Wednesday, October 31, 2001
U.S. gets cozy with UzbekistanUzbekistan is separated from northern Afghanistan by the Amu Darya River with just one vitally important bridge across -- oddly named the Friendship Bridge -- over which poured thousands of Soviet troops during their brutal and, ultimately, disastrous invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
The question now is whether U.S. ground troops one day will cross that same river.
10/31/2001 10:03:31 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Nando Times: Taliban willing to talk with U.S. about ending conflict, militia official saysIf there were no negotiations, Muttaqi, along with other Taliban leaders, indicated that the war would turn into a conflict on the ground in which the Taliban would prevail - as the Afghans did against the Soviets in the 1979-1989 war.
10/31/2001 10:02:29 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Jakarta Post - Akbar supporters clash with journalistsThe group, wearing green jackets, reportedly punched and kicked the journalists who then retaliated. A brawl ensued.
10/31/2001 09:57:00 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Thestar.com/Switzerland freezes suspect bank accountsTreasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said the list includes businesses and charitable organizations that funnel money to the Al Qaeda network of alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.
10/31/2001 09:55:58 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Germany Says Iraqi Agents Infiltrated CountryThe agency spokesman said many of the Iraqis, posing as refugees, are smuggled from eastern Europe with the aid of criminal gangs. The German-Czech border is a common crossing point because of less stringent controls.
10/31/2001 08:20:33 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Taliban leader cites help by China -- The Washington Times"China is also extending support and cooperation to the Taliban government, but the shape of this cooperation cannot be disclosed," Mr. Haqqani said in the interview published Oct. 22 in the newspaper Islamabad Pakistan.
A day later, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Sun Yuxi in Beijing dismissed the commander's statement as "a complete fabrication."
A U.S. official said China's contacts with the Taliban have been "limited" and "of questionable value," primarily related to economic matters.
10/31/2001 08:16:07 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Royal Marines on exercise in Oman - Saif Sareea II Photo Gallery10/31/2001 08:11:38 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Rumsfeld confirms American troops are operating in northern AfghanistanRumsfeld did not say which U.S. troops are in Afghanistan or how long they have been there, but from his description of their missions it seemed likely they include army special forces, commonly called Green Berets. He said fewer than 100 are in Afghanistan.
10/31/2001 08:08:54 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Solicitor-General accused of 'security breach'The Canadian Alliance -- despite demanding for weeks that the government release more information about the terrorism probe -- slammed Mr. MacAulay for releasing what opposition MPs said was sensitive information.
10/31/2001 08:06:07 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
allAfrica.com: Pastor Said God Had Ordered Extermination of Tutsis, Witness ClaimsWitness "SS", named as such to protect his identity, claimed that the militias quoted the Pastor's words as they pursued him (the witness) in Kibuye prefecture, western Rwanda. SS said that he had sighted the Pastor in this gang of militias. He said he had managed to escape from the militias.
10/31/2001 07:53:38 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
csmonitor.com | War could bode well for Republican futureJust before he bid us goodbye, Zogby teased us with this little tidbit: He said his findings showed Sen. Hillary Clinton was drawing strong support among Democrats as a presidential candidate in 2004.
10/31/2001 07:49:56 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Fight terror with alien gizmos: MDThe Disclosure Project, a Virginia-based group calling for the release of top-secret information on UFOs, said shadowy government and military operations have cracked the mysteries of alien technology that could have alerted U.S. officials to the terrorist plot or prevented it altogether.
10/31/2001 07:46:20 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
iWon - Children's Novel Tells Taliban Tale"Bombs had been part of Parvana's whole life. Every day, every night, rockets would fall out of the sky, and someone's house would explode," reads one passage in the book, written by Canadian author Deborah Ellis.
10/31/2001 07:43:28 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ananova - Ex-Czech defence minister condemned over Bush predictionAntonin Baudys says the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter mean Bush faces a "critical situation" until the middle or end of 2003
10/31/2001 07:37:14 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Diana Cited in Rejecting Press Freedom Calls``The Western press also intrudes so much into private lives it is unbearable for many citizens. The death of Princess Diana is an example of the painful consequence of such a 'free press.'''
10/31/2001 07:33:20 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Reacting to CyberAlert Item, ABC News President David Westin Has Apologized and Said "I Was Wrong" for Having "No Opinion" on Whether the Pentagon Was a "Legitimate" Military TargetWestin maintained that "our job is to determine what is, not what ought to be." He elaborated: "I can say the Pentagon got hit, I can say this is what their position is, this is what our position is, but for me to take a position this was right or wrong, I mean, that's perhaps for me in my private life, perhaps it's for me dealing with my loved one, perhaps it's for my minister at church. But as a journalist I feel strongly that's something that I should not be taking a position on."
10/31/2001 07:28:35 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Colombia extradites drugs lord to USThis, along with an announcement of further help for Colombia, already the third largest recipient of US military aid in the world, threatens to turn the country into another front line in the global war on terrorism.
10/31/2001 07:17:15 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Welcome visitors from Société Radio-Canada, the French language version of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
10/31/2001 10:56:26 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The 'cave man' and Al Qaeda | csmonitor.comEven if US and British commandos manage to find bin Laden's cave in the windswept moonscape of Afghanistan, many experts on Islamic terrorist groups say there are plenty of experienced, motivated fighters who could carry on the work.
10/31/2001 08:33:42 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Independent News: Terror cells 'no longer need approval' for fresh attacksThis means that even if the Allied military campaign, which is in its fourth week, is successful in killing Mr bin Laden and his senior lieutenants, further attacks may not be prevented, a horrifying reality for efforts to counter the threat of terror attacks inside America and on US targets overseas.
10/31/2001 08:29:23 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Tuesday, October 30, 2001
BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Israel makes fresh Gaza incursionDefying the United States, which has made clear its desire for a full pull-out, senior Israeli officials said the army would withdraw from its positions only when the Palestinians guaranteed security.
10/30/2001 09:13:42 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Economist.com: The hunt goes overseasThe names of those detained have not been released. Nor have the reasons for their detentions, the names of those who represent them and the status of their cases. Nor will the authorities say how many have now been released. Many appear not to have been allowed contact with their families. Their lawyers have been ordered not to speak to the press. Indeed, it is not clear that all suspects have lawyers. Most seem to be detained for immigration violations or under ?material witness? provisions.
10/30/2001 09:12:22 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Questions for V.S. Naipaul on His Contentious Relationship to IslamIt was as though up there was a divine supermarket, and at last it had become open to people in the Muslim world. They didn't understand that the goods that gave them power in the end were made by another civilization. That was intolerable to accept, and it remains intolerable.
10/30/2001 09:06:48 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
New Scientist: Anthrax preparation indicates home-grown originThis is troubling, say bioterrorism specialists. While the terrorists behind the anthrax-laced mail US might have got hold of the strain of anthrax in several laboratories around the world, the method the US developed for turning a wet bacterial culture into a dangerous, dry powder is a closely-guarded secret.
10/30/2001 09:01:28 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Tamil suicide boat rams tankerNavy patrols are reported to have rescued 12 crew members and 13 security personnel from the tanker, named as the MV Silk Pride, but three people are missing.
10/30/2001 08:59:27 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Russian Issues.Com | New Type of Party Out for New Blood"We must work more. People have to be taught. Even a presidential nominee will have to be taught how to walk, think and speak the way we need him to."
10/30/2001 08:45:37 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
disinformationWe'd also like to remind you that the name of this site is Disinformation. We encourage you to research each topic for yourself: check out all the links, especially the ones that seem contrary to your views; question the motivation of the writer and publisher; and form your own opinion about the information that is being presented. We suggest that you treat all other news/information outlets in the same way - the media have strong biases which directly affect the way in which news and information is presented to you - and very often that leads to disinformation.
10/30/2001 03:18:49 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NATIONAL POST ONLINE | PM made strategic errors on 1995 referendumMr. Blanchard's 1998 memoir, Behind the Embassy Door: Canada, Clinton and Quebec, credited the Prime Minister and his team with "rescuing the country" during the referendum by promising to recognize Quebec's distinctiveness and grant the province a constitutional veto.
But Mr. Blanchard is less flattering in the 10-page memorandum he wrote for his government.
He says the federalist campaign was hampered by "poor co-ordination" and "strategic miscalculation" by federalists in both Ottawa and Quebec. Even assuming Mr. Chretien and Daniel Johnson, the Quebec Liberal leader, were "still in power during the next referendum campaign, they are likely to employ different/stronger support staff and tactics."
[Chretien's behavior in 1995 makes most sense if he's actually a separatist mole -- something I've vaguely wondered for years -- GT]
10/30/2001 02:44:08 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Robot See, Robot Kill"The camera could pick up a muzzle flash and a sound of a gun firing, and it would autonomously direct counter-fire," Davis said.
10/30/2001 12:21:52 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Pushing the boundaries with Agent No-Name - smh.com.au - WorldThe logical response - "But if nothing is happening, why are you so reluctant to let me see it?" - left Agent No-Name unmoved, as did the official letter from Tehran suggesting that for three days the Herald had the run of Iran's eastern border.
10/30/2001 11:55:51 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Media suppress the news that Bush lost election to Gore - smh.com.au - World"There is a sensitivity over the legitimacy of this president."
10/30/2001 11:54:00 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Drilling for Tolerance...we've learned about Saudi schools. As this newspaper recently reported from Riyadh, the 10th-grade textbook for one of the five required religion classes taught in all Saudi public schools states: "It is compulsory for the Muslims to be loyal to each other and to consider the infidels their enemy." This hostile view of non-Muslims, which is particularly pronounced in the strict Saudi Wahhabi brand of Islam, is reinforced through Saudi sermons, TV shows and the Internet.
10/30/2001 11:50:32 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Drop in US Holiday Spending Could Destabilize China -- 10/30/2001China's exports of toys, plastics, housewares and consumer electronics to the United States - which topped $100 billion in 2000 - were showing signs of slowing before Sept. 11, building on a downward trend for the year. The world's most populous country was also reeling from a slowing global economy, economists said.
10/30/2001 11:45:56 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
How to Lose a WarMaybe we're losing that battle for Afghan hearts and minds in part because the Bush State Department appointee in charge of the propaganda effort is a C.E.O. (from Madison Avenue) chosen not for her expertise in policy or politics but for her salesmanship on behalf of domestic products like Head & Shoulders shampoo. If we can't effectively fight anthrax, I guess it's reassuring to know we can always win the war on dandruff.
10/30/2001 11:22:28 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Boucher steals the showThe reputed leader of the Hells Angels in Quebec was in high spirits yesterday during his first visit to the new courthouse built to house the biker mega-trial.
His attorney was not.
10/30/2001 10:53:36 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Ressam was intent on jihad, court papers showMr. Ressam also was said to have blamed the United States for the conflict in Bosnia in which many Muslims died.
10/30/2001 10:50:40 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Survey Shows Doubts Stirring on Terror WarIn one of the most striking shifts, only 18 percent of Americans said they had a great deal of confidence that the government could protect them from terrorism; a month ago, 35 percent had such confidence. A majority, 58 percent, said they had a fair amount of confidence. The rest had little or no confidence.
10/30/2001 10:31:23 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
RCMP grill man named on terror list The nameSamir al-Maktari appears on a list of several hundred suspects, material witnesses and others created by the FBI that had been mistakenly distributed by authorities in Finland.
10/30/2001 10:28:30 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Milosevic Says Bin Laden Was in Albania After U.S. Embassy Bombings in 1998 - from Tampa Bay OnlineMilosevic dismissed the indictments as documents written at the level of "a retarded 7-year-old child."
10/30/2001 10:20:18 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Toronto hotbed for Osama's cellsA police source said authorities were stunned by the large amount of al-Qaida activity -- from fundraising, recruiting and counterfeiting of documents -- that was taking place here.
10/30/2001 10:16:27 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Irate Canada Shopper Charged for Anthrax Threat...accused of telling the cashier that a doctor's appointment was in order because the credit card she used to pay with had been infected with anthrax, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
10/30/2001 10:15:01 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
SatireWire | Briefs: Lucent Stays Focused on Losing MoneyLucent CEO Henry Schacht said posting the $8.8 billion net loss, its fourth consecutive quarterly deficit, proves that terrorists have not been totally successful in disrupting the American way of life.
10/30/2001 10:11:31 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Monday, October 29, 2001
Seinfeld envelope-licking episode pulled"Since Sept. 11, (we) have been very sensitive to content in all programming we distribute," a representative of Columbia Tri-Star Television Distribution told the [TV Guide] online service.
10/29/2001 09:42:16 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Defiant Milosevic insists Hague court is illegal"I had the honour to defend my nation from the criminal aggression committed against it and to protect my people from terrorism, with which the Clinton administration closely co-operated," Mr. Milosevic told the court.
10/29/2001 09:36:15 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Landry talks economic security, sovereignty with French president in ParisBut Landry emphasized that [Quebec] sovereignty was discussed only briefly and was not a priority in light of the more pressing issues dominating the international agenda since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
10/29/2001 09:33:01 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNN.com - Bush willing to bypass Congress on airport security, House ally says - October 29, 2001Democrats want all workers -- from security screeners to luggage screeners -- to be full-fledged federal employees. If they were, they likely would become unionized.
The Bush White House and House Republicans said they want federal supervisors overseeing a private work force that does not have union or civil service protection shielding them from disciplinary action and firings for poor work performance.
10/29/2001 09:26:32 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | SCI/TECH | Digital photos 'endanger the past'There's a whole process of onsite editing taking place that is absolutely new.
A whole collection of material, that may well be far more interesting in the months and years after the event than in the hard news context, is being lost at that stage.
10/29/2001 09:17:05 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
10/29/2001 09:04:56 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Bombs may continue during Ramadan, says StrawHe added: "It is worth bearing in mind that in Islamic countries when there has been conflict, typically the conflict has not stopped during Ramadan."
10/29/2001 08:57:44 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Taliban Shuns TribesmenAfghanistan says it does not want the help of thousands of Pakistani tribesmen-turned-soldiers who have gathered along the border between the two countries.
10/29/2001 08:55:54 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
FBI Issues New Terrorism Warning...while the information was not specific, the FBI was issuing the alert to the American people because "they can make good judgments and can understand this kind of information."
10/29/2001 08:52:42 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
LBO-Talk October 2001: Le Carre: we've lost (with an aside on ObL's "homoerotic narcissism") via cursor.org, bless 'emIt's not a new world order, not yet, and is not God's war. It's a horrible, necessary, humiliating police action to redress the failure of our intelligence services and cur blind political stupidity in arming and exploiting fanatics to fight the Soviet invader, then abandoning them to a devastated, leaderless country. As a result, it's our miserable duty to seek out and punish a bunch of modern medieval religious zealots who will gain mythic stature from the very death we propose to dish out to them.
10/29/2001 08:21:09 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Sunday, October 28, 2001
Silicon ~ boo who? Literary critic, entrepreneur, Hollywood protagonist"I felt very bad for my employees - they believed in boo."
10/28/2001 06:16:55 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
IHT: The Terrorist Who Lived Next DoorAfter a leak to the French press in late September produced unwanted publicity, militants scrambled to escape the expected sting, one clambering out a back window in Brussels as the police burst into his apartment. There were a series of hasty arrests. But the chance to observe over the long term a militant Islamic network planning attacks on American interests and to arrest dozens was lost. Nonetheless, law enforcement officials across Europe say the plot against the U.S. Embassy in Paris gave them a glimpse of how Mr. bin Laden has operated in their midst and offered some clues about the attacks in the United States on Sept. 11, as well as to how future plots may unfold.
The plotters against the Paris embassy, they say, were students, fathers and delinquents; they were zealous, naive and ruthless. Some came from middle-class homes that embraced modernity; many grew up in Europe and did not even speak Arabic.
10/28/2001 04:27:06 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NYPOST.COM Regional News: WTC EXEC GOES MI$$ING By ANDY GELLER"The money's missing? Yes. Where is it? God only knows," Guglielmo said. "We have New York City firemen's money in here. Do you know how embarrassing that is? It's a horror story."
10/28/2001 04:18:10 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Nando Times: Bin Laden discussed Sept. 11 attacks in interview, writer saysHe is a shy, soft-spoken man and doesn't look like a terrorist," Mir said. "I still think he isn't involved in terrorism."
10/28/2001 04:16:51 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Sex workers need job rights, union, says University of Victoria study"In the absence of minimum work standards, workers in escort agencies, massage parlours and other indoor employment venues have no legal avenue to protect themselves against exploitative conditions of employment," the study concluded.
10/28/2001 03:17:21 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Deliver clear messages to militants, Manley urgesIran has roundly condemned the attacks, but Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said on Sunday they were a result of Washington's misguided policies in the Middle East, and now air strikes on Afghanistan were stoking sympathy in Islamic countries for the ruling Taliban.
10/28/2001 03:06:41 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Native protest would be muzzled, criminalized by anti-terror measures say chiefsAny action based on political, ideological or religious motivation that's meant to intimidate the public or compel the [Canadian] government to act in a certain way could qualify.
10/28/2001 03:04:10 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
sunspot.net - Sudan's treatment of blacks escapes scrutiny of the U.S.Companies from Canada and Sweden are exploiting Sudan's oil resources. The government uses the petrodollars to wage its ceaseless war against the Dinkas.
10/28/2001 02:57:14 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Dalai Lama's Attempts to Separate Tibet From China Never Come TrueHe organized rebellion forces and plotted many violent riots in Tibet. He sent secret agents and intelligence personnel to carry out terrorist activities in Tibet. He spread rumors and calumnies and engineered other sorts of separatist activities.
10/28/2001 02:55:19 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Thestar.com/Quebec crime reporter fights against home-grown terroristsAuger pointed out acidly that the anti-terrorism legislation is zipping through Parliament, even though there has not been a single victim of terrorism in Canada.
"In the case of the anti-gang legislation, there were 20 people - innocent bystanders - who were either killed or wounded in the war with the bikers," he said, pointing out that the anti-gang legislation is still stalled in the Senate.
10/28/2001 02:53:29 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
KPnews.com -- Former journalist found killed in his apartment in UkraineViolence against journalists in Ukraine is drawing special attention since last fall's killing of internet journalist Georgy Gongadze, which sparked a political scandal in the country.
10/28/2001 02:48:54 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Japan Today Japan News - TV Asahi reporter to apologize on air for anti-Semitic commentsA TV Asahi reporter who last week linked the anthrax attacks in the United States to Jewish "control" of the U.S. media is set to apologize for his comments in a special segment, an international Jewish human rights organization said Thursday.
10/28/2001 02:47:50 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Sofia Echo - Some detained journalists go home, most do not"In the spirit of the traditionally good relations between our two countries, (the Afghan authorities and the Afghan charge d'affaires) applied a preferential approach to solving the problem with the Bulgarian journalists, and to their overall treatment on Afghan soil," said the release.
