U.S. warplanes bombed a leadership compound near Kandahar, stepping up the pursuit of Osama bin Laden and his Taliban allies. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters of the latest raid was on the compound used by leaders of both the Taliban and al Qaeda, but said he did not know if any central figures were hit. Speculation on FoxNews is that Mullah Omar and some of his senior commanders were in the compound at the time.
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Exiled Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, now living in Iran, called the Bonn talks a U.S. ploy to further its influence. "Only groups fitting U.S. requirements and interests have been invited," he said. "Problems cannot be resolved by a government set up by America, Russia and their puppets." They can only be solved by Iran, Pakistan and their puppets.
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The revolt by al-Qaeda imprisoned in Mazar-e-Sharif has been quashed after three days of fighting. Witnesses say a series of deafening explosions was heard after opposition forces fired tank shells to kill the last two Taleban prisoners still holding out. "The situation is completely under control. All of them were killed," said a spokesman for General Rashid Dostum.
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A jirga of Afghanistan's Pashtun Ahmedzai tribe has urged the United Nations and other international bodies to declare Kabul a de-militarised zone and convene a Loya Jirga in Kabul.
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Afghanistan's Northern Alliance expects a deal to form an interim government for the country to be struck within three days of talks. Once that's done, it'll be all over but the shootin'.
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'Now, the operating assumption is that the anthrax cases, unrelated to bin Laden, are domestic crimes, not acts of war. But for a crucial moment, they effectively played the role in this war that the Gulf of Tonkin ''assault'' played in the Vietnam War, as sources of a war hysteria that ''united'' the nation around a mistake. In such a context, the more doubt is labeled disloyal, the more it grows. The more this war is deemed ''just,'' the more it seems wrong.' -- James Carroll, The Boston Globe. Chomsky's more coherent.
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A high school student who was suspended last month for her anti-war, pro-anarchy stances has been pulled out of school by her mother because of safety concerns. Amy Sierra said her daughter, Katie, 15, has been attacked, threatened and insulted by students at Sissonville High School. The mother said it was her choice to withdraw the young nitwit and enroll her in a program in which she will complete assignments on a computer from home.
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Iraqi romance novelist and President for Life Saddam Hussein has accepted President Bush's barely veiled offer of a knuckle sandwich by refusing to readmit UN-sactioned weapons inspectors.
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The Fatah Al Aksa Brigade confirmed several of its members had been involved in a foiled attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and vowed to continue in its attempts to kill him. Israeli security forces arrested three members of a five-man cell before they had a chance to attack Sharon's home in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. A group called the Popular Army Vanguards, said to be affiliated with Fatah, claimed responsibility for an unsuccessful roadside bomb attack on IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Shaul Mofaz's convoy near Beit Hagai in the Hebron Hills. Two people were killed and nine injured when Al Aqsa Brigades gunmen opened fire on a crowded market in the centre of Afula in northern Israel.
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Seeking to escape an air assault by the Philippine military, heavily armed Moro National Liberation Front rebels fled a besieged compound with dozens of hostages that they had roped together as human shields. After hours of intense fighting, 25 guerrillas and one soldier were dead and an unknown number of others, including civilians, were wounded. Sometime after midnight, the heroes let 21 hostages go free, but held onto 60 others.
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Two retired Pakistani nuclear scientists suspected of having ties to suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden were detained again for questioning. Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mehmood and Abdul Majid were first taken into custody Oct. 23. Authorities said last week that they had been released.
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Four policemen were killed when Maoist rebels attacked a police post in western Nepal in the first reported outbreak of violence since the kingdom declared a state of emergency.
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British police are investigating two major anthrax hoaxes in which dozens of powder-filled packages were sent to government and business premises across London.
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U.S. warplanes attacked an air defense target in southern Iraq in response to continuing Iraqi threats against American and British jets patrolling a "no-fly'' zone there.
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U.S. authorities began proceedings to extradite Algerian Lotfi Raissi, 27, from Britain Raissi is accused of training some of the hijackers who crashed a jet into the Pentagon on Sept. 11. He has denied any connection to terrorism. (Hey, it could happen.)
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British authorities are investigating a string of mysterious payments from the bank account of London-based Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, named as Osama bin Laden's 'European ambassador'. A statement for one of Qatada's bank accounts reveals that, despite being on the dole, the cleric wrote out three checks totalling almost £5,000 in the days following the 11 September attacks.
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The Cayman Islands, long considered a haven for tax evaders, has agreed with the Bush administration to share tax information that would help the United States track down violators.
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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.
