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US
NEWS SOURCES -March 8&9, 2003 (Weekend) |
| EDITORIALS / OP-ED |
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U.S., Pakistan narrow hunt for bin
Laden (Washington Post) (Los Angeles Times - Registration
required) (New York Times - Registration required) (Voice of America)
(Seattle Post Intelligencer) (Cleveland News) (Wall Street Journal -
Subscription required) (North Jersey Media) (Press Enterprise) (Seattle
Times) (Knoxville Sentinel) (Memphis News) (Detroit News) (Centre Daily)
(Orlando Sentinel) |
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Sorry facts and apologies for the truth (Washington
Times) |
| BUSINESS / TECHNOLOGY |
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Talisman sells Sudan Oil interests (New York Times
- Registration required) (San Francisco Chronicle) |
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India bans imports of genetically modified US
Grain (Wall Street Journal - Subscription
required) |
| OTHER STORIES |
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Air
India bombing trial delayed, ban reimposed (Washington Post)
(Chicago Tribune - Registration required) |
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Between two worlds (Buffalo
News) |
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Avalanches kill 17 people in Kashmir (Washington
Post) (Washington Post) (Seattle Post Intelligencer) (Arizona Central)
(Wall Street Journal - Subscription required) |
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Pakistani found a new way to teach
Chemistry (Chicago Tribune - Registration
required) |
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Remarks by Pakistan's Ambassador to Security
Council (New York Times - Registration required) (Wall Street
Journal - Subscription required) |
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A
Darkening Sky (US News) |
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Musharraf nephew detained by U.S. for 16
Days (Washington Post) (Voice of America) (Wall Street Journal -
Subscription required) (Lucianne) |
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Thousands protest against possible Iraq war in New
Delhi (Voice of America) (Wall Street Journal - Subscription
required) |
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2
students from India die in crash on I-26 (The
State) |
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Pakistan ex-PM: Violence contrary to Islam's basic
tenets (Wall Street Journal - Subscription
required) |
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Going To India To Celebrate Kachin
Culture (Connecticut News) |
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Indian PM urges more efforts to prevent war in
Iraq (Wall Street Journal - Subscription
required) |
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| TOP
STORIES |
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Bus accident
kills 17 in southern India |
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A van driver lost
control of his vehicle and crashed into a bus Sunday in southern India,
killing 17 people and injuring 13 others. An infant and a child were among
those killed in the collision in the Tiruvarur district of Tamil Nadu
state, the Press Trust of India news agency said, quoting unidentified
police officers. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AMar9.html |
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http://www.boston.com/dailynews/068/world/Bus_accident_kills_17_in_south:.shtml |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=India%20Bus%20Crash |
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http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20030308/3009480.asp |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB-search,00.html |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030309_000470,00.html?collection=autowire/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Ban |
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Rebels strike
pipeline, refinery in north-east India |
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Guwahati, India
-- Separatist rebels bombed a gas pipeline and blew up a petrol storage
tank in India's oil-rich Assam state in pre-dawn raids on Saturday and
said they would stage more attacks in coming days. Police said the strikes
were the biggest for two years against oil installations in Assam by
rebels fighting for independence for the state of 26 million. Flames shot
230 feet into the air as the five-million-liter storage tank at Digboi
refinery exploded. No one was hurt in either attack. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AMar8.html |
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-mar09,1,7615874.story |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/international/asia/09INDI.html |
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http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=A637A271-B2F5-4E62-AF1EC9DE35E589B9 |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=India%20Rebel%20Attacks |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB-search,00.html |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030309_000594,00.html?collection=autowire/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Ban |
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http://www.insidevc.com/vcs/international/article/0,1375,VCS_124_1799254,00.html |
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Two hurt in
attack on Mosque in eastern Pakistan, no arrests
made |
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Lahore, Pakistan
-- Two masked mend fire inside a mosque Sunday in southwestern
Pakistan, wounding two people in an attack that apparently stemmed from an
internal dispute and not religious differences, police said. 'There is no
evidence to suggest it was a sectarian attack,' said Altaf Shah, a deputy
superintendent of police in Faisalabad, an industrial town about 60 miles
southwest of Lahore. The attackers entered the Jamia Muqadas mosque in
Faisalabad and sprayed bullets before fleeing on a motorcycle, Shah
said. |
