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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: blue_lotus who wrote (10404)	11/13/2001 11:48:12 AM
From: blue_lotus	Respond to of 27666

'N-weapons available for $10 mn' WASHINGTON: A Pakistani journalist who interviewed Osama Bin Laden last week said on Monday the Saudi-born dissident had told him nuclear arms could be bought in the central Asian black market for $10 million to $20 million. Hamid Mir, editor of the Urdu-language Ausaf newspaper, told CNN's Larry King Live that he had pressed Bin Laden and his aide, Ayman Zawahri, on the issue after they said they would retaliate in kind for any U.S. use of nuclear warheads. "He said that if the United States of America is going to use these kinds of weapons against us, then we reserve the right to respond back the same way," said Mir, who said he had conducted the interview somewhere in Afghanistan after being taken blindfolded to a secret location. "He used the word 'nuclear deterrent' and he said 'we will not use these weapons first but we will retaliate'. After that I tried my best to get more information on from where you get these kinds of weapons, but he was not willing to speak more on this issue," Mir said. "But when my interview was finished and we were just having tea, I engaged him again on this issue and I was trying to get information from where you got these kind of weapons." "They gave me some indication that you can if you have $10 million, $20 million, you can get these kinds of weapons from the underworld mafia of the central Asian states and some disgruntled Russian scientists." Mir's comments elaborated on accounts of his interview published in Pakistan on Saturday, when Bin Laden's reference to nuclear retaliation was first reported. Senior U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Colin Powell, said on Sunday it was unlikely that Bin Laden or his al-Qaeda network had access to nuclear arms. The United States is leading a military campaign to destroy al-Qaeda and its Taliban protectors, accusing Bin Laden's group of being behind the September 11 attacks on America in which about 4,500 people were killed. ( AFP ) timesofindia.com

To: blue_lotus who wrote (10404)	11/13/2001 12:04:53 PM
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Northern Alliance claims five more provinces After marching into Kabul, the Northern Alliance on Tuesday claimed to have captured five more provinces, including the eastern city of Jalalabad. Younis Qanooni, the newly appointed head of the military commission for Kabul, told a news agency that the Taleban had lost Nangarhar, Kunar and Laghman provinces in the east along with Ghazni in the south and Farah in the west. "According to the written reports that I have received, the Muslim people of the eastern zone in general, and also Ghazni and Farah, have been liberated," he said. Meanwhile, United States President George W Bush said he was "very pleased" with the developments in Afghanistan "The president is very pleased with the progress of the war," White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said. Agencies rediff.com