GRIEVING U.S. STEPS UP RAIDS – TALIBAN BOSS’ RELATIVES KILLED IN BOMBING...
Ferocious daylight bombing raids aimed at Osama bin Laden and his Taliban guardians rocked Afghanistan yesterday – while the thousands killed in the Sept. 11 attacks were quietly mourned under glorious...
View ArticleBUSH: EVIL TALIBAN STARVING THE PEOPLE
President Bush yesterday denied the United States is to blame for the plight of starving Afghans – and pointed the finger squarely at the country’s Taliban rulers. He dismissed criticism that the...
View ArticleSOC-SEC PAYOUT UP, BUT SO IS MEDICARE PAY-IN
WASHINGTON – The elderly will get an average $22 more in their monthly Social Security checks next year, but will have to pay more for Medicare coverage. The Social Security Administration announced a...
View ArticleRIDGE’S BLUNDERS PUTTING HIM ON THE SPOT AS FALL GUY
WASHINGTON – New homeland security czar Tom Ridge is trying to avoid becoming the latest victim in the anthrax scare. Just three weeks into the job, the former Pennsylvania governor is the front man in...
View ArticleHIGH ALERT IS HERE TO STAY : RIDGE EXTENDS WARNING ‘INDEFINITELY’
The United States will be kept on high alert indefinitely, Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge announced yesterday. The latest alert – which mobilizes 18,000 law-enforcement agencies around the...
View ArticleARREST IN ANTHRAX PROBE: POLICE RAID TRENTON APT. BUILDING
Federal agents raided a Trenton apartment building yesterday, detaining one man on immigration charges as part of their search to find who sent anthrax-contaminated letters through the mail....
View ArticleSHE’S A FIRST-RATE FIRST LADY: POLL
WASHINGTON – Laura Bush gets a thumbs-up from most Americans. who say Mrs. Bush – not feisty predecessor Hillary Clinton – is their idea of what a first lady should be. Mrs. Bush fits the first-lady...
View ArticleLAURA’S GOING ON THE AIR FOR A LITTLE TALI-BASHING
WASHINGTON – Shy and soft-spoken Laura Bush will make waves today – airwaves – as the first first lady ever to give the weekly presidential radio address, plugging women’s rights in Afghanistan. Mrs....
View ArticleWE’LL GET HIM DEAD OR ALIVE: PREZ
WASHINGTON – President Bush yesterday said it’s OK with him if U.S. troops kill Osama bin Laden rather than take the terrorist alive. “I don’t care – dead or alive, either way. I mean, it doesn’t...
View ArticleBUSH SCOFFS AT CLAIMS THAT VIDEO WAS DOCTORED
President Bush yesterday denounced as “preposterous” claims that the Osama bin Laden videotape is a fake. “This is bin Laden, unedited,” Bush insisted. “It is preposterous for anybody to think this...
View ArticleWANTED: MARSHALS TO PATROL ON PLANES
With the friendly skies turning deadly, the Federal Aviation Administration is swamped with Americans wanting to become gun-toting marshals on airline flights. The FAA is beefing up its top-secret...
View ArticleW. KICKS TERROR IN THE ASSETS
WASHINGTON – President Bush, vowing to wipe out Osama bin Laden’s multimillion-dollar war chest for terror, yesterday declared the buck stops here. Bush froze the U.S. assets of 27 “most wanted”...
View ArticleFRENCH COPS FIND TALIBAN ‘CODEBOOK’
French police have found a codebook used by a terror cell linked to Osama bin Laden – and are combing through reams of intelligence data in hopes of discovering fresh evidence, it was reported...
View ArticleFRENCH FIND ‘CODEBOOK’
French police have found a codebook used by a terror cell linked to Osama bin Laden – and are combing through intelligence data in hopes of finding fresh evidence, it was reported yesterday. Police...
View ArticleWEAPON OF CHOICE AN OLDIE BUT GOODIE
WASHINGTON – As bombs rained down on Afghanistan yesterday, the Pentagon used an old favorite – the Tomahawk cruise missile – to deliver its deadly message to Osama bin Laden and his Taliban pals. The...
View ArticleCROSSHAIRS ON KEY TARGETS – TALIBAN COMPOUNDS & TERROR CAMPS BLASTED
WASHINGTON – On Day 1 of the air war on terrorism, the United States and Britain yesterday sent in warplanes and fired 50 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the ruling Taliban’s key military centers in...
View ArticleCROSSHAIRS ON KEY TARGETS:TALIBAN COMPOUNDS & TERROR CAMPS BLASTED
WASHINGTON – The United States and Britain yesterday sent in warplanes and fired cruise missiles at 100 targets – including the ruling Taliban’s key military centers in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden’s...
View ArticleA VARIED VOLLEY OF OLD & NEW WEAPONRY
WASHINGTON – As U.S. military might rained down on Afghanistan yesterday, the Pentagon used an old favorite – the Tomahawk cruise missile – as well as exotic, new “smart” bombs to deliver its deadly...
View ArticleCITY KIDS FLAGGING IN SCHOOL ‘PLEDGE’
President Bush will rally schoolkids ’round the flag tomorrow by leading a nationwide recital of the Pledge of Allegiance – but it might not fly in New York schools. Not only do few city schools...
View ArticleBUSH TO OPRAH: SUFFER THE CHILDREN
WASHINGTON – Laura Bush told Oprah Winfrey yesterday that the first thing she did after learning about the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center was “call my girls.” The First Mom, appearing on...
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