Yahoo! News - Plane Hits Milan Skyscraper, Terror Ruled Out A small plane smashed into a Milan skyscraper Thursday, killing at least three people and injuring dozens in what Italian officials called an accident and not a repeat of the September 11 suicide attacks.

U.S. Concludes Bin Laden Escaped at Tora Bora Fight (washingtonpost.com) The Bush administration has concluded that Osama bin Laden was present during the battle for Tora Bora late last year and that failure to commit U.S. ground troops to hunt him was its gravest error in the war against al Qaeda, according to civilian and military officials with first-hand knowledge.

Yahoo! News - U.S. Bombing Accidentally Kill Canadian Soldiers Four Canadian soldiers were killed and eight wounded in Afghanistan on Wednesday when a U.S. F-16 warplane dropped one or two 500-pound bombs on them during a training exercise with U.S. forces, Canadian officials said.

Should History Record the Unvarnished Bush? (washingtonpost.com) At a speech in Bridgeport, Conn., President Bush declared that he wanted each American to volunteer for "4,000 years," a variation of his usual call for "4,000 hours" that produced guffaws in the audience.

Christian right steps in on Mideast | csmonitor.com A strong, new pro-Israeli voice muscles into the traditional Jewish-Arab political dynamic in Washington.

'They Forced Me to Hate' Residents of the Jenin refugee camp speak of the viciousness of the Israeli attack.

Yahoo! News - Israeli Forces Move Back Into W.Bank City Tulkarm Israeli armor rumbled back into Tulkarm early on Tuesday a week after pulling out of the West Bank city, in what Israeli military sources called a limited operation to arrest Palestinian militants.

Yahoo! News - Rumsfeld: Bin Laden Tape Clips Are Not New The most recent tape featuring Osama bin Laden that was aired by the Arabic-language television station al-Jazeera appears to be a compilation of old video clips of bin Laden, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said Monday.

Yahoo! News - Bin Laden Appears in New, Undated Video Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden was shown in an undated videotape excerpt aired on Monday, sitting silently alongside a top aide who praised the September 11 attacks on America as a "great victory."

The San Francisco Examiner - Imagining the unimaginable For the time being, the Bush administration's recently leaked Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) has vanished from the nation's front pages, replaced by the news of the moment. But Americans should be clear what the consequences will be if it ever becomes official policy, and what developing a new generation of nuclear weapons will mean for the fragile web of treaties that presently keep the unimaginable at bay.

DigitalIsrael.com - Treasury DG: economy on brink of crisis The State of Israel is on the verge of an economic crisis, Finance Ministry Director General Ohad Marani said today. He said that more than a NIS 10 billion cut in government spending was needed to offset the growing deficit inflated by surging defense costs.

A New Disconnect With Europe (washingtonpost.com) Europeans are accustomed to the insecurity of their geography and history. A decade after the Cold War ended, they feel more secure from the direct threat of war and annihilation than they have in centuries. At the same moment, Americans have had the security blanket of oceans and distance yanked away in particularly brutal fashion.

Yahoo! News - Powell Seeks to Put Out Fires in Lebanon, Syria After scant progress on the Israeli and Palestinian stops on his peace trip, Secretary of State Colin Powell heads to Lebanon Monday, where attacks on Israel by Hizbollah guerrillas have sparked fears of wider conflict.

Yahoo! News - Court: Israel Must Hand Over Bodies Israel's Supreme Court told the army Sunday that it must give the Palestinians the bodies of those killed in Jenin's refugee camp, a move that could help clear up the escalating dispute over how many Palestinians died in the fierce fighting.

Yahoo! News - Arafat: Israel Must Withdraw First Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat rebuffed Secretary of State Colin Powell's demand Sunday for a halt to violence, saying Israel first must withdraw its troops from the West Bank.