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February 2002
February
1, 2002
Iran's supreme
leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, condemned President George
Bush yesterday as "a man thirsty for human blood".
His attack came in the wake of Mr Bush's state of the union
address, in which the president singled out Iran, Iraq and
North Korea as "an axis of evil" and accused them of
developing weapons of mass destruction.
King Abdullah II of Jordan has praised US President George W
Bush's "war on terror" and appeared to give tacit
approval to the current American hard line towards Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat.
DUNCAN SMITH yesterday signaled his strong support for America
to extend the war against terrorism to countries such as Iraq.
"Britain should give absolute support to the measures
necessary to ensure that events like those of September 11 are
never repeated."
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February
2, 2002
The Foreign Office has confirmed the name of a fifth
Briton being held by the US on suspicion of fighting for the
Taliban or al-Qaeda. Jamal Udeen, 35, is being held in
Kandahar. The web designer from Manchester is being held with
Ruhal Ahmed, 20, one of three detainees from Tipton in the
West Midlands.
FBI investigators believe that five videotaped "martyrdom
messages" recovered in Afghanistan were probably recorded
more than two years ago, casting doubt on government fears
that the tapes signaled imminent suicide attacks, law
enforcement officials said yesterday.
US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz has stressed the
importance of coalitions in the war against terrorism.
Addressing an international security conference in the German
city of Munich, he said there would not be one all-embracing
coalition, but different alliances for different missions.
The Bush administration plans to deploy 1,600 National Guard
troops within the next several weeks to help with security at
the nation's borders
Two local men were sentenced yesterday for their roles in
helping two of the Sept. 11 hijackers illegally obtain
Virginia identification cards, and a judge ordered that a
third man charged with a similar offense be held in prison
while authorities continue to investigate possible connections
to terrorism.
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February
3, 2002
US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told an
international security conference that Washington would go it
alone if necessary to fight terrorism, but Russia and Western
allies had reservations about the US hard line. Russian
Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov renewed at the 43-nation
conference in Munich Russia's support for the US-led war on
terrorism, but said Russia was not "prepared" to
extend the war to Iraq.
Sudan sits on a short list of states that allegedly sponsor
terrorism, placing it high on the list of potential targets in
America’s war on terrorism. A full set of sanctions prevents
trade between the two nations, and Sudan stands accused of
harboring terrorist training camps and a manufacturing plant
for Iraqi nerve gas precursors. If that weren’t enough,
Osama bin Laden himself lived here from 1991 to 1996 after
being stripped of his Saudi citizenship. Al-Qaida members were
such regular visitors that he had two guesthouses for them in
the capital city. A senior Sudanese official, with some
understatement, today admits, “That was a big mistake.”
With diplomats and legal advisers of 100-plus countries
participating, the two sides of the debate merely restated
long-held positions: the United States, European Union, and
many others condemn any targeting of civilians; the 56-member
Organization of Islamic Conference insists on exempting
"national liberation movements" and "resistance
to foreign occupation
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February
4, 2002
U.S. and British planes patrolling a no-fly zone over northern
Iraq bombed Iraqi air defense systems Monday in response to
anti-aircraft fire. It was the first time U.S. and British
planes had bombed Iraq's north since the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks on the United States, said Capt. Brian Cullin of the
U.S. European Command. Allied planes over northern Iraq have
been repeatedly fired on since Sept. 11.
It is 10 years since US troops withdrew from the Philippines.
The people voted in a referendum in favor of closing their
bases. Miriam Donohoe, reports from Manila. But now US
soldiers are back, and there is real fear that the country may
become the next battleground after Afghanistan in the
American-led war on terrorism. The US and the Philippines have
set in motion joint military maneuvers, described as training
exercises; 650 American troops are to teach Filipino soldiers
how to fight the Abu Sayyaf, an Islamic fundamentalist group
linked to al-Qaeda.
