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*FROM NEWS SOURCES AROUND THE WORLD*
WORLD NEWS BULLETIN
Sunday, December 23, 2001
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MOMENTUM POINTING TOWARDS WAR ON IRAQ!
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"Last month Bush warned that Saddam would soon 'find out' what the U.S. intended to do about his development of terror weapons, and the U.S. has doubled its troop numbers in neighboring Kuwait to 2,000."
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, December 22, 2001
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President Bush's anti-Saddam rhetoric is ratcheting up, and last week a White House official was quoted as saying: "We are looking for ways, if the need presents itself, to use military power [against Iraq], and do it in a way that is decisive, not a pinprick." The next war looks to pick up where "Desert Storm" left off.

ANTI-TERROR ROADS NOW LEAD
TO BAGHDAD
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, December 22, 2001

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    Two new fundamentals are coming into play-the horror of September 11 has focused Washington's attention absolutely on all terrorist threats; and the military assault on Afghanistan has proved that a tyrannical Muslim regime can be brought down, apparently without much-feared uprisings elsewhere in the Muslim world.
    The demise of the Taliban and bin Laden's remarkable disappearing act in the Tora Bora peaks last weekend suddenly has scattered the war against terrorism. It's ducking and weaving-into Yemen, down to Somalia and maybe across to Sudan. There's a chance of firefights in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines-where terrorist groups are being linked to bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
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But in this war, there is a growing feeling that all roads now lead to Baghdad. The timing is unclear-it could be well into next year before the Pentagon and Iraqi opposition groups, if they are to be used, can plan and train to wage a war against Saddam.
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    Anarchy, lawlessness and the lack of a central government make Somalia more of a military challenge. But neighboring Ethiopia, a Christian regime, is eager to go after Islamic Somalia and has offered troops.
    In The NEW YORKER magazine this week, Seymour Hersh outlined the plan: 200 instructors would train more than 5,000 Iraqi dissidents who, backed by former U.S. special forces, would take over the vital oil fields of Basra in southern Iraq.
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"Just because Saddam was more powerful than the Taliban,
it didn't mean that the U.S. can't or shouldn't look for ways to
oust him, but it does mean that we should start by planning to
do it alone."
Thomas Friedman, quoted in THE NEW YORK TIMES
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    The strategy is to dare Saddam to come after them (the U.S.). If he doesn't, he's lost. If he does, his armies heading south would be destroyed by U.S. bomber aircraft.
    At the same time deliberate unrest in the Kurdish north would force Saddam to split his army-units that went north could be crushed in the same way as those that went south.
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"Only a war against Saddam Hussein will decisively restore the awe that protects American interests abroad and citizens at home. We have been running from this fight for 10 years. In the Middle East everyone knows it. We're the only ones deluding ourselves."
 Reuel Marc Gerecht, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
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    This week, Rumsfeld urged NATO to position itself for "the next war". He did not name Iraq but, describing the states that worry the Administration, he said that any country "supporting global terrorism" that had "weaponized chemical and biological agents" and is seeking "nuclear, chemical and biological weapons-and the means to deliver them" should be of particular concern to NATO.
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ABC NEWS, December 21-Iraq remains the most mentioned potential target in the next phase of the war on terrorism. But sources say Secretary of State Colin Powell is cautioning any move against Iraq for now because it may fracture the coalition of forces fighting bin Laden and the al -Qaeda. That may change, sources say if there is irrefutable evidence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is gathering and producing weapons of mass destruction.
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POWELL SAYS SUCCESS IN AFGHANISTAN CAMPAIGN CAN'T BE ASSURED IN IRAQ
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, December 22, 2001
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  Secretary of State Colin Powell said the military success of the U.S.-led war on terrorism in Afghanistan does not assure a similar victory elsewhere, particularly Iraq.
    But in an interview Friday with the WASHINGTON POST, Powell rekindled speculation that the United States might target Somalia next in the campaign, saying U.S. officials were "really looking" at the country because they believe followers of Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network may be hiding there.
