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U.S. asks NATO allies for more information on foes
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- The United States told NATO allies Wednesday it needs more information on how to find Osama bin Laden and his followers and asked their help in gathering intelligence. 09/26/01
Protesters storm abandoned U.S. Embassy in Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Thousands of demonstrators stormed the long-abandoned U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan on Wednesday, pelting it with stones, torching cars and a guardhouse, and ripping down the heavy metal U.S. seal above the entryway. 09/26/01
Va. man with link to hijacker ordered held without bond
WASHINGTON -- The government increased its pressure Wednesday on a former airline food worker whose name and phone number were found in a car registered to one of the terrorist hijackers, persuading a federal court to detain him without bail. 09/26/01
Allies step up terrorism fight
WASHINGTON -- America scored significant successes in building a global front in the war on terrorism Tuesday as Saudi Arabia cut off diplomatic ties with the Taliban and major industrial nations agreed to work to choke off financing for Osama bin Laden. 09/26/01
 Atusushi Tsukada / Associated Press Fear of bioterrorist acts escalated with the disclosure that terrorists sought information about crop dusting airplanes that could be used to wage biological or chemical warfare. Crop dusting planes were briefly grounded.  |
WASHINGTON -- All the world is watching as President George W. Bush sends naval fleets, fighter planes and bombers, and American troops overseas in a massive military buildup to fight the United States' version of a war against terrorism. 09/26/01
House approves defense bill; Senate version bogs down
WASHINGTON -- The House overwhelmingly approved a $343 billion defense bill that fully funds President Bush's overall request but takes some money away from his missile defense program and aims it at counterterrorism efforts. 09/26/01
Ashcroft faces critics of more police powers
WASHINGTON -- President Bush urged Tuesday that Congress give law enforcement more tools to fight terrorism even as Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft faced a second day of questions from lawmakers worried that the new powers may be too broad. 09/26/01
City is safe, N.Y. mayor asserts
NEW YORK -- As New Yorkers voted in primaries for his replacement Tuesday, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani encouraged residents to move beyond the World Trade Center terrorist attack and get on with life. 09/26/01
Racial profiling fears surface in terror probe
WASHINGTON -- As law enforcement agencies across the nation search for suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks and try to head off further terrorism, they are operating in a climate that affords them wider latitude to engage in racial profiling. Even some longtime critics of the practice now acknowledge that it is inevitable or even appropriate under the circumstances. 09/26/01
Black caucus adjusts priorities
WASHINGTON -- In the months leading to their 30th birthday celebration, members of the Congressional Black Caucus honed in on the issues they saw as barriers to African-American empowerment, such as racial profiling and the flawed 2000 presidential election. 09/26/01
Minority flier complaints rise
SEATTLE -- Vahid Tony Zohrehvandi was seated on an American Airlines flight last Friday when he suddenly was ordered off the plane. He says the reason he was given: The pilot was uncomfortable with him as a passenger. 09/26/01
Powell steps up pressue on Taliban
WASHINGTON -- If the increasingly isolated Taliban regime in Afghanistan hands over Osama bin Laden and rips up the al-Qaida terrorism network, it will be spared and may even receive Western aid, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday. 09/26/01
Officer acquitted in shooting that touched off Cincinnati riots
CINCINNATI -- A white police officer was acquitted Wednesday of negligent homicide in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man that sparked the city's worst racial unrest in three decades. 09/26/01
Israel and Palestinians to try truce again
GAZA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Gaza Strip -- In truce talks held at the urging of the United States, Israel and the Palestinians today agreed on a series of confidence-building measures aimed at ending a year of fighting. 09/26/01
Poverty rate dips to a 26-year low
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. poverty rate dipped last year to its lowest level in over a quarter-century, driven down by a healthy economy that helped a broad range of workers. Incomes leveled off after years of increase. 09/26/01
Saudi Arabia severs diplomatic ties to Taliban
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Osama bin Laden's organization made a fresh call to arms today as Saudi Arabia cut diplomatic links with the Taliban, leaving Pakistan the sole country with formal ties to Afghanistan's hard-line leaders. 09/25/01
Bush freezes terrorists' assets
WASHINGTON -- President Bush ordered a freeze Monday on the assets of 27 people and organizations with suspected links to terrorism, including Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, and urged other nations to do likewise. 09/25/01
Pilots union urges Congress to allow firearms in cockpits
WASHINGTON -- The Air Line Pilots Association pressed Congress Tuesday to allow pilots to carry firearms in cockpits, a move the union says could prevent hijackings. 09/25/01
Ashcroft says wiretap laws, terrorism penalties most important part of legislation
WASHINGTON -- Punishing terrorists as harshly as drug dealers and mafia dons and updating the FBI's wiretapping abilities are necessary for the Justice Department to battle terrorism, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Tuesday. 09/25/01
Defense secretary says goal is to reduce, not eliminate, terrorism
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. campaign against terrorism will not completely eradicate it, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld says. 09/25/01
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