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 K.M. Chaudary / Associated Press Anti-American demonstrators hold a poster of Osama bin Laden and a banner reading "America's Graveyard Afghanistan" in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday.  |
WASHINGTON -- Afghanistan's ruling Taliban rejected President Bush's ultimatum Friday, vowing to continue to protect Osama bin Laden and his terrorist followers even if that policy provokes a war and the destruction of the regime. 09/22/01
European officials arrest several in U.S. attacks
WASHINGTON -- As the terror investigation proceeded with arrests overseas, federal prosecutors disclosed Friday they charged a man with trying to fly into Chicago with an illegal passport and airline uniforms on the day of the suicide hijackings. 09/22/01
Unmanned spy plane shot down, Taliban says
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Taliban forces shot down an unmanned spy plane in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, a Taliban official said. 09/22/01
Saudi policy could delay airstrikes
WASHINGTON -- Saudi Arabia is resisting the United States' request to use a new command center on a Saudi military base in any air war against terrorists, forcing Pentagon planners to consider alternatives that could delay a campaign for weeks, defense officials said Friday. 09/22/01
Allies back plans for U.S. retaliation, but caution prudence
LONDON -- America's friends and allies around the world responded Friday to President Bush's call for solidarity in the fight against terrorism. But many said the evidence must be clear before anybody is targeted and cautioned against striking out in a way that would alienate Muslims around the world. 09/22/01
China to share intelligence; hemisphere countries pledge support
WASHINGTON -- China will give the United States intelligence it has gathered on terrorist groups in a show of support for the growing American campaign to put Osama bin Laden out of business. 09/22/01
Congress struggles with terror issues
WASHINGTON -- Even as Congress rallied behind President Bush's call to arms against terrorism, anxious lawmakers struggled Friday with a sobering array of related concerns that could strain or even shatter the extraordinary unity that Washington has forged over the last 10 days. 09/22/01
Pakistani protests smaller than expected
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Islamic groups called thousands of people onto the street of Pakistan's major cities Friday for anti-American and anti-government demonstrations, but the turnout was smaller than expected and protest leaders failed in their goal of shutting down the country with a general strike. 09/22/01
Start of military operation hinges on range of elements
WASHINGTON -- War has been declared. The world has been told to choose sides. So now the countdown begins. 09/22/01
Alternative to Taliban could be worse, experts warn
PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Endless war has reduced Afghanistan to ruin and killed or forced out so many millions of people that only the desperate and the extreme are remaining. It is a country suffering a critical shortage of credible leaders. 09/22/01
Analysis: The many natures of terrorism
ROME -- The day before last week's slaughter in the United States, a suicide bomber protesting the abysmal state of Turkish prisons set off an explosion in a busy shopping district of Istanbul, killing himself, three other Turks and an Austrian tourist. 09/22/01
Terror manual gives instructions for attackers on how to blend in
NEW YORK -- No beards or other "Islamic characteristics." Do not speak loudly or otherwise draw attention to yourself. Rent apartments in areas where neighbors do not know each other well. 09/22/01
Many roadblocks facing probes of bin Laden's cash
The legend of Saudi fugitive Osama bin Laden is that of the world's richest terrorist, a business-savvy nomad who has used a vast inheritance and a constellation of companies to finance a global network of violence. 09/22/01
Retrial in millennium plot could bolster U.S. case
AMMAN, Jordan -- To listen to the Jordanian government, Raed Hijazi was a member of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terrorism network, and was planning to wreak havoc in this moderate Arab nation during the millennium celebration. 09/22/01
Pentagon likely to change code name of U.S. action
WASHINGTON -- Fearful of offending Muslims around the world, the Pentagon is rethinking and will probably change the code name "Operation Infinite Justice" that it initially suggested for the planned U.S. retaliation against those it considers responsible for last week's terrorist attacks against the United States, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday. 09/22/01
Rubble joins the list of tourist sights
NEW YORK -- They gave themselves away, sometimes, by the clothing they wore, tidy but impractical. Or sometimes by the company they kept: Teen-agers cheerfully abiding their parents in New York couldn't be anything but tourists. 09/22/01
Top U.S. officials pay somber visit to New York
NEW YORK -- Attorney General John Ashcroft brought the Bush administration's defiant optimism to New York on Friday, vowing to rebuild after getting his first look at the ruins of the World Trade Center. 09/22/01
As donations pour in, new challenges arise
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Outpouring overwhelms Salvation Army warehouse
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Saudi arrested in Texas is a highly regarded doctor
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Security is tight coast to coast this weekend
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Defense intelligence analyst charged with spying for Cuba
WASHINGTON -- A senior analyst with the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency was arrested Friday and charged with conspiring to spy for Cuban intelligence officials during the last five years. 09/22/01
Explosion rocks French chemical plant
TOULOUSE, France -- When they heard the huge blast, many people thought it was a terror attack. But the explosion that ripped through a chemical fertilizer plant on Friday, killing 18 people and injuring 200, was most likely an accident, officials said. About 15 others were missing. 09/22/01
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