10/28/2001 02:46:20 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Nando Times: Admiral estimates thousands defecting from Taliban"The tribe comes across and decides it doesn't want to be a Taliban member and will either go neutral or they will join with the other forces," Fitzgerald said.
10/28/2001 02:43:11 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Jubilant Calls on Sept. 11 Led to F.B.I. ArrestsYet it remains unclear whether the people involved in the conversations were participants in the plot, or merely exulting in the audacity and destructiveness of the attacks on the American "enemy." The authorities have not said whether any of the people detained on the basis of the intercepts were cooperating, but none have been charged with crimes related to Sept. 11.
10/28/2001 02:36:19 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Gunmen fire on Israeli pedestriansThe militant Palestinian group Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the shooting in a videotaped message.
10/28/2001 02:32:21 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Christian worshippers killed in PakistanFour gunmen entered the church, locked the doors and sprayed worshippers with bullets. Two others waited outside to shoot anyone who tried to escape.
10/28/2001 02:31:20 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Saturday, October 27, 2001
New Immigration Act 'unattainable, flawed': report"The committee is of the view that there should not only be new personnel hired to implement reinforced security measures of entry points, but also to process and review new immigration applications and refugee claims."
10/27/2001 11:31:51 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Cursor's Al-Jazeera LinkSince the September 11 terrorist attacks, Twin Cities-based Cursor has posted hundreds of links to news, political commentary and media criticism. Each day, Cursor staffers comb the Internet for the most important reportage and analysis from U.S. media sources and leading English- language newspapers in Europe and around the world -- a general interest digest that allows readers to keep abreast of events on a variety of fronts.
10/27/2001 11:09:37 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Flight 93 Crash Theory Home PageLooking at all the details so far - nothing really adds up neatly for me, except that Flight 93 had a midair crisis that caused debris to fall before it crashed. I remain skeptical of all the theories... except one. We are not being told what happened - and the Government knows exactly what happened.
10/27/2001 11:06:47 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Sunday Times: Thousands of fighters flock to Taliban armyTHOUSANDS of Pakistani warriors armed with automatic weapons, axes and swords headed for the Afghan border yesterday to join forces with the Taliban regime shielding Osama Bin Laden.
10/27/2001 11:04:51 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: The mystery of the invisible al-MarabhNow the 34-year-old sits in a New York jail cell as investigators unravel the complex threads of his life and try to address the questions that emerge: Why was a man who worked as a store clerk for $5 an hour transferring thousands of dollars through banks? Why were there forged documents found at one of his former addresses? And why did Canadian immigration officials release a man whom intelligence agents name as an agent of Osama bin Laden?
10/27/2001 06:31:09 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Q&A on Osama bin Laden on National Review OnlineOn October 24 a Chinese internet news site, Zhongxin Wang, ran a piece describing in detail the purported assassination of Osama bin Laden and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar by members of their retinue at an underground base near Kandahar on October 16. They were both shot twice in the back. One of bin Laden's sons and two of Omar's were also killed. The story was picked up today by the Tokyo-based Yomiuru Shimbun, the largest daily newspaper in Japan. Of course rumors and war go hand in hand, and without proof one way or another what is one to think?
10/27/2001 06:10:45 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Taliban claim arresting CIA agent - [27/10/2001] - Hindustantimes.com"He also has some electronic equipment with which he might be providing information to the US and other military sections," he said.
10/27/2001 06:08:40 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Political activists, environmentalists feel chill of anti-terror campaign"I think there's going to be a whole recasting of what social movements in civil society do. Our movement is trying to find a thoughtful place in which to participate."
10/27/2001 06:06:15 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Expressindia.com > Top stories >Blackwill admits mistakes in US policy on terrorism"As this war goes on against terrorism it has to address terrorism in India. So I think that's quite explicit and I think both leaders will be discussing that during the Prime Minister's visit," Blackwill said in an interview on Zee News.
10/27/2001 05:53:56 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Bayer Halves Price for Cipro, but Rivals Offer Drugs Free"People need to know that there are drugs other than Cipro, that the supply will not be a problem and that these drugs will be available to the government at a reasonable price," said Henry A. McKinnell, chairman of Pfizer. "We don't intend to make a profit on this threat to the nation."
10/27/2001 05:42:15 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Israel calls off withdrawalIt is unclear for how long the withdrawal has been cancelled. Israel remains under international pressure, notably from the United States, to leave the Palestinian-controlled areas as soon as possible.
10/27/2001 05:38:50 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | US jets pound Taleban troopsAmong their latest raids, the Americans are reported to have targeted Taleban tanks and anti-aircraft positions on a hill that overlooks Bagram airport, a crucial opposition Northern Alliance front line position.
10/27/2001 05:37:48 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Windsor Star, Saturday 27 October 2001: Local donations flowed to suspected terroristA 22-page document circulated by U.S. authorities alleges that Khadr, also known as Al-Kanadi -- Arabic for The Canadian -- is a suspected associate of Osama bin Laden. From 1988 to 1995 he was director of HCI, which had a regional office on Howard Avenue in Windsor.
10/27/2001 05:36:13 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: UN issues refugee camp warningThe United Nation's High Commissioner for Refugees says Taliban-approved refugee camps along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border may become Taliban-recruiting centres.
10/27/2001 05:35:03 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Canada's bill for terrorism $1-billionDespite that warning, Industry Minister Brian Tobin and Human Resources Minister Jane Stewart are set to ask cabinet to approve a $6-billion innovation package that would boost research and development, expand high-speed Internet into rural Canada and increase government support for training and adult education.
10/27/2001 05:33:13 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Friday, October 26, 2001
Al-Qaeda and Argentina - Jane's International Security NewsOne 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.
10/26/2001 09:24:01 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
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."
10/26/2001 09:22:21 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
A poll by Leger Marketing finds 59.1 per cent of Quebecers say they would vote against sovereignty if a referendum was held today.
10/26/2001 09:16:09 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Red Cross warehouses bombed in KabulAt 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.
10/26/2001 09:13:58 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
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.
10/26/2001 09:12:43 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Britains sends in ground troops to Afghanistan200 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.
10/26/2001 09:09:04 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NATIONAL POST ONLINE | Canada's allure as safe haven made famous by Capone legendonce, 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.
10/26/2001 08:58:22 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
allAfrica.com: Ethiopia Says Al-Qaeda, Terrorist Groups Operate in SomaliaAt 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.
10/26/2001 08:55:59 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Japan Today Japan News - News - Apologize or pay dearly, N Korea tells Bush10/26/2001 08:54:33 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Top Taliban Foe Is Executed; U.S. Raids on Kabul ContinueThe 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.
10/26/2001 08:48:38 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
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.
10/26/2001 08:28:19 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NATIONAL POST ONLINE | Montreal's water supply threatened on Sept. 11Michel 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.
10/26/2001 11:04:27 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Thursday, October 25, 2001
BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Israel plans West Bank withdrawalIsrael's decision to withdraw its troops came in a top-level cabinet meeting called after an Israeli army incursion into the Palestinian-ruled village of Beit Rima on Wednesday, which resulted in a bloodbath whose details remain hotly disputed.
10/25/2001 11:01:24 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Times: Bin Laden's nuclear threatThe Western sources say that the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks on America does not have the capability to mount a nuclear attack but fear he would do so if he could.
10/25/2001 10:55:23 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ananova - Hijacked plane was targeting White House, says controller"And I think that they came eastbound and because the sun was in their eyes that morning, and because the White House was beyond a grove of trees, I think they couldn't see it."
10/25/2001 10:43:27 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Middle East Newsline - UAE FINDS BIN LADEN LINKUAE Central Bank governor Sultan Nasser Sweidi said authorities have found seven transactions prior to Sept. 11 from Marwan Al Sheiki, a key suspect in the suicide attacks on the World Trade Center. Four of the transactions took place during a six-month period last year from UAE banks to Sheiki's bank account in Florida.
10/25/2001 10:41:41 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBS News | China: Spy Plane Bill, $1 Million, Still Unpaid | Thu, 25 Oct 2001 14:40:06 EDTChina rejected a U.S. offer of $34,000 that American officials said they viewed as fair and reasonable.
10/25/2001 09:10:31 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Vatican Pope Apologizes for Canonization in Hope of Normalized Relations with ChinaIn disregard of China's strong opposition, the Vatican got ahead with a canonization ceremony on October 1, 2000, China's National Day, for foreign missionaries and their henchmen in China, who committed notorious crimes in China. The action aroused strong indignation and protest from the Chinese Foreign Ministry as it deeply hurts the feeling of the Chinese people and dignity of the Chinese nation.
10/25/2001 09:09:13 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
New Reports Show US Economy Has Weakened SharplyThe Labor Department said the number of newly laid-off workers filing for unemployment benefits rose to 504,000 last week, a level usually associated with recessions, while the total number of unemployed collecting benefits rose to an 18-year-high of 3.65 million people, 66 percent above the level of a year ago.
10/25/2001 09:05:20 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Pentagon Seeks a Few Good Ideas to Fight TerrorismThe goal was to find concepts that can be developed and fielded in 12 to 18 months, a blink of an eye compared with standard Pentagon acquisition and deployment procedures.
10/25/2001 06:25:40 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ananova - Psychic plans TV seance with New York victimsThe producers say it will be done tastefully and the idea came from relatives of victims.
10/25/2001 05:53:27 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Economist.com: A puzzling warPartly because of the air raids, carefully directed as they may be, life in Kabul, the capital, and Kandahar, the Taliban stronghold, is becoming miserable and chaotic. Sebghatullah Saiq, the security chief in the provisional northern capital, Faizabad, wants an immediate stop to bombing in the towns.
10/25/2001 05:42:59 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
EFF: Chilling Effects of Anti-TerrorismThis page attempts to convey the chilling effect that responses to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, have had on information availability on the Internet as well as some sense of the effect on people trying to provide this information.
10/25/2001 05:28:43 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Suppression Stifles Some SitesSome sites have voluntarily taken their content offline. Warren S. Apel, webmaster of the Flag Burning Page, wrote on his page that he decided to shut down his site to "show respect" after the terrorist attack, but in the next breath complained that "People who disagree with popular opinion are being silenced. Don't allow this to happen."
10/25/2001 05:26:27 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Anti-terrorism Bill would gut privacy, expert says"This provision would be an unnecessary and unjustifiable removal of vital privacy rights of Canadians," Mr. Radwanski said.
10/25/2001 02:51:12 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Defectors say Taliban foiled a bigger plan"In 10 to 20 days, because of the loss of soldiers, the Taliban won't be able to defend the front line," said Satar Nyazi, 18, one of the defectors.
10/25/2001 01:34:31 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Afghans hold meeting to plan future governmentThe conference was opened by a close associate of Afghanistan's ex-king, Zahir Shah. Deposed in 1973, Zahir Shah is said by analysts to be the only person capable of bringing all of Afghanistan's fractious tribes together.
10/25/2001 01:17:48 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Serial killer demands gay porn mags as human rightNilsen claims he is being discriminated against because heterosexual porn magazines such as Escort and Razzle are freely available among prisoners at Whitemoor top security prison in Cambridgeshire.
10/25/2001 12:09:41 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Taliban say crowded bus hitNo independent confirmation of civilian casualties from the attacks was available as the world's superpower unleashed its sophisticated armoury against rifle-carrying soldiers in World War One-style trenches for a 19th day.
10/25/2001 12:08:03 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Terror notes: U.S. losing propaganda battle to a guy in a cave"He will leave behind a generation of dedicated, fanatical terrorists to carry on his work," Holbrooke said.
10/25/2001 12:06:50 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | US admits Bin Laden may escapeThe BBC's Kate Clark in Shomali, north of Kabul, says the bombing has hit infrastructure targets but the Taleban have not collapsed and their forces appear to be relatively intact.
10/25/2001 11:57:31 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNN.com - Israel: Army out of West Bank town - October 25, 2001"Since the Palestinian Authority did not take action, they left us with no choice but to use Mr. Bush's words 'bring justice to them,'" he said.
10/25/2001 11:56:27 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Reason magazine: Worst-Case Washington: Congress is just as prepared to deal with real catastrophe as you think it is.Baird and Ornstein stressed the urgency of the situation, but conceded that if Congress refuses to act on the amendment before recess, it might be a good idea to appoint a panel to study the issue.
10/25/2001 11:53:38 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NATIONAL POST ONLINE | Disarmament plan hinges on Canadian's word"People are telling us, you must trust the general," complains Ian Paisley Jr., the son of hardline Protestant preacher and politician Ian Paisley. "Well, if you want to start building confidence in Northern Ireland, we want to see the evidence. Where did this decommissioning happen? Was it 1% of the stock or 99%? Will there be more?"
10/25/2001 11:50:16 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NATIONAL POST ONLINE | Canadian schools should teach world religions: Islamic leaders"We must educate all our children about the faith, religion, morals and ethics practised by [650,000 of] their fellow Canadians. Such knowledge is the surest weapon of all in combatting the tragic effects of systemic ignorance, which in turn lead to prejudice, discrimination, racism and bigotry," the congress letter said.
10/25/2001 11:47:53 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
British Commander Calls Long Ground Raids LikelyOne potential target, he said, was not only Al Qaeda and Taliban leadership, but stashes of opium and heroin, which the Taliban have been accused of selling to raise funds to buy arms.
10/25/2001 11:44:54 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
online.ie : Army blamed for Nigerian massacreArmed men dressed in military uniforms massacred more than 200 people in central Nigeria after rebels killed 19 soldiers in the region, according to reports today.
10/25/2001 11:38:02 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Israel defies US with bloody raid for killersTwelve hours into the army's siege of Beit Rima, the Israelis said they had captured a man from the village whom they accuse of driving the getaway car for gunmen who shot dead the ultra-nationalist icon Rechavam Zeevi in a Jerusalem hotel last week.
10/25/2001 11:12:51 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Times: Business-class suspect caught in containerHe was, his captors said, "stunned" to be found with a laptop computer, two mobile phones, cameras, a Canadian passport, other identity documents and a certificate saying he is an aircraft mechanic.
10/25/2001 11:11:58 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Warlord is boy aged 15Humayun gained control of this little empire three months ago when his father, Aghagan, 40, was killed in a Taliban rocket attack. Since then, all that he had built up passed to his son. "It was not just because of being his son," says Humayun. "There was a great council meeting. They decided to give it all to me."
10/25/2001 11:10:26 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Wednesday, October 24, 2001
WSJ.com - Aljazeera.net Offers Arab News To Wider Audience Through NetRecently we have received many requests from our users all over the world asking for an English version of the Web site. We are studying this request now, and we will be able to launch it within one year from now.
10/24/2001 09:16:38 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Taliban Detains 100 People for Questioning, Reportedly Threatens to Execute U.S. Agents - from Tampa Bay OnlineTaliban soldiers are visiting residential neighborhoods, ordering people to report to armories to pick up weapons to fight the Americans, the agency said. The Taliban disarmed the Afghan population soon after seizing power in 1996 in attempt to restore peace in the war-ravaged country.
10/24/2001 08:42:53 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ottawa Citizen - Ex-CIA boss calls for war on Iraq -'Absolute destruction' of Saddam Hussein is next step in war on terrorism: top adviserMr. Woolsey's speech was preceded by that of Paul Wolfowitz, deputy defence secretary, who stopped short of singling out Iraq as the next target, but vowed that in the war against terrorism, "we're not just going to pick off individual snakes, we intend to drain the entire swamp."
10/24/2001 08:29:05 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Troops go on the rampage, killing 100 civilians and sparking mass exodusTahav Agerzu, spokesman for Benue's state government, said uniformed soldiers in armoured personnel carriers rounded up civilians in Gbejir village on Monday. Women and children were separated out and the attackers then opened fire on the men in a public square.
10/24/2001 07:33:50 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Bayer lowers price for anti-anthrax drug for Canada after U.S. cuts dealThe new price is about $1.50 Cdn (95 cents US) per tablet. The government had been expecting to pay about $2.00 per tablet.
10/24/2001 07:31:35 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Quebec's Opposition Liberals unveil eventual Constitutional demandsThe long-awaited document calls for more powers for the provinces and constitutional recognition of Quebec's "specificity", a scaled-back version of the distinct society clause which led to the 1990 failure of the Meech Lake accord.
10/24/2001 07:30:21 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
ESPN.com - Page2 - Foul balls and rash predictionsAny Evil-doer with the brains to plot lethal damage against our national infrastructure will also be degenerate enough to protect his Evil cover by faking great enthusiasm for watching and gambling on American football.
10/24/2001 04:56:08 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
White House Mail Machine Has AnthraxOn the night of the Sept. 11 attacks, the White House Medical Office dispensed Cipro to staff accompanying Vice President Dick Cheney as he was secreted off to the safety of Camp David, and told them it was "a precaution," according to one person directly involved.
10/24/2001 04:51:13 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
10/28 Kandahar raid: US defeat?A number of articles in the overseas press, from Israel, India, Russia, and of course from Afghanistan and Arab sources, suggest that the US special forces raid in Kandahar on 10/18 was considerably less than the complete success it has been portrayed to be in the US media:
10/24/2001 04:47:50 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Beyond JihadBin Laden's neo-Kharijism clearly makes the Saudi regime very nervous?so nervous that his assertion about the world's division into believers and infidels was excised from the transcript of his statement published on Oct. 9 in the newspaper al-Hayat, which is owned by a member of the Saudi royal family.
10/24/2001 04:44:45 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Did Al Gore win after all? US newspapers would rather not sayCatherine Mathis, a spokesman for the New York Times, said: "The consortium agreed that because of the war, because of our lack of resources, we were postponing the vote-count investigation. But this is not final. The intention is to go forward."
10/24/2001 04:41:56 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Palast Clarifies Gore Won StatementsI believe the consortium will eventually release data - and it will seem conflicting and useless. The Norc work was set up to fail, so the delay in its release means nothing.
10/24/2001 04:39:18 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ananova - 'Terrorist suspects had germ warfare magazines'The men, Mohammed Jaweed Azmath and Ayub Ali Khan, were arrested on September 12 after being found on a train in Texas with boxcutters, thousands of dollars in cash and black hair dye.
10/24/2001 04:34:41 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Bigfoot treads heavily in Bosnia - Jane's Land ForcesBigfoot reflects its name in 'walking' an array of powered steel feet across suspect ground, exploding and disposing of anti personnel mines while leaving the land in a good state for cultivation.
10/24/2001 03:53:25 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: White House announces deal with Bayer"To the best of my knowledge, the deal will be signed today," Bayer spokesman Michael Diehl said at the company's Leverkusen headquarters Wednesday morning. "I have no information on the final price."
