Seven knives, mace and a stun gun
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The unbelievable thing is that after his 1st arrest, they let him go!
CNN) -- Seven airport security
workers have been suspended after
police said a man made it through a
security checkpoint at Chicago's
O'Hare International Airport with
knives, a can of Mace and a stun gun.
Security screeners took two knives from
Subash Gurung, 27, after he initially went
through the checkpoint Saturday night,
authorities said. Gurung then was allowed
to pass through. Seven more knives, Mace
and a stun gun were found in his carry-on
luggage during a random search before
boarding a United Airlines flight, police
said.
The suspect, who told authorities he is
from Nepal, was arrested Sunday night by
the FBI and will be arraigned Monday on a
federal charge of unlawfully taking a
weapon aboard an aircraft. He originally had been arrested Saturday by local police,
charged with two misdemeanors and released on bond.
CNN has learned of a possible connection between Gurung and a man who is being
held as a material witness in the September 11 terrorist attacks. Gurung listed the
same West Hollywood Avenue address in Chicago as the detainee. (Full story)
In the U.S.-led retaliation for the terror attacks, Taliban forces were leaving their
southern Afghan stronghold of Kandahar on Monday as U.S.-led airstrikes
intensified.
After a quiet day Sunday -- allied planes dropped a single bomb southeast of the
city -- CNN's Kamal Hyder reported heavy bombardment of rural districts around
Kandahar as well as military targets to the northeast, southeast and west.
There were reports of further attacks overnight on the Kajaki Dam area, where a
hydroelectric plant is located that provides power to Kandahar.
Taliban frontline positions north of Kabul also were hit Monday, and there were
reports of intense fighting near the strategic northern city of Mazar-e Sharif.
Latest developments
• The Taliban claimed 10 civilians were killed and
15 were injured in a raid on the village of
Aq-Kupruk, south of Mazar-e Sharif, but there was
no way to verify the claim independently.
Commanders with the opposition Northern Alliance
had said over the weekend that they captured large
portions of Aq-Kupruk and that hundreds of
Taliban fighters had either defected or been
captured.
• The latest raids came as the Northern Alliance
announced it was preparing to launch a
"multipronged attack" against Taliban positions in
northern Afghanistan. (Full story)
• After meeting with officials in India on Monday,
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld denied
suggestions that the military campaign in
Afghanistan will drag on for years, saying strikes
were getting more effective. (Full story)
• A 21-year-old Jordanian man pleaded not guilty
Monday to charges of perjury. Osama Awadallah, a
permanent U.S. resident who has lived in San
Diego, California, for three years, is accused of
lying to a federal grand jury about his knowledge of
two men whom the Justice Department identified
as suspected hijackers on American Airlines Flight
77, which slammed into the Pentagon on
September 11. (Full story)
• The war in Afghanistan is not a battle between
Christians and Muslims despite Osama bin Laden's
efforts to portray it as religious conflict, Egyptian
Foreign Minster Ahmad Maher said Sunday.
Instead, he said, the fight is between bin Laden and
the world. Maher's response followed bin Laden's
assertion that foreign ministers of 10 Arab nations
betrayed Islam by not quitting the United Nations to
protest the military campaign in Afghanistan.
• A senior Taliban official said an American aid
worker arrested two weeks ago in Afghanistan has
died of natural causes, The Associated Press
reports. The State Department reportedly had no
comment on the report -- other than to say that it
has never confirmed that an American was in custody in Afghanistan. CNN has not
confirmed the report.
• Taliban authorities are holding a Pakistani-American free-lance journalist, who was
arrested a week ago on suspicion of being a spy. Taliban sources said the man was
taken to Kandahar for interrogation, but he became ill and was transferred to a
hospital in critical condition. The sources said the man may have overdosed on
medication that he had been taking. |
