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1802 of 1905
Businesses within city boycotted
Berkeley firms have already reported a loss in business, leaving the members of the council’s progressive faction, who supported the resolution, and the moderates, who opposed it, blaming each other for potentially huge economic losses....
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2001 8:27pm PDT
Two white suspects in bin Laden probe
Etim, who lived in Greenwich, south-east London, was born in Britain, converted to Islam after marriage and changed his name to Sulayman Zain-Ul-Abidin....
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2001 8:17pm PDT
UN's smallpox terror alert
Death can take from 48 hours to two weeks. There is no treatment....
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2001 8:13pm PDT
Sting-ray weapon could be used
Up to $500 billion has been spent in 20 years on such weapons as part of what are known as "black projects"....
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2001 8:09pm PDT
Elite US Rangers storm mullah's mountain fort
But among the bombs came leaflets, fluttering down to the battered and terrified people of the Taliban stronghold. They warned them to avoid potential military targets and stay in their homes. Then came four slow-moving EC-130CE planes, sweeping high over the city and broadcasting radio messages in Pashtu....
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2001 8:06pm PDT
US special forces kill 20
'These soldiers will not have died in vain,' President George W. Bush said last night. 'This is a just cause. The American people now fully understand that we are in an important struggle, a struggle that will take time, and that there will be moments of sacrifice.'...
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2001 8:02pm PDT
UN set to appeal for halt in the bombing
The World Food Programme has calculated that 52,000 tonnes of wheat must be distributed in Afghanistan each month to stave off mass starvation. Since the aid programme was restarted - on 25 September - only 20,000 tonnes have been supplied and 15,000 distributed. The concern is that the coming winter will make relief efforts more difficult. The first snows have already fallen on the Hindu Kush mountains and the isolated highlands of Hazarajat....
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2001 7:59pm PDT
Strike by Army Rangers
As the war on terrorism entered a new and dangerous ground phase, Pentagon officials this morning would not say whether the overnight mission had met its goals, and released only sketchy details....
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2001 7:56pm PDT
America gets its boots dirty
America is "ready to get its boots dirty" in the war on international terrorism, declared a Pentagon official yesterday....
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2001 7:53pm PDT
Was CIA Running Terrorist Flight School?
The legends of Rudi Dekkers as ‘flight school owner’ and Mohamed Atta as ‘fanatic 'Islamic fundamentalist’ have been fraying at the edges since the collapse of the World Trade Center.
Still, they may have lasted long enough to do the job for which they were intended. With a war on, no one seems to be losing sleep over the fact that the version of events currently being peddled about the September 11th disaster relies on what one law enforcement source wryly calls 'the Magic Dutch Boy' theo...
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2001 6:42pm PDT
The Face of the Enemy
This is the face of your enemy. Beginning to understand why so many of us use the word 'fascism' to describe the USA? U-S-A U-S-A...
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2001 4:08pm PDT
SF IMC 10/20 News Sheet
This is the new SF IMC News sheet...8.5x11, two-sided, for your printing- and passing-out pleasure......
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2001 3:50am PDT
Afghans Awake at Night to Screaming
"When women and children scream in the middle of the night, that is terrifying enough in itself." Those who could not afford to leave were trying to find shelter wherever they could. "After a month you won't see anybody in the city. They may die or leave."
"We are not terrorists, they have been forcing us to become terrorists."...
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2001 1:02am PDT
Eisenhower's 1961 Farewell Address
i saw the quote of eisenhower in the previous article, and had to find the full quote. it was actually delivered on jan 17, 1961, and it isnt exactly radical. but if only ike could see the military-industrial complex today!!...
Posted: Sat, Oct 20, 2001 12:26am PDT
On Flight 93, defiant voices
When he called his mother at 9:45 a.m., Bingham was so flustered that he began his conversation with his mother by saying, "Mom, this is Mark Bingham."...
Posted: Fri, Oct 19, 2001 10:36pm PDT
Cell Phone Caller: 'We Are Being Hijacked!'
"It gives me a great deal of comfort to know my son may have been able to avert the killing of many, many innocent people."...
Posted: Fri, Oct 19, 2001 10:27pm PDT