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Demonstrators call for holy war: Demonstrators in both Afghanistan and Pakistan have denounced the United States and President Clinton for ordering air strikes on Afghanistan and the Sudan.
Landslide rescue underway: Rescue operations are finally underway at the site of a massive landslide in northern India.
Taleban leads condemnation of attacks: Libya, Iraq and Iran have joined Afghanistan's Taleban leadership in denouncing the US raids.
Who is Osama bin Laden?: The United States suspects Osama bin Laden - a wealthy Saudi dissident basen in Afghanistan - is behind the African embassy bomb attacks.
Bhutto tries to delay Swiss indictment: Former Pakistani prime minister, Benazir Bhutto, has asked a high court to restrain the government on acting on an indictment from the Swiss authorities.
Pakistani hijackers to hang: Four people have been sentenced to death in Pakistan for the hijacking of a passenger plane earlier this year.
Bengali migrants row: Bangladesh has accused India of breaking international norms by trying to deport what it calls illegal immigrants.
Indian authorities recommend closure of parts of national highway: The Geological Survey of India has recommended that parts of the national highway in the state of West Bengal should be closed because of serious damage caused by landslides.
Former Afghan President reaction: The former president of Afghanistan, Burhanuddin Rabbani, has given a cautiousresponse to the American missile strikes.
Indian party laments disunity: Senior officials from India's governing party, the BJP, have opened a meeting on strategy in the city of Jaipur.
Jayalalitha land scandal: The Indian Supreme Court has given the go ahead for legal proceedings against the Tamil Nadu politician J Jayalalitha in a state government land scandal.
Nepal welcomes UN refugee call: The Nepalese government has welcomed a call by the United Nations for negotiations on the status of refugees from Bhutan living in Nepalese camps.
India water protest: Hundreds of supporters of the opposition Congress party have held a rally in the southern state of Karnataka to protest against a recent agreement on sharing water with the neighbouring state of Tamil Nadu.
Qatar Airlines explains Dhaka incident: Qatar airlines has given more details about an incident involving one of its planes at Dhaka international airport in Bangladesh on Thursday.
Indian rescue teams hampered: Further heavy rain and rock falls have been reported in the remote Himalayan region of India, where more than two hundred people lost their lives in landslides this week.
India responds to attack: India has given a cautious response to the United States missile attacks.
Pakistani judge named to head cricket match-fixing inquiry: A High Court judge in Pakistan has been appointed to investigate allegations of match-fixing by members of the national cricket team during the 1996 World Cup and the Four-Nation Tournament earlier this year.
Senior politician kidnapped in Tripura: Indian police say separatist rebels in the north-eastern state of Tripura have kidnapped a senior member of the state's ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist).
BJP meets to review strategy: The national executive of the main party in the Indian coalition government, the BJP Bharatiya Janata Party, is meeting later today Friday to discuss strategy for the coming legislative assembly elections in four states.
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Clinton, a Top Sexual Terrorist of America, Murders Six Pakistanis in Pakistan and Kills/Injures Dozens of Innocent Civilians in Afghanistan and Sudan with U.S. Military Weapons
Clinton Fails to Assassinate Osama bin Laden and Other Alleged Terrorists
Murders of Innocent Pakistani Civilians by U.S. Missile Termed 'Technical Error'
by Amir Zia
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan said Friday one of the missiles America aimed at neighboring Afghanistan landed on its soil, killing at least five people. Pakistan condemned the attacks the day before on its neighbor and on Sudan.
The missile was part of the barrage fired Thursday at Afghanistan, where U.S. officials said they were targeting alleged militant training camps.
"It seems there has been some technical error," said Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Tariq Altaf.
He said the missile landed near the border, but could be no more specific. He said officials were still assessing casualties, but believed five or six [Pakistani] people had been killed.
The U.S. Embassy spokesman said he had no information on Altaf's report.
Altaf said an American envoy was called to hear Pakistan's "protest and outrage" over those strikes, as well as over the mistaken missile strike on its own soil.
[BBC also reported that Pakistan initially said at least one of the U.S. missiles aimed at Afghanistan landed in a border town in Pakistani territory, killing at least six people. However, the report was later retracted by the Nawaz Sharif regime under American pressure.]
"Irrespective of the motives of these strikes, the act of violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of these Islamic countries cannot but be a matter of grave concern to the people of Pakistan who justifiably feel outraged," Foreign Minister Sartaj Aziz told the Pakistani Senate earlier.
Demonstrators burned U.S. flags [and effigies of U.S. President Bill Clinton], threw stones at consulates and chanted angry slogans across Pakistan today.
