Topic: - on March 11, 2003 at 6:37:38 PM CET
How mobile phones and an £18m bribe trapped 9/11 mastermind
The electronic surveillance network Echelon played a key role in the capture of the alleged September 11 mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, it was reported yesterday - as did a $27m (£18m) payment to an "al-Qaida foot soldier", who may be planning to relocate to Britain.
The new details of the arrest were emerging as Pakistan's main intelligence agency held an unprecedented briefing on the capture for foreign journalists in Islamabad.
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Topic: - on March 11, 2003 at 6:35:53 PM CET
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Chance of Invasion Today: 99 percent
Russia says it will veto the new U.S.-British resolution in its current form. U.S. and France lobby swing votes on Security Council. A leader of Pakistan's ruling party says Pakistan will abstain. Britain implicitly offers to push back March 17 deadline in exchange for votes. New U.S. spin: We've gone to war justly without U.N. support before. Turkey continues to negotiate compensation for U.S. troop deployments.
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Topic: - on March 11, 2003 at 6:28:46 PM CET
US develops superbomb
The US has made a superbomb which could be used to frighten Iraq into submission. The giant device contains 21,000lb of high explosive and dwarfs the huge "daisy cutter" bombs used against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
The Pentagon intends to test the bomb and videotape the results as a warning to Iraq of what the US could inflict.
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Topic: - on March 11, 2003 at 6:16:20 PM CET
How to build a career with Legos
Educational courses are the building blocks for a succesful career, but have you ever thought that maybe building with building blocks may the blocks upon which your career could be built? If your answer is yes, or even 'huh?', you may have a future in the prospering trade of LEGO construction, a relatively new vocation that utilizes those cute moulded plastic pieces.
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Topic: - on March 11, 2003 at 6:07:32 PM CET
Network worm uses weak Windows passwords
Say hello to a network worm which attempts to compromise and spread through Windows machines with weak, default passwords. Called Deloder, the worm also tries to drop a backdoor component.
And yes the worm is spreading through vulnerable machines - albeit modestly, according to Symantec.
The worm spreads by scanning random IP addresses, trying to connect on Port 445. Port 445 (Microsoft SMB over TCP/IP) allows outsiders to access Windows file shares.
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Topic: - on March 11, 2003 at 5:59:13 PM CET
McDonald's to Offer Wireless Internet
Would you like super-sized Internet access with that burger and fries? In a further sign of the spread of wireless Internet technology, McDonald's restaurants in three U.S. cities will offer one hour of free high-speed access to anyone who buys a combination meal. Ten McDonald's in Manhattan will begin offering wireless WiFi, or 802.11b, Internet access on Wednesday, McDonald's spokeswoman Lisa Howard said.
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Topic: - on March 11, 2003 at 5:39:00 PM CET
World's Oldest Wheel Found?
A 5,100- to 5,350-year-old wooden wheel recently was found in Slovenia buried within an ancient marsh, according to a press release issued earlier this month by the Slovenian news agency STA.
The team of archaeologists who found the wheel claims it is 100 years older than the world's current tied record-holders, both said to be from Europe.
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Topic: - on March 11, 2003 at 5:35:52 PM CET
Raging bull stops football matches
Two Sunday football matches had to be abandoned and playing fields evacuated when a bullock ran wild through a Wiltshire village.
The young bull became separated from his herd as he was being moved into a field in Lavistock.
Upset, he ran through the village before being cornered in a nearby garden.
Three more bulls eventually had to be brought into the garden to calm him down and coax him to safety.
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Topic: - on March 11, 2003 at 5:30:40 PM CET
PENTAGON THREATENS TO KILL INDEPENDENT REPORTERS IN IRAQ
The Pentagon has threatened to fire on the satellite uplink positions of independent journalists in Iraq, according to veteran BBC war correspondent, Kate Adie. In an interview with Irish radio, Ms. Adie said that questioned about the consequences of such potentially fatal actions, a senior Pentagon officer had said: "Who cares.. ..They've been warned."
According to Ms. Adie, who twelve years ago covered the last Gulf War, the Pentagon attitude is: "entirely hostile to the the free spread of information."
"I am enormously pessimistic of the chance of decent on-the-spot reporting, as the war occurs," she told Irish national broadcaster, Tom McGurk on the RTE1 Radio "Sunday Show."
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Topic: - on March 11, 2003 at 5:28:03 PM CET
GUITAR SHAPED WATCHES
2 GIBSON USA WATCHES. BRAND NEW, NEVER WORN. EACH COMES WITH A GUITAR SHAPED LEATHER WATCH CASE. THEY ARE BOTH AUTHENTIC GIBSON USA WATCHES. ONE IS THE SHAPE OF AN EXACT REPLICA OF THE 67 FLYING V. THE OTHER IS AN SG 61 REISSUE SHAPED GUITAR. BOTH ARE FINELY DETAILED EVEN INCLUDING THE STRINGS.
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