Deutsche Welle
English Service News
29th September , 2001, 16:00 UTC
The U.N. Security Council has adopted unanimously a U.S. resolution
requiring all 189 UN member nations to freeze the finances of terror
suspects and deny them logistical bases.
The resolution binds all members immediately. Implementation will be
overseen by a special Security Council committee. Member nations are
also required to notify others immediately, if they learn of
terrorist plans, and to block terrorist recruitments. On Monday the
UN's General Assembly is due to hold a special debate. France's UN
ambassador David Levitte said the Council had made history in
passing what he called a very comprehensive package.
Afghanistan's ruling Taliban - and Pentagon sources - have denied a
report from the Gulf Arabic TV channel "al-Jazeera" that three U.S.
special soldiers had been arrested by Afghan security forces.
Al-Jazeera, based in Qatar, claimed that two Afghans, with American
passports and trained by U.S. special forces, were also caught. It
quoted what it called a military source of al-Qaeda, the network of
the Osama bin Laden, the USA's prime suspect for the attacks on New
York and the Pentagon of September the 11th. President George W.
Bush, meanwhile, has granted Pakistan another 75-million dollars. Of
that, 50-million is for its crippled economy; the rest is for Afghan
refugees within Pakistan. Qatari officials say the Organisation of
Islamic Conference, comprising 56 nations, was likely to meet on
October the 9th, to consider possible U.S.-led military action.
German authorities have accused three Arab nationals arrested in
Wiesbaden on Thursday of planning attacks on locations in Germany,
allegedly as members of a terrorist group.
One suspect is from Turkey, the other two from Yemen, according to
detectives who've handed the case to federal prosecutors. So far,
they said, there was no link to the attacks in the USA. In another
case, federal prosecutors are checking allegations that a group of
Arab suspects in Hamburg planned an attack of the British consulate.
From Monday, police in most German states plan to begin so-called
"grid" screening in which terror suspects' identifying features will
established by using data from public and private sources. Federal
Interior Minister Otto Schily wants the method used Europe-wide.
One of Europe's larger airports, Orly near Paris, was evacuated on
Saturday after an anonymous bomb threat that grounded flights for
hours. Six thousand passengers left two boarding areas.
Orly's managers said searchers found nothing and flights resumed at
two in the afternoon, local time.
NATO Secretary-General George Robertson has called on the alliance's
19 member countries to raise their military budgets.
He told the German newspaper "Welt am Sonntag" that nil-growth
budgets were no answer to the terrible events of September the 11th.
Two more Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli troops on Saturday,
adding to six Palestinians killed on Friday, despite truce talks.
The bloodshed prompted Israeli and Palestinian officials to warn
that de-escalation bids could fail after talks on Wednesday and
Friday. The latest killed were an 18-year-old youth in Gaza and a
Palestinian man in Hebron. Israel's army said it had returned
gunfire in Hebron, and in Gaza dealt with stonethrowers. Palestinian
medics said 110 Palestinians were also wounded on Saturday. The
Palestinian cabinet said Israel had promised to ease blockades from
Sunday, but an Israeli spokesman said violence had to cease first.
In Northern Ireland, a shadowy Protestant militant group, called the
"Red Hand Defenders", has claimed responsibility for the fatal
shooting of a prominent investigative journalist on Friday night.
Martin O'Hagan, was gunned down from a passing car in Lurgan. He
wrote for the Dublin newspaper "Sunday World". And, in a recent
television documentary, he had spoken of secret links between
Protestant paramilitaries and Northern Ireland security forces.
Leading Protestant politican David Trimble condemned the murder as
"cowardly", and the "Sunday World" said it was an attack on press
freedoms. O'Hagan had often received death threats.
Floods in Vietnam's Mekong Delta have killed at least 154 children
among a total of 182 victims and nearly a million people are facing
food shortages, according to disaster management officials. The
casualties have occurred since mid-August in six provinces of
Vietnam's southern rice growing region. It's suffering its second
year of serious flooding. Water levels, also in Cambodia, have been
receding only very slowly.
A U.S. citizen arrested in China on charges of spying for Taiwan has
arrived in the United States after being freed by the Beijing
authorities. The release of Wu Jianmin, a journalist and former
academic, removes an obstacle to improving China-U.S. ties ahead of
a planned visit by President Bush to China in October. Wu was
suspected of contributing to "The Tiananmen Papers," a book
purporting to reveal internal Chinese government debates that led to
the 1989 massacre of pro-democracy protesters around Tiananmen
Square, according to human rights groups.
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