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Al-Qaeda and Argentina - Jane's International Security News
One of the more bizarre tangents of the 11 September suicide attacks on the USA is a report that purports to link Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda network to two deadly bombings in Buenos Aires in 1992 and 1994 that killed 177 people and which remain unsolved.
Posted by at October 26, 2001 09:24 PM
CNEWS - War On Terrorism: Taliban leader calls for protests
"The Muslims of the world should see these events correctly," Omar said. "America, with its powerful media, is giving the impression that holy war is terrorism, and the media is declaring freedom fighters terrorists."
Posted by at October 26, 2001 09:22 PM
Support for sovereignty sinks: poll
A poll by Leger Marketing finds 59.1 per cent of Quebecers say they would vote against sovereignty if a referendum was held today.
Posted by at October 26, 2001 09:16 PM
Red Cross warehouses bombed in Kabul
At about the same time, a 500-pound (220 kg) bomb intended for the warehouses "inadvertently" hit a residential area about 700 feet (200 metres) south of the warehouses, apparently because the bomb's guidance system malfunctioned, Central Command said.
Posted by at October 26, 2001 09:13 PM
UK soldier seriously injured in N.Ireland riot
"Soldiers who were standing there trying to protect both sides of the community were attacked by these people, clearly with a view to killing them," said Belfast Police Commander Alan McQuillan.
Posted by at October 26, 2001 09:12 PM
Britains sends in ground troops to Afghanistan
200 Royal Marine Commandos are getting ready to board the assault ship HMS Fearless. Another 400 commandos returning to Britain from Oman, where they have been taking part in military exercises, will be held at high readiness.
Posted by at October 26, 2001 09:09 PM
NATIONAL POST ONLINE | Canada's allure as safe haven made famous by Capone legend
once, so they claim, the legendary Chicago gangster, Al Capone, hid out here in the deep Canadian forest 180 kilometres east of Ottawa, having fled America until it was safe to go home again.
Posted by at October 26, 2001 08:58 PM
allAfrica.com: Ethiopia Says Al-Qaeda, Terrorist Groups Operate in Somalia
At the open debate of the council held last week, Dr. Abdulmejid said "arms have been shipped to Somalia by air and sea making the situation in that country much worse. The uncontrolled arms flow into that country has enabled terrorist organizations to carry out attacks deep inside Ethiopia," he said.
Posted by at October 26, 2001 08:55 PM
Japan Today Japan News - News - Apologize or pay dearly, N Korea tells Bush
Posted by at October 26, 2001 08:54 PM
Top Taliban Foe Is Executed; U.S. Raids on Kabul Continue
The death of Commander Haq, 43, who is not believed to have received any backing from the United States government, illustrates the difficulties of organizing resistance to the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, said Michael R. Gordon, international security correspondent of The New York Times. There is no equivalent there to the Northern Alliance, made up mainly of minority Tajiks, Uzbeks and Hazaras, which is fighting Taliban forces on a number of fronts.
Posted by at October 26, 2001 08:48 PM
Terror Act Has Lasting Effects
...the Dec. 2005 expiration date embedded in the USA Act -- which the Senate approved 98 to 1 on Thursday -- applies only to a tiny part of the mammoth bill.
Posted by at October 26, 2001 08:28 PM
Google evaluates subscription options - Tech News - CNET.com
"Their big problem right now is that 70 percent of their revenues come from advertising. And you tend to get nervous when you're largely dependent on one thing. So (subscriptions) would just give them another revenue stream in a fairly efficient manner," said Danny Sullivan, editor of industry newsletter and Web site SearchEngineWatch.com.
Posted by at October 26, 2001 06:29 PM
Konrad von Finckenstein, Canada's commissioner of competition, will be interim chairman of the group.
Charles James, assistant attorney general in charge of the U.S. Department of Justice's antitrust division, said the organization will "avoid abstract discussions" and instead focus on concrete, practical antitrust enforcement solutions.
Posted by at October 26, 2001 06:26 PM
The Globe and Mail: New rules needed to protect researchers, report says
An exhaustive, 527-page report commissioned by the Canadian Association of University Teachers says that Apotex was wrong to order Dr. Olivieri not to inform anyone -- including people taking part in clinical trials -- about the risks of the drug deferiprone in treating people with thalassemia, an inherited form of anemia.
Posted by at October 26, 2001 06:20 PM
Toronto health workers flooded with volunteers for female condom study
"You know how long it took for the tampon to become standard?" Leeper of The Female Health Co. said recently from Chicago.
"It took almost 15 years before it became everyday standard procedure.... I'm 60 years old and I was of the first generation that used the tampon.
"It took me four hours to put it in, with my sisters on the other side of the door encouraging me. (The female condom) is that same concept. 'I'm going to put this thing inside my body.' And adding on to that is... is the fact that you're dealing with a man, and you want to have sex with him."
Posted by at October 26, 2001 06:18 PM
"Microsoft's approach regarding the spell checker dictionary and thesaurus is to not suggest words that may have offensive uses or provide offensive definitions for any words. The dictionary and spell checker is updated with each release of Office to ensure that the tools reflect current social and cultural environments."
Was the world's foremost software designer worried about offending dullards, dunces and dolts?
Posted by at October 26, 2001 05:59 PM
MailSafe is a boxlike chamber that is based on technology and materials used in laboratories to protect scientists from environmental hazards.
Posted by at October 26, 2001 05:36 PM
With so little extra DNA to sift through, it will be easier to electronically line up the pufferfish genome with the human, and pinpoint genes.
Posted by at October 26, 2001 05:34 PM
NATIONAL POST ONLINE | Montreal's water supply threatened on Sept. 11
Michel Gagne, director of the water plants, said yesterday that authorities contacted him shortly after the attacks on the World Trade Center and advised him to take immediate precautions.
Posted by at October 26, 2001 11:04 AM