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/ 22 October 2002
David Hilliard’s career as an enemy of the state is only a memory now. The former chief of staff of the Black Panthers, the United States’s first armed black revolutionary group, does not disown the violence of the days when the FBI labelled him a threat to national security.
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/ 28 September 2002
Diplomats from the ”big five” powers, which call the shots at the United Nations, are bracing themselves for a fresh round of intensive negotiations on Iraq.
when the US tables its draft resolution at the Security Council, the doors will close again as diplomats work round the clock to agree a final text.
President George W Bush thrust the war on terror back to centre stage this week, pledging a ”full-scale manhunt” against al-Qaida, as doubts began to snowball about United States government claims to have foiled a plot to detonate a ”dirty bomb”.
The Libyan government has promised to pay $10-million compensation to each of the 270 families bereaved in the Lockerbie bombing, a law firm representing many of the relatives revealed this week. The offer of $2,7-billion has to be approved by the families.