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http://www.boston.com/dailynews/068/world/Two_hurt_in_attack_on_Mosque_i:.shtml |
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Pakistan-Mosque-Attack.html |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AMar9.html |
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-mosque-attack,1,6526527.story |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Pakistan%20Mosque%20Attack |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030309_000633,00.html?collection=autowire/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Ban |
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http://newsobserver.com/24hour/world/story/799113p-5699125c.html |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/03/09/international0606EST0420.DTL |
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Pakistanis
held in Afghanistan a 3-nation issue |
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Mohammad Shabaz's
journey began in a town in southern Pakistan, and has ended, for now, in
an Afghan jail cell. A foot soldier for the Taliban during the U.S.-led
air campaign in Afghanistan, he is among hundreds, perhaps thousands, of
Pakistanis who crossed the border in the fall of 2001, urged on by radical
Muslim leaders and clerics. |
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-mar09,1,5780862.story |
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U.S. rejects
reports on bin Laden's sons |
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Peshawar,
Pakistan -- U.S. and Pakistani officials, responding to a series of
conflicting reports, said late Friday that the purported capture of two of
Osama bin Laden's sons appeared to be one of many incorrect rumors
swirling through the region this week after the arrest of Al Qaeda's top
attack commander. |
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-mar08,1,6960513.story |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AMar7.html |
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http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20030308/1039018.asp |
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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0307BinLaden07-ON.html |
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dallas/world/stories/030703dnintbinladensons.37f05b3f.html |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB-search,00.html |
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http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/world/article/0,1406,KNS_351_1796811,00.html |
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http://www.freep.com/news/nw/osama8_20030308.htm |
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Taliban: Bin
Laden was in region before U.S. attack |
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Spin Boldak,
Afghanistan -- A former Taliban diplomat said on Sunday that Osama bin
Laden, the world's most wanted man, was in the southern Afghan province of
Nimroz just days before U.S. forces launched a new operation to arrest
him. Naseer Ahmed Roohi, a former diplomat in Afghanistan's fallen
hard-line government, said he had information from "reliable sources" that
bin Laden had been in the Siakoh mountain range, straddling the
southwestern Afghan provinces of Nimroz, Helmand and Pakistan's
Baluchistan province. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A168-2003Mar9.html |
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Fate of two
bin Laden sons in dispute |
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Islamabad -- A
Pakistani official said on Friday that two sons of Osama bin Laden were
wounded and possibly arrested in a raid by U.S. and Afghan troops in
Afghanistan, but Washington disputed the report as did local officials and
U.S. military in Afghanistan. The Pakistan official also said nine
suspected al Qaeda men were killed in the operation. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AMar7.html |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Afghan%20Bin%20Laden%27s%20Sons |
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http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/international/ap_doubt03072003.htm |
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http://www.bergen.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkyNiZmZ2JlbDdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5NjM1MTAzNiZ5cmlyeTdmNzE3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTI= |
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http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-afghan-bin-ladens-sons,0,2028520.story?coll=sns%2Dap%2Dworld%2Dheadlines |
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Body found in
Pakistan said to be of Afghan official |
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KARACHI
(AP)--Rescuers recovered a headless body off the Pakistani coast Sunday
and believed it may be that of an Afghan official who was killed with
seven other people in a plane crash near Karachi last month, officials
said. Eight people were killed, including Afghan minister for Mines and
Industry, Juma Mohammed Mohammedi, when their chartered Cessna 402 crashed
shortly after takeoff from Karachi on Feb. 24. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030309_000656,00.html?collection=autowire/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Ban |
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Sri Lankan
rebels tried to buy weapons in Laos |
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COLOMBO
(AP)--Tamil Tiger rebels have attempted to procure sophisticated
Russian-built missiles and other military items in Laos, a newspaper
reported Sunday. Two Sri Lankans, later found to be members of the
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam had approached representatives of
Rosboronexport - Russia's state organization for the export and import of
military products - in Laos, and made inquiries about acquiring various
weapons, said the independent Sunday Times. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030309_000598,00.html?collection=autowire/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Ban |
