September 12, 2002

Rasheed Abou-Alsamh is a senior editor at Arab News, and lives in Saudi Arabia.  Although he is half American, it would be nice to think that more Saudi's might think this way: ...we must stop denying that any of the hijackers were Saudis or even Arab. We must also stop saying that the Sept. 11 attacks were a CIA-Zionist plot to make the Arabs and Islam look bad. This is utter nonsense! We must be mature and responsible enough to admit that these sick minds that hatched and perpetrated these dastardly attacks were, sadly, a product of a twisted viewpoint of our society and religion. We must ask what went wrong and how we can change our society and education system so that this won’t ever happen again. Blaming others for our shortcomings as a society won’t get us anywhere, and will only serve to alienate us further from the rest of the world. 7:00:01 PM

How did the Internet become such a super success?  How did a bunch of geeks turn a very complicated, nerd toy into something that now defines the new century? [ Newsfactor.com ] The top ten choices that led to what we now know as the World Wide Web.   4:36:56 PM

Yahoo, SBC quietly unveil DSL service. The companies launch a site detailing their long-anticipated digital subscriber line service, which is Yahoo's most ambitious step yet into the broadband arena. [CNET News.com] 2:32:58 PM

The press has failed to report the true extent of the palestinian riot that forced Benjamin Netanyahu's speech to be cancelled.  Little Green Footballs has an eyewitness account of the riot, written by Sara Ahronheim. 9:40:08 AM

President Bush will ask the United Nations on Thursday to force Iraq to comply with disarmament pledges after a "decade of deception and defiance," senior administration officials said. Bush is scheduled to address the U.N. General Assembly at 10:30 a.m. EDT. Officials said he will push for a new Security Council resolution and for action within weeks, but will not lay down any deadlines for returning weapons inspectors to Iraq. "cnn" 9:08:19 AM

On the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a date often repeated as 9-11, the numbers that popped up for the New York Lottery were 9-1-1. "The numbers were picked in the standard random fashion using all the same protocols," said Lottery spokeswoman Carolyn Hapeman. "It's just the way the numbers came up. [ USA Today ] I know it is hard to believe, but.... It is being reported that the S&P 500 Futures contract was exactly 911 on September 10th.  The actual S&P 500 was 908.58 and was really 911 on July 31st.  No reason to go overboard on this. 9:05:47 AM

Palestinians on Thursday cheered their parliament for forcing the resignation of Yasser Arafat's Cabinet, widely considered corrupt and inefficient, but many stopped short of criticizing the Palestinian leader himself. The toppling of the Cabinet was a major blow to Arafat's prestige. The Palestinian leader has been weakened in recent months by diminishing international support, Israeli blockades and widespread dissatisfaction at home with his rule. 9:01:10 AM