U.S. Marines secured the grounds of the American embassy in Kabul, more than 12 years after the United States closed it in the wake of the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Rassool Sayyaf's delegate to the talks in Germany refused to sign the agreement. Sayyaf wants to see the entire agreement renegotiated in Afghanistan, and has accused the United Nations of misleading the northern alliance. The fact an agreement was reached outside of Afghanistan is an insult, he said.
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Twenty six Al Qaida "Arabs" were arrested while entering Pakistan. The arrested are nationals of Albania, Saudi Arabia and Sudan. The authorities also arrested and released four Yemeni women and five children. What's this thing with Yemeni babes? Are they hot?
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The U.S. military has again dropped a "daisy cutter" bomb in Afghanistan, aiming at a cave where al Qaeda leaders -- possibly including Osama bin Laden -- were believed hiding. The 15,000 pound bomb was dropped in the Tora Bora area and fighting remained so intense that the military was unable to assess damage. Tribal fighters backed by tanks and U.S. warplanes launched an attack against al-Qaida forces and seized most of the valley leading to the suspected hide-out of The Shiek.
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Taliban's former envoy to Islamabad Mulla Abdul Salam Zaeef and other militia diplomats were pondering seeking political asylum in Pakistan. The government of Pakistan has so far not asked Zaeef and other Taliban diplomats to leave the country.
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"Clearly, the way it looks from a distance is that this young man is a traitor, that he took up arms against our country, which, you know, goes back to the very founding of our nation and our Constitution about what is appropriate for a citizen," said Sen. Hillary Clinton. "So I, certainly, you know, consider him to have been a traitor to our country, but, you know, that's not a decision with respect to the legal action that should be taken that I'm going to be making."
From Sen. Trent Lott: "I don't know all the facts â I don't think any of us do yet. But he certainly looks like a traitor. He looks like he was right in there in that rat's nest with the rest of them."
John McCain: "This is one of the more difficult issues that we're going to face, because Americans obviously will be very, very concerned about a situation where a person takes up arms against his country. That fits the definition of treason." We appear to have tripartisan agreement. From the rest of us: "You in biiiiiig trouble, boy!"
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Afghan Minister of Agriculture Hussein Anwari said that Afghanistan is to grow essential agricultural products on farms already used for poppy plantation, and called for world countries to help. Anwari said the Afghan interim government is planning to provide required education and technological means to farmers for production of other crops.
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Shiite Muslim leader Karim Khalili, who heads the Hezb-e-Wahadat party, said he won't join the Bonn-brokered Afghan regime, but has promised not to wage war against it.
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In Herat, Ismail Khan also complained about the agreement. His spokesman, Nasir Ahmed Allahwi, said "Ismail Khan is in control of five provinces in western Afghanistan and where is he in this government? He is not."
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If Osama bin Laden thinks he's about to be captured, he'll signal his followers to launch new attacks on landmarks around the world by committing suicide and broadcasting it on al-Jazeera TV, his estranged wife, Sabiha, told a Russian television station. Bin Laden would order his elder sons to shoot him. "This will be a signal for a new wave of terror," she said. "The targets this time would be the Capitol Building in Washington, Big Ben in London and the Eiffel Tower." Prediction: This is gonna be one of those stories people roll their eyes about a year from now.
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National Islamic Front of Afghanistan (NIFA) chief Pir Sayed Ahmed Gailani has called for a Loya Jirga to ensure a far broader representation of Afghan views. "We are specifically looking forward to the coming six months when the Loya Jirga will be held. That should be more representative than Bonn. It should ensure the participation of people's real representatives and should not be dominated by one faction."