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India, Iran to
hold their 1st ever joint navy exercise |
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NEW DELHI
(AP)--India and Iran will hold their first ever joint navy exercises in
the Arabian Sea next week, a news report said on Saturday. Two Iranian
warships, one fleet replenishment tanker and a logistics support ship have
arrived in India's western port city of Mumbai for a five-day goodwill
visit, Press Trust of India news agency said. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030308_000117,00.html?collection=autowire/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Ban |
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2 Germans
arrested for alleged arms parts export to India |
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Two German
businessmen have been arrested on suspicion that they illegally exported
weapons parts to India, prosecutors said Saturday. The men from the
western town of Holzwickede were detained Friday and are accused of
violating German export laws, according to the state prosecutor's office
in nearby Dortmund. A spokesman declined to give further details,
identifying neither the men nor the firm they worked
for. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030308_000113,00.html?collection=autowire/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Ban |
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Hundreds of
Sri Lankans demonstrate against war on Iraq |
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COLOMBO, Sri
Lanka (AP)--Hundreds of Sri Lankans carrying placards and shouting antiwar
slogans demonstrated Saturday against a possible U.S.-led attack on Iraq,
saying that the dispute should be solved through peaceful means.Buddhist
and Christian clergy, trade unions, student groups, women's rights groups
and political parties took part in the protest in the capital,
Colombo. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030308_000066,00.html?collection=autowire/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Ban |
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Pakistani
magistrate testifies at bombing suspects' trial |
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KARACHI (AP)--A
Pakistani magistrate testified Saturday in a trial of five suspected
Islamic militants accused of masterminding a suicide bombing outside the
U.S. Consulate last year, as prosecutors tried to link the attack with a
failed plot to kill Pakistan's president.The five could face the death
penalty in connection with the June 14 attack, in which a suicide bomber
rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a concrete block outside the
consulate in the southern city of Karachi, killing 12 Pakistanis and
injuring 50 other people. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030308_000056,00.html?collection=autowire/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Ban |
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Pakistan envoy
urges credible pause for peace |
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Pakistan's
ambassador to the U.N. said Friday that his country believes there is no
imminent threat to international peace and security and "a credible pause
for peace will be worthwhile."During the debate in the Security Council on
Iraq, Ambassador Munir Akram said the cost of delay will be much less than
the cost of war. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030307_005002,00.html?collection=autowire/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Ban |
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Pakistan
parliament cancels session amid anti-Pres chants |
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ISLAMABAD
(AP)--The speaker of Pakistan's lower house of Parliament abruptly ended a
session Friday after opposition lawmakers chanted slogans against
President Gen. Pervez Musharraf for unilaterally amending the
constitution.As the National Assembly convened, opposition members rose
from their seats shouting the slogan "Go (away) Musharraf," while Islamic
hard-liners added chants of "Allah Akbar" - God is Great.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030307_003100,00.html?collection=autowire/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Ban |
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Sri Lanka says
Iraq war would devastate local economy |
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COLOMBO (AP)--Sri
Lanka's foreign minister said Friday that an imminent war against Iraq
would have "devastating effects" on the country's economy, affecting oil
supplies and two of its main foreign exchange earners."A war will have a
devastating effect on Sri Lanka," Foreign Fernando Tyronne Fernando
said. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030307_002899,00.html?collection=autowire/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Ban |
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Reward program
for Bin Laden stepped up in Pakistan |
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ISLAMABAD,
Pakistan (AP)--They are about the size of a U.S. dollar bill, and tens of
thousands of them have been fluttering to earth in recent days over vast
stretches of eastern Afghanistan and western Pakistan. The leaflets seek
help from residents in finding al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden and remind
them of the $25 million reward if they lead investigators to his
whereabouts. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030307_002354,00.html?collection=autowire/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Ban |
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Pakistani raid
also nabbed suspected al-Qaida `paymaster' |
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Although
overshadowed by last week's dramatic arrest of suspected Sept. 11
mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in Pakistan, the capture of a lesser
al-Qaida figure in the same house seems certain to refocus attention on
the United Arab Emirates as the main funding conduit for the hijackings.
