Canak, president of the provincial parliament, seized control of the regional television station in Novi Sad from the centralised network of Radio Television Serbia, RTS. :: Dataghost 3:50 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Sarajevo Hit by Bin Laden Panic. Embassies and other agencies of the United States and Britain were suddenly closed in Sarajevo until further notice on Wednesday because of an unspecified "credible threat" to their security. The US also shut down its consulates in Mostar and Banja Luka. A Western diplomat serving in Bosnia said, "The embassy closures were a result of information intercepted by intelligence services. I am not in a position to say if this is linked to al-Qaeda or any other terrorist organisation but I think it is related to individuals in Bosnia. It is a serious threat." :: Dataghost 3:48 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Slobo Indicted Over Croatian Crimes. The Hague tribunal has indicted former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic for atrocities in Croatia, saying he was the head of a conspiracy to commit war crimes there between August 1991 and 1992. The tribunal's latest indictment also names 15 other members of the plot. Apart from Milosevic and two alleged members who have been killed, all those listed are still under investigation for involvement in the conspiracy. :: Dataghost 3:47 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Kosovo Landmine Controversy. UN mine clearers are about to pull out of Kosovo, in spite of claims that the province is still littered with deadly unexploded ordinance. There are rumours that they are leaving because of growing funding difficulties. UNMACC, the UN Mine Action Coordination Mission, announced recently that after almost three years of work in Kosovo - and after clearing 23,000 landmines and 7,500 other unexploded weapons - its task was virtually complete. :: Dataghost 3:46 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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U.S. Thanks United Arab Emirates for Peacekeeping Duty in Kosovo. As United Arab Emirates forces in Kosovo complete their KFOR mission and re-deploy back home, we would like to take this opportunity to express our appreciation for their contribution to the international peacekeeping effort. The United States particularly appreciates the fine service of the United Arab Emirates' Apache Helicopter unit that was assigned in the U.S. sector. :: Dataghost 3:44 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Fallout From Terrorist Attacks Punishes Canadian Companies. Canada's economy was struggling well before Sept. 11, but economists now warn the attacks on the United States have increased the likelihood of a recession. Their only question is how long it will last. In the weeks following the attack, the Canadian dollar plunged to a record low of 63.34 U.S. cents, and consumer confidence fell. Automotive and lumber plants shut down, hotels let workers go and Air Canada laid off 5,000 people. Economists say more bad news may be coming as new delays at the 4,000-mile border between the United States and Canada have hurt exports.
(So much for the concept of free trade...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 3:42 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Bayer Seeks Meeting With Canadians. Canada's decision to override a patent on the anti-anthrax drug Cipro angered officials with German drugmaker Bayer AG, who said Friday they were seeking talks with the country's ministry of health. Canadian health officials said Thursday they would order stocks of the antibiotic from a Canadian manufacturer despite Bayer's patent on the antibiotic, which runs out in late 2003. :: Dataghost 3:39 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Canadian Cipro ruling sparks patent debate. Bayer Canada insisted Friday it had "millions and millions" of Cipro anti-anthrax tablets available for the Canadian government, which ignored Bayer's patent for the antibiotic and placed an order for a cheaper generic version this week. The move by Health Minister Allan Rock raised questions in Canada and the United States, where calls have been made for a similar Bayer patent to be relaxed to increase supplies of Cipro after a series of anthrax exposures and scares. :: Dataghost 3:38 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Spy agencies given extra funds. Canada's two spy agencies will spend almost $50-million on foreign intelligence measures to tap phones, intercept e-mails and capture other communications between Canadians and potential terrorists abroad. The money, $47-million in total, will be spent on high-tech equipment and more staff for the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and the Defence Department's Communications Security Establishment in the battle against terrorism. :: Dataghost 3:36 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Russia Defuses Abkhaz Tensions. President Vladimir Putin surprised Tbilisi earlier this week when he announced his forces' withdrawal from their base in Abkhazia would go ahead as planned. It came as Georgia's relations with Russia hit their lowest ebb for years. When fighting broke out in the breakaway republic two weeks ago between Abkhaz troops and a group of Chechen and Georgian insurgents, Moscow unambiguously pointed the finger of blame at Tbilisi for allowing, even supporting the insurrection, accusing it of supporting "bandits" and "terrorists". :: Dataghost 3:34 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Rumors of War in Abkhazia. The outbreak of war is on everyone's mind here in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. But it's not the Afghan bombing just across the Caspian Sea that people are worried about. Georgians have their own rapidly escalating local war to deal with: the Abkhaz problem is flaring up again. Abkhazia, the Russian-supported strip of land around the eastern edge of the Black Sea, has been a constant thorn in Tbilisi’s side ever since Georgian government forces lost the 1992-1993 civil war with the breakaway region. With the Abkhaz capital, Sukhumi, claiming independence and Tbilisi still hoping Abkhazia will remain within Georgia, years of U.N.-brokered peace talks have failed to bring resolution to this conflict. Abkhazia's international status remains up in the air. Which is more than can be said for a U.N. helicopter shot down over Abkhazia on Oct. 8th. The helicopter was downed over the infamous Kodori Valley, killing all nine a board, including five U.N. observers. Attacks against U.N. officials are sadly nothing new here; they have been the victims of numerous kidnappings in the Kodori area since 1998. :: Dataghost 3:33 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Voices From Tajikistan on a Paris Canal. :: Dataghost 3:31 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Uzbekistan Rebuffs Shanghai Pact. Uzbekistan's absence from an emergency meeting of the Shanghai Organization for Cooperation, SOC, in Bishkek late last week has prompted members of the association to question its commitment to the association. Some members of the organisation believe it is preparing to ditch the SOC in favour of a closer strategic partnership with Washington. The emergency talks on October 10 and 11, held to discuss the US-led air strikes on Afghanistan, were summoned by Kyrgyzstan, which feels particularly insecure owing to the weakness of its armed forces. :: Dataghost 3:30 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Germany Feels the Winds of War Rising. The German public may not have noticed yet. But the country's security situation changed fundamentally this week. The shift occurred when Chancellor Gerhard Schröder revealed that the United States had asked Germany to provide Fox reconnaissance vehicles, which can help detect nuclear, biological and chemical agents, as well as medical units. This announcement leads to one conclusion: German troops are unlikely to be packing for Afghanistan. The units being offered are trained to work in areas where combat troops require protection from chemical weapons or where large numbers of wounded soldiers are expected. Neither scenario is likely in Afghanistan. :: Dataghost 3:27 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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United States, France Reach Open-Skies Aviation Agreement. The United States and France have reached an "Open-Skies" agreement, eliminating restrictions on how often carriers can fly, the kind of aircraft they can use, and the prices they can charge, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced October 19. The agreement -- the 55th bilateral U.S. Open-Skies agreement worldwide and the 20th in Europe -- covers both passenger and cargo services, as well as scheduled and charter operations. :: Dataghost 3:25 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Iran rejects role for Taliban in future government. Iran's foreign minister rejected U.S. proposals to include members of the hardline Taliban militia in any future Afghan government, saying Friday that the idea was "unacceptable." Russia and India, two allies of the United States in the fight against terrorism, also added their voices in opposition to letting Taliban "moderates" into a broad-based coalition being considered to rule Afghanistan if the Taliban regime collapses under U.S. bombardment. :: Dataghost 3:21 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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U.S., Iran agree on need to oust Taliban. The United States and Iran have agreed on the need to oust Afghanistan's ruling Taliban from power in the wake of the Sept 11 terror attacks on New York and Washington, a diplomatic source said Friday. :: Dataghost 3:19 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Iran could avert broader conflict. More than any other country, Iran is in a position to help prevent a "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the rest of the world and seems inclined to do so, according to a UN envoy. "Iran is potentially in a position to make a major contribution to avoid this clash of civilizations" that some fear is developing after the Sept. 11 attacks on the US, Giandomenico Picco said on Thursday. :: Dataghost 3:18 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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The message to Sharon from Zeevis killers. Ariel Sharon's comment that Israel will never be the same after Wednesday's murder of Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi was no exaggeration. Say it quietly for risk of offending peaceniks, but the murder of Mr. Ze'evi by a Palestinian gunman is as important in political terms as the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995 by a Jewish gunman. In the short term, Israel will avenge the death of the first Cabinet minister to be slain by Palestinians. In the long term, Mr. Ze'evi's death may seriously undermine regional stability. :: Dataghost 3:13 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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US uncovers alleged terrorists accounts in UAE: report. US investigators, working to untangle the money trail following the September 11 terrorist attacks, have uncovered two bank accounts in the United Arab Emirates belonging to the suspected hijackers, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. Mohammed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, two of the suspected plot leaders, held bank accounts in the UAE before they came to the United States, according to the report. :: Dataghost 3:07 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Acer says US war has boosted Middle Eastern PC demand. Acer Inc, which made losses selling personal computers in the first half, said the US-led retaliation to the Sept. 11 attacks boosted sales to nations in the Middle East, which have refused to do business with US companies. The US launched attacks on Oct. 7. Sales of Acer's branded PCs in the three months to December will rise about 25 percent from the previous quarter, Chairman Stan Shih told reporters, without giving third quarter figures. :: Dataghost 3:06 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Germans seek Moroccan linked to terrorist cell. German investigators searched Friday for a Moroccan accused of helping plot the Sept. 11 suicide hijackings, as U.S. officials charged a college student with lying about his relationship to two suspected hijackers. Separately, immigration officials said that as one of the suspected hijackers tried to enter the country in January, he was questioned about his visa status but was allowed in. :: Dataghost 3:03 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Bomb Explodes Without Incident at Islamabad Airport. Well, the latest from Islamabad is that there has been the first sort of real security scare here since this crisis happened. Basically about three or four hours ago, there was a suspicious package discover at the Islamabad Airport. What happened was the increased security there, increased because of this crisis, discovered this package, couldn't find the person who should have owned it, immediately called out the bomb disposal squad, threw a bomb blanket over it and took it to a bomb bunker several hundred yards away from the crowded terminal. There, this device exploded. There were no casualties. The experts there tell us that had it exploded inside the terminal, it would most definitely have caused casualties and perhaps even deaths. They also are not telling us who put it there, whether there's been any claim of responsibility or who it might be. So those are the only details we know at this point. :: Dataghost 3:01 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Taliban looks to Pakistani border area for recruits. Just like his American counterparts, the polite, clean-cut young recruiter says he's having no problem signing up volunteers to go fight in Afghanistan. He says he's turned away boys too young and men too old to fight -- even a one-legged man who begged to be sent to the front. He's got combat veterans and raw recruits alike at the ready. Morale is high, he says; his side can't imagine losing. :: Dataghost 2:59 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Mahathir warns of globalization dangers. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, speaking on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Shanghai, has called on developing nations to fend for themselves in an age of globalization. He said that in many poorer areas of the world there had been many losers from globalization and very few winners and it was increasingly important for smaller nations to protect themselves. :: Dataghost 2:58 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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A Scramble to Counter Any Threat of Smallpox. After announcing plans to stockpile 300 million doses of smallpox vaccine, the government must now determine where it can quickly get so much. Under an existing contract, a small Massachusetts biotechnology company called Acambis (news/quote), which has about 150 employees, will produce 54 million doses. Tommy G. Thompson, secretary of health and human services, said this week that Acambis had agreed to speed production so that those doses could be delivered by next summer. :: Dataghost 2:54 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Health Officials Review Smallpox Plan. A single case of smallpox would trigger a federal emergency plan to vaccinate people close to the victim while detectives retraced the patient's every step over the previous three weeks. Despite the likely panic over a disease not seen in the United States in half a century, the government would not resort to citywide mass vaccinations unless absolutely necessary. :: Dataghost 2:52 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Unesco initiative on Jerusalem praised. DR Ali Abdul Aziz Al Sharhan, Minister of Education and Youth and Chairman of the National Committee for Education, Culture and Science, has stressed the significance of issues raised at the 31st general conference of Unesco in relation to changes witnessed by the world after September 11 events. In a statement to Wam, the minister highlighted the role of education in developing awareness about issues of terrorism, dialogue between civilisations and against domination of any one culture.
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Sharon weighs calls for war on Palestinians. Battling gunmen as they advanced, Israeli tanks rolled within range of Manger Square, and six more Palestinians died in escalated fighting Friday as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon weighed demands to go all the way in declaring war on the Palestinians. The army's deepest incursion into Bethlehem and other Palestinian cities matched a new intensity in Sharon's threats after the assassination Wednesday of Israeli ultranationalist leader Rehavam Zeevi--but one that carried with it a difficult choice. :: Dataghost 2:48 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Sharon Warns Arafat. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has delivered an angry ultimatum to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat — hand over the assassins of an Israeli cabinet minister within a week or be treated as a terrorist, government sources said yesterday. Israeli tanks rumble down the main road in the West Bank town of Bethlehem as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon demanded that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat hand over the killers of an Israeli cabinet minister. At a cabinet meeting after the Wednesday assassination of Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi, ministers said Sharon considered telling Arafat that Israel would "go to war" if the Palestinian leader didn't arrest the gunmen who carried out the hit.
(Mr. Sharon is blowing steam again. It would be better to do one thing or another. Mr. Sharon, why don't you just shut up and do whatever you've got planned, threats are useless...or haven't you realized that yet? Mr. Sharon still hasn't figured out that he's being led by the ''gold ring in his pig like snout''...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 2:47 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israeli Missiles Strike Bethlehem Site -Witnesses. At least three Israeli missiles struck a Palestinian site in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Saturday, wounding at least eight people, Palestinian witnesses and hospital officials said. Access to the area, which was described as a residential neighborhood near Bethlehem University, was closed off. The target of the strike was not known and the army could not immediately comment. :: Dataghost 2:42 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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BI turns down request to freeze bin Laden-linked bank accounts. Bank Indonesia (BI) has turned down a U.S. government request to disclose and freeze bank accounts of individuals or parties suspected of being linked to Osama bin Laden, a report said. BI Governor Sjahril Sabirin said that to reveal the names of account holders to an outside party or to freeze accounts was prohibited by Indonesian banking law. "BI has no authority to freeze bank accounts. It is the police that have such authority. BI can only do it if a banking crime has been committed. In the case of other crimes, it is the police that can freeze accounts," Sjahril was quoted as saying by Antara on Friday. :: Dataghost 2:38 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Bin Laden received UN cash. A BBC investigation has revealed that the United Nations funded the work of a charity believed by the United States to be a front organisation for Osama Bin Laden. The UN donated more than $1.4m to a consortium of charities working in the Sudan in 1997, one of which was the Muwafaq (Arabic: blessed relief) Foundation. :: Dataghost 2:36 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Military Didnt Find Al Qaeda, Taliban Leaders. U.S. special forces troops targeted leaders of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network and the Taliban in Afghanistan but did not find any senior leadership in two lightning ground raids on Saturday, the chairman of the U.S. military Joint Chiefs of Staff said. Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, showing dramatic film clips of night parachute drops, told reporters that elite U.S. troops entered Afghanistan to target "terrorist" and Taliban locations, including where Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar lived. :: Dataghost 2:35 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Troops step up Bin Laden manhunt. The hunt for terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden has been stepped up with special forces parachuting into enemy territory and killing Taliban troops. They also destroyed of key targets inside Afghanistan in the first series of what are likely to be many hit-and-run ground attacks. Around 200 commandos parachuted on to two Taliban targets in the south of Afghanistan, coming under "light" attack from troops. :: Dataghost 2:34 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Anti-Western and Extremist Views Pervade Saudi Schools. The textbook for one of the five religion classes required of all 10th graders in Saudi public high schools tackles the complicated issue of who good Muslims should befriend. After examining a number of scriptures which warn of the dangers of having Christian and Jewish friends, the lesson concludes: "It is compulsory for the Muslims to be loyal to each other and to consider the infidels their enemy." That extremist, anti-Western world view has gradually pervaded the Saudi education system with its heavy doses of mandatory religious instruction, according to Saudi officials and intellectuals. It has seeped outside the classroom through mosque sermons, television shows and the Internet, coming to dominate the public discussions on religion.
(Check out the editorial I wrote earlier today entitled ''For the Record''...It should be quite self-explanatory why I'm pointing out this article...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 2:31 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Russian Nuclear Weapons as a Terrorist Threat.After the anthrax attacks, nuclear terrorism is not out of the question. An internal government report, obtained by an outside watch dog group, reveals that America's 10 nuclear weapons research and production facilities are vulnerable to terrorist attack and have failed about half of recent security drills. In several cases, commando squads were able to capture enough nuclear materials to make nuclear weapons. If this report scares you, then just imagine how much worse things are in Russia, with its huge and under-funded nuclear weapons complex. :: Dataghost 2:28 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Powell says Russian base closures mark end of post-Cold War era.. US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday that Russia's decision to close military bases in former Soviet satellites Cuba and Vietnam marked the end of the "post-Cold War" era and a recognition of 21st-century threats such as terrorism. "Not only is the Cold War over, the post-Cold War period is also over," Powell said of Russian President Vladimir Putin's announcement on Wednesday that Moscow would shut its Lourdes listening post in Cuba and its naval base in Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam. :: Dataghost 2:27 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israeli foreign minister to meet with Kofi Annan, Colin Powell. Secretary-General Kofi Annan will discuss Mideast peace prospects with Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres during a meeting Sunday, a U.N. spokesman said Friday. Peres is also scheduled to meet with Secretary of State Colin Powell in Washington on Tuesday. Annan, who won the Nobel Peace Prize last week, has played a key behind-the-scenes role in encouraging the Israelis and Palestinians to resume peace talks. :: Dataghost 2:26 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Rocket nearly hit Taliban ambassador. A rocket fired on Kandahar narrowly missed the Taliban's last voice outside Afghanistan, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, the ambassador to Pakistan known to audiences across the world for his garbled English and stiff upper lip. :: Dataghost 2:24 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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State Department on U.S., EU Meeting on Terrorism Cooperation. TAKEN QUESTION FROM OCTOBER 18, 2001 DAILY PRESS BRIEFING: U.S./EU MEETING ON COOPERATION TO COMBAT INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM
QUESTION: Please provide additional details of the October 18 meeting of senior EU law enforcement officials and their U.S. counterparts. Will there be more meetings in the coming days?
ANSWER: A delegation from the European Union (EU) met with U.S. counterparts in the State Department on October 18 to discuss how to enhance law enforcement cooperation in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks. The meeting was part of ongoing consultations between the U.S. and EU on efforts to combat international terrorism. :: Dataghost 2:23 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Saddam: U.S. practices terrorism against Iraq. Saddam Hussein accused the United States of 11 years of terrorism against Iraq, and the government newspaper claimed Saturday that the U.S. government organized the global anthrax scare to gain support for its war on terror. Saddam's comments came in what the official Iraqi News Agency said was a response to a letter from an American who asked him to try to improve Iraqi-U.S. relations in order to solve disputes and fight terrorism. :: Dataghost 2:21 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Two targets hit by US troops. :: Dataghost 2:20 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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US commandos test Taleban defences. The US Defense Department has said that ground forces targeted sites used by leaders of the Taleban and the al-Qaeda terror network in southern Afghanistan on Friday. US Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Myers told a Pentagon briefing that troops attacked and destroyed two targets, but did not meet significant resistance from Taleban forces.
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India/Pakistan: Tensions Grow As Kashmir Conflict Heats Up. Tensions between Pakistan and India have increased in recent weeks over the disputed Kashmir territory. Each country has accused the other of sponsoring state terrorism in Kashmir. Two days ago, the two countries traded shells in a fierce artillery exchange. Today a senior Pakistani army officer announced that India had moved troops up to the line of control. :: Dataghost 6:34 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Long, cold Afghan winter like Vietnam with snow. :: Dataghost 6:32 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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10 Reasons to Stop Bombing Afghanistan. Despite almost universal agreement that America "needs to do something" in response to terrorism, our heavy bombing of Afghanistan increasingly looks like a bad idea. While virtually all of us feel that strong steps should be taken to apprehend anyone behind the massive murders on September 11, when you add up all the facts, the pulverizing of a battered country just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Instead, by bombing Afghanistan, we are ... 1. Creating new terrorists. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of innocent civilians have already been killed by U.S. bombing in pursuit of Osama bin Laden. The Pentagon has confirmed numerous instances of "collateral damage," including a 2,000-pound bomb that struck a residential area near Kabul. The United States' perceived disregard for collateral damage may lead many to conclude that we are waging a war against Muslims writ large. In so doing, we are losing the battle for the hearts and minds of people who are necessary in the fight against terrorism. :: Dataghost 6:29 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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US commandos attack Taliban. More than 100 Army Rangers staged a nighttime commando-style attack yesterday on a Taliban stronghold in the southern part of Afghanistan, according to a US defense official. Although the official would not immediately provide details of the raid, it was clear that the United States had begun a significant new phase of the 13-day-old military campaign. A senior administration official told Knight Ridder that the target was the airstrip in Kandahar, and that the US forces planned to leave Afghan airspace by 4 a.m. today local time (7:30 p.m. EDT Friday). The official noted that the hit-and-run raid was intended partly to demonstrate that US forces can attack at will, even in the heart of Taliban control. Kandahar is the base of the regime's leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar, as well as the Taliban's spiritual birthplace. :: Dataghost 6:28 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Iran: Tehran Criticizes Air Strikes But Hints At Cooperation. Since the U.S. strikes in Afghanistan began 10 days ago, Iran has criticized Washington's actions and kept its airspace closed to U.S. warplanes. But now, Tehran has also sent Washington secret assurances it would return any U.S. pilots downed over its territory. RFE/RL correspondent Charles Recknagel looks at the mixed signals and what they might mean. :: Dataghost 6:26 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Iranian journalist given medieval sentence: 6 months, 50 lashes. An Iranian journalist has been sentenced to six months in prison and 50 lashes, a punishment that the Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontieres has condemned as "medieval." Fatemeh Govarai, a journalist with the banned newspaper Omid-e-Zangan and a member of Iran's nationalist progressive opposition, was charged with publishing "false information" and "defamation" about the Islamist militia — the Bassidji — and the Pasdaran, or Revolutionary Guards. :: Dataghost 6:24 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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War Child Staff In Iran. Two of our staff have arrived in Iran and will be travelling to the border with Afghanistan to assess the ground in readiness for the arrival of our field bakery. This project has the backing of the Government's Department for International Development (DfID) and The World Food Programme (WFP). The bakery itself is now ready to fly out with additional staff who have been placed on standby. The United Nations World Food Programme have requested that War Child initially set up the bakery in Iran near the town of Zabul, close to the border with Afghanistan. However, given the potential enormity of the crisis it is likely that the project will be extended. The UN are expecting up to 500,000 refugees to cross the border into Iran in the coming weeks. :: Dataghost 6:23 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Palestinian Authority arrests 33 PFLP members. The Palestinian Authority has arrested 33 members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in the past 48 hours. The move came after the group claimed it was behind the assassination of hardline Israeli cabinet member Rechavam Zeevi Wednesday. Twenty members of the PFLP were arrested in the West Bank city of Ramallah Friday, Palestinian sources told CNN. :: Dataghost 6:21 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israelis Expect Sharon to Embark on Aggressive Campaign. Ariel Sharon took office as prime minister seven months ago, and ever since, Israelis have debated who he is. Is he is the "Old Sharon"-- the swashbuckling, inveterate hawk still fighting Israel's War of Independence? Or the "New Sharon"-- the conservative statesman tempered by a sense of national responsibility? With the assassination this week of a Cabinet minister who shared both military glories and a close friendship with Sharon, Israelis now expect the prime minister to cast off the trappings of restraint and embark on an aggressive and, some warn, potentially disastrous campaign against the Palestinians.
