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The leader of the Taliban was quoted Wednesday as calling for a holy struggle against what he called a Western crusade against Afghanistan, and urging rich Muslims to fund the defense of his country. Qatar-based al-Jazeera television quoted Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar as saying "mere suspicion" against Osama bin Laden, named by Washington as the prime suspect in the September 11 attacks, was no justification for attacking either bin Laden or an entire country. "Merchants and owners of capital, your prime duty is to spend in the way of God," Omar was quoted as saying in a statement broadcast by al-Jazeera. "In a situation like the one we are in today jihad (holy struggle) becomes a duty for all Muslims against those invaders."
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Don't bomb the neighborhood, but clean it up with food, jobs, good housing, and health care, in order to get at the root of terrorism.
Village Voice Symposium: Howard Zinn, author of The People's History of the United States
Treat this as if a criminal is taking refuge in a neighborhood of poor, desperate people who will not give him away. Try to apprehend the evil one. Don't bomb the neighborhood, but clean it up with food, jobs, good housing, and health care, in order to get at the root of terrorism and eliminate the pool of desperation from which terrorists are recruited.
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Stop pillaging the world, you supposedly elected fucking assholes.
Village Voice Symposium Danny Hoch, actor
If the U.S. attacks another nation, we are guaranteed the murder of millions on U.S. soil. I know people that were killed on 9-11 and I am crushed. But I hold the U.S. government responsible, not the Arab world. Stop terrorism, save lives, stop pillaging the world, you supposedly elected fucking assholes. Guaranteed to work or your money back.
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What is so heartbreaking to me is that the strongest response to corporate globalization and U.S. military domination is based on such a violent and misogynist ideology.
Village Voice Symposium: Barbara Ehrenreich
I don't know how you wage war against one person; it doesn't make sense. I can imagine a commando-type raid to capture Bin Laden, then a trial, with evidence, before the world court. But that would not address the vast global inequalities in which terrorism is ultimately rooted. What is so heartbreaking to me as a feminist is that the strongest response to corporate globalization and U.S. military domination is based on such a violent and misogynist ideology.
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Village Voice Symposium Gloria Steinem, founder, Ms. magazine
Instead of dividing the world into Islam and the West, we need to make clear that we are part of the same world.
Many of the Afghan women who have been warning us about the Taliban for years say that bombing would be the surest way to unite most Afghanis around them. We need an act as positive as the terrorists were negative. For example, a massive airlift of food and medicine into Afghanistan. Instead of dividing the world into Islam and the West, we need to make clear that we are part of the same world.
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Village Voice Robin D.G. Kelley, history professor, NYU
In 1932, a group of French and Caribbean Surrealists got together and wrote a brief called "Murderous Humanitarianism," vowing to change "the imperialist war, in its chronic and colonial form, into a civil war." I say the same thing:
We need a civil war, class war, whatever, to put an end to U.S. policies that endanger all of us.
We need a civil war, class war, whatever, to put an end to U.S. policies that endanger all of us. Imagine a U.S. foreign policy committed to real democracy in the world, ending poverty with no strings attached or profit motive, respecting Islamic concerns regarding Western occupation of sacred land. Rather than beat up a whole nation, we could identify and isolate those directly responsible and bring them to trial and, as we should have done with the Confederate South, make them liable for damages by seizing assets.
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The government should take the money it would spend on bombs and soldiers and use it to help the wretched Afghan people.
What if the U.S. offered to lift nonmilitary sanctions on Iraq in return for Osama bin Laden, who would be tried at the international criminal court? As for Afghanistan, perhaps the most miserable place on earth at the moment, the government should take the money it would spend on bombs and soldiers and use half of it to help the wretched Afghan people and support those among them who favor democracy, human rightsespecially women's rights and ethnic cooperationand the other half to Pakistan in return for withdrawing its support for the Taliban.
