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NY cops and firefighters clash over fallen AFP - New Yorkers are shaking their heads in disbelief over an unseemly confrontation between firefighters and police -- the "bravest" versus the "finest", and all heroes of September 11. Saturday's clash ended with two black eyes and 12 firefighters arrested, but prosecutors dropped felony charges of assaulting police officers and released two detainees. Meanwhile, both police and firefighters pointed fingers at City Hall for a controversial decision to hand over control of the disaster site to city construction authorities. The New York police and fire departments have been staunch comrades-in-arms in the ...

Afghans make up largest group of asylum-seekers in Europe this year – UNHCR 2 November – With a 14 per cent jump in asylum applications in Europe this year compared to the same period in 2000, most asylum-seekers come from Afghanistan and Iraq, a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said today in Geneva. Briefing the press, Ron Redmond said the total number of asylum applications submitted in Europe during the third quarter increased by 20 per cent over the previous quarter, including 27,418 from Afghans and 26,892 from Iraqis. The number of Afghan applications rose ...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) -- During a sultry June week in 1966, mysterious men riding the New York subway walked through the train, pausing between cars to drop small objects on the tracks below.</p> <p>Anybody who got a good look would have recognized the objects as ordinary light bulbs. What other riders couldn't have known is that the bulbs had been pumped full of harmless bacteria meant to simulate anthrax spores.</p>

Agreement Near on National Guard at Capitol By REUTERS Filed at 6:00 p.m. ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional leaders neared an agreement on Friday to have the National Guard help protect the U.S. Capitol, possibly beginning as early as next week, lawmakers and aides said. U.S. House of Representatives Democratic leader Richard Gephardt said the plan would be to have 50 to 60 members of the guard help provide relief to 1,200 Capitol police officers, who have worked six- and seven-day weeks and up to 16-hour days since the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States. ``I agree ... that ...

Mideast Cadets Thursday, 11/01/01 An Eyewitness News investigation has prompted the U.S. State Department to launch its own investigation. Reporter Jay Kolls discovered a foreign army training in our own backyard. Our own government did not know about the training, and the man who brought the United Arab Emirates air force cadets to the U.S. has now left the country. Although there may be no connections to this training and the September 11 terrorist attacks, three of the hijackers had ties to the United Arab Emirates. Eyewitness News found out about the training missions after one of the cadets had ...

<p>UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- International cooperation to fight terrorism must not be used as a pretext for infringing on human rights, the U.N. human rights chief warned Wednesday.</p> <p>Mary Robinson also called for a strengthened commitment by all nations to justice and the rule of law after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the United States.</p>

Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. Amendment II A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. Amendment III No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of ...

Secret U.S. court handed new power to fight terror But some observers fear for civil liberties By Scott Shane Sun Staff Originally published October 29, 2001 Inside, the judges of America's secret court, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court, rule on requests to tap the phones, bug the rooms and break into the houses of terror suspects on U.S. soil. With President Bush's signing Friday of sweeping new anti-terror legislation, the secret court's jurisdiction has been widely expanded. Attorney General John Ashcroft said he would order investigators to immediately use the new wiretap powers to track down those responsible ...

<p>Casino case raises issues of money, politics By Sean P. Murphy, Globe Staff, 10/30/2001 But Goldberg, a fund-raiser for the Democratic Party, had friends in high places. Pretty soon he was arranging meetings with President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. Then came a cascade of ''soft money'' contributions to the Democrats.</p>

Damaged by diversity © 2001 Linda Bowles Our national borders are the front lines of America's war against terrorism. It should come as no surprise to anyone that our borders are being overrun. They are open doors to the easy entry – legal and illegal – of those who would do us harm. The facts are beyond refutation. At this moment, there are more than 31 million people living in the United States who were born in a foreign country. This is an increase of 11.3 million, or 57 percent, since 1990. At this moment, between nine million and 10 ...

Navy keeps an eye on Chinese aircraft carrier By Brian Hsu STAFF REPORTER The navy has been closely watching a former Soviet Union aircraft carrier that China bought from Ukraine in the name of a private company two years ago. The ship had been moored in a Turkish port waiting for permission from the local government to pass through the Bosporus Straits, a military leader said recently. It is estimated that the Varyag aircraft carrier is due to arrive at its announced destination -- Macao -- within one month of its passage through the Bosporus Straits of Turkey, said Navy ...