(Is he is the "Old Sharon"-- the swashbuckling, inveterate hawk still fighting Israel's War of Independence? Or the "New Sharon"-- the conservative statesman tempered by a sense of national responsibility?...In Israel Ariel Sharon might be both at the same time...Knowing the way the Middle East is, I bet most Israelis would agree with me...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 6:18 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Solana: condemns assassination Israeli Cabinet Minister Mr Rehavam Zeevi on 17 October. :: Dataghost 6:14 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Sharon promised Zeevi: No more Peres-Arafat meetings. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised slain tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi that he would not permit any future meetings between Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, Ze'evi told his faction shortly before his death. Ze'evi showed the seven MKs of National Union-Yisrael Beiteinu a handwritten note from Sharon with the promise, during a meeting at which the faction decided not to leave the coalition. The pledge was a key factor in Ze'evi's decision not to resign, a decision he reversed three days later after Sharon ordered the IDF to withdraw from two Arab neighborhoods in Hebron.
(From his actions we know that Ariel Sharon does not respect the living, maybe he respects the dead...We'll see...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 6:13 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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With friends like the Saudis. Britain and the US have made a very bad bargain in the Middle East, writes Lindsey Hilsum. The Americans were right when they said this would not be a television war. Not because special forces operate by stealth, nor because the Taliban allow only a few chosen journalists inside their territory, but because the real conflict is happening a thousand miles west of Afghanistan in a country that matters far more to America and Britain: the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. :: Dataghost 6:09 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Iran: Tehran Tones Down Rhetoric. Despite a recent warning about U.S. ambitions, Iran has toned down its rhetoric against Western influence in the Caspian Sea since the start of the war against terrorism. Experts see the change as another possible sign of emerging understandings between Washington and Tehran. :: Dataghost 6:07 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Western Press Review: From Middle East And Central Asia To Shanghai. In today's commentaries in the Western press, attention focuses once again on Israeli-Palestinian tensions in the Middle East and yesterday's assassination of a nationalist Israeli minister. Other issues include the role of Central Asia in the campaign against terror, Iraq's possible role in the 11 September events, and U.S. President George W. Bush's summit with Asian leaders in Shanghai. :: Dataghost 6:06 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Afghan refugees stream into Iran. Afghan refugees streaming into this border town describe leaving behind ghost towns, hungry civilians huddling in mountains, and Taliban forces eager to take on U.S. troops. "For the Taliban, it's as if the war hasn't even started,'' said Daoud Achekzaei, 19, who fled the southern Taliban stronghold of Kandahar six days ago. :: Dataghost 6:05 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Student Discovers Well-Preserved Embryo In Dinosaur Egg. A North Carolina State University graduate student has discovered that a dinosaur egg unearthed more than 30 years ago in Alabama contains well-preserved and incredibly detailed remains of a nearly hatched dinosaur embryo. James Lamb, who is pursuing a doctoral degree in geology with a concentration in paleontology, says further studies of the embryo could reveal new clues about dinosaurs and about the climate and physical environment they live in.
(Jurassic Park, here we come!...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 5:53 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Study Examines How Prion Disease Adapts To New Species. Although scientists believe that mad cow disease spread from cattle to people in a few instances in the United Kingdom, they know very little about how that happened. To better understand how diseases like mad cow jump and adapt to a new species, researchers at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) examined the process by which a disease called scrapie transfers from hamsters to mice. "We found that the adaption is a prolonged and subtle process, and the early stages of it are very difficult to detect," says Bruce Chesebro, M.D., senior study author and researcher at NIAID's Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) in Montana. The results of his team's work are reported in the current issue of the Journal of Virology. :: Dataghost 5:50 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Retail meats host drug-resistant bacteria. There's a good chance your grocer's meats are tainted with bacterial germs that are relatively invulnerable to antibiotics, a trio of new studies finds. As a result, anyone sickened by these microbes could find the arsenal of drugs available to fight their infection small to nonexistent. Three years ago, the Washington, D.C.based National Research Council and Institute of Medicine jointly published an analysis of the human-health impacts of low doses of antibiotics added to livestock feed to promote the animals' growth. The report concluded that at least some antibiotic-resistant disease in people is due to meat from animals treated with these growth promoters http://www.sciencenews.org/sn_arc98/7_18_98/Fob7.htm).
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Molecular Motor Packs DNA Into Viruses At Greater Than Champagne Pressures, Researchers Report. The DNA inside some viruses is packed so tightly that the internal pressure reaches ten times that in a champagne bottle, according to new measurements by biophysicists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Minnesota. The researchers suspect that this high pressure helps the virus spurt its DNA into a cell once it has latched onto the surface. Once the DNA gets inside, it begins retooling the cell to manufacture new viruses. The process eventually kills the cell, but not before generating thousands more viruses to spread the infection.
(And what will be done with this new information? Probably build better bombs...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 5:46 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Bosnia-Herzegovina: Teaching international humanitarian law. The ICRC recently held a highly successful four-day conference in Sarajevo on the teaching of international humanitarian law in universities. The conference, which ended on 11 September, brought together some 40 professors and advanced students from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hungary, Albania and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, including Kosovo. It was a first for the ICRC delegation in Sarajevo. Experts from Ireland, Geneva and Macedonia gave presentations on various aspects of international humanitarian law, ICRC dissemination activities and the interaction between humanitarian law and human rights law. The high point of the event was a debate on the theme "Can international humanitarian law be integrated in a meaningful way into university teaching in the region, and if so, how?" The conclusion, reached after four hours of stimulating discussion, was a resounding "yes". :: Dataghost 5:43 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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The many wrongs committed in the name of human rights. SINCE we are, astonishingly, about to have a law that will curb our freedom to talk about religion, what I am about to say will soon be unsayable, without at the very least a police caution. So I must get it said quickly.
I believe that the idea of universal human rights is a bad and dangerous idea; for all its nobility, it tends to lead to terrible confusion and cross-purposes, and to the most bitter disappointment. It is clearly a religious idea: it is something in which people have faith, as a revealed truth, which neither has nor needs a rational basis; it is self-evident to good people. (Self-evident was, after all, the word used by the writers of the US Constitution.) :: Dataghost 5:42 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Middle East: Rumors Mix War On Terror With Israeli-Arab Conflict. As U.S. strikes in Afghanistan continue, so do rumors in the Arab and Muslim world alleging the war on terror is targeting Islam, and not terrorists. One such rumor calls the 11 September attacks on New York and Washington a provocation by Israeli intelligence to spark Western military action against Muslim countries. :: Dataghost 5:34 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Afghanistan: Nuclear Terrorism Poses Questionable Threat. Has suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network acquired the materials necessary to construct a nuclear device? The U.S. government accuses bin Laden of trying for years to do just that. A U.S. federal indictment charges that Al-Qaeda tried to buy bomb-making components as early as 1993. Others believe Al-Qaeda has attempted to buy ready-made nuclear warheads on the black market. How realistic is it to think that terrorists possess a nuclear capability?
(Let's see...Yes, and I say yes with absolute certainty. Where has it come from? Why from the U.S. military in Afghanistan, where else? Can I prove it? Yes! The Globe and Mail, a Canadian newspaper showed a photo along with a headline and story concerning the War in Afghanistan, showing in the photo, an Afghan standing beside a ''bunker buster'', a low-yield nuclear device, according to the U.S. military...The bomb was UNDETONATED!...When you're given lemons, do you not make LEMONADE?...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 5:30 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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For the Record :: Dataghost 5:24 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
Are the Israelis and U.S. foreign policy to blame for the WTC attacks, either directly or indirectly? Any person with any integrity (and a lick of common sense) must voice forth the opinion of ''Yes, and No''. In the Islamic world, both the living conditions and the educational system are mainly to blame for the upsurgence of terrorism, however, the world view of these extremists do see the U.S. - Israeli relations as being a key element within a ''political-sociological'' soup that is used to fuel and fan the flames of hatred half a world away. The educators within the Islamic system certainly need to be held all the more responsible by the government forces that be within the region so that this hatred can be curbed.
Where do these children, left to live within the school's walls, left there by parents, who for all intents and purposes, feel this is what is best for their children, learn of war? Their society is either in the throes of war most of the time, or are being taught such by the educators, there is one thing that's certain. The global society of the human race is heading quickly for its pinnacle only to overshoot it and tumble toward its demise through its own entropy...Who is to blame? Parents, legislators, policy makers, courts, educators, World Leaders, religionists, whether they be Islamic, Christian, Jewish, Hindu, the list goes on and on...-Ed.
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Jewish students fight vicious anti-semitism by email at NYU. In a striking example of the Jewish-Arab tensions on college campuses after Sept. 11, a pro-Israel New York University student group is embroiled in a war of words with a pro-Arab student group over the distribution of an e-mail blaming Israel for the attack by Islamic terrorists. The pro-Israel group TorchPac says the head of the Arab Students United should be reprimanded by university and student government officials for distributing hate literature to its membership via a listserve provided by NYU. :: Dataghost 5:01 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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U.S. Restricts Cuban Diplomats in Capital After Spy Charges. The Bush administration has restricted the movements of Cuban diplomats in Washington three weeks after federal authorities charged a top Defense Department intelligence analyst with spying for the Havana government, officials said. The administration's decision, which took effect on Tuesday, would confine Cuban envoys to an area roughly one-fifth the size of their previous range, officials said, mirroring Cuban restrictions on American diplomats in Havana. :: Dataghost 4:59 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Bayer Threatens to Sue Over Generic Anti-Anthrax Drug. A Canadian government decision to override the patent for the anti-anthrax drug Cipro and buy a generic version brought threats Friday of possible legal action from the antibiotic's maker, Bayer AG. Officials at the Germany-based drug maker, which holds a patent through 2003 to sell Cipro in Canada, said they wanted talks with the health ministry over the decision made public Thursday.
(Not suprising is it?...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 4:58 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Geologist spots bin Laden location. An American geologist, who spent years working in the hills of Afghanistan, claims to have recognised the location of Osama bin Laden from a propaganda video released shortly before the US began military operations in that country. Professor John Shroder (62), who lectures at the University of Nebraska, says he recognised the rock strata behind bin Laden and other Taliban officials as being indigenous to one particular region in Afghanistan. He said that the type of sedimentary rock seen in the video belonged to a formation of sandstone caves, located in the Paktia or Paktika provinces, which are located about 200 kilometres south of the capital Kabul.
(Note to Eli: 200 clicks south of Kabul? Sound familiar? We discussed this very thing over coffee the other night!) :: Dataghost 4:56 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Anthrax scares soar in Jslem as court, shopping mall evacuated. The Jerusalem District Court was evacuated yesterday after a senior secretary opened an envelope containing suspicious white powder, raising fears of possible anthrax contamination. Security guards ordered the building evacuated and called in the Environment Ministry's hazardous materials squad, which cleaned the first floor with industrial materials after which people were allowed to reenter the building. :: Dataghost 4:53 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Syrian defense minister blames WTC, Pentagon attacks on Israel. Syrian Defense Minister Mustafa Tlass has blamed the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center on Israel. At a meeting in Damascus last week with a delegation from the British Royal College of Defense Studies, Tlass said the Mossad planned the ramming of two hijacked airliners into the WTC's towers as part of a Jewish conspiracy.
(Where's your proof? Bring it forth and show us or shut up! Note: It's a matter of fact that the Jews will avoid being in certain places upon days of significance to the Arab world. How did they learn to do so...Having years of history dealing with people such as yourself Mr. Tlass...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 4:51 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Target Al Qaeda, not Taleban: EU. EU leaders yesterday backed away from a proposal calling for the overthrow of Afghanistan's ruling Taleban, instead urging the elimination of the Al Qaeda network in a draft declaration obtained ahead of the close of the summit. Leaders of the 15 European Union nations altered an early draft summit declaration urging the removal of the Taleban govt and called instead for "elimination of the terrorist Al Qaeda" network as responsible for the terror attacks on the United States. :: Dataghost 4:48 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Taleban stand on Bin Laden unchanged. Taleban vowed yesterday to never hand over terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden to the United States because the matter was a 'faith issue'. Taleban Ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef also told reporters here after his return from a trip to Kandahar that the Taleban did not intend to fold under the US military onslaught. "We know this is going to be a long war," Mr Zaeef said through an interpreter. "On the issue of Osama we have no change." Mr Zaeef refused to give details of his meetings with Taleban leaders in Kandahar this week and did not elaborate on an earlier comment that he was returning to Pakistan with a peace proposal. :: Dataghost 4:46 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Jihads true meaning as revealed in Holy Quran By KMZ. A VERY great misconception prevails with regard to the duty of Jihad in Islam, and that is that the word Jihad is supposed to be synonymous with war; and even the greatest research scholars of Europe have not taken the pains to refer to the Holy Quran to find out the true meaning of the word. So widespread is the misunderstanding that a scholar of the fame of A.J. Wensinck, when preparing his concordance of hadith, A Handbook of Early Muhammadan Traditions, gives not a single reference under the word Jihad, referring to the concept as "war", as if the two words are synonymous terms. Klein in The Religion of Islam makes a similar statement: "Jihad - the fighting against unbelievers with the object of either winning them over to Islam, or subduing and exterminating them in case they refuse to become Muslims, and causing Islam to spread and triumph over all religions is considered a sacred duty of the Muslim nation." If either of these tow learned sholars had taken the trouble of consulting the Holy Quran, they could never have made such a glaring misstatement. :: Dataghost 4:43 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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More Than 100 G.I.s Participate in Raid on Kandahar. American ground forces mounted a helicopter and gunship assault into southern Afghanistan Friday night and early today in a risky nighttime raid that opened a new phase in America's war on terrorism, military officials said. More than 100 Army Rangers and other special forces swooped down by helicopter on at least one main military target on the outskirts of Kandahar, the spiritual headquarters of the Taliban and headquarters of Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Taliban's leader. :: Dataghost 4:40 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Coalition forces using Pakistan air base. Pakistan has turned over the use of its Dalbandin Air Base in the western part of the country to "coalition forces", high-ranking officials in Balochistan Province told CNN Friday. The base, located in the Balochistan desert west of Quetta, could be strategically important if the U.S. and British forces needed a staging ground close to Kandahar. :: Dataghost 2:55 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Burma curfew amid rising religious tensions. The Burmese Government has imposed dusk-to-dawn curfews in several towns to prevent violence between different religious communities. There are signs that tension between Muslims and Buddhists is growing in the wake of the attacks in New York and Washington and the US bombing of Afghanistan. :: Dataghost 2:52 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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10,000 storm Jakarta streets in largest anti-US protest. An estimated ten thousand Muslims demonstrated Friday against the US-led attacks on Afghanistan, in the largest such protest so far in the Indonesian capital. Demonstrators gathered at the National Monument after Friday prayers and marched in a kilometer-long procession down Jakarta's central thoroughfare, taking up five traffic lanes and blocking all southbound traffic. :: Dataghost 2:51 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Indonesias Ex-President Expects to Be Restored. Less than three months ago, Abdurrahman Wahid was swept from the presidency on a wave of public exasperation after a truncated tenure that one prominent scholar calls "one of the strangest periods in Indonesian history." For three days — still grappling with reality, and losing — he squatted in his palace insisting that he remained the legal president. :: Dataghost 2:49 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Smallpox, revisited: Bioterrorism threat is slim but warrants federal action. As the anthrax panic spreads, federal health officials are preparing for any possible reappearance of a killer vanquished long ago: smallpox. Even a single case would be an international emergency, triggering vaccinations for dozens of people close to the patient in an urgent attempt to contain the highly contagious disease, according to a federal contingency plan. :: Dataghost 2:46 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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CDC warns doctors to watch for smallpox, Ebola cases. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned doctors nationwide Thursday to watch for possible cases of smallpox, plague and deadly viruses like Ebola following the recent anthrax cases. The agency cited the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and urged doctors in its weekly health bulletin to be alert for unusual outbreaks among people who attended the same public event. :: Dataghost 2:45 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Mold: A hidden health hazard. When Brian and Patti Oberbeck bought their home in th4e southwest suburbs 10 years ago, they knew it had an exposed crawl space. They also knew they would eventually need to deal with a moisture problem in the crawl space. What they didn't know was that the moisture problem would cause health problems for their family. :: Dataghost 2:43 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Drug may be first effective treatment for smallpox. To counter even worse bioterror attacks than the current anthrax scare, the US government has asked Congress to finance the purchase of enough smallpox vaccines for everybody in the country, a top official said. :: Dataghost 2:41 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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US warns smallpox is even bigger threat. To counter even worse bioterror attacks than the current anthrax scare, the US government has asked Congress to finance the purchase of enough smallpox vaccines for everybody in the country, a top official said. :: Dataghost 2:40 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Taleban force aid agency to close. One of the largest aid agencies operating in Afghanistan has said members of the Taleban have looted its offices in five cities, beating some local staff and forcing them to stop operations. The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan says all its offices in the Taleban-controlled northern provinces are now closed, although rural programmes are still running. :: Dataghost 2:34 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Bushs War, And Sharons. Despite all the calls for restraint emanating from Washington, it's tough to disagree with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's insistence that the brutal assassination of Israeli Cabinet Minister Rehavam Ze'evi "changes everything." The coldblooded killing of Ze'evi in a Jerusalem hotel was an unprecedented attack on the Israeli government. It was as if a militant militia member had murdered, say, the U.S. secretary of labor. :: Dataghost 2:33 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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TV Asahi considers apology over anti-Semitism. TV Asahi officials said they will "treat with sincerity" demands for an apology over anti-Semitic comments made by one of the network's reporters. "We will look into the matter pointed out to us and will treat with sincerity any reaction we deem appropriate," a network spokesman said. :: Dataghost 2:31 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israeli army enter Bethlehem, six dead. At least six Palestinians were killed Friday during confrontations with Israeli troops and tanks that were ordered into the Palestinian-controlled towns of Bethlehem and Beit Jala. Israel conducted the incursions ahead of funerals for three members of the militant Palestinian Fatah, who were killed Thursday when their vehicle exploded. :: Dataghost 2:29 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Pakistan authorities arrest three radical Islamic leaders. Pakistan authorities have banned three radical Islamic leaders from entering a key province where major rallies against the US airstrikes in Afghanistan. Qazi Hussain Ahmed, head of the Jamaat-i-Islami (JI), Fazlur Rehman, chief of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI), and Azam Tariq, leader of sectarian militant group Sipah-e-Sahaba, are banned from Sind province for 30 days. :: Dataghost 2:27 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Air-drop Shahi Imam in Kandahar: Shabana Azmi. The Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid should be air-dropped in Kandahar. It will help him and India as well. The suggestion was floated by well known cine star Shabana Azmi to get rid of such religious leaders who she alleged not only make claim of being community leaders but also make provocative statements leading to communal tension in the country. :: Dataghost 2:26 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Nigerian appeals Sharia sentence. A woman in Sokoto in northern Nigerian is to appeal against the first death sentence passed since the state adopted strict Islamic Sharia law last year. On Tuesday, a Sharia court sentenced 35-year-old divorcee Safiyatu Husaini to be stoned to death for adultery.
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Tanzanian Muslims march in support of bin Laden. Tens of thousands of Muslims marched through downtown Dar es Salaam Friday in support of international terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden and against the U.S. military strikes on Afghanistan. Waving bin Laden posters, chanting "Kill Bush!" and calling the United States the world's "No. 1 terrorist," the demonstrators were part of the first anti-American protest to be staged in this East African nation since the September 11 attacks. More than one-third of its 33 million citizens are Muslims. :: Dataghost 2:23 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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An Agenda for Improving U.S. Standing in the Muslim World :: Dataghost 2:21 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Islamic Fundamentalism as a Focus of U.S. Fear. During the Cold War, we opposed the spread of socialism, even assisting in the overthrow of the freely elected government of Salvador Allende in Chile. But then, socialist governments were voted into office all across Europe. Today, Karl Marx would be pleased. Now, it is Islamic fundamentalism that we fear. Curious that Iran, after only 20 years, is becoming more moderate, and even in the current crisis acting as our ally. As we learn more about these radical movements, it seems like they all had their origins in the Muslim Brotherhood, which has been blocked from participation in governing for the past 75 years--so they turn to terrorism. :: Dataghost 2:20 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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In Pakistan, a Softer Side of Islam. There were no bellicose exhortations from the loudspeaker of the al-Shuhada Mosque today, no thundering choruses of "Holy War!" from the worshipers inside. Instead, there was the grave murmur of a cleric urging his flock to "trust in God and learn from history," and the collective rustle of hundreds of men and boys kneeling on the grass outside to pray.
