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Newspaper
Ottawa Herald
Location
Ottawa, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 2002
Page
6
Police in Ahmadabad report sectarian violence between Hindu and Muslim neighbors resulting in 17 deaths. The incident saw both sides hurl stones and gasoline bombs as officers intervened. Nine Muslims and three Hindus died, with one Hindu reportedly struck by a gasoline bomb.
In a crowded field of 16, Jacques Chirac led with 19.65 percent and Jean Marie Le Pen surged to 17.06 percent, forcing a May 5 runoff after Lionel Jospin trailed. Left and right candidates urged supporters to back Chirac to block the extremist National Front leader.
U S envoy William Burns met Yasser Arafat for about two hours at Ramallah to break the stalemate delaying cease-fire talks. In Ramallah a masked militia shot three suspected informers in a downtown square as Israeli forces confined Arafat and hundreds to rooms in his headquarters. In Gaza, Israeli undercover forces killed two Palestinians.
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo ordered intensified security and a crackdown on terrorists after a wave of bombings in General Santos city. The worst blast killed 14 and injured 69 outside a department store as two suspects were arrested, with a $100,000 bounty offered for those responsible.
A taxi driver testified in a Karachi court that a British-born Islamic militant drove off with Daniel Pearl in a white car the day of the journalist’s disappearance. Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and three co-defendants pleaded innocent to murder kidnapping and terrorism charges in the Pearl case. The trial remains closed to journalists and the public.
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