I argue that President Bush may have known in advance of the planned September-11 attacks but may have allowed them to happen, and why.

The CIA placed two Sept. 11 skyjackers under surveillance as early as January 2000 - arguably only to allow them to ram American Airlines 77 into the Pentagon on Sept. 11.

I explain why, arguably, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, FBI director Robert Mueller and his predecessors Thomas Pickard and Louis Freeh ought to be shackled and goggled and flown to Guantanamo.

THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK...

The Committee for War Criminal Prosecution (CWCP) held its third annual spring gathering in Salt Lake City, Utah to focus attention on human rights abuses and war crimes committed by members of the U.N.'s Security Council. (article 1)

"We were pretty shocked," Marine Fletcher said. "We discovered from the Afghan soldiers we had with us that a lot of men in this country have the same philosophy as ancient Greeks: ‘a woman for babies, a man for pleasure’."

Summary: Corruption is yet again in focus in India - this time in Punjab where the state intelligence and vigilance departments have cracked the biggest recruitment scandal of India to date. Yet there is little hope of things really improving, unless a comprehensive long-term strategy is evolved.

Corruption is in the limelight in Punjab again, with the state vigilance department having cracked a major recruitment scandal. But a long-term anti-corruption strategy alone can yield lastinf results.

THIS CARTOON SAYS IT ALLL...

THE CREATOR ADDRESSES THE NATION

Many fights, many years, and some results.
But it hasn't been easy.

The current push for changes in the Palestinian political process is neither new nor externally motivated. Rather, there is a call to implement a home-grown, authentic programme of structural, legal and procedural reform which has been gathering steam in Palestinian society for years.

Toilers suffer in India-Pakistan War.

Global News Net (GNN) is looking for confidential Asian news sources and contributing correspondents.

"¿A quien pertenece legítimamente Gibraltar?". ¿A los llanitos?. ¿A Gran Bretaña?. ¿Al Estado español?. ¿A Andalucía?. Por encima del curso actual de las negociaciones hispano-británicas sobre el destino del Peñón y de los diferentes pronósticos sobre sus resultados, responder adecuadamente a esta pregunta es esencial

Gujarat is forgotten

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This report by a six-member fact-finding team records the testimonies of Gujarat's women and assesses the impact of the ongoing riots in Gujarat on minority women.

Arundhati Roy, Booker prize-winning author, looks at
the conflict over Kashmir from her home in New Delhi

We started off in the form of "Shanti Evam Sadbhavna PadYatra" from
Chitrakoot on May 27, 2002, writes Sandeep