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Bush concerned for terror strike

By Alyson Brodsy and Ron Fournier · Tuesday, Oct. 15,2002 12:20 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Monday there is "a pattern of attack" by terrorists in Kuwait, Indonesia and Yemen, raising concerns that Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network is on the move again and could strike the United States.

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Tourists quick to leave Indonesia as bombings increase

By Aida Sultanova and Irwan Firdaus · Monday, Oct. 14,2002 2:07 a.m.

BALI, Indonesia -- Terrified tourists tried Sunday to flee this island paradise that turned into an inferno, with the death toll from a pair of bombings climbing to 187 and fears growing that al Qaeda has taken its terror campaign to the world's largest Muslim country. Many of those killed by the two bombs that tore through a nightclub district on Bali island Saturday were Australians as well as other foreigners from Canada, Britain, Germany and Sweden. Three Americans were among the more than 300 people injured. No one claimed responsibility for the bombings - the worst terrorist attack in Indonesia's history - but suspicion turned to al Qaeda and an affiliated group, Jemaah Islamiyah, which wants to establish a pan-Islamic state across Malaysia, Indonesia and the southern Philippines. It is accused of plotting to blow up the U.S. and other embassies in Singapore.

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Explosion disrupts Finland town

By Aida Sultanova and Matti Huuhtanen · Monday, Oct. 14,2002 12:26 a.m.

VANTAA, Finland -- Police searched for a motive Saturday behind a blast in a quiet suburban Helsinki shopping mall that killed seven people, including the suspected bomber, injured 80 others and shocked this normally peaceful nation. "Nothing like this has happened in Finland before," Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen said of Friday's bombing at a crowded mall in Vantaa, about 10 miles north of the capital, Helsinki. Police said the male suspect, a Finnish chemistry student with no criminal record, was killed in the blast, but did not say why they thought he set off the bomb, which was packed with shotgun pellets. Police said they had no evidence to indicate it was an organized terrorist attack. Lipponen said he believed it was an isolated incident with no connections to terrorism. "We have no motive," said Chief Superintendent Tero Haapala of the National Bureau of Investigation, who headed the investigation. "Some sort of professional knowledge was necessary" to construct the device," Haapala said. "There were several kilograms (pounds) of the explosives."

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Iraqi elections set for Tuesday

By Alyson Brodsy and Ellen Knickmeyer · Monday, Oct. 14,2002 12:25 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- The victory rallies are set and the tributes are ready. In an Iraqi yes-or-no vote on re-electing Saddam Hussein, the only cliffhanger in Tuesday's vote is whether the two-decade Iraqi leader will beat his last showing: 99.96 percent. In Iraq, where many believe war with the United States is coming, that 1995 result for Saddam is now seen as somewhat tepid. "This time, 100 percent!" worker Mayad Aiwan cried Sunday. "Because the Iraqi people love our leader!" But as the ballot on which only Saddam's name appears suggests, it's not as if Saddam's people have much choice.

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Search for sniper persists

By Alyson Brodsy and David Dishneau · Monday, Oct. 14,2002 12:22 a.m.

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Investigators hunting an increasingly brazen sniper defended their meager release of information, saying Sunday they don't want the killer to know what they know. Authorities pointed to the dangerous balance between pleading for public help and revealing too much. "We don't want to release anything that may cause ... anyone to think they're a suspect," said Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent Mike Bouchard. Montgomery County police Chief Charles Moose, meanwhile, has cut back on his news briefings while saying he wishes there was more he could reveal. "I wish we could give you a name, a mug shot and an address but we're not at that point," he said in one of four appearances he made Sunday on national TV talk shows.

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Suicide bomber kills Tel Aviv woman

By Alyson Brodsy · Friday, Oct. 11,2002 12:44 a.m.

TEL AVIV, Israel -- An Israeli bus driver and a doctor pinned a Palestinian suicide bomber to the ground Thursday after spotting his bomb belt, then fled with other bystanders before the man detonated the explosives. The assailant and an elderly woman were killed, and four people were injured.

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Virginia man killed in another sniper attack

By Abdullah AlShihri · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 6:57 p.m.

