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June 5, 2002 Wednesday Rabi-ul-Awwal 23,1423 FBI, CIA did not coordinate: Bush: Sept 11 tragedy FORT MEADE (USA), June 4: US President George Bush said on Tuesday it was clear the FBI and the CIA were not communicating properly before Sept. 11 but that the two... Italy moves to toughen immigration laws ROME, June 4: Italy’s conservative-dominated parliament on Tuesday approved radically new legislation that will require immigrants to provide fingerprints to obtain official documents, make their expulsion easier and toughen punishment of... Suits filed against four US airlines for bias WASHINGTON, June 4: Civil rights groups filed lawsuits against four major airlines on Tuesday, alleging discrimination against five men who were removed from flights after the Sept. 11 attacks because they... US was alerted to attack: Mubarak WASHINGTON, June 4: The United States said on Tuesday it had no information to support Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s claim that Egyptian intelligence warned US officials a week before Sept 11... CIA chief meets Arafat RAMALLAH, June 4: CIA chief George Tenet on Tuesday met Yasser Arafat, whose sprawling security services he is tasked with knocking into shape, as Israeli forces moved back into the West... CIA creates team for foreign missions WASHINGTON, June 4: The US Central Intelligence Agency has created a new super secret paramilitary unit to target known terrorists and their leaders abroad, a US government official disclosed on Monday.... Syrian dam collapses DAMASCUS, June 4: A dam collapsed in central Syria on Tuesday, causing heavy casualties and widespread damage.... Mulla Omar seen: governor TEHRAN, June 4: Taliban leader Mulla Omar was spotted recently in Afghanistan’ southwestern Helmand province, where British troops have been seeking him, Iran’s official IRNA news agency said on Tuesday.... Hollywood’s ‘most powerful’ man dies LOS ANGELES, June 4: Lew Wasserman, the movie mogul who ruled Hollywood with an iron fist for more than half a century and raised a fortune for the Democratic Party, has... ME press suspicious of Indo-Israel links RIYADH, June 4: Newspapers in the Middle East fear that the growing amity between Israel and India was a cause of concern not only to Pakistan but for the Arab world... Removal of Dumas remains opposed PARIS, June 4: Citizens of a sleepy French village took up arms on Monday against designs to dig up their greatest son Alexandre Dumas — author of the immortal classic “The... Canadian PM under fire after dismissing minister OTTAWA, June 4: While Canadian ministers rallied around Prime Minister Jean Chretien on Monday after his abrupt sacking of Finance Minister Paul Martin, backbenchers angry at the dismissal mounted a campaign... Kenyan warriors trade guns for peace SAMBURU NATIONAL RESERVE (Kenya): For generations, the nomadic peoples of the Samburu, a region of dry savannahs in Kenya’s remote northern frontier, have struggled to survive, battling for resources in their... Evacuations to pressure Pakistan, India: official ISLAMABAD: The dramatic pull-out of families of UN personnel and withdrawal of foreigners from India and Pakistan is part of the international community’s efforts to put “concerted pressure” on the nuclear-armed... Arafat’s strategy annoys Palestinians GAZA: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may have angered some Palestinians by keeping a militant leader wanted by Israel in jail, but he avoided a major crisis and possible Israeli military retaliation,... Pirates loot Spanish treasures PANAMA CITY: Some 400 years ago, English admiral Sir Francis Drake swashbuckled his way through the seas of the Spanish Americas, seizing riches from its treasure-laden ports.... Police protecting the influential: Gujarat carnage KALOL (India): Sultana Feroz Sheikh sat motionless, staring at the mud floor in a dark, windowless room.... Germans recall history as war taboo tumbles NUREMBERG: Hannelore Fuchs was only six when her parents were led away to a Czechoslovakian jail at the end of World War Two. Their crime: her mother was photographed shaking Hitler’s...

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