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Rearranging the furniture...
I've jiggered the interface again, putting the links to the original article in the headline, ala Best of the Web. Should be minor. Let me know if it causes something unrelated to catch fire...

I've also redone the Discussions page (on the right, if you've missed it), to work the same as the Headlines page. By default you can read all the discussions/comments in the past 30 days, or by month. It's a little faster than the old version, which would call up everything that every got chatted up. I only noticed one bug, and that's pretty minor. I'll fix it some other time when I don't have other work I've been putting off...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 07:52 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


'Nah. Y'got the wrong number. This is 912.'
A woman customer of Pakistan Telecommunication Company received over a hundred calls from different people in a couple of days, as the telephone number allotted to her by the Gulshan-e-Iqbal telephone exchange on Monday was previously in the use of the police station of the area.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 01:23 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Poor woman; I hope they changed her number. For a year, in Tallahassee, I had a telephone number that was one digit off from the local IRS office. It would have been much worse if I had got their real previous number.
I can laugh about it now, but it's a bit disconcerting to have a total stranger begging for mercy on the other end of the line. I'll admit; though, that my evil twin kept wanting to take over and tell them to just send me some money...
Posted by: Kat || 06/13/2002 14:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Some years ago, the legendary Chicago columnist Mike Royko wrote a series of articles about this. It seems that the local phone company had decided to use an 800 number in an ad campaign in which the last seven numbers were the same as his confidential line for his snitches. Obviously this wouldn't do, so he tried to get them to change it. Too late, he was told, the ad campaign is going forward.

So he decided to do something about it. When some poor schlemp called him (forgetting to put the 800 in front and just dialing the seven digits), Royko would proceed to insult them mercilessly. He'd ask for their ethnic origin. "Why?" the startled customer would ask. "We're the phone company! We need to know!!" Royko would say. If the customer answered, "well, ok, Italian", Royko would tell them that he couldn't help them, they'd have to call Italian Bell. And so on.

A week of this and two columns later, the phone company changed the number. And ran a big ad in the paper next to his column. Apologizing.

So Fred, there's hope here. See, what you do is .... :-)

Regards,
Posted by: Steve White || 06/13/2002 22:34 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Hamid Karzai nominated to lead Afghanistan
Interim leader Hamid Karzai was formally nominated Thursday as a candidate for head of state by a grand council meeting to choose a transitional government. Karzai's candidacy was backed by a former mujahedeen fighter, Mohammed Asef Mohsoni, who submitted a list with 450 names - triple the number required to confirm the nomination.
Mohsoni is head of the Shia Harakat-i-Islami party, which was a part of the United Front/Northern Alliance and is probably the local Iranian proxy...
Also nominated were Masooda Jalal, a female employee of the World Food program; Glam Fareq Majidi and Mir Mohammed Mahfoz Nadai. No details were immediately available about Nadai and Majidi, whose candidacy was declared invalid because he garnered only 101 signatures of support.
Karzai, of course, is gonna get the nod. The Afghans don't have the senzayuma yet to vote in Masooda, and she'd probably turn out to be a Mary Robinson wannabe anyway.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 10:24 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Axis of Evil
Kurdish groups want U.S. guarantees
Kurdish envoys have told U.S. officials that they would not agree to an American military attack from northern Iraq without guarantees that Washington will remain in the area indefinitely to protect the Kurds. The envoys cited the Iraqi military offensive in Kurdistan in 1995, which prompted a flight by CIA operatives and their Kurdish allies. Western diplomatic sources said U.S. officials have relayed a pledge from Washington that it will maintain its campaign to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Kurdish leaders discussed with U.S. officials a proposal for a federal state in Iraq that would include an autonomous Kurdish region in the north and an Arab area in the southern and central portion of the country. The proposed Kurdish area of autonomy would designate Kirkuk as the capital. Turkey has expressed opposition to the plan.
This is probably the reason the operation against Iraq seems to be proceeding at such a liesurely pace. Washington's got to work out some sort of balance between the Kurds and the Turks, not to mention the competing parties who will make up the post-Tikriti Mafia government. The Kurds got a serious screwing in 1995, and the people of southern Iraq took it in the shortz in the immediate wake of the Gulf War. I think the primary reason it's going so slowly is that everyone concerned needs the assurance that Sammy's going to do either a Mussolini or a Ceaucescu — not an Idi Amin. Chavez popping back up in Venezuela, whether we had anything to do with his ouster or not, doesn't make things any easier.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 08:06 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front
34 new detainees
Thirty-four detainees accused of links to Afghanistan's fallen Taliban regime or the al-Qaida terrorist network arrived Wednesday at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The latest arrivals bring the total number of detainees being held at the remote outpost to 468. Camp Delta has space for another 144 detainees, but with more construction planned could eventually hold nearly 2,000.
Enjoy your stay, boys. Hope it's a long one.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 10:32 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Mongering war...
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, head of Markaz ad Dawa, on the jihadis and the desirability of war with India.
Hafiz is still jugged, so I guess he's got time to write. A nice look into a twisted mind. Read the entire article if you have time.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 10:17 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fascinating. You weren't kidding about that "nice look into a twisted mind." He lives in an alternate universe.
Posted by: Kat || 06/13/2002 15:18 Comments || Top||


