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Deutsche Welle English Service News 02. 03. 2003, 16:00 UTC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: More Missiles Destroyed as Iraq Complies with U.N. Accompanied by approval from Russia and Germany, Iraq continued to destroy its ballistic missiles on Sunday. France's foreign minister suggested his country may veto a second resolution. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the internet address below: http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1430_A_790256_1_A,00.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Suspected Sept 11 mastermind in US custody The United States has hailed the arrest of a top terrorist and suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was detained by Pakistani police after dawn raids near Islamabad on Saturday. American officials called the arrest the biggest catch so far in the global war against terror. Mohammed has been turned over to U.S. officials but it was not known where he was being held. Analysts describe Mohammed, a Kuwaiti in his late 30s, as a pivotal figure in al Qaeda linked to every major terror attack in the last ten years. He may also know the whereabouts of both Osama bin Laden and Mullah Mohammed Omar, fugitive leader of Afghanistan's former Taliban government. Three Palestinians killed in Israeli raid in Gaza Two Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli army raid aimed at curbing attacks on troops and Jewish settlements. Early on Sunday morning, Israeli tanks backed by helicopter gunships raided the town and refugee camp at Khan Younis at dawn. Witnesses said the army demolished several houses as well as an eight-storey building, making some 100 people homeless. But an Israeli army field commander said troops destroyed abandoned structures used by gunmen as shelters for attacks on soldiers. Iraq to discuss chemical agents with UN inspectors, destroys more missiles Iraqi officials are due to meet UN weapons inspectors later on Sunday to discuss Iraq's stocks of VX nerve gas and anthrax. A UN spokesman said these technical talks would focus on verifying Baghdad's claims that it has destroyed large quantities of biological and chemical weapons. Iraq has also begun destroying six more of its controversial al-Samoud missiles. Meeting a UN deadline, Baghdad destroyed four such missiles on Saturday. Baghdad says it has around 100 of the missiles which exceed the 150-km limit imposed by the UN. Both the United States and Britain have dismissed the latest concessions as further game-playing and deception. US military planners suffer setback American plans for a possible war on Iraq have suffered a setback following a vote in Turkish parliament which rejected the deployment of US troops in Turkey. Washington's military planners wanted to use Turkey as a launch pad for a possible invasion of northern Iraq. But the Turkish government on Saturday failed by three votes to secure a simple majority. A senior government official said there were no immediate plans to submit a second motion to parliament. Prime Minister Abdullah Gul said the rejection would not, however, affect Turkey's good ties with the United States. He also warned Iraq not to use the decision as a pretext for delaying its co-operation with UN weapons inspectors. Protest in Morocco against possible US-led Iraq war Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in Morocco on Saturday to protest US threats to wage war on Iraq. Demonstrators in Casablanca carried banners denouncing the Bush administration's policies and branding the US president a "war criminal." The organisers of the march estimated that as many as one million people were taking part in the protests but other reports cited half that number. French president Chirac visits Algeria French President Jacques Chirac has arrived in Algeria on an official visit. It is the first time a French president has visited the north African nation since the two countries made their peace over forty years ago. The high-point of the three-day trip will be the signing of a declaration of friendship intended to seal a new era of bilateral cooperation. Rebels say hundreds killed in Congo attack Congolese rebels have claimed that hundreds of civilians were killed last week in an attack by combined pro-government forces. Thomas Lubanga, the president of the small rebel group Union des Patriots Congolais (UPC), said the killings took place near the town of Bunia, not far from the Ugandan border. An official from a United Nations mission in Congo confirmed an attack had taken place. Over 400 people were said to have been killed. Bunia has been the scene of repeated clashes between rival factions in the Congo's civil war. Fire in Alexandrian library injures 30 At least 35 people are said to have been hurt in Egypt after a fire broke out in Alexandria's new library. Police said the fire was caused by a short circuit and was put out by firefighters. A spokesman said those injured were being treated for smoke inhalation. The futuristic-looking library was opened in a lavish ceremony last October. Train accident blamed on human error Taiwanese authorities have blamed human errors for Saturday's train accident that killed 17 people and injured 173 others. The four-carriage train was on its way to the mountain resort of Alishan when it derailed. A prosecutor said investigators had established that a device connecting the locomotive and the brake was not switched on. He said the train's driver and his assistants had likely forgotten to check the system. The accident happened as the train crossed a bridge on a downward slope. Sissako wins pan-African film award Mauritarnian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako has won first prize at Africa's leading cinema festival with his feature film "Heremakono". Otherwise entitled "Waiting for Happiness", the movie chronicles life in a Mauritanian seaside town, and some residents' hopes to emigrate to Europe. The Special Jury prize at the FESPACO film festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, went to the film "Kabala" by Assane Kouyate of Mali. It is the story of a desert village which loses its only water well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information please turn to our internet website at http://dw-world.de/english Here you'll find out what's happening in Germany, Europe and the rest of the world. News and background reports from the fields of current affairs, culture, business and science. And of course the DW website also has information about DW-RADIO and DW-TV programmes: topics, broadcast times and frequencies. 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