Saturday, March 30, 2002

Local Voters in India Stun Leader of Top Party. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party is reeling after a stunning defeat to the Congress Party in the Delhi city elections last week. By Somini Sengupta. [NYTimes] 10:15:31 PM    Bin Laden Lieutenant May Be Caught. U.S. and Pakistani authorities are trying to determine whether an Arab arrested in raids here this week is a key lieutenant of Osama bin Laden, a senior police official said Saturday. [AP] 10:12:39 PM    Friedman: "The Spanish Civil War was the place where the major powers all tested out their new weapons before World War II," said the Israeli political theorist Yaron Ezrahi. Well, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today is the Spanish Civil War for the 21st century. A big test is taking place of whether suicide terrorism can succeed as a strategy for liberation. It must be defeated, but that requires more than a military strategy. 10:04:03 PM    I.R.S. to Seek Visa Card Data. Visa International will receive a summons from the Internal Revenue Service to turn over records of offshore accounts held by Americans suspected of evading taxes. By Bloomberg News. [NYTimes] this will freak some people 12:01:30 PM    Ten Die in Kashmir Temple Attack. Suspected Islamic militants set off several grenades and exchanged gunfire with police at a 150-year-old Hindu temple in Indian-controlled Kashmir Saturday, police said. Ten people were killed and another 20 injured in the assault. [AP] 11:57:53 AM    we're done with commerce 11:27:10 AM

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