VHP loons bitch and moan about de-escalation...
The VHP on Thursday charged the BJP-led NDA Government with succumbing to international pressure by agreeing to military de-escalation along the Indo-Pak border and asked New Delhi to adopt a "non-compromising" policy like Israel and attack terrorist training camps in Pakistan. "India seems to be under tremendous international pressure. If it withdraws its troops, gives concessions to Pakistan and resumes normal diplomatic ties, we will have to bear the consequence as Pakistan will never alter its anti-India policy," VHP Senior Vice-President Acharya Giriraj Kishore told reporters. "It seems we have not learnt any lessons from history. Perhaps, we have forgotten the miserable plight of our diplomatic and non-diplomatic staff in Pakistan. How long will we have to bear this repeated onslaught on our honour by Pakistan. The country's youth are ever willing to take on Pakistan," he said.
Sounds rather like the same thing Hafiz Saeed is saying, only from the other side. Perhaps we could arrange things so that Markaz ad Dawa and its gunnies and the VHP and their gunnies could fight it out, while the rest of the world went out for coffee? It's really easy to be tough and uncompromising and belligerent when you're not the one who has to dodge the incoming artillery.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 12:45 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Islamabad asks for iron-clad guarantees
Pakistan has asked the international community, especially the Americans, for some iron-clad guarantees that India will not use the pretext of one or the other locally inspired Jihadi activity linked to the ongoing freedom struggle inside occupied Kashmir to commit some adventurism on the LoC at some future date.
"Adventurism," I believe, refers to an attack across the Line of Control to clean out the rats' nests of terrorist training camps on the Pak side. Presumably this would come in response to the next atrocity by the jihadis.
According to informed sources, now that Pakistan has taken all the measures as required by the international community to guarantee a permanent end to the cross-LoC movement, Islamabad expects the latter to reciprocate by guaranteeing that India will not misuse the military capability it has already built up along the LoC by blaming Pakistan for the deteriorating law and order situation related to the ongoing indigenous Kashmiri freedom struggle.
If India gives anything resembling such a guarantee their government will be shown to be exclusively populated by mutt-wits.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 12:54 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


UK sees ISI link to 'militants'
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said on Tuesday his government now accepted that "armed militants" fighting Indian forces in occupied Kashmir had links with Pakistan's ISI. Straw told British MPs that in the past decade "the character of the (Kashmir) conflict" had changed with "the incursion of armed militants" from Azad Kashmir into occupied Kashmir. "India has long charged that such terrorism has had the covert support of successive Pakistani governments, and in particular the Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISID), the main intelligence agency in Pakistan. "Her majesty's government accepts that there is a clear link between ISID and these groups," Straw added.
NEWS FLASH: "In a dramatic break with the previous official British position, Foreign Secretary Jack Straw today admitted that the world may be somewhat spherical in shape, and perhaps even round. Further, the direction the sun comes up has been tentatively identified as east. Vote Labour. We tell it like we think you want it should be."
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 01:03 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I haven't seen anything from Jack Straw saying that India refuses to hold an honest plebiscite throughout Kashmir, or that the government is being run mostly by the Hindu version of the Taliban.

Of course the idea that what happens to Kashmir has nothing to do with us Brits will never ever be mentioned.

Oh well, let's be happy with that smidgen of truth from Mr Straw.
Posted by: Emmanuel Goldstein || 06/14/2002 4:22 Comments || Top||