He did not dispute earlier suggestions by Mr. Thompson that the price to the government would be less than $1 (U.S.) per tablet. "I expect that if Mr. Thompson says so, it will be close to that," Mr. Diehl said.
Meanwhile, Drug firm gives Health Minister a break
"We're going to take the hit for the $1.5-million," [Apotex] spokesman Elie Betito said in an interview with Canadian Press on Wednesday.
10/24/2001 03:40:06 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Manley wants unclogged U.S. border, says hijackers did not come from Canada"The delays, particularly U.S.-bound, continue to be significant and higher than normal," Manley said. "This is why it's urgent, why it's important. This is a vital economic link for both of our countries ... And if the border isn't open and moving well, it's going to hurt both our economies."
10/24/2001 03:17:47 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Bush use of term "the evil one" raises eyebrows"As I understood the statement, he was using a theological term. In Christianity, the term is used to refer to Satan. Bush, as a conservative Christian, appeared to be asserting that Satan was behind the Sept. 11 attacks," said Lynn Mitchell, who teaches Christianity and Christian ethics at the University of Houston.
10/24/2001 03:16:33 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
U.S. jets make deadliest-known attack on group linked to bin Laden"They said, 'You wanted to fight with the Taliban then you can bury your dead in Afghanistan,' " Hanifi said.
10/24/2001 03:15:17 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Nando Times: Secretary Tommy Thompson says Cipro too expensiveHe would not reveal what that final offer was, but he told CNN's "Larry King Live" late Tuesday that it was under $1 a pill.
Bayer did not return phone calls seeking comment.
Bayer just promised the Canadian government to deliver emergency supplies of Cipro, in the event of a bioterrorism attack there, for $1.30 a pill. That agreement apparently ends Canada's threat to suspend Bayer's Cipro patent and buy the medication from a generic producer instead.
10/24/2001 03:06:59 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Alberta men not connected to terrorists: FBI"At this point in the investigation the FBI is interested in talking to the Hassans about the bank fraud charges and the food stamp fraud charges"
10/24/2001 02:52:48 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Tuesday, October 23, 2001
Give Peace a WebsiteDuring the Vietnam War, organizing a nationwide peace movement took years. During the Gulf War, months. This time, it's taken days.
10/23/2001 09:52:01 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
freedomforum.org: 2 journalists shot, 1 fatally, in pre-election violence in KosovoIn the fatal shooting, Bekim Kastrati, an ethnic Albanian journalist with the newspaper Bota Sot, was killed instantly by gunfire aimed at the car in which he and others were riding. The newspaper is one of Kosovo's largest and is close to the political party of Ibrahim Rugova, one of the main ethnic Albanian leaders.
10/23/2001 09:48:28 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
U.N. Confirms Bomb Hit Hospital on Outskirts of an Afghan City...it was possible that the seniors' center and the hospital cited by the United Nations were in fact the same building. "Yes it is possible," the spokeswoman, Victoria Clarke, said, "but it has been described to us as a senior citizens' center."
10/23/2001 09:46:49 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ananova - US reveals contents of anthrax lettersAll three letters were dated September 11, the date of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington.
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[US Attorney General John Ashcroft] said authorities did not have evidence to link the anthrax letters to the September 11 attacks.
[Awfully strange coincidence -- GT]
10/23/2001 09:43:41 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
FT.com | Russia's false promise"If the US attacked a terrorist camp in Iran we would not say a word - not a word," insists one retired Russian intelligence officer. But it would be an extraordinary feat by Mr Putin if he were able to enforce that degree of restraint on the Russian political establishment. Russia's foreign intelligence service, which has few illusions about the world, might understand his logic. But most of its politicians, generals and businessmen would not.
10/23/2001 09:40:54 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Divide Afghanistan Along Ethnic Lines...it is larger than the United Kingdom (94,500 square miles) plus Germany plus the Netherlands, a total of 248,333 square miles. Just as these nations have found it desirable to be independent, so too it is entirely possible that some of the different ethnic groups in Afghanistan might find it desirable to form their own sovereign states.
[Confucius say, may your country be small and your population smaller -- GT]
10/23/2001 09:37:47 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Center for Civilian Biodefense StudiesThe Dark Winter exercise portrayed a FICTIONAL scenario depicting a covert smallpox attack on US citizens. The scenario is set in three successive National Security Council (NSC) meetings (Segments 1,2 and 3) which take place over a period of 14 days.
10/23/2001 09:29:28 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Jerusalem Post Newspaper: eading Hamas bomber killed in NablusHe was not only a master bomb maker, but also recruited suicide bombers, and was the most wanted Hamas terrorist in the Nablus region.
10/23/2001 09:26:49 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Consortium: The What-If's of Sept. 11Was Bush's ascension to power somehow connected to the Sept. 11 attacks, given his father's close ties to the Persian Gulf's oil sheikdoms that are bin Laden's principal targets? Did those Bush family relationships and America's diminished image as a beacon of democracy, following the election debacle, embolden the terrorists to strike?
10/23/2001 09:22:03 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Allan Rock blasts Bayer"They (Bayer) are playing a shell game here," Rock said after a cabinet meeting. "A week ago they told us not once, but twice, they couldn't respond to our request for Cipro."
10/23/2001 07:32:49 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Iraq Denies Link to Deadly U.S. Anthrax CasesForeign Minister Naji Sabri last week denied any link to the U.S. anthrax cases, telling reporters: ``It's bullshit.''
10/23/2001 05:42:02 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
IHT: Sinister Web Links Terror Cells Across Europe"In the past, we had seen some links to Afghanistan, but we saw them as more or less acting here without close connections to Al Qaida," said a senior German intelligence official. "Now, we are seeing more and more links between cells and to Al Qaida. We are rethinking everything."
10/23/2001 03:39:22 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
IHT:Within Israel, a Policy Tug-of-War"It's embarrassing, it's confusing," Salah Tarif, a cabinet minister from Labor, said of his party's position. He said that he would like to leave the government immediately but that he felt torn. "It's not easy for Labor - it's not easy for the whole left - to be for peace," he said. "Everybody is laughing."
10/23/2001 03:38:16 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Times: Hijack suspects on fifth jetThe airport was immediately closed and the pilot announced that the aircraft was returning to the terminal. At that point four male passengers of Middle Eastern appearance stood up in the cabin and began urgently consulting each other, sources told The New York Times. Flight attendants asked them to return to their seats but they refused and "as soon as the door opened these guys bolted"
10/23/2001 03:17:55 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNEWS - War On Terrorism: Suspicions surround Iraq"There are too many things, too many examples of stolen identities, of cleverly-crafted documentation, of coordination across continents and between states ... to stray very far from the conclusion that a state, and a very well-run intelligence service is involved here," he told the national convention of the American Jewish Congress on Monday.
10/23/2001 01:59:46 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Terrorists operate in Montreal: reportLa Presse reports that documents filed in a Paris courtroom indicate that members of Fateh Kamel's group regularly visited a Montreal apartment along with convicted millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam.
10/23/2001 01:56:32 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Only in Canada: the al-Qaeda connectionMr. al-Marabh explained that he was simply trying to visit some long-lost relatives in the United States. And his lawyer argued that, despite his client's forged papers and his history of slipping across borders at will, he should not be detained. What the young man really needed was spiritual guidance. This would be provided by an uncle in Toronto, Ahmad Shehab, who is an imam. Mr. Shehab has preached on such topics as "How to protect your family from Satan," and bills himself as a special consultant to something called the International Association of Educators for World Peace.
10/23/2001 01:54:49 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Israel: We Will Not Pull ForcesThe Palestinians have accused Israeli troops of firing indiscriminately, without regard for civilians. Israel has said it is targeting suspected militants who it said are often using civilians as human shields.
10/23/2001 01:51:34 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
"All" al Qaeda training camps destroyed"We believe that nine al Qaeda camps were occupied before the start of the military operation. I can now tell you that we have successfully put all these camps out of action," [UK] Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon told a news conference.
10/23/2001 01:49:47 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
House of Journalists Fights Ministry for SurvivalThe union has been running the house, called a dom tvorschestva, or house of creativity, for the last 11 years, but the building has been a focus of journalistic activity since 1920. Generations of journalists know the house, which serves as a venue for press conferences, seminars, lectures and conferences as well as a place where retired journalists meet. It also houses a restaurant.
After inspecting the House of Journalists, the ministry concluded that none of the space was being used as it should be. It informed the union that it has been breaking the rules, and that funds generated by subleasing surplus space cannot be used to subsidize other activities.
The ministry told the union that it wants its own subsidiary, Efes, to manage the building and to divert cash generated there to the federal budget, while all "noncommercial" activities would be able to continue at no charge.
10/23/2001 01:47:10 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Thestar.com/Phony passport ring targeted Canada, French documents sayOuzghar and others, including Fateh Kame, an Algerian who won refugee status in Canada and who was later arrested in France for belonging to an international terrorist group, and Ahmed Ressam, a convicted terrorist who lived in Canada, were allegedly part of a Canadian cell connected to the French group, documents from France contend.
10/23/2001 01:42:49 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
World's Largest Germ-Bank Union Acts to Keep Terrorists From Stealing Deadly StocksDr. Jean Swings, a microbiologist at the University of Ghent in Belgium who is the group's president, denied that current security was lax. But he said, "We have to restrict the availability even more." It was not immediately clear if the union could force member organizations to comply.
10/23/2001 01:34:17 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Firm to Launch Metal-Free BraAirport authorities should welcome the new bra because security personnel take "considerable labor and time to identify what sets off metal detectors, resulting in slow immigration and boarding procedures," Kyodo quoted Triumph as saying.
10/23/2001 01:30:41 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Congress Balks at Giving President Emergency Powers (washingtonpost.com)"We were willing to give them some short-term authority if they had the agreement of both parties in both houses," Obey said. Aides to President Bush talked about such a plan with congressional aides, but the Bush proposal "was very different from what had been discussed on the phone," Obey said. "On both sides of the aisle in the House it was felt that was too far-reaching."
10/23/2001 01:20:55 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: UN says Afghan military hospital hitUN spokesperson Stephanie Bunker said independent UN sources have reported the hospital is located within a military compound in the western city of Herat. The sources could not confirm whether the hospital was operational at the time of the hit.
10/23/2001 01:15:12 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: IRA puts weapons 'beyond use' for peaceIt's the first time the IRA, which is fighting British control of the country, has put its weapons out of active service. It pledged to do so in May 2000, but the timetable was never formalized.
10/23/2001 01:14:19 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNN.com - U.S. demands Israeli withdrawal - October 22, 2001"The deaths of those innocent civilians under the circumstances reported in recent days are unacceptable. And we call upon Israel to ensure that its armed forces exercise greater discipline and restraint and consider where their actions are leading."
10/23/2001 01:06:30 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
online.ie : Sinn Fein leaders 'urge IRA to disarm'[Gerry Adams] confirmed: "Martin McGuinness and I have held discussions with the IRA and we have put to the IRA the view that if it could make a groundbreaking move on the arms issue that this could save the peace process from collapse and transform the situation."
10/23/2001 12:43:59 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Pakistani Group Strikes U.S. Military Web Site"We have suffered throughout the ages and will suffer no more. This is the era of cyberwarfare, where once again the Muslims have prevailed. We will not rest till every node, every line, every bit of information contained in our suppressors has not been wiped out, returning them to the dark ages," said the message.
10/23/2001 11:28:10 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
MUSLIMS AGAINST TERRORISMTerrorism is an act against God, not for Him. Anyone who tries to justify such atrocities ultimately fails because both Islamic law and theology punish these acts as moral sins and heinous crimes. This is true regardless of one's grievances towards American foreign policy. The Quran instructs Muslims in times of adversity to act with justice and persevere with patience.
10/23/2001 11:26:25 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ottawa pays twice for Cipro"I'm not sure whether it was a conscious decision to go around the Patent Act, or an ignorance about that provision of the Patent Act, or a panic in the situation," a source said.
10/23/2001 10:53:19 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
WorldNetDaily: Chinese fighters killed in U.S. strikesThis report was confirmed, reports DEBKA, by Pakistani sources in Peshawar, who discovered the Chinese presence alongside the Taliban from their own intelligence reports on the death of the commander of Arab Afghan troops in Jalalabad. That commander was Basir al Masri, a senior aide to Osama bin Laden and the Egyptian Islamic Jihad chief, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
10/23/2001 10:50:14 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
China assisting us in war against US: Taliban commander - [22/10/2001] - Hindustantimes.comHaqqani, whose visit to Islamabad raised eyebrows, said China would react sharply in the longer run as the US would dig in Afghanistan.
10/23/2001 10:47:35 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Taliban Singles Online
10/23/2001 10:45:21 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Monday, October 22, 2001
The Times of India: Attack terrorist camps in PoK, BJP urges PM...arguing that if America could destroy terrorist camps in Afghanistan, then India, too, should attack terrorist camps in Pakistan.
10/22/2001 06:44:58 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Bin Laden’s Invisible NetworkClues are always clearer in hindsight. One FBI official noted, a little ruefully, that the bureau's Phoenix, Ariz., field office cabled headquarters last summer about an unusual number of Arabs who seemed to be taking flight lessons. "But that was all they could tell us -- Jeez, there are a lot of Arabs taking flying lessons!" said the official.
10/22/2001 06:40:38 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNEWS - War On Terrorism: Toronto suspect terror 'brain'?Al-Marabh, 35, who has been described as a "leading bin Laden agent in the U.S," is being held in solitary confinement at New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center.
10/22/2001 06:30:27 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNEWS - War On Terrorism: Foiled Putin assassin linked to OsamaRevealing new details from the plot that was uncovered in Azerbaijan in November, Araz Gurbanov, spokesman for the National Security Ministry, said Iraqi citizen Kianan Rostam underwent training in Afghanistan and in 1997 reached Russia's breakaway republic of Chechnya.
10/22/2001 06:28:56 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Beyond Carnivore: FBI Eyes Packet Taps"The goal might be to get companies that use packet data to have those packets go to one place for purposes of wiretap and other intercept capabilities," Baker said. "It's clear they [the Bureau] have decided that in the next year or so they are going to make a big push on packet data and they are going to use whatever leverage they can to get people to cooperate and to build a set of packet data systems that are more wiretap friendly than the ones we have today."
10/22/2001 06:24:07 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Experts scoff at Chretien suggestion of Canadian peacekeepers for Afghanistan"I just wonder if he's been talking to his minister of defence or his chief of the defence staff because I don't know where he's going to get peacekeepers," said Jim Hanson of the Canadian Institute for Strategic Studies.
10/22/2001 06:21:54 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNEWS - War On Terrorism: Afghan women get second chanceGulnisa had almost a year of school before Taliban anti-education decrees took effect. She was only 7 then. "I can remember a little -- like something in a dream," she said shyly, ducking her head.
10/22/2001 06:16:37 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ontario takes aim at fake birth certificatesPrior to Oct. 12, the more than 200,000 applicants a year who sought to replace their birth certificates had only to fill out a four-line form identifying their parents and the place and date of birth.
10/22/2001 06:10:35 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NATIONAL POST ONLINE | Canada rejects Bush's vision of energy policy"I would underscore, whether it's bilaterally with Mexico, or bilaterally with the U.S. or tri-laterally with both of them, that Canada is not engaged -- and I underscore that word -- we are not engaged in any discussion about a so-called North American energy policy," said Mr. Goodale, who was on an energy trade and investment mission in Mexico last week. "We are interested in market expansion. We are not interested in policy subordination and I think that's an extremely important distinction."
10/22/2001 06:08:28 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
U.S. Predicting Fight Will Last Well Into Spring"We're very interested in seeing them take the town in the north, Mazar-i-Sharif, and I'm quite confident that they want to at least invest Kabul," [Colin Powell] said. "Whether they actually go into Kabul or not, or whether that's the best thing to do or not, remains to be seen."
10/22/2001 06:05:11 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ananova - Thirty journalists reported to be held hostage by AfghansThe tribesmen are demanding one thousand dollars as ransom to release them.
10/22/2001 05:52:54 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
iWon - Clinton Says Bin Laden Addicted to Killing"They want to go through every single government in the Middle East and purge it of the imperfection until it all looks like the Taliban," Clinton said.
10/22/2001 05:50:10 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
iWon - Bush Wants New Spending Power From CongressThe White House wants President Bush to have the right to automatically extend funding legislation to keep the federal government open if Congress cannot meet, the White House said on Monday.
[Although it would be unconstitutional -- GT]
10/22/2001 05:47:56 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
World Trade Organization meeting to go ahead in Qatar - CANOE MoneyA spokesman for bin Laden's al-Qaida organization warned Westerners previously against remaining in the Gulf region, saying: "the land will burn with fire under their feet, God willing."
10/22/2001 11:52:47 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Don't Need a Weatherman...Ayers lets us know that America "is not a just and fair and decent place." This, from the man who is now a distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and who brags at the end of Fugitive Days that he is "Guilty as hell, free as a bird -- it's a great country." As for those who might believe without irony that America is a great country, Ayers has one reaction: "It makes me want to puke."
10/22/2001 11:50:32 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Canada could send peacekeepers, PM says"We don't know what kind of solution that the United Nations could propose," he said. "If there is a proposition for peacekeepers, perhaps we will have a role, because we tend to be invited at any peacekeeping operation. But we're not there yet."
10/22/2001 11:37:55 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
U.S. jets press attacks on Taliban positions; Taliban claims hospital hit"Patients and doctors were killed. ... It is clear that American planes are targeting the Afghan people to punish the Afghan nation for having chosen an Islamic government."
10/22/2001 11:12:29 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Some Comic Strips Take an Unpopular Look at U.S....Mr. McGruder, the 27-year-old creator, writer and illustrator of "The Boondocks," has not backed down. Last Wednesday, his strip satirized the newspapers that pulled his work. The first panel carried a supposed editor's note, saying that "due to the inappropriate political content of this feature in recent weeks, it is being replaced by `The Adventures of Flagee and Ribbon.' "
[no issues with McGruder's subject matter -- but the strips were utterly unfunny -- GT]
10/22/2001 11:05:01 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Palestinian opens fire in Jerusalem as Israeli tanks sit tight in West BankUnder huge military pressure, the Palestinian Authority late Sunday outlawed the militant group that assassinated Israel cabinet minister Rehavam Zeevi last week, blaming it for giving Israel a pretext to launch its tank and troop deployment in and around six of its main autonomous towns.
10/22/2001 11:02:05 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NYPOST.COM World News: SECRETS OF 'DR. GERM' By BILL HOFFMANNU.N. inspectors believe Taha... tests her poisons on human guinea pigs.
10/22/2001 11:00:44 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Taliban claim first blood with reports, footage of downed chopperQatar-based Al-Jazeera television aired pictures of landing gear, tyres, metallic pieces and a large casing stamped with the words "Boeing" and "Philadephia, Pennsylvania" underneath.
