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Taliban leader Mulla Mohammad Omar Wednesday asked Muslims across the world to choose friends among the oppressed Afghans and America. "The world Muslims must decide whether to support us or the United States in the on-going war", Mulla Omar told the BBC Pashto service.
It was Mulla Omar's first message to the world Muslims over international radio channel since the American air strikes in the war-devastated Afghanistan.
Earlier, the Taliban leader addressed to Afghans through Radio Shariat. "The United States considers herself as powerful but Allah Almighty is more powerful than Washington and we only trust Allah Almighty to help the poor and oppressed Afghans", the Taliban leader said. He rejected the American allegations that Taliban are patronizing terrorists and sponsoring international terrorism. "We are not terrorist and are not harboring terrorists. This is the notion of the United States to call us terrorists", Mulla Omar said.
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Peter Baker, Molly Moore and Kamram Khan Washington Post
JABAL SARAJ, Afghanistan, Oct. 10 -- Afghan opposition forces said they have agreed to delay a crucial offensive to take control of Kabul until an interim government can be established to replace the ruling Taliban regime, a decision that could prolong military action in Afghanistan for weeks.
The commanders of the Northern Alliance postponed an assault on the capital after negotiations with U.S. and international officials who fear chaos and bloodshed if rebel warlords seize the city before a functioning government or security forces are in place. In a bid to forestall any advance by the rebels into Kabul, the United States and Britain are holding off aerial bombardments against the thousands of Taliban and Arab troops arrayed in defensive lines on the plains north of the capital. Instead, the U.S. and British warplanes and missiles are attacking airfields, artillery batteries and other targets to assist the Northern Alliance in capturing key northern and eastern Afghan cities.
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Los Angeles Times By ROBYN DIXON, TIMES STAFF WRITER
JABAL OS SARAJ, Afghanistan
Each evening just after sundown, convoys of heavily armed Taliban fighters push out of their bases in the Afghan capital, Kabul, and drive to the safest place they know: the front line. Their enemies across the battle line, the Northern Alliance, watch the headlights of trucks and vans pulling up as close as they can. In Afghanistan's vicious civil war, the front line may seem an odd place to hide. But to the Taliban fighters defending Kabul, the closer they are to the front line, the farther they are from U.S. missiles raining down on the capital. "They go in convoys of pickup trucks like Datsuns. They wear turbans, and their eyes are painted with kohl. They have grenade launchers and Kalashnikovs and all kinds of other weapons," said Sharifullah, 20, a moujahedeen with the anti-Taliban opposition. Sharifullah, speaking in a teahouse in Jabal os Saraj, 45 miles north of Kabul, was in the capital Tuesday morning and crossed to the opposition-held northern territory the same day.
Sharifullah said that after the first night of bombing, Taliban fighters knocked on the doors of every house in his village, Arghandi, 13 miles west of Kabul, and ordered each family to contribute one man to fight on the front line for the Taliban. Another Pushtun from Kabul, medical student Abdul Marouf, 19, said that since the U.S. strikes began, the Taliban had stepped up its campaign to press-gang young men in Kabul to fight a jihad, or holy war. "They were arresting people before," he said, "but in the last days it got worse."
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OSAMA BIN LADENâS terrorist network last night threatened more suicide hijackings and other deadly attacks on American interests around the world. In an unprecedented broadcast, a senior al-Qaeda figure said that thousands of young Muslims were ready to give their lives in the fight against the United States. Sheiman Abou-Gheith, an al-Qaeda spokesman, said that the men who had âdestroyed America with their aeroplanesâ had carried out a âgood deedâ and warned of further attacks using hijacked aircraft.
The impassioned five-minute diatribe was broadcast last night on the Qatar-based al-Jazeera television network and coincided with a call to British Muslims to assassinate Tony Blair and his Cabinet to avenge the bombing of Afghanistan.
Abdul Rehman Saleem, a spokesman for the fundamentalist group al-Muhajiroun, said: âBecause the allies, the British and the Americans, have started bombing the Muslims of Afghanistan, for those people over there, the government buildings here, the military installations, including 10 Downing Street, become legitimate targets. âThat includes the Cabinet and it includes the Prime Minister as well. âWhat it means is that if any Muslim wants to assassinate him, wants to get rid of him, I am not going to shed any tears for him and from the Islamic point of view this person is not going to be chastised, this person is not going to be punished for that act, this person will be praised.â
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"We have permitted Osama bin Laden only to issue statements," Minister for Education Amir Khan Muttaqi said in a statement reported by the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP). "There is still a ban on Osama using Afghan soil for acts against any other country," he was quoted as saying. That marked a retreat from remarks just hours earlier by Taliban spokesman Abdul Hai Mutmaen who told the BBC's Pashto language service that the strikes had made it an obligation for all Muslims to wage jihad (holy war) against America. Mutmaen said Saudi-born millionaire bin Laden -- who the Taliban had previously said was under strict supervision with communications cut and his activities curtailed -- was now free to operate as he wanted.
