US NEWS SOURCES - September 6&7, 2003 (Weekend)

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*	Lt. Gen. John Vines: Taliban coming into Afghanistan from Pakistan
	Sept 07, Gardez, Afghanistan -- Taliban fighters, paid and trained by al-Qaida, are pouring into Afghanistan from Pakistan, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Sunday. Lt. Gen. John Vines said the Taliban were trying to regroup and regain control of the country they ruled until ousted by the U.S. in late 2001. His comments to reporters traveling with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld were the first confirmation from a top U.S. military official of reports of a Taliban resurgence out of Pakistan into Afghanistan.

	http://www.hoovers.com/free/news/detail.xhtml?ArticleID=NR_78b00020db4479a7
	http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030907_000653-search,00.html
	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ASep7.html
	http://www.journalstar.com/nw.php?story_id=78640
	http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0903/08taliban.html?urac=n&urvf=
*	Israel's Sharon heads to India to drum up trade and bolster defense ties
	Sept 07, Jerusalem -- Ariel Sharon flew to New Delhi on Monday for the first-ever visit to India by an Israeli prime minister, cementing defense and trade ties that have blossomed over the past decade and led to talk of a three-way strategic alliance with the United States. Analysts expect Sharon's meetings with Indian Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam and other Indian officials, to put the seal of approval on the sale of an advanced Israeli airborne radar package.

	http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030907_000886-search,00.html
	http://www.hoovers.com/free/news/detail.xhtml?ArticleID=NR_29d9002125c8e896
*	Sharon to pay landmark visit to India
	Sept 07, New Delhi -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is due in New Delhi on Monday, along with three of his ministers and more than two dozen influential business and defense industry executives. The visit marks the high point of a budding friendship between countries that share a British colonial past and tensions with Islamic extremists in the present, as well as a nuclear capability and strong high-tech industries. Not all Indians will welcome Sharon, however, and India's neighbor and chief nuclear adversary, Pakistan, will be watching warily.

	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ASep7.html
	http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/6716274.htm
	http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/nation/6716274.htm
*	Suspected separatists injure 13 in grenade attack in India's northeast
	Sept 07, Gauhati, India -- Suspected separatist rebels hurled a grenade in a busy market in India's remote northeastern state of Assam on Sunday, injuring 13 people, police said. The grenade exploded on a crowded street next to a popular cinema in Gauhati, Assam's capital. The injured were taken to a nearby hospital, said Hiren Nath, police superintendent of Gauhati. Police were investigating and had started to question witnesses, he said.

	http://www.hoovers.com/free/news/detail.xhtml?ArticleID=NR_92d4000228bd2f12
	http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030907_000541-search,00.html
*	9 killed in escalating Kashmir violence
	Sept 06, Srinagar, India -- Violence surged sharply in Indian-controlled Kashmir Saturday with a series of separatist attacks across the Himalayan region. At least nine people were killed and more than 40 wounded, police said.. In the deadliest attack, a bomb exploded in a busy wholesale market on the outskirts of Srinagar, killing six people and wounding 34, said Tirath Acharya, a spokesman for the Border Security Force.

	http://www.hoovers.com/free/news/detail.xhtml?ArticleID=NR_ac3c00095313ff65
	http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030906_000138,00.html
	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ASep6.html
	http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2003/09/07/ 9_killed_more_than_40_injured_as_violence_in_kashmir_surges
	http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0907kashmir07.html
	http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/r.htm
*	Rocket hits paramilitary headquarters in Pakistan, no casualties
	Sept 06, Quetta, Pakistan -- A rocket slammed into the headquarters of a Pakistani paramilitary unit in the southwestern city of Quetta, but no one was hurt, police said Saturday. No one took responsibility for the attack on the Frontier Constabulary late Friday and no arrests were made, said Jalim Khan, a police official in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's Baluchistan province. He gave no other details and only said police and officials were investigating the attack to determine who was behind it.

	http://www.hoovers.com/free/news/detail.xhtml?ArticleID=NR_07f
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*	Attackers fire rockets at Pakistan airport, no injuries or damage
	Sept 07, Bannu, Pakistan -- Attackers fired three rockets at an airport housing Pakistan troops hunting for al-Qaida and Taliban fugitives, but there were no injuries or damage, a military official said Sunday. The attack occurred late Friday in Bannu, a conservative tribal city about 250 kilometers (155 miles) southwest of the capital, Islamabad, said Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan, a military spokesman.