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Saudis Have Long Tried to Add U.S. Muslims to the State Religion. In a costly and quietly insistent campaign to spread its state religion, Saudi Arabia has been trying for decades to induce American Muslims to become followers of the puritanical Islamic sect that sustains the power of the Saudi royal family. By building mosques across the country, sending Americans to the Middle East to be trained as imams and promoting pilgrimages to Mecca, the Saudis have spent hundreds of millions of dollars in an effort to stamp their austere version of Islam on the lives of Muslims in the United States. :: Dataghost 2:13 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Claims that China paid Bin Laden to see cruise missiles. China paid Osama bin Laden several million dollars for access to unexploded American cruise missiles left over from the US attack on his bases three years ago, a senior alleged al-Qaida agent in Europe has claimed. The alleged agent's account is contained in the transcript of a secretly taped conversation between supporters of Osama bin Laden obtained by the Guardian. His revelation emerged as President Bush yesterday announced that he had won Beijing's support for the war on terrorism. After his first face-to-face meeting with China's President Jiang Zemin in Shanghai, Mr Bush said: "President Jiang and the government stand side by side with the American people as we fight this evil force". :: Dataghost 2:10 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Anthrax Scare: Replace Snail Mail With E-Mail. My proposed solution to avoid being victimized by terrorism (anthrax, letter bombs, etc.) is to replace conventional postal mail with e-mail exclusively. Yes, we are in the 21st century, and today sending paper (checks, bills, letters, solicitations, etc.) is archaic. Replace checks with bank debits/credits. Solutions to problems aren't always easy, but this solution is doable, even if the changes are immediately inconvenient. :: Dataghost 2:03 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Taliban sticks with bin Laden. Taliban Ambassador Abdul Salam Zaeef said Friday there has been no change in the Afghan leadership's position against the demand alleged terrorist Osama bin Laden be turned over to the United States. :: Dataghost 2:02 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Bin Laden Link to Cash-Smuggling Bust at JFK? The men came under special scrutiny because bin Laden, whom the United States blames for the Sept. 11 terror attacks, has connections to both Yemen and the honey industry. According to the Customs Service criminal complaint, Basam Nahshal was stopped Tuesday at New York's John F. Kennedy International as he tried to board a plane bound for Amman, Jordan. Nahshal also had a ticket for a connecting flight from Amman to Yemen. :: Dataghost 2:00 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Beirut hospitals fear anthrax, wont test powder. Beirut's two main hospitals refused to test suspicious white powder found in two letters sent to people in Lebanon on Friday for fear of infection from anthrax, judicial sources said. One of the powder-packets was enclosed in a letter addressed to an Indonesian maid who had already left her job with a family in Beirut. The family reported the suspicious mail to the authorities. :: Dataghost 1:56 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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N.Y. Attacks Affect Lawyers For Bin Laden Associates. When Carl J. Herman saw United Airlines Flight 175 plow into the World Trade Center's south tower on CNN last month, his moral compass was rattled. For the past year, the 51-year-old New Jersey death penalty lawyer had represented a convicted member of Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. :: Dataghost 1:55 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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White House Looking To Enlist Hollywood In Terrorism War. White House representatives met with producers and leaders of the television industry this week to explore ways of deploying the entertainment industry in the war against terrorism -- their first significant contact with the Bush administration this year. :: Dataghost 1:54 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Today: The transformation of Donald Rumsfeld. Not too long ago, the guessing game in Washington was, who would replace Donald Rumsfeld. Now he is the most visible member of the cabinet and critics are lining up to praise him, calling it the tranformation of Donald Rumsfeld. “Today” national correspondent Jamie Gangel profiles the secretary of defense. :: Dataghost 1:52 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Old wars, new liberties and U.S. foreign policy. :: Dataghost 1:51 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Letters extra: the United Nations role. The air strikes on Afghanistan and subsequent developments have led to a substantial increase in our postbag, and there is not room to include all these letters in the print Guardian. Here are some of the other letters we thought it important to publish. :: Dataghost 1:48 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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U.S., Russian Aides Meet Before Bush-Putin Summit.U.S. and Russian officials met to lay the groundwork for talks between President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin Sunday with a possible new nuclear arms reduction deal under study. Aides to Bush sought to lower expectations for the meeting, which comes at a time when Bush has pledged unilateral cuts in the American nuclear weapons stockpile while warning the United States plans to withdraw in a few months from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. U.S. officials said Bush would not be delivering an ABM ultimatum. :: Dataghost 1:47 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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French Nato spy faces treason trial. A former French army intelligence officer is to stand trial on charges of treason for allegedly leaking secret information about Nato's bombing plans in Kosovo to a Serbian diplomat. :: Dataghost 1:40 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Bush and Chinas Leader Emphasize Need to Fight Terrorism Together. President Bush and President Jiang Zemin of China met for the first time here this morning and emerged with Mr. Bush declaring that China had agreed to "cooperate with intelligence matters and interdict the financing" of major terrorist groups. In a brief joint news conference after their meeting at a suburban retreat used by Communist Party leaders, Mr. Bush also said that he was still looking for evidence of whether a foreign power or terrorist group was coordinating the anthrax attacks in the United States, but he also for the first time warned that the source of the attacks could be an American conducting what he called "a hoax." :: Dataghost 1:38 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Link Now Seen in Anthrax and Hijackings. Investigators pursuing the anthrax exposure cases in New York, Washington and Florida say they suspect that the rash of contaminated letters is related to the Sept. 11 attacks and are investigating the possibility that Al Qaeda confederates of the hijackers are behind the incidents. Law enforcement and intelligence officials said they lacked concrete evidence or intelligence to explain who sent the anthrax-contaminated letters to news organizations in New York and to the Senate majority leader, Tom Daschle, in Washington, and whether they all contained the same type of anthrax. :: Dataghost 1:35 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Increased U.S. Activity Said to Aid Afghan Rebels. American Special Forces troops have been operating inside Afghanistan to support armed groups opposing the Taliban there, according to a senior military officer. :: Dataghost 1:31 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Bin Laden aide killed in blast. An associate of Osama Bin Laden has been killed in an explosion in Afghanistan, according to Taleban officials quoted by a Pakistan-based Afghan news agency. :: Dataghost 1:30 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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UK investigates 24 FBI suspects. British police say they are investigating more than 20 people at the request of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of its hunt for those behind the September 11 attacks. :: Dataghost 1:29 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Taleban deny anthrax link. Tests have shown that strains of anthrax sent to NBC television in New York, the Sun tabloid in Florida and to the Senate in Washington could have come from the same source. :: Dataghost 1:26 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Postal route offers clues to anthrax cases. A second New Jersey postal worker has tested positive for cutaneous (skin) anthrax as investigators work to track down the source of the bacteria. :: Dataghost 1:25 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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EU Backs U.S. Drive to Replace Taliban. :: Dataghost 1:23 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Link Found to Anthrax Batches in New York, Washington, Florida. The anthrax mailed to Tom Brokaw in New York City and Senator Tom Daschle in Washington and the anthrax that killed a Florida newspaper employee were all of the same strain, suggesting that they came from the same batch, the director of Homeland Security said today. :: Dataghost 1:20 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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US troops clash with Taleban. US special forces have clashed with Taleban fighters on the ground in Afghanistan for the first time since air strikes began on 7 October. US officials said the operation, involving more than 100 elite troops backed by AC-130 flying gunships, lasted several hours. :: Dataghost 1:16 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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U.S. Ground Assault Launched in Afghanistan. The United States on Friday launched a new phase of military operations in Afghanistan with combat ground forces, and two Americans were killed when a rescue helicopter on standby for the raid crashed in Pakistan. More than 100 elite American special forces, including Army Rangers, penetrated Afghanistan for a few hours and then were flown out of the country, a U.S. official said. :: Dataghost 1:14 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com:: Friday, October 19, 2001 ::
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Stabile: "From the Cold War to the Hot Zone. . ."Article covering the worlds scene and newly emerging viruses! Fascinating, scary stuff! I suggest that you grab a copy of Richard Preston's book ''The Hot Zone''...Also look for a copy of ''Deadly Feasts''! :: Dataghost 2:56 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Cipro, Anthrax And The Perils Of Patents. Intellectual-property law fuels drug research. In the U.S., a pharmaceutical company that goes out on a limb and develops a new treatment for a disease gets an exclusive right to market that compound for more than a decade. This allows big drug companies like Pfizer, Merck, and GlaxoSmithKline to grow quickly on the back of billion-dollar drugs that they and they alone can manufacture. :: Dataghost 2:43 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Trajkovski gives warning on threats to Macedonian truce. MACEDONIA’S fragile peace process was shaken anew yesterday as police reported an increase in shootings and President Boris Trajkovski warned ethnic Albanian and Macedonian politicians that he would stop pushing for peace unless they stopped undermining a western-backed plan meant to end the threat of civil war. :: Dataghost 2:40 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Ottawa tilts rules to get anthrax pill. Health Canada has ordered nearly one million tablets of a generic version of Cipro, the drug of choice for fighting anthrax, from a Canadian company -- to the surprise of the German firm that holds the patent to produce the pills. The department will pay Apotex Inc., one of Canada's leading drug companies, $1.3-million to manufacture 900,000 generic versions of the tablets, Jack Kay, the company's president, said yesterday. :: Dataghost 2:38 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Trouble brewing in the Caucasus. AS THE United States rallies its forces and friends for the fight against Osama bin Laden and his cronies, the terms of almost every other conflict on the planet, from the streets of Belfast to the mountains of the Balkans and the Horn of Africa, have changed. Parties to local quarrels—Palestinians and Israelis, Indians and Pakistanis, Slavs and ethnic Albanians in Macedonia, Armenians and Azeris—are under heavy American pressure to renounce violence, cut links with extremists in other countries and patch up their disputes. :: Dataghost 2:36 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Uzbekistan President Maintains Tight Control. :: Dataghost 2:34 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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War of words over Kashmir. INDIA and Pakistan traded accusations of border fighting yesterday, just hours after the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, ended a visit meant to ease tensions in the region. Pakistan accused India of moving troops and said its forces were on high alert to thwart any “attempt at mischief or misadventure”. :: Dataghost 2:32 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Headquarters press briefing by Special Representative for Afghanistan. Acknowledging the difficulties that lay ahead in Afghanistan, Lakhdar Brahimi, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for that country, told correspondents at a Headquarters press briefing this afternoon that "we will do our best and work first with all Afghans, then those who have an interest in Afghanistan, concerns and influence over the situation". :: Dataghost 2:30 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Afghanistans Food Crisis Escalates as Winter Nears. :: Dataghost 2:29 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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No Clear Path for Post-Taliban Government in Afghanistan. :: Dataghost 2:29 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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US Planes Pound Taliban. Taliban troop concentrations in northern Afghanistan became a target of American air strikes for the first time yesterday in what appeared to signal a shift in strategy towards the Northern Alliance. Washington and London continued to insist the Alliance would not be allowed to capture Kabul and form the next Afghan government, but the air attacks paved the way for the opposition fighters to launch a fierce assault on the strategic city of Mazar-i-Sharif. :: Dataghost 2:28 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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China Building Iranian SAM System. China is installing an anti-aircraft system for Iran amid concerns that the war in Afghanistan will spill into the neighboring Shi'ite republic. The Washington Times newspaper reported that China is building an air defense network along Iran's border with Afghanistan. The newspaper said the Chinese have accelerated the project since the start of the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan. :: Dataghost 2:26 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Iran Reports U.s. Ground Troops Inside Afghanistan. The Iranian News Agency in Peshawar, Pakistan, is confirming the sighting of American commando units inside western Afghanistan around the area of the city of Herat. A reporter at the agency in Peshawar said this afternoon that Iranian reporters had seen first-hand American troops in Afghanistan. Herat is fairly close to the Iranian border. :: Dataghost 2:25 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israel Says Arafat Era Is Over. THE Middle East moved closer to a new war yesterday as Ariel Sharon declared the Arafat era over and moved tanks into three West Bank towns. Israel also killed a leading Palestinian militant, and the PLO claimed to have evidence that the Jewish state was plotting to assassinate its leader, Yassir Arafat. The rapid collapse of the peace process followed the murder of Rehavam Zeevi, the Israeli Tourism Minister, by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) on Wednesday. Mr Sharon said: “Arafat has seven days to impose absolute quiet in the (occupied) territories. If not, we will go to war against him. As far as I am concerned, the era of Arafat is over.” :: Dataghost 2:24 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Arafat asks diplomats to save him from Israeli murder plot: official. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat personally asked Arab and European diplomats Thursday to stop Israel's assassination policy which he said targeted him as well, a senior Palestinian official told AFP. "I hope all countries will continue their efforts to stop (Israeli Prime Minister Ariel) Sharon's policy and planning of assassinations," Arafat was quoted as saying, adding that this included him. Earlier, Arafat's senior advisor Nabil Abu Rudeina accused Israel of plotting to assassinate Arafat. :: Dataghost 2:22 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Killing stalls Mideast peace effort. The bullets that assassinated one of Israel's best known politicians, Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi, yesterday quickly threatened to claim a second victim: the already fragile Middle East cease-fire. Within hours after Zeevi was gunned down outside his hotel room in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was pointing the way toward a hard-hitting military response and comparing the challenge posed by the shooting, only the second political assassination in Israeli history, to the terrorist atrocities in the United States on Sept. 11. :: Dataghost 2:20 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Hanna: Arafat to outlaw PFLP? The Palestinian Authority is considering the possibility of outlawing the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which has claimed responsibility for Wednesday's assassination of right-wing tourism minister Rechavam Zeevi.
(Not a bad response to the Israeli ultimatum to hand over the assassins of Rechavam Zeevi...Arafat grabs more bonus points for getting out from behind the eight-ball...Watch Mr. Sharon go ballistic!!...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 2:19 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Palestinians Refuse to Give Officials Killers to Israel. Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority today rejected an ultimatum by Israel to hand over the assassins of an Israeli cabinet minister. Threatening a major attack, Israeli tanks roared into the outskirts of four Palestinian cities, killing three Palestinians. :: Dataghost 2:16 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Iraqi opposition wants to hunt anthrax in Iraq. The Iraqi opposition in exile asked the United States on Thursday to finance urgent missions into Iraq to gather information on anthrax and other weapons of mass destruction, a leading member said. But the U.S. State Department is not yet ready to release U.S. aid funds for the purpose, despite the possibility of an Iraqi role in the latest anthrax incidents, Sherif Ali bin Hussein of the Iraqi National Congress (INC) told Reuters. :: Dataghost 2:15 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Press briefing by the UN offices for Pakistan and Afghanistan 17 Oct 2001. :: Dataghost 2:12 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Anthrax, Smallpox, Plague: Reborn as Bioweapons? The threat of anthrax, an ancient scourge described in the Bible, again hangs over mankind. And one of history's great medical advances—the defeat of smallpox—could be undone if the worst of the dark fears stirred up by the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington come to pass. Also lurking in the background is another of the human race's great enemies: bubonic plague. It was probably the Black Death that killed a third of Europe's population in the Middle Ages.
(Now this article reminds me of an article and comment I made in regard to the decoding of the plague genome back about a week or so ago...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 2:11 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Canada told to stockpile smallpox vaccine. Americans are preparing for an attack involving smallpox, the highly contagious disease that is widely considered the most deadly biological weapon. Allan Rock, the Minister of Health, and his Health Canada colleagues should be doing the same, say authorities on infectious disease. :: Dataghost 2:09 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Renewed worry over smallpox threat. Even as health authorities ramp up to deal with the potential threat posed by anthrax, an even bigger effort is focusing on what many consider the top bioterror peril: smallpox. :: Dataghost 2:07 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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CDC Alerts Doctors to Diseases Worse Than Anthrax. :: Dataghost 2:05 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Palestinians New Envoy in Jerusalem Is Proponent of Compromise. :: Dataghost 2:00 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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East Jerusalem residents arrested in connection with Zeevi murder. Jerusalem police and the Shin Bet security service arrested a number of Palestinians from East Jerusalem on Thursday for having a direct connection to Wednesday's murder of Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi. Internal Security Minister Uzi Landau said Thursday morning that the security services had specific information on the identity of the killers and their places of residence. :: Dataghost 1:59 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Nigerias Muslim-Christian riots. IN A country vulnerable to sectarian violence, the American bombing of Afghanistan seems to have been the match that set off the ugly Muslim-Christian riots that broke out in mainly-Muslim Kano on October 12th. After two days of clashes, concentrated in the “settler district” where outsiders, many of them Christian, live, 18 people were confirmed to have been killed. It was feared that this casualty figure might rise, sharply. Since then, the northern city has been tense, with the police using teargas to disperse large crowds of angry Christian and Muslim youths. :: Dataghost 1:57 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Jewish settlers want Arafats head in revenge for ministers murder. Jewish settlers demanded Wednesday that Israel “eliminate” Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in revenge for the slaying of right-wing politician Rehavam Zeevi, a supporter of the Jewish communities implanted on the Palestinian territories. “The first thing which needs to be done is the elimination of the Palestinian Authority and Yasser Arafat,” David Wilder, spokesman for the ultra-Orthodox settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron, epicentre of the radical settler movement, told AFP. :: Dataghost 1:56 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Muslims and Jews Seek Cooperation at Conference in Israel. :: Dataghost 1:54 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Suspect tells of Talibans link with al-Qaida. The leading suspect in a plot to bomb the US embassy in Paris told a French investigator that the Taliban regime made a pact with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network and approved its acts of terrorism, it was revealed last night. Djamel Beghal, who is charged with eight others with plotting to blow up the embassy in a suicide bomb attack, told an investigating judge of the pact when he was cross-examined in Paris earlier this month.
(So the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are one and the same? Not suprising in the least...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 1:53 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Special Forces Open Ground Campaign; Small Numbers Are Said to Be Operating to Aid CIA Effort in Southern Afghanistan. U.S. Special Forces have begun the ground phase of America's war against terrorism in Afghanistan, operating in small numbers in southern Afghanistan in support of the CIA's effort in the Taliban heartland, defense officials said yesterday. :: Dataghost 1:51 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Pentagon Emphasizes Challenges in War Against Terrorists :: Dataghost 1:49 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Cuba Upset By Closure Of Russian Spy Base. The Cuban government has angrily denounced Russia's decision to close a key electronic eavesdropping facility in Cuba, alleging that President Vladimir Putin made the move as a "special gift" to President Bush before their meeting this weekend at an economic summit in Shanghai. :: Dataghost 1:49 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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The Taliban and the heroin market. ON SEPTEMBER 10th, the day before the terrorist onslaught on New York, fresh opium was selling in the markets of Afghanistan for as much as $700 a kilo, the highest level for almost a decade. Two weeks later, prices on the streets of Jalalabad or Kandahar had tumbled as low as $100 a kilo. Since Afghan opium accounts for about 70% of the world's heroin production, western countries now fear that, besides all the other problems stemming from that benighted place, they could soon face a flood of cheap Afghan heroin. :: Dataghost 1:47 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Colin Powells new world picture. ON SEPTEMBER 10th, Time splashed across its cover the question: “Where have you gone, Colin Powell?” Ever since, America's secretary of state has been ubiquitous. This week, he travelled to Pakistan and India before heading off to China to join Presidents George Bush, Vladimir Putin, Jiang Zemin and others at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation forum in Shanghai. This meeting—the first such grand get-together since September 11th—is nominally about trade and economics; but its real aim will be to consolidate the eastern wing of the anti-terror coalition. :: Dataghost 1:45 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Saddam is prime suspect over Florida strain. IRAQ is emerging as the number one suspect in the supply of what US authorities are describing as the "military-grade" anthrax spores which have so far killed one British-born journalist in Florida and created a wave of hoaxes and panic across the world. James Woolsey, former CIA director, said yesterday that anthrax existed naturally "in sheep pens and fields across the globe", but the variety used in the five confirmed cases so far needed to be engineered "to a tolerance of just a few microns, less than the diameter of a human hair" to be inhaled. :: Dataghost 1:44 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Powell likely to cancel speech on Mideast. Colin Powell is leaning toward a decision to cancel his plans to deliver a speech on United States policy in the Middle East containing suggestions for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement, according to a report received yesterday by senior diplomatic officials in Jerusalem. Foreign Minister Shimon Peres will be looking to gain an understanding of the administration's policy on his trip to Washington next week. :: Dataghost 1:43 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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UNs Annan urges peace talks despite assassination. United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged Israel yesterday to resume talks with the Palestinians despite the assassination of tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi. "The secretary-general appeals to all parties to exercise maximum restraint and urges them to resume a sustained dialogue," UN spokesman Fred Eckhard said. :: Dataghost 1:42 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Dont blame Saddam for this one. The current spate of anthrax attacks on media and government buildings in the United States has heightened the undercurrent of concern since September 11 about the possibility of links between the perpetrators and the Iraqi regime. However, fears that the hidden hand of Saddam Hussein lies behind these attacks are based on rumour and speculation that, under closer scrutiny, fail to support the weight of the charge. :: Dataghost 1:40 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Girl, 12, killed by Israeli tanks. A GIRL of 12 was killed and six others were injured today when Israeli tanks fired at a secondary school during a raid on the West Bank town of Jenin.
(Was this a ''targeted killing''?...I'm sure that these children at the secondary school were ''Hamas Leaders''!-Ed.) :: Dataghost 1:38 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israeli ultimatum as tanks move in. :: Dataghost 1:35 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Winnie Mandela to Be Arrested for Bank Fraud in South Africa. Another wife of an ex-leader of a nation arrested for bank fraud in as many days? Hmmm...something odd is going on...-Ed. :: Dataghost 1:33 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israel Demands Arafat Turn Over Assassins. Stunned and outraged by the killing of a far-right leader, the Israeli government issued the Palestinian Authority an ultimatum early today: immediately hand over the gunmen blamed for the killing, or Israel will treat the Authority as a terrorist organization and "act accordingly."
