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 News from the Independent perspective Mike Shiloh, editor US WARPLANES ARE AGAIN HITTING AFGHAN TARGETS. The US launched fresh airstrikes against suspected al-Qaeda encampments Monday, in what officials called an attempt to rout followers of terror leader Osama bin Laden who were regrouping to ready new attacks against allied forces and the new Afghan government. Jury selection is underway in the Houston trial of a woman who confessed to drowning her children. Lawyers expect to interview hundreds of potential jurors, hoping to avoid anyone who has been severely angry at his or her own children but never killed them. |
 The US military is now saying 15-year-old Charles Bishop never posed any danger to McDill Air Force Base, which Bishop flew over on his way to crashing his Cessna plane into Tampa Florida's 42-story Bank of America building. It is at McDill that much of the war in Afghanistan is being planned. Besides flying over one of America's top air bases, Bishop also flew within several thousand feet of a commercial jetliner that was ascending as Bishop flew over Saturday. Bishop, who was killed in the crash, is pictured above in a high school photo. |
Islamic militants with links to al-Qaeda, arrested in Singapore, are now accused of planning the bombings of US interests there. Authorities say the targets included military bases and embassies. A doctor who performs abortions is said to be ready to settle a case in which one of his patients sued because the doctor didn't inform her of the alleged link between abortions and cancer. Pro-abortion groups say there's no such link; pro-lifers say there are 28 studies that have established a link between spontaneous or induced abortions and breast cancer. Witnesses to the downing of American Airlines flight 587 are charging that government investigators are ignoring accounts of explosions on the plane before it crashed in pieces in New York. A new "trojan horse" virus is reconfiguring some people's Internet Explorer settings, sending them involuntarily to porno websites. The Service Merchandise chain is closing all 200 stores nationwide. Going out of business sales will begin at the stores January 19th. Threats, including a cyanide-laced letter, have been received in New Zealand as plans continue for a golf tournament at which Tiger Woods will be playing. Convicted Oklahoma City bombing accomplice Terry Nichols will stand for another trial in Oklahoma. The US Supreme Court Monday refused to hear arguments to block the trial. Democrats are lining up to run for president in 2004. Among them: North Carolina Senator John Edwards, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman and...Al Gore. -- Mike Shiloh |
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