http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,137852,00.html
"Afghan Militants Want to Trade Prisoner"
Sunday, November 07, 2004
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "KABUL, Afghanistan — Militants threatening to kill three kidnapped U.N. workers said Sunday they handed over a list of 26 prisoners, some possibly held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay (search), who they would take in exchange for the hostages.
A purported spokesman for the Taliban (search) splinter group claiming to hold the three foreigners also said it might drop its other demands, which include a U.N. withdrawal from Afghanistan."
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=1&story_id=13663&name=Dutch+Cabinet+%27declareswar%27+on+Islamic+extremism
"Dutch Cabinet 'declares
war' on Islamic extremism"
5 November 2004
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "AMSTERDAM — The Dutch Cabinet has declared war on Islamic extremism, Deputy Prime Minister Gerrit Zalm has announced. He justified the step by calling the murder of filmmaker Theo van Gogh an "attack on the rule of law".
Zalm said on Friday that there had been new developments in the world of Islamic extremism in which religious thoughts were being "translated into murder and manslaughter". "This is something that we absolutely cannot tolerate," he said."