U.S. President George W. Bush is consulting U.S. congressional and military leaders on a plan to neutralize Pakistan's nuclear weapons capability if the regime of President Pervez Musharraf falls. Sen. Joseph Biden, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, strongly hinted this at a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, the Times of India reported. There is a fear among many in Washington that if a fundamentalist regime came into power in Pakistan the country's nuclear weapons might end up in terrorist hands. 1822 GMT, 011026
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An Egyptian man was caught in Italy carrying a Canadian passport, airport maps, airport security passes and other documentation, as well as electronic equipment. The man was locked inside a shipping container that had its own bed and restroom facilities, which Italian authorities searched as part of a "technical inspection" in Gioia Tauro before it left for Canada, the Times of London reported. 2053 GMT, 011025
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The United States has reportedly begun selling the Gulf states of Egypt, Oman and the United Arab Emirates a variety of weapons systems in an effort to gain their full backing for a war on terrorism. 2025 GMT, 011025 |