Assuming he talks to U.S. interrogators, Mustafa Ahmed al-Hisawi is in a
position to lay bare the concealed elements of the al-Qaida financial
operation that existed, at least before Sept. 11, 2001, in that wealthy
Persian Gulf federation. |
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http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/world/5354764.htm |
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http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/world/5354764.htm |
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http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/world/5354764.htm |
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http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/world/5354764.htm |
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http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/5354764.htm |
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| EDITORIALS / OP-ED |
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U.S., Pakistan
narrow hunt for bin Laden |
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The walls may be
closing in on Osama bin Laden after the capture of one of his most trusted
lieutenants, but the world's most wanted man has survived a lifetime of
close calls, and has made narrow escapes his calling card. Will this time
be any different? |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31-2003Mar9.html |
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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-bin-laden,1,1703217.story |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/08/international/asia/08HUNT.html |
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http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=947F63CE-3CB4-441C-B0B5DC466688C911 |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Osama%27s%20Close%20Calls |
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http://www.cleveland.com/world/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/.xml |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030309_000619,00.html?collection=autowire/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Ban |
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http://www.bergen.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkyNiZmZ2JlbDdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5NjM1MTQ1MyZ5cmlyeTdmNzE3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTI= |
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http://www.pe.com/ap_news/International/Osamas_Close_Calls_40462Ishtml |
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134649764_binsearch10.html |
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http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/world/article/0,1406,KNS_351_1798037,00.html |
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http://www.gomemphis.com/mca/america_at_war/article/0,1426,MCA_945_1798755,00.html |
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http://www.detnews.com/2003/nation/0303/10/a05-103594.htm |
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http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/5348099.htm |
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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/bal-osama0308,0,1901721.story?coll=orl%2Dhome%2Dheadlines |
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Sorry facts
and apologies for the truth |
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This is a tale of
two news stories. They both pertain to Islam and the post September 11
world of culture clash, but they take place in parallel universes: the
first in a world where hard facts are prized like battle stars, the second
in a milieu where reality's sharper edges require plenty of
padding. |
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http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/west.htm |
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| BUSINESS / TECHNOLOGY |
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Talisman sells
Sudan Oil interests |
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Canada's Talisman
Energy Inc. signed a deal on Sunday to sell its oil interests in Sudan for
$750 million to ONGC Videsh Ltd., a subsidiary of India's national oil
company. ONGC Videsh has operations in Russia, Iran and Libya, with annual
revenue of $2 billion. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/business/AP-Sudan-Oil-Talisman.html |
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/03/09/financial1646EST0015.DTL |
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India bans
imports of genetically modified US Grain |
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India has banned
imports of 23,000 tons of U.S. grain into the country after laboratory
phytosanitary tests showed the U.S. agricultural products - corn, in
particular - had undergone artificial genetic changes and didn't match
general world standards, Itar-Tass reported, citing local reports.The
Indian side has officially notified the U.S. about the imports ban and
warned that commercial use of genetic engineering harms human health, Tass
said. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030309_000643,00.html?collection=autowire/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Ban |
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| OTHER STORIES |
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Air India
bombing trial delayed, ban reimposed |
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Vancouver,
British Columbia -- A Canadian judge on Friday delayed the start of the
trial of two Sikh militants for the 1985 bombing of Air India Flight 182,
civil aviation's worst case of sabotage before the Sept. 11 attacks, and
reimposed a ban on reporting evidence in the case. The trial of Ripudaman
Singh Malik and Ajiab Singh Bagri for the bombing, which killed 329
people, will now start on April 28 instead of March
31. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AMar7.html |
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-mar09,1,4797821.story |
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Between two
worlds |
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Qaiser Jamil
lived a comfortable life with his wife and four children near New York
City until three weeks ago - when it became apparent to him that the
future for his family, and thousands of other Pakistanis, is not in the
United States. The family now lives in the jampacked Vive La Casa, a
refugee center in Buffalo, awaiting a chance to convince the Canadian
government to let them settle there. |
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http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20030307/1038170.asp |
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Avalanches
kill 17 people in Kashmir |
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Heavy snow set
off avalanches along the cease-fire line dividing Kashmir between India
and Pakistan, killing at least 17 people and stranding hundreds, police
said Friday. The dead were all soldiers except for one civilian. At least
nine other soldiers were reported missing and dozens trapped in stretches
of the Himalayas in northernmost Kashmir, police said. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AMar7.html |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AMar7.html |
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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/apasia_story.asp?category=1104&slug=Kashmir%20Avalanche |