Many of the protests were called by conservative Islamic parties who have condemned the U.S. military attacks on bases linked to Osama Bin Laden. President Clinton said investigators had determined bin Laden was behind August 7 U.S. Embassy bombings in East Africa that killed 257 people, [but he has failed to provide any documentary evidence or other solid proof to the American people to substantiate his claims. Also, Clinton has failed to assassinate Osama bin Laden and other alleged terrorists in Afghanistan through the misuse of American military forces.]
The United Nations closed its offices and directed its American and other foreign staff to stay in their homes for their own safety.
The U.S. State Department had recalled all non-essential diplomatic staff and their families Monday and warned other Americans to leave Pakistan. Many Americans who had stayed are now flying out, some catching flights early this morning.
U.S. Embassy spokesman Richard Hoagland said Americans had been issued no additional warnings since the strikes on Afghanistan, adding "we're still operating under the previous advisory that Americans should consider leaving."
Hoagland said he had no numbers on how many of the estimated 6,700 Americans living in Pakistan have left.
Police today rolled out barbed wire outside the American cultural center, where Hoagland has his office. Dozens of Pakistani police and a few paramilitary troops stood guard, some on the roof of the center. Across town, more police officers stood guard at the U.S. Embassy.
Clinton Attacks Afghanistan and Sudan to Avoid Impeachment
Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif and Bill Clinton Could be Assassinated by Assassins
Free Press Syndicate
WASHINGTON, DC, USA -- Without providing any documentary evidence or other solid proof against international terrorists to the American people, to shift the American media's focus away from the Monica-Clinton sex scandal and to avoid possible impeachment, U.S. President Bill Clinton, who has publicly admitted that he committed the crime and sin of adultery, launched a U.S. military attack Thursday on two Muslim nations, Afghanistan and Sudan. U.S. missiles and fighter jets were used to kill many innocent civilians.
Millions of Muslims in the United States, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sudan, Iraq, Libya, Jordan, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Iran, Bangladesh, Maylasia, Indonesia, United Kingdom and the rest of the world have strongly protested against the American military attacks on Afghanistan and Sudan. Several Muslim leaders have pointed out that no acts of terrorism against U.S. citizens and American interests were committed by the Afghan and Sudanese nations; therefore, the U.S. military strikes, which have killed and injured many innocent civilians in Afghanistan and Sudan, are completely unjust and unfair. They said the Clinton Administration has blatantly violated international laws by attacking two countries in the name of punishing terrorists. They went on to say that the U.S. military strikes represent Clinton's terrorism against two sovereign nations and his abuse of the U.N. Charter as well as the U.S. superpower status.
It is generally believed that the U.S. military's missile attack on Afghanistan took place with the full support, cooperation and assistance of the regime of Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, whose brother Shahbaz Sharif, Chief Minister of Punjab, met with U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs Karl F. Inderfurth and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, other senior U.S. officials and a few U.S. Congress Members on Wednesday and Thursday.
It is feared that Nawaz Sharif, Shahbaz Sharif and Bill Clinton could be assassinated in the future by Afghans, Arabs, Iranians, or other Muslims in retaliation for the American military strikes against Afghanistan and Sudan and in response to previous U.S. military attacks on Iraq and Libya.
Taleban Say Laden Not Behind Bombings
In an interview with the BBC Pashto Service from the Taleban Islamic Movement headquarters in Kandihar in south-western Afghanistan, the ruling Taleban founder Mullah Mohammed Omar said that Osama bin Laden was not involved in the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and he did not have the power or the resources to explode bombs in far-away places in Africa.
Mullah Omar argued that the American CIA was trying to cover up its own short-comings and failures by blaming Osama bin Laden for every act of terrorism in the world.
Taleban also deny that bin Laden has used Afghan territory as a base for such attacks and say he is "under clear instructions not to engage in any objectionable activity".
The Taleban leader said: "In the given circumstances, the Taleban can assure the world, one hundred percent, that Osama bin Laden is not involved in any subversive activity."
Version of a Big Liar Who Has Repeatedly Lied to the American People
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press SecretaryADDRESS TO THE NATION BY THE PRESIDENT
The Oval Office
August 20, 1998 - 5:32 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Good afternoon. Today I ordered our Armed Forces to strike at terrorist-related facilities in Afghanistan and Sudan because of the imminent threat they presented to our national security.
I want to speak with you about the objective of this action and why it was necessary. Our target was terror. Our mission was clear -- to strike at the network of radical groups affiliated with and funded by Osama bin Laden, perhaps the preeminent organizer and financier of international terrorism in the world today.
