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January 18, 2002 Friday Ziqa'ad 3, 1422 Israel plotting to kill PA leaders: Arafat PARIS, Jan 17: As he often has done when his back is to the wall, Chairman Yasser Arafat has turned to the French, in this case to the pages of France’s... Taliban men regrouping in Pakistan: Powell, Afghan FM express fear KABUL, Jan 17: Security issues, including fears Taliban militia members may be regrouping under a different name in Pakistan’s border areas, were on the agenda of US-Afghan talks here on Thursday,... UK govt asks US to hand over Britons LONDON, Jan 17: London wants Washington to hand over British Al Qaeda suspects, being held in Cuba, for trial here to avoid a confrontation over US use of the death penalty,... Osama is probably dead, says friend LONDON, Jan 17: Osama bin Laden is probably dead and his recent video broadcast looked like the farewell message of a doomed man, a former friend and journalist said on Thursday.... More weapons sites found in Afghanistan, claims US WASHINGTON, Jan 17: Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Wednesday US forces in Afghanistan had found more evidence that the Al Qaeda network was seeking chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, and... US plans to reduce troops in S. Arabia RIYADH, Jan 17: Washington may reduce troop numbers stationed in Saudi Arabia, the US ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Robert Jordan, hinted while talking to the press here on Wednesday, after the... Al Jazeera discrediting GCC: Riyadh BEIRUT, Jan 17: Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz has vented his fury against Qatar’s Al-Jazeera satellite TV in front of fellow leaders of the Gulf Arab monarchies, a Lebanese... Nobel laureate Camilo Cela dies MADRID, Jan 17: Nobel literature prize winner Camilo Jose Cela, a giant of the Spanish literary world, died of heart failure in a Madrid clinic on Thursday, the clinic said.... ‘Shoe-bomber’ was Al Qaeda member: paper LONDON, Jan 17: A London daily claimed on Thursday that the British shoe-bomber Richard Reid was a key member of the Al Qaeda network whose job was to travel the world... F-14s sat on Powell’s plane during Kabul trip KABUL, Jan 17: As if to highlight that the war in Afghanistan was far from won, Powell, the first US secretary of state to visit here since Henry Kissinger in 1976,... Pakhtoon leaders wary of helping US troops: daily WASHINGTON, Jan 17: Pakhtoon leaders in eastern Afghanistan are balking at assisting US forces in clearing caves in the hunt for Osama bin Laden and other Al-Qaeda fighters, the New York... Muslim woman files suit over search in US CHICAGO, Jan 17: A Muslim woman who said she was subjected to a humiliating search at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport filed a lawsuit on Wednesday that asked for an injunction banning... US death penalty LONDON, Jan 17: Amnesty International on Thursday attacked the use of the death penalty in the US, saying that 25 years of executions had “offered no constructive contribution to the country’s... Sharon helping stoke flames of unrest RAMALLAH: Israel’s assassination of Fatah activist Raed Karmi on Monday was predictable. Despite Israel’s having killed more than 18 Palestinians since President Yasser Arafat’s call for a cease-fire on Dec 18,... Paying price of peace in Afghanistan LONDON: “We’ve won the war, now let’s win the peace,” was the British Labour party’s slogan after the second world war. In the case of Afghanistan, the Bush administration appears to... Treat war prisoners well: UN UNITED NATIONS: US authorities must respect the human rights of prisoners taken from the Taliban regime and Al Qaeda network of alleged terrorist groups, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary... Cash needed, not compassion KABUL: Simi Samara is fed up. The minister of women’s affairs has no office, budget or staff. She cannot afford her telephone bill and she is growing weary of western protestations... Hypocrisy characterizes US human rights policy WASHINGTON: Hypocrisy characterized much of US human rights policy during George W. Bush’s first year as president, particularly in his “war against terrorism” following the Sept 11 terrorist attacks in the... Toilet museum spreads hygiene NEW DELHI: One of the must-see stops on the list of many tourists here is an unusual little building tucked away at a far end of Delhi: a toilet museum. Toilets... Pressure builds on to unify Cyprus NICOSIA: Adversaries they may be. But they enjoy a bantering rapport, cracking jokes, exchanging good-natured insults, and talking about the past. But when the rival leaders of the estranged Greek- and...

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