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/ 19 October 2001
IRAQI leader Saddam Hussein is an ”evil man” whom the United States is watching carefully, US President George W Bush said on Thursday. At a news conference here, Bush did not specify any particular action he planned to take against Hussein in the United States’ war on terrorism. But he said: ”There is no question […]
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/ 19 October 2001
US President George W Bush said Thursday he was ”amazed” by the hatred many people in the Islamic world have for the United States. ”I’m amazed that there’s such misunderstanding of what our country is about that people would hate us,” he told a news conference. ”Like most Americans, I just can’t believe it because […]
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/ 18 October 2001
OSAMA bin Laden had warned his associates of a “major operation” against the United States shortly before the September 11 suicide plane attacks, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said Thursday. “Shortly before September 11, bin Laden told associates that he had a major operation against America under preparation,” Blair told parliament in an emergency statement. […]
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/ 18 October 2001
SOUTH Africa’s National Muslim Coalition has condemned, “in the strongest possible terms”, the US attack on Afghanistan, in a statement released on Monday afternoon. The coalition, which represents 35 Muslim organisations, says that it does not believe the evidence against Bin Laden is sufficiently strong to warrant the attacks. It points out that the danger […]
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/ 18 October 2001
Dubai | Sunday THE heavy US aerial bombardment of Afghanistan has signally failed to silence Osama bin Laden who taunted the world superpower again on Sunday via a simple video message aired by an Arab television station. The representative for his Al-Qaeda group warned of more hijacked jetliner attacks to come against the United States […]
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/ 18 October 2001
BRITAIN has no news of the British journalist Yvonne Ridley, who was held by Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Monday after a night of air strikes against the regime. ”I feel terribly for the family. They’ve been on a kind of roller-coaster of hope and emotion,” he said, shortly before leaving […]
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/ 18 October 2001
SEVERAL foreign journalists have been taken hostage by pro-Taliban protesters near Peshawar in Pakistan, according to unconfirmed reports. The journalists were believed to have been trying to get near the Afghan border when they were captured and blindfolded. It is not known where they have been taken. The area around Pakistan’s borders with Afghanistan had […]
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/ 18 October 2001
THE overwhelming majority of Americans support US and British air strikes against terrorist targets in Afghanistan, even though many believe they could presage the beginning of a long war, according to a new poll made public on Monday. The survey by The Washington Post and ABC News found that 94% of respondents supported the US-led […]
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/ 18 October 2001
Afghanistan | Sunday FOREIGN journalists invited to view the devastation wrought by the US bombing of Afghanistan arrived in Jalalabad on Sunday to find Taliban fighters dancing to the sound of incoming missiles. A heavily guarded convoy, bringing the first journalists allowed into Taliban-controlled territory since US-led forces began their military campaign in Afghanistan a […]