The Indian army told some 5,000 people in 17 villages in Kashmir to leave their homes within 36 hours, officials told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Friday.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 07:45 PM

Early on, Bush let that word "crusade" slip and pandemonium broke loose. Bush was among those who were unaware that the Crusades comprised a "holy war" by the Christians (who were the ones who started it) against the Muslim world (which, by the way, in the end managed to repel the invaders). He retracted the gaffe and then spoke of "infinite justice", which was even worse.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 02:55 PM

They justified their actions by opportunistically blaming the American public for a lack of interest in global affairs. In April 1997, CBS News President Andrew Heyward told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that °ƒit°Øs just a fact of television ratings life that almost without exception it°Øs very difficult to score a number with international news.°± NBC News Vice President Bill Wheatley told the same newspaper that °ƒa lot of foreign news after the Cold War seemed to be less vital ... more complicated, less directly linked to many Americans. How do you cover the former Soviet Union and make sense of it?°±

Posted by at December 28, 2001 02:54 PM

Earlier this week, the United Nations' World Food Program said it had been unable to deliver food to Kandahar because militiamen were stopping their trucks and demanding $100 each to pass.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 02:53 PM

Afghanistan's women can't vote. The US press goes on about the two women cabinet members in the interim government, but Afghan women don't even have the vote yet, much less any identification papers that would allow them to register to vote, even if it were legal. And there are no protections for women who want to cast off the burqa (the Northern Alliance is as socially conservative as the Taliban). A democracy can't exist with over half its population disenfranchised.
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The Afghan interim president, Hamid Karzai, is a CIA man. This obvious fact is left out of the US media's biographies of Karzai, but the foreign press is quick to point out that he worked for the CIA during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and is working for them now, stirring up the southern Pashtun tribes against the Taliban. And he'll work for them in the future, too.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 02:47 PM

Evidence of ambivalence towards domestic security is everywhere. More than 100 bills have been introduced into Congress with the label "homeland security" on them. Yet compared with the $15 billion doled out to the airline industry, the cash they provide for things like emergency health care is puny. When the governor of California posted troops on bridges in response to a terrorist alert, he was widely criticised for panicking the public.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:58 PM

Tens of thousands of soldiers, squadrons of fighter jets, artillery and ballistic missiles face each other along the border that reaches from the Himalayas in the north to the Arabian Sea in the south. Both sides say they don't want war, but each says it is ready.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:47 PM

In all, more than 350 police officers from Canada and the United States made the trip to this community about 100 kilometres northeast of Winnipeg where Strongquill spent 14 of his 20 years on the force.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:46 PM

The SOM-Gazette poll asked: "Do you think Jean Chrtien should seek another term as prime minister?" To this, 39.9 per cent of respondents said yes and 55.5 per cent said no.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:45 PM

The 75 members are part of the long-range patrol task force, which will support Operation Apollo in operations in the Middle East. The Auroras will do surveillance for the coalition forces off Afghanistan, Robitaille said.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:43 PM

Groups on both sides of the Northern Ireland struggle, such as the Real IRA and the Loyalist Volunteer Force, are listed, but the Irish Republican Army, a group formerly considered terrorists by the British government but which has committed itself to the peace process, is not.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:33 PM

"This place has to be sanctified. It has to become a place, when anybody comes, that they immediately feel the power, strength and emotion of what it means to become an American. ... This is too important a place."

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:31 PM

Human rights watchdogs have expressed concerns that describing the captives as "detainees" instead of "prisoners of war" could impinge on rights guaranteed by international law, including the right to meet with Red Cross officials, and due process should any of them face trial.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:30 PM

"Canadians know that the men and women serving in the military are brave and operate in hostile conditions, but their helicopters don't fly and machine parts aren't available," Mr. Wright said yesterday. "The issue is whether the military is living up to its responsibilities."

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:29 PM

The militant Palestinian group Islamic Jihad - in a faxed statement to Associated Press news agency in Beirut - said the dead man was one of their members and was killed during an attempted ambush.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:26 PM

The trend is worsening. Babies as young as only a few months old are being raped almost daily. Many black South African men infected with AIDS erroneously believe that by having sex with a virgin -- even a baby -- they will be cured of AIDS or their HIV infection.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:22 PM

For years, it was scoffed at as ''McPaper,'' that light and fluffy thing that showed up in front of your hotel door bristling with short articles and Larry King's musings. But even in an industry where old reputations die hard, USA Today has emerged - particularly in the post-Sept. 11 world - as a newspaper with ambition, energy, and gravitas.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:20 PM

The court said the sentence reflected a judgment that Pasko's crime had little impact on the nation's security. His lawyer, Ivan Pavlov, said it reflected both the thinness of the evidence against his client and a political calculation that the lighter sentence would cause less protest.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:12 PM

The standard the regulations provide would allow the military judges to consider any evidence that "a reasonable person" would find useful. That means that evidence like the videotape of Osama bin Laden boasting of the Sept. 11 attacks and any intelligence interceptions would be admissible.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 01:11 PM

Posted by at December 28, 2001 11:51 AM

Engineers understand that the difference between 95 percent and 96 percent reliability is often infinite. Some problems are tractable within a certain tolerance, and asymptotic to infinity above that tolerance. The Internet is full of best-effort algorithms, timeout mechanisms, asynchronous communication, and stateless clients. This is the fault-tolerant realpolitik of a public network composed of uncoordinated actors with conflicting agendas.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 11:16 AM

The study found that up to 5% of the net - potentially 100 million hosts - is completely unreachable.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 11:07 AM

Yet when I returned to Russia recently, my expectations were ambushed once again. I caught a new mood of optimism, one which is mirrored in the stories of two men whose fortunes I have been following for the last decade, Aleksandr and Nikolai.

Posted by at December 28, 2001 11:01 AM

Finding Bridget a mate has produced all sorts of entrepreneurial solutions. Lots of them are on the Internet, allowing the hunt to continue through working hours. Adam Klein, a consultant with Booz-Allen & Hamilton who was until recently running a search site called Ask Jeeves, says that over two-thirds of those who came to search were women, mainly aged between 18 and 35. That contrasts with sites such as Google, used mainly by men. Half an hour before people leave work for home, the site regularly sees a surge in seekers. Lots of women are hunting for dating sites, he says, "one of the fastest growing sections of the Internet".

Posted by at December 28, 2001 10:56 AM

Posted by at December 28, 2001 10:53 AM

SPS is characterized by fluctuating muscle rigidity in the trunk and limbs and a heightened sensitivity to stimuli such as noise, touch, and emotional distress that can set off muscular spasms. People with SPS are often too disabled to walk or move, or are afraid to leave the house because of stimuli-triggered spasms and frequent falls. The incidence of SPS has been estimated at one in every one million persons, but according to Dr. Dalakas, "the disorder is so often misdiagnosed -- as Parkinson's disease, multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia, psychosomatic illness, or anxiety and phobia -- that its actual incidence is probably much higher."

Posted by at December 28, 2001 10:28 AM

"By the time we get them, they already believe it's right," said David J. Farber, a professor of computer science at the University of Pennsylvania and the former chief technologist of the Federal Communications Commission "If you're willing to bootleg music, you're willing to bootleg anything."

Posted by at December 28, 2001 10:14 AM