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<p>During the muslim holy month of Ramadan, three senior Qaeda representatives allegedly held a secret meeting in Afghanistan with two top Taliban commanders.</p> <p>AT THAT MEETING, according to Taliban sources, Osama bin Laden’s men officially broke some bad news to emissaries from Mullah Mohammed Omar, the elusive leader of Afghanistan’s ousted fundamentalist regime. Their message: Al Qaeda would be diverting a large number of fighters from the anti-U.S. insurgency in Afghanistan to Iraq. Al Qaeda also planned to reduce by half its $3 million monthly contribution to Afghan jihadi outfits.</p>

JAKARTA, Indonesia -- The United States repeatedly warned the Indonesian government in the weeks before the bomb blast that killed more than 180 people in Bali that a group linked to al Qaeda was planning attacks to kill Americans and other Westerners, Bush administration officials said Tuesday. The American ambassador, Ralph Boyce, delivered the latest warning to President Megawati Sukarnoputri and her top advisers just a day before the bombing and had given her a deadline of Oct. 24 to act, the officials said. The various warnings contained no details about where and when attacks might occur, they said. But...

<p>Faced with the prospect of being booted from office, Broward County's election supervisor finally apologized Thursday for last week's voting debacle and agreed to accept county help running the November election. It was substantially the same deal that Supervisor of Elections Miriam Oliphant had rejected less than 24 hours earlier.</p>