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Donut Shop Robber In Shootout With Cops Nov 24, 2003 2:30 pm US/Eastern (1010 WINS) (NEWARK) Police and a man suspected of robbing a doughnut shop traded gunfire during a wild two-block chase Monday that included a gun battle on the staircase of an apartment building before the suspect was wounded. Forence A. Turner, 32, of Newark, suffered a gunshot wound to the foot during the shootout that began at approximately 1:30 a.m. He was taken to University Hospital where he was being treated and released to police custody. Off-duty Police Officer Tyrone Moore was driving into the parking lot...

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Al-Qaida threatens more anti-US attacks Dubai, Jul 14 - An unidentified man, claiming to be a member of an armed wing of the Al-Qaida, has warned that an attack against US interests is imminent. The threat contained in an audio tape, was aired on Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television station on Sunday. The voice on the tape which Arabiya aired, along with a photograph of an unidentified white-bearded man wearing a turban, warned of a new wave of anti-US attacks which would "break the back of America completely". "There is only one cure for cancer, and that is amputation. America is the...

Buyer Beware eBay Security Chief Turns Website Into Arm of the Law by JONAH ENGLE Speaking at a conference this winter on Internet crime, eBay.com's director of law enforcement and compliance, Joseph Sullivan, offered law-enforcement officials extensive access to personal customer information. Founded in 1995 as a niche site for collectibles, eBay quickly grew into one of the Internet's largest websites, currently boasting 69 million daily visitors, who place an average of 7.7 million bids each day. The company, now valued at $29.6 billion, has become synonymous with online shopping, and is rapidly expanding overseas. The talk, "Working with Law...

State to Process Sick Claims By WTC Volunteers Jun 28, 2003 4:19 pm US/Eastern After months of political wrangling, New York state is moving ahead with compensation for sick and injured volunteers who searched the World Trade Center rubble for victims' remains after the 2001 terrorist attacks. Last week, Republican Gov. George Pataki directed the state Workers' Compensation Board to expedite the processing of claims by ground zero volunteers. The move came after the Legislature ended its regular session on June 19 without a consensus on how to redress the volunteers on lost wages and expensive medical bills. About 40,000...

Enviros down in flamesPosted: June 23, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The inferno continues in Tucson as I write. It's one of at least eight wildfires in Arizona and the fire season's just beginning. With the heat, wind and drought, it'll be a long, hot, dangerous summer. It also sets the scene for more battles between the Bush administration and environmentalists. By the time you read this, who knows what this fire toll will be. Right now, there's zero containment of the fire at Mount Lemmon, 7,000 acres burned and no estimate for containment or control. In other words, all...

French raid on Mujahideen Khalq welcomed by Tehran Police seize dozens ­ and $1.3 million Compiled by Daily Star staff Tehran thanked Paris for clamping down on Mujahideen Khalq activists in France Tuesday as the Iranian clergy?s fight against dissidents at home spilled over to exile communities in Europe. Up to 165 members of Iran?s largest opposition group were arrested in the surprise raids in 13 sites north and west of Paris. Among those arrested was a top symbol of the group, Maryam Rajavi, the wife of Iraq-based mujahideen leader Massoud Rajavi, as well as Rajavi?s brother, Saleh. US currency...

The Candidate for Prime Minister Is a Kurd! Talabani's third man is a Kurd called Salih Behram. The name of Salih Behram is being mentioned among the persons being considered to be appointed as the Temporary Prime Minister by the United States in the structuring of the new administration in Iraq. The day before yesterday [Monday, 7 April] the US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz made statements on an American TV channel about the Iraqi administration after Saddam. Mr. Wolfowitz stated that a civilian administration would be established connected to the military administration in Iraq and added: "Salih Behram...

Arabs Shocked, Relieved at Baghdad's Fall By DONNA ABU-NASR Associated Press Writer RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) -- The fall of Baghdad provoked shock and disbelief Wednesday among Arabs, who expressed hope that other oppressive regimes would crumble but also disappointment that Saddam Hussein did not put up a better fight against America. "Why did he fall that way? Why so fast?" said Yemeni homemaker Umm Ahmed, tears streaming down her face. "He's a coward. Now I feel sorry for his people." Arabs clustered at TV sets in shop windows, coffee shops, kitchens and offices to watch the astounding pictures of...

Ayatollah: 'Do not fight coalition' A leading Iraqi Muslim religious leader has urged his countrymen not to oppose invading coalition troops. Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has also asked people to stay in their homes in and around the Shi'ite holy shrine of Najaf. Ridwan Al-Killidar, manager of the charity Al Khoei foundation, said its sources in Najaf had reported two fatwas issued by the Ayatollah. Mr Al-Killidar said: "One of them urges people not to vandalise public property. "The second one hasn't been confirmed but people have heard that Ali Sistani has urged people to be neutral, not to take...