10/22/2001 10:54:37 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Sunday, October 21, 2001
CIA given $1B to destroy bin Laden; 'bullets will fly' if he resists captureNot since the 1960s when then-president John F. Kennedy authorized attempts to kill Fidel Castro has the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency been given such a bald assassination order.
10/21/2001 10:35:51 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Jerusalem Post Newspaper : Arab-Canadian art exhibit raises Jewish ireThe exhibit was postponed after the September 11th terrorist attacks, then reinstated under government pressure.
10/21/2001 10:33:31 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Macleans.ca -Follow the Money-The terror crisis has lit a fire under Ottawa's lagging anti-laundering effort"For the first time," says Laprairie, "lawyers will have to report to a federal agency what their clients are doing and not tell their clients."
10/21/2001 10:29:58 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Independent News: Anthrax attacks now being linked to US right-wing cranksIn Wynnewood Manor they know her as Terry, the mother in her mid-30s who collected their mail every weekday for three years. Today, Terry is being treated for exposure to anthrax, and black-jacketed FBI agents are swarming over the route she took. The net is closing on the anthrax terrorists and Terry might just be their critical mistake.
10/21/2001 10:22:07 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Independent News: Mullah Omar's son 'was killed in first air strike'Dr Abdul Bari said he had treated the boy for abdominal injuries and a broken femur in a hospital in Kandahar and that Mullah Omar had stood by, pleading with the doctor to save his son's life.
10/21/2001 10:18:08 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Bert's Web site is gonzo"As a result of what transpired (the day of the alleged [media] ambush) I feel very sick and have now lost all enjoyment for Bert in total and any mild respect I once had for the whoring media is gone," Pozniak wrote.
10/21/2001 06:01:34 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Sectarian violence erupts in BelfastMore than 100 Catholics and 50 Protestants had to be driven apart by police in full riot gear during the confrontation in the Limestone Road area of north Belfast -- a sectarian front line plagued by rioting in recent months.
10/21/2001 05:58:42 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Israelis tighten grip on Palestinian towns in widest operation in yearsThe focus of violence Sunday was Bethlehem, where Palestinians said three people were killed by Israeli gunfire - a police officer and a civilian in a nearby refugee camp and another civilian when a shell landed near a hospital. Israel's army said Palestinians threw a bomb at an Israeli tank near the refugee camp, setting off an exchange of fire, and were looking into the hospital incident.
10/21/2001 05:47:34 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
U.S. jets hit hard near Taliban front line; thrills anti-Taliban forceIn Kabul, meanwhile, grieving neighbours pulled dust-covered bodies of seven civilians - three women and four children - from the ruins of two homes destroyed Sunday by a U.S. bomb. "This pilot was like he was blind!" sobbed one neighbour.
10/21/2001 05:44:32 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ananova - Dutch police arrest Bert and Ernie"The music hall agency had no official permission from the licence keeper to use these costumes and we therefore called the police."
10/21/2001 05:42:11 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Jordan Times (Home News Section)He told The Jordan Times that the letter -- signed by representatives of Al Sabeel, Al Hadath, Al Liwa, Al Itijah, Shihan, Al Bilad, Al Jazeerah, Al Shahid, Al Hilal, Hawadeth il Saa -- called for cancelling articles in the law allowing for the incarceration of journalists found to be violating it.
10/21/2001 11:51:08 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Guardian Unlimited Observer | International | Family of British reporter's guide flung into jail in Taliban purgeNakibullah's wife has been forced to beg from shopkeepers to get enough food for their four children, aged between four and 12. His brother, Ali Gul Mohamand, who earns 3,000 rupees (£33.80) a month as a weaver, is now trying to support nine children, including his own. Mohamand said the family have heard nothing from the Express since the arrest of Ridley on 28 September.
10/21/2001 11:47:27 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
online.ie : War might not be over 'in our lifetime': CheneyMr Cheney, who has returned to the White House after he was spirited away to a "secure location" as the FBI issued a warning on October 10 of a "credible threat" of a new attack, said terrorism was now "normal".
10/21/2001 11:46:21 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CIA Told to Do 'Whatever Necessary' to Kill Bin Laden (washingtonpost.com)"The gloves are off," one senior official said. "The president has given the agency the green light to do whatever is necessary. Lethal operations that were unthinkable pre-September 11 are now underway."
10/21/2001 11:45:02 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Saturday, October 20, 2001
Guardian Unlimited Observer | Observer site | Elite US Rangers storm mullah's mountain fortIf, as analysts believe, the raid was a 'dry-run' for future operations, this would have been vital to demonstrate that US forces can take and secure territory inside Afghanistan.
10/20/2001 10:58:06 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Guardian Unlimited Observer | Observer site | UN set to appeal for halt in the bombing'The situation is completely untenable inside Afghanistan. We really need to get our point across here and have to be very bold in doing it. Unless the [US air] strikes stop, there will be a huge number of deaths,' one UN source said.
10/20/2001 10:55:53 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Times: Prince enlisted to woo SaudisDowning Street has accepted an offer by the Prince to use his influence to try to improve relations between the coalition against Osama bin Laden and the Saudi rulers.
10/20/2001 10:54:42 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
iWon - Woman to Face Death by Stoning for Adultery...once she has finished weaning her baby, state-owned Daily Times newspaper said.
10/20/2001 09:48:14 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Canada should lead in relief efforts: AxworthyAxworthy suggested re-directing money and resources from the airdrops to "a more direct application," but he wouldn't say what the alternatives may be.
10/20/2001 09:45:06 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Bayer offers Ottawa free anthrax drugThe company also announced plans to donate 200,000 tablets to be stockpiled "in case of need for those gallant front-line workers."
10/20/2001 09:44:19 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Canada Works on Terror Bill, TooUnder the new act, Canadian authorities could receive unprecedented powers, including the right to tap communications between Canada and other countries; and the right to censor the Internet.
10/20/2001 09:35:54 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NY Paper Retracts Editorial On Attacks"I am not working at the Oneida Daily Dispatch as of yesterday because of repercussions from allowing the Sept. 19 editorial to be published. I am not anti-Semitic, and anyone who knows me knows that," Ryan wrote in a statement issued Thursday.
10/20/2001 09:33:50 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Muslim Rebel Threatens U.S. Beheading via Ken Layne, who is off getting married; may you win the coin toss, Ken and LauraAbu Sabaya, a leader of the Abu Sayyaf rebels, warned Monday that he would kill Martin and Gracia Burnham of Wichita, Kan., to coincide with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's Nov. 20 visit with President Bush.
10/20/2001 09:08:45 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Bourque Forum: Has the international media agreed to ignore the anomalies regarding the fourth aircraft that terminated lethally in Pennsylvania?10/20/2001 09:02:56 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Recounting That Recount, Detail by Detail by Detail"It is a testament to the surreal complexity of the litigation of the election," Mr. Toobin writes, "that even these lawyers had a hard time knowing if they'd won or lost."
So his book offers a step-by-step description of the process, from a keen observer who makes no bones about his bias. "The wrong man was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2001, and this is no small thing in our nation's history," Mr. Toobin ultimately writes. "The bell of this election can never be unrung, and the sound will haunt us for some time."
10/20/2001 08:51:33 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
TNR Online | TRB: Build Up by Peter Beinart...Afghanistan is not unique. And, because it is not unique, the lessons it is teaching cannot be segregated from American foreign policy more generally.
10/20/2001 08:49:40 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
DEBKAfile: Chinese Fighters Killed in US Strikes against Kahandar20 October: DEBKAfile has learned from military sources in Dushanbe and Bishbek, capitals of Tajikistan and the Kyrgizstan respectively, that at least 15 Chinese fighting men on the side of the Taliban, were killed in last week’s US bombing over Kahandar and in a separate incident on the ground.
10/20/2001 08:45:52 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Claims that China paid Bin Laden to see cruise missilesBeijing is said to have made a deal with al-Qaida to acquire the missiles despite the fact that it was facing a growing threat from Muslim separatists in the Xinjiang region. In 1999, China accused Bin Laden's organisation of training members of the independence movement in guerrilla warfare.
10/20/2001 08:44:29 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Rifle and the VeilAny political process that moves forward without the representation and participation of women will undermine any chances that the principles of democracy and human rights will take hold in Afghanistan. It will be the first clue that little has changed.
Amen to that!
10/20/2001 08:33:11 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Taleban force aid agency to close...since the American-led air campaign began, some members of the ruling Taleban have become increasingly hostile or keen to take the opportunity to loot.
10/20/2001 08:21:35 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ananova - Anthrax fears grow as second case confirmed outside USHector Lombardo said a travel brochure mailed from Florida to Argentina tested positive for anthrax spores but said nobody was exposed.
10/20/2001 08:18:23 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Ottawa weighs paying Bayer after ignoring Cipro patentHealth Minister Allan Rock said his officials believed Bayer was unable to deliver the amount of mediation required, and so turned to Toronto-based Apotex Inc., which produces a knock-off version of Cipro that it has not been able to market because Bayer holds the patent until 2004.
10/20/2001 08:12:18 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Taliban say their fighters drove off U.S. commandos in overnight raid"It was hit inside Afghanistan and landed in Pakistan just across the border," said Sohail Shaeen, spokesman for the Taliban mission in Islamabad. "The United States is calling it an accident because they don't want to hurt their morale of their troops."
10/20/2001 08:08:48 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Pentagon Plans More Ground Operations``U.S. forces were able to deploy, maneuver and operate inside Afghanistan without significant interference from Taliban forces,'' Myers said. ``They are now refitting and repositioning for potential future operations against terrorist targets in other areas known to harbor terrorists.''
10/20/2001 08:06:22 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Global Germ Banks Sell Anthrax"How is it worth it to take extra security measures at laboratories when you can find the same anthrax in nature?'' Villalva asked. ``The labs are not the problem.''
On the wooded Mexico City campus of the biological sciences school, vials of anthrax are kept in an unlocked, closet-sized office marked ``private.''
10/20/2001 08:01:12 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Canada can't maintain long military campaign in anti-terror war: analysts"There's not much left in the cupboard," Hansen said. "If this turns into a fairly long commitment, you've got a third of the frigates and a third of the available destroyers over there."
10/20/2001 07:57:23 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Anthrax drug deal lands Rock in hot water: Officials blame junior employees for no-name orderIn an effort to defuse the controversy, the government called for an emergency meeting early next week with officials from Bayer AG, the German company that owns the Canadian patent for Cipro.
10/20/2001 07:54:04 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Thestar.com/Lawyer links Alberta suspects to Sept. 11Emad Jamal Hassan, Yousef al-Amleh and Mohamadkhair Salah were arrested last week in Fort McMurray, Alta., and are now in custody in Edmonton.
10/20/2001 07:42:40 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Thestar.com/Chretien, Fox want to look at NAFTA securityChretien downplayed the suggestion that he was open to a discussion on standardizing border policies. He said Mexico and Canada should work out border issues separately with the United States because the problems in each case are different.
10/20/2001 07:30:43 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Japan Today - Bush doesn't expect much from Putin talks"The breakthrough occurred in our first meeting where we made a determined effort to work together to find common ground when it comes to a new strategic arrangement."
10/20/2001 07:29:31 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
IHT:EU Backs U.S. Drive to Replace TalibanThe document did not specifically mention the overthrow of the Taliban as had a draft of the declaration.
However, President Jacques Chirac of France said this difference over wording did not hide the fact that there was "no question" that the Taliban had to be replaced by a democratic regime.
10/20/2001 07:18:21 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Link Found to Anthrax Batches in New York, Washington, FloridaMr. Ridge also said the anthrax in all three instances was not, strictly speaking, "weaponized," meaning it was not ground so finely and precisely as to make it ideal for use in biological weapons.
10/20/2001 07:16:24 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Bin Laden 'received UN cash'If the US Treasury is right about "Blessed Relief", it is a serious blow to the UN's reputation.
10/20/2001 07:14:40 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Echoes of Lebanon for Israel"An assault on an Israeli ambassador is tantamount to an attack on the state of Israel."
10/20/2001 07:13:37 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Eight die in West Bank bloodshedFour 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.
10/20/2001 07:12:44 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
News - Halifax - FDA to block Cipro sales from foreign Web sites, say drug could be fake"We think it's a bad idea for consumers to buy these antibiotics and to use them indiscriminantly," said FDA pharmacy chief Tom McGinnis. Not only does Cipro cause side effects, but "we're worried about antibiotic resistance when consumers take them without a legitimate need."
10/20/2001 06:59:21 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Thestar.com/Mounties shoot female sergeantCFRN also reported some of the female sergeant's shots were aimed at people.
10/20/2001 09:26:07 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Friday, October 19, 2001
CNN.com - U.S. official: U.S. troops in Afghanistan - October 19, 2001A Pakistani military analyst told CNN's Walter Rodgers that the coalition troops may be arrayed near the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, preparing to strike against Taliban troops if they should begin retreating from Kabul.
10/19/2001 12:28:52 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Thursday, October 18, 2001
PatrickRuffini.com // THEY HATE OUR GUTS!I also ran through some poll results from before September 11 to see if I could spot any sort of a post-attack trend. There was none. These people were as radical and anti-Western before September 11 as after. Some highlights:
10/18/2001 09:42:20 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Nonmetallic Knives Defy Heightened Air SecurityThe Stealth Hawk is made from a high-tech, nonmetallic laminate known as MP45. Its 4 1/2-inch, serrated blade is so strong it can be "pounded through steel drums, car doors, wood planks, etc. without damage," according to the description in a catalog issued by Shomer-Tec, a mail-order firm in Bellingham, Wash.
10/18/2001 09:32:26 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The ordinariness of American feelings"One of the ways for Americans to overcome their trauma and survive the fear and continue to live and thrive in the midst of the insecurity which has suddenly swallowed them is to admit that their suffering is neither unique nor exclusive, that they are connected -- as long as they are willing to look at themselves in the vast mirror of our common humanity -- with so may other human beings who, in faraway zones, have suffered similar situations of unanticipated and often protracted injury and fury."
10/18/2001 09:30:56 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Relief Efforts Trumped by Air War...in the international aid community, airdrops are known to be the least efficient and most expensive way of getting food supplies to needy people--almost 12 times as costly as taking food by truck. In Afghanistan, food drops may also fall into the many minefields left over from more than two decades of war.
10/18/2001 09:25:06 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Time Inc. Fires Mailroom StaffTime Inc., a major magazine publisher, abruptly fired all of its mailroom staff Thursday and announced that an outside firm was hired to deliver all mail and packages.
10/18/2001 09:13:01 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
News - Montreal - Jean Chretien, Celine Dion, Paul Martin targeted in threats: Quebec police - Man arrested for mailing envelopes of white powder"We have a good idea what his motive was but we'll save it for the courtroom"
10/18/2001 09:09:24 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
technology.scmp.com - No evidence bin Laden tampered with the webThe researchers scrutinised more than 2 million images from popular Web sites like eBay auctions since April or June. They began their search following a report in USA Today in February that cited unidentified US officials and experts as saying bin Laden's associates were using a masking method called "steganography" to hide secret messages on their activities inside innocent-looking photos on the Web.
10/18/2001 09:00:08 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Newspaper Guild Monitors 'Dissenters'The clearinghouse, called "Patriotism's 2-Edged Sword," can be accessed directly on the Guild site at http://www.newsguild.org/2edged.php. Already on the site are news articles and commentary about the flow of information and the role of journalists during this period. The Guild is soliciting opinions and examples of journalists who have been disciplined for expressing a dissenting point of view. The Guild's e-mail is guild@cwa-union.org.
10/18/2001 08:55:05 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NATIONAL POST ONLINE | Ontario lays off biohazard experts"We are the people who invent and design and develop the tests for the testers to use. Firing us means that several years down the line there will be no more new tests for the testers to do the testing, because you will have all new strains of bacteria. [...] If going to university and becoming registered microbiologists in public health is no more valuable than a two-year community college degree, you might as well close down all the universities," Dr. Lo said.
10/18/2001 08:31:09 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNN.com - Kessel: Israel ties assassination to terror war - October 18, 2001And just as people have been filing past the casket, which has been lying in state in the forecourt of the Israeli parliament, the truce ... is threatening to come apart at the seams.
10/18/2001 08:16:48 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
4 Terrorists Ordered to Pay Restitution to Victims[Judge Sand] said he understood that the four men were assumed to be indigent. "But we read on an almost daily basis of the discovery and freezing of assets held or controlled by organizations said to be co-conspirators," the judge continued, "and I am not clear what disposition will be made of those funds, and whether or not Kenyan victims will be entitled to lay claim to any of those funds."
10/18/2001 08:07:57 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Air travel in Canada not safe: report"The bottom line is that the federal policy and regulatory system has been very ineffective," Reddick said.
10/18/2001 08:02:18 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Majority of Canadians fear war reprisals"Many fear that we are now moving from being a conduit for terrorists to possibly a direct target of attacks."
10/18/2001 08:00:58 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
How Safe Are Your Illegal Drugs?"A good laboratory can test for almost anything -- but you need to tell them what substances to look for first, and it would probably cost about $150 a pop," said Morgan, of CUNY. "Maybe the government might choose to test something if they heard it was contaminated, but they'd rather try to get rid of it altogether," which they haven't been very successful at.
10/18/2001 07:57:33 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Economist.com: Another powder trailUN officials say the current Afghan stockpile is enough to keep every [heroin] addict in Europe supplied for three years. It is also enough to allow the Taliban and their allies to dominate the European, Russian and much of the Asian market for another two years, if they can retain control of the stockpile.
10/18/2001 02:21:21 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
US space-based reconnaissance reinforced - Jane's Military Aerospace NewsImproved Crystal images of terrorist camps in Afghanistan reveal primitive methods employed to conceal training facilities and substantial equipment in tunnels and makeshift shacks. Images such as these are also utilised by the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, generating digital point precision databases for precision bombing.
10/18/2001 02:18:53 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
IMF, World Bank Plan to Hold Meeting in Ottawa Next Month (washingtonpost.com)Levy predicted that Canadian activists will "pull together a very vociferous and powerful protest." Asked about the political risks involved in mounting demonstrations at a time when the public's abhorrence of violence is high, he replied: "I think it's fairly easy for us to persuade reasonable people that there is a several order of magnitude difference between people who advocate nonviolent civil disobedience, such as sit-ins and human blockades, and people who crash airplanes into buildings."
10/18/2001 02:10:51 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
U.S. Seeks to Stock Smallpox Vaccine for Whole Nation...there are "suspicions that there are undeclared stocks of smallpox virus in Russia," particularly at a top-secret virology laboratory under control of the Russian Ministry of Defense.
