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...about it and Chocola needs some of those votes. Long Thompson slams him for once calling the privatization of Social Security a good idea. "It's way too risky," she says, "to put Social Security money in the stock market." Chocola claims that Long Thompson voted in Congress to "raid the Social Security trust fund." Looks like a hard race to cool down...
...apartment building in a run-down commercial neighborhood of Karachi called Phase II had been under surveillance as a possible al-Qaeda safe house for weeks, following leads from the CIA. But when a small troop of Pakistani intelligence operatives and commandos started their raid in the early hours of last Wednesday, they didn't expect fierce resistance. Nor, according to Pakistani intelligence sources, did they expect to net one of the biggest fish in the war against terrorism...
...Sept. 11 plot. Mohammed, too, appears in the al-Jazeera interviews, in which he describes himself as "the head of the al-Qaeda military committee" and characterizes Binalshibh as "the coordinator of the Holy Tuesday operation." U.S. intelligence sources say Mohammed was not among those detained in the Karachi raid...
...aren't entirely secure. In some relatively lawless tribal areas that border Afghanistan, terrorists can hide--though the Pakistani army claims to be hunting them down. But last week's arrests suggest that the teeming slums of Lahore and Karachi may no longer be safe; the night before the raid on Binalshibh's safe house, according to a Pakistani law-enforcement official, intelligence operatives picked up 15 men for questioning on terrorist activities in raids on two neighborhoods in eastern Karachi. A Western diplomat in Islamabad thinks it is now sufficiently dangerous for al-Qaeda members to move around Pakistan...
...that the A levels were getting too easy. Officials at 100 schools said their students received marks well below those of their overall work. FRANCE Bonnie and Clyde French police arrested a man and a woman alleged to be military leaders of ETA, the Basque separatist group, in a raid that Spain called a blow "against terrorism." Juan Antonio Olarra Guridi, 35, and Ainhoa Múgica Goñi, 32, were seized at a supermarket in the suburbs of Bordeaux after weeks of police surveillance. Spanish Interior Ministry officials said the couple were carrying arms in their...