JP/1/BULOG This is for 24 Hours

JP/1/BULOG This is for 24 Hours

Key witness in graft case: Winfried Simatupang, a key witness in
the Rp 40 billion corruption case implicating Golkar Party
chairman Akbar Tandjung, appeared for the first time at the
Attorney General's Office in Jakarta on Thursday for questioning
as a witness.

Simatupang, (not Wilfred Simatupang as reported earlier),
enraged journalists who had been waiting for hours outside the
interrogation room by replying, "I forget, I forget" to almost
all the questions put to him.

Simatupang is said to have been the contractor in the
food-for-the-poor project to which Akbar, in his capacity as
Cabinet Secretary in 1999, passed the funds. The nonbudgetary
funds from the State Logistics Agency (Bulog) were, however,
allegedly diverted to Golkar. Akbar has denied any
wrongdoing.--JP

Afghans return home: The border between Pakistan and Afghanistan
reopened on Thursday afternoon after closing a day earlier in
confusion over who controlled the eastern province of Nangahar
guarding the road to Kabul. Within the first couple of hours of
reopening, more than 125 minibuses and vans filled with Afghans,
including several tribal leaders, had streamed over the border
from Pakistan. -- Reuters

Al-Qaeda, Taliban leaders killed: Some leaders of al-Qaeda and
the Taliban -- but neither Osama bin Laden nor Mullah Mohammad
Omar -- were believed killed in U.S. air strikes on two buildings
in Afghanistan over the past two days, Pentagon spokeswoman
Victoria Clarke said Thursday. "There was some senior leadership
in both," said Clarke, adding there was no evidence that either
bin Laden, al-Qaeda's leader, or Omar, the Taliban's supreme
leader, were there. -- AFP