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<p>President Bush, hunting for votes in hotly contested Sun Belt states, said Friday his administration is working toward wiring homes throughout America with high-speed Internet access by 2007.</p> <p>"We've got to make sure this country's on the leading edge of broadband technology," Bush said. It is vital, he added, to open "new highways of knowledge" to spread innovations in education, medicine and other areas, and keep the country competitive in global trade.</p>

<p>BAGHDAD, Iraq — U.S. investigators probing the bombing of the United Nations' (search) Baghdad headquarters focused Friday on the possibility that former Iraqi intelligence agents working as guards in the compound may have assisted the attackers, a U.S. official said.</p>

Friday, 29 November, 2002, 22:45 GMTKenya probe focuses on Somali militants The blast and fire reduced the hotel to cinders United States officials say they believe a Somali-based Islamic group may have carried out Thursday's twin attacks on Israeli targets in the Kenyan city of Mombasa. The officials say the group, Al-Ittihad al-Islamiya (AIAI), also known as the Islamic Union, is a prominent militant group in the Horn of Africa with links to Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network. I am a Kenyan living in Mombasa and I can't understand why these terrorists are targeting us. Please tell them to leave...