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By DOUGLAS FRANTZ SLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 3 — George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, on a weekend visit here, sought tactical assistance for an assault on a mountain base in eastern Afghanistan where Osama bin Laden is suspected of hiding, government officials said today. Mr. Tenet also said the United States planned to send more intelligence operatives into southern Afghanistan, the officials said, and urged the president of Pakistan to go further in cracking down on militant clerics and other extremists. American officials confirmed today that Mr. Tenet had visited Pakistan and met with its president, Gen. Pervez ...

When East Atlanta voters turned Sherry Dorsey out Nov. 6, they finished off a political machine Sidney Dorsey sought to create as DeKalb's first black elected sheriff. Even before his arrest Friday in the assassination of his would-be successor, Derwin Brown, that crushing defeat left no doubt the husband-and-wife political team would be relegated to the role of political footnotes -- one-term politicians rejected by voters after only four years in office. Just four years earlier, the Dorsey star was rising fast. Sidney Dorsey reigned as high sheriff in DeKalb. Sherry Dorsey, a political neophyte, had emerged from obscurity, using ...

Ed Vulliamy in New York Sunday December 2, 2001 The Observer A backroom row is brewing at Time magazine in New York over whether Osama bin Laden should grace its cover as 'Person of the Year' in its Christmas special. Instituted in 1927, the award is an iconic token for the US media, to which the weekly's rivals and friends give abundant publicity. But the competing claims of fame and infamy have often caused much soul-searching. James Kelly, Time 's current managing editor, has said in the past that the prize should go to the man or woman who has ...

No big delays encountered BY ANABELLE de GALE AND NICOLE WHITE adegale@herald.com The busiest travel day of the year it was not, but the day before Thanksgiving was still the first test of whether heightened security measures could hold up under increased numbers of passengers at Miami International Airport. At the entrance to MIA, motorists were greeted by the extraordinary sight of a National Guardsman atop a military tank with his gun drawn -- a clear hint of the security measures they were about to encounter. Wednesday, MIA serviced about 81,000 passengers -- close to 25 percent less than last ...

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX TUE NOV 20 2001 21:41:09 ET XXXXX O'REILLY 'PULLS BACK' FROM RADIO HUNT FOXNEWS star Bill O'Reilly announced late Tuesday that he has "pulled back" from pursuing plans to directly challenge RadioKing Rush Limbaugh with a daily radioshow. The dramatic move comes even after Limbaugh gave the cablehost his on-air blessing earlier this week! "If we can help him get any stations -- he should call us," Limbaugh, who is heard on more than 600 stations, said of the O'Reilly move. As first reported exclusively in this space, O'Reilly has been secretly pitching a daily 2-hour ...

Al-Qa'eda massacre Taliban By David Harrison in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan (Filed: 18/11/2001) OSAMA BIN LADEN'S elite al-Qa'eda guard, mainly Arabs and Pakistanis, are slaughtering Taliban troops to prevent them surrendering to the Northern Alliance army besieging Kunduz, the Taliban-controlled northern enclave. Burhanuddi Rabbani: former Afghan president has retuned to Kabul In the first eye-witness accounts of life inside the city, escaping civilians last night told The Telegraph that an Arab al-Qa'eda commander had ordered the massacre of 150 Afghan Talibs who wanted to defect. As alliance commanders prepared for their latest offensive on Kunduz, refugees described atrocities committed by al-Qa'eda ...

Bin Laden supporters drew skyscraper plan By Alan Philps in Kabul (Filed: 16/11/2001) ARAB supporters of Osama bin Laden drew diagrams of an attack on a skyscraper in advance of the September 11 attack on New York, according to a neighbour in Kabul. Several families from the Arab world, as well as from Turkey and Bosnia, lived in a three-storey complex in the Shahr-e Now district of the Afghan capital. According to papers found in the homes, which were abandoned on Monday, the Arabs studied how to make explosives and bombs and other sabotage techniques as well as computing and ...

Bin Laden's nuclear secrets found. FROM ANTHONY LOYD IN KABUL Times reporter finds blueprint for 'Nagasaki bomb' Singed files left by fleeing terrorists OSAMA BIN LADEN’S al-Qaeda network held detailed plans for nuclear devices and other terrorist bombs in one of its Kabul headquarters. The Times discovered the partly burnt documents in a hastily abandoned safe house in the Karta Parwan quarter of the city. Written in Arabic, German, Urdu and English, the notes give detailed designs for missiles, bombs and nuclear weapons. There are descriptions of how the detonation of TNT compresses plutonium into a critical mass, sparking a ...

Thursday, November 8, 2001 The Patriotism Police AUSTIN -- Say, here's an item: A group of right-wing journalists famed for their impartiality has set themselves up as the Patriotism Police. No less distinguished a crowd than Rush Limbaugh, Matt Drudge, The New York Post editorial page and the Fox News Channel --- quite a bunch of Pulitzer winners there -- are now passing judgment on whether media outlets that do actual reporting are sufficiently one-sided for their taste. With the insouciance toward fact for which he is so noted, Limbaugh erroneously reported that Peter Jennings had been highly critical of ...

Pope John Paul II Greets New York City Firefighters in St. Peter's Basilica The Associated Press Published: Nov 10, 2001 VATICAN CITY (AP) - New York City firefighters presented Pope John Paul II with the white helmet of their chaplain who was killed at the World Trade Center, and the pontiff prayed Saturday for the families of the 343 firefighters who died in the rescue effort. "I offer a warm welcome to the delegation from the New York City Fire Department, so many of whose members lost their lives in the terrorist attack of Sept. 11," the pope said in ...

U.S. Commandos Complete Raid By Robert Burns Associated Press Writer Friday, Oct. 19, 2001; 10:09 p.m. EDT WASHINGTON –– About 100 U.S. commandos carried out an operation in southern Afghanistan, opening a new phase of the war on terrorism after nearly two weeks of punishing airstrikes, U.S. officials said Friday night. Officials said the commandos returned to base after several hours inside the country. There was no word on possible casualties. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, would provide no details on the operation except to say it occurred early Saturday morning local time. Earlier in the day, ...

ASHINGTON When I was little, my older brother used to play classical music for me. The record I loved best was Rimsky-Korsakov's romantic "Scheherazade," about the young Islamic woman who spellbinds an Arab sultan with 1,001 tales. The record that frightened me was Mussorgsky's "Night on Bald Mountain," the surreal celebration of evil during the night of the Witches' Sabbath — so vividly animated in "Fantasia." The lord of evil and death, swathed in a dark cape, stands atop a jagged peak, as ghosts, witches and vampires swirl up to pay homage. At dawn, the church bells drive him off ...

I have heard it it said in the last 45 hours that the US prepared for everything in the Pacific Theater except the kamikazes...The Japanese vowed to fight to the last man. My fellow Americans, WW II was ended because the US government agreed to Japans term's. We took them up on their pledge and made it clear that we would claim their "last man"....at our convenience...War has been declared in September, 2001.....Our enemy today is prepared to fight to the last man, woman, and child...Is it time to take them up on it?????A Nuclear response ended WW II. Is ...