    Powell said the differences between the Taliban regime and that of Saddam Hussein were vast, and warned that expanding the war to Iraq, as some hawks in Washington are advocating, would require a completely different strategy.
    Iraq and Afghanistan are "two different countries with two different regimes, two different military capabilities," Powell said.
    "They are so significantly different that you can't take the Afghan model and immediately apply it to Iraq," Powell said, stressing, however, that the United States is "constantly looking" at ways to oust Saddam.
    Iraq "is very much always on our agenda. We are constantly reviewing our plans," he said. "But I think it's too much of a leap to say: 'This worked here--let's see how it lines up in a similar fashion with respect to Iraq'."
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BUSH PREDICTS 'WAR YEAR' IN 2002
REUTERS, December 21, 2001
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  A provisional government on which the world has pegged its hopes for a peaceful Afghanistan prepared on Friday to take power, but U.S. President George. W. Bush warned that 2002 would still be a "war year."
    Bush, in an interview with reporters in Washington, said great progress had been made in his "war on terrorism'' but warned that peace was not at hand.
    "Next year will be a war year as well because we're going to continue to hunt down these al-Qaeda people in this particular theater, as well as other places,'' he said.
    "Our war against terror extends way beyond Afghanistan. And at some point in time maybe some president will come and say you have the expertise that we don't, would you mind maybe have some of your troops with ours. And the answer is, 'you bet,''' Bush said.
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GERMANY MAY TAKE LEAD IN AFGHANISTAN
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, December 22, 2001
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  Germany is joining the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan and could be a candidate to pick up the lead when Britain relinquishes it in three months, a British official told UPI on Friday.
    Britain said it would put together and lead the expedition for three months and wants out by April 30 at the latest.
    Germany at one point was mentioned as a possibility for taking the lead, but balked at coming under U.S. command.
    Some analysts have suggested that three or four months from now, by the time Germany could take over the leader role, the United States could have wrapped up its operation in the area eliminating Germany's problem with serving under the United States.
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REUTERS, December 22-Germany's parliament approved on Saturday the deployment of up to 1,200 troops in Afghanistan as part of a peacekeeping force with a six-month mandate to help protect the new Afghan interim administration.
    In a special sitting, deputies voted by 538 to 35 in favor of the mission, with eight abstentions. The sitting was free of the fireworks of a month ago when the government narrowly avoided defeat in a debate over a German contribution to the U.S.-led military campaign in Afghanistan.
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CHINA SUPPLIED ARMS TO BIN LADEN AFTER SEPT. 11 ATTACK
THE WASHINGTON TIMES, December 21, 2001
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  China continued to supply arms to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorists even after the group began the September 11 attack on America, says a senior U.S. official.
    The official said that a week after the terrorist attack, the ruling Taliban and the al-Qaeda fighters embedded among them, received a shipment of Chinese-made SA-7 missiles. The shoulder-fired anti-aircraft weapons are similar to the U.S. Stinger.
    This official says the shipment raises serious questions about Beijing's pledge to help fight terrorism.
    We already know the Taliban and al-Qaeda got sizable arms shipments from China, which borders Afghanistan on the north. Opposition forces found huge amounts of Chinese ammunition in the caves of Tora Bora. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld says Chinese have been found fighting among al-Qaeda.
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3,000 AL-QAEDA FIGHTERS LIFTED TO SAFETY
WORLDNETDAILY, December 21, 2001
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  It was just before midnight Nov. 11 when Russian-made Antonov aircraft without markings began landing at the bombed-out airport of Konduz in northern Afghanistan. The Northern Alliance's conquest of the Afghan city was still five days away, and a small group of Pakistani military intelligence officers and soldiers–all of whom had been serving with the Taliban–waited anxiously on a runway, together with a large number of Pakistanis wounded in battle lying on blankets. The planes were coming to take them home.
