JP\/1\/BULOG This is for 24 Hours<\/p>\n
Key witness in graft case: Winfried Simatupang, a key witness in
\nthe Rp 40 billion corruption case implicating Golkar Party
\nchairman Akbar Tandjung, appeared for the first time at the
\nAttorney General's Office in Jakarta on Thursday for questioning
\nas a witness.<\/p>\n
Simatupang, (not Wilfred Simatupang as reported earlier),
\nenraged journalists who had been waiting for hours outside the
\ninterrogation room by replying, \"I forget, I forget\" to almost
\nall the questions put to him.<\/p>\n
Simatupang is said to have been the contractor in the
\nfood-for-the-poor project to which Akbar, in his capacity as
\nCabinet Secretary in 1999, passed the funds. The nonbudgetary
\nfunds from the State Logistics Agency (Bulog) were, however,
\nallegedly diverted to Golkar. Akbar has denied any
\nwrongdoing.--JP<\/p>\n
Afghans return home: The border between Pakistan and Afghanistan
\nreopened on Thursday afternoon after closing a day earlier in
\nconfusion over who controlled the eastern province of Nangahar
\nguarding the road to Kabul. Within the first couple of hours of
\nreopening, more than 125 minibuses and vans filled with Afghans,
\nincluding several tribal leaders, had streamed over the border
\nfrom Pakistan. -- Reuters<\/p>\n
Al-Qaeda, Taliban leaders killed: Some leaders of al-Qaeda and
\nthe Taliban -- but neither Osama bin Laden nor Mullah Mohammad
\nOmar -- were believed killed in U.S. air strikes on two buildings
\nin Afghanistan over the past two days, Pentagon spokeswoman
\nVictoria Clarke said Thursday. \"There was some senior leadership
\nin both,\" said Clarke, adding there was no evidence that either
\nbin Laden, al-Qaeda's leader, or Omar, the Taliban's supreme
\nleader, were there. -- AFP<\/p>",
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