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Bush says progress being made 'on many fronts'
WASHINGTON -- Condemning the Taliban anew, President Bush delivered a progress report Saturday on the war against terrorism, saying that advances are being made "on many fronts." 09/30/01
Bin Laden will counterpunch, U.S. authorities warn
WASHINGTON -- U.S. intelligence officials believe that Osama bin Laden long ago began orchestrating a significant terrorist counterpunch to what he expects would be certain U.S. retaliation for the attacks on New York and Washington, a Bush administration official said Saturday. 09/30/01
 Kamenko Pajic / Associated Press Police flank demonstrators marching in Washington Saturday. Activists oppose military strikes against alleged Saudi terrorist Osama bin Laden or countries that support or condone terrorism.  |
WASHINGTON -- Peace activists on Saturday called on President Bush to step back from the edge of war and use the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to reconsider U.S. foreign policy. 09/30/01
UN sends food to Afghans
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The United Nations on Saturday sent the first food shipments to Afghanistan since terrorists attacked the United States, a UN spokesman said. Hours after the United Nations ordered member states to crack down on terror groups, Pakistani authorities shut down a militant Islamic group. 09/30/01
Catholics' war stance shifts
YEREVAN, Armenia -- When Pope John Paul II openly opposed the gulf war, insisting dialogue could resolve the conflict, he became the rallying point for pacifists and others with an anti-American agenda. 09/30/01
FBI: $500,000 financed attacks
WASHINGTON -- The Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were financed with a $500,000 bankroll, a law enforcement official said Saturday as the FBI sent more agents to Germany in search of plot masterminds. 09/30/01
Ethnic profiling protests mount
WASHINGTON -- Lina Fattom knew trouble was coming as soon as she saw pictures on television of suspects in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. 09/30/01
Identifying dead largest DNA project in history
NEW YORK -- The science of identifying the dead works like this: Something unmentionable is pulled from the rubble, and is then compared in a laboratory to something that someone brought from home. Many of the answers will lie in the sophisticated biotechnology of DNA analysis. Others will be found in the details that made a person: a crooked tooth, an old knee injury, a fingerprint from a diploma hanging on a wall. 09/30/01
U.S. and Russia grow closer
WASHINGTON -- The terrorist attacks on America have transformed relations with Russia, thrusting the Cold War rivals into into an alliance against terrorism. 09/30/01
Clinton, Dole team up on scholarship fund for attack victims
WASHINGTON -- Former President Clinton, who has kept to a low-key public role after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Saturday praised the Bush administration's "measured" response to the crisis. 09/30/01
Nerve gas depot steps up security
NEWPORT, Ind. -- On the night of the terrorist attacks, Gidget Hall was resting in her home when fighter jets came roaring overhead. 09/30/01
Security boss moved at Logan
BOSTON -- The Federal Aviation Administration has reassigned the director of its security field office at Logan International Airport, where two of the hijacked planes in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks departed. 09/30/01
Macedonia promises restraint
SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Macedonia's government pledged to refrain from sweeping into areas once controlled by ethnic Albanian rebels, saying Saturday that it would move slowly and honor a Western-backed peace plan. 09/30/01
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Flying chicks debate heats up
WASHINGTON -- The decision by Northwest Airlines to stop shipping day-old chicks as mail because too many were dying has set off a battle pitting animal rights activists against Midwest senators and farmers. 09/30/01
Protestant extremism behind attacks
LURGAN, Northern Ireland -- Northern Ireland's security chiefs debated Saturday how to defeat Protestant extremists behind a wave of attacks on Catholics, particularly the slaying of a Catholic investigative journalist -- the first reporter slain in three decades of terrorism. 09/30/01
Mideast fighting puts truce in doubt
JERUSALEM -- Pledging not to end their uprising against Israel, tens of thousands of Palestinians marched in the West Bank and Gaza Strip on Saturday. Three Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded in confrontations with Israeli troops. 09/30/01
Hurricane Juliette loses power in Mexico, kills 3
CABO SAN LUCAS, Mexico -- Juliette weakened from a hurricane to a tropical storm Saturday, losing power as it lingered over the southern tip of Baja California after causing heavy flooding and killing three people. 09/30/01
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