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...Assembly of the World Health Organization (WHO) formally announced the eradication of the disease. Sixteen years later, the World Health Assembly recommended that the last smallpox stocks (thought to be held at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta and the Institute for Viral Preparations in Moscow or the Russian State Center for Research on Virology and Biotechnology, in Koltsovo) be destroyed. The original deadline was 1999, but was pushed back...
...situation is little better in Russia, where the low-grade war against civilians in Chechnya has continued for several years despite international opposition. Although it is indisputable that some Chechen separatists have resorted to attacks on civilians, the “cleansing” efforts of the Russian military and its refusal to cooperate with United Nations human rights observers have little to do with preventing terrorism. Now even mild condemnations of Russia’s human rights violations may be withheld in exchange for Russia’s partnership in the coalition against Osama bin Laden...
...warrior's life when the Soviet Union invaded the country in December 1979. In Omar's case, he left a seminary in Kandahar; his poverty-stricken parents had enrolled him there to become a cleric. Fellow mujahedin fighters remember him as a good marksman who disabled many Russian tanks with his RPG-7 rockets. He suffered several injuries in the war, including the loss of his right...
...Omar is a man of few words, but his word is law. Every matter, even if it is as petty as granting journalists permission to visit the Russian embassy compound in Kabul (where displaced Afghan families have been settled), is referred to Omar, who keeps cash in his office to pay needy Taliban fighters. He avoids public orations and is inarticulate while explaining his government policies. He has traveled just once outside of Afghanistan (to neighboring Pakistan for medical treatment) and has gone to Kabul, the country's capital, only once...
...arrested for entering the country illegally. The Taliban also offered the freedom of eight international aid workers, held since the beginning of August on charges of promoting Christianity, if the U.S. were to "stop issuing threats." RUSSIA Plane Mystery Prosecutors launched a criminal inquiry into the crash of a Russian passenger plane that plunged into the Black Sea, killing all 78 people on board. Israel closed its main airport amid fears that the downing of the Siberian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk was a terrorist act. U.S. officials said the Tupolev-154 may have been struck accidentally...