ASEAN agrees to fight terrorism Leaders of 10 Southeast Asian

ASEAN agrees to fight terrorism Leaders of 10 Southeast Asian
nations adopted Sunday a joint statement condemning terrorism "in
the strongest terms" and agreed to cooperate to combat it
following the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the United States. "We
unequivocally condemn in the strongest terms the horrifying
terrorist attacks in New York City, Washington DC and
Pennsylvania on Sept. 11 and consider such acts as an attack
against humanity and an assault on all of us," the statement
said. --AFP

Faith in U.S. action dwindling: Nearly half the French public
believes the four-week-old U.S. military action in Afghanistan is
failing, a poll released on Sunday showed. The survey by
pollsters Ipsos for the Journal du Dimanche weekly showed 47
percent thought the campaign was failing, with just 17 percent
confident of success. The remainder of the 969-head sample,
interviewed on Nov. 2, gave no response or said the outlook was
unclear. No definition for what constituted success or failure
was given. --Reuters