    The planes belonged to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda. Under cover of the Pakistani airlift, 3,000 of the group's fighters were secretly lifted to safety from the besieged towns of Konduz and Khandabad about 15 miles to the south. The double airlift lasted five nights. The planes arriving to ferry Pakistani fighters home were closely shadowed by a phantom airlift extracting al-Qaeda personnel. The rescued Pakistanis were flown to air bases in northwest and central Pakistan. The al-Qaeda men were taken long distance to the Persian Gulf emirates, landing, according to Gulf sources, in Abu Dhabi and the Somali town of Baidoa.
    They soon disappeared, trucked to the Saudi and Yemen frontiers and apparently put down to cross on foot. On Tuesday, Dec. 18, Yemeni special forces engaged a group of just-landed senior al-Qaeda operatives in the al Husoun tribal region of Marib but met fierce resistance and were repulsed after losing 17 men.
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NEWS BRIEFS-
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ASSOCIATED PRESS, December 22-More American troops will be sent to the Tora Bora area of eastern Afghanistan to help look for clues to the whereabouts of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Friday. He declined to say how many soldiers would take part.
  There are about 2,000 U.S. Marines in southern Afghanistan, mostly in and around the Kandahar airport. Others that could be tapped for the Tora Bora mission are hundreds of Marines on several amphibious warships in the Arabian Sea, military officials said.
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CNN NEWS, December 22-Two U.S. military sources confirmed Thursday that up to 500 Marines could be ready as soon as this weekend to begin searching caves in Tora Bora for
al-Qaeda members. The sources emphasized that Gen. Tommy Franks, head of U.S. Central Command, has not given final approval to the mission.
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ANANOVA, December 22-George W. Bush says Osama bin Laden may have "slithered out" of Afghanistan, but he will not escape the global reach of U.S. forces.
    He commented: "I don't know where he is. I hadn't heard much from him recently, which means he could be in a cave that doesn't have an opening to it any more; or could be in a cave where he can get out or may have tried to slither out into neighboring Pakistan. We don't know."
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TERRORISM
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DEATH ON THE HIGH SEAS!

SHIPPING LANES PRESENT CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER FOR MAJOR PORTS IN THE WEST

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HUNT FOR 20 TERROR SHIPS
THE OBSERVER, December 23, 2001
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  British and American intelligence services are hunting the world for at least 20 ships thought to make up a terrorist fleet linked to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda group, The Observer can reveal.
    Security and shipping sources said British, U.S. and European intelligence services have been desperately searching for bin Laden's 'phantom fleet' amid fears the vessels could be carrying poisons, explosives or weapons.
.  Targets would be cities where large residential areas are sitting near to docks, ideally docks that carry gas or oil. Cities that fit the bill could include Boston,.which has a large liquid natural gas trade, San Francisco and Sydney. Despite the bridges across the Thames, London would also be vulnerable as large ships could easily penetrate as far as Canary Wharf-which has been the target of IRA terrorist attacks. Terrorism experts believe the ships could even be fitted with primitive radioactive 'dirty bombs' or hijackers could take over boats carrying nuclear or chemical waste.
.  The ships were identified at least three months ago as a result of a joint intelligence operation thought to be led by the Norwegian security service and America's CIA with the help of international shipping registries.
    The search has been hampered by the controversial 'flags of convenience' system, under which many ships are registered as Panamanian, Liberian or Cypriot to avoid stringent checks on their crews and cargoes.
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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, December 22-British anti-terror police Saturday searched a freighter intercepted in the English Channel as the press voiced fears that Islamic extremists were planning a major attack here over Christmas.
    Police backed by a navy frigate intercepted and boarded an Indian-owned cargo ship 30 miles (50 kilometers) off the southern English coast early Friday in what Scotland Yard described as a "major security operation."
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DEFECTOR SAYS SADDAM HAS DEATH SQUAD
ANANOVA, December 22, 2001
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  An Iraqi defector says Saddam Hussein has a squad of 30 terrorists scattered around the world ready to strike at any time.
    The secret squad specializes in sabotage, urban warfare and hijacking.
    VANITY FAIR magazine says it is the cream of a secret 1,200-strong commando force called al-Qarea, or the Strikers.
    The unit was commissioned by Saddam's son Uday and presented to his father as "a birthday present".
