|
| October 20, 2001 | Saturday | Shaba'an 2, 1422 |
|
Afghans’ help must for capturing Osama: expert
NEW YORK, Oct 19: Hidden in a warren of impenetrable caves, Osama bin Laden and his men are unlikely to be flushed out without the help of Afghan forces, according to... 
|
|
Beijing deplores civilian casualties: Bush meets Jiang
SHANGHAI, Oct 19: Chinese President Jiang Zemin on Thursday deplored the mounting civilian casualties in US attacks on Afghanistan and called for a more effective role for the United Nations in...
|
|
||
|
Anthrax cases have a pattern: investigators
WASHINGTON, Oct 19: New evidence was emerging on Friday of links between anthrax cases in the United States, as one daily reported that US investigators believe the attacks are related to...
|
|
67m riyals collected for refugees
RIYADH, Oct 19: A massive fund-raising campaign for Afghan refugees has been initiated here in the kingdom....
|
|
|
||
|
Congress interruption is unprecedented: historians
WASHINGTON, Oct 19: The number of positive exposures to anthrax dropped by at least one on Capitol Hill on Friday as officials checking the area for the bacteria declared two buildings...
|
|
Cyberattacks may be next move by terrorists: specialists
WASHINGTON, Oct 19: Adding to the horror of the suicide plane attacks and the ongoing anthrax scare, analysts say the United States could be beset by cyberattacks that wreak havoc by...
|
|
|
||
|
Thousands at anti-US demo in Jakarta
JAKARTA, Oct 19: An estimated ten thousand Muslims flooded the heart of the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Friday in the largest protest so far against US-led attacks on Afghanistan....
|
|
Strain bred in US, say scientists
NEW YORK, Oct 19: US government scientists examining the anthrax used in the Florida and New York attacks have tentatively concluded that the type is a domestic strain similar to a...
|
|
|
||
|
EU leaders back off call for Taliban ouster
GHENT (Belgium), Oct 19: EU leaders on Friday backed away from a proposal calling for the overthrow of the Taliban, instead urging the elimination of the Al Qaeda network in a...
|
|
French govt bars sale of satellite photos
PARIS, Oct 19: The French company SPOT Images, which sells satellite pictures, said on Friday it had stopped selling pictures of Afghanistan under government instructions....
|
|
|
||
|
Israeli revenge prompts war fears
RAMALLAH: Israel exacted early revenge for the assassination of a cabinet minister, blowing up a wanted Palestinian guerrilla and two other men in a car bombing barely two hours after the...
|
|
Fear & panic more disruptive than bio-warfare
LONDON: As 29 members of Senator Tom Daschle’s staff join the growing list of those exposed to anthrax, the role of the press in explaining a frightening story to the public...
|
|
|
||
|
Japan’s military role in doubt
TOKYO: Japan’s armed forces looked set to play their most prominent overseas role since the second world war after the country’s lower house passed a series of bills in support of...
|
|
Why meteorites reach Earth?
LONDON: Meteorites are mostly chips off bigger blocks. Out in the main belt, between Mars and Jupiter, there are billions of asteroids. Inevitably there are collisions between them, and some of...
|
|
|
||
|
Pentagon regroups for era of ‘stateless’ foes
WASHINGTON: It used to be called simply “war.” Armies lined up across a battlefield, navies projected forces over oceans, and air forces bombed industrial sites and other strategic targets. All of...
|
|
New era of tensions for Cuba, Russia
HAVANA: Cuba strongly objects to Russia’s announced closure of an electronic intelligence centre on the Caribbean island — a move Havana says is Moscow’s “special gift” to Washington — stoking a...
|
|
|
||
