JI plans bombings in RI, RP: Abu Rusdan has admitted that he led
\nmeetings to plan a series of bombings in Indonesia and the
\nPhilippines. The National Police detectives chief Comr. Gen.
\nErwin Mappaseng told reporters on Thursday that Rusdan, who was
\narrested late last month in Central Java with 17 other alleged
\nJamaah Islamiyah members across the country, replaced cleric Abu
\nBakar Ba'asyir as JI leader. Erwin said Rusdan is the son of
\nMohammad Faleh, whom Ba'asyir met and befriended while they were
\ndetained by the New Order regime in the 1960s. Faleh was said to
\nbe a fighter of Darul Islam group, which wanted to set up an
\nIslamic state in Indonesia. Ba'asyir is currently being tried at
\nthe Central Jakarta District Court for treason. -- JP<\/p>\n
Explosion on U.S. warship near Gulf injures 11: Eleven U.S.
\nMarines were injured on Wednesday night in an explosion in a
\ntrash container aboard the amphibious assault warship USS Saipan
\nin the northern Arabian Sea, the Navy said on Thursday. None of
\nthe injuries was life-threatening, although one of the eleven was
\nevacuated to an American Army field hospital in Kuwait for
\ntreatment of a serious arm injury, the U.S. 5th Fleet said in a
\nstatement. Others were being treated aboard the ship. The cause
\nof the explosion was under investigation, the Navy said. The 5th
\nFleet is based in Bahrain. -- Reuters<\/p>\n
Sri Lanka says taking steps to meet rebel demands: The Sri Lankan
\ngovernment expressed confidence on Thursday that talks with Tamil
\nTigers could be restarted quickly, but despite stepped-up
\ninternational efforts the rebels showed no sign of returning to
\nnegotiations. The government said it was taking practical
\nmeasures to rebuild war-hit Tamil areas after the Liberation
\nTigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suspended peace talks last month,
\nsaying not enough was being done to improve living conditions. --
\nReuters<\/p>\n
U.S. pushing for UN action against Iran: Concerned that Iran may
\nbe running a nuclear weapons program, the United States is
\npushing for UN action against Tehran, diplomats said on Thursday.
\nWashington is specifically seeking a declaration from the board
\nof the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran has violated
\nthe Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, which it has signed, said
\nthe diplomats. The United States has accused Iran of secretly
\nembarking on a program to enrich uranium at Natanz in southern
\nIran, which it fears could be used to make nuclear weapons. --AP<\/p>\n
Admission of seven Eastern European nations into NATO ratified:
\nThe U.S. Senate on Thursday voted unanimously to admit seven
\nEastern European nations into NATO, adding 200,000 troops to the
\nalliance, as well as new bases for missions worldwide. By a vote
\nof 96 to 0, the Senate approved opening membership in the North
\nAtlantic Treaty Organization to Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia,
\nLithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. --AFP<\/p>\n
India rejects Pakistan's nuclear disarmament call: Prime Minister
\nAtal Behari Vajpayee on Thursday turned down Pakistan's proposal
\nfor a nuclear-free South Asia and said the Iraq war and political
\nchanges in Kashmir prompted the two rival neighbors towards
\namity. \"Pakistan's nuclear program is India-specific, but our own
\nnuclear program goes beyond that,\" he said. \"Our concern is about
\nother nations as well ... Our nuclear doctrine is of no-first-use
\nwhile Pakistan has no such provision but they call for a no-war
\npact,\" he told parliament, which was debating new peace overtures
\nwith Islamabad. --AFP<\/p>\n
Floods kill 68, displace 100,000 people: Dozens of people were
\nkilled and more than 100,000 displaced by floods that hit
\nsoutheastern Ethiopia, southern Somalia and Kenya in recent days,
\nofficials said on Thursday. In Ethiopia, the Wabe Shebelli river,
\nswelled from recent heavy rains, burst its banks, submerging
\nvillages and washing away crops and livestock, said Mohmmud
\nDirir, the mining and energy minister. --AP<\/p>",
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