Fwd: The world this week: Politics 8th - 14th September 2001

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British perspective on World News.
They also have a weekly newsletter like this - Business perspective.

Check out their briefings by country.
Unfortunately Afganistan not there, so I looking at Pankstan, Iran, neighbors.
This culture is pretty alien compared to what it was in the Gulf War.

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)


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Subject: The world this week: Politics 8th - 14th September 2001
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 16:35:35 EDT
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ATTACK ON AMERICA

AMERICA suffered the worst terrorist attack ever. Suicide hijackers
crashed two fuel-laden passenger jets into the towers of the World
Trade Centre in New York, both of which caught fire and collapsed,
killing office workers and rescue workers alike. The entire southern
end of Manhattan was evacuated.

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Another hijacked aircraft was flown into the PENTAGON in Washington,
DC, and a fourth plane crashed near Pittsburgh. The total death toll
was estimated to run into thousands.

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AIRPORTS, BORDERS AND STOCKMARKETS IN AMERICA were closed, and flights
to, from and within America were grounded. Politicians around the world
condemned the attacks and promised help in finding the terrorists.
President George Bush promised to hunt down the perpetrators of what he
called "an act of war" and put America's armed forces on high alert.

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No terrorist groups claimed responsibility for the attacks but
suspicion immediately fell on OSAMA BIN LADEN, a Saudi dissident and
already the most wanted man in America, at present thought to be in
Afghanistan.

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CLAMPDOWN

Israeli tanks destroyed the security headquarters in the
Palestinian-controlled city of Jenin. ISRAEL claimed that the city was
a "terrorist nest" and launch-pad for several recent attacks by
Palestinian suicide bombers.

American and British aircraft attacked three surface-to-air missile
sites in the southern "no-fly" zone of IRAQ. The attack was part of a
plan to disable Saddam Hussein's air defences.

SYRIA arrested five leading opposition members and human-rights
activists as part of a month-long clampdown on dissidents. The arrests
followed the detention of two opposition members of parliament and the
leader of a banned faction of the Communist Party.

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Suspected Islamist rebels killed 11 civilians and wounded nine at a
funeral in ALGERIA'S western province of Arzew. Nine people died in a
recent similar attack in the resort area of Zeralda.

Clashes continued between Christians and Muslims in the city of Jos in
central NIGERIA. Some 500 people have been killed in a week-long bout
of violence.

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At Commonwealth talks in Nigeria, Robert Mugabe's government agreed to
carry out land reform fairly and legally in ZIMBABWE in return for a
pledge by Britain to find money to pay for the programme, but violent
occupations continued. At a special southern African summit in Harare,
governments of neighbouring countries extracted similar promises and
blamed Zimbabwe for spreading disorder in the region.

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EX-MARXISTS WIN

Fretilin, formerly a Marxist party, won 55 of the 88 seats in EAST
TIMOR'S constituent assembly and is expected to form the country's
first government when it becomes independent next year.

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A government composed entirely of ethnic Fijians was formed in FIJI
after a general election. Fijians of Indian descent complained that
they had been unlawfully excluded.

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AUSTRALIA'S Federal Court ruled that its government had acted illegally
in refusing 434 refugees permission to apply for asylum in the country
and that they must be allowed to land. They had been rescued by a
Norwegian ship and brought to Australian territorial water. The
government intends to appeal.

Thousands of PHILIPPINE workers held a rally in front of the
presidential palace in Manila, demanding a 50% increase in the minimum
wage, at present the equivalent of $4.50 a day.

NORTH KOREA barred Japanese officials from entering the country to
monitor the use of food aid, complaining that Japan was developing a
missile that could be used against it.

Asia's first case of MAD-COW DISEASE was reported on a farm in Chiba,
near Tokyo.

NATO MAY STAY

In MACEDONIA, NATO said its troops had collected half of the arms that
ethnic-Albanian rebels are supposed to hand in by September 26th.
Macedonia's parliament voted for reforms to raise the status of the
Albanian language and bring more of the Albanian minority into the
police. But many of the Slavic majority, top politicians included,
sounded keen to bash the Albanians once NATO's force had left. EU
foreign ministers proposed a new, smaller but long-term NATO force to
keep the peace.

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BELARUS'S president, Alexander Lukashenka, was re-elected with 76% of
the vote. He rigged it, claimed the country's opposition.

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NORWAY'S Labour Party, in power for most of the past 70 years, won a
general election with a much-reduced vote. Parties of the right may
form a coalition government.

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Britain and France argued over the rush of ASYLUM-SEEKERS trying to
sneak into Britain through the Channel Tunnel. Eurotunnel, a train
operator, failed in its bid to have a French court order the closure of
a Red Cross centre that houses them near the tunnel's French entrance.

In FRANCE, Jean-Pierre Chevenement, a left-winger many times a
minister, held his first campaign meeting for next year's presidential
election, claiming to be above party and with repeated references to,
yes, Charles de Gaulle.

DEMOCRACY GUARANTEED?

At a meeting in Peru attended by representatives of 34 countries, the
Organisation of American States adopted an INTER-AMERICAN DEMOCRATIC
CHARTER designed to deter not just coups but the subversion of
constitutional rule by elected leaders.

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