    The 30 men have been given new identities and United Arab Emirates passports, after a minister in the Gulf state was bribed by Iraqi spies.
    According to the defector Abu Zeinab al-Quarairy, a former brigadier-general in Saddam's feared Mukhabarat intelligence service, the death squad has a link to the September 11 terror attacks.
    He told the magazine: "When I saw the World Trade Center attack on television, I turned to a friend and said 'that's ours'."
    The 41-year-old defector, who fled Iraq in August, said the 30 soldiers could be anywhere in the world, waiting for a secret message from Baghdad to spring into action.
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MANUAL FOR HOLY WAR FOUND IN AL-QAEDA CAVE
USA TODAY, December 21, 2001
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  "How to attack America.'' Handwritten in Arabic and underlined on Page 19 of a photocopied training manual, that heading opens a chapter chillingly titled: ''How to start a war.'"
    Lying among the bomb rubble of al-Qaeda's main offices in the village of Durai, 5 miles west of central Kandahar, weapons manuals, arms catalogues and scientific textbooks paint a picture of an organization that after establishing a firm foothold in the Taliban's spiritual home became consumed with waging a holy war against America.
    At the two-story house, the biggest among Durai's 200 or so homes, the mainly Arab members of al-Qaeda appeared to have been trying to school members in why and how to fight the USA. Remnants of documents lying in the now-destroyed building show the lessons included detailed instruction on building and operating missiles, chemistry, mathematics and English grammar. One document lists the top three instructions for students learning how to attack the USA as ''identify your target,'' ''attack'' and ''assess your strength.'' The rest of the document was burned and unreadable.
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NEWS BRIEFS-
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THE MIAMI HERALD, December 23-Air Force F-15 jet fighters escorted a jetliner bound from Paris to Miami to a safe landing in Boston on Saturday after flight attendants and passengers subdued a man who tried to ignite an apparent explosive hidden in his shoe, authorities said.
    Several people aboard American Airlines Flight 63 suffered minor injuries in the scuffle as the suspect was forcibly belted into his seat and sedated by two doctors who were aboard.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS, December 22-Federal prosecutors in the U.S. have developed several leads in the terrorism investigation after questioning 5,000 foreign men, most of Middle Eastern descent, the Justice Department said Friday.
    U.S. Justice Department officials said the men were not targeted based on their nationalities. Only those with passports issued by countries where Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda network is known to operate were sought for questioning, the officials said.
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CNN NEWS, December 22-A national warning and corporate security advisory in the U.S. about possible terrorist attacks have been extended through January 2, CNN has learned.
    A spokesman for Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge said a national warning issued December 3 is continuing because the threat--regarded as "credible but non-specific"--still exists.
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CNN NEWS, December 22-Fifty-eight people around the country (U.S.) have been arrested and charged in connection with anthrax hoaxes or threats since the anthrax scare began after Sept. 11, the postal service says.
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.AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, December 22-Gunmen shot dead the brother of Pakistan's interior minister Moinuddin Haider in Karachi, police and ministry officials said.
    There was speculation that the killing of Ehtishamuddin Haider, 50, could be linked to the minister's tough comments against terrorism in recent weeks.
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MIDDLE EAST
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HAMAS "ASKS" FOR LIMIT
ON SUICIDE ATTACKS
ARUTZ SHEVA NEWS SERVICE, December 21, 2001
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  Hamas will continue its terrorism against Israelis living in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza and its shooting attacks at IDF bases there.  Spokesmen for the political branch of Hamas announced today that it had asked its military arm to cease attacks within pre-1967 Israel as well as mortar attacks on Jewish communities in Gush Katif.  An example of the practical implications of the announcement occurred in Hevron this afternoon, when two bombs were detonated near an IDF force there; no one was hurt.
    Headlines around the world such as "Hamas Calls Off Suicide Bombings" (AP) and "Hamas Vows to End Suicide Attacks" (CNN) left the misleading impression that Hamas had decided upon a total ceasefire-when in fact the Hamas call refers only to pre-1967 Israel, and is not a "decision" but rather a "call" upon Hamas terrorists to cease their attacks.