10/18/2001 01:53:41 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CIA, FBI Disagree on Urgency of WarningThe U.S. intelligence official conceded that the FBI had very little to go on. "They had the guy's names, passport numbers and last addresses. It would be very difficult to find someone based on that. . . . And they didn't."
10/18/2001 01:50:56 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Bush Says Aim Is to Ease Entry of Land ForceMr. Bush's comments raised more questions than they answered. The United States has so far shied away from carrying out airstrikes against the Taliban front-line troops that block the Northern Alliance from moving toward Kabul or Mazar-i-Sharif in the north.
10/18/2001 01:48:09 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Anthrax case in KenyaThe letter that tested positive for anthrax had been mailed Sept. 8 from Atlanta, Ongeri said, and was received in Kenya on Oct. 9. It was opened on Oct. 11.
10/18/2001 01:44:06 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
News - Canada conducts covert spy operations abroad, CSIS director Ward Elcock told a Commons committee ThursdayAnd he hinted intelligence gathering limits may have more to do with money than with the CSIS mandate.
10/18/2001 01:08:13 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Embassy bombers get life without paroleA jury deliberated for 12 days in May before finding the men guilty of all 302 counts in the indictment -- a list that detailed a broad conspiracy aimed at attacking U.S. facilities in Kenya and Tanzania. The guilty verdicts were the first U.S. convictions for crimes believed to have been carried out by Mr. bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
10/18/2001 12:56:39 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Anthrax Infects NJ Postal WorkerThe employee is a mail handler who was on duty at the time the letters were sent through the main Trenton postal center in Hamilton Township, state officials told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity.
10/18/2001 12:53:17 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NJ.com - Aid agency: Taliban return seized warehousePESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Afghanistan's Taliban militia on Thursday returned one of two World Food Program warehouses seized at gunpoint two days earlier along with its stores of donated wheat, an official with the U.N. agency said.
10/18/2001 12:51:17 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Al Qaeda Says Will Drag U.S. Troops Through Streets"The calculations of the crusade coalition were very mistaken when it thought it could wage a war on Afghanistan achieving victory swiftly"'
...assuming two years means "swiftly" to a people who get free pizza if it's delivered in over 30 minutes.
10/18/2001 12:50:28 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Israeli ultimatum as tanks move in"[Israel would] act against the Palestinian Authority in the way currently accepted by the international community to act against a leadership that supports terror".
10/18/2001 12:39:58 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBS News Employee in NY Has Anthrax, Company Says``We learned this morning that a CBS News employee in Dan Rather's office has tested positive for the cutaneous form of anthrax,'' CBS News president Andrew Hayward said in a statement.
10/18/2001 12:38:11 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Pa. Nuclear Plant Receives ThreatNuclear Regulatory Commission spokeswoman Diane Screnci declined to discuss the type of threat, or how the agency received it. The commission told Three Mile Island about the threat between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m., and the airports were shut down about 9 p.m., she said.
10/18/2001 12:35:00 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Wednesday, October 17, 2001
Tests Link Florida and N.Y. AnthraxWASHINGTON (AP) - Preliminary tests show the anthrax sent to NBC in New York and a tabloid newspaper company in Florida were the same strain, and the FBI is pursuing ``substantive leads'' in the investigation into who may have sent the bacteria, officials said Wednesday.
10/17/2001 10:33:24 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
News - Landry refuses to dump Quebec's envoy over radical pastThere is no reason to fire a Quebec envoy who took part in a foiled 1965 plot to blow up the Statue of Liberty and other U.S. landmarks, Premier Bernard Landry said Wednesday.
10/17/2001 08:45:46 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Bomb attack thwarted in Northern IrelandThe discovery of the bomb came at a critical point in Northern Ireland's peace process, with pro-British Protestant ministers threatening to walk out of a powersharing provincial executive with nationalist Roman Catholics unless the IRA disarms.
10/17/2001 08:43:25 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
FDA to publish antibiotic dosesThe federal government is aiming to inform panicked Americans that other widely available -- and cheaper -- antibiotics than Cipro can also fight anthrax.
10/17/2001 08:41:54 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Senator wants to sidestep anthrax treatment patentNew York Senator Charles Schumer asked the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday to suspend Bayer's patent rights to allow the government to buy generic versions of the drug, chemically known as ciprofaxin, from other companies.
10/17/2001 01:45:08 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Bush Sees War on Terror Taking More Than Two Years``There's a variety of theaters. So long as anybody's terrorizing established governments, there needs to be a war,'' he said...
Now let us ponder on the recent headlines connecting Al-Qaida, the mafia in Chechnya and the Real IRA.
10/17/2001 01:44:10 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBS Considers WTC Comedy"Is it exploitive to do something like that? Not if it's handled properly," Moonves said.
10/17/2001 01:19:22 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
PornBomb.orgOnce our military decides to enact this plan, citizens of our great country should donate their own collections to bombard Afghanistan. So gather up your copies of "Barely Legal," or "High Society" or "Juggs", and let's make America great again.
10/17/2001 01:16:28 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Steam irons and microwaves kill anthrax sporesA former Soviet germ-warfare expert says a steam iron will kill anthrax spores. Ken Alibek says after a letter is ironed, any spores inside will be harmless.
10/17/2001 01:12:36 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
National Story - Ottawa unwittingly assists terrorismTracing the activities of known terrorists and their associates in Canada shows a pattern of abuse of the legal and social systems, organized assault on financial institutions and routine victimization of the population through street crime, said officers with two of the RCMP's most secretive units.
10/17/2001 01:06:32 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Times: Letter to the Editor from Mr Rowan AtkinsonI have always believed that there should be no subject about which one cannot make jokes, religion included. Clearly, one is always constricted by contemporary mores and trends because, after all, what one seeks above all is an appreciative audience. However, how would a film like Monty Python's Life of Brian, criticised at the time of its release for being anti-Christian, be judged under the proposed law? Or that excellent joke in Not the Nine O'Clock News all those years ago, showing worshippers in a mosque simultaneously bowing to the ground with the voiceover: "And the search goes on for the Ayatollah Khomeini's contact lens?"
And remember to never be rude to an Arab.
10/17/2001 12:47:06 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CTVNews.com - Arafat orders arrests in Israeli assassination"The responsibility is Arafat's alone, as someone who has carried out and is carrying out acts of terrorism and never took steps against it," Sharon told a special memorial session of parliament.
10/17/2001 12:09:29 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | New offer on Bin Laden"Now they have agreed to hand him over to a third country without the evidence being presented in advance," the source close to the military said.
10/17/2001 12:07:52 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
US bought rifles for bin Laden in the 1980sExperts said they doubted the rifles could still be used -- though they didn't quantify those statements in reports. However, the transaction demonstrates how the U.S. is now fighting a force it once called an ally.
10/17/2001 11:46:03 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Charged with treasonMr. Rehman's party has been leading protest rallies against Pakistan's support for the U.S. anti-terrorism campaign in Afghanistan. Party officials say the government's move will not deter their anti-U.S. protests.
10/17/2001 11:40:12 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | Sheer follyFirst, meet Yvonne Ridley, or William Boot, the hapless reporter sent to cover a war by a downtrodden foreign editor, Mr Salter, who in this production will be played by Sunday Express editor Martin Townsend, who is under the thumb of Richard Desmond - or Lord Copper - proprietor of the Sunday Express, which bears more than a passing resemblance to the Daily Beast. Substitute Afghanistan for Ishmaelia and we have Waugh's masterpiece rewritten as thesaga of the imprisoned journalist and the faltering tabloid.
10/17/2001 10:31:48 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Method to the Madness: A Muslim Robin Hood"He envisions installing a worldwide Islamic government with himself as the caliph."
10/17/2001 10:21:32 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Burning question: Are Russian troops fighting in Afghanistan? | csmonitor.com"You can't supply tanks by air. There is a full-scale operation to control the supply lines, and about 2,000 Russian military personnel are involved. They have not penetrated far into Afghanistan, but in some places they are within 5 kilometers of Taliban positions, and there have been clashes."
10/17/2001 10:17:30 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Los Angeles Times: Training Camp of Another Kind:In Pakistan, defiant young Afghan women bent on reversing years of brutal oppression study and plan. To them, the conflict has no good guys.
"The devil is the brother of evil. The dog is the brother of the wolf," Khaiwa camp school Principal Abeda Mansoor said in her native Dari language. "We condemn both the Taliban and the Northern Alliance."
10/17/2001 10:15:13 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
DesMoinesRegister.com | News: As a woman in Afghanistan, here's what you are forbidden to doWhipping of women in public for not covering ankles.
Ban on laughing loudly
10/17/2001 10:12:23 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
HoustonChronicle.com: In the long run, Taliban paid a high priceOne afternoon a month ago, several dozen Taliban fighters ate their fill of rice, bread and meat at the teahouse in Taleh Barfaq, Afghanistan, but decided not to pay the owner.
10/17/2001 10:08:49 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Anthrax Mailed to Senate Is Found to Be Potent FormThe official said the letters contained phrases like "Death to America," "You're going to die" and "Allah is great." Investigators did not conclude that the reference to Allah meant that the letter writer was an Islamic extremist or linked to Osama bin Laden, the official said. But officials today refused to rule out any possible motive for the letters.
10/17/2001 09:56:59 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CANOE Travel - Foundation that promotes peace through travel organizes discount N.Y. tripAbout 300 Canadians have already bought the $199 US-plus-tax package, Sam Blyth, who runs the Blyth and Co. travel agency, said Monday.
The cost per person includes return airfare on American Airlines and one night's stay at the five-star Grand Hyatt Hotel based on two people sharing a room. Single travellers can book a room for an extra $65.
10/17/2001 09:41:56 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Breaking News: Rumsfeld speaks to Arab world on al-JazeeraHe added that "The only way you can defend against terrorism is not by self-defence, because a terrorist can attack any place at any time. You simply must take the battle to them, and that's what President Bush has announced he's going to do, and that's what he is in the process of doing."
10/17/2001 09:36:58 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Were All Hijackers in on Suicide Pact? (washingtonpost.com)"I think they took great pains to select these guys and indoctrinate them for a long period of time," said Robert Blitzer, a former FBI counterterrorism official. " . . . They were all convinced they were going to nirvana."
Or, in the case of the non-Buddhist hijackers, perhaps somewhere else.
10/17/2001 09:23:15 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Daily Mail&Guardian: The ultimate media event? The initial enthusiasm shown by South African media consumers in the wake of the United States terror attacks two weeks ago is dwindling markedly, judging by circulation figures, writes Bongani Majola10/17/2001 09:14:23 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Jordan Times -- Penal Code to 'protect society from the danger of irresponsible journalism'...to "protect society from the danger of irresponsible journalism, which is being used to tell lies and contravene public morality with lewd articles."
10/17/2001 09:04:11 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Khaleej Times - Kashmiri leader denounces Bin Laden statement"The struggle in Kashmir is a genuine struggle for Kashmiris' right of self-determination and it has no link whatsoever with the Al Qaeda group," Mr Farooq said. "Kashmir and Palestine are two political issues, which cannot be used by groups for their personal ends."
10/17/2001 09:02:38 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Scotsman Online - Real IRA in link to bin Laden aideThe El Mundo newspaper claims it has learned from US secret service agents that the Real IRA have been involved in laundering cash for the al-Qaeda network.
10/17/2001 08:53:14 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Israeli minister shot deadFollowing the shooting of Mr Zeevi, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned that a "new era" had begun, vowing things could never be the same, Israeli public radio said.
10/17/2001 08:51:17 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Tuesday, October 16, 2001
RCMP, U.S. authorities used mutual assistance treaty to arrest B.C. manCanada and the U.S. used a little-known treaty to arrest a Canadian citizen wanted in North Carolina on charges linking him and almost two dozen others to the terrorist group Hezbollah, RCMP said Tuesday.
10/16/2001 08:51:26 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Sharon may accept Palestinian stateIsraeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said he would agree to an independent Palestinian state if Israel's security was guaranteed, Israel radio reports.
10/16/2001 08:45:55 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NJ.com - Canadian police checking passengers from flight postponed Sept. 11; box cutters were found on planePassengers on an Air Canada plane that never took off on Sept. 11 are being questioned after two box cutter-type knives were found in an overhead storage bin, police said Tuesday.
10/16/2001 08:11:26 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
MediaGuardian.co.uk | Special reports | Taliban free French journalist"Michel's morale is good. He's in good physical condition and apparently well treated."
10/16/2001 08:08:42 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Red Cross hit in US bomb attackThe apparent blunder followed the killing of four Afghan guards from a UN mine clearance agency in Kabul nearly two weeks ago when another bomb went astray.
10/16/2001 08:06:54 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
ThinkGeek :: rm -rf /bin/ladenThis is the stark reality illustrated by recent events and by this t-shirt.
FYI, I'm size medium.
10/16/2001 08:03:13 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
'We Have Some Planes,' Hijacker Told Controller"Nobody move please; we are going back to the airport. Don't try to make any stupid moves."
10/16/2001 08:01:04 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Allied bombing leaves Taliban frontline intact - Jane's International Security NewsHowever, US airstrikes have not yet hit Taliban and allied assets on or behind the front line: an omission that is causing frustration among UF commanders, some of whom have suggested that Islamabad has prevailed on Washington to avoid strikes that would facilitate any advance towards Kabul by the UF. Pakistan views the UF as hostile to its interests in Afghanistan.
10/16/2001 03:38:12 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Evansville Courier & Press - Big news media give up on vote auditA consortium of major U.S. news organizations has decided unanimously not to analyze and report the results of the $1 million audit they commissioned to identify which presidential candidate received the most votes in Florida in last November's election.
10/16/2001 01:10:28 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Reason Express -- Info-GreedThis dogged determination to manage all information in an age when information is as diffuse as the ether has driven the Bush team to blast the Al-Jezeera TV network for bringing the world pictures of Osama bin Laden. Only in the past few days has it begun to dawn on the White House that slamming the favorite network of the Middle East and refusing to grant interviews to it has handicapped the Bush team in presenting an American view of recent events to the Muslim world.
10/16/2001 01:04:48 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Chicago Tribune | Now that the tabloids have become the news, where do they go from here?"I think this is an attack against America," Pecker said. "The World Trade Center was attacked. The Pentagon was attacked. And American Media was attacked."
10/16/2001 12:58:00 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Economist.com: Old hawk learns new tricks...Mr Rumsfeld's rescued reputation is not merely a result of standing by his post, and dodging an awkward argument. A man with a job like his needs two connected qualities: an ability to inspire confidence, and the capacity to focus on the task in hand without getting bogged down in distractions. Mr Rumsfeld has met both tests.
10/16/2001 12:56:30 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Moscow Times: Press Freedom Under Attack in the U.S.A.The report states that a large section of the U.S. media has begun to act pretty much like a propaganda machine for the state and details the many instances of self-censorship and censorship by media owners.
10/16/2001 11:27:01 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
freedomforum.org: Panelists tell editors: Congressional efforts to protect freedom may thwart it"This, in my mind, was not the finest hour of the U.S. Senate."
10/16/2001 11:21:33 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Fortune.com - Greed Meets Terror"In a situation where the thing you're looking for--a terrorist--is rare, false positives will easily overwhelm the [biometric] system." If the system is looking for someone who is one in ten million and the technology makes one error in every 10,000 scans, it's going to generate 1,000 false positives for every terrorist it spots, he explains. "That makes the system useless," says Schneier. "It's crying wolf all the time."
10/16/2001 11:19:33 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Anthrax Scare Grows as Baby Falls Ill in New York"Welcome to our generation's Blitz," she said. "We are going to have to get hardened up here."
10/16/2001 11:16:09 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ottawa Sun: False alarms ring out on Hill"Our feeling is ... we're probably dealing with a minor chemical exposure," Cushman said, adding it could be the result of perfume or some other non-hazardous irritant.
10/16/2001 11:14:27 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Monday, October 15, 2001
Anthrax detected in WashingtonThe anthrax diagnosed in the [8 year old] child is the type that is absorbed through cuts or scratches in the skin, not the more dangerous inhaled variety, the source said.
10/15/2001 08:41:03 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Content Wire - Global Politics: Bomb them with Pop TartsWhat if, instead of sending unlabelled bags of wheat, we sent Pop Tarts, Triscuits, Beefaroni, and Dinty Moore Stew. Little Debbie cakes. Brand names, prepackaged food, emblems of the Western culture they find so revolting. Imagine the ethical dilemma a Taliban soldier about to seize our offerings would face. Should he eat the Beefaroni, satanic, yet satisfying - or should he wander into a nearby minefield to hunt down some nuts and berries?
10/15/2001 07:42:05 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Experts Say Photos Are MisleadingDefense officials have declined to talk at length about the photographs, saying the images speak for themselves.
10/15/2001 07:01:09 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Dragnet Yields the Chilling, AlarmingSeparately, federal agents also were seeking the pilot father of a second-grade student who told a teacher last summer that his family was moving to Florida and that his dad, a Saudi citizen, "crashes planes into big buildings."
10/15/2001 06:59:43 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The roots of conflictThe west has decided to channel money and effort into studying other customs and practices, but no one has really given other people the chance to study western customs and practices, except at schools maintained by white expatriates, or by allowing the rich from other cultures to study in Oxford or Paris. What happens then is that they return home to organise fundamentalist movements, because they feel solidarity with those of their compatriots who lack the opportunity for such education.
10/15/2001 06:08:03 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
More people exposed to anthrax; White House receives anthrax-laced mailState officials have sent the pornographic pictures to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta for further testing.
10/15/2001 05:25:34 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Reason magazine -- Safety DanceCost-benefit analyses can seem heartless, but in fact there is almost no goal so important for which any measure is appropriate or called for--not even saving lives. "If it saves one life, it's worth it," is a mantra so oft repeated (in all sorts of regulatory matters, not just ones involving terrorism) that it almost seems the new national motto. Adding hours to every airport wait for more thorough bag checking? Yet the people checking the bags may well be the weakest security link, as a July 29 New York Times article points out. If people really thought hours of their time were worth a tiny chance of increased safety or longer life, no one would ever drive a car.
10/15/2001 03:56:37 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Straight Goods - Did Pakistan pay WTC attackers?Researcher Chis Hellman at Washington's authoritative Center for Defence Information could shed no light on the report."Given the kinds of things we've been hearing, I wouldn't be surprised," he said, but also cautioned that any reports about Pakistan originating in India have to be viewed with a certain amount of skepticism.
10/15/2001 03:49:31 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Breaking News: Commons employee opens suspicious envelopeA House of Commons employee has been hospitalized and portions of Centre Block closed off after the employee opened an envelope containing a white powder and developed a rash on her arms.
10/15/2001 03:35:52 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | UN says US 'feeding Taleban'[Jean Ziegler] warned that dropping food over wide areas could send hungry children into mine fields.
