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December 13, 2001 Thursday Ramazan 27, 1422 France asks US not to execute suspect: Washington-EU discord over death penalty PARIS, Dec 12: France demanded on Wednesday that the United States not execute a Frenchman charged with plotting the Sept 11 attacks even if a US federal court finds Zacarias Moussaoui... Bush to retain mly tribunals WASHINGTON, Dec 12: US President George W. Bush’s decision to try terror suspect Zacarias Moussaoui in a civilian court does not mean he has given up on the idea of military... Frenchman’s mother fears unfair trial in US PARIS, Dec 12: The mother of the first suspect indicted in the United States for conspiring with Osama bin Laden over the Sept 11 attacks was quoted on Wednesday as saying... Ridley says West wanted her dead LONDON, Dec 12: It could be a chapter from “Scoop”, novelist Evelyn Waugh’s famous spoof in which a foreign correspondent gets into a tangle in a far-flung war.... Somali group has links with Al-Qaeda: official PRETORIA, Dec 12: The possibility is “very real” that terrorist cells linked to Al-Qaeda are present in Somalia, US Assistant Secretary of State for Africa Walter Kansteiner said here Wednesday.... Myanmar rolls out red carpet for Jiang YANGON, Dec 12: Chinese President Jiang Zemin was feted on his first visit to Myanmar on Wednesday with a lavish welcome from the military junta which relies heavily on Chinese investment... 700m Usenet archives restored LONDON, Dec 12: A virtual treasure chest of over 700 million message postings, chronicling everything from the fall of the Berlin Wall to Pee Wee Herman jokes, has been restored on... Biological strike days away, says US Taliban WASHINGTON, Dec 12: An American national who fought for the Taliban in Afghanistan was reported on Wednesday to have told investigators al-Qaeda plans to make a biological attack on the United... Israel must have drawn up terror lists: Syria DAMASCUS, Dec 12: Israel must have had a hand in drawing up the US lists of countries allegedly supporting terrorism and of terrorist organisations, Syria’s official news agency SANA charged on... Europe’s anti-terrorism drive alarms HR groups BRUSSELS, Dec 12: The European Union’s anti-terrorism drive is causing alarm across the 15-nation bloc, with rights groups and some lawmakers saying tougher laws are being forced through at the expense... Bush planning to scrap ABM: Russian MPs seek swift reply WASHINGTON, Dec 12: US President George W. Bush informed leaders of Congress at a weekly breakfast meeting on Wednesday of his decision to withdraw from the ABM treaty, Senate Majority Leader... Chandrika differs with PM over cabinet nominee COLOMBO, Dec 12: Sri Lanka’s new cohabitation government on Wednesday faced a bitter power struggle with the president and her arch-rival, prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, clashing over the naming of the... Nepal seeks global aid to fight Maoists KATHMANDU, Dec 12: Nepal said on Wednesday it needed financial support from international donors to fund its battle against Maoists trying to overthrow the constitutional monarchy in the Himalayan kingdom.... Germany bans ‘Islamic caliphate’ BERLIN, Dec 12: The German government cracked down on Wednesday on an extreme Muslim organization regarded as a “state within a state”, banning the so-called caliphate and mounting raids on some... Next priority is terrorist nukes, says Bush CHARLESTON, Dec 12: The “next priority” in the war on terrorism will be preventing terrorists from securing nuclear, biological or chemical weapons, US President George W. Bush said on Tuesday.... Achieving ME peace may take civil war TEL AVIV: It may take a pair of civil wars to end the conflict in the Middle East. At least four times in his 32 years as head of the Palestine... Afghans paid for battle that failed in its aim LONDON: The toppling of the Taliban may eventually prove to be the best thing to have happened in Afghanistan for a decade. But it was not an initial aim of the... Harassment of Muslims in US a sign of hypocrisy JEDDAH: Khaled Al Maeena spends hours every day creating “calm mail out of hate mail,” he says. Since Sept 11, the editor of Saudi Arabia’s leading English-language daily has been answering... Protecting civil liberties WASHINGTON: Civil liberties are domestic matters. Foreign affairs are international matters. The two issues would not seem to intersect, and yet they did last week in the Senate Judiciary Committee.... Youth with AIDS die of shame: study NEW YORK: Half of all people infected with the virus that causes AIDS are aged 15 to 24 years, victims of their exclusion from prevention strategies and of cultural mores against...

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