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NEWS BRIEFS-
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ASSOCIATED PRESS, December 22-The Palestinian Authority should dismantle the ability of terrorist groups to launch attacks against Israel, the U.S. State Department said Friday in dismissing a pledge by the Hamas group to suspend such operations.
    Asked what he made of the Hamas statement, spokesman Richard Boucher said, "I don't make a whole lot. I'm not very interested in parsing the statements of a terrorist group like Hamas."
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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, December 22-Palestinian police and Islamic militants fought running gunbattles which killed six people and injured more than 60 others, just hours after the hard-line Hamas group said it was suspending suicide attacks in Israel.
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HA'ARETZ DAILY NEWS, December 22-Palestinian Authority police arrested the commander of the Islamic Jihad's military wing, Shadi Muhana, in his home Saturday night, security sources said. Muhana's second-in-command, Mahmoud Judeh, was also detained.
    The move is the latest in a clampdown on militant groups by the Palestinians, following pressure on the PA by Israel, the United States and the European Union.
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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, December 22-Palestinian Authority officials Friday defended Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's choice of words Tuesday when he told a crowd of Palestinians from East Jerusalem that "one dead from us equals 70 dead of them."
    The PA said Arafat's words had been misinterpreted by the Israelis.
    A top aide to Arafat, Ahmed Abdel Rahman, said Arafat was referring to a more than 1,400-year-old Hadeeth--or statement by prophet Mohammed--in which he said one shahid (dead) from Jerusalem (the holy land) equals 70 shahids in any other place in the world.
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REUTERS, December 22-Israel's government said on Sunday it would bar Palestinian President Yasser Arafat from attending Christmas festivities in Bethlehem because he had not done enough to clamp down on "terror organizations."
    Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's security cabinet decided in a telephone vote to prevent Arafat from traveling to Bethlehem from his West Bank headquarters in Ramallah, Sharon's office said in a statement.
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ARUTZ SHEVA NEWS SERVICE, December 20-Israeli scientists have completed ten years of research and testing in a secret laboratory in the Nes Tziona Biological Center, and are about ready to being mass-production of their newly-developed vaccine against anthrax.  The vaccine has been tested and found to be effective, and unlike the American vaccine, causes no side effects. In addition, the American vaccine must be taken in six doses, while the new Israeli version takes effect after only one injection.  The research is based on genetic engineering, and was the fruit of cooperation between the IDF and the Ministry of Health.
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ARUTZ SHEVA NEWS SERVICE, December 20-Thousands of protestors took part in an anti-Israel demonstration in Paris yesterday.  AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE reports that it was the largest such demonstration in several years.  Many participants raised PLO flags and called Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Zionists "murderers."  The demonstration was organized and sponsored by the France-Palestine Solidarity Organization, the Human Rights League, the Anti-Racism Movement, the Communist and Green parties, workers unions and organizations of the extreme left.  The protest was preceded by a confrontation between the anti-Israel demonstrators and approximately 30 youths carrying Israeli flags.  There were several injuries in the ensuing brawl, but the demonstration itself continued without further incident.
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ARUTZ SHEVA NEWS SERVICE, December 21-Israel's Foreign Ministry rejected yesterday's UN resolution calling for international observers to be sent to Judea, Samaria and Gaza.  Only Israel, the United States, and four Pacific Ocean island states voted against the resolution.  The Foreign Ministry called the resolutions "one-sided, hostile and unhelpful," as they divert attention away from the "war against terrorism and pressuring Arafat [in this direction]."   Foreign Minister Peres noted that the Mitchell Report stipulates that international observers would not be dispatched unless both parties to the conflict agreed.  "Most of the countries who voted for the UN resolution also voted for the Mitchell Report," Peres said.