(What's fair is fair...Israel must hand over the IDF soldiers that committed the ''Targeted Killing'' of the Hamas leader that Zeevi was killed in retaliation for...Will Israel do so? Never. Israel should not ask someone to do anything that they themselves are not willing to do themselves...Why was Zeevi ''targeted''...for his stance against Palestine. See what's going on in the land? Palestine is simply doing exactly what Israel has taught them...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 1:31 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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U.S. Anthrax Letter Mailed to Kenya. The U.S. anthrax scare was officially exported overseas Thursday, with Kenyan officials saying bacterial spores were found in a package of cloth samples mailed to a Nairobi doctor from a relative in Atlanta. While dozens of cases of suspicious powders continued to crop up Thursday from China to France to Germany, the package in Nairobi was the first piece of confirmed anthrax-tainted mail received outside the United States since the Sept. 11 terror attacks. :: Dataghost 1:26 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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4 Terrorists Ordered to Pay Restitution to Victims. Four convicted terrorists with ties to Osama bin Laden will be ordered to pay restitution to victims of the 1998 bombings of two American Embassies in Africa, a federal judge in Manhattan said yesterday. Lawyers put the figure at roughly $33 million. None of the four terrorists are known to have assets, but prosecutors said in court papers that the order would ensure that if any of the four earned money in the future, such as by writing a book, "those assets will be applied to mitigate at least some of the harm" they caused.
(Now there's something seriously wrong with forcing society to pay for the crimes of others. How much will it cost to keep these men in jail for the rest of their natural lives? And on top of that, I'm certain that none of these men will do any such thing as write a book, nor make a single penny for the rest of their hopefully short existence on this planet...Were the courts and the government of the nation AFRAID to make martyrs of these infamous goons? Then the terrorists ARE winning this war!...-Ed.)
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Bush Foresees a War Longer Than 2 Years. :: Dataghost 1:18 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Anthrax fears prompt patent law review. The fear of contracting anthrax has led to pharmacies in the US running out of antibacterial drugs. The demand is now so great that the US Government is considering relaxing patent laws on these drugs, notably ciprofloxacin, to make more available. :: Dataghost 1:18 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Al-Qaida threat to US troops. US soldiers' bodies will be dragged through the streets of Afghanistan if they are caught, Osama bin Laden's military chief is reported to have warned. Al-Qaida military's commander, Mohammed Atef, is said to have passed the warning on to the Islamic Observation Centre in London. :: Dataghost 1:16 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israel ties killing to terror war. A day after the assassination of Israeli minister of tourism Rechavam Zeevi, the mood is tense in Israel and the West Bank. Palestinians have rejected an Israeli ultimatum to hand over those responsible for Zeevi's killing. And while Israeli tanks have rolled into two West Bank towns, ensuing clashes have killed two Palestinians, including a 10-year-old girl. :: Dataghost 1:15 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Sixth anthrax case hits US. Officials have confirmed two more cases of anthrax infection in the United States - bringing the total to six - and offered a $1m reward for information as they tried to calm public fears. A New Jersey postal worker and an employee of CBS News in New York both tested positive for skin anthrax. :: Dataghost 1:13 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Blast kills Palestinian militant. Three Palestinians, including a senior militant, have been killed in a car explosion in the village of Beit Sahour, near the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Atef Abayat, the Bethlehem military leader of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction, was said by Israel to have commanded attacks on its citizens. :: Dataghost 1:12 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Russia and U.S. See a Breakthrough on Divisive Issues. Russia and the United States signaled tonight that they were near a breakthrough on the key strategic issues that had divided the two countries since President Bush came into office, in particular Washington's plans to build missile defenses and Russia's troubled relations with an expanding NATO alliance. :: Dataghost 1:11 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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More U.S. Anthrax Illness. :: Dataghost 1:09 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com:: Thursday, October 18, 2001 ::
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We Scoop the Media Again! :: Dataghost 10:18 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
Yesterday, I published the infotel concerning Tax Havens...Yes, the tax haven status has changed in a number of countries under the guise of co-operating with the Financial Task Force Against Money Laundering under the direct supervision of the OECD. See the following article for information of how various tax havens have co-operated in part but still protecting the privacy of their other clientele...Remember you heard about this breaking news here!
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OECD - Promoting International Stability. Read the document concerning Money Laundering...It contains a list of nations that are not co-operating with the international pressures to release banking information. Here's your list of nations that include the new safe tax havens...(Note: Some of the stalwarts of the traditional tax havens have caved in to these international pressures...If you have money in these countries, I'd suggest getting it out of there!...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 10:08 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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National Post Online - Director says CSIS runs spy operations overseas, despite public misperception. :: Dataghost 10:02 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Terrorism - Background and Threat Assessments. Excellent set of links on this page presented by the Federation of American Scientists. :: Dataghost 6:30 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Human Rights Watch World Report 2001:. The scope of today's global human rights problems far exceeds the capacity of global institutions to address them. The problem is most acute in the global economy, where a disturbing institutional void frequently leaves human rights standards unenforced. But the problem also arises as the world struggles to stop mass atrocities, protect the victims of these crimes, rebuild their countries, and bring their persecutors to justice. In each case, a more interconnected and seemingly smaller world rightfully feels a greater responsibility to respond. Yet the capacity to meet these demands has not kept up with the challenges. A reinforced global architecture is needed. :: Dataghost 6:14 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Transparency International, Global Corruption Report 2001. :: Dataghost 6:11 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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GEO-2000 : Global Environment Outlook : United Nations Environment Programme. The following link is one small section of the report...Here's the Table of Contents so you may peruse the whole document... :: Dataghost 6:00 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Al Qaeda's Egyptian Leaders Egyptian radicals comprise the senior leadership of Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. Washington is now moving to dismantle the network by removing bin Laden and his Egyptian lieutenants, but a new generation of extremists would likely replace these leaders and potentially cloud the picture that U.S. intelligence is trying to clarify. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has ordered the military to interrogate 250 suspected Islamic radicals, including 170 alleged members of the outlawed militant group Gamaat al-Islamiyya, according to News 24, a South African news agency. The crackdown is aimed at pre-empting a surge of unrest in Egypt led by Islamic militants. :: Dataghost 5:47 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Nigeria: US Alerts Government On Possible Terrorist Attack On Oil Installations. THE American government has alerted the Federal Government that it has information on possible terrorist attack on the country's oil facilities. Subsequently, the American government has offered to provide security personnel to police the country's oil facilities with a view to enhancing existing arrangement. :: Dataghost 4:05 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Oil Hovers, Watches OPEC for Action. Oil prices went into a holding pattern on Thursday, awaiting concrete evidence that the OPEC producers' cartel will halt crude's month-long 25 percent fall by chopping production for the fourth time this year. Traders said that repeated reassuring comments by OPEC officials had run their course, and traders wanted firm action if oil prices were to stop sliding. :: Dataghost 4:04 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Drug Firms Scramble on Scare. The world's drug companies are suddenly scrambling to supply the federal government with new stocks of vaccines and antibiotics to cope with the anthrax scare and to prepare the country to meet future biological attacks. :: Dataghost 4:03 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Macedonia stalls peace deal. The return of tens of thousands of refugees to their homes in Macedonia is being jeopardised because the country's politicians keep stalling about implementing the peace process they agreed to, the United Nations refugee agency says. :: Dataghost 4:00 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Bin Laden associate fights deportation from Canada. :: Dataghost 3:59 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Western Press Review: From Afghanistan To Abkhazia. Western press commentary and analysis continues to focus on the ongoing U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan, now in its eighth day. Commentators look at Europe's role in the antiterrorism campaign, the lasting effects of the assassination last month of the commander of Afghanistan's Northern Alliance opposition, and the mounting reports of Afghan civilian casualties.
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Caucasus: Who attacked Abkhazia and why? The past 10 days' developments in Abkhazia have not only cost the lives of up to 40 people, including five UN observers; they have precipitated possibly the worst crisis in Russian-Georgian relations since 1993, when Moscow coerced Georgia into joining the CIS. :: Dataghost 3:54 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Russian Su-25 Jets Violate Georgias Air Space. Six Russian Su-25 military jets violated Georgia's air space on Wednesday, Radio Ekho Moskvy reported, quoting Itar-Tass news agency. The incident happened above Georgia's breakaway Abkhazia region where clashes between Abkhazia military forces and ethnic Georgian and Chechen guerrillas is under way. The jet-trespassers flew over the Kondor Gorge and turned back to Russia. :: Dataghost 3:54 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Russias Airstrikes In Chechnya. Russia's Su-24 bombers attacked rebels' positions in Chechnya on Wednesday, Interfax news agency reported. According to the combined federal forces HQ in Chechnya, the bombers carried out four missions over the past 24 hours. The airstrikes focused on rebels' mountain bases. :: Dataghost 3:53 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Starvation in Tajikistan. Action Against Hunger opens a new therapeutic feeding center as the number of severely malnourished children has increased. For a second consecutive year, a severe drought has drastically affected Tajikistan, further aggravating the already extremely precarious situation of the 6 million inhabitants. The last 10 years have already been catastrophic for the population, who has survived a terrible civil war and years of deprivation. :: Dataghost 3:52 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Central Asia Region - Complex Emergency Fact Sheet #10 (FY 2002). Here's a list of countries listed in the region: Afghanstian, Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan. :: Dataghost 3:50 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Taliban Death List Found in Frankfurt. The German federal office of criminal investigation, the Bundeskriminalamt (BKA), is currently examining the authenticity of a death list discovered in Frankfurt that contains the names of 106 people described as opponents of the ruling Afghan Taliban regime. BKA spokeswoman Birgit Heib said that assessments were being carried out of the extent to which the people named on the list could be said to be at risk. :: Dataghost 3:47 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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The Next Article Ticked Me Off! :: Dataghost 3:41 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
Do you want to know why? This idiotic idea that food drops were a great Psy-Ops idea for turning the general public against the Taliban. I warned the governments (yes, they visit here on a daily or twice daily basis) that this would only end up as support for the Taliban, in one way or another! Now if the coalition REALLY wants to win this situation, take some wise advice...Use choppers for ''bait and switch'' maneuvers. The bait blairs loud Western music...aka Rock and Roll, preferrably the song ''Dancing in the Streets''...(dancing is a big PROHIBITION under Taliban rule), let them hear it 24/7...Shoot ONLY at those trying to shoot at you...Bombing is too indiscriminate a killer....give it a break...get ground troops on the ground, searching for undetonated ''bunker busters''...(Yes, we know they are low-yield radioactive bombs, can't leave the terrorists anything they can use against us), police the Afghan inhabitants that are not currently involved in the fighting into ''safe zones''...and centralize the concentration of the fighting into a smaller theatre of operations...as the Taliban realizes that they are losing control over the populace, the Taliban will turn upon their own people...have the film footage of the carnage broadcast across the Al-Jazeera station into all the Middle East and shamefully point out to the Muslim nations in the region that this is what is being shown back in North America and Europe and that they, the Islamic States are being held personally responsible by Allah for allowing such heretics of Islam, blasphemers, to represent their ''religion'' to the whole world. The Islamic States that have turned a blind eye to such groups are as responsible for terrorism as the terrorists themselves and that they can redeem themselves before the world community by removing these types of extremists from their own midst. Ask them what Islam dictates should be done to these ''infidels'' so that their region can be purified of this evil in their midst.
(Let them wage ''jihad'' amongst themselves and step back into the background as observers...If they refuse to do so...Let them know that the West will no longer have need for their oil and the whole region will be under condemnation by the rest of the world...make sure that you make the region aware that the need for oil in the West and Europe can be supplied from elsewhere. Does this sound harsh or unworkable? No, it isn't, and it's the only way to win a war in the Islamic world with an ''Islamic-Extremist'' enemy in the sight of their Islamic neighbors...-Ed.)
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Taliban Seizes Relief Food, Two Main U.N. Warehouses. Taliban soldiers have seized the two main United Nations food warehouses in Afghanistan, taking more than half of the relief food available for hungry Afghans and greatly disrupting the entire humanitarian aid effort.
(Now why is it that the comments that I've been making concerning certain situations not taken to heart? I said that the Taliban would steal the food out of the peoples mouths and it seems that the powers that be have chosen to ignore such warnings...Now the governments of the West are responsible for supporting terrorism and giving them aid for their continued existence...Fools!...Why don't you now condemn yourselves you bunch of hypocrites!...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 3:15 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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U.S. propaganda to Taliban: You are condemned. The Pentagon is sending radio broadcasts into Afghanistan telling the Taliban they are "condemned," and the messages seem to suggest that U.S. troops will eventually be on the ground in that country. According to an English language translation posted on the Pentagon's Web site, one message gives the Taliban forces instructions how to surrender to U.S. troops. :: Dataghost 3:06 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Taliban Get the Good News and the Bad News :: Dataghost 3:05 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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US forces have landed near Kandahar: Iranian radio. US special forces have reportedly been deployed on board a warship off Pakistan's coast, amid unconfirmed reports that US troops have also landed near the Afghan city of Kandahar. Reports credited to Iranian Radio claim US special forces have landed by helicopter near Kandahar. :: Dataghost 3:01 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israels deputy security minister Gideon Ezra: the most important thing now is to defend our people. :: Dataghost 2:59 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Have Israeli Media Shifted Right? "Five Palestinians killed in Gaza" read a recent headline in international newspapers. In Israel, however, the papers focused on the story of young Israeli sweethearts, slain the night before at a shooting spree outside their Gaza Strip settlement. :: Dataghost 2:58 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israel Has Names of Cabinet Minister Killers-Source. knows the identities of a far-right cabinet minister's killers and will hand a list of names to the Palestinian Authority within hours so they can be arrested, a senior Israeli diplomatic source said on Thursday. The source said Israel's security forces know who was behind the assassination of Tourism Minister Rahavam Zeevi at a Jerusalem hotel on Wednesday and that information would soon be handed over to the Palestinian Authority. :: Dataghost 2:55 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Call to Study U.S. Stance on Mideast Draws Anger. Cynthia A. McKinney, an outspoken Atlanta congresswoman, has stirred strong emotions among Jews, Muslims and political leaders here by writing a letter to a Saudi prince supporting his call for a re-examination of American policy in the Middle East, which the prince said was an issue leading to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. As a result of the comments by Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani of New York rejected the prince's $10 million donation to charity last week. But Ms. McKinney, in a letter that seemed to apologize for the mayor's action, said the mayor was wrong and said the prince had an important point to make. :: Dataghost 2:53 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Press briefing by the UN offices for Pakistan and Afghanistan 17 Oct 2001. As you may know, Security Council members met yesterday in New York with the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi, who was accompanied by Mr. Francesc Vendrell and other UN officials. In the words of the President of the Council, Mr. Richard Ryan, there was "preliminary discussion about the future possible role of the United Nations" in Afghanistan, including political, humanitarian and, "in due course, rehabilitation aspects of the situation."
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Pakistan says India moving troops. In another sign of growing tension over the disputed territory of Kashmir, Pakistan has accused India of moving troops and aircraft provocatively in the region. A military spokesman said Pakistan viewed the Indian redeployment as a potential threat. :: Dataghost 2:46 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Carrageenan may cause stomach lesions, cancer. Containers of pudding, ice cream, yogurt, or cottage cheese may include the ingredient carrageenan, a thickener derived from red seaweed. For decades, it has been presumed to be safe to eat, but new research from a medical doctor on the faculty of the University of Iowa shows that presumption may be wrong. Carrageenan is a water-soluble polymer, also known as a gum, that is used as a fat substitute in processed meats and can be found in condensed milk and some soy milk products. :: Dataghost 2:37 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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WHO: EHA Highlights Volume II, Issue 8, Sep 2001. WHO in the Afghanistan Crisis. The major increase in IDPs and refugees triggered by the military action in Afghanistan, following the terrorist attack of 11 September, has compounded an already acute health crisis, where drought, malnutrition and communicable diseases have been for years major problems both for the local population and in the refugee camps on the borders. The imminent onset of an expected harsh winter is a complicating factor, while possible looting or losses might further accentuate shortages of equipment and supplies. :: Dataghost 2:34 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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World: Forum 2000 -- Terrorism High On Agenda Of Human Rights Conference. The issue of terrorism in the aftermath of the 11 September attacks on the United States has hijacked the discussion on human rights at the fifth annual Forum 2000 conference taking place in Prague this week. Czech President Vaclav Havel is a co-sponsor of the conference, which brings together leading intellectuals, including Nobel peace and literature laureates. Havel said last month's attack has had a dramatic effect on almost all aspects of life, including the conference's attendance. :: Dataghost 2:25 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Human Rights Watch Q&A on International Law. As this paper explains, governments may not use unlimited methods and means to pursue war, even a war against indistinct enemies. International humanitarian law, also known as the "laws of war," is designed in principal part to protect civilians and other non-combatants. Warring forces may not intentionally attack civilians and civilian facilities. Attacks on military targets must minimize harm to civilians and refrain entirely from attacks that would disproportionately harm civilians or whose effects would be indiscriminate as between combatants and civilians. :: Dataghost 2:24 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Taleban seize UN food aid. The Taleban have taken control of two UN warehouses, seizing more than half of the World Food Programme's aid for Afghanistan as a freezing winter approaches. WFP executive director Catherine Bertini said the warehouses, located in the capital Kabul and the southern city of Kandahar, were filled with wheat, and that the losses would seriously hinder efforts to feed the millions in need within the country. :: Dataghost 2:21 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israeli policies still guided by racism, Zionism: Sultan. GENERAL Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and UAE Defence Minister, yesterday attended celebrations marking the first anniversary of the Dubai Internet City and the 21st anniversary of Gitex. At the ceremony, Gen. Shaikh Mohammed presented spectacular crystal trophies to winners of the ITP Arabian Business e-Achievement Awards 2001. Among the recipients were ministers of communications and information technology of Egypt and Jordan. :: Dataghost 2:15 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Peace bid may rock Sharon govt. The United States, having kept its distance from the Middle East before being attacked by terrorists last month, is leading an international charge to hurry both Israel and the Palestinians back to talks. But Israeli politicians and analysts warned yesterday that the peace initiative snowballing in the wake of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's snap European tour could sound the death knell for Israeli Prime Minister Sharon's government. :: Dataghost 2:10 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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The BBCs Barbara Plett in Jerusalem: The Palestinian Authority has condemned this killing [of foreign minister]. :: Dataghost 2:09 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Sharon vows war ''to the bitter end''. Israeli troops entered Palestinian-controlled territory on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday, the first military action since Palestinian gunmen assassinated a senior cabinet minister a day earlier. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon earlier blamed the killing on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, and vowed to wage “war to the bitter end.”
