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Iran Presents Quandary for U.S.
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The Washington Post
Viewed last fall as a potential ally in the U.S-led war on terrorism, Iran is presenting an increasingly complex problem for the Bush administration's anti-terrorism policies in Afghanistan and the Middle East, according to U.S. officials and analysts.
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A Secret Iran-Arafat Connection Is Seen Fueling the Mideast Fire
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Reuters
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TEL AVIV — American and Israeli intelligence officials have concluded that Yasir Arafat has forged a new alliance with Iran that involves Iranian shipments of heavy weapons and millions of dollars to Palestinian groups that are waging guerrilla war against Israel.
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Iran Sends Money, Arms to Palestinian Groups -Times
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Reuters
WASHINGTON -- Palestinian President Yasser Arafat has forged an alliance that involves Iranian shipments of heavy weapons and money to Palestinian groups involved in action against Israel, the New York Times reported in Sunday editions, citing unidentified U.S. and Israeli intelligence officials.
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"Certain circles in Pakistan" blamed for Iran-Afghan cargo transfer problems
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BBC Monitoring Service
Chahbahar, Sistan-Baluchestan Province, 24 March: Secretary of Iran's Free Trade Zones' (FTZs) High Council Hoseyn Nasiri here on Saturday [23 March] complained about obstacles hurled by certain countries on the way of cargo transfer from Iran's Chahbahar FTZ to Afghanistan.
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Kawaguchi set to visit Iran on first official trip
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The Japan Times
Foreign Minister Yoriko Kawaguchi is likely to visit Iran during her first official trip abroad at the end of April, Foreign Ministry officials said Saturday.
Kawaguchi will go to Iran before or after she visits Afghanistan during Japan's Golden Week holidays ...
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'My mission is to save my country'
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Telegraph
In his only newspaper interview before he returns to Kabul, the former king of Afghanistan tells Christina Lamb, Foreign Reporter of the Year, he is prepared to die for his country - and his granddaughter talks of her ambitious plans.
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Shiite Festival Clashes Injure 20 in Lebanon
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Reuters
NABATIYEH, Lebanon -- At least 20 people were hurt in running street battles between rival Lebanese Shiite Muslim political groups on Saturday during an annual religious festival, witnesses said.
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New evidence hints at hijack link to anthrax attacks
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The Observer
The stongest evidence connecting the 11 September hijackers to last year's wave of anthrax attacks emerged yesterday, with the revelation that one of them suffered from an apparent anthrax-induced wound months before the attacks.
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Britain-US to target Afghan opium crops
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My Afghan
Tony Blair says Britain and the US are planning to destroy Afghanistan's poppy fields as a way of preventing heroin from hitting the streets. The two governments are working with Afghanistan's interim administration to destroy fields of opium ...
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Britain accused on terror lab claim
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The Observer
Britain was accused last night of falsely claiming that al-Qaeda terrorists had built a 'biological and chemical weapons' laboratory in Afghanistan to justify the deployment of 1,700 Royal Marines to fight there.
The allegation follows a Downing Street briefing by a senior official to newspapers on Friday which claimed US forces had discovered a biological weapons laboratory in a cave in eastern Afghanistan after fighting near the city of Gardez this month.
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Afghan schooldays of love lost and head shaved
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Reuters
KABUL (Reuters) - There are few happy memories for me and my friends of school days in Afghanistan. I lost my first childhood sweetheart at the age of eight when she moved overseas with her family because of the war ...
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Iraq and the Bush doctrine
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The Observer
Success in a new war against Iraq would be a defining moment in the evolution of the 'Bush doctrine'. But the Gulf War international coalition is no more, Baghdad is stronger than at any time since it invaded Kuwait ...
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Jordan's king weighs in on Arab, Western discord
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San Francisco Chronicle
Los Angeles -- Preoccupied with Oscar frenzy, Los Angeles last week hosted the king of Jordan, who brought along his regal charm, a business agenda and concern about the widening stain of bloody Mideast politics.
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Afghan children go back to school
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(Reuters)
Afghan children go back to school with heads high
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