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Osama was in US sights thrice, says commission
WASHINGTON, March 24: The United States had Osama bin Laden in its sights at least three times after the 1998 US embassy bombings in Africa, but each time balked at launching strikes to kill him, a US commission said on Tuesday. ... 
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Zapatero resists pressure over Iraq troops
MADRID, March 24: Spain's incoming prime minister resisted U.S. and British pressure on Wednesday to keep Spanish troops in Iraq and said they could only stay if the United Nations was given much greater control of the occupation. ...
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Powell says he invoked 'crusade' in talk with Musharraf
WASHINGTON, March 24: Two-and-a-half years after assuaging Muslim anger over US President George Bush's use of the word "crusade" to describe anti-terror efforts, Secretary of State Colin Powell slipped on Tuesday and allowed the term to re-enter the lexicon. ...
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US admits it is still vulnerable to attacks
WASHINGTON, March 24: US President George Bush's administration was forced to admit that the United States is still vulnerable to terrorist attacks two-and-a-half years after the Sept 11 attacks. ...
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Decision was made before 9/11: Probe - Taliban ouster
WASHINGTON, March 24: The US government had approved a plan to overthrow the Taliban government only a day before the Sept 11, 2001, attacks, an independent panel probing the attacks was told on Wednesday. ...
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Military lacked means to stop 9/11: Rumsfeld
WASHINGTON, March 24: Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Tuesday the United States took no military action against Al Qaeda before Sept 11, 2001, because it regarded cruise missile strikes as ineffectual and was developing a more comprehensive strategy. ...
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IAEA for making ME free of WMDs
CAIRO, March 24: The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) called on Wednesday for the elimination of mass destruction weapons in the Middle East as part of the peace process ...
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Powell, Blair presence angers woman
MADRID, March 24: A mother protested on Wedneday at having to mourn the death of her son in the Madrid bombing attacks in the company of Jose Maria Aznar, Tony Blair and Colin Powell. ...
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Israel wants peace with Arabs, says Sharon
TEL AVIV, March 24: Israel is seeking peace with the Arab world, including the Palestinians, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declared on Wednesday in a speech marking the 25th anniversary of the Jewish state's peace treaty with Egypt. ...
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Why Israel killed Sheikh Yassin
LONDON: To the outside world, Israel's assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin looks either indefensible or inexplicable or both. Some have moral objections to the killing of a paraplegic cleric ...
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EU orders Microsoft to pay record $606m fine
BRUSSELS, March 24: European Union regulators ordered US computer software giant Microsoft Corp on Wednesday to pay a record 497 million euro (606 million dollars) fine for violating EU anti-trust law and change its business model fundamentally to stop crushing rivals. ...
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India rebuffs US sops
NEW DELHI: India has shown its ambitions to be treated as a global power by rejecting a special ally status from the United States awarded to Pakistan, analysts said on Wednesday. ...
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