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Hoosiers close to threats

By Justin Allen · Thursday, Oct. 18,2001 1:42 a.m.

Since the closing of the House side of the Capitol Wednesday, a dark cloud has descended upon the mood in Washington, D.C. A city where Americans are trying to mend from Sept. 11 is now consumed with the ever-present threat of more terror. Tension, stress, and apprehension of "what's next?" are governing factors in everyday moods and thoughts. Newly erected chain-link fencing surrounds the Capitol now. It is a necessary precaution, but nonetheless has dealt a definitive blow to the mood and moral of Washingtonians, Hoosiers and Americans alike.

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Bush aims to build coalition on China trip

By Ron Fournier · Wednesday, Oct. 17,2001 11:54 p.m.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- President George W. Bush headed to a summit in China to strengthen the coalition behind his war on terrorism Wednesday and said the United States was "supported by the conscience of the world." "We are not alone in this struggle," said Bush, preparing to join world leaders at a 21-nation economic conference in Shanghai. There, Bush will hold talks with Chinese President Jiang Zemin and Russian President Vladimir Putin, as well as Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and South Korean President Kim Dae-jung.

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Government warns anthrax hoaxes are not a joke

By Alyson Brodsy and Karen Gullo · Wednesday, Oct. 17,2001 1:33 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Declaring the threat of bioterrorism is no joking matter, Attorney General John Ashcroft said Tuesday those who fake anthrax or other terrorist scares will face federal prosecution. He announced the indictment of one such man in Connecticut. False threats of anthrax attacks are "grotesque transgressions of the public trust," Ashcroft said at a news conference.

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Ridge: Country is getting safer

By Alyson Brodsy and Ron Fournier · Wednesday, Oct. 17,2001 1:31 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- There is no guarantee against more terrorist strikes, but America is secure and getting safer, Tom Ridge, the nation's first director of homeland security, said Tuesday. "The greatest fear is the fear of the unknown," he said. "That's why kids are scared of the dark. They don't know what's out there," the former Pennsylvania governor said in his first interview as President Bush's anti-terrorism chief. Ridge spoke from his cramped West Wing quarters 10 paces from the Oval Office, proximity and access the wellspring of his authority.

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Powell, Pakistan foreign minister discuss post-Taliban Afghanistan

By Alyson Brodsy and George Gedda · Wednesday, Oct. 17,2001 12:21 a.m.

Secretary of State Colin Powell and Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf agreed Tuesday that moderate officials from Afghanistan's radical Taliban regime should be allowed to serve in a post-Taliban government. Powell, who is on a three-nation Asia tour, said Taliban officials who signal a willingness to serve in a broad-based successor government should not be automatically excluded.

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Pipe bomb dropped from stolen plane

Tuesday, Oct. 16,2001 1:02 a.m.

PRESTON, Idaho -- A man stole a single-engine plane, flew it low enough to snap several power lines and dropped a homemade pipe bomb that did not explode, police said Monday.

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Anthrax spores found on 3 more in NYC

By Alyson Brodsy · Monday, Oct. 15,2001 1:05 a.m.

NEW YORK -- A police officer and two lab technicians involved in detecting the case of anthrax in an NBC employee are being treated with antibiotics for exposure to the bacteria, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani said Sunday.

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Pakistanis protest U.S. campaign

By Alyson Brodsy and Munir Ahmad · Monday, Oct. 15,2001 1:01 a.m.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Thousands of Islamic militants converged on a southern Pakistani town Sunday, fighting pitched battles with police and paramilitary troops as they surged toward an air base that U.S. personnel are reportedly using.

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Bush says al Qaeda on the run

By Ron Fournier · Friday, Oct. 12,2001 1:45 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- President Bush said Thursday night "it may take a year or two" to track down Osama bin Laden and his terrorist network in Afghanistan, but asserted that after a five-day aerial bombardment, "we've got them on the run." At a prime-time news conference at the White House, Bush said he did not know whether bin Laden was dead or alive. "I want him brought to justice," he said of the shadowy figure believed behind the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington that killed 5,000 people one month ago.

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Afghan opposition awaits orders

By Dan Pathan · Thursday, Oct. 11,2001 11:32 p.m.

MAHMUD-E-RAQI, Afghanistan -- Afghan opposition commanders are waiting for the order to move on the capital, but exiled Afghan leaders and a Pakistani official say the northern alliance has agreed not to seize Kabul until major factions can establish a government to replace the ruling Taliban. The agreement was reached during a meeting between the exiled Afghan King Mohammad Zaher Shah and northern alliance leaders in Rome, said an aide to the monarch.

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Canadian anthrax threat low

Thursday, Oct. 11,2001 2:31 a.m.

OTTAWA -- Health Minister Allan Rock said Tuesday that Canadians shouldn't fear the "remote" possibility of an outbreak of anthrax disease. A man died in Florida last Friday after inhaling the bacterium, a rare way of contracting the disease. Concerns were heightened after anthrax was found in the nostrils of a second man who is a co-worker.

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U.S. continues bombing runs

By Alyson Brodsy and Ron Fournier · Wednesday, Oct. 10,2001 12:39 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- The United States hit Afghanistan with a third day of air strikes, crushing Taliban air defenses, radars and airports to the extent that American warplanes can fly unchallenged night and day, the Pentagon said Tuesday. "The skies are now free," President George W. Bush said.

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Fighter pilots running out of targets

By Susan Sevareid · Wednesday, Oct. 10,2001 12:22 a.m.

U.S. fighter pilots bombing Afghanistan are running out of targets, often returning to their carrier on the Arabian Sea with unused live bombs, the captain of the USS Enterprise said Tuesday.

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Armed man sprays substance in subway

By Laurie Kellman · Wednesday, Oct. 10,2001 12:20 a.m.

An armed man sprayed a substance into a subway station Tuesday during a scuffle with police, leaving some 35 passengers and transit workers suffering from nausea, headaches and sore throats. Authorities took the man into custody and said it did not appear to be a terrorist act.

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Palestinian government reacts to anti-U.S. protests

By Ibrahim Barzak · Wednesday, Oct. 10,2001 12:17 a.m.

Embarrassed by anti-U.S. protests, Yasser Arafat's government took two unprecedented steps Tuesday: it closed Gaza City's universities to silence Islamic militants and barred foreign reporters from the Gaza Strip to prevent coverage of the events.

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Civilians weep for Kabul dead

By Kathy Gannon · Wednesday, Oct. 10,2001 12:03 a.m.

In the rubble of what had been an unassuming two-story building on Kabul's outskirts, Mohammed Afzl wept Tuesday for his brother, one of the first four confirmed civilian casualties of the U.S.-led air war against the Taliban and Osama bin Laden.

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U.S. explains attacks as 'self-defense' to U.N.

By Edith M. Lederer · Tuesday, Oct. 9,2001 1:31 a.m.

UNITED NATIONS -- The United States told the U.N. Security Council on Monday that it exercised its right to self-defense under the U.N. Charter in attacking targets in Afghanistan and said it may have to attack other countries to root out terrorism.

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