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The UK Ministry of Defense refuses to discuss reports that a Special Air Service (SAS) Reconnaisance Unit disturbed Taliban soldiers a few miles from Kabul and exchanged fire with them.

The Mail on Sunday and the Sunday Times are reporting that a four man SAS unit escaped unhurt after the clash. Both papers are also reporting that the SAS has been in Afghanistan for five days and has already linked up with the Northern Alliance.

A Royal Navy fleet of 13 ships has passed through the Suez Canal. Meanwhile, US military planes have landed in Uzbekistan on Afghanistan’s northern border, and both countries are massing air and sea power in the region.
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Reuters is reporting that Japanese government officials have told the Jiji News Agency in Tokyo that the US has warned its allies of a possible second round of attacks by the end of this week.

The next round of attacks would be on a greater scale than the destruction of the World Trade Center and the damage to the Pentagon. Jiji quoted its source as saying that the methods used would be “even more cruel and shocking.”

The attacks could involve the US, NATO countries and Pakistan. The US reportedly believes that the attacks, if they come, will occur by the end of this week at the latest.
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The National Agricultural Aviation Association announced today that crop dusters were prohibited to fly by order of the FAA on Sunday, September 23. The prohibition continues until 12:05 AM on Monday.

For the NAAA announcement, click here.

There is serious concern that a biological or chemical attack is intended as a followup to the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Crop dusters are not allowed to fly near metropolitan areas at all, by order of the FBI.

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Pope John-Paul has arrived in Kazakhstan for a four day visit and Vatican sources are telling the news media that it has been assured that there will be no US military action in the area during this time. Kazakhstan is a former Soviet republic bordering Afghanistan.

The Pope refused to cancel his visit, despite the tensions in the region. It is opposed by the Russian Orthodox Church, which sees it as an intrusion. The vast majority of the people of Kazakhstan are Moslem. It has only a tiny Catholic population.

He will travel next to Armenia to make an appeal for tolerance there as well. In Kazakhstan, the Pope will visit a memorial to the thousands of deportees who died in Stalin’s prison system there.
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