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October 15, 2001 Monday Rajab 27, 1422 Five more anthrax cases detected in US MIAMI, Oct 14: Raising new concerns about biological warfare in the United States, five more employees of a Florida supermarket tabloid publisher have tested positive for anthrax exposure, a company spokesman... Taliban dance to air strikes JALALABAD, Oct 14: Foreign journalists invited to view the devastation wrought by the US bombing of Afghanistan arrived in Jalalabad on Sunday to find Taliban fighters dancing to the sound of... Washington planning covert action WASHINGTON, Oct 14: The next phase of the war against Afghanistan will include more bombing, covert raids and large-scale helicopter attacks, the Washington Post said on Sunday, citing military experts.... Omar vows to teach US a ‘bitter lesson’ RIYADH, Oct 14: Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar pledged in an interview printed on Sunday that his militia would teach the United States “a much more bitter lesson” than that taught... US missed chance to kill Omar: weekly WASHINGTON, Oct 14: A journalist claimed on Saturday that the US military had Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar in its sights on the first night of its bombing raids on Afghanistan... EU to take second look at bombing BRUSSELS, Oct 14: Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt said on Sunday he would ask EU leaders this week to consider whether US strikes against Afghanistan were “targeted” — a requirement demanded... Speculation over ‘I swear to God’ NEW YORK, Oct 14: In a taped statement beamed around the world one week ago, Osama bin Laden may have given his aides the go-ahead to launch a new strike against... FBI vetoed plan to grab Osama: weekly NEW YORK, Oct. 14: The FBI blocked plans to deploy some of its agents to a US warship to be ready to arrest Osama bin Laden, the Time magazine reported on... Commandos to be in action this week: officials WASHINGTON, Oct 14: US special forces may enter Afghanistan as early as this week to gather intelligence about Osama bin Laden, Newsweek magazine reported in an issue due out on Monday.... US war: a moral and political disaster LONDON: The bombing of Afghanistan must stop. To say so is not to appease mass murderers by pretending they are misunderstood fighters against imperialism. You can think, that the sum of... Syria anxious to assume Security Council seat DAMASCUS: Syria, which is on a list of states that the United States says sponsor terrorism, has won a rotating seat on the prestigious 15-member UN Security Council, and unlike the... Scotland Europe’s worst polluter GLASGOW: It is home to some of the most spectacular scenery in the world. Images of shimmering lochs and rolling glens are among the reasons millions of tourists visit Scotland each... Eyes seen as window to heart attacks LONDON: Poets have long seen the eyes as windows on to the soul, but scientists have found they offer a life-saving glimpse of human health. New research has shown that, by... Most difficult battle to cover LONDON: Tayseer Allouni knew exactly what to do when the first bombs started dropping on Kabul last Sunday night. As Kabul correspondent for al-Jazeera, the Qatar-based Arabic news station and the... Tobacco may be a life-saver LONDON: It is blamed as a prime cause of cancer and has been responsible for millions of deaths across the globe. But now scientists have discovered how to use tobacco to... Osama won’t be captured: son LONDON, Oct 13: One of Osama bin Laden’s sons has vowed that his father will never be captured by the West, the Sunday Mirror, a British tabloid, reported.... Afghan history littered with nation-building attempts PESHAWAR: A few miles outside Kandahar, the southern Afghan desert city that is the spiritual and administrative centre of the Taliban, lies the shrine of Ahmad Shah Durrani. He is the... Woman dies at 137 CAIRO, Oct 14: A woman died Friday in northern Egypt at the age of 137, according to local authorities, thus laying claim to having been the world’s longest-living person....

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