ULIA, Tex., April 1 ? Conceding that they had made a catastrophic mistake in relying solely on the uncorroborated testimony of an undercover officer, prosecutors moved today to overturn the convictions of 38 people, almost all of them black, who were caught in a series of drug arrests in 1999 that tore this town apart. A judge agreed with the prosecutors, and defense lawyers, that the Texas courts should vacate every conviction arising from the drug sting, including those in which the defendants pleaded guilty. The extraordinary turnabout followed hearings here last month in which the undercover officer, Thomas Coleman,...

The law of unintended consequences is raising a terrible possibility in Iraq. The dying but defiant government has reached into its seemingly limitless bag of violent tricks and come out with suicide bombers. It was long known that President Saddam Hussein rewarded the murderous suicides of Palestinians in Israel. It was long rumoured that Iraq was running a school to train young men and women to become suicide bombers. One of the most dangerous possibilities of our day is that the Iraq war may make suicide bombers appear legitimate to many unthinking people. There should be nothing but condemnation of...

Safwan: What happened to the eyes of Iraqi children? Hundreds of eyes, round with fear, watch as the convoy sent by the Kuwaiti Red Crescent carrying food aid to the inhabitants of Safwan in southern Iraq entered the city. Fear is the word. It controls the moves of these southern children, and settles heavily like a gloomy mantle enveloping the city. Fear made those hungry little mouths tongue-tied, unable even to beg for a few crumbs to sustain those frail bodies, hardly alive. When I asked men what they thought of the developments, they furtively looked around before asking: "Are...

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: The United States was enraged because the Iraqis allowed reporters to take pictures of captive and dead American soldiers and aired them on television. It was not enough for the United States to bomb the headquarters of Iraqi television. It also reprimanded whoever aired those pictures. As to US television stations, they completely hushed up the subject. A few days later, Britain did the same thing when Al-Jazirah satellite channel aired pictures of two British soldiers killed in Iraq. The British military official began his press conference by reading a statement that harangued the aforementioned channel! It...

With a view to highlighting the negative role of some Arab satellite channels in their coverage of the Iraq liberation war, a group of university professors and the Kurdistan Journalists Union released a statement which said: In addition to their obvious bias in favour of the Iraqi regime, it is regrettable that most of the Arab satellite deliberately obscure and distort facts. It would be more worthy of them to report facts in a neutral way and without obvious bias. Furthermore, instead of revealing the suffering of the Iraqi people at the hands of the Iraqi regime's authorities, these satellite...

Baghdad, Iraq: Iraqi Satellite Channel Television in Arabic 1530 GMT 28 Mar 03 [Interviews with Iraqis identified as "agents" for the United States, by an unidentified announcer; date and place not given--recorded] [Announcer] In the name of God, the merciful, the compassionate. But God willed to justify the truth according to his words, and to cut off the roots of the unbelievers; that he might justify truth and prove falsehood false, distasteful though it be to those in guilt. Remember ye implored the assistance of your Lord, and He answered you: "I will assist you with a thousand of the...

Why didn't southern Iraq rise against Saddam in support of the Americans? This question that is preoccupying the world can be answered in two different ways. First, the people of the south are nationalists and they hate foreigners when they come as occupiers and invaders. The people of southern Iraq entered history with the "revolution of the 20th" against the British and they are proud of their race, blood, and kinship. They have embraced several radical parties opposed to imperialism. They have been secular communists and members of the religious Al-Da'wah party. The prevailing political currents in the region have...

Group Breaks Away From the Kurdish 'Islamic Group' To Fight the US Forces" The Iraqi Front -- Al-Sharq al-Awsat has learned that Ali Babir's Islamic Group which two days ago signed an agreement with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan [PUK] following a mediation by the Kurdish Socialist Party, is facing an internal crisis as a result of the withdrawal of its forces in line with the agreement to areas that are far from its main strongholds in the Halabjah area. Several of the group's leading figures -- these include Dalshar Klary; Mullah Marwan, the former commander of the 2nd Soran...

Saddam may go down in history as the last hero of the Arab world and be remembered as the only Arab leader who stood against American intervention in the Middle-East, writes WAZIR JAHAN KARIM ON the eighth day of Operation Freedom I listened to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell's meeting with members of the home security office on the reconstruction of Iraq live on TV. He said he was confident the war would be over soon, that Operation Freedom would end with a post-Saddam democratic government, humanitarian aid and a prosperous economy. Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Tony Blair...

SubHead: Jihad need not imply a war of religions. Gihan Shahine reports on the state of the debate Signalling what may be a change in official discourse, a recent statement by the scholars of Al-Azhar has urged Muslims worldwide to declare jihad against the US invasion of Iraq. Al-Azhar is considered to be one of the foremost seats of Sunni Muslim scholarship and as such the call has sparked heated debate all over the world. Al-Azhar's Islamic Research Academy (IRA) issued a statement on 10 March ruling that, "according to Islamic law, if the enemy steps on Muslims' land, jihad...