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The anti-Taliban Northern Alliance claimed on Wednesday that 40 Taliban commanders and about 800 Taliban soldiers had surrendered in northeastern Afghanistan, media reports said Wednesday. Northern Alliance spokesman, Mohammed Ashraf Nadeem, was quoted by AFP as saying, "Forty Taliban commanders surrendered to the United Front (Northern Alliance) along with their weapons because they were not happy with the ruling Taliban."
Northern Alliance foreign affairs spokesman Abdullah Abdullah was quoted by the French agency as calling it "a major, significant military development that will have a critical impact on the Taliban forces, especially in northern part of the country. In a television interview, Abdullah predicted that the Taliban regime would fall within a few weeks.
However, the ruling Taliban militia dismissed the Northern Alliance claims. "This is a mockery, it's something funny," said the Taliban's Ambassador to Pakistan Abdul Salam Zaeef said at a press conference in Islamabad on Wednesday.
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A French journalist has been paraded through streets of Jalalabad as townspeople hurled stones at him. Michel Peyrard was arrested in Afghanistan after secretly entering the country disguised as a woman. The Afghan Islamic Press reported that Mr Peyrard has been placed under investigation for spying. According to radio reports, two Pakistanis, arrested with Mr Peyrard, were also paraded through the streets.
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U.S. strikes on Afghanistan since the attacks began Sunday night have killed 76 people across the country and injured about 100, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) and officials said Wednesday. Figures compiled by AIP and officials from the major cities hit in the U.S. air raids in pursuit of Saudi-born fugitive Osama bin Laden totaled 76 dead -- including 28 in the southern city of Kandahar, headquarters of the ruling Taliban, and 25 in the capital, Kabul.
The figures showed six dead in the eastern city of Jalalabad, two dead in western Herat, eight killed in the northern city of Mazar-Hi-Sharif and seven in western Farah province where the strategic Shindand air field is located.
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Gul Ahmed Shami sipped his Pepsi-Cola and said: "I want to be the next Osama bin Laden." Then the 22-year-old set off to join the jihad with a hold-all containing a change of clothes, a pair of fake Timberland boots and a slim volume of Verses for Victory gleaned from the Koran. "The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said heaven lies in the shadow of the sword," he said.
His friend Hamid Noor, a wiry 19-year-old, was taking only a sleeping bag and the stained, baggy clothes and sandals he was standing in, but was confident that the Taliban and the Almighty would provide.
As a stiffener before embarking on a mission to defend their homeland, they attended an anti-American rally at a mosque in Peshawar, the Pakistani border city where an estimated one million Afghans, including both men's families, live. There was no fear, no apprehension, at least not before a Western listener. Sitting in a grubby, backstreet restaurant, after the frenzy of the protest, the pair were engaging and impeccably mannered, but with an added irredeemable zeal. Hamid said: "Allah is with us. The Americans have technology but they don't have the courage to face death, which we do. I will be there until my death if need be. I know I probably won't come back." His father, a quack doctor, approves of his departure, but not his mother. Two of his brothers are already fighting with the Taliban militia.
Gul was less naive. "We will be there until something big happens - a reconciliation between the Taliban and other sides, or an American ground invasion."
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The Kuwaiti government Wednesday stripped Suleiman Abu-Gheith of his Kuwaiti citizenship, condemning him as a terrorist after he showed up in two videotapes as the spokesman of the al Qaeda network. Sheikh Sabah Al Sabah, Kuwait's acting prime minister, said Abu-Gheith was involved in the September 11 terrorist attacks.
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Rob Morse, San Francisco Chronicle On-line
Declaring peace won't stop terrorists either. History teaches us (pardon me) that you can't abolish violence. You can decry American imperialism, but wake up and breathe the anthrax -- you're still a target. You're an American and these guys hate you. You may be tolerant, but they aren't...
Ah, yes, there were members of the Spartacus Youth League and the Revolutionary Workers Party, and I forget whether they're Trotskyist or Maoist, and they probably do, too, given their gray beards. There were the kids with nose rings and anarchist flags, bright-eyed students and Mumia idolaters.
You have to give the first-night protesters credit for planning. Days before they had passed out handbills instructing people to gather at 5 p.m. in Hallidie Plaza "the day the bombing starts."