	http://www.hoovers.com/free/news/detail.xhtml?ArticleID=NR_a0c400123f77aed9
	http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030907_000482,00.html
	http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Pakistan-Airport-Attack.html
	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ASep7.html
	http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/breaking_news/6711821.htm
*	Indian, U.S. forces hold joint exercises
	Sept 07, New Delhi -- Indian and U.S. commandos are training together in the rugged Himalayan mountain region near India's borders with China and Pakistan, a U.S. Embassy official said Sunday. The three-week exercises in the Ladakh region of Jammu-Kashmir state will conclude later this month, the officer said on condition of anonymity. The official declined to give further details. Ties between the U.S. and Indian militaries have improved since the lifting of sanctions placed on India after it tested nuclear bombs in 1998. The sanctions were lifted following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

	http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/08/nyregion/08ASIA.html
	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ASep7.html
	http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-india-us-military,0,4373019.story
*	Islamists warn Pakistan army over border crackdown
	Sept 07, Karachi, Pakistan -- Pakistani Islamists ruling a key province bordering Afghanistan warned the army on Sunday against a crackdown in tribal areas where al-Qaeda remnants are thought to be hiding, saying it would pit soldiers against the people. ``The government should abandon the idea of a military operation in that sensitive region,'' Qazi Hussain Ahmed, a vice president of the six-party Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal alliance (MMA), told reporters in Karachi.

	http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/international/international-pakistan-islamists.html
	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ASep7.html
*	Mosque bomb suspect related to WTC bomber
	Sept 06, Quetta, Pakistan -- A leading suspect in a deadly attack on a Shiite Muslim mosque in July is related by marriage to al-Qaida terrorist Ramzi Yousef, convicted in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, police said. The suspect, Daud Badini, also is believed to be a member of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, an outlawed Sunni militant group implicated in a series of deadly attacks on Christians in Pakistan and on members of the country's Shiite minority, provincial police chief Shoaib Suddle said late Friday.

	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ASep6.html
	http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-pakistan-mosque-attack,0,7792313.story
	http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/6707696.htm
	http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/.html
*	Security tight for Bombay Hindu festival
	Sept 06, Bombay, India -- When darkness falls over India's largest city, khaki-clad policemen are joined by newly formed neighborhood watch groups patrolling Bombay's streets during a riotous 10-day festival for Ganesh, the elephant-headed god of good fortune. Less than two weeks ago, a pair of deadly car bombings shook Bombay. That was followed by a police warning that the Hindu festival, which ends Tuesday, could be a terrorist target.

	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ASep6.html
	http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/6705740.htm
*	On the front in Kashmir, shells drown talk of thaw
	Sept 07, Drass, India -- The children stop playing and dive into a bunker as an artillery shell fired by Pakistani troops whistles overhead and explodes with a roar in a barley field, killing a farmer. Seconds later, Indian soldiers whip the camouflage netting off their field guns, load, and return fire. For a while, a ground-shaking artillery exchange continues across the Kashmir frontier around the village of Drass, nestled in barren mountains on the Indian side. The smell of cordite hangs in the air.

	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ASep7.html
*	Oklahoma trial will be watched in Baton Rouge
	Sept 07, Tulsa, Oklahoma -- The trial of a lawsuit by a group of immigrant workers who allege they were held in "virtual slavery" by a Tulsa manufacturer will be watched closely in Oklahoma as well as Louisiana, where a similar lawsuit is pending. Trial Monday in U.S. District Court in Tulsa in the lawsuit against the John Pickle Co., which used to manufacture oil-refining equipment. The factory shut down last fall, blaming the lawsuit and negative publicity for declining orders. The lead attorney in the case, Kent Felty, is involved in a remarkably similar lawsuit against a construction company in Baton Rouge, La. In both cases, the alleged victims are welders and electricians from India.

	http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/090703/new_trial001..shtml
*	Greensboro man faces possible deportation to Pakistan
	Sept 06, Greensboro -- A Greensboro man who became a self-styled ambassador of Islam after Sept. 11, 2001, could be sent back to Pakistan because federal authorities say he is an illegal immigrant. Shafiq Mohammad spent dozens of Sundays speaking in Triad churches, pleading with Christians not to associate terrorism with his brand of Islam. He organized anhouse at the Islamic Center of Greensboro so the uninitiated could see the inside of a mosque. And he traveled with local Muslim children to western North Carolina, where they attended an interfaith camp for Jewish, Muslim and Christian children.

	http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/6708798..htm
*	Maoist attacks threaten Nepal
	Sept 07 -- Maoist rebels in Nepal have abandoned a cease-fire and pulled out of peace talks that many had hoped would resolve the long-running insurgency here. Already Maoist attacks on security forces have escalated, and there have been attempts to assassinate two officers at their residences. In response, police set up checkpoints throughout the Katmandu Valley and the already-bad traffic worsened. Maoists have made threats against U.S. and international aid groups, and according to the U.S. State Department, there has been a "reported threat by Maoist extortionists to kidnap or kill American or British trekkers." To date, no Americans have been attacked or injured.

