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| December 15, 2001 | Saturday | Ramazan 29, 1422 |
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US suspends flights to Kandahar airport over ‘anti-air threat’
WITH THE US MARINES IN AFGHANISTAN, Dec 14: US Marines in Afghanistan suspended flights of supplies and forces into Kandahar airport on Friday because of a threat to aircraft, officers said... 
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Muslim world dismisses Osama tape as fake
CAIRO, Dec 14: The videotape the United States claims proves that Osama bin Laden was behind the Sept 11 attacks has failed to convince the Muslim world....
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Experts question video’s court admissibility
NEW YORK, Dec 14: US President George W. Bush might characterize a video of Osama bin Laden laughing about the Sept 11 attacks as a declaration of guilt, but legal experts...
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‘Infidel’ slur angers Turkish leader
ISTANBUL, Dec 14: The chief religious leader of Turkey accused Osama bin Laden on Friday of sinning against Islam by calling Turks “infidels” in the videotape released on Thursday....
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Firm shows off wired soldier ‘Land Warrior’ system
SAN JOSE, Dec 14: Meet the Windows-based warrior of the future, locked and loaded with the latest information-age weapons from Silicon Valley....
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Bush repeats ‘dead or alive’ slogan
WASHINGTON, Dec 14: President George W. Bush said on Friday it did not matter to him whether Osama bin Laden was brought in “dead or alive,” and vowed, “We’ll get him.”...
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Chinese PM to visit BD
DHAKA, Dec 14: Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji will pay an official visit to Bangladesh in an apparent bid to firm up bilateral ties between the two countries. The three-day visit...
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US Muslims satisfied with ‘proof’
WASHINGTON, Dec 14: The Council on American Islamic Relations has said it is clear from the Osama bin Laden’s videotape released by the US on Thursday that Osama was involved in...
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UK police in India after arrest of suspect
MUMBAi, Dec 14: Scotland Yard detectives and Australian police were meeting their Indian counterparts on Friday after an alleged member of Al-Qaeda reportedly confessed here to plans for terrorist strikes on...
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Charges against girl in Charles swat dropped
RIGA, Dec 14: Latvia’s prosecutor general on Friday dropped charges of hooliganism against a 16-year-old girl who swatted Prince Charles with a carnation in Riga last month to protest the war...
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Russians fume as US scraps ABM Treaty
MOSCOW: A humiliated Kremlin reacted more in sorrow than in anger to President George Bush’s decision, for the first time in the nuclear era, to scrap an international treaty unilaterally....
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A taxing time to rule Somalia
MOGADISHU: Tax collectors are hardly welcomed with warm smiles in most countries. But here in Somalia, when the government’s fledgling tax collection system goes to work, it’s accompanied by some 150...
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Victory for unilateralists
WASHINGTON: Thursday’s announcement that the United States is withdrawing from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty marks the biggest victory yet for the unilateralist wing of the US administration and the...
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Is Osama a Pisces or Cancer?
LONDON: If we do not know exactly where Osama bin Laden is to be found at this moment, information on what sort of time he’s having is easily come by....
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Sharon vulnerable at war crimes court
BEIRUT: A Belgian court recently heard argument over whether it was competent to judge Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for crimes against humanity for his role in the 1982 massacre of...
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Bad guys go good in Lanka
COLOMBO: These are confusing times for readers of Sri Lanka’s state-owned newspapers — the bad guys are now the good guys and the former good guys are now the bad guys....
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Americans eat wrong foods, says study
NEW YORK, Dec 14: The US surgeon general’s issued an annual report on Thursday, emphasizing that too many Americans are obese, says much of the blame falls on the foods people...
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Family DNA to identify Osama: TV
WASHINGTON, Dec 13: The United States has obtained DNA samples from the family of Osama bin Laden to help identify him if he is killed and his body found, ABC News...
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US condemns attack on parliament
WASHINGTON, Dec 14: The United States has “strongly condemned” Thursday’s attack on the parliament building in New Delhi, describing it as “outrageous”....
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Harry Potter screening stopped in Paris
PARIS, Dec 14: A Paris cinema said on Friday that threats, apparently from French Palestinians, had forced it to scrap a screening of the record-breaking film “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s...
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