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Michael Kelly
Let me see if I may cause further upset. Two propositions: The first is that much of what is passing for pacifism in this instance is not pacifism at all but only the latest tedious manifestation of a well-known pre-existing condition: the largely reactionary, largely incoherent, largely silly muddle of anti-American, anti-corporatist, anti-globalist sentiments that passes for the politics of the left these days. The second is that, again in this instance,
The antiwar sentiment is intellectually dishonest, elitist and hypocritical.
the antiwar sentiment (to employ a term that encompasses both genuine pacifism and an opposition to war rooted in America-hatred) is intellectually dishonest, elitist and hypocritical.
That the antiwar sentiment is in general only a manifestation of the larger anomie of the reactionary left is clear. The first large antiwar demonstration was held last weekend in Washington, and the most obvious fact about it was that this protest against war was planned before there was ever any thought of war. It had been intended as just another in the series of protests against globalism that have been serving as a sort of kvetch basin for all sorts of unhappy people who like to yell about the awfulness of "Amerika" or international corporations or rich people or people who drive large cars or drug companies that test their products on bunny rabbits or life its own unfair self.
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NY Post
American neo-Nazis are praising Osama bin Laden in the wake of the horrific attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. On Web sites and in interviews with The Post, some fringe groups are expressing sympathy - and even support - for the terrorists who snuffed out the lives of some 6,000 Americans.
"One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter," said August Kreis, a spokesman for Sheriff's Posse Comitatus and Aryan Nations, from his compound in rural Pennsylvania. Kreis, who spoke of "an ideological oneness" with the terrorists, has a Web site that attacks the federal government, Israel and Jews, and praises the "Islamic freedom fighters."
"Anyone willing to drive a plane into a building to kill Jews is all right by me."
Billy Roper, of the National Alliance, echoes Kreis' rhetoric. In an e-mail to NA members, which he said was pirated by the anti-racist Southern Poverty Law Center, Roper wrote: "The enemy of our enemy is, for now at least, our friend. We may not want them marrying our daughter, just as they would not want us marrying theirs. We may not want them in our societies, just as they would not want us in theirs. But anyone willing to drive a plane into a building to kill Jews is all right by me. I wish our members had half as much testicular fortitude."
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Atlanta Journal Constitution Craig Schneider - Staff
When anti-war protesters burned the American flag in the nation's capital last weekend, sparks started flying as counterprotesters screamed in disgust. But after an Emory University student burned a flag on a college radio show Friday night, fists started flying. After lighting up the flag, Alexander Dreyer exited the studio and allegedly was attacked by two students. Dreyer, 20, of Decatur told school police that as one student held him the other punched him in the jaw. While no charges have been filed, police say the incident is still under investigation. ...
Since the flag burning, the radio host has lost her show. The student-run radio station insists the host was forced out because she allowed a guest to start a fire. The host suspects differently. "I'm concerned that what's fueling this is what was being burned," said Kisha Hope, host of the show called "Girls Wear Boxers Too."
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The Weekly Standard
Matching Chomsky is the novelist Arundhati Roy, universally praised author of "The God of Small Things." In the Manchester Guardian, she declared that
Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush are really the same person.
Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush are really the same person. The terrorist "is nothing more the American president's dark doppelganger. The savage twin of all that purports to be beautiful and civilized. He has been sculpted from the spare rib of a world laid to waste by America's foreign policy: its gunboat diplomacy, its nuclear arsenal, its vulgarly stated policy of 'full-spectrum dominance,' its chilling disregard for non-American lives, its barbarous military interventions, its support for despotic and dictatorial regimes, its merciless economic agenda that has munched through the economies of poor countries like a cloud of locusts. Its marauding multinationals who are taking over the air we breathe, the ground we stand on, the water we drink, the thoughts we think."
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"If the word 'cowardly' is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others."