There was a worrying perception of an erosion of human rights
values in the wake of the September 11th attacks on the United
States, the UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Mrs Mary
Robinson, told reporters at the World Economic Forum in New
York on Saturday. While combating terrorism was necessary,
"it is also extremely important to maintain the standards
we have built up - the rule of law, international human rights
standards, international humanitarian standards, the Geneva
Convention",
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February
5, 2002
Puffing on a cigar from behind his imposing glass-top desk,
the government's point man in the investigation into the
kidnapping of Daniel Pearl said Tuesday the Wall Street
Journal reporter's abductors are known and it's a matter of
days
Wearing bright red insignia, members of a new
government-backed security force expanded patrols Tuesday in
northern Afghanistan's biggest city in a move to bring
stability to a volatile region.
North Korea accused the United States on Tuesday of plotting a
war to occupy the communist state, denouncing President Bush
for calling it part of an "axis of evil" and saying
it has "unlimited striking power" to repel any
aggressors
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February
6, 2002
American authorities in Afghanistan have released 27 people
taken prisoner during a raid last month on what U.S. forces
mistook as a hide-out for al-Qaida terrorists.
President Bush is considering "a full range of
options" for removing Saddam Hussein as Iraq's president,
Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday.
A planeload of detainees took off late Wednesday from the
United States' main military installation in Afghanistan, the
first such flight in three weeks.
There is no evidence Osama bin Laden's terror network is
operating in Saudi Arabia, the kingdom's top security official
said Wednesday, but he promised no mercy for any al-Qaida
radicals who might be discovered in the country
Iran has denied U.S. accusations that Tehran is seeking
weapons of mass destruction and said it unlike the Bush
administration was adhering to international weapons treaties.
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February
7, 2002
A plane carrying 28 detainees from the war in Afghanistan
landed Thursday at this remote naval base, where the U.S.
government now plans to apply legal protections under the
Geneva Conventions to captured Taliban soldiers.
President Bush has determined that the Geneva Convention
applies to the conflict in Afghanistan and Taliban soldiers,
but not al-Qaida fighters and other terrorists, the White
House announced Thursday.
The U.S. commander of the war in Afghanistan said Thursday
that American ground forces may be dispatched to investigate
the site where suspected al-Qaida members are reported to have
been killed in a missile attack by a CIA-operated drone
aircraft.
An unruly passenger on a United Airlines flight from Miami to
Buenos Aires tried to force his way into the cockpit Thursday,
managing to smash in part of the door before a co-pilot
clubbed him with a small ax.
From rescue workers who say they have lung problems to
business owners who say their shops were damaged, 1,300 people
have given notice they may sue the city for a total of $7.18
billion over the aftermath of the World Trade Center attack.
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February
8, 2002
American soldiers are at a remote site in the mountains of
eastern Afghanistan to determine whether senior al-Qaida
figures were among those killed in a missile strike by a
CIA-operated drone aircraft, senior Pentagon officials said.
Police charged three men in the kidnapping of Wall Street
Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, officials said Friday, and
Pakistan's president said he was hopeful the journalist would
be freed soon
An Indonesian man said he financed bombings that killed 22
people in Manila in December 2000 with money from an Islamic
militant group thought linked to Osama bin Laden's terror
network, according to affidavits given to prosecutors Friday
The city's official count of those killed at the World Trade
Center is leveling off at around 2,800 after months of work by
investigators to find errors and duplicated names in the lists
of the missing.
The number, which once topped 6,700, has hovered just above
2,800 for more than a month now, and stood at 2,843 as of
Friday. The toll is likely to drop slightly as investigators
make changes.
The current total includes 712 people whose remains have been
identified by the medical examiner, and 1,932 people whose
families have requested court-issued death certificates
because other evidence proved they were in the towers.
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February
9, 2002
Afghan authorities want to interrogate the former Taliban
foreign minister now being held by the U.S. military and
ensure he faces trial, an Afghan foreign ministry spokesman
said Saturday
The key suspect in the disappearance here of Wall Street
Journal reporter Daniel Pearl may have fled to Pakistan's most
populous province, police said Saturday, insisting they still
hope to free Pearl soon.
The Afghan government released 320 captured Taliban fighters
Saturday, a gesture of reconciliation as the new
administration focuses on rebuilding a country shattered by
decades of war. Interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai told the
men to go back to their homes,
"Instead of using guns, work and earn money."
