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...list of states sponsoring terrorism. Libya has consistently denied involvement in the bombing, even after Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, a former member of the Libyan security organization, was found guilty in 2001. DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO Killing Fields Aid workers in Kisangani reported that Rwandan-backed rebels in eastern Congo have carried out mass executions in revenge for an uprising two weeks before. The bodies of at least 170 people have been found in mass graves. The rebels accused of the killings, the Congolese Rally for Democracy, deny the allegations, saying that only 39 people died after mutineers staged...
...company denies it knowingly delivered tainted feed. Government investigators, however, have alleged that the company knew of the problem as early as March 19 and continued to deliver contaminated products until May 10. Agriculture officials speculated that the wheat used in the animal feed may have come from Eastern Europe, where use of Nitrofen is still permitted as a weed killer. But officials said the concentration of Nitrofen in the feed was too high to have been used as a weed treatment while the wheat was growing. It may have been added during storage, possibly by an outsider. "Sabotage cannot...
...later decided to donate the proceeds to the Red Crescent, the Middle Eastern equivalent of the Red Cross. Yasin has consistently defended HLF, saying that while working with children in refugee camps in Albania three years ago he witnessed the group’s “professionalism, compassion and dedication to helping people in dire need...
...that the agency's leadership is involved in "a delicate and subtle shading/skewing of facts?." and is making "a rush to judgment to protect the FBI at all costs." She also charged that critical information from the Phoenix bureau, raising a red flag about a suspicious influx of Middle Eastern men at flight instruction schools, and speculating about possible terror attacks, was ignored at the highest levels of government...
...later before the civilian press. Vajpayee ordered thousands more jawans, or soldiers, to the 3,000-kilometer-long border with Pakistan and moved five warships to the Arabian Sea. Pakistan responded by pulling 4,000 men out of peacekeeping duties in Sierra Leone and stationing them along its eastern frontier. It is considering withdrawing thousands more of its soldiers from the coalition hunt for al-Qaeda fugitives on the Afghanistan border. On Saturday, it performed a provocative test of a medium-range Ghauri missile. With mutual nuclear annihilation as the ultimate escalation, the subcontinent once again regained its status...