October 29, 2001 IMMIGRATION Refugees at America's Door Find It Closed After Attacks By SOMINI SENGUPTA s many as 20,000 refugees from across the world, cleared to come to the United States to escape persecution in their homelands, have had their arrival here delayed indefinitely in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. What is in effect a temporary moratorium on refugee admissions has resulted from both concerns about security and the fact that a White House consumed by its fight against terrorism — here and in Afghanistan — has not issued its annual refugee quota, administration officials said. ...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- The war on terrorism is focused on Afghanistan. But already, America is sending military advisers to the Philippines to rout out terrorists. Iraq could become a target if it's linked to any attacks.</p> <p>And the war could carry even farther -- perhaps to Somalia, Chechnya or Sudan, and perhaps quickly -- if Osama bin Laden tried to slip out of Afghanistan.</p>

japantoday Apologize or pay dearly, N Korea tells Bush BEIJING — North Korea's official media on Friday demanded U.S. President George W Bush apologize for recent "reckless" remarks faulting North Korean leader Kim Jong Il or else the North Korean people will "make him pay dearly" for them. "The Bush administration should make a sincere apology to the Korean people for Bush's reckless remarks," the Minju Joson newspaper said in a commentary. "The people and army of the DPRK will never tolerate any attempt to do harm to it." (Kyodo News)

WIRE: 10/28/2001 7:38 pm ET Six killed in bomb blast in southern Philippine city where U.S. military advisers are staying The Associated Press ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AP) A powerful bomb tore through a food court Sunday, killing at least six people and injuring 53 others while U.S. military officers were in town to discuss helping the government fight Muslim rebels. Philippine authorities blamed the Muslim rebel group Abu Sayyaf, which allegedly has links to Osama bin Laden, for the blast in the restive southern city of Zamboanga. The Americans were unhurt in the early evening attack, officials said. They were staying ...

26 October 2001 Text: U.S. Participates in Climate Change Talks (Under Secretary Dobriansky to lead Marrakech delegation)(300) Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs Paula J. Dobriansky will head the U.S. delegation at the next round of negotiations on the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), according to an October 25 announcement by State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher. This meeting of the conference of the parties on the international agreement, known as COP-7, will be held in Marrakech, Morocco October 29-November 9. The meeting marks the next stage in the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol, which calls on nations ...

Homeland Insecurity A Sacramento journalist is taken into custody by police and forced to destroy photos by an over-zealous National Guardsman. Apparently, the terrorists are indeed causing instability. By R.V. Scheide Photo by Larry Dalton Does this man frighten you? The "suspicious" journalist shows his ticket and ID at Sacramento International Airport. The photos of LAX were ordered destroyed. It was 5:05 p.m. on Friday, October 12, and we had call to be apprehensive. The previous day, the FBI had placed the entire nation on high alert, based on “credible” information that Al Qaeda, the terrorist organization headed by ...

Researcher: Iraq attempted to smuggle anthrax to U.S., Britain Special to World Tribune.com MIDDLE EAST NEWSLINE Saturday, October 27, 2001 TEL AVIV — Iraq has attempted to smuggle large quantities of anthrax into Britain and the United States, an Israeli analyst says. Dany Shoham, a research associate at Tel Aviv University's Begin-Sadat Center of Strategic Studies, said the regime of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein attempted to bring biological weapons agents into Britain and the United States in 1998. The attempt was reported by Israeli intelligence. At the time, Shoham said, Iraqi women agents arriving in the United States were hiding ...

H.R.3162 Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001

Bush Urges Congress to Act on Anti-Terror Treaties October 26, 2001 5:31 pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush urged Congress on Friday to pass laws to implement two international agreements designed to crack down on "terrorists" and on their sources of financing. The first pact, the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings, requires states to prosecute or to extradite anyone within their jurisdiction who bombs a public place, government facility or public transport system. The second agreement, the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism, requires states to prosecute or to extradite anyone in ...