Court allows girl to dissolve childhood marriage
A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court allowed dissolution of marriage of a girl who had fallen prey to the tribal custom of Swara at the age of six. Justice Nasirul Mulk and Justice Ijaz Afzal observed that the petitioner had a legal right to exercise her "option of puberty" after coming of age.
That means good Muslims can marry 'em at six and diddle 'em until they're twelve or thirteen, but then the girlies have the chance of deciding to change their little minds and move on. That sounds like good, sound Sharia law. It doesn't make any sense, but it sounds like good law.
An Islahi Jirga, to settle a family row in 1992, had decided that the petitioner, Ms Shamsul Huda, should be married to Inamul Haq, a boy of the rival group. According to Swara, feuds are settled between rival groups by handing over girls in marriages to the opponents.
That way, rather than shooting each other, they can just beat their wives and accomplish the same thing...
Advocate Sikander Khan, appearing for Ms Huda, stated that her father had given the rival party an undertaking wherein he accepted to have solemnized her union with Inamul Haq without any dowry. Mr Khan claimed that the union was illegal, as fixation and acceptance of dowry by both husband and wife was mandatory for marriage in Islam.
"Mahmud, ah tolt yew to give 'em that thar warshin' machine as boot!"
"Ayeshah, that thar thang ain't never worked. An' they don't have no 'lectricity to make it work, neither!"
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 01:39 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sunna ("prophet's" example) says that Moslem girls can be taken in matrimonial slavery at six years of age. That is exactly the age in which Mohammed took "Aisha" - daughter of Abu Bakr (first caliph) - as his bride. Moslems argue whether the "marriage" was consummated when she was seven or eight. The prophet took another 19 brides, after Aisha. One - Rahina - was the daughter of the chief of the Jewish Banu Quaraizay tribe of which, Mohammed massacred up to "900" males. According the Hadeeth, Mohammed raped her after breaking the siege against her tribe. The rest of the tribe's girls were given to jihadis as booty. The Moslem tradition of beheading enemies came out of the BQ genocide.
Posted by: RG Fulton || 06/13/2002 16:04 Comments || Top||