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The Taliban's foreign minister turned himself in to
authorities in Afghanistan, giving American forces what could
be one of the biggest intelligence prizes in the war so far.
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February
10, 2002
An aunt of the main suspect in Daniel Pearl's kidnapping spoke
with her nephew by telephone and pleaded with him to free the
Wall Street Journal reporter, Pakistan's interior minister
said Sunday
An Afghan warlord who led the worst factional fighting since
the fall of the Taliban vowed Sunday to fight rather than step
down as governor of an eastern province. In the north,
warlords agreed to create a "security belt" to keep
unauthorized weapons out of a major city
An Afghan warlord who led the worst factional fighting since
the fall of the Taliban vowed Sunday to fight rather than step
down as governor of an eastern province. In the north,
warlords agreed to create a "security belt" to keep
unauthorized weapons out of a major city
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February
11, 2002
Angered by the United States' labeling of Iran as part of an
"axis of evil," hundreds of thousands of Iranians
chanted "Death to America" on Monday during
demonstrations to mark the 23rd anniversary of the Islamic
Revolution.
A Frenchman who claims to have crossed paths in Afghanistan
with key figures tied to the Sept. 11 attacks, a thwarted
millennium plot on Los Angeles and other threats on American
citizens is providing French authorities with a treasure-trove
of information on al-Qaida, officials revealed Monday
Opium vendors shut their open-air market Monday under what
they said were U.S. military orders — becoming first targets
in a campaign against Afghanistan's post-Taliban drug boom
Despite being interrogated for nearly three weeks, a large
number of detainees from the Afghan war still have not been
identified as fighters for either the Taliban or al-Qaida, a
U.S. official said.
The bodies of six Port Authority police officers were found
early on Saturday in the World Trade Center ruins near the
remains of a woman they apparently were trying to rescue, the
Port Authority said on Monday.
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February
12, 2002
Afghan authorities are negotiating the surrender of some 15
Taliban leaders, who may include former Cabinet ministers, an
Afghan official said Tuesday — a development that could
boost efforts to find the movement's fugitive leader and
terror suspect
Police arrested a British-born Islamic militant Tuesday they
say masterminded the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal
reporter Daniel Pearl — the biggest break yet in the quest
to free him. An official close to the investigation said the
suspect told police Pearl is alive
Slobodan Milosevic orchestrated the murders of thousands of
people in a campaign of "savagery" with the sole
goal of satisfying his all-consuming thirst for power, a
prosecutor said Tuesday, opening the former Yugoslav
president's trial for war
Some of the detainees at this American base are not Muslim but
Christian, U.S. military officials say, describing inmates as
members of a "global community" who in some cases
may be sympathetic to groups other than the Taliban or
al-Qaida.
Bolstered by a network of followers around the world, Osama
bin Laden remains a terrorist threat and the danger will grow
if he finds a new sanctuary to replace his uprooted bases in
Afghanistan, the former Saudi intelligence chief
Angered by the United States' labeling of Iran as part of an
"axis of evil," hundreds of thousands of Iranians
chanted "Death to America" on Monday during
demonstrations to mark the 23rd anniversary of the Islamic
Revolution.
The FBI issued an extraordinary terrorist alert Monday night,
asking law enforcement and the American public to be on the
lookout for a Yemeni man and several associates who might be
plotting a terrorist attack as early as Tuesday.
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February
13, 2002
A suspected al-Qaida member blew himself up Wednesday evening
after being cornered by security forces in a San'a suburb,
police said
Federal prosecutors mindful of new terrorism warnings sought
the identity Wednesday of a man charged with carrying fake
identification on a road near the Pentagon. A judge ordered
the man held
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, meeting with President
Bush, said Wednesday he's reasonably sure that kidnapped Wall
Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is alive. Musharraf
suggested the kidnapping may have been in response to his own
crackdown on Islamic militants.
Heavy snow and dense fog Wednesday prevented rescue workers
from recovering dozens of bodies from a mountain in western
Iran where a leased Russian-built airliner crashed with 117
people on board.