10/15/2001 03:32:28 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Anthrax scare hits Parliament Hill, halls in Centre Block closed offSome portions of the Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings, home to both the Commons and the Senate, were sealed off Monday because of concerns about possible anthrax contamination. Emergency vehicles were grouped outside the Senate side of the building.
10/15/2001 03:28:59 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Miami Herald: New link in Boca anthrax case``The key is whether the DNA fingerprint of the strain in New York matches the DNA fingerprint of the one in Florida,'' he said. ``If it matches, then one person or one organization is perpetrating this thing. If it doesn't match, then New York could be a copycat incident.''
10/15/2001 03:25:12 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Anti-terror laws to increase police powersShe said the bill had three main objectives: suppress existing terrorist groups, provide police with new investigative tools, and toughen prison sentences for terrorists.
10/15/2001 03:22:43 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Weather Channel is ticked at FuckedCompany because of somebody's forecast for Kabul.
10/15/2001 03:14:07 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Letter opened in office of U.S. Senate majority leader contained anthraxA letter opened in the office of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle "had anthrax in it," President George W. Bush said Monday. Bush said the envelope was field-tested shortly after being received, and the staffers who have been exposed were being treated.
10/15/2001 03:01:26 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
FBI says Sun editor's wife rented apartments to two suspected hijackers; could be coincidence"Right now we consider it a coincidence because we don't have any tie between the anthrax and the terrorists," FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela said. "It may be investigated further," she said, "but right now we're considering that a coincidence."
10/15/2001 02:59:58 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
News - FBI fears attack by truckEach paid cash and none looked for work afterward. They spoke little or no English, and the same interpreter accompanied each group.
10/15/2001 11:10:58 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Honey importers deny bin Laden link"Virtually none comes from Pakistan, Afghanistan or the Middle East - and then only tiny quantities brought in occasionally which are easily traceable," the association said in a statement.
10/15/2001 11:07:14 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNEWS - War On Terrorism: Massive attack launchedOn Sunday, U.S. jets destroyed Kabul's Chinese-built international telephone exchange, severing one of the last means of communication with the outside world. Residents also said the capital's historic Mogul-style Balahisar Fort, built in the medieval era and reconstructed in the early 20th century, was flattened. The report could not be confirmed because security kept outsiders from the area.
10/15/2001 11:04:49 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ottawa Citizen - Canadian predicted suicide missions - Security consultant wrote article in February"One school was constructed to run programs dedicated to the disruption of western aviation. The training school was conducted at a western-built airport, and the latest aviation equipment was purchased and installed there. The facility even boasted a Boeing 707, a 727 and a 747. Some of the training exercises run at this school included an Islamic Jihad squad and hijacking an aircraft. Trained Islamic terrorist aircrews would then crash the aircraft into a specified target."
10/15/2001 11:00:50 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Shooting To the End via Matt WelchNot knowing what to expect, East popped the disk from Biggart's camera into his computer and on the second try got an image, then more -- 154 in all, perfectly preserved, in sequence from the moment he glimpsed the towers in the distance until... well, the last of them was time-stamped 9:28 a.m., but Biggart had evidently neglected to correct the camera's clock for daylight saving time, so it was actually an hour later, more or less the precise time of the second collapse. Looking at the hellish landscape, the stump of the South Tower barely emerging from its shroud of smoke and dust, East realized he was seeing what his friend had seen in his last moments on earth.
10/15/2001 10:39:11 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Thestar.com/Quebec envoy tied to bomb plotThe lurid 1965 affair, in which Duclos drove a white Rambler, with 30 sticks of dynamite in the trunk, from Montreal to New York, was a joint venture of the Black Liberation Front, a pro-Castro American group, and sympathizers of the Front de Libération du Québec (FLQ).
10/15/2001 10:21:51 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Officials: Four overseas plots foiled as several loose terrorist groups continue agitatingThe officials said the plots involved attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Paris, an American building in Turkey, embassy structures in Yemen and a NATO building in Brussels, Belgium.
10/15/2001 09:37:16 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Sunday, October 14, 2001
The End of Snail Mail?The threat that a deadly disease might be a consequence of opening an envelope could be a tipping point that leads to changes in the way we look at snail mail -- and heads us down a road where daily mail delivery goes the way of the milkman.
10/14/2001 02:32:50 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Colombian Reporters Seek Elusive Truth Amid Peril (washingtonpost.com)"We are trying to stick to the conviction that we are the center and to maintain this position in a very polarized society," said Rafael Santos, co-editor in chief of Colombia's only national daily newspaper, El Tiempo. "I don't know if we are succeeding."
10/14/2001 02:27:53 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Al-Qaeda threatens US and UK"We also say and advise the Muslims in the United States and Britain, the children, and those who reject the unjust US policy not to travel by plane. We also advise them not to live in high-rise buildings and towers."
10/14/2001 02:26:07 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Al-Qaeda threatens US and UK"We also say and advise the Muslims in the United States and Britain, the children, and those who reject the unjust US policy not to travel by plane. We also advise them not to live in high-rise buildings and towers."
10/14/2001 02:26:06 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Guardian Unlimited Observer | Observer site | 'You can't talk... you've got to go and beat them'Blair now talks of creating a 'security bridge', a period of ceasefire that will allow negotiations to start between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. 'You need to construct at least the right platform of security [so] that people feel they're not seeing funerals on their television screens, heightening the tension and anger and bitterness, then the violence. You need to get that sufficiently under control in order to give yourself the space to move into a process of talking and confidence-building, which allows in particular the Palestinians to have some sort of ability to go about their daily lives.'
10/14/2001 02:24:42 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Guardian Unlimited Observer | Observer site | Iraq 'behind US anthrax outbreaks'Contact has already been made with an Iraqi opposition group based in London with a view to installing its members as a future government in Baghdad.
10/14/2001 02:22:26 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NYPOST.COM World News: CLERIC TRUMPS OSAMA WITH A REVERSE FATWA By URI DANYesterday, in what those sources call a positive sign, prominent Muslim clergyman Yusuf Kardawi issued a fatwa on Palestinian radio, saying that terror boss Osama bin Laden has no authority to issue his own fatwas, which are Islamic religious decrees.
10/14/2001 02:20:14 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Thestar.com/Sweeping police powers plannedRight now, Canada does not list outlawed terrorist groups, or their "fronts." Naming groups has always been regarded as open to challenges based in part on constitutional guarantees of freedom of association. But Ottawa has recently adopted the U.S. list for the purposes of seizing terrorist assets.
10/14/2001 02:17:32 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
U.S. Operated Secret Alliance With Uzbekistan (washingtonpost.com)"Our cooperation began long before the events of Sept. 11," said Rustam Jumaev, chief spokesman for Uzbek President Islam Karimov. In an interview, Jumaev said significant military and intelligence joint efforts extended back "two or three years" but would not discuss specifics of the cooperation.
10/14/2001 10:44:38 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Saturday, October 13, 2001
CTVNews.com - Source: No charges to be laid against Thobani"Today, in the world, the United States is the most dangerous and the most powerful global force unleashing horrific levels of violence," Sunera Thobani told delegates of a feminist conference. "There will be no emancipation for women anywhere on this planet until the western domination of this planet is ended."
10/13/2001 09:51:03 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
news.telegraph.co.uk - Giuliani to receive honorary knighthood"The Queen believes that Rudolph Giuliani was an inspiration to political leaders around the world as well as to his city."
10/13/2001 09:49:45 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
5 More in Fla. Exposed to Anthrax10/13/2001 09:48:31 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
U.S. waging psychological warfare with outdated technology, report says (10/10/2001)The unit's EC-130 cargo planes contain the armed forces' most up-to-date psychological operations, known as ``psyops,'' equipment -- much of it from the 1960s and `70s.
10/13/2001 06:51:56 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Anthrax event No 4 - Jane's International Security NewsThe reason it is considered by the West to be attractive for use as a biological weapon is twofold: first, the spores are robust, surviving exposure to both ultraviolet radiation and the sterilising effect of high temperatures far better than other pathogens; secondly, anthrax causes a non-transmissible disease. This is an important factor as the consequences of releasing a highly infectious disease as a weapon against a population may be unintentionally collateral.
10/13/2001 06:16:11 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Prospects for a post-Taliban Afghanistan - Jane's International Security NewsThe isolation of just one component of the UF in the post-Taliban landscape could herald a gradual reintroduction of the bloody aftermath of the Soviet withdrawal in 1989. This period was characterised by a five-year struggle for supremacy by a multitude of warlords originating from the dissolved mujahideen that saw off the Soviet Union.
10/13/2001 06:14:21 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Third anthrax test positive on letter to MicrosoftPublic health investigators were contacting Microsoft employees to determine who might have handled the letter, which contained pornographic material.
10/13/2001 05:05:48 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Breaking News: U.S. bomb hits Kabul residential area Citing unconfirmed reports from Afghanistan, the Pentagon suggested that at least four people were killed when the bomb hurtled down on what was described on CNN as a "very poor" neighbourhood.10/13/2001 04:58:40 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Globe and Mail: The terrorist who's still next doorThe deportation hearing (it took 11 months) did indeed find that Mr. Mohammad had lied his way into Canada. He had omitted the 1968 airplane incident, for which he was sentenced in 1970 to 17 years in a Greek jail. He got out a year later when he and other Arab prisoners were freed in exchange for the release of a hijacked Greek plane and its passengers. Even so, we couldn't kick him out because his refugee claim was still pending. His lawyer said the process of hearings and appeals could "theoretically take up to eight years."
10/13/2001 04:57:38 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Breaking News:Kuwaiti found with papers detailing sensitive Ottawa sitesIt is unclear which buildings the Kuwaiti man's documents may have detailed. The Los Angeles Times report refers to "documents that identified specific buildings in an Ottawa government complex -- notably the atomic-energy building and the virus- and disease-control labs."
10/13/2001 04:55:58 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
MediaGuardian.co.uk | Special reports | Taliban invite reporters to see bombed villageThe Taliban claimed today that at least 200 people were killed on Wednesday in an air strike on the remote village of Karam, about 80 miles east of Kabul.
10/13/2001 03:19:02 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
One Dead, 5 Injured in Fort Dix Shooting SpreeAn Army reservist called up for homeland defense after the Sept. 11 attacks on America was killed by police on Friday after he shot and wounded two Fort Dix soldiers and two policemen, authorities said.
10/13/2001 09:21:21 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Capitol Hill Blue: Bush compromises with Congress over security leaksThe agreement defuses, for now, what had been rapidly escalating tension between Congress and the White House over who gets to know what about the war on terrorism. The tension crossed party lines and ideological boundaries. Liberal Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer said Wednesday that one person's leaking "doesn't mean that Congress can't be trusted," while conservative Alaska Republican Sen. Ted Stevens vowed to stall a defense spending bill until the briefings resumed.
10/13/2001 09:18:54 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Government Executive Magazine - 10/12/01 - White House signals Bush may issue executive order on airport securityYoung's proposal is the latest sign that House Republican leaders plan to fight the federalization of airport security a day after the Senate voted unanimously to add baggage screeners to the federal payroll. House Republicans say the Senate plan would add 28,000 jobs to the federal workforce for no viable security reason.
10/13/2001 09:16:45 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Jordan Times: Five Yemenis killed in US, Canada -- official"Four were murdered in the US -- Abd Ali Ahmad Al Rabei and Ali Mohammad Mansur in California, and Hammud Qaied Al Shaef and Abderrahman Dhifani in Virginia. Tarek Faruk Lokman, a 19-year-old student, was killed in Canada," he said.
10/13/2001 09:08:49 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Report: Sibir Pilot Said Jet Was Hit"This is all we heard, the pilot asked one of his crew, "Where are we hit?" You see, it looks like he was trying to get precise information about the damage caused by the missile explosion," Zhukov said.
10/13/2001 09:02:41 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | AMERICAS | Anthrax 'may be linked to Bin Laden'Other cases of suspicious mail, at the State Department in Washington, the New York Times and a subsidiary of the Microsoft Corporation in the state of Nevada, are being investigated.
10/13/2001 08:39:44 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Friday, October 12, 2001
CTVNews.com - Other suspicious packagesHealth officials in the state of Nevada say preliminary tests show a letter sent to a Reno company contained anthrax. Additional tests on the letter should be completed by Saturday.
10/12/2001 10:42:43 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Madrid rocked by blastThere was no immediate claim of responsibility. However, the outlawed Basque separatist group ETA routinely detonates car bombs as part of its violent campaign for an independent state in the northern Basque region of Spain.
10/12/2001 10:38:37 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Slashdot | Net: Now Our Most Serious News Medium?When I appeared on a public radio program recently, the interviewer asked me to comment on reports that the Net was the source of epidemic "misinformation" about the terrorist attacks. The question was almost startlingly retro.
10/12/2001 08:09:47 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Some devout Muslims in Pakistan prepare for holy war with U.S. perhaps even with Bert posters."My wife, my two children, they do not matter," Rahim said. "For Afghan people like me war is normal and now we are ready for a long war with America."
10/12/2001 08:00:08 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Bert and bin Laden site taken downThe site, operated by a Dutch man who identifies himself on his site only as "J-roen", carried the following message on Friday: "Due to the great amount of comments (both positive and negative) since a picture from this website was recently featured in a collage poster, I have decided to take this section of the site offline."
10/12/2001 07:58:47 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Three more Montreal bars go up in flames, likely related to biker war: copsThree more bars were set ablaze Friday, bringing the number razed by fire to about 20 as police suspect biker gangs are fighting for control of the illegal drug trade in local bars.
10/12/2001 07:53:54 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
FBI Warns of 'Skyfall' Attack"The person who typed it just named it that.... The person named it and wasn't really thinking," the FBI spokeswoman said.
10/12/2001 07:48:56 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Reason magazine: Tape HeadsIn the meantime, the White House will have greatly reduced the chance that any hidden information will be discovered. The American populace is large and diverse, with a great deal of knowledge and expertise dispersed through it. It includes subcultures knowledgeable about the Middle East, about Afghanistan, about radical Islamism, about international terrorism's personnel and methods, even subcultures knowledgeable about codes, cryptography, and other methods of transmitting hidden data using new technologies. By blocking access to the tapes, the White House will have prevented knowledgeable persons from examining and discerning possibly important clues. The administration seems to think that everyone with germane knowledge is known to it, which is manifestly absurd and potentially dangerous.
10/12/2001 07:34:14 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | AMERICAS | Widow sues Bin LadenThe suit seeks unspecified damages, but her lawyer James Beasley said a jury could award hundreds of millions of dollars.
He said this money could be taken from assets frozen by the US government.
10/12/2001 07:22:31 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Can't Say That? Muzzling the Modern GermansThe television anchor is not alone. In eastern Germany, two schoolteachers near Dresden have been suspended for making comments that seemed sympathetic to the terrorists who attacked New York and Washington. In Siegen, a small town in western Germany near Bonn, a teacher of "peace studies" was suspended after he gave a speech urging high school graduates to avoid military service by taking the entirely legal option of volunteering for social work instead.
10/12/2001 07:10:39 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Attacks 'on hold' for holy day...suspended air attacks on scheduled targets in Afghanistan on Friday because it is the Muslim day of prayer.
10/12/2001 06:50:52 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ottawa Sun: Thobani enraged officer named herThe original complaint alleged Thobani violated the Criminal Code during a speech to a women's conference in Ottawa where she received a standing ovation after arguing the U.S. government unleashes "prolific levels of violence all over the world."
10/12/2001 06:47:51 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NBC Worker Tests Positive for AnthraxThe anthrax is not the same respiratory anthrax that killed a Florida man, NBC News said in a statement.
10/12/2001 06:42:42 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NJ.com - Palestinians ban reporters from rally, cancel talk show, arrest newspaper editor in media crackdownPalestinian officials have seized photos and footage of anti-U.S. rallies on several occasions recently. They banned foreign reporters from Gaza for two days this week to prevent coverage of the aftermath of clashes between police and demonstrators that killed two civilians and wounded dozens more.
10/12/2001 11:09:28 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
IHT:Wider Attacks Aim at Taliban Chiefs"We gave them a choice and they chose unwisely," Mr. Bush said of those behind the Sept. 11 attacks. "The terrorists will be pursued, they'll be isolated, surrounded, cornered until there's no place to run, or hide or rest."
What is all this crap about how brilliant and stately Dubya's been lately? He's got the same f-2 pupils and he's still mediocre. People are just so goddamn used to seeing no-thing that if they see some-thing it looks good, no matter how banal and unimpressive it would appear compared to real grace. When you're used to 2/10, 4/10 is twice as good, but for chrissake, it's not even 6/10.
10/12/2001 11:07:31 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
President Hints He Will Halt War if bin Laden Is Handed Over"If you cough him up and his people today, then we'll reconsider what we are doing to your country," he said. "You still have a second chance."
"Just bring him in," he added. "And bring his leaders and lieutenants and other thugs and criminals with him."
10/12/2001 10:52:03 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ananova - Ukraine admits 'missile may have hit Russian plane'"As a Ukrainian citizen, it is painful for me to say this, but there is a lot of information to support such a version."
10/12/2001 10:50:28 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Fighting in Georgian province rages as guerrillas target capitalThe Abkhaz attempted to counter-attack in order to confine the guerrilla groups to the mountainous Gulripshsky region but their defense lines were overrun and rebels managed to advance halfway to Sukhumi, stopping barely 15 kilometres (nine miles) away, the guerrilla commander said.
10/12/2001 10:48:46 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Precision Aerodynamics, Inc. ProductsThe EscapeChute is our emergency parachute system that has been specifically developed for low altitude exit and deployment. A typical scenario for its use might be by high-rise tenants in the event of fire or earthquake.
10/12/2001 10:47:13 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Former spy operative sues CSISThat he was paid for his work for CSIS in cash through Canada Post in an "attempt to conceal his activities or the fact of his employment from scrutiny by ministers of the Crown, and a desire to deprive him of the rights and benefits normally accorded an employee."
10/12/2001 10:40:40 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Guardian | FBI closes 'pro-IRA' website"They just yanked us," Mr Towle told the New York Daily News.
10/12/2001 09:19:51 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Thursday, October 11, 2001
U.S. Will Have Favors to Return"There is an iron rule in international relations which mustn't be violated," Sergei Rogov, a respected Russian political analyst, told the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper. "Even if you do something in your own interests, you must charge a price from your ally."
10/11/2001 05:07:53 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNN.com - FBI official: Florida anthrax appears to be 'isolated incident' - October 11, 2001"I don't think we can say it (is a bioterrorism attack) conclusively, but obviously anthrax is a very serious matter, and its presence would be very unusual in that setting," Ashcroft said. "We are treating this as a criminal matter and are investigating it with great care."
