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Amsterdam, 7 October 2001
US and UK Forces Strike against Afghanistan
Ultimatum not met
On Sunday October 7th around 16:00 hour GMT the United States and UK forces started firing on targets in Afghanistan.
In a television address
President Bush announced the reprisal attacks to the American people.
More than two weeks ago, I gave Taliban leaders a series of clear and specific demands: Close terrorist training camps; hand over leaders of the al Qaeda network; and return all foreign nationals, including American citizens, unjustly detained in your country.
None of these demands were met. And now the Taliban will pay a price. By destroying camps and disrupting communications, we will make it more difficult for the terror network to train new recruits and coordinate their evil plans.
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Amsterdam, 4 October 2001
Blair Speech offers a wider vision
for a world in turmoil
In his
speech
before the Labour party Conference in Brighton Blair took the fight one step further.
He committed himself and Britain firmly as a frontrunner in the fight against terrorism. But he wants to go much further in the cooperation in the globalisation of the world.
"But globalisation is a fact and, by and large, it is driven by people.
Not just in finance, but in communication, in technology, increasingly in culture, in recreation. In the world of the internet, information technology and TV, there will be globalisation. And in trade, the problem is not there's too much of it; on the contrary there's too little of it.
The issue is not how to stop globalisation.
The issue is how we use the power of community to combine it with justice. If globalisation works only for the benefit of the few, then it will fail and will deserve to fail. But if we follow the principles that have served us so well at home - that power, wealth and opportunity must be in the hands of the many, not the few - if we make that our guiding light for the global economy, then it will be a force for good and an international movement that we should take pride in leading.
Because the alternative to globalisation is isolation.
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Diplomatic Activity
Amsterdam, 4 October 2001
Developments in world politics in the aftermath of the 11th of September disaster are speeding up rapidly at the moment.
Evidence
The Americans and British are producing convincing evidence today that Osama bin Laden is the mastermind behind the attack.
Pakistan
The Pakistani Government have seen the evidence and stated publicly that they think it will hold up in court. It is the first Islamic country that acknowledges these facts and is therefore an important step in the coalition building of the United States.
Nato
Yesterday the Nato Sec. Gen. Lord Robertson declared that the evidence is convincing, that all signs pin point to Osama bin Laden. It means that by agreement of the Nato Charter art. 5 is in full motion. "An attack on one is an attack on all members of Nato."
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Amsterdam, 21 September
Bush sets demands
to Taliban
an extraordinary address to a joint session of Congress and the House of Representatives
In an extraordinary joint session of the US Congress and the House or Representatives, the American President George W. Bush has set four clear cut demands to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
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Amsterdam, 21 September 2001
Afghan Clerics will ask Bin Laden to leave
The American government suspected immediately after the WTC attack Usama bin Laden as the mastermind behind it. Usama bin Laden is hiding out in Afghanistan, where he controls several terrorist training camps.
The Americans asked the ruling Taliban fundamentalist regime of Afghanistan to extradite him.
The day before the Bush speech in Congress thousand Clerics from all over Afghanistan gathered to meet in a Ulema on the issue.
In their verdict they condemned President Bush over his talking of a crusade.
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This news has hurt the feelings of Muslims and has posed a major threat to the world" the verdict said.
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Previous AP Headlines
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[7 October 2001]
US and UK Forces Strike against Afghanistan Ultimatum not met
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[4 October 2001]
Blair Speech offers a wider vision for a world in turmoil
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[4 October 2001]
Diplomatic Activity
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[24 September 2001]
UN Secretary General Kofi Anan condemns the breach "of our efforts to create a true international society, based on the rule of law"
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[21 September 2001]
Bush sets demands
to Taliban
an extraordinary address to a joint session of Congress and the House of Representatives
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[21 September 2001]
Afghan Clerics will ask Bin Laden to leave
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[21 September 2001]
EU leaders voice full support for US in fight against terrorism
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[20 September 2001]
Governments involved in terrorist strikes
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[20 September 2001]
US Immigration Laws to be tightened, deportation possible
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[September 17, 2001]
Dutch PM Kok: Attack was a declaration of war to our democracy and to the free west
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[September 17, 2001]
Minister Pronk opposes attack on Afghanistan
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[12 September 2001]
Nato: Attack against one, is attack against all
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[September 12, 2001]
Hijacked Planes have hit the WTC in New York and the Pentagon
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[July 16, 2001]
US Successful with Missile Defence test, Russia and China critical
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[Wednesday, May 09, 2001]
US Sends out Charm Officers to win allies
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[Sunday, May 06, 2001]
McVeigh shows no mercy in Letter
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[Friday, May 04, 2001]
China pleased with US Expulsion from Human Rights post
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[ Friday, May 04]
The Netherlands said to have supported the US
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[Friday, May 04]
US ejected of UN Human rights Commission by clear majority of World Community
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[Friday, May 04, 2001]
Missile plan is likeley to open arms race according to China Amsterdam
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[Friday, May 04]
Bush attacks China on Human Rights
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[april 31, 2001]
The U.S. Misreads the Causes of Anti-Americanism
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[9 april 2001]
American
Depression Photo collection Online
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[april 5, 2001]
China Is Not an Enemy and Shouldn't Be Provoked
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[4 april 2001]
America the Horrible is now turning into a pariah
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[Thursday, January 18, 2001]
William Pfaff on the changed nature of American politics
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