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February
14, 2002
A British-born militant with a history of kidnapping
Westerners confessed Thursday to the abduction of Wall Street
Journal reporter Daniel Pearl and, in a chilling declaration,
told a Pakistani court he believes the journalist is dead
Secretary of State Colin Powell promised U.S. allies Thursday
they would be consulted closely before President Bush decided
to try to force a regime change in Iraq.
Gunmen came within 50 yards of U.S. positions in an apparently
well-organized attack on the main American base in southern
Afghanistan that left two soldiers slightly injured
Robert De Niro will serve as host of a CBS special on the
World Trade Center attack, which will include exclusive
footage from inside the complex.
Authorities arrested some 150 people, including European, Arab
and African nationals, who entered Iran from Pakistan and are
questioning them over any links to the Taliban or al-Qaida
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February
15, 2002
Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday criticized the Iranian
government for supporting terrorism and said he was
"deeply disappointed" by that nation's recent
actions
With the suspected ringleader in the kidnapping of Wall Street
Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in custody, police said Friday
they are looking for an accomplice who helped hijack an Indian
Airlines jet in 1999
Heatedly rejecting charges of mass murder and deportations,
Slobodan Milosevic said Friday he will call former President
Clinton and a host of world leaders to testify that he was the
man who brought peace to the Balkans
The military's search for Osama bin Laden and his top
lieutenants has produced little of late but frustration,
though Army special forces are still on the hunt and Navy and
Air Force warplanes are prowling the skies daily.
An Algerian pilot held for five months on suspicion of
training some of the Sept. 11 hijackers said Friday he endured
a "living nightmare" after being accused by U.S.
authorities and considers himself among the victims of the
worst terror attack in history.
Yemen is holding five of 17 men named in an FBI terrorism
alert released this week and has provided the United States
with information about them
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February
16, 2002
Peacekeepers in the Afghan capital came under fire for the
first time Saturday, their commander said. Interim Prime
Minister Hamid Karzai, speaking at the grave of a slain
government minister, prayed for an end to "the culture of
the knife and the gun
Delving deeper into Pakistan's murky Islamic underworld,
police searched Saturday for a man suspected of having helped
spring reporter Daniel Pearl's kidnapper from an Indian jail
two years
Prosecutors have accused three suspected Irish Republican Army
members of training leftist rebels in Colombia and of using
false documents, the attorney general's office said Saturday
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February
17, 2002
U.S. Army attack helicopters whipped up dust clouds and blew
the tops off coconut trees as 30 U.S. Special Forces troops
arrived on an island in the southern Philippines to train
soldiers battling Muslim extremists
Communist rebels killed at least 129 police, soldiers and
civilians in unprecedented attacks in northwestern Nepal on
Sunday, undermining prospects for peace in this poor Himalayan
kingdom still recovering from the shock of a massacre at the
royal palace last year.
Afghan leader Hamid Karzai on Sunday vowed stern justice for
high-ranking officials in his own government who he said
assassinated the country's aviation minister
The makeshift prison at Guantanamo Bay holding suspected
terrorists officially hit full capacity Saturday after 12 more
men filled out paperwork and filed into their small chain-link
and cement cells. The dozen men arrived late Friday, bringing
the total number of detainees at the camp to 300.
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February
18, 2002
A U.S. general began a mission on Monday to help Afghanistan
establish a national army with fighters loyal to the central
government instead of the tribal leaders or local warlords
Yugoslavia's president lashed out at the U.N. war crimes
tribunal Monday, expressing doubts that Slobodan Milosevic
would get a fair trial.
Slobodan Milosevic ended a three-day tirade against "new
colonialism" by the West, then heard the first
prosecution witness in his war crimes trial testify later
Monday about a Yugoslav scorched-earth plan to kill Kosovo
Muslims.
U.S. special forces ventured Monday to within a few miles of a
jungle stronghold of the Muslim extremist group targeted in
counter-terrorism exercises with the Philippine military.
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February
19, 2002
The Afghan government appointed two Cabinet members Tuesday to
investigate the killing of the aviation minister — a death
Prime Minister Hamid Karzai has blamed on senior members of
his administration.