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"Israel has been killing Palestinians and destroying homes. ... Isn't that the definition of terrorism?'' said University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian. "Why is it the Palestinians are always considered the terrorists, and the pure, innocent Israelis are the victims?'' Al-Arian, a Palestinian put on paid leave by USF after a post-Sept. 11 network television appearance prompted campus security concerns, spoke at an event put on by the Tampa Bay Local Group of Amnesty International, an arm of the worldwide organization dedicated to ensuring human rights. He is the brother-in-law of Mazen Al-Najjar, a Tampa researcher whom the U.S. Justice Department suspects is a national security threat connected to the fundamentalist Islamic Jihad.
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The students, faculty, and staff of Hampshire College have voted to condemn the "War on Terrorism" and propose alternative solutions. The vote was 693-121. We thank them for their support and for the amount of thought that went into formulating their opinions.
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Howard Miller, co-president of the Fort Myers chapter of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, or PFLAG, said that instead of money, he is dropping notes explaining a boycott of the Salvation Army into the red kettles of bell-ringers at local shopping centers. PFLAG doesn't agree with the Salvation Army's policies toward gays and lesbians. The Salvation Army doesn't ask the people who receive its help what their sexual orientation is. They give toys to needy children at Christmas. They give grocery baskets to needy families all year long. When there's a disaster, anything from a garage fire to the WTC attacks, the Salvation Army is there with hot coffee, donuts, and any help they can give. PFLAG doesn't do those things. Please help support the Salvation Army.
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The official al-Qadissiya newspaper quoted Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz as saying Iraq wanted to end its problems with America. "Iraq calls for the solving of all disputes through dialogue under the condition that the American administration renounces the policy of aggression and threats," Aziz said during an address to a visiting U.S. peace activist group.
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Richard Perle, head of the Pentagon defense policy board, called on the European Union to abandon its support for Arafat. "The justification for funneling money to a corrupt regime was that it would somehow assist in producing peace. It is now very clear that is not doing that and I think anyone with any sense recognizes that it will not do that. The rationale is gone," he said. He added that he thought those who assumed that if Mr. Arafat went, his successor would be worse, were mistaken. "It may well be better," he said.
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Israeli helicopters fired missiles at a car waiting at a stoplight, killing two Palestinian boys, ages 3 and 13, and wounding at least seven people, including Islamic Jihad activist Mohammed Ayoub Sidr, 26, who was the target of the attack.
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A Palestinian truck exploded in northern Ramallah just before US envoy General Anthony Zinni's convoy was to pass by on his way to a meeting with Arafat. The driver was killed in the explosion. There were no other casualties. After an investigation, both the IDF and the Palestinians eventually agreed the blast was an accident. Hey, these things happen around American envoys all the time. Don't they?
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Chairman-for-Life Yasser Arafat dropped plans to attend a gathering of the Organization of the Islamic Conference in Qatar. The Palestinian leader feared Israel would not allow him to return. "He's gone, Moshe! Quick! Lock the door!"
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Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, whose name appears on a list of 22 most wanted terrorists issued Oct. 10 by President Bush, was arrested in Mandera, 500 miles northeast of Nairobi on Kenya's border with Somalia. Swedan is one of two al-Qaida operatives who bought a truck used in the Aug. 7, 1998 Nairobi embassy bombing in which 219 people were killed, including 12 Americans.
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American forces have already flown surveillance flights over Somalia looking for al-Qaeda forces to target in the next stage of the global war on terror, according to The Observer. Navy pilots have flown missions to map two al-Qaeda camps near the Kenyan border with a view to launching air strikes, Pentagon sources said. US warships have positioned themselves off the coast near the capital, Mogadishu, to stop bin Laden from hiding there, and to prepare for an attack if necessary. And the Rangers are looking forward to going back and having a talk with some of their old friends.
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Downing Street intervened to "clarify" foolish comments by Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary, who said Britain would not hand over Osama bin Laden to America if he were to face execution there. "Mr Hoon was talking hypothetically about him arriving on UK shores," said the spokesman. "But in the unlikely event that bin Laden allows himself to be captured by British forces alone, we have always made it clear that, since America is the wronged country, Britain would hand him over to the US."
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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
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
