Newsweek/MSNBC
Afghanistanâs ruling Taliban on Saturday rejected an offer by President Bush to reconsider the bombing campaign if the group handed over terror mastermind Osama bin Laden. The Taliban instead pledged to fight âuntil the last breath.â
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Six days of U.S. strikes on positions of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban have robbed their fighters of the ability to launch a counter-offensive, opposition Northern Alliance foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah said on Saturday. "In the last one week there have not been any counter-offensives from the Taliban. That is significant," he told a news conference. "They have lost their capacity to launch counter-offensives." He said the U.S. strikes had for the first time hit the frontline between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance in the northeastern Taloqan district. "That was the first bombing in Taloqan and ... was the first bombing of the front line," he said. Asked about casualties among foreigners fighting for the Taliban, many of them Arabs, he said that the bases of "foreign friends of the Taliban" had been hit. "The number of (casualties) should be hundreds not dozens."
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U.S.-led forces launched seven waves of attacks on the airport in the western Afghan city of Herat on Saturday, the Pakistan-based Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) said. There were no immediate reports of casualties or details of damage. Afghanistan is now undergoing its seventh straight night of U.S.-led attacks as Washington attempts to flush out Osama bin Laden.
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NY Times
The United States and Britain resumed airstrikes against Taliban military targets near two major Afghan cities on Saturday as a fourth Navy aircraft carrier, the Theodore Roosevelt, passed through the Suez Canal today and steamed toward the Arabian Sea. After briefly easing its bombardment on Friday in deference to the Muslim holy day, American attack planes struck before dawn near the airports in Kabul, the Afghan capital, as well as in the southern city of Kandahar, the Taliban stronghold. British submarines fired Tomahawk cruise missiles in the first British attacks since the opening salvos last Sunday.
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Salon.com
"When are we going to learn from history?" Ralph Nader asked a cheering crowd of 1,500 at San Francisco's Masonic Auditorium. "When are we going to learn that we can't bomb our way to justice?"
Instead of increasing U.S. security, said Nader, bombing Afghanistan would just give the Muslim world another reason to hate America. U.S. policies in the Middle East -- such as our.support for Saudi Arabia's repressive regime and our sanctions on Iraq, which have created misery for its civilian population -- have already alienated much of the Arab world, he noted. Bombing Afghanistan will only hurt the country's weakest people, "thus giving terrorists the images they need to recruit more killers."
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Next to maybe Ernie, no one was more surprised to see Bert peeking out of a poster of Osama bin Laden than San Francisco college student Dino Ignacio. Ignacio, creator of the award-winning "Bert is Evil!" Web site, gave his career a jump-start by pairing the wholesome and beloved Sesame Street resident's picture with the likes of O.J. Simpson and Adolf Hitler.
The college student says he's now being blamed -- wrongfully -- for the appearance of Bert in a collage of bin Laden photos that were placed on pickets in a Bangladesh demonstration. The picture features a menacing-looking Bert next to bin Laden in repose. Ignacio says it came from a Dutch site -- one of several that pay homage to Bert. "There's just a cult following that has taken over and mirrored this site," he said. "For this to bite me back -- it's just a real shocker." The picture was spread around the world when the Associated Press took a photo of the poster.
"We're outraged that our characters would be used in this unfortunate and distasteful manner," said a statement from the Sesame Workshop, which owns the copyright and trademark for Bert. "This is not at all humorous."
A manager of the Dhaka, Bangladesh, shop that made the posters said that the image had come from the Internet and that he hadn't realized Bert was in it.
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China has barred people from large parts of the Middle East from its airlines following the Sept 11 attacks on the United States. The official at flag carrier Air China told Reuters the government had issued a note to all Chinese airlines limiting sales of tickets to citizens of such countries.
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Two German tourists have been kicked and punched after being mistaken for Americans on Indonesia's Lombok island while other foreigners are being harassed there, state media and a tour operator said on Saturday. The incidents mark the first reports of assaults on foreigners in mainly Muslim Indonesia since Washington said it would hunt down Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden over hijack attacks on the United States last month that killed 5,500 people.
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The United States and Uzbekistan today announced an agreement that would give the American military flexibility in operating from bases in the former Soviet republic in return for Washington's assurance to protect Uzbekistan's security. The joint statement itself underscores that the United States and Uzbekistan have established a "qualitatively new relationship" that involved a long-term commitment by each side.
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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
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