President Bush sought to assure South Korea on Tuesday that he
is not rushing toward military confrontation with communist
North Korea, which he has branded part of "an axis of
evil."
The families of seven men who died in the Sept. 11 attacks on
the World Trade Center in New York filed a lawsuit on Tuesday
against the accused mastermind of the attack, Osama bin Laden,
as well as Iraq, Iran and numerous banks. The class-action
suit, which named 141 individuals, financial institutions,
companies and organizations alleged to support terrorism,
seeks more than $100 billion in damages for the attack that
killed more than 2,800 people.
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February
20, 2002
An Islamic militant's public confession that he was involved
in the kidnapping of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl
may not be enough to convict him, the chief prosecutor said
A Kosovo Albanian farmer who escaped death when Serbs killed
16 members of his family testified in the trial of Slobodan
Milosevic Wednesday, the first victim of the carnage in Kosovo
to confront the former Yugoslav president
Afghanistan's foreign minister on Wednesday publicly disputed
Prime Minister Hamid Karzai's claim that high-ranking
conspirators within his own government assassinated the
aviation minister.
Of the more than 475,000 units of blood donated after the
attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon (news - web
sites), only 258 were actually used for disaster......Yet the
federal government and blood centers, including the American
Red Cross (news - web sites), encouraged blood drives -...
The Red Cross, for example, ended up discarding 17 percent of
the 287,000 units it collected because the units were on the
shelf, unused, for more than 42 days.
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February
21, 2002
A U.S. Army helicopter crashed at sea in the Philippines
Thursday with 12. A search by another U.S. helicopter
and other American military aircraft found no survivors, but
the search was continuing
Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter taken hostage a
month ago by Islamic extremists in Pakistan, is dead, the
State Department said
Military jets flew hundreds of sorties against a major rebel
stronghold Thursday, bringing Colombia's 38-year civil war
into a potentially bloodier phase after the peace process was
abruptly halted
Growing signs of instability in Afghanistan, where rival
warlords are battling for power, threaten to propel the
American military into a bigger role in fending off chaos.
Gunmen opened fire on a British patrol in Kabul and the
British returned fire, a spokesman for the peacekeepers said
Thursday. There were no immediate reports of casualties on
either side as a result of the brief exchange of gunfire
Wednesday night
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February
22, 2002
A U.S. military helicopter apparently caught fire before
plunging into the sea in the southern Philippines before dawn
Friday while participating in a counterterrorism training
exercise
Pakistan's president vowed on Friday to hunt down every one of
Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl's kidnappers and to
treat terrorism with "an iron hand." Police said
they were no longer restrained in the hunt for the kidnappers
by concern for the safety of the hostage.
Jonas Savimbi, leader of the rebel group that has fought the
government and frustrated peace efforts for nearly three
decades, was killed Friday in a military attack on UNITA
forces in southeast Angola, the army and government said.
The United States wants to make sure Afghanistan's internal
rivalries don't rekindle civil war and plunge that country
again into killing and chaos.
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February
23, 2002
Pakistan has warned U.S. and other foreign diplomatic missions
and businesses to boost their security, fearing that the
slaying of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl may
signal a wider plan to thwart President Pervez Musharraf's
drive against extremism.
President Andres Pastrana returned Saturday to the very spot
in former rebel territory where he began a tortuous peace
process three years ago and blamed the guerrillas for
sabotaging the talks to end Colombia's 38-year war
On his presidential tour of Asia, President Bush pushed Japan
to get its economy in order, reassured South Koreans he's not
about to make war on their peninsula and nudged forward the
tentative U.S.-China partnership forged after Sept. 11.
An Italian court convicted the suspected head of Osama bin
Laden's European arm, handing down the first guilty verdict in
Europe tied to the al-Qaida network since the Sept. 11
attacks.
A Saudi offer of Arab peace with Israel in exchange for land
to Palestinians could provide an opening as the United States
makes a new push to halt the region's rising violence
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February
24, 2002
.The hunt for the killers of Wall Street Journal reporter
Daniel Pearl is targeting three Arab nationals — an
indication, investigators say, that the perpetrators may be
linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network
Hamid Karzai, making his first official visit to Iran as
interim leader of Afghanistan, urged the United States and
Iran on Sunday to put aside their differences and to focus on
helping to rebuild his impoverished country.