International
Basque bombing plot uncovered
Authorities said Wednesday they seized a large cache of explosives that the Basque separatist group ETA planned to use to attack tourist targets during an European Union summit. Interior Minister Mariano Rajoy said 288 pounds of dynamite, another explosive material and detonators were found in woods near the southern city of Valencia. Rajoy said the caches was found two days after the detention of a suspected ETA member in the area. The minister said the ETA planned to attack tourist spots along the Mediterranean coast ahead of next week's European Union summit in Seville.
Yes, that's right. It's non-Islamic crazed killers. With 288 pounds of dynamite. They like large quantities of explosives. Last time it was 440 pounds.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 10:39 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Five held in Paris for questioning in shoe-boomer probe
French police detained five people for questioning in the Paris area Wednesday as part of the investigation into suspected shoe-bomber Richard C. Reid. Two of those being held are Pakistani and the other three are French of North African origin, police said. The arrests were made in the town of Mantes-la-Jolie, west of the capital, and Evry to the south. Police searching their homes and other buildings in a sweep early Wednesday also seized three riot-control weapons, computers, mobile telephones and documents which they described as "Islamist propaganda." Anti-terrorist judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere is heading the French investigation into Reid's alleged support network among Islamic militants.
Three "riot-control weapons"?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 11:06 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Convicted Khobar bombers are all Saudis
Deputy Minister of Interior Prince Ahmad has said that those convicted for the murder of 19 US Air Force men in a bomb blast in the eastern city of Khobar in 1996 are all Saudis. "They do not include non-Saudi nationals. I don’t remember the exact number," Prince Ahmad said.
Guess it's not very important. I only remember important stuff...
Prince Ahmad said on June 1 that all men involved in the attack were arrested "except two or three people who are the wanted masterminds." He added that the men had been sentenced by a Shariah court.
Does that mean they're gonna cut their heads off? Or do they get house arrest 'cause the corpses were only infidels?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 08:51 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Somali warlords to meet...
Ethiopia will soon organize a meeting for Somalia’s warlords and the leaders of the self-declared autonomous regions. According to the Ayaamaha newspaper in Mogadishu, the president of one of the self-proclaimed states, Hassan Muhammad Shatigadud, arrived on Monday in Ethiopia. The paper said that Addis Ababa would first try to mediate existing internal differences before hosting major talks for other Somali faction leaders. Ethiopia has established good ties with both the Somali warlords and the leaders of breakaway regions who reject the transitional government in Mogadishu.
Ethiopia is playing at being a regional power with Somalia. Wonder if they're recovered enough from their little bout with Communism to bring it off? Kenya seems the more logical bet as king-maker.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 08:49 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Somali warlords conduct military exercise...
According to recent reports, some Mogadishu warlords have conducted a military exercise. Militiamen of warlord Muse Sudi Yalahow and his allies fired heavy machine-guns into the Indian Ocean. Yalahow told newsmen that the weapons testing was aimed at enhancing defense. Somalia’s Information Minister Abdirahman Adan Ibbi accused Yalahow of receiving arms from Ethiopia and working to destabilize Mogadishu.
Defense against what? Against Mogadishu? Sounds like they got new guns from Ethiopia and they were trying them out. That's not an exercise; that's playing...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 08:53 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Middle East
Israelis lift blockade. Again.
Israeli forces pulled out of Ramallah, lifting their latest blockade on Yasser Arafat's office. Palestinian police and security officers ran into Arafat's battered compound and celebrated, chanting slogans in support of the Palestinian leader, as Israeli tanks rolled away from the city-block-sized complex late Wednesday.
That makes sense. When you're powerless to do anything of substance, wait 'til they're gone, then rush in and jump up and down and wave guns while hollering slogans. It makes you look so ferocious, and there's really so little danger...
Early Thursday, Israeli forces raided a village near the West Bank city of Jenin, another of the nearly daily raids made into Palestinian areas.
Gettin' to be routine...
With the Israeli forces out of Ramallah, the new Palestinian Cabinet was to convene for the first time Thursday evening at the headquarters, Arafat aide Nabil Abu Rdeneh said.
First order of business will no doubt be to pass a resolution supporting Yasser. That'll show them dumb ol' Jews, by golly.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 10:07 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Police seek gambling ring taking bets on next suicide bombing
Police are investigating reports that an illegal Israeli gambling ring is taking bets on where the next Palestinian suicide bomber will strike. The Maariv daily and Israel Radio reported Thursday that the ring in the town of Kiryat Malachi is distributing betting sheets with the odds for various locations. Betting on Eilat, a Red Sea resort that has not seen any violence during the past 21 months of Israeli-Palestinian fighting, is a long shot at 1:17, while oft-hit Jerusalem was given odds of 1:1.5, according to the sheet. Bets begin at 10 shekels (dlrs 2), the betting sheet states, adding that bets only count for attacks of "Arabs against Jews and not the opposite."
I'll take Eilat for $20... Uh, I mean, that's terrible. They should lock 'em away for that stuff.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 01:46 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Army blamed for escalating feud
Mayor Muslimin Sema yesterday urged an investigation into the deadly clash in nearby Datu Piang town in Maguindanao, saying someone appeared to be orchestrating hostilities to "sabotage" the peace agreement between the government and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF). Misuari [sic] also faulted the army’s 6th Infantry Division for an escalation in the fighting, which left nine gunmen and two soldiers killed last Tuesday.
Damn. I was hoping MNLF would collapse under the weight of its "leadership"...
Investigation has shown that the armed conflict was between the groups of Commanders Tamano Mamalapat and Basco Tutin, who were said to be fighting for control over a piece of land in Datu Piang. According to the military, Tamano’s group on Tuesday clashed with Basco’s group and soldiers were sent to pacify them but they were fired upon by Basco’s men.
Sounds like a pretty good reason for the government troops to fire back. Civilized countries don't tolerate shoot-outs among armed gangs...
Fighting ensued and hours later, Basco lost nine men as against two soldiers killed and five others wounded. Air force bombers also joined the fight against Basco’s group, which retreated to the jungles. About a dozen, however, reportedly surrendered.
Sounds fair...
But local residents claimed that Tamano’s group was supported by the army’s 37th Infantry Battalion and paramilitary units (CAFGUs) under Commander Genuine Kamaong from the very start. There were also those who counted the killed at 16, including seven from the army. Basco also lost his 18-year-old son and his headquarters were completely overtaken by the joint forces of the military and Tamano’s followers. Basco yesterday vowed to join the rebellion against the government because of what happened.
Hates it when he loses, does he?
Sema criticized the military’s action, saying there is no need for them to launch ground and air assault considering that the area had been identified for development where the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is involved pursuant to the Manila-MNLF peace agreement.
Y'mean they shoulda just let them fight it out? That doesn't make any sense...
The military, however, maintained that they were in pursuit of members of the Pentagon kidnap gang holding a South Korean hostage in Central Mindanao. Additional special forces troops have been sent to scour hinterland areas around Palimbang and Maitum towns where the “Pentagon” gang is believed to be hiding Yoon Jae-Kun, army spokesman Lt. Col. Nardo Balboa said. Yoon, 45, was seized by Pentagon members in February and is the last foreigner held by kidnappers in the southern Philippines. “The pursuing troops are now scouring the mountain where the hostage is being (held) by his abductors,” Balboa told reporters here.
And they happened to stumble across a shoot-out between two groups of thugs in the sticks and joined in. They were supposed to ignore it?
Officials said the shadowy Pentagon group is composed mostly of renegade members of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the country’s main Moro armed group now negotiating peace with Manila.
MILF is the Saudis' pet project in the P.I., which gets entirely too much respect and recognition from Manila. Pentagon is what they do to pick up spare change until the Soddy checks arrive.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 08:37 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Terror Networks
Sudan Suspect Fired Missile at U.S. Warplane
Authorities in Sudan have arrested a suspected al Qaeda thug who claims to have fired a shoulder-launched missile at a U.S. military aircraft in Saudi Arabia. The man was captured recently in Sudan after the burned-out launcher of a Soviet-made anti-aircraft missile was found in May just outside Prince Sultan air base in the Saudi desert. The man claimed to be head of an al Qaeda cell and that he said he had fired a missile at an American military jet using the base last October. The discovery of the empty but scorched launcher at Prince Sultan was announced by the U.S. Central Command and prompted the FBI to issue an intelligence alert that terrorists might try to shoot down an American commercial aircraft with shoulder-fired missiles.
Doesn't sound like he's a very good shot, since no one seems to have noticed...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 10:07 am || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