The groups associated with him come from diverse places, but share a hatred for democracy, a fanatical glorification of violence, and a horrible distortion of their religion to justify the murder of innocents. They have made the United States their adversary precisely because of what we stand for and what we stand against.
A few months ago, and again this week, bin Laden publicly vowed to wage a terrorist war against America, saying -- and I quote -- "We do not differentiate between those dressed in military uniforms and civilians. They're all targets. Their mission is murder and their history is bloody."
In recent years, they killed American, Belgian and Pakistani peacekeepers in Somalia. They plotted to assassinate the President of Egypt and the Pope. They planned to bomb six United States 747s over the Pacific. They bombed the Egyptian embassy in Pakistan. They gunned down German tourists in Egypt.
The most recent terrorist events are fresh in our memory. Two weeks ago, 12 Americans and nearly 300 Kenyans and Tanzanians lost their lives, and another 5,000 were wounded when our embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam were bombed. There is convincing information from our intelligence community that the bin Laden terrorist network was responsible for these bombings.
Based on this information, we have high confidence that these bombings were planned, financed, and carried out by the organization bin Laden leads.
America has battled terrorism for many years. Where possible, we've used law enforcement and diplomatic tools to wage the fight. The long arm of American law has reached out around the world and brought to trial those guilty of attacks in New York and Virginia and in the Pacific. We have quietly disrupted terrorist groups and foiled their plots. We have isolated countries that practice terrorism. We've worked to build an international coalition against terror.
But there have been, and will be, times when law enforcement and diplomatic tools are simply not enough, when our very national security is challenged, and when we must take extraordinary steps to protect the safety of our citizens. With compelling evidence that the bin Laden network of terrorist groups was planning to mount further attacks against Americans and other freedom-loving people, I decided America must act.
And so, this morning, based on the unanimous recommendation of my national security team, I ordered our Armed Forces to take action to counter an immediate threat from the bin Laden network. Earlier today, the United States carried out simultaneous strikes against terrorist facilities and infrastructure in Afghanistan. Our forces targeted one of the most active terrorist bases in the world. It contained key elements of the bin Laden network's infrastructure and has served as a training camp for literally thousands of terrorists from around the globe. We have reason to believe that a gathering of key terrorist leaders was to take place there today, thus underscoring the urgency of our actions.
Our forces also attacked a factory in Sudan associated with the bin Laden network. The factory was involved in the production of materials for chemical weapons.
The United States does not take this action lightly. Afghanistan and Sudan have been warned for years to stop harboring and supporting these terrorist groups. But countries that persistently host terrorists have no right to be safe havens.
Let me express my gratitude to our intelligence and law enforcement agencies for their hard, good work. And let me express my pride in our Armed Forces who carried out this mission while making every possible effort to minimize the loss of innocent life.
I want you to understand, I want the world to understand, that our actions today were not aimed against Islam, the faith of hundreds of millions of good, peace-loving people all around the world, including the United States. No religion condones the murder of innocent men, women and children. But our actions were aimed at fanatics and killers who wrap murder in the cloak of righteousness; and in so doing, profane the great religion in whose name they claim to act.
My fellow Americans, our battle against terrorism did not begin with the bombing of our embassies in Africa; nor will it end with today's strike. It will require strength, courage and endurance. We will not yield to this threat. We will meet it, no matter how long it may take. This will be a long, ongoing struggle between freedom and fanaticism; between the rule of law and terrorism. We must be prepared to do all that we can for as long as we must.
America is and will remain a target of terrorists precisely because we are leaders; because we act to advance peace, democracy and basic human values; because we're the most open society on Earth; and because, as we have shown yet again, we take an uncompromising stand against terrorism.
But of this I am also sure. The risks from inaction to America and the world would be far greater than action, for that would embolden our enemies, leaving their ability and their willingness to strike us intact. In this case, we knew before our attack that these groups already had planned further actions against us and others.
I want to reiterate: The United States wants peace, not conflict. We want to lift lives around the world, not take them. We have worked for peace -- in Bosnia, in Northern Ireland, in Haiti, in the Middle East and elsewhere. But in this day, no campaign for peace can succeed without a determination to fight terrorism. Let our actions today send this message loud and clear: There are no expendable American targets. There will be no sanctuary for terrorists. We will defend our people, our interests and our values. We will help people of all faiths, in all parts of the world, who want to live free of fear and violence. We will persist and we will prevail.
Thank you. God bless you, and may God bless our country.