Angola's government wants to secure a cease-fire and revive
the collapsed peace process following the death of UNITA rebel
leader Jonas Savimbi, Portugal's foreign minister said Sunday
after meeting with Angola's president.
Israel decided Sunday to draw tanks back from Yasser Arafat's
compound but continue restricting him to the West Bank city of
Ramallah — a halfway measure that led angry Palestinians to
cancel planned cease-fire talks with Israeli security
officials.
Police are searching for three Arab nationals believed to have
played a role in the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street
Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, a senior investigator said,
suggesting there may be a link between the kidnappers and
Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network.
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February
25, 2002
The war in Afghanistan and Pentagon efforts to bolster
security at home will cost a projected $30 billion this year,
far more than Congress has provided, according to Defense
Department documents obtained by The Associated Press
Israel vowed to retaliate after a day of attacks — including
a late-night shooting on a Jerusalem bus stop — killed five
people from both sides and brought an end to a brief reprieve
from Israeli-Palestinian violence.
The U.S. commander of the war in Afghanistan defended the
actions of American soldiers in a January raid that killed 16
Afghans later determined to be friendly forces.
A Pakistani judge on Monday gave prosecutors two more weeks to
build their case against three Islamic militants accused in
the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter
Daniel Pearl.
Iraq's foreign minister has agreed to meet with U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan next month in a resumption of
their dialogue
The training is basic, but the boot camp that began Monday at
a bombed out former military academy was hailed as a first
step in building a national army seen as crucial to the
stability of Afghanistan's fledgling government
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February
26, 2002
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told an EU envoy Tuesday he was
willing to meet Saudi officials, publicly or behind the
scenes, to explore their proposals for an overall Mideast
peace
The top brass of Kabul's new police force got their first
lesson in fighting street crime Tuesday with a mock
demonstration by international peacekeepers. But they're
missing a few key crimefighting tools — from pens to police
cars
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February
27, 2002
With U.S. military advisers already in Georgia — and with
the prospect of hundreds more American troops being sent to
Russia's doorstep — Georgian and U.S. officials denied
Wednesday that American soldiers would go into combat against
terrorism in the small Caucasus nation.
Crown Prince Abdullah said he will press the Arab League to
back a Saudi land-for-peace offer to end the Arab-Israeli
conflict, a top EU official said Wednesday.
Muslim attackers armed with stones and kerosene descended on a
train carrying hundreds of Hindu nationalists on Wednesday,
setting fire to four cars and killing 57 people
Iran, denounced by President Bush as part of an "axis of
evil," urged U.S. allies Wednesday to lobby the American
administration against unilateral military action in the war
on terrorism
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February
28, 2002
The Israeli military attacked two West Bank refugee camps with
helicopter gunships, tanks and paratroopers Thursday in a
high-stakes attempt to break strongholds of Palestinian
militants. An Israeli soldier and 11 Palestinians were killed
— pushing the Palestinian toll past 1,000 in 17 months of
fighting
Incensed that two guards stripped a detainee of his turban
during prayer, nearly two-thirds of the prisoners captured in
the Afghan war refused lunch Thursday and chanted "God is
great" in Arabic in their first mass protest since
arriving at the base.
Angry Hindus set fire to homes in a Muslim neighborhood
Thursday and then kept firefighters away for hours, dragging
out one former lawmaker and burning him alive. At least 58
people died in revenge attacks triggered by a Muslim assault
on a train.
A mortar shell slammed into a rural Afghan school Thursday as
boys began lessons, killing one child and injuring dozens,
officials said. British peacekeepers in the capital reported
coming under fire for the third time in as many weeks.
A groundbreaking constitutional convention began work Thursday
hoping to drastically overhaul how the European Union operates
ahead of the club's largest expansion ever.
U.S. planes patrolling a no-fly zone over northern Iraq bombed
an Iraqi air defense system Thursday in response to Iraqi
anti-aircraft fire, the U.S. military said. It was the second
time this year that U.S. planes have bombed air defense sites
in the north.
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