Washington, Jalalabad | Monday AS ordinary Americans stocked up on canned food, bottled water and gasmasks after fears spread that terrorists are plotting another strike, President George W Bush rejected an offer from Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban to turn over suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden to a neutral third country. ”They must have not heard: There’s […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Zeeshan Haider, Khorum | Monday AN old man deferentially removed his turban as he spoke. ”We are poor people, don’t hit us,” he said. ”We have nothing to do with Osama bin Laden. We are innocent people.” ”I lost my four daughters, my son and my wife in this attack,” said Toray, a distraught farmer, […]

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 […]