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GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 9/14/02 BREAKING: Beit Lahia, Gaza - Premature Explosion Takes Terrorists, BREAKING: Karachi 5 Al Qaeda taken, 2 put down, BREAKING: Pakistan: Ramzi Binalshibh captured, BREAKING: Palestine Islamic Bank with sniper - taken, BREAKING: Rachel's Tomb sanctified, BREAKING: Sicily arrests 15 Al Qaeda, What really happened on 9/11/2002 - who honored the victims and who said there would be more, Lebanon: Wazzani River diversion, Jakarta Islamic hate, Qiantangjiang River, X-45 ===================== Turkey =================== In Turkey, at the Incirlik air base. heroes fly EA-6B Prowlers (radar jammers) over the No-Fly Zone in northern Iraq...

Since this is Washington Post, excerpts only Following a tip from U.S. naval intelligence officers, Italian authorities last month seized a ship carrying 15 suspected terrorists off the island of Sicily, Italian officials said today. The men, identified by Italian authorities as Pakistanis, were charged today with "association" to commit terrorist acts. "We are certain that these people are part of a terrorist organization and we are almost certain that the organization is al Qaeda," said Santi Giuffre, police chief of Caltanissetta, where the group is being held." "Officials here said the decision to board the ship last month was...

ROME (AP) _ Sicily was rocked by its strongest earthquake in 20 years, a 5.6-magnitude temblor that injured three people and damaged some buildings in the city of Palermo early Friday. Thousands of people ran out of their homes into the streets when it struck, the Italian news agency ANSA said. It said two elderly people died of heart attacks brought on by the quake, although hospital officials only confirmed one. The quake had its epicenter about 25 miles northeast of Palermo in the Tyrrhenian Sea, said Mario Cerrone, an engineer with the Palermo department of civil protection. The U.S....

Train Derails in Sicily, Killing 8 Sun Jul 21, 7:56 AM ET Rescuers work on the wreck of a train that crashed near Rometta Marea, Sicily, southern Italy, Saturday, July 20, 2002, killing at least five people and injuring about 40 others, police said. (AP Photo/Francesco Saya) MESSINA, Sicily (AP) - A passenger train derailed and apparently crashed into an abandoned house in northeastern Sicily on Saturday, killing at least eight people and injuring some 30 others, police said. The nose of the crumpled engine was still hanging over a bridge as firefighters and police scrambled to reach the wreckage....

Thursday, 6 June, 2002, 22:07 GMT 23:07 UK Sicilian bridge to go ahead By David Willey BBC correspondent in Rome Construction of a controversial suspension bridge connecting the Mediterranean island of Sicily to the Italian mainland will begin in three years' time and should be completed by 2010, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi announced. Plans to build a massive bridge spanning the Straits of Messina date back at least three decades. If it is ever built, the bridge will be one of the biggest and most costly public-works projects ever undertaken in Italy. The latest estimate is $4.5 billion, but...