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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45358)	12/23/2003 9:08:03 AM
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And the economy grows at fastest rate...sometime how much more 'losers' like Krugman can get it all wrong is surprising..- The U.S. economy grew at its fastest rate in nearly 20 years in the third quarter, boosted by robust consumer spending that has carried on into the closing months of the year, government reports showed on Tuesday. The Commerce Department said gross domestic product, or GDP, which measures total output within U.S. borders, advanced at an 8.2 percent annual rate -- the same as the department estimated a month ago and more than double the 3.1 percent pace posted in the second quarter. The rate of growth matched expectations on Wall Street.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45358)	12/24/2003 3:37:26 AM
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A US terrorism task force is investigating three Pakistani nationals who allegedly tried to fraudulently obtain a state identification card from a Motor Vehicle Commission agency, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. Undercover state police officers arrested the three on Monday at a Motor Vehicle Commission office in Edison Township after observing what officials said appeared to be a “suspicious” transaction, the Home News Tribune of East Brunswick reported. The men, Mohade Aftab Khan, 29, and Muhammed Ivrizwan, 42, and another whose name was not released, were each charged with forgery, tampering with public records and conspiracy. The Joint Terrorism Task Force, consisting of both state and federal agents, stepped in after Mr Khan told investigators that he planned to travel to Pakistan and then Iraq. “We’re still trying to find out why Mr Khan wanted the card and why he would travel with it,” Lt Matthew Hartigan, a member of the state police document fraud squad, told the newspaper. “All that’s being followed up by the Joint Terrorism Task Force.” Mr Khan, who officials said was an illegal immigrant and the person trying to obtain the New Jersey identification card, was being held on $100,000 bail at a local jail, but immigration officials have filed a request that would bar his release even if he could post bail. Mr Ivrizwan, who is in the United States legally, was also being held on $25,000 bail at the jail, but it was not known where the third man was being held. —AP

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45358)	12/24/2003 3:37:26 AM
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MOSUL: A tribal chief with close ties to Saddam Hussein’s number two, Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, was arrested by US troops in Iraq’s main northern city Tuesday, relatives and a member of the Iraqi security force that helped arrest him told AFP. Sheikh Ghazi Hanash, head of the influential Tayy tribe, was detained at his Mosul home along with three of his sons after an exchange of fire which left one of Hanash’s bodyguards dead, said Waadallah Tewfik Hassan, a member of the Iraqi Civil Defence Corps who participated in the operation. The US military has put a 10-million-dollar bounty on the head of Ibrahim, the most senior former Iraqi official still at large following Saddam’s capture on December 13. Youssef Khoshi, a top investigating judge in the northern city of Mosul, was killed by three men in a car on Monday night. “He was shot six times from behind in the back. He died immediately,” police Major Ali Mohammed said on Tuesday. Also on Tuesday US forces raided the headquarters of the Kurdish Islamist group Jamaa Islamiya, arresting 20 people suspected of having links to Ansar al-Islam, said police sources. US forces accompanied by Iraqi police arrested 16 residents of two Arab neighbourhoods east and north of Kirkuk, according to police chief Khattab Abdullah Aref. US troops arrested 26 suspected insurgents in the restive western town of Fallujah including two former generals and a special forces colonel in the ousted regime of Saddam Hussein, the US-led coalition said. US troops and Iraqi police arrested six militants near Baquba, northeast of Baghdad, including a suspected Islamist leader and five men implicated in anti-coalition activities, a US army spokeswoman said Tuesday. A US military convoy was attacked by a rocket-propelled grenade on Tuesday in Mosul, the US military said. A bomb was found on Monday in the home of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, a Shi’ite leader and current head of the US backed Iraqi Governing Council, but was defused. Saudi Arabia said on Tuesday it would not discuss any loan write-offs with Iraq’s interim US-appointed government, which is facing a debt burden estimated at more than $100 billion. Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal said the kingdom, would wait until Iraq had an independent government before looking into possibly reducing the debt.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45358)	12/24/2003 3:37:26 AM
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War on terror..<China the other major player is happy with the containment of tyrants who sponsored global intifida and jihad,> A man recently identified by China as its top “terrorist” has been shot and killed in an anti-terrorism operation in Pakistan conducted by Pakistani forces, official media said on Tuesday. Hasan Mahsum, a former resident of northwestern China’s Xinjiang region, was killed recently, Beijing News said. Pakistan’s military confirmed that it had killed a Muslim militant recently identified by China as its top “terrorist” in an anti-terrorism operation. “Yes, this man was killed in a Pakistan army’s operation on October 2,” Major General Shaukat Sultan said, referring to Hasan Mahsum. Maj Sultan said Mr Mahsum was among the eight people killed when Pakistan army commandoes besieged a suspected Al Qaeda hideout in some mud-walled tribal homes in the South Waziristan tribal district. —AFP

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (45358)	12/24/2003 3:37:26 AM
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WASHINGTON: The United States has information, including some that prompted this week’s rise in the national terror threat level, that Al Qaeda continues to study potential weaknesses in America’s revamped aviation security net looking for ways to strike again through the air, US officials familiar with recent intelligence say. The information has been gleaned from sources as diverse as Al Qaeda mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and low-level terror network members in Saudi Arabia and has led US officials to quickly adapt security procedures several times in recent months, the officials said. For instance, US officials have been discreetly working with their counterparts in Canada and Mexico on improved security measures after intelligence indicated Al Qaeda might attack an international airliner that simply passes over US soil, the officials said. “The information clearly shows they care about getting ahold of airplanes with large fuel supplies in areas with lots of people, and to do it in a way that comes in below our radar screen,” said one senior US official with access to intelligence, speaking only on condition of anonymity. Bush administration officials said an improving apparatus that directs credible threat information quickly from FBI and CIA agents in the field to intelligence analysts, and then to homeland security and transportation officials for action, has resulted in quick adaptations of the security net. —AP