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  • Hijack Suspect Met Iraqi Intelligence, Sources Say

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mohamed Atta, suspected of hijacking the first plane that struck the World Trade Center last week, had met earlier this year with an Iraqi intelligence official in Europe, U.S. sources said on Tuesday. Atta, a 33-year-old Egyptian, had studied at an engineering school in Hamburg, Germany, and took flying lessons in Florida. He.. More

    1705 21/04/2001

  • Pakistan Closes Capital Airport in Pre-Dawn Hours

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's army closed Islamabad International Airport to commercial flights for two and half hours before dawn on Friday for movement of military equipment, officials at the aviation regulatory body said.``It was a unscheduled closure...and there was some very intense movement of military hardware,'' a senior official of the Civil.. More

    1669 20/04/2001

  • U.N. Delays Lifting Sudan Sanctions

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The U.N. Security Council has decided to delay a vote on lifting five-year-old sanctions on Sudan because of the terrorist attacks on the United States, diplomats said Thursday. France's U.N. Ambassador Jean-David Levitte, whose country holds the council presidency, said that Thursday's scheduled discussion on ending sanctions,.. More

    1670 20/04/2001

  • Sharon calls off Arafat-Peres meeting, 3 Palestinians killed, 2 Israelis Injured

    JERUSALEM, (Islamweb & News Agencies) -Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called off the planned meeting between his Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat as the intifadha against Israeli occupation in the territories claimed three more lives Friday and Saturday. The move temporarily ended weeks of preparations for the.. More

    1678 20/04/2001

  • Powell Works on Global Alliance Against Attackers

    WASHINGTON (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Secretary of State Colin Powell, seeking an alliance against those who attacked the United States this week, said on Friday Washington would now judge countries by their willingness to help.``This has become a new benchmark, a new way of measuring the relationship and what we can do together in the future and.. More

    1679 20/04/2001

  • Taliban Threaten Jihad in Face of U.S. Attacks

    ISLAMABAD (Islamweb & News Agencies) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban warned its neighbors on Saturday of ``extraordinary danger'' if they helped the United States take revenge for the devastating terror attacks on Washington and New York. (Read photo caption below) Their leader called for a Jihad (War for a just cause) against anyone cooperating with.. More

    1684 20/04/2001

  • Bush Braces U.S., Military for War

    WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush ordered U.S. troops to get ready for war and braced Americans for a long, difficult assault against terrorists to avenge the deadliest attack on the nation. ``Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction,'' he declared Saturday.``We will smoke them out of their holes,'' Bush said. ``We'll.. More

    1686 20/04/2001

  • Worldwide Flights Resume Amid Tight Security

    LONDON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Air traffic remained spotty on routes within and outside of the United States on Saturday, as airlines throughout the world slowly ramped up service four days after terror attacks in New York and near Washington grounded all U.S. flights and impacted flights worldwide. Security at airports was tight as stranded Americans,.. More

    1687 20/04/2001

  • Israeli Tanks Roll Into Ramallah -Witnesses

    RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - A Palestinian man was killed and at least 15 others wounded during an Israeli tank and helicopter attack on Palestinian-ruled Ramallah early on Sunday, witnesses and hospital sources said.(Read photo caption below) Hospital officials said Palestinian military intelligence officer Adel Jaber died after tanks entered the.. More

    1688 20/04/2001

  • Macedonia's paramilitaries could endanger the peace accord

    RATAE, Macedonia, (Islamweb & News Agencies) -NATO's mission to collect arms from Albanian fighters in Macedonia has run smoothly so far, but fears are growing in the West that delays in adopting the peace accord and the emergence of paramilitary could undermine the agreement. Ratae and two other villages near the volatile northwestern town of Tetovo.. More

    1689 20/04/2001

  • Pakistan to Pressure Taliban to Hand Over Bin Laden

    ISLAMABAD (Islamweb & News Agency) - Pakistan is to send a team of officials to Afghanistan on Monday to press the ruling Taliban to hand over Saudi-born fugitive Osama bin Laden and help prevent a potential catastrophe in the region.``We are alive to the gravity of the situation and know that in the lives of nations such situations do arise as require.. More

    1690 20/04/2001

  • Afghan Taliban Warns U.S. Strikes Would Sow Hatred

    KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement said on Wednesday any U.S. strikes against the country in retaliation for Tuesday's terror attacks would succeed only in sowing hatred in the region. (Read photo caption below) Taliban spokesman Abdul Hai Mutmaen told Reuters from the southern Afghan town of Kandahar that U.S. strikes could lead.. More

    1659 19/04/2001

  • US Vows Harsh Response, Probe Makes Progress

    NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Vowing to strike with a hammer of vengeance, the United States hunted on Wednesday for those behind the deadly attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Investigators hunting for those behind the worst attack on the United States since the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor cast a wide net -- although increasingly.. More

    1660 19/04/2001

  • Grim Task of Retreiving Bodies Begins

    NEW YORK (AP) - In one indication of the potential death toll, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani was asked about a report that the city has requested 6,000 body bags from federal officials. ``Yes, I believe that's correct,'' said the mayor.In another, 2,500 people visited a grief counseling center handling questions about missing family members Wednesday. The.. More

    1661 19/04/2001

  • Bush Will Attend APEC Summit Despite Attacks-China

    BEIJING (Reuters) - President Bush will attend an October summit of Asia-Pacific leaders in Shanghai despite the catastrophic terror attacks on the United States, a top Chinese official said on Thursday. Bush told Chinese President Jiang Zemin in a telephone conversation on Wednesday night he would attend the meeting, Vice Foreign Minister Wang Guangya.. More

    1662 19/04/2001

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