The Weekly Standard's way of recognizing inanity by intellectuals and artists in the wake of the terrorist attacks--goes, of course, to the essayist and novelist Susan Sontag for her note in the Sept. 24 issue of the New Yorker. She managed, in the space of only 460 words, to score every possible point. There was the shtick of deliberately saying something outrageous: "If the word 'cowardly' is to be used, it might be more aptly applied to those who kill from beyond the range of retaliation, high in the sky, than to those willing to die themselves in order to kill others." There was the moral equivalence in which the attacked are blamed along with the attackers: "How many citizens are aware of the ongoing American bombing of Iraq?" There was the willful obtuseness in moral reasoning with which she defined "courage" as "a morally neutral virtue." And finally, there was the use of the occasion to indulge old political grievances: "Everything is not O.K. . . . We have a robotic president."
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L. IAN MACDONALD Montreal Gazette
The moral-equivalency crowd was out in force Monday at a feminist conference in Ottawa where Sunera Thobani said United States foreign policy was "soaked in blood." Thobani, a former president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, also called the U.S. "the most dangerous and powerful global force unleashing horrific levels of violence."
So that's it. The Americans got what was coming to them. Six thousand people are dead under the rubble of the World Trade Centre. Guilty of going to work in the morning, they obviously deserved their terrible fate. Hundreds of thousands more have lost their jobs, and it's all their fault. Perhaps Thobani could explain her views to the widowed spouses, orphaned children, broken families and grieving communities, including dozens in Canada. Perhaps she could elaborate her position to the people who have been thrown out of work, including thousands of Canadians.
Sitting beside Thobani, as she made this intellectually disgraceful and disgusting statement, was Hedy Fry, the secretary of state for the status of women. Did Fry get up and leave the hall in disgust? Did she summon reporters and disavow Thobani's remarks? No, she simply did not join in the applause and a standing ovation. "People in this country are allowed to say what they want," she later told the Commons. "I did not support it. I did not applaud it. I got up and left immediately following. I stand in the House right now and say I condemn the speech."
There is no doubt that the U.S. made some foreign-policy choices in the 1980s that have since come back to haunt it, notably supporting Iraq's Saddam Hussein against Iran, and the mujaheddin against the invading Soviets in Afghanistan. But from there to suggest that America's hands are soaked in blood, or that it is the most dangerous force in the world, is simply odious.
But wait, there's more. Thobani wondered who felt the pain of "the victims of U.S. aggression." The victims of aggression are precisely the women of Afghanistan who suffer under the unspeakable cruelties of the Taliban theocracy, a tyrannical and repressive regime that publicly executes women in soccer stadiums. Who is speaking up for them? Not the women at the Ottawa conference, dripping with a sanctimonious sense of Canadian superiority.
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The struggle against theocratic fascism is one of the main struggles of our time; it started long before 11 September 2001; no compromise with such an enemy is either possible or desirable.
The last time I was invited to contribute to a Voice symposium, I was asked to specify the highest and lowest cultural points of the last two decades. I replied that the lowest point was the fatwah against Salman Rushdie, with the capitulation by publishing houses and many pseudo-intellectuals to the supposed imperatives of religious feeling. The high point was the ultimately successful resistance to such blackmail. I'll take this opportunity to repeat myself: The struggle against theocratic fascism is one of the main struggles of our time; it started long before 11 September 2001; no compromise with such an enemy is either possible or desirable; and those who wish otherwise, or who stand aside, or who look for excuses, will still be treated with contempt (and as if they were "collateral damage") by a resourceful foe who cannot win and who, therefore, can as well as must be pitilessly defeated. Secular democracy is not a free gift; it will require volunteers to defend itself against all enemies foreign and domestic. No time like the present.
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Modesto Bee
Defying polls and his party leaders, Rep. Gary Condit has quietly launched a bid for re-election, raising the prospect of a bitter primary revolving around his relationship with missing intern Chandra Levy. Wanna hear my pig whistle "Yankee Doodle"?
