For Pakistan's Pashtuns, tribe outweighs nationality
PABBI, Pakistan -- When a male child is born in a Pashtun village, gunfire is the first sound he hears. Pashtun men celebrate the birth of a brand-new warrior by firing their rifles into the sky, and the lead falls back to the powdery earth like drops of hard rain.

This war won't be measured in weeks
LONDON -- Stung by the stubborn resilience of the Taliban, senior American and British officials are bracing themselves for a military campaign in Afghanistan that promises to be more prolonged and difficult than they hoped as recently as early October.

The anthrax files
The locations where anthrax has been found, the three people who have died from anthrax and others found to have anthrax:

Pilot led a quiet life in Orlando
The small jet owned by Osama bin Laden was careening down the runway, out of control.

21 killed in Kashmir rebel attacks
JAMMU, India -- Islamic rebels blew up a police jeep and fought gunbattles with Indian security forces in several areas of Kashmir on Saturday. At least 21 people were killed and 30 wounded.

Postal Service arrests in hoaxes now total 14
WASHINGTON -- Postal inspectors have arrested 14 people in anthrax-related hoaxes and say they are actively pursuing other cases.

Celebratory phone calls led to arrests
WASHINGTON -- Within hours of the terror attacks on Sept. 11, FBI agents hurriedly intercepted telephone calls in which suspected associates of al-Qaida in the United States were overheard celebrating the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Heavy bombing hits Taliban front lines
JOM QADAM, Afghanistan -- In what witnesses called the heaviest such strikes of the air campaign, U.S. warplanes staged a daylong assault Saturday on Taliban front lines in the north of Afghanistan.

Report: CIA preparing to kill certain terrorists
WASHINGTON -- According to a report in today's Washington Post, the Central Intelligence Agency is contemplating clandestine missions expressly aimed at killing specified individuals connected to Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaida network.

Iraq expects to be attacked by U.S.
LONDON -- Iraq's deputy prime minister says "it is just a matter of time" before Britain and the United States attack his country, and accused them of trying to remove Saddam Hussein's government under the pretext of a war on terrorism, a British newspaper reported Sunday.

Pakistan turns over 'Cole' bombing suspect
KARACHI, Pakistan -- A Yemeni microbiology student wanted in connection with the bombing of the USS Cole was secretly handed over to U.S. authorities by Pakistan's intelligence agency early Friday, according to a Washington Post report that cited Pakistani government sources.

Health officials to churn out smallpox vaccine
WASHINGTON -- Federal health officials, spurred by last month's terrorist attacks and by the recent dissemination of anthrax spores through the mail, are mounting an unprecedented effort to produce enough smallpox vaccine for every American by the end of next year.

Lost lives, lost lifelines
Like hundreds of other immigrants who died in the World Trade Center, Keith Broomfield supported relatives in his homeland. Now a family in Jamaica wonders how it will survive.

Israel suspends plan to pull out of towns
BETHLEHEM, West Bank -- Israel suspended a planned withdrawal from two West Bank towns Saturday after it said Palestinian gunmen fired on its soldiers. Palestinians said that the pullout was supposed to have been unconditional and that the delay shows Israel isn't serious about peace.

31-million foreign-born Americans, 8-million illegal
WASHINGTON -- Roughly 8-million illegal immigrants live in the United States, early estimates from the 2000 census show, swelling the country's total foreign-born population to more than 31-million people.

Number of U.S. Muslims disputed
Two new studies have found that Muslims in America may number no more than 2.8-million, a figure more than 50 percent lower than what is commonly cited by the media and many Islamic organizations.