Lawmakers Question FBI Informant About Moussaoui Probe
Congress probes FBI handling before 9 11 as Coleen Rowley testifies. House and Senate intelligence panels question Rowley after her May 21 letter alleging headquarters blocked a Moussaoui investigation. Senate Judiciary will hear her next, while leaders vow accountability.
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Congress
FBI
Coleen Rowley
Senate
House
Rowley
Zacarias Moussaoui
Moussaoui
Senate Judiciary Committee
Islamic Jihad Bombing Hits Megiddo Bus in Israel
A car bomb exploded beside a moving bus at Megiddo Junction in northern Israel, killing 16 or 17 passengers including Israeli soldiers and injuring many. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility timing the attack to mark a war anniversary. Israel deployed tanks. Palestinians feared broader reprisals and arrests followed. The Palestinian Authority condemned the strike, saying it had no foreknowledge.
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Israel
Islamic Jihad
West Bank
Gaza Strip
Hamza Samadi
Jenin
Palestinian Authority
Megiddo Junction
White House widens search for Arafat successor
The White House signaled a shift toward identifying potential Palestinian leaders who could curb terrorism while keeping a faint door open to Arafat reform. Officials condemned a bombing near an Israeli bus, stressing the need for a trusted alternative and expanded engagement with a new generation of Palestinian leaders.
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Bush
Palestinian Authority
White House
India proposes joint monitoring of Kashmir border
India offers to jointly patrol the disputed Kashmir frontier with Pakistan to verify militants are not crossing into Indian controlled Kashmir. Pakistan dismisses the idea as unlikely to work, while Bush and British officials press for diplomacy as tensions mount.
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Kashmir
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Pakistan
United States
Britain
Pervez Musharraf
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Bush
U.N
Vajpayee
Musharraf
Defense
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Richard Armitage
VA to reshape hospital system shifting to outpatient care
Veterans hospitals nationwide face potential closures or scaled back operations as the Department of Veterans Affairs shifts focus to outpatient services. Decisions on specifics will come after demographic analyses of 163 hospitals and over 1,000 clinics, with an independent nine member commission to propose changes by August 2003.
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Department of Veterans Affairs
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Leo S. Mackay Jr
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Jihad Group
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