CNN.com - Arafat, Palestinian statement transcript - April 13, 2002 A partial translation of the statement issued Saturday by Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian leadership:

FOXNews.com - Saudi Telethon Raises Over $100 Million for Palestinians More than $100 million has been collected in a telethon that ended Saturday to raise money for the Palestinians and also allowed Saudis to vent their anger against Israel and the United States on state-owned television.

West Bank Atrocities | csmonitor.com The trip to Israel and the West Bank by Secretary of State Colin Powell should not be only for peace. It must also hold both sides to account for atrocities.

Yahoo! News - Israelis Storm Into More Villages Israeli troops charged into several more West Bank villages and arrested about 40 suspected militants Saturday, while Palestinian civilians picked through the rubble in towns hard-hit by Israel's ongoing incursion.

Yahoo! News - Powell, Arafat Talks on Again After U.S. Demand Met Secretary of State Colin Powell rescheduled a meeting with Yasser Arafat for Sunday in which he is expected to push for cease-fire as a first step toward reviving talks on a final peace settlement.

DallasNews.com | Dallas-Fort Worth | Killer of gas clerk gets death penalty A Dallas County jury handed the death penalty Thursday to a Dallas man who claimed that a series of shootings last fall that killed two immigrants and maimed another were retaliation for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

FOXNews.com Senior U.S. officials confirmed Thursday night that the Bush administration is monitoring negotiations intended to secure the release of two American missionaries who have been held hostage by Abu Sayyaf rebels in the Philippines for nearly a year.

BBC News | BUSINESS | Terror funds war 'only just beginning' The war against terrorist finance is only just hotting up, according to US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill.

Reuters | Breaking News from Around the Globe Most Americans believe the United States should halt or reduce economic and military aid to Israel if Prime Minister Ariel Sharon does not immediately withdraw troops from Palestinian areas, according to a Time Magazine/CNN poll released on Friday.

CNN.com - Army to conduct mock aerial chem-bio attack - April 12, 2002 The U.S. Army will drop hundreds of pounds of clay dust and egg whites off the Florida coast next week, part of a four-day mock aerial terrorist attack.

Democrat Implies Sept. 11 Administration Plot (washingtonpost.com) Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) is calling for an investigation into whether President Bush and other government officials had advance notice of terrorist attacks on Sept. 11 but did nothing to prevent them.

Ha'aretz - Peres calls IDF operation in Jenin a 'massacre' Foreign Minister Shimon Peres Peres is very worried about the expected international reaction as soon as the world learns the details of the tough battle in the Jenin refugee camps, where more than 100 Palestinians have already been killed in fighting with IDF forces. In private, Peres is referring to the battle as a "massacre."

Trails of Destruction, Tales of Loss (washingtonpost.com) Many refugees who had fled to town to escape the camp's dusty streets and cinder-block hovels where the bloodiest fighting unfolded said their homes had been pulverized. They described bodies lying in the streets.

Yahoo! News - Powell Calls Off Arafat Meeting Secretary of State Colin Powell called off his Saturday meeting with Yasser Arafat late Friday night after a new suicide bombing spread out before Powell's eyes the carnage he had come to Israel in hopes of ending.

Yahoo! News - Suicide Blast Kills 6 in Jerusalem A Palestinian woman blew herself up Friday in a crowded outdoor market in Jerusalem, killing six shoppers, wounding dozens and further complicating Secretary of State Colin Powell's difficult peace mission.

War criminals face new court | csmonitor.com The UN's vision for a standing international criminal court comes true today, despite US criticism.

Don't bother bombing Afghanistan | csmonitor.com On Sept.12, Tamim Ansary, an Afghan American who lives in the Bay Area, listened with dismay as men and women phoned in to a talk radio show, calling for the US to bomb his homeland "back to the Stone Age."

