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...Geneva Convention on prisoners of war. Tensions emerged within the Northern Alliance, as diplomats scurried to arrange multiparty talks in Bonn aimed at securing enough political stability to begin the country's rehabilitation. Pakistan severed its last diplomatic ties with the Taliban , while the U.S. intensified the hunt for Osama bin Laden, placing thousands of troops on standby. The U.S. also deployed new high-tech sensors in surveillance planes and in scouting vehicles on the ground. DENMARK Shift to the Right Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen conceded defeat to a conservative coalition in a snap election from which...
...Prime Number $100 million is the estimated amount of cash and military aid that Osama bin Laden has given the Taliban since 1996, say U.S. intelligence reports...
...Corpse? Call in The DNA President GEORGE W. BUSH has said he wants Osama bin Laden dead or alive, but there's one problem with getting him dead: how to positively identify a tall, bearded corpse as the real evildoer. fbi lab experts stand ready to run dna tests on the remains. But they don't have a sample of dna known to have come from bin Laden. The solution? Officials say they will seek tissue samples from his immediate relatives, most of whom, including his mother, are living in Saudi Arabia. Matching what's known as mitochondrial...
...Certain things are super-resistant to change, among them racism, xenophobia, bigotry. Catastrophe, however, often shines a warm light on human behavior, brings out people's best. Consider this story that touches on the scary spiral from particular to generalization - as in Osama bin Laden is a Muslim, Osama bin Laden is evil, all Muslims are evil...
...against terror replaced the cold war as the new organizing principle for world politics? Or will it be back to business as usual for the international community once Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda network are defeated? On the face of it, a lot has changed since Sept. 11. For starters, the U.S., Russia, Pakistan, India and even China are all on the same side. And despite concerns about civilian casualties, most Muslim countries have supported?or at least not openly opposed?the U.S.-led military operations in Afghanistan. But this unity may be difficult to sustain...