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*	Canadian foreign minister visits Pakistan
	Sept 06, Islamabad -- Canada's foreign minister held talks Saturday with top Pakistani officials on Afghanistan and the situation in Iraq, and expressed appreciation for Pakistan's role in fighting terrorism, a Pakistani government statement said. Bill Graham, who visited Afghanistan on Friday, met with Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali and held official talks with Foreign Minister Khursheed Kasuri, the statement said.

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	http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030906_000134,00.html

OTHER STORIES
*	Three police officers feared drowned in Indian boat capsize
	Sept 07, Bhubaneshwar, India -- Three policemen were feared drowned when their boat capsized in a flooded river as they were taking the body of a soldier slain in Indian Kashmir back to his home village in eastern India, a government official said Sunday. Army and paramilitary soldiers have evacuated thousands of villagers stranded by floods in eastern Orissa state, where rain-swollen rivers have killed at least 31 people over the past week, said Pratip Mohanty, a top government administrator.
	http://www.hoovers.com/free/news/detail.xhtml?ArticleID=NR_da540004d3e97651

	http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030907_000478,00.html

*	France to help Pakistan set up forensic laboratories
	Sept 06, Islamabad -- France will help Pakistan set up forensic laboratories as part of its continued support to this nation in the fight against terrorism, Pakistan's Interior Ministry said Saturday. The decision was made at a meeting between the head of French national security, Pierre de Bousquet de Florian, and Pakistani officials in Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, the Interior Ministry said.
	http://www.hoovers.com/free/news/detail.xhtml?ArticleID=NR_916100025b30ec48

	http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030906_000114,00.html

*	Lightning strikes two Pakistani villages, 27 people killed
	Sept 06, Peshawar, Pakistan -- Lightning during heavy monsoon rains struck homes in two remote Pakistani villages early Saturday, killing at least 27 people and leaving many others injured, police said. The deadliest strike occurred overnight in the tiny hamlet of Shalgah, 120 kilometers (80 miles) north of Peshawar, said Zahir Khan, a local police official. The lightning struck the home of a local villager named Sher Mohammed, killing 16 people and destroying it and several surrounding homes.
	http://www.hoovers.com/free/news/detail.xhtml?ArticleID=NR_9b1e0001de415ef4

	http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,BT_CO_20030906_000057,00.html

*	Host an Indian feast
	Sept 07 -- In India -- a country with 1 billion people, 1,000-person weddings and guests apt to show up unannounced by the dozens -- being able to cook for big groups runs in the blood. Or so I thought. Truth is, until I sublet a room in a group house with five roommates, three significant others and an assortment of nearby friends, I had never attempted such a meal. Nevertheless, trusting that instinct would take over, one weekend I ventured to put together a five-dish, homemade Indian menu including yellow dal, pork vindaloo, and my grandmother's cauliflower-and-pea subzi.
	http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/ASep4.html

*	Everyone welcome at taste of India
	Sept 07 -- The Mela (Indian festival) is one place where diversity is valued as strongly as unity. All facets of the Hindu religion were represented at Saturday's Taste of India, held at the Hindu Temple of Greater Cincinnati. More than 1,600 local Hindus attend worship services at the Clermont County temple. Though Hindus believe in one God, people from different parts of India worship different deities. At the local temple, the many deities are represented on the same platform, giving equality to all.
	http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2003/09/07/loc_indianfest.html

*	Crossing over
	Sept 07 -- Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri by John Glassie Q: In your first book, ''Interpreter of Maladies,'' and your new book, ''The Namesake,'' you write about Indian immigration and the difficulty of assimilating into American culture. But Indian culture has recently become very hip in the United States -- from films like ''Bend It Like Beckham'' to fashion to yoga. What do you make of that? A: It's something that I don't like to think about. People have said, ''Oh, you only sold your book because Indian things are hot.'' They've said that to your face? Sure. And there's generally a sense that I have advantages because of the larger desire for diversity.
	http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/magazine/07QUESTIONS.html

*	Solano Punjabi residents share culture
	Sept 07, Fairfield -- Hundreds of people milled around the Fairfield Center for Creative Arts Saturday night listening to Punjabi music and feasting on toasted nan. To Devinder Wadyal the evening celebrating Punjabi culture was a dream come true, he said. Wadyal was one of many members of the Punjabi-American Cultural Association that spent months planning the Second Annual Punjabi Heritage Festival. More than 1,000 people attended the event that offered a glimpse of the growing Sikh community within Solano County.
	http://www.dailyrepublic.com/articles/2003/09/07/news/news3txt

*	Hindu youth group reaches out to help
	Sept 06 -- Govind Rangrass and Rishi Mediratta never met Nilanjan Dutta in person. But the youth-group leaders at the Indo-American Cultural Center and Temple didn't let a lack of personal contact prevent them from coming to his aid. Nilanjan, 15, lives in Kolkata, India, and suffers from acute lymphatic leukemia. He is the nephew of Sabodh Dutta, a member of the local Hindu temple.
	http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/news-0/.xml