Fighting terror notebook

Compiled from Times wires
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published February 21, 2002

4 rockets targeted Karachi air facilities

KARACHI, Pakistan -- The police bomb squad defused four rockets rigged with a homemade timer on Monday -- explosives aimed at airport facilities in Karachi used by the U.S.-led coalition to support operations in Afghanistan.

Two of the rockets were aimed at a terminal at Karachi's international airport used by the coalition for supplying troops in Afghanistan. The other two were aimed at an airport hotel used as a barracks for troops.

Officials said they believed Islamic radicals were responsible. They said it appeared both the rockets and the Jan. 23 kidnapping in Karachi of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl were part of an extremist campaign against President Pervez Musharraf because of his support for the U.S.-led war against terrorism.

Pearl's whereabouts remain unknown.

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TRIAL BEGINS IN ITALY: Three Tunisians accused of cooperating with Osama bin Laden's terrorist network went on trial Monday in a heavily guarded Milan, Italy, courtroom on charges they supplied false documents and belonged to a criminal group that tried to traffic in arms and explosives.

GEORGIA MAY LEND A HAND: Georgia's President Eduard Shevardnadze said his country would consider launching a joint security operation with the U.S. to uproot terrorists hiding in a gorge on the border with Russia's breakaway republic of Chechnya.

U.S. PAYS FOR SUPPORT: Pakistani Finance Secretary Yunous Khan said the U.S. paid Pakistan $80-million for providing logistical support to its forces in the war against terrorism.

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