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Israel draws fire with night attack

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said Wednesday that Israel would withdraw troops from some West Bank cities and had released millions of dollars in frozen tax money in concessions to Palestinians after stinging criticism of an airstrike that killed 14 civilians as well as a Hamas leader.

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Blair urges Iraqi cooperation

By Alyson Brodsy and Ron Fournier · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair, in the strongest signal yet he would back U.S. military action against Iraq, said Sunday that Saddam Hussein must allow weapons inspectors into his country "any time, any place the international community demands" or face consequences.

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New warning issued

By Alyson Brodsy and Karen Gullo · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

WASHINGTON — For the second time this month, the FBI warned Americans on Monday that terrorists could strike here or abroad, possibly this week. The new alert was based on intelligence reports that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network may strike, officials said.

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Bush calls for new security checks

By David Espo · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- The administration ordered new security checks for airline workers Monday and granted mortgage relief to thousands of reservists called to active duty as part of the coming war on terrorism. The stock market rallied after last week's plunge. "We'll come out of this and we'll come out of it strong," said President George W. Bush, as he sought to coax investors and consumers to open their wallets. Despite the impact of this month's terror attacks on the economy, he said, "The fundamentals for growth are very strong."

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Israeli airstrikes kill 2

By Alyson Brodsy and Ibrahim Hazboun · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Israel used bombs and missiles Tuesday to pressure Yasser Arafat to move against Palestinian militants, striking just yards from the Palestinian leader's West Bank offices and in the Gaza Strip. Two Palestinians were killed and about 150 were injured in the attacks.

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U.N.: Poverty falling in Asia

By Alyson Brodsy and Alexander G. Higgins · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

GENEVA - Extreme poverty has been declining in Asia over the past 25 years but has grown steadily in Africa's poorest countries, where nearly 65 percent of the people now live on less than a dollar a day, a U.N. report said Tuesday.

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Pacific Rim supports Bush, war on terrorism

By Thomas Wagner · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

SHANGHAI, China -- Pacific Rim leaders called for international cooperation with the U.S.-led battle against terrorism, but stopped short Sunday of endorsing the military campaign in Afghanistan. Nevertheless, President Bush said he won "strong support" at the economic forum for the fight against terror on all fronts, financial, diplomatic and military.

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Ageless Afghanistan

By Alyson Brodsy and Mort Rosenblum · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

With satellite dishes snipped from tin cans, Afghans can sit back in the Middle Ages and keep tabs on the 21st century. Their bad luck is that this optical miracle only works one way. "I'm afraid the world just doesn't understand us," Shahla Paryan lamented, pouring the inevitable tea for a visitor sitting on a rich red carpet inside old mud walls.

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U.S. strikes accidentally set fire to Red Cross warehouses in Afghanistan

By Alyson Brodsy and Kathy Gannon · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- U.S. strikes set Red Cross warehouses afire near Afghanistan's capital Tuesday, sending workers scrambling to salvage desperately needed relief goods during a bombardment that could be heard 30 miles away. To the south, two U.S. special forces gunships entered the air war for the first time, raking the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar with cannon and heavy machine gun fire in a pre-dawn raid.

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Air security moves to federal control

By Alyson Brodsy and Jonathan D. Salant · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

CHANTILLY, Va. -- On the first day the government took responsibility for airport security, some passengers noticed extra vigilance and felt reassured by the change. Federal officials pledged Sunday to protect travelers and treat them with courtesy.

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New York devastation makes lasting impact on students

By Shayna Martin · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

NEW YORK -- Last weekend, a group of 19 members of the IU Campus Crusade for Christ went to New York. Traveling more than 30 hours, round trip, in a 15-passenger van and two cars, the group joined the many volunteers to do what it could to help the city devastated by terrorists. The group decided to go less than 24 hours before it left.

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Suspects lose right to jury trial

By Alyson Brodsy and Ron Fournier · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

WASHINGTON -- President George W. Bush approved the use of a special military tribunal Tuesday that could put accused terrorists on trial faster and in greater secrecy than an ordinary criminal court. The United States has not convened such a tribunal since World War II.

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Northern alliance's role in Afghanistan still in question

By Alyson Brodsy and Kathy Gannon · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hundreds of Arab fighters suspected of links to Osama bin Laden were given citizenship by the former Afghan government whose leaders are now receiving U.S. help fighting the Taliban, according to documents shown to The Associated Press by the ruling Islamic militia.

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Opposition surrounds Kunduz

By Alyson Brodsy and Kathy Gannon · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The northern alliance tightened its siege on the last Taliban bastion in the north, Kunduz, where foreign fighters loyal to Osama bin Laden reportedly were preventing a Taliban surrender. Four international journalists were feared dead after gunmen ambushed their convoy in eastern Afghanistan.

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Terrorist detainees face mistreatment

By Tom Hays · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

NEW YORK -- Some of the Middle Eastern men jailed in the terror investigation are complaining that they have been held in solitary confinement, stripped, blindfolded, roughed up and deprived of sleep. "I was treated worse than an animal," Yazeed Al-Salmi, a former housemate of one of the hijackers, said after he was released this month from the Metropolitan Correctional Center. Al-Salmi, a Saudi living in California, said he and others were stripped and videotaped.

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Taliban positions under siege from opposition forces

By Ellen Knickmeyer · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

BANGI, Afghanistan -- Northern alliance forces and Pashtun tribesmen encircled two of the Taliban's last remaining strongholds at opposite ends of the country Thursday. The Taliban's supreme leader vowed to fight to the death and to seek the "extinction of America."

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Bush begins tour of Europe in Berlin

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, July 25,2002 4:23 p.m.

BERLIN -- Thousands of anti-war demonstrators opposed to any widening of the U.S.-led war on terrorism converged in central Berlin ahead of George W. Bush's arrival Wednesday on his first visit to Germany as president. Despite the presence of more than 10,000 police officers tightly controlling access to Berlin's government center, where Bush will spend the night, meet with German leaders and address the German parliament, a picnic atmosphere prevailed as protesters gathered. Demonstrators denouncing the war on terrorism as an "Imperialist crusade," sprawled on former Prussian parade grounds, sunning themselves in shorts and tank tops as temperatures pushed into the 80s. With techno music blasting, protesters and police alike lined up for ice cream.

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