BALTIMORE -- A man was shot and killed while pumping gas at a suburban Virginia gas station Wednesday night, and police were investigating to determine whether the sniper that has terrorized the Washington area had struck again. Virginia State Police said two males were seen driving away in a white vehicle after the shooting at the station in Prince William County, near Manassas, 25 miles west of the nation's capital.

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Panel discusses Afghan war

By Sheeba Madan · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 12:56 p.m.

The destruction of war is sometimes justified by the reconstruction that comes afterward. The war on terror ran the Taliban out of Afghanistan; it also killed innocent civilians. A panel discussion held Tuesday discussed the impact of the war on terrorism against Afghanistan and the current political scenario.

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Hoosiers help rebuild Afghan schools

By Adam Van Osdol and Adam VanOsdol · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 2:57 a.m.

In the remotest provinces of Afghanistan, universities have only names. The classrooms, dormitories and libraries lie mostly in rubble. Afghan Minister of Education Sharif Fayez says the 20 Afghan universities are in a "crisis."

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Al Qaeda tape genuine

By Abdullah AlShihri and Audrey Woods · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 12:57 a.m.

LONDON - A voice recording of Ayman al-Zawahri, al Qaeda's fugitive second in command, appears to be genuine and to have been recorded in the last few weeks, a U.S. official said Wednesday. In the statement, he threatens new attacks on the United States and its economy. Al-Zawahri probably recorded the statement in the last few weeks, but it could have been made as early as August, the official said, adding that the recording was still being analyzed.

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New evidence in sniper shootings

By Abdullah AlShihri and David Dishneau · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 12:56 a.m.

ROCKVILLE, Md. -- A tarot card with the words, "Dear policeman, I am God" was found near a bullet casing outside the school where a 13-year-old boy was critically wounded, a person familiar with the investigation said Wednesday. The shell casing was .223-caliber, the same caliber investigators believe was used to kill six people in the Washington area and wound another, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent Michael Bouchard said Wednesday.

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U.S. Marine killed by gunmen

By Abdullah AlShihri and Diana Elias · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 12:48 a.m.

KUWAIT -- U.S. officials said Wednesday they were investigating whether al Qaeda had any links to two gunmen who killed a U.S. Marine and wounded a second in Kuwait. Friends and relatives said the attackers had been to Afghanistan and sought to "walk in the footsteps of Osama bin Laden." Kuwait called the shooting a "terrorist act" and detained more than 30 people in a search for the accomplices of the gunmen, who were shot dead by U.S. troops after the attack.

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Judge orders West Coast ports reopened

By Abdullah AlShihri and Justin Pritchard · Thursday, Oct. 10,2002 12:43 a.m.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Faced with a judge's order to reopen West Coast ports, longshoremen and shipping companies now confront the mammoth task of heaving billions of dollars worth of idle cargo -- from auto parts to bananas -- back into the nation's economy. Signs suggest the transition back to work won't be smooth.

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Nigerian awaits death squad

By Scott Shoger · Wednesday, Oct. 9,2002 12:49 a.m.

For birthing a child out of wedlock, the young woman awaits her punishment. After a proper period for weaning, she shall be buried up to her neck in sand and then stoned to death, her skull crushed beneath a hailstorm of rocks and bricks. A tribal court says the punishment is proper and just, as the accused partner flees with nary a scratch.

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Bush draws line on Iraq

By Alyson Brodsy and Ron Fournier · Tuesday, Oct. 8,2002 2:50 a.m.

President Bush, seeking support for war against Iraq, called Saddam Hussein a "murderous tyrant" Monday night and said he may be plotting to attack the United States with biological and chemical weapons. Saddam and his "nuclear holy warriors" are also building a nuclear weapons program and could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year, Bush said in prime-time address.

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Child hit in school shooting

By Derrill Holly · Tuesday, Oct. 8,2002 1:20 a.m.

BOWIE, Md. -- A 13-year-old boy was shot and critically wounded as his aunt dropped him off at school Monday, bringing fresh terror to the Washington area where a sniper killed six people last week. Anxious parents streamed in to retrieve their children from the school, and police in neighboring Montgomery County hunting for the serial sniper rushed to the scene. Officials stressed that no link to the Montgomery shootings had been established. "Whether they're connected or not, the fear has ratcheted up quite a bit," Montgomery County Executive Doug Duncan said.

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