(There he goes again! Mr. Sharon, when are you going to learn that these people refuse to be intimidated? You've dug your own grave with that threat...Hope you've taken care of all your final arrangements...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 2:08 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Sharons war threat after assassination. He also blamed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for the death saying "full responsibility falls squarely on Arafat". The first of the retaliatory measures was to reinstate the Palestinian blockade. He also banned Palestinian President Yasser Arafat from using Gaza international airport. :: Dataghost 2:04 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Rumsfeld appears on Arabic television. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld told Al-Jazeera television that punishing air strikes over Afghanistan are aimed at terrorists, not the Afghan population. He was the second Bush administration official to attempt to explain the bombing to viewers of Arabic-language TV. :: Dataghost 2:00 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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US Navy planes have begun attacking the Taliban front line. THE military campaign against Afghanistan entered a new phase yesterday with allied officials saying it was being redirected to attacking Taliban troops on the front line. :: Dataghost 1:58 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Kenya: Anthrax Fear Over Suspect UN Parcels to Nairobi. An anthrax alert was flashed to health headquarters in Nairobi yesterday after a white powder feared to contain the deadly bacteria was found at the United Nations in Gigiri. The powder was in a parcel sent from Pakistan, one source said. Another parcel mailed from Georgia in the United States also contained the suspect powder, it was believed. :: Dataghost 1:56 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Canadian ships depart to join war on terrorism. Three Canadian ships, making up half of Canada's contribution to the US-led war on terrorism, departed from here Wednesday for the Middle East, getting a warm send-off from thousands of well-wishers. The destroyer HMCS Iroquois, frigate HMCS Charlottetown and supply ship HMCS Preserver, carrying some 1,000 sailors, set off Wednesday from this Atlantic port city for the Gulf or Arabian Sea. :: Dataghost 1:55 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Nations get tough on hoaxers as anthrax scares multiply. Governments vowed to punish hoaxers Wednesday as the worldwide panic over anthrax attacks in the United States shut down parliaments, paralyzed businesses and unsettled postal workers. No anthrax attacks have yet been confirmed outside of the United States, where the House of Representatives was shut down for five days from Wednesday following the latest exposures to the bacterium. :: Dataghost 1:54 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Prominent Muslim cleric denounces bin Laden. A prominent Muslim cleric denounced suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden Thursday and urged Afghanistan's Taliban rulers not to risk thousands of lives for him. "Bin Laden is not a prophet that we should put thousands of lives at risk for," said Tahirul Qadri, who heads the Pakistani Awami Tehrik Party. :: Dataghost 1:52 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Anthrax Scare Finds Way to South Dakota. Mary Batcheller spent much of her 89th birthday worrying in front of the television. Her oldest grandson, Paul Batcheller, is an economic adviser to Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the Senate majority leader, in his Washington office. Mr. Batcheller sits around the corner from where an aide opened a letter on Monday that was contaminated with a potent strain of anthrax. But when Mrs. Batcheller returned home Tuesday night after a birthday dinner at Callaway's Kitchen with Paul's father and brother, the phone rang. :: Dataghost 1:50 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Russia to Dismantle Spy Facility in Cuba. President Vladimir Putin announced today that Russia will close its major eavesdropping center in Cuba, a significant concession to the United States that will save the cash-strapped Russian military $200 million a year. In withdrawing from the Lourdes base, Putin is putting to rest one of the major relics of the Cold War still in operation in Cuba. The base, built by the Soviet Union in 1964, continues to house an estimated 1,500 military personnel, and its role as a significant electronic intelligence center has been a major point of contention with the United States in recent years. :: Dataghost 1:48 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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U.N. Security Council starts brainstorming on an expanded U.N. role in Afghanistan. The Security Council began brainstorming behind closed doors Tuesday on an expanded U.N. role in Afghanistan, with its foremost task expected to be the quick delivery of humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged country before winter snows make roads impassable. Diplomats said the United Nations also plans to focus on helping the country's political and ethnic groups build a broad-based government. :: Dataghost 1:46 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Lieberman Pushing West to Boot Saddam. Sen. Joseph Lieberman has urged the Bush administration to expand its war on terrorism by working to oust Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. Lieberman (D-Conn.), the 2000 Democratic vice presidential candidate, stopped short of calling for an immediate military strike on Iraq. But he said there should be a "Phase 2" of the U.S. response to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. :: Dataghost 1:45 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Iraqi clerics declare jihad vs US-led war on Afghanistan. Muslim clerics in Iraq issued Wednesday a fatwa (religious decree) declaring jihad, or holy war, against the US-British military "aggression" on Afghanistan. "We call on all Muslims to engage in the jihad against the infidels in order to confront the new crusade against Afghanistan," the clerics said in the fatwa published in several Iraqi dailies. :: Dataghost 1:43 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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US reconsidering China sanctions. The White House has denied a US newspaper report that it is considering waiving some sanctions against China in a bid to bind it into the global coalition against terrorism. The Washington Post newspaper cited US government officials, speaking on the eve of President Bush's departure for Shanghai. :: Dataghost 1:41 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Bush Stops in California on Way to China Summit. President Bush headed to a summit in China to strengthen the coalition behind his war on terrorism Wednesday and said the United States was ``supported by the conscience of the world.'' ``We are not alone in this struggle,'' said Bush, preparing to join world leaders at a 21-nation economic conference in Shanghai. :: Dataghost 1:38 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Bush to push anti-terror agenda in China. U.S. President Bush headed for China on Wednesday, embarking on his first trip abroad since the September 11 terrorist attacks for an international economic forum while keeping the fight against terrorism high on his agenda. :: Dataghost 1:35 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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GLOBAL POLITICS: Lessons to be learnt from the Nato Serbia conflict. Within one week of the air assault, Serbia-sympathetic hackers began attacking US defence computers and defence related businesses. These hackers originated from across the Eastern block. In the first week of April 1999, the US Department of Defense computer systems were hit with up to 100 hack attacks a day. :: Dataghost 1:33 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Taliban moderates offered future role. Pakistan's military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, said yesterday that he expected moderate Taliban leaders to play a crucial role in any new administration in Afghanistan, and made it clear that US military action against Osama bin Laden should be "short and targeted". In remarks endorsed by the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, Gen Musharraf said any post-Taliban government in Kabul should be "broad-based" and "multi-ethnic". It could include the "former king Zahir Shah, political leaders, moderate Taliban leaders, elements from the Northern Alliance, tribal leaders and Afghans living outside their country", he added. :: Dataghost 1:31 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Anthrax Scare Spreads Around the World. On Sunday, chemical workers in boots and white moon suits sealed off Canterbury Cathedral, headquarters of the Church of England, to check a mysterious white powder scattered on one of the pews. On Monday, the London Stock exchange was evacuated. Today, it was several post offices. Like Americans, Britons are becoming panicky about anthrax, even though no confirmed case of the disease has appeared here, and despite repeated appeals from the authorities to stay calm. As America's chief ally in the fight against terrorism, Britons believe, rightly or wrongly, that they could be next as targets of biological weapons. :: Dataghost 1:30 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Were All Hijackers in on Suicide Pact? Shortly after hijacked jetliners crashed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, U.S. officials quickly concluded that the terrorists involved were, to a man, murderous zealots bent on suicide. But nearly five weeks later, FBI investigators and their European counterparts are considering another scenario: that many of the hijackers did not know they were going to die. :: Dataghost 1:27 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Anthrax is weapons grade say officials. US officials said on Wednesday that the form of anthrax found in a letter to Senate Majority leader Tom Daschle appeared to be one of its most 'potent' forms and most likely the work of experts. Mr Daschle said FBI investigators had concluded that the anthrax strain was "a very potent form of anthrax that clearly was produced by someone who knew what he or she was doing". :: Dataghost 1:25 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Targeting front lines. U.S.-led airstrikes are pounding Taliban frontline positions in northern Afghanistan, which CNN Correspondent Matthew Chance says may signal a shift in air campaign strategy. :: Dataghost 1:21 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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29 Capitol Hill staffers exposed to anthrax. Thirty-one Senate employees tested positive for anthrax exposure, officials said Wednesday as the threat of bioterrorism rattled Capitol Hill. Hundreds more lined up nervously to be tested and leaders ordered the shutdown of the House and three Senate office buildings. "We're in a battle with terrorism, a new form of human warfare," said House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt. :: Dataghost 1:19 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Palestinians Kill Israeli Far-Rightist, Bringing Peace Effort to Near-Collapse. Israel's minister of tourism, a leader of the far right, was shot and killed on Wednesday in a stealthy, audacious attack at a hotel here. Stunned and outraged, the Israeli government threatened early today to oppose the Palestinian Authority as a terrorist organization unless it immediately handed over gunmen blamed for the assault. Rehavam Zeevi, a former general and member of the cabinet, was shot twice in the face in a hallway of the Hyatt Hotel early on Wednesday by assailants who escaped unseen. The killing threatened new efforts for peace here and, with them, the Bush administration's hopes of building Arab support for an international coalition against terror.
(Yes, there's certainly some irony in the whole situation. Mr. Zeevi was one of the ministers who was definitely for the "listed target" doctrine and ended up becoming a target himself for his efforts in this regard. Mr Sharon is for "listed targeting", maybe he's the next one on the list. See what comes from this? Nothing but more and more death!...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 1:15 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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House Will Shut Down Until Tuesday for Anthrax Screening. More than 30 people on Capitol Hill have tested positive for exposure to anthrax as a result of a contaminated letter sent to the office of Senator Tom Daschle of South Dakota, the Democratic majority leader, officials said today. Reacting to the news of the test results, House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert said the House of Representatives would shut down after today's business and would be in recess until Tuesday so that officials could screen Capitol Hill buildings. :: Dataghost 1:10 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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New anthrax exposure cases in Senate. Preliminary tests indicate the anthrax found in a letter sent to NBC News in New York is the same strain of the bacteria as the one identified in several cases at a Florida tabloid publishing company, sources at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told CNN Wednesday. :: Dataghost 1:07 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israel suspends reforms after killing. -- Israel early Thursday demanded the Palestinian Authority immediately hand over the "murderers and their senders" responsible for the assassination of an Israeli Cabinet member the day before. "If the Palestinian Authority does not comply with this demand, Israel will see the Palestinian Authority as an entity that supports terror," said Cabinet Secretary Gideon Saar after a late-night Cabinet meeting. :: Dataghost 1:06 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israel accuses Arafat over killing. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has blamed Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for the assassination of far-right cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi, who was killed on Wednesday. In a first retaliatory step, Israel has banned Mr Arafat from using the international airport in Gaza.
(Mr. Sharon, haven't you figured it out yet? Through your policy, you've effectively killed Mr. Ze'evi yourself! Did you think that killing comes without retaliation? You've missed the point...You're still missing the point and you'll continue to miss the point until you end up dead! Do you think that you would come to some other end result after practicing the same actions over and over again? If you delude yourself into thinking such, it's time for you to seek some professional help to see if you can get your own personal brand of insanity in check!...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 1:04 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Congress shutdown as anthrax spreads. The US House of Representatives and three Senate office buildings have closed down for tests after at least 31 congressional employees tested positive for anthrax exposure - increasing fears of new, full-blown cases of the potentially deadly disease. :: Dataghost 12:58 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Whether Grounding Jets Prevented Hijackings Is Still Unclear. The head of the Federal Aviation Administration suggested in a speech today that an order to ground all planes on the morning of Sept. 11 had prevented additional jets from being hijacked. :: Dataghost 12:57 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com:: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 ::
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Watch for laws that are being passed and are in the works in the next few days. Latest infotel: You are living under a "War Powers Act" or "War Measures Act" military policing in Canada and the United States. Want proof? Watch how easy it will become to arrest you, hold you and make you appear before a judge without being told what you have been charged with! More data in this regard shortly!...-Ed.
Update:The Federal government has to publish any and all bills that are to be passed as law. The Federal Register link in the left hand bar is for your perusal so that you can keep up to date as to what is being proposed as law (as well as any Executive Orders that are put into effect)! Another link that you'll see that's been added is GovSpot.com. What can I say? It's the most thorough site of its kind. Find any local, regional, state or federal government sites that are on the net through this portal site!...-Ed.
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DoD News: Background Briefing on Afghanistan. In order to save on blogging from this site, I'm placing a permanent link for the Dept of Defense in the left column... :: Dataghost 10:06 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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DoD News: DoD Casualty Update. Here's the new casualty list at the Pentagon site... :: Dataghost 10:03 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Note: The Department of Defense briefings and update for the War in Afghanistan takes place @ 2:15 pm EDT...It's usually published in transcript form with graphical charts, images and mpeg movie clips by 3:00 pm EDT...Check for it... :: Dataghost 10:00 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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DoD News: DoD News Briefing - ASD PA Clarke and Lt. Gen. Newbold. Dept of Defense brief transcript for 10/16/2001...Includes link for slides, graphics and videos of War in Afghanistan... :: Dataghost 9:57 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Cipro Isnt the Only Drug That Can Be Prescribed, Anthrax Experts Say. Though the antibiotic Cipro has become the drug of choice among people worried about anthrax, several other widely available and less expensive antibiotics are very likely to work as well. Cipro was approved last year in the United States specifically to prevent the inhaled form of anthrax, the most lethal form of the disease, which can be contracted by people who inhale anthrax spores deep into their lungs. The sole death in the current outbreak of bioterrorism was caused by inhaled anthrax. :: Dataghost 5:36 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Production of Cipro Is Being Tripled, German Company Says. he German drug company that makes the antibiotic Cipro said yesterday that it was tripling production of the medicine in the face of intensifying public fears about anthrax. The announcement by Bayer, the maker of Cipro, comes two days after the health and human services secretary, Tommy G. Thompson, said the government would increase the national stockpile of emergency drugs to have enough to treat 12 million people for 60 days, six times the current amount. :: Dataghost 5:34 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Iraq asks OPEC to cut oil output. Iraq called on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Tuesday to immediately cut oil production by 1 million barrels a day, saying this would restore balance to the world oil market and achieve new levels for oil prices, the official Iraqi News Agency (INA) said. :: Dataghost 5:33 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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The Real Price of Oil. Perhaps it's a sign of politics inching back toward business as usual: Congressional Republicans are exploiting the Sept. 11 terror attacks to push the Bush administration's plan for an all-out increase in energy production. Lawmakers first proposed making the administration's controversial plan -- which includes drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge -- part of a federal anti-terrorism bill. Though that amendment failed late last month, drilling advocates are likely to continue invoking terrorism fears as they argue for more oil development. :: Dataghost 5:30 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Macedonian Aid Row. The ruined Albanian village of Drenoc, close to the town of Tetovo, has a ghostly appearance. The scars of war are clearly evident - burnt houses, empty shops and broken glass - and few people remain. It's a familiar picture all over Macedonia, but now foreign aid is on the way to repair the damage wrought by the conflict that raged between Albanian guerrillas and government forces for most of this year. :: Dataghost 5:29 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Montenegro: Tribunal Cooperation Under Scrutiny. The arrest and extradition of indicted war criminals in Montenegro looks set to become a painful and protracted drama. Earlier this month, The Hague unsealed four indictments against military figures implicated in war crimes committed during the Montenegrin assault on Dubrovnik ten years ago. :: Dataghost 5:28 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Explosion, fire destroy Kosovo party offices. An explosion and fire destroyed the offices of Kosovo's two main political parties in a southern town Tuesday in the first major outbreak of violence ahead of elections. No one was injured. The early-morning blast in Suva Reka appeared to have been an attack aimed at the local headquarters of the leading contender in the Nov. 17 ballot, the Democratic League of Kosovo, or LDK, said Andrea Angeli, a spokesman for the UN mission in Kosovo. :: Dataghost 5:27 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Croatia: Gotovina Revelations. A prominent supporter of Ante Gotovina has revealed the Croatian general indicted for war crimes will try to embarrass the US if he is extradited to The Hague for trial. "If it comes to an arrest, General Gotovina's defence team will call on individuals from the United States to testify," said a friend of the controversial former army commander, Nenad Ivankovic, who is head of the right-wing organisation HONOS, the Association for the Protection of the Values of the Homeland War. :: Dataghost 5:26 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Bosnian Gun Smuggling Ring Exposed. Bosnian police have arrested six people in connection with a weapon smuggling gang which had been running guns from Bosnia-Herzegovina to Kosovo. Two of the arrested suspects were Bosnian police officers and one worked for an intelligence agency. Newspaper reports say other high officials are implicated. :: Dataghost 5:25 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Ontario Premier Mike Chainsaw Harris to resign after six years in office. Mike Harris, best known for his right-wing agenda of drastic tax and spending cuts, stunned cabinet ministers and party insiders alike Tuesday by announcing that he had made a "very personal decision" to resign as premier of Canada's most populous province.
(And we're sorry to hear of your leaving Mike ''The Chainsaw''...NOT!...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 5:23 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Protecting U.S.-Canadian Border Remains a Challenge. :: Dataghost 5:21 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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King, Chirac want urgent moves for Mideast peace. His Majesty King Abdullah and French President Jacques Chirac agreed Monday on the urgent need to restore the Middle East peace process during a meeting and working lunch here. King Abdullah underscored the need to take a two-pronged approach that would include “recognition of the principle of Palestinian statehood and guarantees of security for the state of Israel.” :: Dataghost 5:20 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Abkhazia Refuses Autonomy And Demands Independence. Abkhazian Prime Minister Anri Dzhergeniya has stated that there is no point at the moment in holding negotiations on relations between Abkhazia and Georgia. Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze announced earlier that his country was ready to give Abkhazia "maximum and unprecedented rights" within Georgia. :: Dataghost 5:14 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Germany Readying Contribution To Anti-Terror Effort. An announcement by Chancellor Gerhard Schröder on Tuesday that Germany was preparing to provide direct military assistance to the United States appeared to move the country a step closer to committing troops to the war on terrorism. :: Dataghost 5:09 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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No knowledge of Talibans offer: official. The US State Department has no knowledge that Taliban Foreign Minister Abdul Wakil Muttwakil has visited Islamabad for talks or that he has conveyed an offer to make efforts to have Osama bin Laden handed over if America initiated a bombing pause of two or three days. A senior State Department official said on Tuesday that there was no indication that Mr Muttawakil had even visited Islamabad. To travel out of Afghanistan, the minister would have needed permission from the UN sanctions committee. :: Dataghost 5:05 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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UN planning transition govt in Kabul. The United Nations Security Council and top UN officials are expected to meet this week to begin planning a framework for a future transition government in Kabul and a UN peace keeping mission in Afghanistan, UN officials said here. The two United Nations envoys who are dealing with various aspects of the situation in Afghanistan have arrived in New York for high-level meetings. :: Dataghost 5:04 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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US gave armour-piercing sniper rifles to Afghanistan. MORE than a decade ago, the US government sent 25 high-powered sniper rifles to a group of Muslim fighters in Afghanistan that included Osama bin Laden, according to court testimony and the guns’ maker. The rifles, made by Barrett Firearms Manufacturing Inc. of Tennessee and paid for by the government, were shipped during the collaboration between the US and Muslims then fighting to drive the Soviet Union from Afghanistan. :: Dataghost 5:03 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Kabul awakes to more bombs, key city may fall. THE AFGHAN Capital of Kabul awoke to powerful explosions on Wednesday, one day after a Red Cross warehouse was mistakenly bombed, as United States stepped up attacks on the ruling Taliban, and the opposition advanced on the battlefield. :: Dataghost 5:02 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Northern Alliance close in on key Taliban stronghold. NORTHERN Alliance forces were last night preparing for a final push to wrest the key Taliban stronghold of Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan after advancing to within six miles of the city. :: Dataghost 5:01 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Peeking Into Afghanistan From Space. The United States has spy satellites over Afghanistan already. But the 15-ton KH-11 — the satellite that experts believe was launched last Friday — has imaging resolution down to a few inches and infrared sensors that could pinpoint small campfires at night, according to a report from Aviation Week, a print publication.
(Of course, as expected, the miltary and government agencies denied the KH-11 was in orbit...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 4:59 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Taliban Minister In Talks With Ex-King. Taliban Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil has fled Afghanistan and contacted a representative of the ex-Afghan king, a senior member of the monarch's entourage confirmed. However, Hamid Sidig told Reuters he did not know where Mr Muttawakil was at present and could not confirm rumours that the minister had defected.
(Here's an interesting turn of events...as we get more info on this turn of events we'll see just how accurate ::True:: this story really is...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 4:56 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Iran in secret pact to aid Americans. Iran has secretly agreed to help any members of the American forces who stray into its territory as a result of the conflict with neighbouring Afghanistan, in a sign of its growing cooperation with the US. :: Dataghost 4:51 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Taliban and Bin Laden men clash. Terrorists from Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda group have clashed with Taliban forces amid claims that the Kabul regime is riven with division. In some parts of Afghanistan men being trained for attacks on the West are said to have run amok, threatening civilians and looting homes and businesses. Reports emerged today of one incident in which workers with an Islamic charity based in Birmingham were robbed at gunpoint by men identified as Arabs by a United Nations official. Reports from Kabul say Bin Laden's men have beaten men and boys trying to flee the city and there have been gun battles with Taliban militia. :: Dataghost 4:47 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Land Without Peace: Why Arafat will not stop his war. On May 6, the Israeli navy intercepted a Lebanese ship headed for Gaza. It carried a full cargo of weapons, including Katyusha rockets and Strella antiaircraft missiles. These are not weapons of protest. These are not weapons for demonstrations. These are weapons for all-out war. The Katyushas can reach the most densely populated parts of Israel. The Strellas can bring down airplanes, military or civilian. According to the ship's captain, two similar shipments had already made it through to Gaza. Yasser Arafat's war on Israel, begun eight months ago, is about to escalate dramatically.
(Mr. Krauthammer, the author of this article needs to get a grip on what is really taking place in Palestine/Israel... ''Yasser Arafat's war on Israel''? Give me a break...If anything there's something much darker to this whole scenario...Yasser Arafat is a ''good terrorist'' in the eyes of the West, the groups like Hamas and Fatah are the ''bad terrorists'' and Arafat is a political pariah to his people as well as other Arab nations that keep him around as a ''puppet king'' who has no control over the people following in the uprising. And why keep Arafat around at all? He supplies the need for a ''buffer zone'' for the West and Israel to concentrate upon and talk to about peace...-Ed.)
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Who Cares About the Palestinians? Dennis Ross, former envoy to the Middle East in the Clinton administration and in Arab eyes an incarnation of the blind American support for Israel, has published a column in the New York Times entitled “Bin Laden's Terrorism Isn't About the Palestinians.” Ross writes: “In 1990, Saddam Hussein claimed that he had invaded Kuwait to help the Palestinians. He understood that he was isolated and needed to link his invasion to a cause that might appear legitimate. (…) In an echo of 1990, Osama bin Laden tried, in his videotaped message this week, to make the same linkage (...) He is no more credible than Mr. Hussein was. His Al Qaeda network did not attack America because of the absence of peace in the Middle East.” :: Dataghost 4:23 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israeli split aids Arafat, says Sharon. As Israel began removing road blockades and trying to ease life for Palestinians, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's coalition government suffered its first fracture yesterday under the weight of U.S. pressure to forge a Mideast cease-fire. Citing Sharon's decision to withdraw troops from the West Bank city of Hebron and expectations that the U.S. is formulating a peace initiative, two right-wing Cabinet ministers known for their anti-Arab positions gave notice that they would pull their National Union faction out of the government.
(Yes, the Knesset has made a pact with death...War is the tool and the IDF is the implementers under government orders...No wonder at all why Mr. Arafat is now ahead of the game, the war against terrorism has played right into his hand...and Israel's policy toward the Palestinian people is found wanting and lacking...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 4:20 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israel Ministers Ordered to Secure Areas -Israel TV. Israeli cabinet ministers were ordered to stay home or immediately get to "secure areas" on Wednesday after gunmen tried to assassinate anti-Arab, right-wing minister Rehavam Zeevi, Israeli television reported. "Cabinet ministers have been told to stay home or ordered to secure places," the television reported. Gunmen shot Zeevi in the head at the entrance to his hotel room at the Hyatt in Jerusalem on Wednesday and he was in critical condition, Israeli police and hospital officials said. :: Dataghost 4:16 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israel and the Palestinians:. IT SOUNDED schizophrenic, and it was. On October 14th, the Israeli military said it would ease its blockade on certain Palestinian towns. On the same day, it also resumed its policy of assassinating Palestinians thought to be behind terrorist attacks, when snipers shot dead an activist from Hamas, a militant Islamic movement. The next day, a car-bomb, said by Palestinians to have been planted by Israel, killed another Hamas activist, even as Israeli tanks were withdrawing from an area of the Palestinian town of Hebron they had seized last week. Israel’s government is tying itself in knots in an effort to gratify both America, which wants calm in the Middle East while it pursues its campaign against Afghanistan, and its own increasingly belligerent supporters, who want the army to deal more firmly with the year-old Palestinian uprising. :: Dataghost 4:15 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Indian troops destroy 11 Pakistani posts across LoC. The Indian Army today launched “punitive action”, firing heavily on Pakistan Army positions across the Line of Control in the Akhnur and Mendhar sectors of Jammu and Kashmir. This is the first time in the past 12 years that such an action has been undertaken, signalling what is being seen as the sign of a proactive policy against Pakistan for its sponsorship of cross-border terrorism. :: Dataghost 4:11 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Musharraf backs US anti-terror war as long as operation lasts. Pakistan's support for US military action in Afghanistan will continue for as long as the campaign lasts, President Pervez Musharraf said Tuesday after talks with US Secretary of State Colin Powell. Musharraf said his government had made a decision of principle to support the coalition against terrorism and to allow the use of its airspace and provide intelligence and logistical support for US action against the Taliban regime. :: Dataghost 4:10 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Imelda Marcos cries harassment as Sandigan orders her arrest. THE SANDIGANBAYAN special anti-graft court on Tuesday ordered the arrest of Imelda Marcos on graft charges, but the flamboyant former first lady quickly posted bail and accused the government of harassment. Marcos, 72, is accused of setting up bogus foundations when she was minister of human settlements in the 1980s to hide millions of alleged stolen money in Swiss banks.