Child soldiers a growing concern on foreign battlefields From half a globe away, Peter Dak can see familiarity in the hollow eyes of the 14-year-old boy who used an AK-47 assault rifle to kill Fort Lewis Green Beret Sgt. Nathan Chapman, the first American soldier killed in combat in Afghanistan.

INS tightening rules for visitors The Immigration and Naturalization Service yesterday announced far-reaching changes to rules that govern foreign visitors and students, including one proposal that could limit millions of foreign visitors to 30-day stays in the United States.

Defiant Sharon Losing Support in White House (washingtonpost.com) Israel's continued defiance of President Bush's demand for an immediate withdrawal of Israeli forces from Palestinian cities and towns is eroding support for Prime Minister Ariel Sharon inside the White House, administration sources said yesterday.

Israel Rejects Demands to Withdraw Troops (washingtonpost.com) On the eve of Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's arrival in Jerusalem, a suicide bombing that killed eight Israelis and wounded 14 stiffened the Israeli government's resolve to continue its bloody military offensive in the West Bank in the face of mounting U.S. and other international criticism.

Wayne Madsen: Anthrax and the Agency Now that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has officially put the anthrax investigation on a back burner, it is time for Americans to think the unthinkable: that the FBI has never been keen to identify the perpetrator because that perpetrator may, in fact, be the U.S. Government itself.

Yahoo! News - Palestinian Suicide Bomber Kills 8 on Israeli Bus A Palestinian suicide bomber killed at least eight people when he blew himself up on a bus near the northern Israeli city of Haifa on Wednesday, Israeli police said.

TIME.com: Why Suicide Bombing Is Now All The Rage Among Palestinians, dying to kill has become a noble calling. Here's how the practice went from extreme to mainstream.

Wired 10.04: Peace Is War It's not that terror bombs make good weapons. It's that space-based communication and surveillance make other modes of attack obsolete.

Among the Bourgeoisophobes Why the Europeans and Arabs, each in their own way, hate America and Israel.

The Scotsman - Opinion - George Kerevan: Democracy is the key THE route to a possible solution in the Middle East may lie with the lessons of a rather stern and egotistical son of Scotland, in Asia a few years before Israel was founded in 1948: US General Douglas C McArthur.

Yahoo! News - Israeli Diplomat Grilled at U.N. Frustrated U.N. Security Council members grilled the Israeli ambassador Monday on why Israel had defied repeated demands for an end to increasingly deadly attacks on Palestinian cities.

Plugging a Very Porous Northern Border (washingtonpost.com) Since Sept. 11, More Agents, Technology Patrol Stretches of Long-Neglected 4,000-Mile Line.

Bomb explodes near Afghan minister A bomb exploded Monday near a convoy carrying Afghanistan’s defense minister, killing four bystanders and injuring 16 others.

How Two Lives Met In Death Special report: Suicide bombings have driven the conflict in the Mideast to new and dangerous levels. This is the story of two teens whose paths tragically intersected: an innocent Israeli and the Palestinian girl who became a walking weapon of terror.

Forbes.com: Saddam's Oil Fit It's not the first time that the Iraqi strongman has sought to use his huge oil reserves--the world's second-largest proven reserves, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)--for political leverage. But his gambit is a misguided attempt that will certainly backfire.

Yahoo! News - Iraq Suspends Oil Exports to Support Palestinians President Saddam Hussein of Iraq Monday announced an immediate month-long suspension of all Iraqi oil exports to protest Israel's incursion into Palestinian areas of the West Bank.

Yahoo! News - U.S. Calls Limited Israeli Pullout 'A Start' Hours after President Bush (news - web sites) issued a stern new call on Monday for Israel to withdraw swiftly from Palestinian areas, troops prepared to pull out of two West Bank towns in what the White House called "a start."

The New Republic Online: After Peace The Arab-Israeli conflict is over half a century old, and the struggle over the precious, punishing land between the river and the sea is over a century old, but what we are now witnessing, with perfectly appropriate horror, is the first Palestinian-Israeli war.