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Jordan arrested ten persons last month, on suspicion of belonging to an Islamic fundementalist organization, the Arabic-language Al Hayat daily reported Friday. According to the report, the group planned to carry out attacks against Western targets inside Jordan, and against Israeli targets in the West Bank. The 10 have already been charged with conspiring to commit acts of terror, as well as the illegal possession of weapons and explosives. According to the newspaper, one of the accused studied in Saudi Arabia, and then spent some time in Afghanistan. "Six of the detainees planned attacks against Israeli targets in the West...

Two Palestinian asylum seekers being held by Swedish authorities are linked to Hamas, security police officials said Friday. According to AP, the men were apprehended by police three weeks ago in Malmo, 500 kilometers southwest of the capital, Stockholm, but have not been charged with a crime. "These men have connections to Hamas. That much I can say," security police director Margareta Linderoth was quoted as saying Friday. Authorities earlier have said the men were linked to "terrorist activities" but have declined to be more specific. The case has been classified and the suspects' identities have not been released. Per...

DETROIT (AP) - A man was charged Saturday with fatally shooting his 20-month-old daughter and wounding his 3-year-old son after arguing with the children's mother. Police said Antonio Duane Ware, 24, shot his daughter, Amari Ware, and his son, Andreyus Ware, late Thursday at the mother's home. Andreyus was treated for a grazing wound to one ear and released. The children's mother, Victoria Seldon, 24, and sister, 4-year-old Alexis, were not injured. Investigators were told that Seldon and Ware argued over money, and that Seldon also was ending her relationship with Ware, police Cmdr. Dennis Richardson said. Ware was arraigned...

A Fort Worth/Arlington/Dallas based priest - is the first in North Texas to be removed under new (unofficial) church policy on priests and sex abuse. The story - is suppose to be on at Six O'clock news - KTVT CBS11. (Dallas time)

Apache worm starts to spread Security experts are rushing to decode a worm program that exploits a 2-week-old flaw to infect computers running vulnerable versions of the popular open-source Apache Web server application. The worm is thought to be capable of spreading only to Web servers running the FreeBSD operating system, an open-source variant of Unix, that haven't had a patch applied for the recent flaw. Although few people have reported the worm, it is thought to be infecting vulnerable Web servers worldwide. "It is spreading," said Domas Mituzas, a systems developer for Baltic information-technology firm Microlink Systems and the...

  Prosecutor Appeals Dismissed Murder Charge in Ecstasy DeathThe Associated Press PITTSBURGH June 29 — A prosecutor has appealed a judge's decision to dismiss murder charges against a man accused of selling Ecstasy to a 16-year-old girl who died last year. Brandy French, 16, died in May 2001 after taking the drug for the first time. Authorities say Gregory Ludwig sold it to her friends the night before. Under state law, drug delivery resulting in death is a form of third-degree murder, but County Judge Jeffrey Manning threw out the charge, saying it allowed prosecutors to skirt the requirement that...

Why Did Terror Chief Resign Just Before July 4th?Downing Resignation Bodes Ill for Terror War DEBKAfile Special Analysis 29 June: The surprise resignation of retired Army General Wayne A. Downing as deputy national security adviser to the president for combating terrorism, on Thursday, June 27, is bad news for the road ahead of America’s war on terror, according to DEBKAfile’s intelligence sources. The walkout of the forceful, down to earth Gen. Downing after 10 months on the job has been variously explained as a reaction to the preoccupation with terrorism at the top White House level - the president, the...

<p>President Bush and former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani may be the new post-Sept. 11 heroes for most of the United States, but in liberal pockets across the country, Congresswoman Barbara Lee -- the Oakland Democrat who was the lone dissenter against the war on terrorism -- is the leader du jour.</p>

Bush's peace plan: three years later JUNE 2005, JERUSALEM -- I'm writing to you from Jerusalem, where I recently interviewed Israeli Prime Minister Effie Eitam. Eitam entered the Israeli government as minister-without-portfolio in the government of Ariel Sharon in 2002 and as a member of the National Religious Party. After the Palestinian intifada intensified during the fall of 2002, Sharon called new elections. Likud won a plurality and formed a coalition with the other right-wing parties in Knesset. Sharon made Eitam minister of defense. In the winter of 2003, the largest terrorist attack in Israeli history took place in Haifa,...

Declaring War on the United Nations Jonathan Gurwitz Saturday, June 29, 2002 "The Security Council shall determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression and shall make recommendations, or decide what measures shall be taken ... to maintain or restore international peace and security." – Article 39 of the United Nations Charter ***** The moral underpinnings of the war against terrorism have created some uncomfortable diplomatic situations for the United States over the last nine months. When U.S. troops were sent to Afghanistan, the legal oppression of women was often cited...