(With as many pairs of footwear this woman has, it's a wonder that she doesn't have a pair of ''boots that were made for walking''...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 4:09 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Our war against the Taliban is no Vietnam. WE are losing the propaganda war. That is the smart thing to say at the moment. While we are sending bombers and missiles to Afghanistan, the Taliban are broadcasting pictures of injured children and conducting journalists around bomb sites that were once (it is claimed) poor villages - and they are winning on points. Our Government has been so concerned with the business of war abroad that it has failed to keep up the verbal fight for understanding at home. As a result, so they say, the public is losing confidence in what this action is supposed to be about.
(The war against the Taliban? I thought this was a war against Terrorism...Oh well, whether or not this will prove to be another VietNam remains to be seen...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 4:06 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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New E coli scare. HEALTH officials were yesterday searching for a link between three people who have contracted the potentially-fatal E coli 0157 bug. A three-year-old girl and 50-year-old woman, both from Bonnyrigg, Midlothian, were yesterday diagnosed with the disease. The discoveries came as the girl’s 25-year-old mother was released from the area’s Western General Hospital after testing positive last week.
(E.Coli cases will rise throughout the winter and into the new year worldwide...And why? Nothing is being done research-wise to discover how e.coli begins its growth in food...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 4:03 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Investigation Continues into War Crimes in Kosovo. :: Dataghost 3:58 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Arafat to the rescue. YASSER ARAFAT has been ridiculed as a politician who never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. But it is always a mistake to under- estimate the resilience of the Palestinian leader, who has survived more than 40 years in the most poisonous of all political snakepits. While he has indeed missed opportunities, Arafat has also demonstrated a rare genius for survival: He has walked away from assassination attempts, a hideous car crash on the Amman-Damascus road, the civil war in Lebanon (despite Israeli and Syrian attempts to kill him), and a decade later, in 1992, he walked away from a plane crash in the Libyan desert.
(The old saying that ''A cat has nine lives'' might very well apply to Mr. Arafat. Let's look at him in this light...In a field full of manure, Arafat would come out smelling like a rose!...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 3:53 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Plea to deploy monitors from Muslim countries: Setting up of new Afghan govt. A peace-keeping force, with personnel from those Islamic countries which have never interfered in Afghan affairs, should be deployed in Afghanistan to monitor the formation of a new government in Kabul, suggested Prof Rasul Amin, an Afghan intellectual, while talking toDawn here on Monday. Jordan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, etc, could contribute to the peace-keeping force, added Prof Amin, who used to teach political science and Afghanistan Studies at the Kabul University before the Soviet invasion of the country.
(Yeah...I can see how that might prove workable, but do you think the U.S. will ever buy into such a thing?...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 3:48 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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A Test Ban That Disarms Us: When it comes to nuclear testing, nations will act in their perceived self-interests. Some debates just never go away. The Clinton administration is back again pressing Congress for passage of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). This is part of a final-legacy push that includes a Middle East peace for just-in-time delivery by September 2000. The argument for the test ban is that it will prevent nuclear proliferation. If countries cannot test nukes, they will not build them because they won't know if they work. Ratifying the CTBT is supposed to close the testing option for would-be nuclear powers. :: Dataghost 3:45 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Dense on Missile Defense. The Democratic Party opposes change in the status quo -- from school choice to private Social Security accounts -- lest it disturb either a core liberal constituency (such as teachers) or a past liberal achievement (such as Social Security). This has been correctly called "reactionary liberalism." And nowhere has this refusal to leave the warm and cozy past been more starkly demonstrated than in the Democrats' knee-jerk response to President Bush's proposal on missile defense. "The president," said House Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt, "is jeopardizing an arms control framework that has served this nation and the world well for decades." Decades? The '70s and '80s, the heyday of arms control, were a time of hair-trigger nuclear tension. We went to DEFCON III in October 1973, just a year after the signing of SALT I and the ABM Treaty, the alleged cornerstones of strategic stability. :: Dataghost 3:44 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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10/16/01 Breaking News. Bin Laden reported by FOX to be in possession of highly secret Promis software. FOX News correspondent Carl Cameron is today reporting that former FBI counterintelligence agent Robert Hanssen delivered a highly sophisticated intelligence software program, known as Promis, to Russian agents, who in turn sold it to Osama bin Laden. Promis allows secret financial tracking of financial, criminal and anti-terrorist investigations. Possession of the software might enable the user to enter highly secret criminal investigation databases and to infiltrate the world’s banking system. Hanssen, who worked as a double agent for the Russian government, both before and after the fall of the Soviet Union, recently avoided the death penalty by agreeing to cooperate with U.S. intelligence agencies. Hanssen was arrested February 18. :: Dataghost 3:42 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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U.S. Official on Fighting Terrorism in the Western Hemisphere. Appearing October 15 at the Organization of American States (OAS) to brief diplomats on fighting terrorism in the region, Taylor said that the United States has presented "clear and compelling evidence" to its allies that the September 11 attacks "originated in Afghanistan, with [suspected terrorist] Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida organization."
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Al Qaeda capable of radiological warfare, says Washington. The United States officials believe that Al Qaeda may have a crude chemical and possibly biological skills, including an anthrax capability. Reports to this effect have surfaced amidst a rapid multiplication in the number of anthrax exposure cases reported in the US and in some other Western countries in the past week. At a briefing by senior US defence officials the other day, it was underlined that a distinction should be made between Al Qaeda actually having weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and a base-line WMD capability. If Al Qaeda also has a nuclear capability, it is, in the words of one of the briefers, "liable to be more radiological than fissile". :: Dataghost 3:39 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Bin Laden Band Sentenced Tomorrow. -- A Manhattan federal judge will hold a pre-sentencing hearing today in the case of four men who blew up U.S. embassies in Africa on orders from Osama bin Laden. :: Dataghost 3:38 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Lawyers For Bin Laden. In wartime, what do you do when the enemy's in your sights? Hint #1: It's not "call your lawyer." Hint #2: Take Israel's lead. (It aced one terrorist for sure, and may have killed two others, in just the past few days.) The answer, of course, is: Shoot! Anybody knows that. But do Bush officials? :: Dataghost 3:37 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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African Ambassadors Condemn Terrorist Attacks on U.S. The dean of the African Diplomatic Corps, Ambassador Roble Olhaye, expressed the sympathies and support of African diplomats to the U.S. government and to the victims and families of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States in an October 12 ceremony at the State Department in Washington. :: Dataghost 3:34 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israeli tourism minister shot. An Israeli man, believed to be the country's hard-line tourism minister, Rehavam Zeevi, has been shot and wounded in an east Jerusalem hotel.
According to reports on Israel radio and army radio Mr Zeevi was attacked by two gunmen at Jerusalem's Hyatt Hotel and shot in the head. He has been transferred to the trauma unit at Hadassah Hospital, in Jerusalem, where his condition has been described as critical, with Israel army radio quoting emergency services members as saying he had no pulse. :: Dataghost 3:32 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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U.S. Hopes to Break the Taliban With Pounding From the Air. The intensified airstrikes now under way against the Taliban, a blitz of day and night operations, are intended to crack the leadership in its moment of weakness. Not only are United States forces pouring on the firepower, but they are also expanding the list of targets and permitting pilots to fire at will within designated zones. Warplanes have begun to strike Taliban troops defending Kabul, the Afghan capital. And today the Pentagon hinted that the raids would soon be broadened to include Taliban front-line forces that have been battling the Northern Alliance, the anti-Taliban group. :: Dataghost 3:31 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israels targeted killings same as war on al-Qaida. :: Dataghost 1:27 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Iran daily says 'anti-Islamic' Naipaul not fit for Nobel Prize. A conservative Iranian newspaper on Tuesday cast doubts over the motives for awarding V.S. Naipaul, "one of the most anti-Islamic writers of our era", this year's Nobel literature prize. "The timing of the award to one of the most anti-Islamic writers of our era, only weeks after the attacks on New York and Washington, reeks of Islamophobia," the English-language Kayhan International said in its editorial on Tuesday. "To what does Mr Naipaul owe the honour of receiving the world's most prestigious literary award at this juncture? The answer, shocking as it may be, is: to his virulently anti-Islamic writings," the daily said.
(This man is up for a Nobel Literature prize, not the peace prize. Naipaul's writings reflect a feeling that many now have...Islam IS responsible for allowing these groups to grow and flow their hatred into the rest of the world...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 1:25 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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South Africa Restricts Muslims from Joining War. :: Dataghost 1:22 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Suspicion stalks anxious Muslims. The sound of the call to prayer echoed over a drab London street, battling to be heard above the noise from trundling lines of passing traffic. It came from the Suleymaniye mosque in Shoreditch, one of the capital's trendiest areas bustling with fashionable bars and clubs. The ornate mosque brightens up the street. Its yellow-brown brickwork is inlaid with a jade green, red and blue mosaic, and through its doors a slow trickle of worshippers arrive for midday prayers.
(Since the War on Terrorism is a war without geographical location but rather based within a single religion and its sects, suspicion is obviously the end result among the general populace when it comes to the Islamic faith...Ask a Muslim if this whole scenario is appearing to be a war against Islam...I feel that this comment will eventually make the news...If the Islamic world thinks that this is a war against Islam, then Islam needs to wage war against their extremist terrorists and prove themselves in regard to dealing with their own religious problems and not let it flow into the lives of others through terrorist strikes...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 1:20 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Of course its a war on Islam. It doesn't seem so very long ago that another US president called Bush appeared before the American people to inform them that Operation Desert Storm had got under way. This was not a war against the Iraqi people, he assured them. It was a war to oust their despotic ruler from neighbouring Kuwait and usher in a new world order. :: Dataghost 1:15 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Auckland gets anthrax scare. An anthrax scare on Wednesday morning shut down the South Auckland mail centre at Manukau. The mail centre was evacuated after a number of people were exposed to an unidentified white powder when opening a package. The centre was evacuated and staff have undergone decontamination. :: Dataghost 1:14 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Knowing the Terrorists: What and Who is Al Qaeda? Before September 11, most of us had never even heard of the name al Qaeda, even though we've been hearing the name ever since. How much do we really know about this shadowy group? And are there others out there like it? :: Dataghost 1:11 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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CNN Plans To Ask Bin Laden 6 Questions. CNN announced yesterday that it will submit six questions to Osama bin Laden through al-Jazeera, a Qatar-based independent satellite television network that has aired three video statements from bin Laden and one of his lieutenants. A person claiming to represent bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network approached al-Jazeera with a proposal that al-Jazeera and CNN submit questions for bin Laden. Bin Laden, the alleged mastermind of the attacks on New York and Washington, would reply on videotape, anchor Wolf Blitzer said yesterday on CNN. :: Dataghost 1:10 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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The Worlds Toughest Job. If ruling coup-prone Pakistan is perilous in the best of times, consider the current plight of Pervez Musharraf. The general who seized power exactly two years ago to domestic acclaim now sees his effigy burned in the streets. The self-appointed President who favored the Taliban has turned his back on a Muslim neighbor. The military ruler shunned by the West has cast his lot with Washington. After two years of mollycoddling religious extremists, he has vowed to move "swiftly and firmly" if they protest his new policies too violently. Now he must navigate a country with enough enriched uranium for 50 nuclear bombs between the hard demands of Western allies and the howls of rage from anti-American citizens. :: Dataghost 1:07 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Analysis: Gauging Russian support. Perhaps the most important role that Russia has played so far in the "war on terrorism" is simply giving its support. US President George W Bush telephoned his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, about half an hour before the strikes first began. That call underlined the importance which the United States evidently places on keeping Moscow informed of its plans. :: Dataghost 1:06 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Saddam Behind Anthrax Outbreak? The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein may be behind the current spate of anthrax attacks in the United States, a former head of the CIA has warned. Jim Woolsey, who was director of the spy agency for two years in the 1990s, said he believed at least some of the attacks could not have been carried out without the backing of an entire country. :: Dataghost 1:04 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Analysis: US-Saudi friction grows. A senior Saudi prince has been speaking out about his country's unhappiness over the American bombing of Afghanistan. In the first public reaction to the bombings by a Saudi official, Interior Minister Prince Nayef said Saudi Arabia opposed terrorism, but did not approve of the US response. Their relationship is rooted in the American need for oil and the Saudi need for security, each has something the other badly wants. :: Dataghost 1:03 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Saddam criticizes Arab nations in U.S. airstrikes. President Saddam Hussein criticized Arab nations on Tuesday for doing little to oppose the U.S. air campaign against Afghanistan. "I am sorry for the stand governments of Arab countries have adopted toward Afghanistan because it does not please Muslims," the official Iraqi News Agency quoted Saddam as saying. His comments followed an Oct. 10 meeting of foreign ministers representing the Organization of the Islamic Conference, which failed to condemn the attacks on Afghanistan. :: Dataghost 1:01 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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State Department Labels Colombian Group Terrorists. Remember the War on Drugs? Well, Afghanistan's opium is being curtailed through the War on Terrorism and now we find the Columbian War on Drugs being brought into the scheme of things in the War on Terrorism...Do you know why? Oil off Columbian Shore...Now we wouldn't want the drug cartels controlling oil as well would we? :: Dataghost 1:00 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Powell Promises Sustained U.S.-Pakistan Relations. :: Dataghost 12:56 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Envoy Urges U.N. Not to Send Peacekeepers. Lakhdar Brahimi, the U.N. special envoy for Afghanistan, cautioned the Security Council today not to "rush" into Afghanistan with a peacekeeping force that lacks the political and financial support required to succeed. :: Dataghost 12:56 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Lebanon denies Beirut terror plot. Jordan has helped Lebanese security agents foil a series of attacks on foreign embassies in Beirut, a Jordanian Government official said on Tuesday. The official, who was speaking on condition of anonymity, said the attacks were ordered by one of the 27 groups US President George W Bush has listed as targets in his anti-terrorism war. :: Dataghost 12:54 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Criminal probe into Ukraine crash. -- Ukraine's parliament has voted to open a criminal investigation into the crash of a Russian airliner thought to have been downed by a stray Ukrainian missile. More than the required third of deputies backed the motion that senior defence ministry officials knew a missile had hit the plane on the day of the disaster and had misled parliament and the public, Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported. :: Dataghost 12:53 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Tapes reveal hijacking horror. Minutes before American Airlines Flight 11 slammed into the World Trade Center, a voice from the plane's cockpit said: "Nobody move, please; we are going back to the airport. Don't try to make any stupid moves." The unidentified voice, apparently one of the hijackers, was captured in transcripts of communications between airplanes and controllers published Tuesday by The New York Times. :: Dataghost 12:51 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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US jets bomb Red Cross depot. A Kabul warehouse belonging to the International Red Cross was today bombed in fierce daylight raids on Afghanistan. Massive explosions over the city could be heard in opposition held land 50 miles to the north. Huge clouds of smoke billowed on the capital's northern edge. :: Dataghost 12:50 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Anthrax scare at Stock Exchange. The rash of anthrax scares around the world intensified in Britain today with incidents prompted by suspect mail across the country.
In London, a suspect package was removed from the London Stock Exchange and 12 people from the building were taken to hospital "as a precautionary measure", police said. Police were also investigating a suspect package sent to a building where Nick Raynsford, a government minister, was meeting local government leaders. :: Dataghost 12:49 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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First clues in US anthrax hunt. US investigators have confirmed similarities in the handwriting on envelopes containing anthrax sent to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw. Mr Daschle said high concentrations of the bacteria were found in a letter sent to his office, which, according to the FBI, "clearly was produced by someone who knew what he or she was doing". :: Dataghost 12:48 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Intense attacks on Taliban. [Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez] Musharraf is calling loudly for the end of action against the Taliban. It's apparent to those of us who are watching this that the attacks are intensifying. Monday was the first report late that we are going against the fielded forces. And we did that with the AC-130 gunship armed with three guns, a 40 mm mortar, 105 mm howitzer and another 40 mm gun. :: Dataghost 12:47 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Bombers and Airborne Gunship Blast Targets in Afghanistan. U.S. strikes set Red Cross warehouses afire near Afghanistan's capital Tuesday, sending workers scrambling to salvage desperately needed relief goods during a bombardment that could be heard 30 miles away. To the south, two U.S. special forces gunships entered the air war for the first time, raking the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar with cannon and heavy machine gun fire in a pre-dawn raid. :: Dataghost 12:44 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Sharon may accept Palestinian state. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said he would agree to an independent Palestinian state if Israel's security was guaranteed, Israel radio reports. Mr Sharon - speaking to members of his right-wing Likud party - said he would personally lead any future peace talks with the Palestinians.
(See what I was saying Mr. Sharon...You've come all the way to this through your own mouth...Too bad, great for Mr. Arafat...Congratulations!...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 12:43 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Powell Visit Wins Pakistan Approval for Coalition Plan. :: Dataghost 12:38 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com:: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 ::
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Using Offshore Tax Havens Legitimately. Following up on my earlier statements regarding tax havens and offshore banking. Here's the introduction to the legitimacy of havens and offsore banking interests... :: Dataghost 8:51 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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GORP Press Release - GORP.com Lists Top-Ten Tax Havens for the Criminally-Minded Adventurer...It's not a crime to decide to avoid taxation, it's only illegal to evade taxation...Don't know the difference? Well, stay tuned to this site...I'll be going after the proper government documentation to show you what's legal, and what's not concerning tax time! :: Dataghost 8:47 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Tax Havens. Nice simple site...decent infotel... :: Dataghost 8:43 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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OECD identifies Tax Havens and Potentially Harmful Tax Regimes, 26 June 2000. I'm looking for anything more up to date. This document will do seeing as to it outlines how to identify the difference between Tax Haven and Harmful Tax Regimes... :: Dataghost 8:39 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Offshore Tax Havens, Asset Protection, International Tax Planning: Tax Haven Reporter. Here's the Tax Haven, Offshore banking site I was mentioning earlier... :: Dataghost 8:36 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Northern alliance nears Mazar-e-Sharif. NORTHERN alliance troops claim to be closing in on a key Taliban-controlled city. Some units are reportedly only four miles away from Mazar-e-Sharif. Troops under the command of General Rashid Dostum are also approaching from the north-west. Dostum, who has 11,000 soldiers under his command, said Monday he was negotiating with commanders of a 5,000-strong Taliban grouping which appeared ready to defect. :: Dataghost 6:50 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Jakarta Police Use Tear Gas, Beat Anti-U.S. Protesters. Indonesian police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse about 700 anti-American protesters outside parliament Monday, injuring several, as Muslims praised the president's veiled condemnation of U.S. strikes on Afghanistan. Hundreds of heavily armed police had warned the radical Muslim protesters to leave or be forcibly removed after they demanded an emergency session of legislators be convened to condemn the air strikes, now in their second week.
(This is how Jakarta has its very own Seattle...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 6:48 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Anti-U.S. protests turn violent in Jakarta. Riot police used tear gas, warning shots and water cannons to disperse hundreds of anti-U.S. Muslim protesters outside Parliament today. It was the most violent in a series of almost daily demonstrations against the U.S.-led air strikes on Afghanistan. It came a day after the president of Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, said military force should not be used to fight terrorism. :: Dataghost 6:46 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Iranian Sentiment Shifts Away From America. :: Dataghost 6:44 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Anti-Arab Bloc Quits Sharons Government. Two ultranationalist anti-Arab parties, vowing to fight any effort by the Bush administration to restart Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations, quit Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's broad-based government Monday. The move in the Knesset, or parliament, by the seven-member National Union bloc comes as Sharon is under mounting pressure from the U.S. to try to end the conflict with the Palestinians. Critics on both the right and left have charged that his government is incapable of responding to diplomatic realities changed by the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
(Can you say ''no confidence vote''?...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 6:44 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Letter with suspect powder sent to Israeli paper. Israel was caught up briefly in the global anthrax scare on Tuesday when an Israeli newspaper received a suspicious letter containing white powder, but police said it turned out to be a prank. Police evacuated the Maariv newspaper's offices in Jerusalem and called in hazardous materials experts after they received an envelope with the suspicious powder and a note saying "regards from Afghanistan". :: Dataghost 6:41 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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The Right tests its testy premier. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's sharp rebuke of Education Minister Limor Livnat at Sunday's cabinet meeting was lost amid the brouhaha over Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen Shaul Mofaz's politically charged statement against withdrawing from two strategic neighborhoods in Hebron. :: Dataghost 6:40 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Palestinian statehood backed in US, UK. The Palestinian statehood cause received boosts on both sides of the Atlantic yesterday, eliciting mixed reactions in Israeli diplomatic circles. British Prime Minister Tony Blair declared that there is now an urgent need to "seize the moment" and reinvigorate the peace process, leading to the creation of a viable Palestinian state. :: Dataghost 6:39 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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For the Palestinians, the Terrorism Crisis Has Two Faces. The shocking spectacle of Palestinian police opening fire on protesters in Gaza--killing three--dramatized the exceptional dilemma facing the Palestinians in the aftermath of Sept. 11. With the exception of Afghanistan, it may well be that the Palestinians have both the most to gain and lose in the current crisis. The good news is that the U.S. has been forced to recognize that its relations with the Arab world are being shaped by its role in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. To shore up its international coalition to fight terrorism, the Bush administration finally has leaned hard on Israel to end its violence and resume peace talks. :: Dataghost 6:36 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Arafat gains viable state pledge. TONY Blair yesterday sought to underpin the international coalition with a call for the creation of a "viable Palestinian state" as the government announced new counter-terrorism measures at Westminster. The prime minister's meeting in Downing Street with Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, was broadcast to Arab and Muslim countries across the globe with the clear message that it was the West and not Osama bin Laden that could help sort out the Middle East crisis and begin to create a new settlement for the strife-torn region.