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http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0307KashmirAvalanche07-ON.html |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB,00.html?collection=wsjie/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangla |
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Pakistani
found a new way to teach Chemistry |
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As an eager young
chemist in Pakistan, Ali Syed dreamed of one day creating futuristic
patents for businesses. "I imagined getting a job as a chemist and working
on cement, fertilizer or textiles," he said. He fulfilled his dream but
not exactly in the fields he'd expected. As founder of Avlon Industries, a
multimillion-dollar company based in Bedford Park, he is credited with
creating popular relaxing and conditioning ethnic-hair products, such as
Affirm and KeraCare. |
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/q/chi-mar09,1,1041642.story |
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Remarks by
Pakistan's Ambassador to Security Council |
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Mr.President, is
a pleasure to see the distinguished foreign minister of fraternal Guinea
preside over the deliberations of this historic and perhaps fateful
session of the Security Council on Iraq. I would also wish to take this
opportunity to congratulate Germany, Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer and
my friend Ambassador Gunter Pleuger for the outstanding presidency of
Germany during the previous month. |
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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/07/international/07TEXT-AKRAM.html |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030308_000047,00.html?collection=autowire/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Ban |
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A Darkening
Sky |
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V. "Ram"
Ramanathan sat on an airliner heading south from Bombay. Ahead were the
Maldives, an archipelago near the equator, where the atmospheric scientist
from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography near San Diego planned to set
up instruments to study haze and weather. He expected that results from
the international project would come slowly and be of interest only to
specialists. He was not prepared for what he saw just gazing out the plane
window. |
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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030317/misc/17haze.htm |
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Musharraf
nephew detained by U.S. for 16 Days |
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Washington -- The
nephew of Pakistan President, Pervez Musharraf was released on Friday by
U.S. immigration officials after being held for 16 days for violating his
visa. Musharraf was detained on Feb. 19 when he went to register at an
immigration office in Memphis, Tennessee. He was required to register
under an anti-terrorism program that targets male citizens of a number of
countries including Pakistan. |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/AMar7.html |
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http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=4C2A93C5-BFD6-42CC-9E5D70C0BFBEF878&title=Nephew%20of%20Pakistan%20President%20Released%20by%20US%20Immigration%20Authorities&catOID=45C9C78E-88AD-11D4-A57200A0CC5EE46C&categoryname=South%20%26%20Central%20Asia |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030307_006734,00.html?collection=autowire/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Ban |
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http://www.lucianne.com/threads2.asp?artnum=18453 |
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Thousands
protest against possible Iraq war in New Delhi |
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Thousands of
Muslims in the Indian capital, New Delhi, have held protests against a
possible U.S.-led attack on Iraq. The protesters chanted anti-American
slogans and waved pictures of Saddam Hussein outside the city's main
mosque after Friday prayers. The head cleric of Jama Masjid mosque, Syed
Ahmed Bukhari, told the rally any attack on Iraq is an attack on
Islam. |
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http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=BBB98290-FD79D80DE3A6F312&title=Thousands%20Protest%20Against%20Possible%20Iraq%20War%20in%20New%20Delhi&catOID=45C9C78E-88AD-11D4-A57200A0CC5EE46C&categoryname=South%20%26%20Central%20Asia |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030309_000652,00.html?collection=autowire/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Ban |
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2 students
from India die in crash on I-26 |
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Two international
students at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro died Saturday
after the vehicle they were in overturned along I-26 in Orangeburg County.
Srinipas L. Kollipara, 45, was driving the Dodge east on I-26 when he lost
control. He told investigators something, perhaps a piece of paper, flew
up onto the windshield, officials said. |
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http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/local/5351456.htm |
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Pakistan
ex-PM: Violence contrary to Islam's basic tenets |
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Muslims espousing
violence undermine basic tenets of their belief, while dictatorships
across the Islamic world are aggravating the religion's image problems,
Former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said on Saturday. Those who
preach violence in the name of Muhammad "contradict the teachings of
Islam," Bhutto told an audience in the capital of Nigeria, a west African
nation with a sizable Muslim population. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030308_000134,00.html?collection=autowire/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Ban |
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Going To India
To Celebrate Kachin Culture |
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LEKHAPANI, India
-- For two weeks, Khaong Imphum hiked and hitched rides through the
mountains of Myanmar and into India to reach this small town."I'm very
excited," Khaong, a petite 20-year-old woman wearing a red hand-woven
dress, said while taking a break from the dancing and drumming of the
festival that brought her. "It feels really nice to be with my own people
in a different country." |
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http://www.ctnow.com/news/nationworld/hc-bullindia0309.artmar09,0,2791826.story?coll=hc%2Dheadlines%2Dnationworld |
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Indian PM
urges more efforts to prevent war in Iraq |
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NEW DELHI
(AP)--India's prime minister said Saturday that more efforts should be
made to prevent a war in Iraq because Baghdad has said it is ready to
destroy its weapons of mass destruction."War clouds are hanging over us,"
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee told about 200 women celebrating the
International Women's Day on the grounds of his official
residence. |
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http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030308_000071,00.html?collection=autowire/30day&vql-string=%28%28India+OR+Pakistan+OR+Bangladesh+OR+Nepal+OR+Lanka%29%3Cin%3E%28article%2Dbody%29%3Cor%3E%28article%2Ddoc%2Dtype%3CCONTAINS%3EIndia+OR+Pakistan+OR+Ban |
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