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WORLDWIDE WAR AND CONFLICT
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INDIA RECALLS COMMISSIONER
SEALS PAKISTAN BORDER
THE LONDON TIMES, December 22, 2001-

India’s recall of its High Commissioner in Pakistan, the sealing of the border and the mobilization of troops all along the tense frontier are ominous signs. They come at a time when India appears set on retaliation for the suicide attack on its parliament by Islamist militants on December 13, and blames the world for turning a blind eye to the rising violence in Kashmir because of its preoccupation with Afghanistan. India sees the hand of Pakistan behind the violence, and is sending a signal to Islamabad and to Washington that it will no more tolerate terrorism than will the West. In the tense atmosphere in and around Pakistan, such a move is bound to provoke a belligerent response. Any escalation of longstanding animosities between two nuclear powers is extremely serious.
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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, December 22-Pakistan expressed concern at what it called "massive" Indian troop movements along their border after India said it would recall its ambassador.
    Amid rising tension over last week's attack on the Indian parliament, Pakistan said it would take "all appropriate counter-measures" against the reported troop movements.
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REUTERS, December 22-Indian and Pakistan troops exchanged small arms and machinegun fire at border flashpoints on Friday as tension mounted between the two nuclear capable neighbors, officials said on Saturday.
    A senior Indian defense official said troops had been deployed "wherever required'' along the border of rebellion-torn Jammu and Kashmir state but the exchanges of fire were not alarming.
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.ASSOCIATED PRESS, December 22-Unidentified gunmen shot and killed five women and seriously wounded four other people in two separate incidents in India's disputed Kashmir, police said Saturday.
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UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL, December 22-The United States has more than 40 kinds of cluster bombs and submunitions, and at least 18 countries manufacture cluster munitions and at least 50 have stockpiles, according to a Human Rights Watch report.
    An estimated 88 human casualties a month were recorded in heavily mined Afghanistan in 2000. Unknown numbers of wildlife and domestic animals also die.
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ECONOMICS
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ARGENTINE MIDDLE CLASS
FACING RUIN IN WIDENING CRISIS
THE OBSERVER, December 23, 2001
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  Argentina's middle classes were bracing themselves for bankruptcy yesterday, as analysts warned that a financial meltdown had already begun and the country's new Peronist leaders scrambled for an economic rescue plan in the wake of nationwide rioting.
    As Argentina recovers from two days of looting and street battles that sent President Fernando de la Rua into flight and left a divided Peronist party to pick up the pieces, the country is closer than ever to financial collapse.
  Argentina was the seventh richest nation in the world a century ago, when thousands of European immigrants flocked here in search of a better life. The country's name and its River Plata are reminders of the days when silver wealth flowed through the port of Buenos Aires.
    But the middle classes are shrinking fast. A recent report said 2,000 people were sinking under the poverty line each day and 14 million of the country's 36 million population were living on less than $4 a day.
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AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE, December 22-Argentina, charging into an economic abyss, named senior lawmaker Ramon Puerta as caretaker president after angry riots killed 27 and tore his predecessor from office.
    "I am the provisional president," said Puerta, leader of the Senate from the far northeast of Argentina and a multimillionaire in the herbal tea business.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS, December 22-Banks were prime targets in Argentina for rock-throwing rioters who rampaged down the avenue Thursday--symbols of the financial system many Argentines love to blame for their once-rich country's ruin.
    A new, less market-friendly government could usher in a broad switch in economic policy whose effects could go beyond Argentina's borders. It could influence how other emerging markets deal with the international finance community.
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VIRUS ALERT

FBI ISSUES VIRUS ALERT
ON WINDOWS XP
.ASSOCIATED PRESS, December 21, 2001

The FBI's top cyber-security unit warned consumers and corporations Friday night to take new steps beyond those recommended by Microsoft Corp. to protect against hackers who might try to attack major flaws discovered in the newest version of Windows software.
    The FBI's National Infrastructure Protection Center said that, in addition to installing a free software fix offered by Microsoft on the company's Web site, consumers and corporations using Windows XP should disable the product's "universal plug and play" features affected by the glitches.
 
 

WORLD NEWS BULLETIN, Sunday, December 23, 2001
Covington, Ohio USA
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EDITOR: Richard Markland
RESEARCH ASSISTANCE: Francine Prater and Michael Turner
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