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Media Research Center Dan Rather is certainly not following the left-wing anti-war mantra. On Monday's CBS Evening News he pushed Secretary of State Colin Powell for military action: "With 13,000 U.S. casualties, surely some time we're going to do more than just put together coalitions and talk about cutting their finances." On the same night's Entertainment Tonight, as he did two weeks earlier with David Letterman, he offered himself for service if President Bush asks: "If he needs me in uniform, tell me when and where -- I'm there."
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Quote of the Week. FNC's Brit Hume, who wears a flag lapel pin, reacting to the ABC News directive against on-air personnel displaying them: "Our flag is not the symbol of the Bush administration, and Fox News is not located in Switzerland." Does the "B" in ABC stand for Bozo?
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SARA KUGLER : Associated Press Writer
Three weeks after terrorists crashed jetliners into the Trade Center towers, Michael Rothberg and 40 co-workers from the bond trading firm Cantor Fitzgerald became the first among 5,219 people missing in the wake of the attack to be declared dead by a court. Seven hundred of Cantor Fitzgerald's employees haven't been heard from since the day of the attacks. All worked above the 100th floor of the first tower hit. "It's been three weeks and nobody from the firm got out," Iris Rothberg said Tuesday. She said her family asked a special state Supreme Court panel to clear the way for a death certificate.
It's just a first step in dealing with a list of legal issues the family faces with her son's death, and it does nothing to lessen the pain.
Giuliani said Tuesday that 1,202 families had applied for death certificates for loved ones among the missing.
"The feeling is the same as the day it happened," she said. Once the health commissioner receives the court's report, he will issue a death certificate. The document, necessary for insurance benefits and to access bank accounts, normally take up to three years if there is no body, but officials have streamlined the process to help the families.
Giuliani said Tuesday that 1,202 families had applied for death certificates for loved ones among the missing. Of the 363 people confirmed dead as of Wednesday, 301 have been identified. Officials expect it to take months to recover remains from the 1.2 million tons of rubble and say some of the victims may never be found.
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Steve Miller, Washington Times
The most widely disseminated poll a Gallup survey conducted last month found that 70 percent of blacks approved of the way Mr. Bush was handling his job. Another post-Sept. 11 poll, by the Pew Research Center, found that 49 percent of blacks support the president, up from 32 percent before the attacks
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MSNBC Mustafa Saied
In some Muslim communities, it is not unusual for non-Islamic religious or cultural observances to be ridiculed. I have attended Friday congregational prayers in the week before Christmas,
Parents are increasingly encouraged to send their children to Islamic schools because of a rising sentiment in the American Muslim community that the nation's public schools are not safe, that they teach anti-Islamic subject matter and that their children are better off surrounded by Muslims rather than non-Muslims.
Halloween or Thanksgiving in which the sermons are marked with sarcastic references to American religious and cultural practices. This strikes me as hypocritical, especially considering that greetings on the Muslim Eid holidays from non-Muslims are received with pride, but members of most mosques are forbidden to acknowledge their neighbors' celebration of Christmas or return a holiday greeting.
Parents are increasingly encouraged to send their children to Islamic schools because of a rising sentiment in the American Muslim community that the nation's public schools are not safe, that they teach anti-Islamic subject matter and that their children are better off surrounded by Muslims rather than non-Muslims. I have not known any of these Islamic schools to encourage or practice the reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance, so I still fail to see how patriotism is in any way condoned, inculcated or preserved in the minds of our children.
The most extreme manifestation of anti-American sentiment is in the handful of mosques, Islamic centers and student groups that are controlled by forces that display a particularly venomous hatred towards the Western society. The teachings of religious experts ancient ones, like Ibn Taymiyyah, a Saudi scholar of the 13th and 14th centuries or recent leaders like Saudi Sheikh Albany or Abdul Wahhab are notable for their harsh rulings and strong words against non-Muslims.
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With their oxymoronic holy war, Osama bin Laden and his murderous disciples meant to expose our moral vacuity. They simply succeeded in illuminating how little all our baubles and all our booty have to do with who we really are.
