Does bin Laden matter anymore? | csmonitor.com In the Pentagon corridors, the 'evil-doer' is no longer the focus - even if most Americans think he's supposed to be.

BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Israeli raids take heavy toll At least five Palestinians were killed on Friday as Israeli troops pressed ahead for a second day with an offensive against a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank town of Jenin.

BBC News | UK | Harmful packages sent to MPs A number of packages containing a caustic substance have been sent through the post to UK government ministers and MPs.

Hundreds dead in India violence Chaos spread through the western Indian city of Ahmadabad on Friday, and the death toll over three days of Hindu-Muslim violence climbed to around 300, despite patrols by hundreds of soldiers and orders for police to shoot rioters and arsonists on sight.

Yahoo! News - U.S. Relents Over Guantanamo Prison Turbans A hunger strike by nearly 200 al Qaeda and Taliban prisoners at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, lost momentum on Friday after U.S. military officials ended a ban against wearing turbans that sparked the protest.

Yahoo! News - Bush Activates Cold War-Era Plan for U.S. Government After the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush set in motion a Cold War-era plan to keep the government running, sending civilian officials to live and work in secret bunkers outside Washington, administration officials said on Friday.

Yahoo! News - 'Suspicious' Air India Passenger Released, FBI Says A case of mistaken identity sparked an international air furor that raised the specter of Sept. 11 on Thursday as Canadian and U.S. jet fighters accompanied an Air India flight into New York believed to be carrying a suspicious passenger.

Daschle says war going off-track Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle criticized the U.S. military campaign Thursday for an “expansion without at least a clear direction,” saying the war on terrorism would be a failure if Osama bin Laden and other terrorist leaders were not captured. Republicans accused Daschle of trying to divide the country during wartime.

Guantanamo inmates start hunger strike More than 100 of the terror suspects being held by the US at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have launched a hunger strike.

Indian army sent in to quell riots Indian army units have been sent into Gujarat's biggest city to try to stem clashes between Hindus and Muslims which left more than 40 people dead on Thursday.

Yahoo! News - Hindu Riots in India Kill 38 Muslims Angry Hindus set fire to homes in a Muslim neighborhood Thursday and then kept firefighters away for hours, dragging out one former lawmaker and burning him alive. At least 58 people died in revenge attacks triggered by a Muslim assault on a train.

Yahoo! News - Jet Carrying 'Suspicious' Man Lands Canadian fighters shadowed a New York-bound Air India jetliner over the Atlantic Ocean on Thursday after authorities determined that a suspicious passenger was aboard, U.S. government officials said.

Yahoo! News - Palestinian Death Toll Passes 1,000 The Israeli military attacked two West Bank refugee camps with helicopter gunships, tanks and paratroopers Thursday in a high-stakes attempt to break strongholds of Palestinian militants. An Israeli soldier and 11 Palestinians were killed — pushing the Palestinian toll past 1,000 in 17 months of fighting.

Yahoo! News - Polls: Islamic Nations Resent U.S. Residents of Islamic countries harbor deep resentment toward the United States and believe the military action in Afghanistan is not morally justified, Gallup polls conducted in nine countries find.

Yahoo! News - Men Charged With Aiding Hijackers Two men have been charged with participating in a fake identification ring that supplied documents to some of the Sept. 11 hijackers, court documents show.

Yahoo! News - Russia Worried About U.S. in Georgia With U.S. military advisers already in Georgia — and with the prospect of hundreds more American troops being sent to Russia's doorstep — Georgian and U.S. officials denied Wednesday that American soldiers would go into combat against terrorism in the small Caucasus nation.

Yahoo! News - US Wants DNA From bin Laden's Family The U.S. government is seeking samples of DNA from Osama bin Laden's family to determine if human remains found in Afghanistan belong to the terrorist leader, government sources said Wednesday.

Doomsday Clock Chicago, February 27, 2002: Today, the Board of Directors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moves the minute hand of the “Doomsday Clock,” the symbol of nuclear danger, from nine to seven minutes to midnight, the same setting at which the clock debuted 55 years ago. Since the end of the Cold War in 1991, this is the third time the hand has moved forward.

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Leader: A US president writes (Not, unfortunately, the current one) This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.

Yahoo! News - Rumsfeld: Pentagon Closing Office The Pentagon will close a new office that reportedly has proposed spreading false information abroad, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday.

Yahoo! News - E.U.: Sharon Willing to Meet Saudis Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told an EU envoy Tuesday he was willing to meet Saudi officials, publicly or behind the scenes, to explore their proposals for an overall Mideast peace, the European diplomat said.

U.S. Analysts Find No Sign bin Laden Had Nuclear Arms — An analysis of suspected radioactive substances seized in Afghanistan has found nothing to prove that Osama bin Laden reached his decade-long goal of acquiring nuclear materials for a bomb, administration officials say.

U.S. drops pledge on nukes -- The Washington Times The Bush administration is no longer standing by a 24-year-old U.S. pledge not to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states, a senior administration official said yesterday.

Yahoo! News - Israel Eyes Land-For-Peace Plan Israel said Monday it is exploring with interest a tentative Saudi proposal that calls for an Israeli pullout from virtually all the territories it occupied in the 1967 Middle East war in return for comprehensive peace.

CNN.com - Karzai in 'silence the guns' call - February 25, 2002 Afghanistan's interim leader has called for Iranian cooperation in creating peace and stability in the region.

Yahoo! News - U.S. Considers Indictments in Pearl Case The Bush administration is strongly considering bringing criminal charges in the kidnapping and murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl, U.S. law enforcement officials said on Monday.

Yahoo! News - FBI Not Close to Identifying Anthrax Probe Suspect Despite a vigorous investigation into the mailing of anthrax-laced letters that killed five people in the United States last year, the FBI was not close to identifying a suspect, the White House said on Monday.

Yahoo! News - Hole Under U.S. Embassy Fuels Terror Probe Italian police have discovered a hole recently carved into an underground passageway next to the U.S. embassy and suspect terrorists were planning to plant a chemical bomb there, a judicial source said on Sunday.

U.S. Debating Wider Assault on Colombia Rebels Alarmed by signs of weapons traffic between Colombian rebels and the Middle East, the Bush administration is weighing a proposal to declare the destruction of leftist guerrillas in the South American country an explicit goal of U.S. policy.

Yahoo! News - Israel to Ease Arafat Siege Israel decided Sunday to draw tanks back from Yasser Arafat's compound but continue restricting him to the West Bank city of Ramallah — a halfway measure that led angry Palestinians to cancel planned cease-fire talks with Israeli security officials.

Yahoo! News - Rockets Fired at U.S. Airbase in Afghanistan Attackers fired rockets toward the U.S. military base at Kandahar airport on Sunday but missed their target and fled in two vehicles as Afghan soldiers gave chase, officials at the base said.