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U.S. report refutes Israeli terror claims By Eli J. Lake UPI State Department Correspondent From the International Desk Published 5/15/2002 8:43 PM WASHINGTON, May 15 (UPI) -- After weeks of equivocation, the U.S. government has quietly released to Congress a report refuting the Israeli claim that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was directly implicated in the funding and planning of attacks against Israeli civilians. But State Department officials Wednesday told United Press International that U.S. agencies were analyzing documents Israel says proves Arafat's complicity. "If the documents provide us with something we would revise the report," a State Department official said....

SAPRA INDIA: Terrorism Issues: Compelling Pakistan to Co-operate US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, has called pakistan a friend because it has offered unstinted support to the US in capturing the perpetrators of the 11 September atrocities. But will Pakistan really co-operate? The answer is no - not unless the United States compels Pakistan to do so. The US authorities seem to be increasingly focussing , inter alia, on the likely involvement of bin Laden's set-up in the terrorist incidents in the US on September 11, which President George Bush has described as the beginning of the first war of ...

A CIA sourece tells NewsMax that there are only a handful of countries that could have been involved. Experts already believe that terrorists commandeered the jet aircraft that slammed into the Twin Towers and other targets. Believing no U.S. pilot would do this, the belief is that the pilots were killed and qualified terrorist/pilots were used. So far, planes used in the attacks were Boeing 767 and 757 models. According to our source, the list of possible training sites, with simulators, are very few in the Islamic world. The following countries or airlines have simulators capable of training pilots for ...

Florida Squeeze By William Saletan William Saletan is a Slate senior writer. Posted Friday, Nov. 10, 2000, at 2:30 p.m. PT Is George W. Bush president-elect of the United States? Early Wednesday morning, everyone who was still watching television thought so. The networks said Bush had won Florida, and with it the Electoral College. Al Gore called Bush to concede the race. Then the margin in Florida drastically narrowed, the networks retracted their verdict, Gore withdrew his concession, and his campaign began pressing for a Florida recount and investigations of purported election irregularities. Political framing has entered a brave ...