To be emblematic of our age is to bear an evil burden. The twentieth century, scarcely finished, will be remembered as much for its succession of wars and genocides as it will for anything else; and sadly the dawn of the new millennium has brought no end to this horrifying tradition. The first year of the twenty-first century produced images that will likely identify the decade, if not the generation, to come: commercial aircraft, hijacked by agents of extremism, slamming into crowded, unprotected office buildings, bringing about the collapse of those structures and the deaths of thousands of people. How...

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. (AP) - Two young children died while they were left alone in a hot car for more than three hours by their mother, who was having her hair done, police said Saturday. The mother was being held on an open charge of murder pending a review by prosecutors, the Southfield Police Department said. Police did not release the 25-year-old Detroit resident's name. "This is a hideous crime. ... There is no excuse to lose young innocent lives like this," said Police Chief Joseph E. Thomas. The weather was sunny at the time the children were left Friday, with...

Recent events in the Middle East leave me wondering whether we're witnessing not just the end of the Oslo peace process, but the end of the whole idea of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. When the Palestinians' Intifada II began over a year ago, in the wake of a serious proposal for a Palestinian state by President Clinton, I argued that Palestinians were making a huge mistake. When the party to a conflict initiates an uprising, then suicide bombing, at a time when the outlines of a final peace are on the table — as the Palestinians did...

WASHINGTON Dick Cheney is a sly old fox. He wanted the Congressional cat to start chasing its tail. So he sicced the F.B.I. dogs on it.The vice president called Porter Goss and Bob Graham, the chairmen of the Congressional intelligence committees looking into the 9/11 security debacle, to berate them about a leak to the press detailing missed interceptions at the National Security Agency about "zero hour" and "the big match." Never mind that this story had been circulating for months and that any number of agencies could have leaked it.A churlish Cheney spurred the Goss & Graham team to...

<p>Ten years ago, Tunisian terrorist Fouad Salah expressed an implacably murderous view of the West: "We Muslims should kill every last one of you Westerners."</p> <p>A year later, the mastermind of the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 told his followers: "We must terrorize the enemies of Islam and frighten them and disturb them and shake the earth under their feet."</p>

KARACHI, June 29 (IslamOnline & News Agencies) - Pakistani sports officials Saturday condemned the pairing of Pakistani tennis player Aisamul Haq Qureshi with an Israeli player in Wimbledon 's doubles event. Qureshi’s historic achievement was overshadowed by his controversial decision to pair with an Israeli player, news agencies reported. Qureshi, paired with Amir Hadad of Israel , upset 11th seed Rick Leech of the United States and Ellis Ferreira of South Africa to reach the third round of this year's second Grand Slam tournament Friday, June 28, 2002 . "Although he is playing in his private capacity, we officially condemn...

Ten illegal settlements in the West Bank will be dismantled in the next 24 hours,Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer said Saturday. Earlier in the week, Ben-Eliezer vowed to remove 20 of the hilltop outposts, even if he had to send in the army to forcibly remove the settlers, many of whom say they have a biblical right to the land they believe God gave the Jews. "By the end of the day tomorrow, 10 outposts are to be taken down. I intend to dismantle another 10 outposts," Ben-Eliezer told a gathering of his Labor Party. The Defense Ministry must approve any...

Davis Excuse in Pledge Case Proves Outright False Simon Provides Certified Mail Receipts Showing Davis Ignorance Claims Unfounded RIVERSIDE - Governor Gray Davis' excuse regarding his failure to entered a defense in the recent Pledge of Allegiance lawsuit has proved outright false, gubernatorial candidate Bill Simon told a gathering of business leaders today. On Thursday, after Simon blasted the governor for his failure to submit a legal defense on behalf of the state, Davis responded by saying he had not entered a defense because neither he nor Attorney General Bill Lockyer had been notified that the state was a defendant...

God Is Not in the Constitution We receive our rights from God. —George W. Bush, denouncing the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional because it includes "one nation under God," CNN, June 27 This decision is nuts, just nuts. —Democratic Senate leader Tom Daschle, CNN, June 26 If this decision is not overturned, we will amend the Constitution. —Democratic senator Joseph Lieberman, Fox News, June 26 In 1943, during our war against Hitler, the United States Supreme Court handed down a decision concerning the Pledge of Allegiance that created fierce controversy around the...

<p>No parishioners had threatened to quit St. Olaf Catholic Church. Donations exceeded projections. But as the 4 p.m. Sunday mass at the downtown Minneapolis parish concluded two weeks ago, the congregation stirred with the unexpected urgency of the Rev. John Klockeman's impassioned words.</p>