(The Israelis are afraid of one thing, and one thing alone...Palestinian neighbors with a better approval rating than themselves...Do you think that even without a cessation of violence, that Mr. Arafat had to only prove from time to time to be waging a war against those troublesome individuals or small cells that are operating within Palestine to gain a better limelight than yourselves?...Sorry Mr. Sharon, you've made the vital mistake...Next step, to the bargaining table and probably with U.N. mediators...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 6:35 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Dont quit, Sharon urges ministers. The resignations coincided with growing fears among Israelis that the country may be isolated as Washington woos the Muslim world. The rehabilitation of Yasser Arafat, who was in London yesterday visiting Tony Blair, highlighted concerns. Ministers Rehavam Ze'evi and Avigdor Lieberman said yesterday their resignations were triggered by the government's decision to withdraw troops from two neighbourhoods of Hebron on the West Bank. They made clear they opposed a possible new peace initiative by President George Bush and called for the resignation of foreign minister Shimon Peres, saying that the government is hostage to "extremist Leftists of the Oslo camp".
(Did you think that screaming about Mr. Arafat's lack of control would go unnoticed when the Palestinian police did what you wanted...You should have congratulated Mr. Arafat for proper use of Public Relations during your bungling statements Mr. Sharon. You've pitted yourself against a passive use foe who turns lemons to lemonaid...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 6:30 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Christiane Amanpour Reports From Islamabad. CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Judy, from our monitoring position here, we've tried all along to bring you incremental news from Afghanistan as best we can. And we've relied on sources inside Afghanistan in the various towns where we have sources. Tonight, about an hour ago, we hear from our sources in Kandahar -- that is in the south of Afghanistan, the spiritual capital of the ruling Taliban -- that there has been what they call intense air activity. They described it as unusual air activity. It is different, they say, from what they've been hearing over the last week. :: Dataghost 6:24 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Chopper with Pakistan general attacked. A Pakistani military helicopter carrying an army general was hit by gunfire on Monday and was forced to make an emergency landing during an anti-U.S. demonstration in the North West Frontier province close to the Afghan border, informed sources from northern Pakistan said. :: Dataghost 6:22 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Musharraf backs US anti-terror war as long as operation lasts. Pakistan's support for US military action in Afghanistan will continue for as long as the campaign lasts, President Pervez Musharraf said Tuesday after talks with US Secretary of State Colin Powell. Musharraf said his government had made a decision of principle to support the coalition against terrorism and to allow the use of its airspace and provide intelligence and logistical support for US action against the Taliban regime. :: Dataghost 6:20 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Manila opens gas pipeline project to foreigners. The Philippines will have an open policy for land-based gas pipelines, inviting private local and foreign firms to form consortiums to bid for such projects, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo said on Tuesday. Inaugurating the Malampaya gas field project in the town of Batangas south of Manila, Arroyo said several Japanese, European, Malaysian and Filipino companies have shown interest in a 100-km (60-mile) pipeline linking Batangas to Manila. :: Dataghost 6:18 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Philippine Court Orders Arrest of Imelda Marcos. An anti-graft court ordered the arrest of former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos on Tuesday on charges of stashing $28 million in illegal wealth in Swiss banks. But lawyers for Marcos, the flamboyant 72-year-old widow of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, said she would post bail to avoid spending time in jail. :: Dataghost 6:16 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Afghans in Kabul Are Reported to Be Selling Belongings to Buy Food. Refugees who have fled Kabul, the Afghan capital, said today that a growing number of families there were struggling to be able to pay for food. The food supply is adequate, said these refugees, who have reached rebel-controlled areas in the north. But the already weak Afghan economy has been in a free fall since the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States. Even before bombs began to fall, the Taliban government, which controls most of the country, stopped paying its workers, they said. The sealing of the borders with Iran and Pakistan and a collapsing exchange rate brought economic activity to standstill. The savings of middle class families are evaporating, they said, and the poor are resorting to an old tactic — selling their household belongings. :: Dataghost 6:09 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Where next? America has always insisted that it might retaliate against more than one country for the September 11th terrorist attacks. But its allies seem uncomfortable with the idea, and the case against the likeliest target, Iraq, is far from conclusive. :: Dataghost 6:06 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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EDITORIAL : Nation must be prepared with bioterrorism defense. The National Police Agency has ordered task forces against terrorism involving chemical, biological and radiological weapons in the Tokyo Metropolitan Police and Osaka Prefectural Police to increase around-the-clock security. Anthrax spores usually reside in the soil and in living tissue. If human lungs and digestive tracts become infected, the symptoms include difficulty breathing and vomiting blood. In serious cases, death can result without prompt treatment. :: Dataghost 6:04 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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No evidence to link bin Laden with U-S anthrax scare, Bush. Mail delivery to Congress was shutdown and offices were sealed after a letter to Senate majority leader, Tom Daschle, tested positive for anthrax. The potentially lethal bacteria which has been so far been found in letters to media companies and technology giant, Microsoft. Senator Daschle says his staff members are being tested for exposure. This morning President Bush said there may be link to Osama bin Laden: "We have no hard data yet, but it is clear that Mr bin Laden is an evil man, he and his spokesman are openely bragging about how they hope to inflict more pain on our country." :: Dataghost 6:03 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Bin Laden cult spreads. There is a breath of England in the breeze that wafts coolly around the cloisters and shaded gardens of Gordon College. The redbrick building has an unmistakeable Victorian stamp, the library is stocked with Shakespeare, Dryden and the walls are lined with portraits of the bewhiskered headmasters who ruled here in the days of the Raj. Gordon College, close to the bustling centre of Rawalpindi, is still a respected place of learning and, as ever, its pupils are from the moneyed classes. But where once the traditions of Kipling and Kitchener were revered, a new hero prevails: Osama bin Laden. :: Dataghost 6:02 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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New Mailroom Rules in Anthrax Scare. With letters contaminated by the potentially deadly anthrax arriving at offices in New York, Nevada and Washington, D.C., mailrooms and delivery services across the country are implementing new procedures to protect workers. In California, Gov. Gray Davis ordered state employees to stop handling mail until they complete training sessions on how to deal with items suspected of containing chemical or biological contaminants. :: Dataghost 6:01 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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DoD News Briefing 15/10 - Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers. Rumsfeld: Good afternoon. The military campaign continued through the weekend. We're making some progress in our efforts to create the conditions for sustained anti-terrorist operations inside Afghanistan. Chairman Myers will provide some details on battle damage. We continue to use all appropriate means to root out and find and destroy al Qaeda and Taliban targets throughout the country. In addition to the military campaign, we are continuing our humanitarian efforts on behalf of the Afghan people. Over the weekend, we dropped another 68,000-plus rations into Afghanistan, for a total of some 275,000 rations since the effort began. This is bringing needed food to hungry Afghan people, as well as a message of friendship from the American people. :: Dataghost 6:00 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Acting Taleban ambassador to Pakistan Suhail Shaheen: Our cause is legitimate... we will not lose. :: Dataghost 5:57 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Secretary of State Powell Visits Pakistan. :: Dataghost 5:56 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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U.S. Denounces Targeted Killing. The State Department yesterday reiterated its condemnation of Israel's policy of assassinating suspected terrorists after the killing of an Islamic militant alleged to have organized the bloodiest suicide bombing in the past year of violence between Israel and Palestinians. :: Dataghost 5:55 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Powell Set to Hear Pakistan Views on Afghan Action. Secretary of State Colin Powell meets Pakistani leaders on Tuesday to hear Islamabad's concerns over military strikes on Afghanistan against a backdrop of renewed hostilities in disputed Kashmir. Powell arrived in the Muslim country amid protests by Islamic groups backing Afghanistan's ruling Taliban and with a mission to tackle the concerns of a revived ally about a war on its doorstep. :: Dataghost 5:52 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Jihad recruitment drive sweeps Pakistan tribal area. Anger in Pakistan's often-lawless tribal belt has fuelled a recruitment drive of thousands of young men eager to fight a jihad (holy war) if U.S. troops invade neighbouring Afghanistan, tribal sources say. They say Islamic fundamentalist parties kept on a tight leash elsewhere in Pakistan are openly running pro-Taliban recruitment and donation drives along the edge of the North West Frontier Province, where tribesmen claim special links with fellow Pashtun tribes across the border. :: Dataghost 5:50 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Fissures in German Support for U.S. Attacks. Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's coalition looked a little shakier today, after a senior Green Party official called on the United States to interrupt its bombing of Afghanistan so food could be sent there. Claudia Roth, one of the leaders of the Green Party, said that "after eight days of bombing, it's definitely necessary to take a pause here," to ensure the delivery of food and other aid before the harsh Afghan winter sets in. Such a pause, said another Green leader, Rezzo Schlauch, "would be in the inherent interests of the United States and its allies." :: Dataghost 5:50 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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U.S. and U.N talk post-Taliban rule. Preparing for the eventual collapse of the Taliban, the Bush administration and the United Nations have intensified efforts to work with Afghan opposition groups to form a future government in Kabul. Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in Pakistan Monday for consultations with President Pervez Musharaff, where the agenda included a new government in Afghanistan. :: Dataghost 5:48 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Powell Hearing Pakistan Concerns on Afghan War. Secretary of State Colin Powell met Pakistani Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar on Tuesday to hear Islamabad's concerns over military strikes on Afghanistan against a backdrop of renewed hostilities in disputed Kashmir. Powell arrived in the Muslim country amid protests by Islamic groups that back Afghanistan's ruling Taliban and are furious that Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf is backing the military action in neighboring Afghanistan. :: Dataghost 5:46 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Former US National Security Council member Elisa Harris: Too early to say whether a single organisation is resposible. :: Dataghost 5:44 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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India Shells Pakistani Area, Imperiling Delicate Balance. On the eve of Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's visit here to calm mounting tensions between India and Pakistan, India today pounded Pakistani posts across the dividing line in Kashmir, a land both countries claim, with heavy mortar, rocket and machine- gun fire. An Indian Army spokesman here said the operation had caused "widespread damage and destruction," while an army official in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir said India had "smashed" 11 Pakistani posts. President Bush was clearly alarmed that renewed armed conflict between India and Pakistan could rupture the delicately balanced coalition against the Taliban in Afghanistan and Osama bin Laden. The two nations, both with nuclear arms, have fought three wars in the last 54 years. :: Dataghost 5:43 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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U.S. Sends in Special Plane With Heavy Guns. The Pentagon acknowledged for the first time today the dispatch of special operations forces for combat in the war on terror as officials said the AC-130 gunship operated by those forces had been ordered into the skies over Afghanistan. The use of the lumbering AC-130, a turboprop airplane designed to attack convoys and troop concentrations and able to level buildings, was an indication of increasing confidence that the threat from Taliban air defenses was greatly diminished, Pentagon officials said. :: Dataghost 5:41 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Anthrax Scare Hits Capitol; More Fall Ill. An unnerving wave of bioterrorist threats swept across the nation Monday as new anthrax scares hit victims ranging from the young to the old to the upper ranks of the nation's power elite. A 7-month-old child of a television network news producer in New York has developed anthrax; a 73-year-old employee of a tabloid publisher in Florida has been found to have inhaled deadly bacteria and contracted the disease. Both are being treated and are expected to recover. :: Dataghost 5:40 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Two new anthrax cases hit US. Two more people - a baby boy and a 73-year-old man - have been diagnosed with anthrax in the United States. The latest cases were reported after a letter opened in the office of US Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle was also found to have anthrax in it. A total of four people have now been diagnosed with anthrax, one of whom has died. :: Dataghost 5:39 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Sliding oil prices, Chavez and Gadhafi meet. -- President Hugo Chavez met with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi in Tripoli on Sunday to discuss sliding oil prices, the official Libyan news agency JANA reported. Chavez was in Tripoli for a few hours before heading to Brussels, Belgium, a presidential palace spokeswoman said. No other details were immediately available about Chavez's visit to Libya, which was a last-minute addition to a 17-day tour of North Africa and Europe.
(Moammar Gadhafi makes the news again...We'll see his name more in print as time goes on...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 12:43 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Egyptian president says Israel is a dictatorship. Israel is a dictatorship and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon knows only war and slaughter, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak reportedly said Sunday.
Mubarak spoke in a meeting with Arab editors and senior journalists. His comments were reported by a participant, Ibrahim Nafie, the editor of Al-Ahram newspaper and the chairman of Egypt's Press Syndicate. Recalling his talks with British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Thursday, Mubarak told the editors: "My message was clear. We should not let Sharon kill and destroy, and that's why you see that there are attacks against me in the Western press accusing me of dictatorship.
(Sure comes across that way doesn't it?...I'd like to thank the Egyptian logons the other night..Seems that set of logons might have been governemt officials with Mubarak's ear...I've had the pleasure of working on a mailout from Texas to Mr. Mubarak's office...If anyone from his government reads this ask him how he enjoyed the magazine we mailed concerning the 3rd Temple designs and the Peaceful Solution...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 12:41 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Detective, Scientists Exposed to Anthrax. :: Dataghost 12:35 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Cayman Islands reports case of West Nile virus. A man has been infected with what health officials believe to be the first confirmed case of the West Nile virus in the Cayman Islands. The man, who lives on the small island of Cayman Brac, was admitted to a hospital in late August with viral encephalitis and is now recovering, said Dr. Kiran Kumar, a government health officer. :: Dataghost 12:34 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Anthrax fears growing in Britain. Fears of an anthrax attack in Britain are growing after one of America's most powerful politicians was sent a letter laced with the deadly bacteria. Amid growing worldwide fears of biological attacks by terrorists, police confirmed a letter opened on Capitol Hill in the office of Senate majority leader Tom Daschle had tested positive twice for anthrax. :: Dataghost 12:32 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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New Jersey Postal Officials Address Anthrax Scare. TONY ESPOSITO, POSTAL INSPECTOR: ... who is the mayor of Hamilton Township. I have a brief statement to make. And then we will entertain a few questions. The Postal Inspection Service, along with the FBI, is conducting a joint investigation in order to determine who was responsible for mailing the letter postmarked September 18, 2001, Trenton, New Jersey. We are giving this matter our highest degree of investigative attention. We are in the process of providing updated guidelines to all postal employees, designed to assist them with the proper procedures to be followed in identifying and handling suspicious articles of mail. We have over 800,000 employees working from over 38,000 facilities, delivering approximately 680 million pieces of mail every day to over 130 million households. Our highest priority is to provide a safe and secure workplace for all of our customers and employees. Since September 11, 2001, the postal service has processed over 20 billion pieces of mail. To date, we have one confirmed report of an article of U.S. mail containing the anthrax virus. :: Dataghost 12:30 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Bombs Pound Afghanistan; Anthrax Scare Grips U.S. U.S. warplanes thundered over Afghanistan Monday in the fiercest daytime raids yet as fresh anthrax scares swept across the United States and into the halls of Congress, with President Bush saying the contamination might be linked to the prime suspect in last month's mass killings on U.S. soil. :: Dataghost 12:28 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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France tangled in al-Qaedas web of terror operatives. :: Dataghost 12:26 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Anthrax scares hit US, British consulates in Australia. Seven anthrax scares were reported across Australia Monday, hitting a US and a British consulate as well as five other buildings, officials said. The United States consulate in Melbourne had to be evacuated after a chemical found in a letter caused a security alarm, embassy officials said. :: Dataghost 12:23 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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White Powder Spreads Fear of Anthrax Across Europe. Fear of anthrax spread across the Atlantic to Europe on Monday after envelopes containing suspicious white powder were delivered to businesses and government buildings in half a dozen cities. In Paris, police evacuated four buildings and sent 55 people to hospital for medical tests after suspect powder was sent to addresses including the French Space Agency and the College de France, a research body. :: Dataghost 12:21 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Anthrax scare hits Parliament Hill, halls in Centre Block closed off. Some portions of the Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings, home to both the Commons and the Senate, were sealed off Monday amid concerns about possible anthrax contamination. Emergency vehicles were grouped outside the Senate side of the building. One woman was taken to hospital. Other workers were decontaminated on site.
(Here we go Canada, this site is run from Windsor, Ontario Canada...right on top of the Windsor-Detroit tunnel and the Ambassador Bridge...We're watching the International border getting tighter and tighter on security, watch and see how much tighter things get and the crossing times increase through it!...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 12:19 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Al Qaeda Relays New Message from Osama bin Laden. Well, Paula, the latest is, just before we left Jalalabad about 100 miles west of here inside Afghanistan, I met with some representatives of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda movement. Now, I asked them how Mr. Bin Laden was, what his situation was. They said that they had seen him in the last two days and he was well. I asked them what his view was on the current situation. They said that he was confident that he would win this war, they said. :: Dataghost 12:15 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Turkey says it sees possible US military attacks on Iraq. NATO member Turkey said on Monday it thought the United States might extend its military strikes to Iraq as its seeks to stamp out terrorism, and said that it was trying to head off the prospect. "Obviously we do not want this operation to extend to Iraq. But such a possibility exists," Deputy Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz told reporters. "Turkey will do all it can to prevent such an eventuality."
(Is this propaganda, or are the reporters and politicians seeing the same thing that I'm seeing, a wider aspect including the Oil markets, stability for the region and financial winfall for many before evrything goes amuck again...One thing is for sure, the world gets more and more unstable with every passing day...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 12:13 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Baby, second Florida man have anthrax. A second employee of a Florida supermarket tabloid publisher has the inhaled form of anthrax, health officials said today, and a baby has the skin form of anthrax after visiting ABC news in New York. Ernesto Blanco, 73, "is improving and the public health officials are encouraged by his progress," state health officials said in a statement. :: Dataghost 12:09 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Be Aware! If you are into off-shore banking is concerned...the Bahamas is listed here in the next post...Looks like your accounts might not be as secure as you thought...Pay attention to our off-shore tax havens updated list later today ...We'll cover what is still trusted and what isn't in this regard...-Ed. :: Dataghost 12:08 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Osama bin Ladens financial network. During the past two decades, Osama bin Laden has built his al-Qa'eda organization into one of the best-financed terrorist networks in history. :: Dataghost 12:02 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com:: Monday, October 15, 2001 ::
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Alleged Jihad Internet Terrorist Pleads Not Guilty. Scotland Yard's press office says that Zainulabidin appeared at Belmarsh magistrates court this morning, where he was charged under Sections 54(1) and 54(3) of U.K.'s Terrorism Act. He is in custody until his next appearance on Nov. 9, a police spokesperson said, adding that Zainulabidin has additionally been accused of offering training in terrorist activities.