These were the perma-protesters. I don't know which is more depressing: Their belief that the United States is the mother of all evil in the world, or that so many of the rest of us will be marching with them when the troops start coming home in bags. Protest 'til you drop. What kind of "courage" does it take to advocate cowardice and submission to Evil?
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(ABCNEWS.com)
Richard Gere, who is deeply devoted to the teachings of the Dalai Lama, says the best way for Americans to deal with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is with "the medicine of love and compassion."
"In a situation like this, of course you identify with everyone who's suffering," the actor told ABCNEWS Radio in an exclusive interview. But, he said, we must also think about "the terrorists who are creating such horrible future lives for themselves because of the negativity of this karma. If you see it from a much wider point of view, we're all in this together. We're all intimately interconnected in all of these actions."
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Glenn Bohn and Kim Bolan Vancouver Sun
A University of B.C. women's studies professor who criticized U.S. foreign policy has been accused of a hate crime -- publicly inciting hatred against Americans. An unidentified B.C. resident alleged Oct. 4 that assistant professor Sunera Thobani violated the Criminal Code of Canada during an Oct. 1 speech to a women's conference in Ottawa, RCMP Corporal Michael Labossiere of the B.C. hate crime unit said Tuesday.
Thobani, a former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, said in an interview Tuesday she had not heard anything about the complaint and she is curious to know who made it. "This is just pure harassment," she said. "They are trying to silence dissent in this country."
Thobani said her speech was intended to explain how U.S. foreign policy has affected life in many countries of the world. "If you point to the factual record of U.S. foreign policy, you are now accused of spreading hate," she said. "It really is unbelievable."
The RCMP's Labossiere wouldn't disclose any more specifics about the complaint or the complainant. He said he forwarded the complaint to the hate crimes unit of the Ottawa-Carleton police force, which has jurisdiction in the area where the offence is alleged to have occurred. Ottawa police Detective Frank Corkery, a member of Ottawa's hate crime unit, wouldn't confirm whether police there are investigating Thobani.
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Aaron Petitt, a junior at Ohio's Fairview High School, is back in school after a federal judge overturned his 10-day suspension. Petitt's offense? He hung patriotic posters on his locker, including one that depicts an eagle shedding a tear over the burning World Trade towers. "According to the lawsuit, Associate Principal James Haughtaling said the signs were inappropriate and could offend Middle Eastern students," the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
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David Duke:
Calling the attackers "cowards" is, of course, untrue. The terrorists committed an indescribably horrible and ruthless act against the American people, but certainly they are not cowards. Kamikazes may be misguided, but sacrificing one's own life for a cause is not cowardice. And calling the perpetrators cowards or madmen doesn't answer the question of why these horrendous acts occurred, unless one thinks every coward and madman wants to blow up the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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Nadeen Al-jijakli, head of New York University's Arab Students United has egg on her face after sending an e-mail to the club's members containing an article by David Duke, NYU's Washington Square News reports. The article, predictably enough, blamed Sept. 11 on U.S. support for Israel. Al-jijakli, says she didn't know Duke was a former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan. âIf I had known his history I would not have sent it out," she tells the News. "I feel like the article is valid. I don't feel like whether the article is anti-Semitic is something I need to explain."
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The Oakland Tribune, meanwhile, reports on an anti-Ameircan rally at UC Berkeley, which was interrupted by a smaller contingent of Berkeley patriots. The closing exchange is priceless:
Another [student], favoring peace [sic], said in the heat of argument, "Look, it's not like they attacked the U.S."
"They did," a pro-USA student replied.
"Uh, oh yeah, they did," the other said, flashing an embarrassed grin.
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The Daily Californian reports that the Berkeley City Council is likely to approve a resolution denouncing America for defending itself against terrorism. Councilwoman Dona Spring uttered what may be the most idiotic comment we've heard in the past month: "Berkeley has always been an island of sanity in terms of the war madness that has prevailed in this country. The U.S. is now a terrorist. According to the Taliban these are terrorist attacks."
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A group of parents of elementary school students in Chapel Hill, N.C., are so angry about the local school's refusal to start the day with the pledge of allegiance that they have started gathering on the sidewalk in front of the school with their children to do it themselves, reports the Herald-Sun. The principal of McDougle Elementary, insisting that patriotism is not measured by rote recitation, said requiring the pledge might make some students uncomfortable. It has been long-standing policy at the school not to recite the pledge, he said.
