Greenpeace launches parody of US troops' deck of cards\nGENEVA -- In a play on the deck of cards distributed to U.S. troops in Iraq, anti-nuclear campaigners from Greenpeace on Wednesday issued their own most-wanted list -- with President Bush replacing Saddam Hussein as the ace of spades.\nBut while the U.S. cards were meant to help soldiers capture America's most-wanted Iraqi leaders, the Greenpeace deck is meant to focus attention on the dangers posed by nuclear arsenals.\nCampaigners are handing out 600 decks to delegates at a two-week meeting on the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. The conference precedes a review of the 188-nation accord in 2005.
Major al Qaeda, Sept. 11 suspect apprehended\nWASHINGTON -- Pakistani authorities have captured a man accused of playing a leading role in the Sept. 11 attacks and the bombing of an American warship in Yemen.\nWaleed bin Attash was arrested Tuesday in the southern Pakistani city Karachi during raids that netted five other al Qaeda suspects. Pakistani and U.S. officials announced his capture Wednesday. U.S. counterterrorism officials described him as among the top 10 al Qaeda figures who remained at-large.\nWhite House spokesman Ari Fleischer said President Bush was grateful to Pakistan for a "hopeful and significant capture."
Federal government to cut 6,000 airport jobs by Sept. 30\nWASHINGTON -- The U.S. government announced plans Wednesday to eliminate 3,000 more airport screening jobs by the end of September.\nThe cuts, coupled with 3,000 others announced in March, amount to about 11 percent of the 55,600 screeners employed. The moves will save the Transportation Security Administration an estimated $280 million.\nThe first 3,000 cuts will be made by May 31, the rest by Sept. 30. The jobs cuts are aimed at keeping staffing levels closer to what is needed at the nation's 429 commercial airports.\nNorth Korea calls UN sanctions a prelude to war\nSEOUL, South Korea -- North Korea said \nWednesday that it would regard any U.S. move to seek U.N. sanctions against the communist country as "the green light to a war."\nThe warning came after South and North Korea agreed to try to peacefully resolve the nuclear crisis, though Pyongyang has said further talks with the United States are useless unless it drops its demand that the North first scrap suspected atomic weapons programs.\nNorth Korea says abandoning such programs would leave it defenseless and has in the past said sanctions would be seen as a step toward war.
