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NEW GREEK AIRSPACE VIOLATIONS BY TURKISH JETS Athens, 28 March 2003 (20:51 UTC+2) Eighteen Turkish F-16 fighter jets violated international air traffic regulations ten times today, while two violations of the Greek airspace were also recorded over the Aegean. The Turkish fighter jets flew in seven formations over the sea region between the Aegean islands of Lesvos and Limnos and east of the island of Rhodes. Four of the formations were armed and Greek Air Force aircraft engaged in eight dogfights.

Netanyahu slams Peres UN speech By Gil Hoffman JERUSALEM (November 16) - Former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu slammed Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's government yesterday for permitting Foreign Minister Shimon Peres to call for the establishment of a Palestinian state at the UN. Netanyahu told Channel 1 that Peres's call rewards the Palestinians for terror and reflects the disorder in the government. "It is absurd to allow Arafat to set up a terror state in the heart of Israel," Netanyahu said, referring to the proposed entity as "Arafatistan." He said Peres "has a problem adjusting to reality" and is in a ...

Don't Miss Leonids Show in the Sky, On TV, and On the Web Astronomers are predicting a once-in-a-lifetime, spectacular Leonid meteor shower this Sunday morning, peaking at about 4 - 6 a.m. EST over North America, with the best views afforded skywatchers in North America, Hawaii, Australia and Asian countries along the Pacific Rim. A NASA-led team of 20 astronomers is traveling around the globe this weekend to monitor the meteor storm from Huntsville, Ala.; Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.; Maui, Hawaii; Sunspot, N.M.; the U.S. Territory of Guam, and the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. You can see their reports ...

Deadly chase for bin Laden By Tony Allen-Mills, Washington November 03, 2001 LIKE many Afghan refugees arriving at Pakistan's border, Gul Alam had a story to tell. Months before the suicide hijackings in the US on September 11, he had joined a work crew that was sent by Taliban militiamen into the mountains near Bamian, 160km west of Kabul. He spent a week building hardened mud walls inside a network of caves. His story reached the ears of an agent for Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency and eventually arrived, in compressed form, on a list of dozens of similar reports at ...

Experts Believe Nuke Attack Likely Nov. 2--Nuclear experts warned on Friday any future act of nuclear terrorism could use crude weapons from commonplace radioactive materials aimed more at spreading panic than causing physical harm. "In some states where radioactive materials are not well regulated, they are potentially available," said Graham Andrew, scientific adviser at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). In an interview with Reuters on the sidelines of an IAEA conference on nuclear terrorism, Andrew said terrorists could take radiotherapy or x-ray materials from hospitals to construct a crude bomb. "On the consequence side, you're not going to get ...

Israel Smashes Large Terrorist Ring IDF forces significantly damaged a large terrorist infrastructure in the Arab village Beit Rima, in Area A (PA-controlled) in western Binyamin, in an overnight raid-and-battle. Although the full details are still under official censorship wraps, it was announced that Biet Rima is the village from where the terrorist cell that murdered Minister Ze'evi originated. Five terrorists were killed in the operation, two were seriously wounded, and 15-20 members of Hamas, Tanzim, and the PFLP were arrested. Arab sources claimed that IDF forces had perpetrated a "slaughter" in Rima on "innocent civilians," but Raanan Gissin, spokesman ...

Thursday, Oct. 18, 2001. Theater of Absurd With Bush, Putin By Anna Badkhen PART ONE, SCENE ONE MARCH 2001. Office of Press Minister Mikhail LESIN. Two American REPORTERS appear to be interviewing the minister. ONE OF THE REPORTERS: Still, I don't understand why you banned Russian newspapers from printing interviews with Chechen leaders. LESIN: Because it is illegal and undermines constitutional order! Chechen rebel leaders use such interviews to incite racial hatred. I'm absolutely sure that if you got an interview with Osama bin Laden, your editors wouldn't be allowed to print it, either. BOTH REPORTERS (simultaneously): Of course they ...

by Amos Harel The build-up of Egyptian naval forces is a cause for concern, the commander-in-chief of the Israel Navy, Major General Yedidia Ya'ari, said yesterday. Only yesterday, Ha'aretz published a report about Israel's attempts to prevent a large U.S.-Egyptian arms deal, with the Americans planning to sell Egypt advanced Harpoon missiles, which are fired from a sea vessel and also have the capability of hitting land targets with great precision. The balance of naval power in the Middle East "has changed over the past 20 years, since the Yom Kippur War, and has changed primarily because of the strengthening ...

Anti-terror laws to increase police powers Last Updated: Tue Oct 16 02:08:44 2001 OTTAWA - The federal government has introduced new anti-terrorism legislation aimed at giving police more authority to crack down on terrorists and cut off fundraising for suspected terrorist groups. Justice Minister Anne McLellan made the announcement on Monday in the House of Commons. The bill defines acts of terrorism domestically as those which threaten Canada's political institutions, the stability of the economy and the general welfare of the country. McLellan said the bill had three main objectives: suppress existing terrorist groups, provide police with new investigative tools, ...

New oil finds in Eastern Desert Egypt, Economics, 10/9/2001 New oil finds have been made, the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) announced yesterday. The first of the two finds is in Eastern Rabeh region, west of the coastal city of Hurghada. It is the first discovery in a Canadian concession area. The new find has a reserve amounting to 33 million barrels, with an expected output ceiling of 3.300 barrels per day. The 5,976 foot-deep well would begin production soon. The second off-shore find is located in the US "Ocean" concession area. It holds a reserve of 60 million barrels ...

