Strike fear into enemies of Islam, says Mahathir: Muslims should

Wed, 17 Sep 2003, 00:00 WIB

Strike fear into enemies of Islam, says Mahathir: Muslims should
pursue knowledge to strike fear in the enemies of Islam and avoid
being labeled terrorists, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir
Mohamad said on Tuesday. Mahathir told a gathering of young
Muslims from 57 countries that they should learn modern science
and technology to prevent Islam from being humiliated and
regarded as "a religion of terrorists". "We need weapons to
strike fear in the hearts of our enemy," he said. "It is quite
clear that we are not prepared for the time being as we do not
have the knowledge to fight the enemy." -- Reuters

Gen. Clark decides to join White House race: Former NATO
commander Wesley Clark has decided to join the 2004 White House
race, making the retired four-star U.S. Army general the 10th
Democratic presidential candidate, political sources said on
Tuesday. Clark, who headed the 1999 NATO bombing campaign in
Kosovo but is a political novice, was expected to announce his
decision in Little Rock, Arkansas, on Wednesday. His entry,
widely anticipated by many Democrats, throws another wild card
into an already unpredictable campaign. -- Reuters

UN offices attacked in Congo: Unidentified assailants fired on
United Nations offices in the volatile northeastern Congolese
town of Bunia on Tuesday, the day after UN troops detained the
army and security chiefs of a tribal militia, a UN spokesman
said. The assailants were hiding among demonstrators protesting
the detention of Floribert Kisembo, chief of staff of the Union
of Congolese Patriots, or UPC, and Rafiki Saba, the security
chief of the same main Hema tribal faction, said Leocadio
Salmeron, spokesman of the UN mission in Congo, or MONUC. -- AP

Guinea-Bissau's junta don't want to stay in power: Guinea-
Bissau's new military rulers do not want to stay in power, junta
boss Gen. Verissimo Seabra Correia said on Tuesday, insisting
that their sole aim was to shake the poor West African nation out
of political and economic paralysis. "I can tell you we have no
intention of remaining in power," Correia, the armed forces chief
of staff who led Sunday's bloodless coup, told reporters. "We are
in an unusual situation: we were in a country with no
constitution, no judiciary, no parliament -- a crazy country, in
other words," he said. "We simply corrected the situation." --
AFP

Mali's former president takes helm at African Union: Former
Malian president Alpha Oumar Konare, one of a select group of
African leaders who relinquished power without fuss, took the
helm of the African Union (AU) on Tuesday vowing to promote
democracy and development. At a ceremony held at the flag-
bedecked AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, he took over as chairman
of the AU Commission from Amara Essy, an Ivorian diplomat who
oversaw the AU's transition from the old Organization of African
Unity (OAU). -- Reuters

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