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Members of the Kuwaiti parliament have expressed outrage after the country's state-run television station broadcast programs paying homage to Yasser Arafat. MP Muhammad al-Mutairi harshly criticized the country's information minister, Muhammad Abulhassan, demanding the establishment of a parliamentary committee of inquiry on why the programs were televised. Relations between Arafat and the Kuwaiti government soured in 1990 after the PLO expressed support for Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. On November 9, the Kuwaiti undersecretary for news, Tarek al-Ajmi, was suspended from his post by Abulhassan after the airing of a tribute to Arafat. At the time, the minister said he would...

GEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT INTELLIGENCE BRIEF China expands missile proliferation to Mideast Egypt, Iran, Libya, Syria, North Korea benefiting from campaign Posted: August 9, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern Editor's note: WorldNetDaily brings readers exclusive, up-to-the-minute global intelligence news and analysis from Geostrategy-Direct, a new online newsletter edited by veteran journalist Robert Morton and featuring the "Backgrounder" column compiled by Bill Gertz. Geostrategy-Direct is a subscription-based service produced by the publishers of WorldTribune.com, a free news service frequently linked by the editors of WorldNetDaily. © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com The United States believes China is expanding missile exports to the Middle East in violation of its...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) -- Several people were indicted on accusations of "material support of a terrorism organization," the U.S. attorney's office said Tuesday.</p> <p>Details of the indictment were not immediately disclosed. Attorney General John Ashcroft and other officials were expected to discuss the case at an afternoon news conference. Ashcroft was scheduled to view the World Trade Center site later Tuesday.</p>