But our culture turns out to be about much more than its glittery surface, and that's been clear in all that's happened since Sept. 11: the exposure to the quiet lives of inspiration that so many victims led; the valor of rescue workers; the altruistic derring-do of the men who fought back on Flight 93; our concern about inflicting unnecessary suffering on innocent Afghans; the generosity and civic tolerance at the heart of our country's response to horrific loss.
With their oxymoronic holy war, Osama bin Laden and his murderous disciples meant to expose our moral vacuity. But they exposed only their own. They simply succeeded in illuminating not just to the rest of the world but to us how little all our baubles and all our booty have to do with who we really are.
The terrorists taught us this: We are more than the sum of our stuff.
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A frustrated Secretary of State Colin Powell insisted Wednesday that the US-led anti-terrorism campaign was not directed at Islam despite persistent reports in the Arab and Muslim world to the contrary. At the same time, however, he would not say the campaign, aimed first at Afghanistan-based Osama bin Laden, would stop after bringing the exiled Saudi militant to justice and dismantling his al-Qaeda network. "We are focusing on al-Qaeda and focusing on Afghanistan and that is the first phase of this operation, and I obviously cannot comment on what might happen in the future," Powell told reporters.
"We are not seeing this as anti-Arab, anti-Islam," he said after meeting Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani. "It's anti-terrorism ... We are not looking for conflict with other nations."
In Riyadh and Cairo, Saudi and Egyptian officials said late Wednesday they were "sure" after discussions with visiting US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that Washington would not strike at Arab countries in retaliation for the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. But US officials including Powell have refused thus far to publicly rule out any option and Tuesday denied a report that Jordan's King Abdullah II had gotten assurances during a recent trip to Washington that all Arab nations were safe from potential strikes.
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SPECIAL CLINTON-BASHING EXTRA: On the plane to Chicago today, I was busy reading the New Yorker and came across Nick Lemann's piece on Hillary Clinton.
Even after a massacre, it's still all about her.
Nick's reporting on this administration has, I think, been easily the best out there, so I hope he doesn't take this personally. But Senator Clinton's response to a question Lemann posed is simply jaw-dropping. In the context of the World Trade Center massacre, he asked her "how she thought people would react to knowing they are on the receiving end of a murderous anger." Clinton's reply: "Oh I am well aware that it is out there. One of the most difficult experiences I personally had in the White House was during the health-care debate, being the object of extraordinary rage." She talks about hecklers and the threat of violence and the rhetoric spewed by radio talk show hosts. I've no doubt these things hurt. Heck, I've had my fair share of the same kind of thing. But to equate that with the murder of thousands of innocent people by terrorists is simply deranged. Or rather, it's just another sign that this woman adds whole universes of meaning to the word narcissism. Even after a massacre, it's still all about her.
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Moussa told reporters he saw no reason why an Arab country should be the target of any offensive.
Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa warned on Wednesday that any attack on Arab countries would have dire consequences for the Middle East and on the U.S.-led international coalition against "terrorism". Moussa told reporters he saw no reason why an Arab country should be the target of any offensive. But he added: "If this occurs, it would lead to a very dangerous and critical situation in the region and will harm the idea of international cooperation or an international coalition against terrorism." Lemme get this straight: Normally, the purpose of a coalition is to accomplish something. But he's saying that if we actually do something, then there are adverse consequences, which means there isn't any coalition, doesn't it?
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Hussein Dakroub Associated Press Writer
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Activists and clerics at an Arab-Muslim conference, including the leaders of Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, denounced the United States on Wednesday as a "sponsor of terrorism" for its support of Israel. The hastily organized conference was called to "discuss how to cope with the aftermath" of the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States, said Nawaf Musawi, an official with the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah.
Among the 200 delegates at the two-day gathering were two of Israel's leading enemies, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah, and Ramadan Abdullah Shalah, head of the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad. The United States has characterized both as terrorist groups, although they were not on the U.S. list of groups and individuals whose accounts President Bush ordered frozen in the wake of last month's attacks.