Chapel Hill's schools' policy code says that citizenship education may include the pledge, but cautions that students must not feel compelled or coerced to participate. The code also says teachers may use the recitation of the pledge "as an opportunity to teach students about the history concerning coercion and the importance of the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights." If they're not going to learn it in school, guess they'll have to pick it up on street corners.
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BY STEVE WARMBIR FEDERAL COURTS REPORTER Chicago Sun-Times
Edward A. Coburn, a 31-year-old electrical engineer from Fresno, Calif., was ordered held without bail on Tuesday pending a court appearance next week. Coburn stormed the cockpit about three hours into the 3-1/2-hour flight. Stephen Coburn told the flight attendants that his son had said he was going to bolt for the cockpit. Moments later, Coburn did just that, breaking through the door and flailing and yelling. The captain heard Coburn say something like "the pilots are going to kill us all." Coburn fell into the cockpit, and the captain pushed him away. The first officer began struggling with Coburn while the off-duty pilot caught up with Coburn and pulled him backward. Several passengers joined the fray, and Coburn was subdued. Not a good time to be a goof, is it, Edward?
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CENSORING HEROISM: The Houston Chronicle strikes a blow for p.c. censorship. In running a piece from the San Jose Mercury News about Mark Bingham's life and death, the Chronicle took pains to remove any references to Bingham's sexual orientation. Bingham, a gay Republican rugby player, was one of those who almost certainly wrestled the plane destined for Washington to the ground in Pennsylvania. Gay people as American heroes? Too much information for the Chronicle's squeamish editors. I guess they're just following the policies of the Air Force.
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The news service Reuters has refused to refer to the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon as "terrorist attacks" because, as the agency's global head of news, Stephen Jukes, said, "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter," reports Howard Kurtz in The Washington Post.
The agency said it must maintain a steady hand because its employees are on the front lines around the world and might be put in jeopardy if it appeared like their employer was taking sides. "We're trying to treat everyone on a level playing field, however tragic it's been and however awful and cataclysmic for the American people and people around the world," Jukes said.
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"Are the U.S. food drops on Afghanistan making matters worse? Some relief agencies say yes." So declared Peter Jennings at the top of Tuesdayâs World News Tonight in showing that the U.S. canât win with some who are always for the dark side of any U.S. decision. "Today some humanitarian aid workers were saying this effort is little more than propaganda," ABCâs Dan Harris soon charged. "And some say the U.S. is actually doing more harm than good," since bombing has stopped ground transport of food. Some people are never happy. Very well, cut of any food drops. Oops. Now we're really nasty. The problem seems to be that nobody will let the carpers be in charge.
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SCHEER MADNESS: An overdue hit-job on the insufferable and mendacious Los Angeles Times columnist, Robert Scheer, by the often sharp and fair website, Spinsanity. Ben Fritz is particularly acute in pointing out how Scheer first invented the notion that the United States had given $43 million in aid to the Taliban and so was hypocritical in turning on the mullahs in Kabul and Kandahar after 9/11. In fact, that $43 million was food aid, dispensed through the U.N. and non-governmental agencies, bypassing the Islamo-fascist leadership. Well, we all make mistakes. What's truly troubling about Scheer is that even after this was revealed, he continued disseminating the lie. In fact, he larded it up, hedged it with new spin, and fomented its repetition in such places as The Nation, The New Yorker, The Denver Post and Salon. Read this piece and never read Scheer again.
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A Delta Air Lines jet from Atlanta to Los Angeles was diverted to Louisiana, escorted by U.S. fighter jets, on Wednesday after a passenger passed a threatening note to a flight attendant, authorities said. Delta Flight 357, a Boeing 757 with 148 people on board, landed safely at Shreveport Regional Airport at about 3 p.m. local time, where the passenger was arrested by FBI agents, U.S. Attorney's spokeswoman Vicki Chance said. ``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.
The jetliner was escorted by at least two F-16 fighter jets that scrambled to intercept it as it prepared for an emergency landing in Shreveport. Chance said the man, who she believed was a U.S. citizen, was being questioned by FBI agents and would likely face federal charges of interfering with a flight crew.
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The minuteman mascot at Jefferson Middle School in Fort Wayne, Ind., has had a makeover, writes columnist Kevin Leininger of the News-Sentinel. Gone is his musket, because the principal says guns have no place in schools. The image still stands on a wall just inside the main door of the school, but was repainted recently to exclude the firearm. Principal Michael Morris, who took over at the school in July, said: "The mural needed to be repainted anyway, and this sends a stronger, better message about patriotism. Everyone loves it."
Not everyone. "Those who would purge violence from American history do more than dishonor the sacrifices made to write that history: It gives children the inaccurate and dangerous notion that our freedoms were won and can be maintained without a struggle," writes Leininger.
