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Television networks wary of airing bin Laden tapes
The Associated Press
DOHA, Qatar — The chief executive of Al Jazeera television defended its policy of airing statements by Osama bin Laden yesterday, saying they are a "scoop" any news network would not hesitate to accept.
"We will continue in a high professional manner
Hamad bin Thamiralso rejected U.S. suggestions the tapes may contain coded messages and said Al-Jazeera would continue to present "opposing viewpoints."
... to cover events when and where they occur, whether that is in Afghanistan or any other country," he told a news conference.
After a conference call with National Security
Adviser Condoleezza Bice, the major U.S. television networks agreed they would not broadcast transmissions from bin Laden's al-Qaida group without first screening and possibly editing them.
Al-Jazeera, one of the Arab world's most independent news channels and the only station broadcasting from within Afghanistan, says bin Laden is using it to release al-Qaida statements because of its nonbiased reporting.
"Any organization that was able to obtain such a scoop would not hesitate to accept it," bin Thamir said.
He said broadcasting videos of bin Laden is no different from CNN's broadcasting speeches of
Saddam Hussein during the 1991 Gulf War.
"The tapes arrive at Al-Jazeera's office in Kabul in a manner I don't know about, then someone brings it to the (main) office where we as a media organization accept it," he said.
On Tuesday, CNN and NBC aired unedited a tape of Abu Ghaith praising the Sept. 11 terror attacks and warning there would be more. The networks said later they would reconsider their policy.
Al-Jazera has broadcast two videos of bin Laden and one of al-Qaida representative Sulaiman Abu Ghaith in the month since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Nobel Peace Prize rumors focus on United Nations
The Associated Press
OSLO, Norway — This year's Nobel Peace Prize is a special award at a special time.
It's the centennial of one of the world's top honors. And it comes after last month's devastating terrorist attacks in the United States, and this week's reprisal bombings of Afghanistan.
With the world anxious to curtail the spiraling violence, some Nobel watchers were guessing the United Nations and its secretary general, Kofi Annan, are top prospects to win.
Stein Toennesson, director of the International Peace Research Institute in Oslo, said that Annan and the United Nations would probably have been top candidates before the decision deadline two weeks ago and
that world dismay at the looming clash of civilizations would seem only to better their chances.
Some others nominated for the prize are known because those who sponsored them made the nominations public.
They include U.S. diplomat and peace broker Richard Holbrooke; the International Red Cross; Chinese Falun Gong movement founder Li Hongzhi; jailed Israeli nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu; Japanese historian Saburo Lebaga; dissident Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Quang Do; former President Carter; former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari; the European Court of Human Rights; Cuban President Fidel Castro and even the game of soccer.
U. N. agencies or people connected to the world body repeatedly have won the prize, but none has gone to the United Nations itself. The U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, also was considered a contender.
The five-member Norwegian awards committee never gives hints and won't even say who was nominated — only that 136 names were received by the Feb. 1 deadline.
Geir Lundestad, the committee's secretary, said the winner was chosen on Sept. 28, 17 days after the terror attacks on New York and Washington.
"Of course, the committee was very aware of that event," he said.
At least24 men killed by fighters in Colombia
The Associated Press
BOGOTA, Colombia — Right-wing paramilitary fighters pulled unarmed people off buses and out of their homes in a southern village, killing at least 24 men after accusing them of aiding leftist rebels, authorities said yesterday.
Twelve other people are missing Despite President Andres Pastrana's efforts to negotiate an end to the 37-year civil war, the violence has been escalating across this South American country.
A wave of bloodshed has claimed at least 49 lives, including four soldiers and the mayor of a town. Twelve other people are missing and feared dead.
The massacre was one of several attacks and slayings around the country this week, most of them blamed on the outlawed paramilitaries, known as the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia, or AUC.
car country. The worst massacre took place Wednesday in Buga, an agricultural village 160 miles southwest of Bogota. Authorities have found the bodies of 24 men and are still looking for six others who are feared dead.
leared dead.
"The they took the people out of two buses and from their homes," Buga Mayor John Jairo Bohorquez told Caracol radio. "They separated the women, old people and children, and then killed the men."
people and others. Bohorquez said members of the AUC shot each of the men in the head after accusing them of aiding leftist rebels. The mayor was not immediately available for further comment because he was looking for bodies of more victims, his office said.
Luz Mary Carmona said her son had been home visiting when he was killed. She's planning to leave the village, as are many others. "Life is over here," she said.
Last year 317.375 Colombians fled their homes, the majority of them because of massacres, according the Human Rights and Displacement Council.
Also yesterday, police said the mayor of a small southern town was killed along with his driver and three other people, apparently by paramilitaries. The killing yesterday of Cartagena del Chirara Mayor Luis Elias Marin happened near the town of Montanitas, on the edge of a safe haven the government granted to the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, almost three years ago.
Paramilitaries have also been blamed for the slaying of six fishermen whose bodies were found Wednesday; an attack on an army patrol the same day that left four soldiers and an AUC fighter dead; and the assassinations of two congressmen and a union leader in the past week.
unofficer in the city. Gunmen also killed three counternarcotics police and three civilians after stopping their vehicles on a highway near the Caribbean Sea, police said yesterday. The attackers' identity was unknown.
The Colombian Defense Ministry said that 303 people had been massacred through July of 2001, 199 of them by the AUC.
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