(Well, look at what I published earlier to this blog today! Looks like the UK gov't might lock off access of this site that has been published...either that or they might take notice and block those sites from ISP's in the UK...Censorship? Yep, with ''National Security'' as the reasoning behind it!...-Ed. PLEASE NOTE: My personal views are very much against 'jihad' in the sense that ''terrorists'' do; as far as waging war within one's own self for self purification from doing that which is against the true teaching, which is based in the ''Torah'' (Laws written down and recorded by Mosheh), I fully agree, A member of Islam can't believe in Mohammed without first believing that there were other prophets before them, in order to understand the writings of Islam, one must understand the foundation of inspired messengers from the Creator of Heaven and Earth...If the Muslims refuse to consider the line of inspired teachings, they have no Mohammed!...(Don't believe it? Ask any Muslim you meet if they believe the Holy Prophet Mosheh...They will say to deny him is deny Mohammed!...Learn something new every day...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 11:57 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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In Pakistan, Powell Seeks to Reshape Afghanistan. Here it is people, finally the U.S.' admitting to ''nation-building''!...-Ed. :: Dataghost 11:46 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Blair calls for Palestinian state. Tony Blair has said during talks with Yasser Arafat that he wants to see a viable, Palestinian state. Mr Blair said he wanted to "reinvigorate" the peace process, but denied suggestions that talks were aimed at blunting Arab and Muslim anger at the air strikes in Afghanistan. :: Dataghost 11:43 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Three of FBIs 22 most wanted were in Iran-paper. Three of the 22 people on Washington's list of "most wanted terrorists" were in Iran before the September 11 attacks but have since left, a pan-Arab newspaper reported on Monday. :: Dataghost 6:14 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Iran says US leading world to war. Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the United States on Monday of trying to drag the world into a war by continuing its air strikes against Afghanistan. "Regional and, most probably, world peace is being jeopardised particularly by the actions and policies of American officials," Khamenei said in remarks carried by state media. "They are dragging the world into a war. :: Dataghost 6:12 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Report: One of the FBIs most wanted terrorists leaves Iran. A former Lebanese Hezbollah security chief, who is on the FBI's "Most Wanted Terrorists" list, has left Iran on the advice of the Iranian government, a leading Arabic newspaper said Monday. Imad Mughniyeh left Iran voluntarily after being told that his presence in Iran "is not in the interest of the country and his safety is not guaranteed," Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper said. It attributed the information to an unidentified source close to the Revolutionary Guards, Iran's elite military force. :: Dataghost 6:11 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Press Conference Following Meetng Between Tony Blair And Yasser Arafat. First of all I want to thank the President of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat for coming to London today. This is our eleventh meeting since I became Prime Minister. We have had a very good discussion focusing on the Middle East peace process and the international situation since the dreadful events of 11 September. On the Middle East peace process we are in complete agreement that now is the right time to reinvigorate this process. We both recognise that this is a time to act with new resolve. :: Dataghost 6:04 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Blair attempts to jumpstart Mideast talks.If an attempt by Britain and the United States to get Middle East peace talks restarted is successful, their gambit, whether by design or sheer coincidence, would undoubtedly help their battle against terrorism. But British Prime Minister Tony Blair wouldn't link the two on Monday, insisting the invitation extended to Israel to sit down again with the Palestinians to discuss a peace deal has nothing to do with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States. :: Dataghost 5:57 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israel Defense Chief Says U.S. Ignores Iran Threat. Israeli Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer accused the United States Monday of ignoring the threat he said was posed by Iran and for being soft on Syria's support of "terrorist" groups. Ben-Eliezer said Tehran would have nuclear weapons capabilities by 2005 and was the biggest danger to Middle East stability. :: Dataghost 5:53 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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UN envoy calls on Israel to halt flights across withdrawal line in Lebanon. :: Dataghost 5:51 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Sharon slams far-right ministers: This is a dream for Arafat. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon launched a blistering attack Monday on the two far-right ministers - Avigdor Lieberman and Rehavam Ze'evi - who quit the government earlier in the day over the withdrawal of the IDF overnight from Palestinian-controlled areas of Hebron that they it occupied 10 days ago. :: Dataghost 5:37 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Egypts Mubarak: Ariel Sharon has no vision, knows only killing. Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak was quoted on Sunday as saying Prime Minister Ariel Sharon lacked the "political vision" that Yitzhak Rabin had to pursue peace with Palestinians. :: Dataghost 5:33 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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The BBCs Barbara Plett in Jerusalem says a viable Palestinian state raises issues of security for Israel. :: Dataghost 5:20 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Shadow of U.S. peace plan darkens Sharons horizon as his far-right flank quits coalition. In a pre-emptive strike at U.S. President George W. Bush's much-rumored plans to offer - or impose - a new initiative for an Israeli-Palestinian accord, the far-right wing of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's ruling coalition jumped ship Monday, vowing to foil any American effort to breathe new life into the moribund peace process. :: Dataghost 5:18 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Muslim leaders warn of over-reaction. Home Secretary David Blunkett has announced a series of anti-terrorist measures in the wake of the 11 September attacks. But Nadeem Malik, of the Muslim Council of Britain, says the laws go too far. :: Dataghost 5:13 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Ground zero for radical Islam. The headmaster barely let me sit down before he bent my ear with his conspiracy theories. I had driven 30 minutes from the northern Pakistani town of Peshawar to the Jamia Islamia school, along a busy road near the Jalozai refugee camp. After greeting me with milk tea, headmaster Fazal-ur-Rehman Madani began. :: Dataghost 5:10 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Missing in action: The Muslim global media. There are very few radio or TV channels, daily newspapers, magazines or news agencies originating from any one of the over 50 member-states of the Organization of the Islamic Conference that have worldwide recognition and a reasonable reputation for credibility broadly comparable to BBC, CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Times of London, The Economist, Time, Newsweek, Reuters, AFP or AP. :: Dataghost 5:08 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Bombers Pound Afghanistan, Anthrax Scare Spreads. U.S. warplanes thundered over Afghanistan on Monday in the fiercest daytime raids yet as fresh anthrax scares swept across the United States and into the halls of Congress, with President Bush saying the contamination might be linked to the prime suspect in last month's mass killings on U.S. soil. :: Dataghost 5:06 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Cepheid Shares Rise After Anthrax Scares. Shares of Cepheid Inc. and other companies involved in detecting infectious biological agents soared further on Monday amid growing U.S. fears of bioterrorism. Shares of Sunnyvale, California-based Cepheid (CPHD), a company that develops genetic profiling and detection systems for contaminants and biological agents, closed up 28 cents, or 3.6 percent, at $8.06 on Nasdaq. The shares traded as high as $9.15 earlier in the day. :: Dataghost 5:01 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Rumsfeld denies Taliban claim. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Monday rejected Taliban claims that hundreds of civilians have been killed in the U.S. attacks on targets in Afghanistan although he acknowledged there may have been unintended casualties. “I don’t think there is any way to avoid that” in a war, he said. :: Dataghost 4:59 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Trying Bin Laden. America says it wants justice for last month’s attacks on Washington and New York. But how to persuade Afghanistan to surrender the principal suspect, Osama bin Laden? One option: pledge a hearing before an international tribunal especially created by the United Nations along the lines of the courts already hearing cases arising out of the conflict in former Yugoslavia and the massacres in Rwanda. To bin Laden’s Taliban hosts, the promise of an impartial trial, with Islamic jurists among the judges, might be an acceptable compromise. The proposal may shortly go before the U.N. General Assembly. Among its leading advocates is William Pepper, an American who practices international, human rights and constitutional law and who has close ties to the Pakistani government. Pepper spoke to NEWSWEEK’s William Underhill in London. :: Dataghost 4:58 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Who Would Replace Russian Peacekeepers in Georgia?. The Georgian Foreign Ministry might reportedly demand the substitution of the Russian peacekeeping force [deployed since mid-1994 under the auspices of the CIS along the border between Abkhazia and the rest of Georgia] by a contingent from another CIS state. The Foreign Office and State Office would allegedly consider a peacekeeping force from Ukraine. :: Dataghost 4:55 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Osama bin Laden's reign of terror is no accident. In this age of celebrity, Osama bin Laden knows the importance of stagecraft. He cultivates an air of mystery, and has a knack for tapping feelings of alienation and anger. :: Dataghost 4:54 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Anthrax sent to Senate leader. A letter opened in the office of US Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle had anthrax in it, President George W Bush has revealed. Mr Bush said members of staff who had been exposed were being treated and warned all Americans about letters coming from unknown senders. It is unclear how many staff are being treated, but Mr Daschle said that 40 people were based in his office across the street from the Capitol building. :: Dataghost 4:52 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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UN says US feeding Taleban. A United Nations official has harshly condemned the United States policy of dropping food aid to Afghanistan while bombing the country.
Jean Ziegler, whose job is to defend the right to food, described the US actions as "totally catastrophic for humanitarian aid". :: Dataghost 4:49 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Blair gives support for Palestinian state. Following a meeting with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Monday, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that the formation of a Palestinian state was a key aim of the Middle East peace process. Blair has been actively trying to win Arab backing for the military campaign against terror suspect Osama bin Laden and the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan who have sheltered him. Relative peace in the Middle East is seen as crucial to securing support for any long-term drive to eradicate global terrorism. :: Dataghost 4:47 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Daylight Raids Open 2nd Week of Airstrikes. In the biggest daylight raids so far, U.S. jets pounded targets around Afghanistan's capital today and attacked a military headquarters and suspected terrorist training camp near the eastern city of Jalalabad. :: Dataghost 4:45 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Taliban levy heavy tax on UN food aid convoy. The Taliban authorities stopped a UN food aid convoy, en route from Quetta to Herat, and levied $32 per ton of food supplies tax, the UN agency spokesman Thursday reported to media. The World Food Programme (WFP) Spokesman Francesco Luna said: "We are unable to pay such heavy taxes. They are unprecedented." He said the talks are going on with the Taliban on the issue. The convoy is halted at the town, Luna said. The report could not be confirmed for the Taliban authorities as they were not available for a comment. The spokesman said despite the ongoing situation in Afghanistan, the WFP is continuing food shipments into the country.
(Personally, I wouldn't pay the tax levied on humanitarian aid food...I'd turn the convoy right back around and head for the closest group of media journalists that I could find...I wouldn't support the Taliban nor Al-Qaeda by paying a tax for the feeding of starving people, no way, no how!!...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 12:03 PM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Background Briefing on Afghanistan [From The CIA?] :: Dataghost 11:55 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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The BBCs David Shukman on the military options available to the US. :: Dataghost 11:54 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Iraq grows bolder in praise of bin Laden. A newspaper owned by a son of Saddam Hussein has sung the praises of Osama bin Laden - signalling a shift in the Iraqi government's attitude to the United States' No 1 enemy. While Iraq has been quick to condemn the US for its air strikes on Afghanistan, it had previously downplayed their target - bin Laden, the prime suspect in the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington. :: Dataghost 11:52 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Moving The Middle East Peace Process Forward - Jack Straw Interview. You can understand why many Israelis believe that if there is a new resolve in the wake of 11 September to solve the Arab Israeli conflict that that amounts to them being asked to cave in to terrorism. Well I don’t accept that and it’s interesting that outside yesterday’s Israeli Cabinet in Tel Aviv one of the Ministers, the Science and Sports Minister Matan Vilnai, was quoted as saying Palestinian society, if there is a solution to the situation there, will understand that terror is not a solution. That’s why easing the restrictions which the Israeli Defence Force have imposed is important. :: Dataghost 11:51 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Bush evil man Number 1: Iraq. Iraq called US President George W. Bush "the evil man number one" on Monday and condemned the US-led military campaign in Afghanistan as "malicious aggression". Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri accused the United States of pursuing "reckless, irresponsible and supercilious policies" towards Iraq. The remarks followed Bush calling Iraqi President Saddam Hussein "an evil man" on Thursday and saying he was watching Iraq "very carefully". :: Dataghost 11:49 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Powell Arrives Amid Pakistani Concerns, Protests. Secretary of State Colin Powell arrived in Pakistan Monday amid protests by Islamic groups backing Afghanistan's Taliban and with a mission to tackle the concerns of a revived ally about the future shape of its neighborhood. A call for a general strike by Islamic parties to protest against the trip aroused only a muted response across the country, where military ruler General Pervez Musharraf says a vast majority of the 140 million population supports his alliance with the U.S.-led coalition against terrorism. :: Dataghost 11:48 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Arafat and Blair in Mid-East talks. UK Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for the creation of a viable Palestinian state as part of a negotiated settlement guaranteeing peace and security for Israel.
(Yeah right, now Mr. Blair...Tell us what century this will take place in...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 11:47 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Explosions rock Kabul, Jalalabad. Explosions rocked Kabul and the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Monday morning, ushering in the second week of a U.S.-led air campaign to force the handover of Osama bin Laden. The Bush administration rebuffed yet another offer by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to negotiate the terror suspect's fate. :: Dataghost 11:45 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Hundreds feared dead in Nigeria clashes. Authorities in the northern Nigerian city of Kano confirmed at least 18 dead Sunday, after two days of clashes between police and anti-U.S. protesters. Others said hundreds may have died. By Sunday night, city streets were quiet, but gunfire could be heard in the suburbs. Despite official accounts of the number of dead, witnesses told CNN they had seen hundreds of bodies in the streets and elsewhere. :: Dataghost 11:44 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Explosions Rock Afghan Cities in Daylight Raids. In the biggest daylight raids so far, U.S. jets pounded targets around Afghanistan's capital on Monday and attacked a military headquarters and suspected terrorist training camp near the eastern city of Jalalabad. :: Dataghost 11:42 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Pakistan pushes for Afghan coalition to replace Taliban. Pakistan has urged the United States to hold back its attack on frontline Taliban forces to prevent Afghanistan's opposition northern alliance from storming into the capital. Pakistan, which had backed the Taliban until supporting the US-British bombing campaign, seeks a broad-based Afghan coalition, and supports the former king as an interim leader, foreign minister Abdul Sattar said in an interview with ABC television news. :: Dataghost 11:41 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israel army pulls out of Hebron. Israeli forces have withdrawn from strategic positions in the divided West Bank city of Hebron following security talks with Palestinian officials. The tanks and troops had occupied the Palestinian neighbourhoods of Abu Sneinah and Wadi al-Harria since 5 October, two days after Palestinian gunmen fired on a crowd of Jewish worshippers. :: Dataghost 11:40 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Kabul hit by heavy daylight raids. US-led air strikes against Afghanistan have continued into a second week after President George W Bush again rejected an offer by the ruling Taleban to negotiate over Saudi militant Osama Bin Laden. :: Dataghost 11:39 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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New anthrax exposures in New York. A police officer and two laboratory technicians who handled a letter sent to NBC News that contained anthrax were exposed to anthrax spores, New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday. The three people were shown a letter addressed to anchor Tom Brokaw while searching for the source of the spores that gave an NBC News employee the cutaneous (skin) form of the disease. :: Dataghost 11:37 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Terrorist Dragnet Ran Out of Time. Last summer, after the CIA received credible specific warnings that Osama bin Laden was planning a major attack against U.S. targets, the agency clandestinely worked with police and security services in 20 foreign countries to arrange the arrest and interrogation of 12 al Qaeda operatives. This kind of dragnet, known in intelligence terms as "disruption," is the prime technique employed by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies to handle terrorist threats when the time, place and target remain unknown. :: Dataghost 11:35 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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The Oil Must Flow! :: Dataghost 11:18 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
As in Frank Herbert's 'Dune' series of books, the geo-politics of the world is a balancing act that could easily, and inevitably blow up in everyone's faces! The following nine articles cover the flow of oil pipelines and their continuing sagas. Watch for the changes that will take place as this information begins to become more common knowledge. As the region is already volatile, watch the volatility scale grow geometrically to encompass ALL NATIONS! At this time, the traditional media is vehemently backing the U.S. Government and President Bush by treating sites like this one with a certain amount of contempt and scorn.
But there is one thing that is certain...it doesn't change the truth! I invite the media...no I challenge the media to prove this information faulty...-Ed.
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rediff.com: Pakistan keen on Iran gas pipeline to India. Notice the date of this article: Now, is there any doubt that this whole scenario has been a long time coming?? :: Dataghost 10:58 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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CovertAction.org. Another MUST READ document! More proof concerning oil connections to the War Against Terrorism and U.S. involvement in the region! Compare George Tenet's comments on the Global Threat 2000... :: Dataghost 10:50 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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DISMANTLING AMERICA. The current "war" on Afghanistani terrorism is a misdirection and a hoax. As pointed out in the book "Black Gold Hot Gold" the oil expected to flow from the vast oilfields under the Russian Caspian Sea, discovered about 20 years ago remains undrilled and untapped. That field contains about 500 years worth of oil at present world consumption rates. :: Dataghost 10:43 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Charts from the Dept Of Energy. Note the information concerning Afghanistan! :: Dataghost 10:41 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Albania signs memorandum of understanding with AMBO. Here's some data on the Albanian-Macedonian-Bulgarian pipeline. Is it suprising that the NATO and US forces have been involved in all these regions mentioned in the following links? :: Dataghost 10:37 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Botaþ - Activities - The Iraq Turkey Crude Oil Pipeline. Now here we go! See the pipeline development that I was speaking of back a week ago? Yes, the infrastructure has been here for some time...And now the U.S. is going to attempt to get a piece of the pie! :: Dataghost 10:31 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Muzi.com | News : Russia and China sign oil pipeline deal. Remember the oil pipeline from Russia to China that I mentioned back a few days ago in an editorial comment on Eurasian stability? Well, here's one of the articles covering the China/Russia pipeline deal! :: Dataghost 10:23 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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The Role of Caspian Sea Oil in the Balkan Conflict. NATO, the Balkans, oil...Now what more do you need to write a great government intrigue novel? :: Dataghost 10:19 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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The Geo-Politics of Oil in the 21st Century. Decent overview of the politics of oil... :: Dataghost 10:14 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Kiosk: Journal of Geo-Politics - World News and Current Events. Excellent site full of resources. Newpapers and magazines fleshing out the geo-political landscape... :: Dataghost 10:07 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Executive Order 12958. This order prescribes a uniform system for classifying, safeguarding, and declassifying national security information. Our democratic principles require that the American people be informed of the activities of their Government. Also, our Nation's progress depends on the free flow of information. Nevertheless, throughout our history, the national interest has required that certain information be maintained in confidence in order to protect our citizens, our democratic institutions, and our participation within the community of nations. Protecting information critical to our Nation's security remains a priority. In recent years, however, dramatic changes have altered, although not eliminated, the national security threats that we confront. These changes provide a greater opportunity to emphasize our commitment to open Government. :: Dataghost 9:54 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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EWR: The Coming Saudi Oil War. Here's a quote from the article: Hold Onto Your Socks...''A popular song is titled "Islam vs. Christianity," and Moslems everywhere wonder which side the Saudi royal family is really on!''...What do I make of this ''statement''...I'd like proof of that...(It may, or may not be true...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 9:27 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Online Museum: Israeli Holocaust Against Arabs. Page created by former AP (New York bureau) reporter Michael Hoffman. Suprisingly chock-full of articles covering the intefadah, PA and IDF conflicts. :: Dataghost 9:00 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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The G-Diaries: Pakistan — Next Stop for National Security?. Even though the spy plane crisis with China is behind him, U.S. President George W. Bush may soon find a surprising foreign policy topic on his agenda. America's nightmare scenario — an Osama bin Laden with nukes — is a distinct possibility if the "Talibanization" of Pakistan continues. In place of more military spending, providing real support to the people of Pakistan may be the only effective way for the United States to put the genie of terrorism back into the bottle, argues Muqtedar Khan. :: Dataghost 8:54 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Will There Be War in Asia? Economic viewpoint concerning Asia in comparison to early 20th century Europe. :: Dataghost 8:47 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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On the Richter Scale: The 21st Century Crusades? A historical look at the Crusades...What can we learn from them? :: Dataghost 8:42 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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On the Richter Scale: Islam and the Two Faces of the West. An in-depth look at the quandry that Muslims in the West find themselves in. How do you live in a modern world and still identify with Muslims living in conditions similar to those that Mohammed lived in? :: Dataghost 8:39 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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What's New? :: Dataghost 7:32 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
BLOGBACK 1.0! That's what's new! Now you can leave comments on news articles, editorials as well as links to other websites that I blog for reference materials to us in your arsenal! (Hey, you can even comment on comments left by others if you want!). Feel free to ask me about other related links to reference material, or maybe suggest one (I'm always datamining for new resources)...-Ed.
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Muslim World. An Arab news page with a Muslim slant on news...In English...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 6:51 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Radio National - U.S.A.. Audio links from Australia Broadcasting Corporation...Decent archive of up to date news involving the U.S. :: Dataghost 6:47 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Alliance Against Islam. Here's some more indepth views from an Islamic writer... (Note: The author of this document makes mention of 'It is no more a secret that American Jewish architects have designed the temple in the USA. The blueprints are at the disposition of the Israeli government.' (France Agency Press, August 1997). See this site for more details of this Temple design...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 6:40 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Global Beat Syndicate: Making Asia a Priority, Not a Threat. This article is called ''Nukes remain on hair trigger''...more regarding the present situation and nuclear weapons... :: Dataghost 6:27 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Global Beat Syndicate: Making Asia a Priority, Not a Threat. This tory highlights the idea of ''useable nukes''... :: Dataghost 6:24 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Steven Plaut on Israel & war on National Review Online. An article with attitude and a slightly warped slant to it...well written, I believe this man put it down to brass tacks on a number of issues... :: Dataghost 6:20 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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EurasiaNet Human Rights. An excellently written commentary, this person(s) makes the point, and then let's you know it...Definitely a must read. :: Dataghost 6:13 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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::HotHead Alert:: Hindu Unity - Soldiers of Hindutva! Awake Hindus!!. Again, please note...the views here may be somewhat extreme to more sensitive viewers...I felt it neccessary to let you, the readers, know what this situation is leading toward...Here's the news...get the picture?? :: Dataghost 6:10 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Lessons from the war against terrorism. This article from the Korea Herald makes some interesting assessments... :: Dataghost 6:02 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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ArabNews: War against terror: A Saudi perspective. Here's an interesting article that you won't find ''pushed'' into the mainstream media... :: Dataghost 5:53 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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::HotHead Alert:: The Sword of Islam ... War Against Israel and the West! (Note from the Editor: This article was published, due to its particular slant...I personally do not condone its teachings or its views, rather, it was published to show just what this world is being led quickly toward...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 5:50 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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::HotHead Alert:: Islam's War Against the Jews: Quotes from the Palestinian Authority. Whether or not the quotes here are true...I felt it neccessary to point out just what this whole ''War on What'' is leading to... :: Dataghost 5:47 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Turkmenistan Relishes Neutral Status. :: Dataghost 5:18 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Uzbekistan finds itself on front line. Of all the countries surrounding Afghanistan, Uzbekistan has emerged as America’s key military partner. But increasingly, the Uzbek people fear there’ll be a high price to pay. :: Dataghost 5:18 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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UPDATE 1-First Kazakh-Russia CPC oil being shipped. The first Kazakh crude from a new $2.5 billion pipeline was loaded on a tanker at Russia's Black Sea Novorossiisk oil port on Monday after several months of delay, an oil industry source said. The 1,580 km (980-mile) Kazakhstan-Russia pipeline, built by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) stretches from Kazakhstan's giant Tengiz oil field. :: Dataghost 5:17 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Major heroin haul in Bulgaria. Bulgarian customs officials say they have seized almost 200kg of heroin at the border with Turkey. The officials say packages were found hidden in the floor of a Turkish registered truck which was heading for Germany. :: Dataghost 5:13 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Burning question: Are Russian troops fighting in Afghanistan? Russia is providing intelligence and logistical support as the US-led military vise closes around the Taliban and its alleged terrorist allies in Afghanistan. But top Kremlin officials have categorically denied any direct involvement of Russian forces. :: Dataghost 5:12 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Taliban are on the run, say rebels. Rebel units are surging through central Afghanistan, with Taliban forces defecting en masse, according to senior generals with the opposition Northern Alliance. A three-pronged offensive is carving its way eastwards from the Iranian border through Taliban territory, with five provinces having defected to the rebel side, trapping Taliban garrisons in towns and cities. :: Dataghost 5:10 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Attack on Afghanistan: the crucial questions. What effect are the aircraft and missile attacks on Afghanistan likely to have and where are they leading? Robert Fox examines the crucial questions. :: Dataghost 5:09 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Indonesia: Next Steps in Military Reform. The first two years after President Soeharto’s fall from power in May 1998 saw substantial changes in the Indonesian National Military (TNI) as it withdrew from direct involvement in political matters. Thereafter reform slowed in the absence of government policy, the TNI’s absorption in security disturbances across the country, and the political crisis that led to the fall of Abdurrahman Wahid from the presidency and the elevation of Megawati Soekarnoputri to that position on 23 July 2001. In an address on 16 August, the day before Indonesia’s national day, President Megawati committed her government to reviving military reform. :: Dataghost 5:07 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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IDF team to brief Pentagon on counterinsurgency tactics. A delegation of key IDF tacticians has left for the United States to share with its counterparts in the Pentagon some of the IDF's rich experience in waging protracted wars against guerrilla insurgency and low-intensity conflicts. :: Dataghost 5:05 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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Israel kills Hamas planner of Tel Aviv disco bombing. Snipers yesterday shot dead Abdel Rahman Hamad, 33, the Hamas terrorist who dispatched the suicide bomber to Tel Aviv's Dolphinarium in June. Twenty-one were killed in the attack.
(I thought to myself...hmmm...''targeted killing''...oh, I get it...a contract ''hit''...-Ed.) :: Dataghost 5:04 AM[+] ::worlds_end.blogspot.com
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UAE pays $150m for Palestinian funds. ...The UAE, he said, had thus honoured all its commitments to the Al Aqsa and Intifada funds totalling $150 million. On