Anonymous Comrade writes: "There is an excellent lecture by the late Dr. Eqbal Ahmed entitled
"Terrorism: Theirs and Ours" on the A-Infos Radio Project:



http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=3633



The lecture was given shortly after the US embassy bombings in Africa,
which were attributed to Osama bin Laden. In the talk, Ahmed describes when
Osama bin Laden "was actually a guest in the Reagan White House" when the
US was funding bin Laden to fight the Red Army in Afganistan. He and
other Afghani "freedom fighters" were praised by Reagan during that visit
as "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers". Really damning stuff."

Japantoday.com is reporting that the Defense Department has recommended to President
George W Bush the use of tactical nuclear weapons as a military
option to retaliate for last week's terrorist attacks in the United
States, diplomatic sources said Tuesday.

NEW YORK (AP) - A Central Park memorial this weekend to the police and
firefighters who died heroically at the World Trade Center - a gathering
that was expected to draw as many as a million people - will not take place,
city officials said.
The city Parks Department did not immediately say why the memorial would not
be held. It had been organized by a committee that includes former Mayors
David Dinkins and Edward Koch and leading Protestant, Jewish, Muslim and
Catholic clergy.
``There is not an event going on in Central Park this weekend,'' said Parks
Department spokesman Jeff Sandgrund. ``We're not organizing an event in
Central Park.''
The cancellation was news to a city that was still jittery, eight days after
two planes hijacked by terrorists laid waste to the Trade Center and killed
more than 5,000 people.

The Hindustan Times writes: "Pakistan has said that it has always asked the US to deal with the Taliban directly as it enjoys no influence with the militia and denied that Islamabad supplied it with funds and weapons, which may have come from the "Soviet leftovers."



Taliban militia in Afghanistan has enough weapons to fight for a decade and Pakistan had urged the US to deal directly with them even before the present crisis (following terror strikes in the US), Pakistan Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider said here.



"As far as weapons are concerned this is my strong belief that they (the Taliban) have enough weapons to fight for ten years. The booty from the Soviet leftovers is that strong", Haider, who was on a brief stopover here en route to Pakistan from Kuwait, told the 'Khaleej Times.'



He said Islamabad had no influence on the Taliban contrary to popular perception in the West and in fact the two differed on many international issues.



"We told them not to train any Pakistan national in their camps...even then (during the Buddha statue episode) we tried to knock some sense into the mindset of the Afghan government but we could not succeed," he said.



http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/190901/dlfor 32.asp"