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Reflections on 'Infinite Justice' From Pakistan

Wednesday, 26 September 2001, 11:28 am | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

Azra Sayeed of Karachi expresses insight into the roots of terrorism, the creation of the Mujahedin, the Taliban, fundamentalism, heroin, and how the west has encouraged a degeneration of life in her part of the world. More >>

Peace Fades As Israel Re-occupies West Bank Border

Wednesday, 26 September 2001, 1:02 am | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

Israel has again sealed off the West Bank drawing anger from Palestinians and criticism from the United Nations. Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon ordered the move after a 28-year-old Jewish woman was killed in a shooting attack in the West Bank. Israeli ... More >>

Islam Warns Against US Anti-terrorism Offensive

Monday, 24 September 2001, 11:24 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

As battles rage between Taliban and opposition forces, Islamic countries warn of a major retaliation if the United States initiates an anti-terrorism offensive upon Afghanistan. More >>

USA Issues Info on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda Network

Monday, 24 September 2001, 9:10 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

US government officials say that the terror network headed by bin Laden is responsible for the deaths of more than 6,300 people in attacks at New York's World Trade Center, the Pentagon and aboard a hijacked aircraft that crashed in Pennsylvania. More >>

N Korea Rages at Japanese Defence Ship Support

Monday, 24 September 2001, 8:57 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

North Korea has slammed a Japanese plan to change its law to allow Japanese Self Defence Force ships to take part in United States war efforts against terrorism. More >>

US Forces Positioning Throughout The Globe

Monday, 24 September 2001, 7:02 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

United States military forces are positioning in strategic zones around the world so that when US President George W Bush decides on action the military is in a position to “carry those things out”. More >>

New Zealand SAS Await Call

Monday, 24 September 2001, 5:28 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

by Selwyn Manning As British SAS and United States special military units become operative in and around Afghanistan, Scoop reports New Zealand forces are awaiting a call to duty. Ne More >>

Sharon Calls Off Peace-talks - Again...

Monday, 24 September 2001, 11:19 am | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

Israel and Palestinian peace-talks have again been called of by right-wing Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon. Sharon cited continued violence against Israelis by Palestinians as the reason for calling the talks off once again. More >>

Taliban Clerics Ask Bin Laden To Leave Afghanistan

Thursday, 20 September 2001, 11:41 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

Afghan's ruling Taliban militia tonight decided to ask Osama bin Laden to leave Afghanistan. The decision has surprised western diplomats and is acknowledged as a move in the right direction - albeit, not far enough. More >>

Israel Suspects Iraq Involved in Terrorist Attacks

Thursday, 20 September 2001, 6:13 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

An Israel security intelligence report suspects Iraq was involved in assisting terrorists to attack the United States last week and names two prominent Middle Eastern terrorists that it says masterminded the attacks. More >>

Arafat Outsmarts Israel In Peace Talk Diplomacy

Thursday, 20 September 2001, 5:18 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

Shrewd diplomacy by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has seen leading western nations fall in behind his call for peace between Israel and Palestinians. Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon now faces a dilema: accept Arafat as "the peacemaker" or be ... More >>

Drain the Swamp They Live In - US Defence Sec

Thursday, 20 September 2001, 9:42 am | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

As the United States deploys a further 100 strike aircraft to the Persian Gulf area, its Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned to stamp out terrorists you must drain the swamp they live in. More >>

Unease as Yemen/Syria Insist Sanctions be Lifted

Wednesday, 19 September 2001, 11:50 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

Yemen and Syria have called for the international community to lift sanctions against Iraq. The two countries are also eyeing a chilling ceasefire between Palestinians and Israeli forces, issuing a warning that the west must insist that Israel cease ... More >>

Saddam - Religious War Looms: Islamic v Zionist

Wednesday, 19 September 2001, 11:30 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has received pledges of loyalty from his Commander of Air Defence and issued a second letter to the United States, western peoples and governments. The reports issued via Iraq’s official news agency herald a nation that ... More >>

United Nations Orders Taliban: Hand Over Bin Laden

Wednesday, 19 September 2001, 2:56 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

The United Nations Security Council has urged Afghanistan's ruling militia, the Taliban, to comply with texts ordering that Osama bin Laden be handed over. More >>

Israel/Palestinian Peace Talks on Knife-Edge

Wednesday, 19 September 2001, 1:26 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

Despite ceasefire calls from both the PLO and Israel over-night, tentions remain on a knife-edge in Israel, the West Bank and around Gaza. More >>

Shroud of Secrecy Decends on US War-plans

Tuesday, 18 September 2001, 5:40 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

A shroud of secrecy is tonight being cloaked around the United States' preparations for war. The labelled “War against terrorism” will certainly be fought with a shield of silence [rhetoric aside] not seen since the height of Cold-War years. More >>

Israeli-Palestinian Violence Rages in West Bank

Tuesday, 18 September 2001, 4:47 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

Israel's armed forces today shelled a kindergarten in Betunia, a West Bank town on the outskirts of Ramallah City, with one person reported clinically dead, Palestinian security said. Meanwhile the Israeli press reported violence from an opposing viewpoint. More >>

Islamic Council To Decide Bin Ladens Fate: Taliban

Tuesday, 18 September 2001, 3:22 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

Afghanistan's ruling Taliba has announced this afternoon that a Grand Islamic Council involving 20 of the country's pre-eminent clerics will decide Osama bin Laden's fate. More >>

Indonesian Authorities Prevent Two Planned Attacks

Tuesday, 18 September 2001, 1:01 pm | Selwyn Manning - Scoop Auckland

Two planned attacks on the United States Embassy in Jakarta have been prevented, Indonesia's Foreign Minister Hassan Wirayuda said. More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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