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For the first time physicists have achieved quantum entanglement between two large clouds of gas. This achievement means we may live in a future that contains super-fast quantum computers, instant communication over unlimited distance, and even a sort of teleportation.

Among other things, quantum computers will be able to function far more efficiently than the human brain, and to be much, much larger. It’s possible that these experiments are the forerunners of the first genuinely intelligent machines.
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It is likely that Osama bin Laden’s hideout has been located. A complex game of cat-and-mouse is being played out in world media as well as on the ground in Afghanistan. For some days, it has been believed that Osama bin Laden was in a tunnel complex dug in northeastern Afghanistan, in the Ourzugan area. To further this belief, the Taliban sent truckloads of provisions to the town between the 15th and 20th of September.

British SAS forces operating in Afghanistan became convinced at one point that bin Laden was in Jalalabad, to the point that they almost assaulted the sites where they believed he was hiding.
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Legendary Afghani leader Ismail Khan is moving against the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, considered the spiritual capital of the Taliban movement, according to news reports from Pakistan.

Khan, who gained his reputation as defender of Herat during a Russian siege, is being supported by US Special Forces units in his march toward the city. Two Taliban ministers and the governor of a major province have promised him support if he captures the city. If an attempt to topple Mulla Omar, the leader of the Taliban, succeeds, moderates within Afghanistan will invite the former king, Zahir Shah, to set up a new government through the use of a Loya Jirga, or grand assembly, the traditional Afghan means of selecting a new national government.
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Attorney General John Ashcroft said today on CNN’S “Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer” that there could still be terrrorists operating in the US and that more attacks are possible. Ashcroft said, “it’s very unlikely that all of those associated with the attacks of September 11 are now detained or have been detected.”

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