Delegates claimed Washington's campaign against terrorism was aimed at "regaining complete American hegemony on the entire world."
"The United States exploited the humanitarian tragedy to which thousands of innocent Americans had been subjected to present itself as a victim and conceal the real picture of the U.S. policy, which is based on oppression, domination and aggression," delegates said in a statement at the end of the meeting, read out by Musawi.
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Daily Jang
Launching countrywide mass mobilisation campaign against the US possible attack on Afghanistan, thousands of JUI-F activists on Tuesday marched through various roads in the provincial capital and vowed to foil all nefarious designs hatched by the US and allied forces.
The attack on Afghanistan would be considered as an attack on Islam.
The US forces would have to face the wrath of the Muslims if it inflicted war on Afghanistan. He held the US government responsible for promoting terrorism in the world.
as an attack on Islam.
Wearing black and white turbans, the protestors were carrying placard and banners inscribed with anti-US slogans. They also chanted slogans against those Muslim countries, which are parting their ways from Taliban at the behest of the US. Addressing the protestors at Railway football ground, Maulana Fazlur Rahman said the people of Pakistan are ready to render all kind of sacrifices for Islam and their Afghan brethren. The US forces would have to face the wrath of the Muslims if it inflicted war on Afghanistan, he observed. He, however, held the US government responsible for promoting terrorism in the world.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld arrived in Saudi Arabia Wednesday to discuss Washington's campaign against terrorism with its most powerful Gulf Arab ally, the U.S. embassy said. Rumsfeld, who also plans to visit Egypt, Oman and possibly Uzbekistan, said during his journey to the kingdom that he would not raise the sensitive question of U.S. warplanes using the kingdom's air bases for any strikes on Afghanistan.
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Jim Hoagland, Washington Post
They have recruited to fight terrorism regimes that practice or tolerate terrorism as a matter of policy. The inclusion of such states at the center of the coalition undermines the sweeping and noble war aims enunciated by Bush, who has promised not to divide terrorists into bad and good camps.
The difficulties of keeping that promise -- and the huge stakes this still-developing campaign has for South Asia -- were blasted home Monday by a car bomb and guerrilla assault that wrecked the state assembly in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir. At least 38 persons were killed in a gruesome attack on a building that, for Kashmir inhabitants, matches the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in symbolic value.
You would think the radical Islamic guerrillas who claimed responsibility for Monday's attack -- the Pakistani-based Jaish-e-Muhammed group -- might deserve to be at least called terrorists. India implored the United States to put the group on its terrorist list for earlier outrages. But Washington declined out of fear that such action would undermine the regime of Gen. Pervez Musharraf and complicate U.S. diplomatic goals.
This is diplomacy without vision and without the roots needed for a long, difficult struggle against terrorism. It is delusional to think that the United States can reform the Musharraf regime or elements in the Taliban regime in neighboring Afghanistan into responsible partners to fight terrorism. It is also delusional to think one can accomplish more than one task at a time, or at least to do it well. Sometimes one thing lays the foundation for the next. Once the greater of two evils is disposed of, the remaining lesser is not only proportionately greater than what remains, but also weaker.
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"The statement of Mr Powell that the US would go after terrorism that affects India is regrettable, nonsensical, unrealistic and contrary to historical facts."
Mutahidda Jihad Council (MJC), an alliance of Kashmiri Mujahideen groups, on Wednesday deplored a reported statement of the US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, that the US would stretch its drive against terrorism to Kashmir. "The statement of Mr Powell that the US would go after terrorism that affects India is regrettable, nonsensical, unrealistic and contrary to historical facts," said the council at the end of an "emergent meeting" in Muzaffarabad. The meeting, according to a statement, was presided over by the MJC chairman Syed Salahuddin, and it discussed the latest situation emerging in the region, with particular reference to Indian foreign minister Jaswant Singh's meetings with the US officials in Washington.