At least 116 Maoists, 5 Nepalese soldiers killed
At least 116 Maoist rebels and five Nepalese soldiers have been killed in clashes across the kingdom, state radio and cabinet sources said on Thursday. Sources said one of the biggest clashes occurred in the west of the kingdom when at least 80 rebels were killed after they ambushed troops in Salyan district. "The fight between the rebels and the security forces continued until Thursday late afternoon," one of the sources said. "In the clashes, at least 80 rebels and five security personnel were killed while 28 others were injured." The rebels had fired at a military helicopter which had gone to the area with reinforcement, but it managed to land safely with only a minor damage.
Guess those guys just weren't in the mood to be ambushed and wiped out...
Meanwhile, at least 38 rebels were killed in Nepal in a series of clashes with security personnel since Tuesday, state-run radio said Thursday.
They were looking for more fish...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 11:36 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Civilians flee to avoid LTTE recruitment
Civilian families are fleeing their villages in Sri Lanka's east to avoid recruitment of teenagers by the LTTE, with 32 people seeking refuge in Army-controlled areas two days ago, the military said. The charge comes alongside amnesty international's announcement that it will send a team to the island on June 16 to hold talks with the rebel group for the first time over allegations of child conscription in defiance of international law and its pledge to the United Nations.

A defence ministry statement said the group of civilians included 19 boys and girls, most of them below 17 years of age. They were put up at a church and would be interviewed by Scandinavian monitors overseeing the government-LTTE truce. Amnesty's two-week visit will mark the first time that the human rights body meets the LTTE leadership to raise the oft-repeated charge of using children in armed combat. The three-member team would also meet the government to discuss human rights issues in general.
Ummm... Lemme guess what's gonna happen: Amnesty will meet with them and the LLTE will give them a pious denial. Amnesty will then suggest they break for lunch and they'll talk about something else when they come back.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 12:13 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Rabat asked to furnish arrest details
Saudi Arabia is in contact with Moroccan authorities over the detention of three Saudis on suspicion of plotting "terrorist attacks" on US and British warships, a Saudi security official said yesterday. The Moroccan authorities have arrested two Saudi men and their Moroccan wives and a third Saudi national for allegedly preparing attacks on US and British warships. The women were allegedly used as couriers between Al-Qaeda and its members in Morocco. The three Saudi men were arrested last month. Morocco has identified the three male Saudis as Hilal Jaber Awad Al-Assiri, Zuhair Hilal Muhammad Al-Tbaiti and Abdullah Misfer Ali Al-Ghamdi. The five are expected to appear before a Moroccan court in the next few days. According to the Moroccan media, two of the Saudi suspects exploited local customs to conduct symbolic marriages with Moroccan women and gain legal status in the North African country.
The Soddies just hate it when their thugs get arrested. Sometimes a little arrogance or a royal word might get them sprung to use somewhere else.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 06/13/2002 09:05 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



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Thu 2002-06-13
  Sudan Suspect Fired Missile at U.S. Warplane
Wed 2002-06-12
  Karzai set to become head of state
Tue 2002-06-11
  Boom boy fumbles the bag, and up he goes...
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  Feds snag al-Qaeda 'dirty' bomber
Sun 2002-06-09
  Palestinians reorganize cabinet
Sat 2002-06-08
  Qazi warns govt against any change in Kashmir policy
Fri 2002-06-07
  Two hostages die, another rescued in Philippines
Thu 2002-06-06
  Israeli troops destroy 3 buildings at Arafat's headquarters
Wed 2002-06-05
  Suicide Bomber Kills 16 Passengers on Bus
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  One-eyed Mullah sighted in Helmand...
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