10/11/2001 03:17:37 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Breaking Business News: Canadian-owned agency gets 'I love New York' campaign"This advertising campaign will communicate that positive message to millions of Americans and help the city and state of New York continue our recovery from the horrific events of Sept. 11."
10/11/2001 03:15:57 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
President Uses TV Show to Combat Terrorism"He told me they were sitting around a table talking about how the American public is frustrated, angry and heartbroken, and want to do something, and `America's Most Wanted' does something," Mr. Walsh recalled.
10/11/2001 03:10:24 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Sky News Picture GalleryAnd it's not just the bombs causing destruction: Pro-Taliban supporters set fire to a conema in Quetta, Pakistan.
10/11/2001 03:05:07 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
dmusic.com | Free Bin Laden MP3sSeveral songs in the MP3 format have popped up since September 11th centered around Osama bin Laden. Here's the list.
10/11/2001 03:03:17 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
At U.S. Request, Networks Agree to Edit Future bin Laden TapesThe executives said that they would broadcast only short parts of any tape issued by Al Qaeda and would eliminate any passages containing flowery rhetoric urging violence against Americans.
10/11/2001 12:07:57 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Murky Picture Emerges of Life Under BombardmentSurprisingly, many people said life remained nearly normal. Shops have stayed open in Kandahar, the spiritual capital of the ruling Taliban in the southern part of the country, and traffic across the border in Pakistan at Chaman was a routine mix of traders and visitors with visas.
10/11/2001 12:04:03 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Bin Laden Said to 'Own' The Taliban (washingtonpost.com)In the past al Qaeda operatives have often held low-paying jobs or resorted to petty crime to finance their expenses.
10/11/2001 12:03:06 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
What are they hiding down in Venice, Florida?"How could the agency not have known about 15 foreign pilots all paid from one source?"
Previous article, same source: Death in Venice (Florida)
Rudi Dekkers was actively marketing his flight school in Germany at the exact same time Mohamed Atta and his terrorist cell left Hamburg and moved to Florida, where several immediately enrolled in his school. Both ringleaders, Mohamed Atta and Marwan Alshehri, each believed to have piloted a plane into the World Trade Center Towers, learned to fly at Huffman Aviation flight school in Venice, FL.
10/11/2001 12:00:55 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Fuzzy Math ReturnsTo add to the insult, a preliminary analysis of the numbers suggests that fuzzy math is back: the administration appears to be greatly understating the true budget cost of its proposals and pretending that a package that consists overwhelmingly of tax cuts is evenly split between tax cuts and spending.
10/11/2001 11:56:44 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
[INSIDE]: Remember Florida? News Organizations Delay Reporting on Meticulous Presidential 'Recount' in Light of Attacks."I think the data's ready, but we're not. We'll publish when we're ready."
The above story is from Sept 25.
10/11/2001 11:55:07 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Wednesday, October 10, 2001
October 10, 2001: Wiretapping Provisions of Anti-Terrorism LegislationThe chart below outlines the changes proposed by the ATA, and the ACLU's objections to those changes.. Also compared are the latest versions of anti-terrorism legislation being considered in the House and Senate.
10/10/2001 09:18:50 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Third Person Tests Positive for Anthrax in Florida10/10/2001 09:15:02 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Delta Flight Lands with F-16 Escort After Threat"The passenger handed a threatening note to the flight attendant, she alerted the pilot and he requested clearance to land here in Shreveport,'' Chance said.
10/10/2001 09:14:05 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ananova - Arrested journalist stoned by AfghansHe said: "We have reason to hope, now. Yesterday, the Taliban were sure they had arrested a spy, and now, thanks to the information we were able to transmit to them, they are considering that Peyrard may be a journalist."
10/10/2001 09:06:43 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NIKKES INDEX::Bert in Bangladeshlooking at the pictures, judging by the angle, perspective, shadows and the crumples, it seems easier to remove bert than to place him. plus the bertfree poster has a contrast/brightness gamma problem. the corner with the picture of bin laden where bert should be has a bit darker gamma than the rest of the photo. my theory is that AP is trying to cover up this thing with the edited bertfree image.
10/10/2001 04:54:25 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Reports: Hijack Suspects Looked for Hookers in Boston"It was going to be really expensive and they couldn't come to a consensus on price,'' a law enforcement official told the Boston Globe. "Either they thought it was too extravagant or they didn't have enough money left.''
10/10/2001 04:49:47 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Osama Has a New FriendBut -- is it fate or coincidence? -- the sign featured a Bert muppet sitting on the left side of the man believed to be responsible for the bloodiest terrorist attack in U.S. history.
10/10/2001 04:46:29 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNN.com - Afghan Alliance 'ready to attack' - October 10, 2001"I want U.S. strikes to be more powerful, because they've had no effect here," he says, adding that he is frustrated the air strikes had yet to target Taliban forces on the front lines.
10/10/2001 09:44:38 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Breaking News:Ukraine President will accept Russian crash findingsThe investigation of Thursday's crash is still going on but Russian experts said on Tuesday they had found what appeared to be missile parts among the wreckage of the Tupolev Tu-154 which exploded over the Black Sea, killing all 78 on board.
10/10/2001 09:42:53 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | AMERICAS | UN 'anxiety' over wider strikesThe Iraqi UN ambassador to the UN, Mohammed al-Douri, said his country had no reason to fear attack from the US "because we are not involved in what happened on 11 September".
10/10/2001 09:39:07 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Nando Times: Three die as plane crashes in Canada"They circled the lodge and were going to land. The plane suddenly lost altitude and crashed into the lake," Abney said.
Awful lot of plane crashes lately.
10/10/2001 09:36:28 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Al-Qaeda threatens fresh terror attacksThe ruling Taleban regime in Afghanistan has said it will free up Bin Laden, whom it is sheltering, to wage a jihad. He had previously been barred by the regime from using telephones, fax machines and the internet.
10/10/2001 09:34:48 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Bush Edict on Briefings Irks Hill (washingtonpost.com)"To put out a public document telling the world he doesn't trust the Congress and we leak everything, I'm not sure that helps develop unanimity and comradeship," said Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.), who is on the Foreign Relations Committee.
10/10/2001 09:27:15 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NATIONAL POST ONLINE | FBI hunts for 'The Canadian'The document says Mr. Khadr uses the names Abd Al-Rahman, Ahmad Al-Kanadi, Ahmad Al-Canadi, Ahmed Sa'id Khadr, Ahmad Said Khadr, Ahmad Sa'id Khadir and Ahmad Sa'id Khader.
Damn this war for making me read the National Post!
10/10/2001 08:56:10 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNN.com - Sources: Anthrax possibly linked to lab - October 10, 2001Investigators cautioned that tests confirming that the bacteria strain was manufactured are not complete, but a positive match would mean the strain was man-made and would move the case closer to a criminal investigation.
10/10/2001 08:52:40 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Tuesday, October 09, 2001
THE ART NEWSPAPER - The man who tried to buy the Bamiyan Buddhas from the Taliban"Look at Cambodia, a terrible example of loss of humanity, loss of culture. When you treat a sick person you don’t feed them beefsteak but soup until they have built up their strength. When I went to Cambodia ten years ago, the level of skill was so low; it had been destroyed. We didn’t want simply to give money so we paid people to do simple tasks. Now people are studying the arts again and the skill is slowly coming back. Humanity is returning."
10/9/2001 04:06:44 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Russia sides with West in battle with terrorism, reaps dividend for support"The last couple of years have been dominated by squabbling over Chechnya, Moscow's friendships with rogue states, Kremlin corruption, Russia's strange brand of capitalism and a million other differences. Who could have imagined all those problems could evaporate so quickly?"
10/9/2001 04:03:18 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Investigation underway after plane crash kills four in eastern QuebecThe pilot and three passengers died Monday afternoon when their Otter aircraft crashed in a snowstorm 30 kilometres outside La Redemption, about 300 kilometres northeast of Quebec City. Dead are pilot Richard Martin, 52, of Laval, passengers Guy Morin, 50, of Bellefeuille, Adalbert Martin, 60, of St-Gabriel-de-Brandon, and Gerard Rodier, 60, of Ste-Elizabeth.
10/9/2001 02:31:53 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Russia crash probe finds 'missile like' pieces"A great number of metallic parts were found which are very similar to parts of the S200 rocket"
10/9/2001 10:02:14 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NYPOST.COM National News: ANTHRAX OUTBREAK By KEITH KELLY and LARRY CELONAThree employees of American Media, which publishes The National Enquirer and other supermarket tabloids out of Boca Raton, Fla., told The Post that the FBI wants to question a summer intern who left the company recently after sending out an e-mail to employees saying thank you and "I left you all a little present."
10/9/2001 09:27:41 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Evidence presented to Parliament, 4th October 2001This document does not purport to provide a prosecutable case against Usama Bin Laden in a court of law. Intelligence often cannot be used evidentially, due both to the strict rules of admissibility and to the need to protect the safety of sources. But on the basis of all the information available HMG is confident of its conclusions as expressed in this document.
10/9/2001 08:39:40 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Monday, October 08, 2001
Thestar.com/The weapons Canada will use in terror warSome details about Canada's military contribution to the war on terrorism:
10/8/2001 10:28:21 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Taipei Times Online: 2001-10-08: Journalists banned from China-Afghanistan borderBeijing fears anger over the attacks could exacerbate anti-government sentiments among many Muslims in its Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous region where Taxkorgan is located.
10/8/2001 10:26:24 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
IHT: * U.S. Launches 2d Wave of Air Strikes on TalibanAnti-aircraft fire could be heard in the Afghan capital, Kabul, electricity was cut and Taliban radio told residents to close the blinds on their windows and remain indoors, The Associated Press reported. Other strikes were under way on the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar in the south and on Mazar-i-Sharif and Kunduz in the north, sources in those cities told Reuters.
10/8/2001 10:24:10 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNN.com - U.S. to U.N.: Reprisals against other countries possible - October 8, 2001"The United States reserves the right to defend itself," Fleischer said.
10/8/2001 10:20:03 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Taliban says warplane shot down, 20 civilians killed20 civilians -- and this is an unconfirmed claim by the Taliban -- is pretty damned good considering bombs fell on 31 different targets. 0 civilian casualties would be perfect, but what is?
10/8/2001 10:14:59 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Terrorism Research Center, Inc.The Terrorism Research Center is dedicated to informing the public of the phenomena of terrorism and information warfare.
10/8/2001 06:52:48 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Nuke 'Em From On HighAny debate inside the corridors of power about using tactical nukes will be heightened by the intelligence buzz surrounding bin Laden's possible ownership of Russian nuclear "suitcase" bombs purchased from Chechen mafia.
10/8/2001 05:06:18 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NATO Press Release (2001) 138:Statement by NATO Secretary General, Lord RobertsonI have just come from a meeting of the North Atlantic Council which met to review the situation and to reaffirm its full support for these targeted actions.
10/8/2001 05:04:49 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
FBI Probes Anthrax, Terror LinkA sample of anthrax was taken from a computer keyboard at the Sun, said Dr. John Agwunobi, the state's secretary of health. It was not immediately whose keyboard was involved.
10/8/2001 05:03:44 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
WorldNetDaily: Tactical nukes deployed in AfghanistanAs reported by Debka.
10/8/2001 05:01:52 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Toronto Sun Columnist: Bob MacDonald: Chretien enlists at eleventh hour"Shortly before noon today, I confirmed to president Bush in a telephone conversation that we'll provide the military support requested," Chretien said later.
That's his version. But the word from Washington was that Bush, in calling Chretien to tell him the attacks were under way, put it bluntly: "Are you in or out?"
10/8/2001 12:46:05 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ananova - Suicidal gunman gives up after storming Canadian embassy in BelgradeA local radio station, B-92, reported the man was threatening to commit suicide because the embassy did not grant him a visa permitting him to live in Canada.
10/8/2001 12:27:36 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CANOE - 30 targets hit, Britain says"There is no question but that any people who were around those targets were around those targets because they were part of the al-Qaida and the Taliban military," [US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld] said on NBC.
10/8/2001 09:44:19 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Freedoms Not in Jeopardy via Matt WelchThough new laws need careful scrutiny, what is impressive is that the most terrible attack on American soil that has ever occurred has not unleashed a wave of officially ignored (or worse, officially endorsed) hate activity. It has instead brought forth an effort to fix problems in law enforcement that should have been fixed long ago. The police cannot go on acting as if cell phones, the Internet and voicemail don't exist. As long as we trust our courts to supervise police inquiries, those should be as broad as the technology on which they are based.
10/8/2001 09:41:33 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
News - Montreal - Fighter jets, special forces may top Canadian contribution to war on terrorThe military lets out little information on the unit, based near Ottawa. It is believed to number between 200 and 250 soldiers, tuned to a high degree of physical fitness and drilled in unconventional tactics.
10/8/2001 09:31:37 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Breaking News: Violent protests in Pakistan as President tries to reassure nationIn Quetta, crowds chanting anti-American and anti-Musharraf epithets blocked roads and burned tires, sending plumes of smoke into the air. They also set ablaze two city fire vehicles and three passenger buses.
10/8/2001 09:27:56 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
IHT BUSH: 'BATTLE JOINED'A few hours after the initial wave of attacks, Jalalabad came under air attack for a second time...
10/8/2001 09:09:18 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Near His Kibbutz, an Israeli Stops a Bomber and Is KilledDriving back from work to join his family for breakfast, Yair Mordechai stopped his white Mazda and climbed out to talk to the stranger. That was when the young man blew himself to pieces, killing Mr. Mordechai, crushing his car and shattering the windows of a silver Toyota that had just passed the two men.
10/8/2001 09:05:04 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Blair Depicts the Attack as Act of Self-Defense"We know the Al Qaeda network threatens Europe, including Britain, and, indeed, any nation throughout the world that does not share their fanatical views," he said. "So we have a direct interest in acting in our self-defense to protect British lives."
10/8/2001 09:01:53 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Comic Book World Is Not Immune From Terror Attacks...there is little agreement about future, commercial steps. DC Comics, which is owned by AOL Time Warner and is home to Batman and Wonder Woman, has indefinitely postponed publication of one violent comic and rewritten forthcoming stories to eliminate references to terrorism. But with the coming Spider-Man issue, Marvel Enterprises, which is also home to characters like the X-Men and Captain America, has decided to confront the attacks head-on.
10/8/2001 09:00:59 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | EUROPE | UN helicopter 'shot down' in GeorgiaAbkhaz officials say all nine people on board - five UN observers, one translator and a three-man crew - are dead.
10/8/2001 08:58:06 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Sunday, October 07, 2001
Bin Laden praises US terror attacks, says Muslim vanguard responsible"I swear by God that America and those who live in America won't dream of having security before we have it in Palestine and all infidel armies depart from the land of Mohammad," bin Laden vowed.
10/7/2001 05:30:46 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Dress bin Laden10/7/2001 05:18:33 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
U.S. Attacks Afghanistan (washingtonpost.com)A Taliban official in Kabul contacted by telephone from Pakistan said "we are under attack. They bombed in the south of Kabul. Our guns are firing." The official, who gave his name only as Mudir, gave no further details.
10/7/2001 01:42:27 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: U.S. begins air strikes on TalibanIn the capital Kabul, witnesses reported at least five loud explosions in the southwest of the city starting at 12:27 p.m. EDT, followed by anti-aircraft fire.
10/7/2001 01:29:36 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNN.com - U.S. launches attack on Afghanistan - October 7, 2001
Airport may have been struck in Kandahar, use of Cruise missiles reported, at least three major explosions, Pentagon confirms. Dubya speaking soon, watch your teevees for faster news than the web's likely to deliver right now.
10/7/2001 01:01:23 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Breaking News: Taliban fires on spy planesAdding tangible weight to the oft-repeated threat are eyewitnesses who report planes with U.S. markings in Afghan neighbour Uzbekistan. A cameraman for Associated Press Television News reported seeing an American-marked plane flying overhead near the Khanabad air base, about 290 kilometres southwest of the capital, Tashkent. An Associated Press photographer reported seeing another, similar, military plane taking off from the base.
10/7/2001 10:50:27 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Breaking News: 80 per cent would back national ID cardsA small majority of respondents (53 per cent) also said that law-enforcement officials should be given the power to detain suspected terrorists indefinitely without specific charges.
10/7/2001 10:47:39 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
DEBKAfile, Political Analysis, Espionage, Terrorism SecurityTactical Nuclear Weapons Deployed
6 October: DEBKAfile’s military and intelligence sources report that Presidents George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin, in a single 70-minuted conversation on September 23, eleven days after the terrorist assaults in New York and Washington, agreed on the deployment of tactical weapons. This is an epic shift in the global balance of strength.
Putin gave the nod for US forces poised in Central Asia to jump into Afghanistan to be armed with tactical nuclear weapons, such as small neutron bombs, which emit strong radiation, nuclear mines, shells, and other nuclear ammunition suited to commando warfare in mountainous terrain.
In return, Bush assented to Russia deploying tactical nuclear weapons units around Chechnya after Moscow’s ultimatum to the rebels, some of whom are backed by Osama Bin Laden, to surrender, went by without response. DEBKAfile’s military sources place the US nuclear weapons in four former Soviet Central Asian bases: the military air facility at Tuzel, 15 km (10 miles) northwest of the Uzbek capital of Tashkent; at Kagady in the Termez region; in Khandabad, near the city of Karshi; and at the military air base in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan.
In addition to the nuclear weapons units, Russian bombers carrying small neutron bombs were moved to Russian military air bases around the border of the breakaway province, in Stavropol northwest of Chechnya, the Godowta base in Georgia to the south, and Mozdok in northern Osetia, northwest of Chechnya.
Russian and U.S. military sources refuse to take questions on these startling events.
The US is far from eager to actively inject a nuclear element into the war against terrorism and will not be the first to do so. According to DEBKAfile’s military sources, the US plans to hold those tactical nuclear weapons in reserve, unleashing them in the campaign against bin Laden only in certain extreme circumstances:
1. To counter a move by Bin Laden’s men first bring out nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against the US force fighting inside Afghanistan.
2. If a chemical or biological assault by the Taliban against Pakistan.
3. Should groups of bin Laden’s Al Qaeda network – either in Central Asia or the Balkans – wield these weapons of mass destruction against US military targets or US nuclear arms in other parts of the world.
4. If using them is the only way to save heavy American combat casualties.
10/7/2001 10:22:23 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Saturday, October 06, 2001
CBC News: Liberals under fire over security funding remarkConservative MPs joined the attack, relishing what appeared to be a cabinet minister criticizing his own government.
10/6/2001 01:11:36 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Tower Wreckage Reveals CluesAstaneh-Asl is training the workers to spot these key bits of evidence as they're preparing the remains for recycling. It's an additional burden on an already massive effort.