Regarding the Monday's car bomb blast in Srinagar, the MJC said it was the work of Indian agencies.
"We want to make it clear that terrorism is being committed by India in Kashmir through its 750,000 troops in held Kashmir for the past five decades." the MJC said. Regarding the Monday's car bomb blast in Srinagar, the MJC said it was the work of Indian agencies. "The incident occurred at a time when the legislative assembly's session had finished and Jaswant Singh was in the US trying to bracket the Kashmiris' freedom struggle with global terrorism on the other." "The code of conduct of the Mujahideen does not allow them to attack and kill unarmed civilians, because we believe that such incidents impair the freedom struggle," the MJC said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Some of the terrorists involved in the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States also took part in the attack on the USS Cole a year ago in Yemen and the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Africa, Bush administration officials said as the government laid out its case against Osama bin Laden. The officials said this was a key point in a presentation made to NATO allies Tuesday in Brussels as the administration sought to make the case that Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida associates were behind the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Several hijackers involved in the attacks three weeks ago had links to al-Qaida, the officials said.
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A Muslim terrorist said to have confessed to planning to blow up the US Embassy in Paris on the orders of bin Laden has denied any involvement. Lawyers for Franco-Algerian Djamel Beghal, who was extradited to France from Dubai on Monday, said yesterday: "He has contested being commissioned by anybody to organise, prepare and carry out terrorist acts, notably against US interests in Paris."
They added that earlier statements by Beghal linking him with bin Laden were made in "indeterminate circumstances" in Dubai.
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Cash to fund the hijackings flowed between banks in at least three countries in the run-up to the atrocities. Sheikh Saeed, also known as Mustafa Mohamed Ahmad, was identified as a key financial manager for bin Laden, bankrolling terrorists preparing for the September 11 suicide attacks on New York and Washington.
The base for a number of bank accounts controlled by Ahmad is thought to be Dubai. The United Arab Emirates central bank has now frozen all of Ahmad's accounts and accounts linked to 25 other people and organisations identified by US Treasury officials as al-Qaeda suspects. Another 13 bank accounts, holding 900,000, have been frozen in the German cities of Munich and Hamburg. Investigators traced money transfers to Florida on September 8 and 9, from an account under Ahmad's name in Dubai. The funds were paid to Mohamed Atta, the ringleader of the 19 hijackers. Investigators have also identified a further transfer of cash from a bank account in Florida, where Atta stayed, to Dubai before September 11. Ahmad did the financial fixing for several hijackers to live in Florida and pay for flying lessons.
A UAE government minister disclosed that a man with a Saudi Arabian passport - suspected to be Ahmad - left the UAE for Pakistan on the day of the US attacks.
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PITTSBURGH -- A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted four Iraqi men on charges of obtaining fraudulent commercial driver's licenses to haul hazardous materials, the U.S. attorney's office in Pittsburgh said. The four are among a total of 21 men who were arrested in seven states last week in the wake of the Sept. 11 attack on New York and the Pentagon, as U.S. authorities tightened their scrutiny of hazardous materials shipments amid concerns about potential new threats. The case has no ties to the hijackers who destroyed New York's World Trade Center, damaged the Pentagon and left more than 5,700 people dead or missing and feared dead.
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Kevin Johnson and Kevin McCoy, USA TODAY
Weeks before the terrorist attacks Sept. 11, top Justice Department officials turned down a request by FBI agents in Minnesota for a warrant to gather intelligence on a French Algerian man now being held as a material witness in the assaults. Federal authorities confirmed Tuesday that the agents were denied access in August to the contents of a computer hard drive seized from Habib Zacarias Moussaoui. Moussaoui, 33, has been held on immigration charges since Aug. 17, after investigators learned he had tried to take lessons at a Minnesota flight school on how to steer not take off or land airplanes. He was in custody at the time of the attacks.
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