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Afghanistan
Kandahar leadership compound clobbered
  • U.S. warplanes bombed a leadership compound near Kandahar, stepping up the pursuit of Osama bin Laden and his Taliban allies. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters of the latest raid was on the compound used by leaders of both the Taliban and al Qaeda, but said he did not know if any central figures were hit. Speculation on FoxNews is that Mullah Omar and some of his senior commanders were in the compound at the time.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/27/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Hekmatyar raps Bonn talks
  • Exiled Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, now living in Iran, called the Bonn talks a U.S. ploy to further its influence. "Only groups fitting U.S. requirements and interests have been invited," he said. "Problems cannot be resolved by a government set up by America, Russia and their puppets." They can only be solved by Iran, Pakistan and their puppets.
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    Prison revolt over. Bad Guys dead.
  • The revolt by al-Qaeda imprisoned in Mazar-e-Sharif has been quashed after three days of fighting. Witnesses say a series of deafening explosions was heard after opposition forces fired tank shells to kill the last two Taleban prisoners still holding out. "The situation is completely under control. All of them were killed," said a spokesman for General Rashid Dostum.
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    Cave hunting begins with bunker busters
  • Cave hunting has begun, with "bunker-buster" bombs targeting mountain hideouts and special operations troops investigating abandoned tunnels.
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    Pashtun jirga urges UN to convene jirga
  • A jirga of Afghanistan's Pashtun Ahmedzai tribe has urged the United Nations and other international bodies to declare Kabul a de-militarised zone and convene a Loya Jirga in Kabul.
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    Northern Alliance expects government deal within three days
  • Afghanistan's Northern Alliance expects a deal to form an interim government for the country to be struck within three days of talks.
    Once that's done, it'll be all over but the shootin'.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/27/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Fifth Column
    Boston Globe writer sez anthrax attacks were "Gulf of Tonkin"
  • 'Now, the operating assumption is that the anthrax cases, unrelated to bin Laden, are domestic crimes, not acts of war. But for a crucial moment, they effectively played the role in this war that the Gulf of Tonkin ''assault'' played in the Vietnam War, as sources of a war hysteria that ''united'' the nation around a mistake. In such a context, the more doubt is labeled disloyal, the more it grows. The more this war is deemed ''just,'' the more it seems wrong.' -- James Carroll, The Boston Globe.
    Chomsky's more coherent.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/27/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Home Front
    Anarchist high school brat's Mom pulls her from school
  • A high school student who was suspended last month for her anti-war, pro-anarchy stances has been pulled out of school by her mother because of safety concerns. Amy Sierra said her daughter, Katie, 15, has been attacked, threatened and insulted by students at Sissonville High School. The mother said it was her choice to withdraw the young nitwit and enroll her in a program in which she will complete assignments on a computer from home.
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    Two WTC families sue Binny
  • Two families have filed wrongful death suits against Osama bin Laden for deaths associated with the World Trade Center attacks on 9-11.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/27/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    International
    Sammy refuses to readmit weapons inspectors
  • Iraqi romance novelist and President for Life Saddam Hussein has accepted President Bush's barely veiled offer of a knuckle sandwich by refusing to readmit UN-sactioned weapons inspectors.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/27/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Terror Networks
    Al Aqsa Brigades attempted to bump off Sharon
  • The Fatah Al Aksa Brigade confirmed several of its members had been involved in a foiled attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and vowed to continue in its attempts to kill him. Israeli security forces arrested three members of a five-man cell before they had a chance to attack Sharon's home in the Muslim Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. A group called the Popular Army Vanguards, said to be affiliated with Fatah, claimed responsibility for an unsuccessful roadside bomb attack on IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Shaul Mofaz's convoy near Beit Hagai in the Hebron Hills. Two people were killed and nine injured when Al Aqsa Brigades gunmen opened fire on a crowded market in the centre of Afula in northern Israel.
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    MNLF gunnies flee compound with human shields
  • Seeking to escape an air assault by the Philippine military, heavily armed Moro National Liberation Front rebels fled a besieged compound with dozens of hostages that they had roped together as human shields. After hours of intense fighting, 25 guerrillas and one soldier were dead and an unknown number of others, including civilians, were wounded. Sometime after midnight, the heroes let 21 hostages go free, but held onto 60 others.
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    Paks detain retired nuke scientists for questioning
  • Two retired Pakistani nuclear scientists suspected of having ties to suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden were detained again for questioning. Sultan Bashir-ud-Din Mehmood and Abdul Majid were first taken into custody Oct. 23. Authorities said last week that they had been released.
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    Five soldiers, eight civilians dead in Kashmir
  • Daily Jang reports that at least five Indian soldiers and eight civilians were killed in an encounter in Kashmir.
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/27/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Maoists bump off four cops in Nepal
  • Four policemen were killed when Maoist rebels attacked a police post in western Nepal in the first reported outbreak of violence since the kingdom declared a state of emergency.
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    Brits investigate anthrax hoaxes
  • British police are investigating two major anthrax hoaxes in which dozens of powder-filled packages were sent to government and business premises across London.
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    US hits Iraqi sites in no-fly zone
  • U.S. warplanes attacked an air defense target in southern Iraq in response to continuing Iraqi threats against American and British jets patrolling a "no-fly'' zone there.
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    The Alliance
    US wants to extradite Algerian snuffy from Britain
  • U.S. authorities began proceedings to extradite Algerian Lotfi Raissi, 27, from Britain Raissi is accused of training some of the hijackers who crashed a jet into the Pentagon on Sept. 11. He has denied any connection to terrorism. (Hey, it could happen.)
  • Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 11/27/2001 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


    Abu Qatada was cheatin' on the dole
  • British authorities are investigating a string of mysterious payments from the bank account of London-based Muslim cleric Abu Qatada, named as Osama bin Laden's 'European ambassador'. A statement for one of Qatada's bank accounts reveals that, despite being on the dole, the cleric wrote out three checks totalling almost £5,000 in the days following the 11 September attacks.
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    Caymans will share tax info
  • The Cayman Islands, long considered a haven for tax evaders, has agreed with the Bush administration to share tax information that would help the United States track down violators.
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    Two weeks of WOT
    Tue 2001-11-27
      Prison revolt over. Bad Guys dead.
    Mon 2001-11-26
      Delegation goes to Kandahar to chat with Mullah Omar
    Sun 2001-11-25
      Konduz has fallen
    Sat 2001-11-24
      Malays nab Nur Misuari
    Fri 2001-11-23
      Binny's moved to Tora Bora
    Thu 2001-11-22
      Konduz commander sez he's ready to surrender
    Wed 2001-11-21
      Taliban has until Thursday to surrender Konduz
    Tue 2001-11-20
      MNLF abandons peace agreement
    Mon 2001-11-19
      Paks no longer recognize Taliban government
    Sun 2001-11-18
      Talibs ask for UN intervention at Konduz
    Sat 2001-11-17
      Rabbani arrives in Kabul
    Fri 2001-11-16
      Konduz talks collapse
    Thu 2001-11-15
      Konduz deciding whether to surrender
    Wed 2001-11-14
      Pashtun force enters southern Afghanistan from Quetta
    Tue 2001-11-13
      Jalalabad falls

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