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Demonstrations in support of Bin Laden were reported in many areas of the Gaza Strip on Monday. Two people were killed during attempts by PA police to disperse the demonstrators. The bloodiest protests came in Gaza City. Hundreds of university students, including armed members of the Islamic opposition, clashed with police. At least two civilians were killed and a dozen wounded.
Police sources said Islamic gunmen opened fire on officers outside Al Azhar University and the Islamic University in Gaza City. Islamic sources countered that police opened fire when they failed to disperse the demonstrators with tear gas. PA authorities then ordered the closure of universities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Authorities also banned any television news coverage of pro-Bin Laden demonstrations.
The PA has refused to adopt a position on the U.S.-led military offensive on Afghanistan. PA Information Minister Yasser Abbed Rabbo said officials first wanted to determine the position of the Arab League.
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(AFP) - A Canadian man was shot dead and his wife seriously injured in a drive-by shooting as they strolled along a beach south of Kuwait City, security sources said. The man, identified only as Luke, worked as an aircraft technician at the emirate's Ahmd al-Jabr airbase. His wife was hit by at least three bullets and was intensive care in the nearby Al-Adan Adan hospital. She told police that a car had stopped near where the couple were walking just before midnight and opened fire showering the couple with bullets. Her husband died on the spot. The sources did not rule out the possiblity that the shooting was an act of terrorism. It would be the first murder of a westerner in the Gulf Arab states since the launch of US-led air strikes on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan on Sunday.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A radical Islamic group says Prime Minister Tony Blair has become a "legitimate target" for Muslims since Britain joined U.S.-led strikes on Afghanistan. Abdel-Rahman Saleem, spokesman for Islamic group al-Muhajiroun (the immigrants), was speaking on Wednesday to the London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper from Lahore, Pakistan. The group describes itself as "the voice, the eyes, the ears of Muslims... Now, and after the British and American allies and probably the French have embarked on bombarding in Afghanistan, military installations and 10 Downing Street have become legitimate targets," Saleem was quoted as saying.
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The first known Bert-bin Laden posters appeared on Oct. 5 in Dhaka, and photographs of them were printed by the Dutch news service Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau and the Associated Press and Reuters news services. At least one other photograph including the posters was taken by Reuters photographer Rafiqur Rahman in Jakarta on Oct. 9. Reuters spokeswoman Felicia Cosby said the photos were authentic. "We've just noticed it ourselves, since you queried, that there is Bert on that poster," she said. "I don't know if they're mass-producing these posters, but what I can say is that it is definitely our policy not to doctor photographs."
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Muslim activists in Great Britain last week demanded that the BBC stop referring to Usama bin Laden's faith in its reports, saying that the term "Islamic Fundamentalist" is provoking a racial backlash, reports The Times of London. The Muslim Council of Britain wants bin Laden referred to as just a terrorist, with no reference made to his faith. "The BBC is planting an association in the minds of many people the notion that ordinary peace-loving Islamic Fundamentalists are no different than bin Laden," said Inayat Bunglawala, a spokesman for the council.
The complaint comes during a debate within the BBC's news department and its Diversity Unit as to whether the corporation is offending Muslims by referring to bin Laden as an Islamic extremist, fundamentalist or Islamic terrorist. That way we can pretend he's a Methodist, right?
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Top sources confirmed here on Tuesday, that the general lost his job because of the "evidence" India produced to show his links to one of the suicide bombers that wrecked the World Trade Centre. The US authorities sought his removal after confirming the fact that $100,000 were wired to WTC hijacker Mohammed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmed Omar Sheikh at the instance of Gen Mahumd. Senior government sources have confirmed that India contributed significantly to establishing the link between the money transfer and the role played by the dismissed ISI chief. While they did not provide details, they said that Indian inputs, including Sheikh's mobile phone number, helped the FBI in tracing and establishing the link.
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The United States has asked Lebanon for information on six Lebanese suspected of preparing attacks in Kuwait and allegedly linked to Islamist Osama bin Laden, Prosecutor General Adnan Addum said Wednesday. Addum told AFP that he had received a letter on Tuesday from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation warning of possible attacks in Kuwait in response to the US and British strikes against Afghanistan.
The letter was delivered to Addum by a liaison officer at the US embassy in Athens, whose scope of activities covers the Near East region. The FBI letter requested information, via Interpol, about Rabih Ramez Nasrallah, owner of a bogus cleaning company in Kuwait, as well as Raydan Sayyed Najm, Nemr Hussein Hijazi, Oussama Ghamlush, Bassam Ghaybeh and Hassan Shahine.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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