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  • Europe Braces for al-Qaeda Attacks

    European countries are on heightened alert for terror attacks following a threatening taped message this week believed to be from Osama bin Laden, swoops on suspected Islamic militants in France and warnings from various officials. Britain, France and Germany are particularly wary, having been among the US allies singled out by name in the audio tape.. More

  • Sharon calls for extended Israeli rule in Hebron, as settlers move in

    Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said that Israel must enlarge the zone it administers in the divided West Bank city of Hebron following an attack which killed 12 Israelis and which triggered a major reoccupation of the city.A day after Israeli occupation forces swarmed back into the Palestinian-administered areas of the flashpoint city which it had quit.. More

  • Iraq defies world to find any prohibited weapons as UN inspectors awaited

    Iraq, defying the world to find any prohibited weapons, is holding out a welcome to UN arms chief Hans Blix who arrives tomorrow to launch a disarmament process Washington believes will fail.President Saddam Hussein announced that Baghad no longer possesses the weapons of mass destruction Washington and London insist he does."We will welcome and cooperate.. More

  • Al-Qaeda Issues Chilling New Manifesto

    Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network has issued a new manifesto setting out the strategy of the organisation and making a series of chilling threats, a British paper said Sunday, quoting an Al-Jazeera reporter.Yosri Fouda, a London-based journalist for Al-Jazeera TV who in May interviewed two militants who planned the September 11 attacks, said he was.. More

  • Israel Tightens Grip on Hebron as Helicopter Gunships Fire Missiles in Gaza

    Israel took control of the entire West Bank city of Hebron in the first of what seems to be an endless series of measures intended to crack down on Palestinian resistance activists this time after a shooting attack that killed 12 Israelis. Israel decided on a military response to Friday's ambush in Hebron although tensions over the attack and any retaliation.. More

  • Iraq Says it Has Nothing to Hide; Blix Vows No Spies

    The U.S. government has begun monitoring Iraqis living in the United States, hoping to uncover potential terrorist threats in the event that war breaks out with Iraq, Bush administration and congressional sources told Reuters. Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz said Baghdad welcomed chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix and that the results of.. More

  • Kuwait Arrested Senior Al Qaeda Member-Paper

    Kuwait has arrested a senior al Qaeda member who allegedly identified those behind last month's attack against a French supertanker off Yemen, a Kuwaiti newspaper said. It was not clear if Mohsen, who was born in 1981, was the high-ranking unidentified al Qaeda leader who U.S. government sources said Friday had been captured in the past week or so and.. More

  • Sharon ponders response to "Sabbath Ambush" as West Bank killing goes on

    Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon weighed a response to what has been dubbed the Sabbath Ambush, one of the worst shooting attacks carried out by Palestinians during their uprising, as deadly violence carried on elsewhere in the West Bank."Mr. Sharon has been kept informed of those events and engaged in intense consultations with Defense Minister.. More

  • U.S., British Jets Bomb Southern Iraq 'No-Fly' Zone

    U.S. and British warplanes bombed an air defense communications center in southern Iraq on Friday night after Iraqi forces fired artillery and missiles at the jets patrolling a "no-fly" zone in the south, the U.S. military said. Pentagon officials said Iraq has continued to try to shoot down the aircraft policing no-fly zones over northern and southern.. More

  • Syria releases Communist opposition figure from jail

    Veteran Syrian communist opposition leader Riad Turk was released from jail, having served only a few months of a two-and-a-half year sentence, the official SANA news agency announced."In line with orders from President Bashar al-Assad and for humanitarian reasons, Mr. Riad Turk was freed today," SANA said in a brief statement.Turk, 72, was jailed in.. More

  • At Least 12 Israeli Settlers & Occupation Soldiers Killed in Attack in Hebron, Al-Khalil

    HIGHLIGHTSIslamic Jihad Claims Responsibility|| One of the Israelis Killed a Colonel who Commanded a Brigade in the Southern West Bank|| Attack Raises Spectre of Heavy Retaliation by Occupation Army or Revenge by Internationally Illegal Settlers in the Predominantly Palestinian City|| Three Palestinians Killed in the Battle Near the Kiryat Arbaa Settlement||.. More

  • Iraq Urged Reveal Arms; Inspections Start Nov 27

    Declaring spot inspections would begin on Nov. 27, chief U.N. arms inspector Hans Blix warned President Saddam Hussein on Friday to disclose all his weapons of mass destruction in a report next month."This offers a last opportunity for Iraq to declare what they have," Blix told a news conference on the eve of his trip to Baghdad. "An omission can be.. More

  • Turkey's Gul Likely to Become New PM

    Economist and foreign policy expert Abdullah Gul is likely to be appointed as Turkey's new prime minister over the next 24 hours, a source in Gul's Justice and Development Party (AKP) said on Friday.The source said President Ahmet Necdet Sezer had not yet contacted Gul, the candidate most favored by Turkey's financial markets, but that he now seemed.. More

  • Israel's Sharon Widens Lead Over Netanyahu in Likud

    Prime Minister Ariel Sharonhas widened his commanding lead over hawkish Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahuin their race to head the Likud party in Israel's January election, a poll showed on Friday.The survey in the mass-circulation daily Yedioth Ahronoth said 54 percent of the right-wing Likud's voters would cast their ballots for Sharon in the party's.. More

  • Report: Iraq Inspector Sees Any Delay as Serious

    Chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said even a half-hour delay in allowing inspectors access to sensitive sites in Iraq could be serious, but stopped short of saying it would violate a U.N. resolution which could trigger war. In an interview with the French daily newspaper Le Monde published on Friday, Blix said a half-hour delay to the inspections.. More