10/6/2001 12:31:37 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Cop Axed for Arab-Hating E-MailThe message advocated starving the people of Afghanistan to death and bombing Mecca, the most holy city of Islam, so Muslims would be forced to pray "at a crater 25 miles across."
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"I still don't think that what I said, if you look at the full context, I don't believe it met the qualifications for being a bigot or racially offensive."
10/6/2001 11:57:12 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
F.B.I. Limited Inquiry of Man Now a Suspect in the Attacks"He seemed to be more interested in onboard computers and flight systems and inflight training than in the more essential techniques of taking off or landing," said Roseann Campagnoli, a spokeswoman for the sheriff's department of Hennepin County, which includes Minneapolis.
10/6/2001 11:49:35 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Dooney's Cafe - September 11, Excrement, and Appropriate ReactionsOne day back in August, Mr. Chuay walked into a branch of the Government Savings Bank, pulled out a plastic bag and dumped a pile of his own shit over his head, smearing it all over his body. Then he demanded his money back, saying this is what the bank had done to him by losing his investment in a mutual fund. Chuay had sunk four million baht into a fund the bank had promised him carried "no risk" because it was government-run. But in the end, he could only withdraw 200,000 baht because the bulk of his investment had disappeared as a result of the 1997 financial crisis.
10/6/2001 11:47:29 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The 2,988 Words That Changed a Presidency: An EtymologyBut if the Taliban were going to wind up on the ash heap of history, then someone had to suggest how this would be accomplished. Would we attack tomorrow? Would we mount a land invasion of Afghanistan? Would we take on Iraq as well? No one knew. Policy and prose work their way on separate tracks at the White House, only meeting at higher levels. Speechwriters sometimes sit around with finished speeches, waiting for the policy person to call and let them know what the whole thing is for.
10/6/2001 10:51:30 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Breaking News:September Eleventh Peace Coalition rejects war on terrorism[Steve Staples of the Council of Canadians] equated a military campaign to create security with "the same logic that says that a handgun in your home will make your family more safe. Canadians do not believe this."
10/6/2001 10:35:46 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
UN Assembly shelves terrorism resolution after five-day debateSeveral speakers said that while terrorism must not go unpunished, reprisals against Arabs and Muslims were also unacceptable and their countries would not join any military action undertaken by the United States.
10/6/2001 10:32:32 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Al-Jazeera says Western media "envy" successful Arab TV"Within two years (Qatar) will have a parliamentary life with a democracy that dictates that freedom of the press should be granted and that the press should enjoy credibility," Sheikh Hamad said.
10/6/2001 10:31:01 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
U.S. Soldiers Move to Uzbekistan After Permission From Uzbek President``We are not quite ready for this,'' he said when asked why no special forces could use the base.
10/6/2001 10:24:32 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | UK | Taleban promise to free UK journalistMs Ridley's mother, Joyce, 74, said the reports were good news. She thanked everyone who had supported her family and Mullah Omar for being "so understanding".
She said military action against the Taleban should now be scrapped and direct communication should start with its leaders.
10/6/2001 10:18:24 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Canada to deport accused terrorist"During his evidence, (Mahjoub) attempted to portray himself as a victim of circumstances," the judge said. "I have not been convinced by this evidence, and thus I am not prepared to accept it."
10/6/2001 10:07:14 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Friday, October 05, 2001
Reason magazine:The Occidental TouristThis isn't news. It's not even propaganda. What we have here is the chambermaid exchanging gossip with the milkman. One need not even bother picking the passages apart, they are so poor, their assumptions so shaky, the author's gullibility, or bad faith, so pervasive. But then Burba's article is a veritable forest of such commentary. One can devote an evening listing her errors, and invite friends in to participate.
10/5/2001 01:41:16 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Man, 81, charged after saying 'bomb' at P.E.I. airportBlanchard was travelling with his wife Albina, 75, when he says he innocently asked a baggage handler in Charlottetown if she was looking for a bomb in his wife's change purse.
Blanchard was arrested by Charlottetown city police and charged with uttering bomb threats. He was brought to the police station where he was photographed and fingerprinted.
10/5/2001 01:37:29 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Stingers, Stingers, Who's Got the Stingers?The CIA offered so much for the wayward Stingers -- at least $100,000 a copy and possibly as much as $200,000 -- that the program's most immediate effect was to drive up the price of Stingers on the international black market. "They were offering so much that sellers could take the money and buy themselves cheaper anti-aircraft missiles and other weaponry," says Kuperman.
10/5/2001 12:13:20 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
'After Dirty Air, Dirty Money' (1)"If you said the United States, Britain and the major G-7 banks will not deal with offshore bank centers that don't comply with G-7 bank regulations, these banks could not exist. They exist because they can engage in transactions with standard banks."
10/5/2001 12:09:41 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Atlantic | July/August 2001 | The Counterterrorist Myth | Reuel Marc Gerecht"The CIA probably doesn't have a single truly qualified Arabic-speaking officer of Middle Eastern background who can play a believable Muslim fundamentalist who would volunteer to spend years of his life with shitty food and no women in the mountains of Afghanistan. For Christ's sake, most case officers live in the suburbs of Virginia. We don't do that kind of thing."
10/5/2001 11:40:39 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Interactivist Info Exchange | Three Political Websites Downed After Government "Homeland Security" Threatupdate: it seems that this (mostly) is not a hoax. www.iraradio.org and www.allewislive.com have been taken down, although www.ouramericas.org is still running with no notice of this event.
10/5/2001 11:07:57 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
news.telegraph.co.uk - Treat the IRA like bin LadenMost people believe that the IRA and Osama bin Laden's group should be regarded in the same light, a Gallup survey for The Telegraph says today.
10/5/2001 11:06:02 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ancient Secret System Moves Money Globally"It's very dangerous to talk about this, because it is illegal," Mr. Khan, who arrived in Quetta from Afghanistan many years ago, said this afternoon as a colleague shook his head and told him to keep quiet. "I can't tell you much."
10/5/2001 11:02:55 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Silicon ~ silicon.com - Terrorist or traveller? Software will decide"It's not a system which indicts a person, it just gives them a probable score," said Sirosh. "Then it's up to the airline. If they have a medium risk score perhaps they would ask for a second form of ID, if it's a high risk score they might search their luggage."
10/5/2001 10:49:01 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Bio-war defence secrecyGovernment officials confirm there is a Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response, but they won't say what the centre does, who works for it, or how Canadians can learn to protect themselves in the case of an attack involving biological or chemical weapons.
10/5/2001 10:37:27 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
DEBKAfile says: Three Bullet Holes Are Found in Cockpit Door of Siberian Airlines That Crashed Thursday in the Black Sea Killing All 78 Aboard Including 66 Israelis10/5/2001 10:35:39 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
The Globe and Mail: Breaking News: Military well-equipped, Eggleton insistsThe minister allowed that "not everything is what we would like it to be in the Canadian Forces," but said Mr. Benoit's criticism was "absolute nonsense" and "disgusting." He accused the Alliance MP of being "irresponsible" and wanting only to "play politics."
10/5/2001 10:26:53 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Press Release - 10/04/01 - HijackersThe Boston Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking the assistance of the citizens of Portland, Maine, in an effort to help identify additional information regarding the activities of MOHAMED ATTA and ABDUL AZIZ AL-OMARI while in Portland. Sometime on Monday afternoon, September 10, 2001, ATTA and AL-OMARI departed Boston, Massachusetts, and arrived in Portland later that same day. The FBI has developed a chronology of the activities of ATTA and AL-OMARI while in Portland. All times are approximate.
10/5/2001 10:24:42 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Economist.com: After the TalibanThe need for force will not end with the toppling of the Taliban. Mr bin Laden must be caught: besides him, an estimated 5,000-20,000 Arabs and other foreigners in Afghanistan who share his ferocity may have to be captured or killed. Peacekeeping will require western money, advice and, possibly, a multinational force, probably including soldiers from some Muslim countries. This force would be more palatable if the repatriated ex-king invited it in.
10/5/2001 10:21:03 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
canada.com - Free Speech in a VacuumNone of those questions were given consideration, however, in the press conference out at UBC Tuesday, when Barry McBride, the UBC vice-president in charge of academic affairs, trotted out, read a terse three-paragraph piece of empty bumpf about free speech "as a cornerstone of university culture" and proceeded to state that UBC was four-square behind Thobani's right to insult and demonize not just a nation, or a hemisphere, but an entire culture with impunity.
[...]what was McBride's personal opinion of Thobani's characterizations, I asked him?
"I don't have a personal opinion ... that's not my responsibility."
10/5/2001 10:13:39 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Economist.com: The propaganda warPublic opinion in Western Europe and the United States does not seem to be impatient for military action, but as time goes on and the television cameramen search for useful ways to spend their time, so more and more images will appear of starving Afghan refugees, of innocents displaced or innocents liable to be caught in the crossfire. That argues for speed. Afghanistan's neighbours and countries in the Arab world, however, are nervous about hasty action. Governments there are concerned about their own publics' opinions, and the views of powerful factions within their countries. This argues for caution, and for careful preparation. Most of all, though, it argues for the release of some of the evidence for the guilt of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network.
10/5/2001 10:07:14 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Economist.com: How low can they go?A better idea has been suggested by Alan Blinder, an economist at Princeton University. He proposes that Congress should reimburse states for a temporary reduction in sales tax. This has the advantage that, because it is temporary, it would encourage people to buy now, not later, and it would not damage America's long-term budget position.
10/5/2001 10:02:14 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CBC News: Terrorist suspect in secret custody in Vancouver"If Ressam's allegations about Mohamed are proved true, then this would be one of the first dramatic examples of targeting Canadian territory and targets by Islamic extremists"
10/5/2001 09:59:00 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | US begins ground deploymentMr Blair spoke of his growing optimism that the diplomatic and military trap around Afghanistan was now in place.
To cite Bob Dylan: man eater, meat grinder, bad loser
10/5/2001 09:57:44 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Thursday, October 04, 2001
Passenger gets gun through airport X-rayInvestigators said an X-ray machine operator didn't recognize the shapes of the shotgun and ammunition on Cooper's first trip through security Tuesday at Colorado Springs Airport.
10/4/2001 10:39:31 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Journalist in special forces - Taliban"Surely her crime is high. How come she arrives here in such a situation without any documents despite the ban on foreign journalists in Afghanistan?"
10/4/2001 10:37:16 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Montreal Gazette - Four vanished before attacks - RCMP to investigate disappearance of Montreal groupThe French-language network RDI reported yesterday that verses from the Koran were scribbled on the downtown apartment's walls, mirrors and a television screen. One verse read:
"The truth has arrived and lies have been vanquished."
10/4/2001 09:38:18 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | UK | Taleban 'to try UK journalist'"What I'm frightened of is she will be treated as a spy."
10/4/2001 09:32:29 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Ottawa Sun: Terror links found: Mounties suspect Canadian refugee funnelled cash to U.S. operatives"There are several links between this man and others in the U.S.," said a Mountie source. "There was money going back and forth."
10/4/2001 09:31:13 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Russian Plane Explodes and CrashesA Russian airliner flying from Tel Aviv to Siberia exploded in flight Thursday and crashed off the Black Sea coast with at least 77 people on board, Russian officials said.
10/4/2001 09:30:05 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Wednesday, October 03, 2001
The Sunday Times: TerrorismOne can cope with the anti-Americanism of a handful of resentful French, German or Greek "intellectuals" or an anarchist mob chucking rocks during a G8 summit, since they do not represent public opinion. But the attempted destruction of its economic, military and political nerve centres is something to which no country can afford not to respond.
10/3/2001 09:08:02 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Dream flat overlooking World Trade Center transformed into prison"I was standing out watching when the second plane hit the building...with my camera, taking pictures, and then I saw it explode, I saw paper, glass, the orange ball..."
10/3/2001 08:57:54 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Tuesday, October 02, 2001
Top Stories - The News International, Pakistan - Military action against Taliban beginsISLAMABAD: Military movements to force the Taliban leadership surrender Osama and accept a national government in Kabul have begun with some major fighting forces already positioning themselves with the help of the US and other allied troops.
10/2/2001 07:57:18 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Crikey Media Hyper-reality, hypocrisy, hype and horror - why terrorists do what they doWARNING: This piece contains views which many will consider shocking, tactless and lacking in compassion. However, it is presented in the author's belief that confronting reality is actually better for us than catharsis or counselling.
10/2/2001 07:55:08 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
News Wales - The daily Welsh news briefing - Call for ban on illegal food imports to thwart terrorist threatSpot checks on passengers aboard 14 flights entering Heathrow Airport last year discovered 5.76 tons of illegal meat.
10/2/2001 07:53:24 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Independent News: Companies 'are paying protection money' to terroristsOil companies in South America and Middle Eastern airlines are among those paying to prevent their businesses being damaged, according to the magazine Forbes Global. It claimed timber companies in South-east Asia have also made protection payments and until recently, a Jewish-owned bank was paying off the Lebanese Islamist group Hizbollah.
10/2/2001 07:51:03 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Military: Aviation Week's AviationNow.com: AvWeek: Terrorist Mass Murder: New 'Weapon of Choice'"Why do something the harder way when we've seen incident after incident of horrific impact with conventional means?"
10/2/2001 07:49:54 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
US says terrorists targetting "symbols of American capitalism" in Italy...the official refused to provide more details and, like Boucher, advised Americans to take the additional measures contained in the written warning to protect their safety while in Italy.
10/2/2001 07:31:25 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
US backing for Palestinian state could backfire, warns Israel"While the whole free world is fighting terrorism, the Palestinian leadership and especially Yasser Arafat must stop using violence and terrorism," Shoval said.
10/2/2001 07:30:29 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Worldwide anti-terror dragnet turns up clues, freezes assetsIn France a suspected Islamic militant told investigators he received orders from a top bin Laden aide to launch an attack on the US embassy in Paris, while in Germany officials said they had frozen 214 suspect bank accounts.
10/2/2001 07:28:27 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Tokyo stocks rally above 10,000The Nikkei-225 average ended up 164.28 points or 1.6 percent at 10,136.56, in its fourth straight daily gain after staging a late rebound from early losses, helped by active buying in issues linked to domestic demand.
10/2/2001 07:26:46 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Swissair Halts Flight Operations (washingtonpost.com)...unable to scrape together enough cash to keep operations going.
10/2/2001 07:23:47 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
NATO Says Evidence Proves bin Laden Link"We don't intend at the moment to discuss how NATO will translate this decision into operational action," Lord Robertson said. "The United States are still developing their thinking and they will come back to the alliance in due course when that thinking is crystallized."
10/2/2001 07:22:43 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Palestinians 'attack Jewish settlement'"We heard a real gunfight in the settlement, shooting between houses"
10/2/2001 07:21:44 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
BBC News | EUROPE | Paris suspect denies Bin Laden linkEurope-1 reported that UAE judges and police resorted to the "trick" of using religious leaders to coax Beghal into confessing instead of subjecting him to police questioning, as Islamist militants normally refuse to answer questions under interrogation.
10/2/2001 07:20:39 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Executive Summary: Farwell Brain FingerprintingBrain Fingerprinting is based on the principle that the brain is central to all human acts. In a criminal act, there may or may not be many kinds of peripheral evidence, but the brain is always there, planning, executing, and recording the crime. The fundamental difference between a perpetrator and a falsely accused, innocent person is that the perpetrator, having committed the crime, has the details of the crime stored in his brain, and the innocent suspect does not. This is what Brain Fingerprinting detects scientifically.
How Brain Fingerprinting can help find Terrorists
A suspect would be shown terminology or pictures of scenes that only a member of a terrorist group would know. For example, the word "Al-Qaeda" in Arabic could be flashed on the screen, or a picture of specific navigational instruments from the cockpit of a 757 jet could be shown.
If the suspect recognizes these words or scenes, it is another indication that he has knowledge in his brain that a terrorist would be likely to have.
10/2/2001 07:17:21 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CDT Cyber Security: Response to September 11, 2001 Terrorist AttacksHouse Judiciary Committee draft, [pdf] Oct. 1, 2001
10/2/2001 04:53:51 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Monday, October 01, 2001
IDG.net: Bush taps Clarke as cyberdefense chiefRichard Clarke, longtime national coordinator for security, infrastructure protection and counterterrorism at the National Security Council, will head the new office, which was created as part of a government-wide antiterrorism reorganization in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
10/1/2001 08:20:47 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
CNN.com - Bombing at Kashmir assembly kills at least 29 - October 1, 2001"India cannot accept such manifestations of hate and terror from across its borders," said the statement. "There is a limit to India's patience."
10/1/2001 08:14:38 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Taliban in power-sharing deal as ex-king emerges as major player"We support the cleaning of terrorist elements from Afghanistan, but at the same time we will never accept an attack on our innocent people," warned Yunis Qanuni, a representative of the Northern Alliance.
10/1/2001 08:10:19 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
US citizens asked to contribute 100 million dollars for terrorist bounty"One of the most powerful weapons in the war against terrorism can be found in every American home: the US dollar," Rutledge said. "This new fund will make sure every American has the opportunity to use that weapon as fully as possible, to help root out terrorists and bring them to justice."
10/1/2001 08:09:11 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Toronto Sun Columnist: Peter Worthington: US needs to plug leakThis week Secretary of State Colin Powell said if the Taliban give up bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist network, the U.S. "wouldn't be worrying about whether they are the regime in power or not."
He even hinted that if they turned over bin Laden, the Taliban might even get U.S. aid, and reap "significant benefits," and have a "better relationship with the West."
10/1/2001 12:37:41 PM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Britain and Germany Make Anti-War Pact; Hitler Gets Less Than His Sudeten Demands; Polish Ultimatum Threatens Action TodayCourtesy of kenlayne.com.
10/1/2001 08:52:28 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Forbes.com - As With The Markets, So Goes The 400sGates' fortune was not the only one in decline: He and 49 other well-known members of The Forbes Four Hundred Richest in America list collectively lost more than $44 billion in the four weeks since we made our initial calculations, from $311 billion to $266.5 billion. Among these 50 notable names, 19 suffered drops in net worth of at least 20% and 38 lost at least 10%. The average loss among the 50: nearly 18%.
10/1/2001 08:44:02 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
IHT: CIA Has Been Seeking Fugitive for 3 Years in AfghanistanThe lawyers concluded that efforts to hunt and kill Mr. bin Laden were defensible either as acts of war or as national self-defense, legitimate under both American and international law. As a result, President Bill Clinton did not waive the executive order banning assassinations.
10/1/2001 08:41:04 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark
Don't confuse terrorism with resistance: Lebanese presidentThe Lebanese president claimed "the sacred right to take back one's land" for both his country and "the entire Arab world".
10/1/2001 08:39:07 AM Gabrielle Taylor bookmark