Yahoo! News - US Thinks Bin Laden Alive on Afghan Border-Report Osama bin Laden survived U.S. bombing raids on Tora Bora and other mountainous Afghan regions and probably remains hidden in the remote terrain straddling Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, the New York Times reported on Sunday, citing senior Bush administration officials.

Canada Wary on U.S. Anti-Terror Plan (washingtonpost.com) A U.S. proposal to integrate Canadian troops into a North American command system that would defend the continent against terrorist attacks has some Canadians questioning how the system would affect their country's sovereignty.

Anti-Iraq Rhetoric Outpaces Reality (washingtonpost.com) Bush administration rhetoric has fueled speculation that a military move against Iraq could be imminent. But the military reality is that it could take up to a year before the United States is ready to launch a coordinated assault...

BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Saddam scorns Bush 'baby talk' Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has dismissed US accusations that Baghdad had or was seeking weapons of mass destruction as "baby talk".

BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Pay day finally comes for Afghans Even though it is one of Islam's most important holidays, the bank in Kabul has opened its doors to enable thousands of state employees to receive their salaries for the first time in months.

Oil Drips With Money for Alaska For pure self-interest, Alaska beats even Enron in trying to shape government policy. In the last year, the state spent $3.85 million in its Arctic refuge drilling campaign and appropriated another $1 million last week.

Yahoo! News - Bush Renews Campaign For Arctic Oil President Bush on Saturday renewed his campaign to open an Arctic refuge to oil exploration, contending that drilling is essential to national security and job creation.

Yahoo! News - Afghans May Seek Help in Warlord Feuds If rival warlords threaten Afghanistan (news - web sites)'s attempts at a stable future, interim leader Hamid Karzai said Saturday he won't hesitate to ask U.S. and other foreign troops to settle the feud.

Yahoo! News - CDC Tests: No Anthrax at Army Base An Army spokesman said Saturday that a suspicious package found at the U.S. Army Reserve Command headquarters building at Fort McPherson did not contain anthrax.

Israelis From Left and Right Criticize Sharon (washingtonpost.com) At the end of one of the bloodiest weeks in the 17-month-old Palestinian uprising, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon came under scathing attack today from hard-liners and doves alike.

Afghanistan's 'Last Chance to Choose' (washingtonpost.com) "Please send someone to gather all the guns from our village," the official, Nur Karkin, read at random from the pile of petitions. "Please select leaders who understand our suffering and have at least a ninth-grade education. . . . Please do not allow those whose hands are polluted with blood to participate."

Student says FBI tried to coerce him A federal judge has begun weighing claims that FBI agents threatened and abused a Jordanian student charged with lying to a grand jury about his association with two Sept. 11 hijackers.

Kandahar leader: U.S. may free ex-Taliban official Kandahar’s U.S.-allied governor told his people Friday he was working to obtain the release of the ex-Taliban foreign minister — the highest-ranking Taliban now in U.S. custody.

Joyous celebrations in Afghanistan In the rubble and mud of Kandahar, in the weary heart of a battered land, a laughing 10-year-old held up her hands Friday to show what the Eid al-Adha holiday means in the new Afghanistan: “Nail polish!”

CNN.com - Investigators vow relentless search for Pearl's killers - February 22, 2002 Pakistan's interior minister said Friday investigators "know the names" of the militants who abducted and killed American journalist Daniel Pearl and are taking "the strongest possible actions ... (to) bring them to swift justice."

CNN.com - Suspicious package sent to Army base - February 22, 2002A building on a U.S. Army base in Atlanta has been evacuated after the discovery of a suspicious package containing white powder, the Pentagon said Friday.

Thousands of Women Killed for Family "Honor" Hundreds, if not thousands, of women are murdered by their families each year in the name of family "honor." It's difficult to get precise numbers on the phenomenon of honor killing; the murders frequently go unreported, the perpetrators unpunished, and the concept of family honor justifies the act in the eyes of some societies.

BBC News | AMERICAS | Colombian troops move in Colombian special forces have flown into the main town in the rebel safe haven in the south of the country.

BBC News | AFRICA | State of emergency in Madagascar Madagascar's President Didier Ratsiraka has imposed a state of emergency after opposition leader Marc Ravalomanana declared himself president.

Yahoo! News - Musharraf Vows War on Terror After Pearl Killing President Pervez Musharraf vowed to leave no stone unturned in hunting the killers of kidnapped American reporter Daniel Pearl, and declared war on all terrorists in Pakistan.

New Scientist | Bioterrorism | The insider After months of bungled investigation, it now looks certain that America's anthrax attacks came from within. The implications are terrifying

Man Arrested in Terror Probe Indicted for Fraud (washingtonpost.com) An Alexandria man whose contacts with the Sept. 11 hijackers have been described by prosecutors as "extensive, suspicious and troubling" was indicted today on unrelated charges of identification document fraud.

Afghan Villagers Mistakenly Killed in Raid (washingtonpost.com) The 14 or more Afghans killed by U.S. Army forces in a Jan. 23 commando raid were neither al Qaeda terrorists nor their Taliban supporters as first believed, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Thursday.

The Village Voice: Nation: Press Clips: War Riddles by Cynthia Cotts Weary of the search for objectivity, Press Clips kicks around 10 questions to which journalists either cannot or will not deliver straight answers.

ABCNEWS.com : Italy Rows Back on Bio-Terrorism Threat Italian officials squashed fears on Wednesday that Rome had been threatened by a bio-terrorist attack, saying a cyanide compound found in the possession of four Moroccans could not have poisoned the city's water supply.

BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | India's gender 'holocaust' warning Girls are viewed as a burden in this community of farmers, where in the past some families would ask village midwives to kill a newborn baby if it turned out to be a female.

BBC News | EUROPE | 'Cyanide attack' foiled in Italy Italian police say they have arrested four Moroccans who were planning a chemical attack in Rome, targeting buildings which included the United States embassy.

BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Palestinian militants 'change tactics' There appears to have been a significant shift in the tactics employed by Palestinian militants against Israel.

Yahoo! News - Colombian Gov't Launches Airstrikes The government launched airstrikes and ordered 13,000 troops to advance on a main rebel stronghold Thursday as Colombia's 38-year-old civil war entered a potentially new and bloodier phase with the collapse of peace talks.

Yahoo! News - Arafat Repeats Call to End Violence Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat repeated a call to halt violence Thursday, and his security forces arrested three suspects in the assassination of an Israeli Cabinet minister, one of Israel's conditions for releasing Arafat from a two-month siege.

Yahoo! News - Officials: WSJ Reporter Is Dead Daniel Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was taken hostage a month ago by Islamic extremists in Pakistan, is dead, the State Deparmtent said Thursday.