Musharraf Nominated for Nobel Peace Award Updated on 2001-10-09 12:54:11 ISLAMABAD, October 09 (PNS): President General Pervez Musharraf has been nominated for the Noble award for Peace by International Committee of International Human Rights Observer (IHRO) based in Pakistan, UK, and the US. IHRO has suggested to the Norwegian Noble Committee for Peace Award 2001 to accept the nomination of Musharraf as he has done enormous service to the humanity following terror attacks in World Trade Center (WTO) and Pentagon. The reasons for his nominations are his sincere efforts to bring peace in Sub Continent and US, UK, and United ...

Taliban vow not to turn over bin Laden even if sufficient evidence provided Updated on 2001-10-05 12:46:54 DUBAI, October 05 (PNS): Afghanistan's ruling Taliban has said they would not hand over Osama bin Laden even there was evidence to implicate him in last month's attacks on the United States. Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan, Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef, told the United Arab Emirates' Al-Khaleej newspaper the movement would "thoroughly check" U.S. documents linking bin Laden to the devastating attacks on New York and Washington before putting him on trial in an Islamic sharia court. "We will not give Osama bin Laden ...

<p>For the first time, the potentially deadly West Nile virus has been found in the St. Louis area, health officials said Friday.</p> <p>The virus was identified in five dead crows found in St. Louis and St. Louis County. It has spread steadily westward since it killed seven people in 1999 in the New York area.</p>

Taliban Seek Ties With Iran Updated on 2001-10-03 13:08:05 ISLAMABAD, October 03 (PNS): A day after Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf said his country was "re-evaluating" ties with the Taliban, the Kabul regime has sent a delegation to Tehran to discuss Iranian "cooperation" if the US attacks Afghanistan, IANS reports. "The delegation reached Tehran this Tuesday and would be meeting senior officials of the Iranian government," a senior official at the Taliban embassy said. He said the delegation includes seven important members of the ruling militia, including Taliban Rehabilitation Minister Mulla Abdul Naqib and Deputy Foreign Minister Mulla Abdur Rahman Zahid. ...

RUSSIA, IRAN SIGN MILITARY ACCORD Ivanov Says Deal No Secret MOSCOW, Oct. 2--Iranian Defense Minister Ali Shamkhani and his Russian counterpart Sergei Ivanov here Tuesday signed an agreement to bolster military cooperation. "No third country will be threatened through the defense and military cooperation of the two countries," Shamkhani said after signing the accord. Ivanov reiterated the two countries' opposition to the globalization of security and said promotion of any security cooperation among independent countries could play a major role in helping resolve international crises and reducing military tensions in the world. The Russian defense chief, during his last round ...

Scotland Yard investigates North London militant BY STEWART TENDLER BRITISH authorities began moves yesterday to crack down on militant Muslims who use the country as a sanctuary for fundraising and inciting terrorism. Scotland Yard has launched a wide-ranging investigation into the activities of Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad, leader of the al-Muhajiroun group. Ministers have criticised Sheikh Omar, who is based in North London, for issuing a death threat against General Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan, two weeks ago. The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed that it had asked police to investigate whether Sheikh Omar had breached the Terrorism Act 2000 or ...

GSS Arrests 20 Hamas Terrorists By Margot Dudkevitch JERUSALEM (October 1) - The General Security Service revealed yesterday the recent arrest of more than 20 Hamas terrorists, part of a widespread terrorist infrastructure operating in Samaria who were trained and received their instructions directly from Hamas headquarters in Syria and other countries. All those arrested were qualified in the use of weapons and explosives, the majority, young university students who were recruited by Hamas during university studies in Syria, Sudan, Yemen, and other countries. Some of them were involved in the planning of the two suicide bombings in Netanya on ...

Official source regrets Berlusconi's Weird statements 9/29/2001 An official source expressed Egypt's regret over the Weird statements made by Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi in which he alleged that Islam is a religion that does not respect human rights, pluralism, tolerance and freedom of religion and that the Western civilization is superior to Islam. "What is really strange is that the Italian Premier has expressed in his statements hope that the West would defeat Islam and its civilization," said the source. "Berlusconi's statements are conflicting with what he himself and Italian President Carlo Azaglio Ciampi had mentioned during their recent ...

Attacks limited to targets found by special forces War on Terrorism - Observer special Ed Vulliamy, Washington, Jason Burke, Peshawar, Peter Beaumont and Paul Beaver Sunday September 30, 2001 The Observer Devastating attacks on bases controlled by Osama bin Laden are set to be launched in the next 48 hours as part of a tightly focused military operation approved by US President George Bush and backed by Britain. The strategy, which is a victory for pragmatists in both Britain and America, is designed to kill bin Laden and his forces, and will be launched in tandem with strikes against air ...

Islamabad Aslam Khan 29-09-2001 The United States and Pakistan have shared intelligence on the whereabouts of up to 80 Stinger missiles that are believed to be in the possession of the Taliban forces, well-placed sources told Gulf News. "The two sides have exchanged information on the possible places and people where the Stingers in the Taliban-ruled areas may be," the source, which requested that he not be named, revealed. He was referring to high-level secret talks in Islamabad between a visiting inter-agency team from the U.S. comprising officials of CIA, FBI, state department and military intelligence and senior Pakistani ...