Latest developments from CNN

Maorza · by **Maorza** on Wed Sep 19, 2001 6:20 pm

Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2001 
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Laden's fate</a>) 
 
• Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf is preparing to 
outline his country's role in any U.S. military action in neighboring 
Afghanistan. But unhappiness among many Pakistanis towards 
the U.S. is threatening to sour any agreement reached between 
the two governments over the use of airspace and deployment 
of ground troops in Pakistan. (Full story) 
 
• The British Foreign Office has warned Britons to leave Pakistan 
unless it is necessary for them to stay, and has asked British 
nationals not to travel to Pakistan until further notice. 
 
• Markets in Tokyo and most other Asian countries closed higher 
for the second straight day, giving investors some hope for a 
longer rally. On Tuesday, the Dow Jones industrial average 
closed near a three-year low. (Full story) 
 
• The FBI retracted a warning it had issued Tuesday about the 
threat that terrorists might hijack fire trucks and use them as 
bombs. An FBI officials said the report was "a mistake." (Full 
story) 
 
• Jordan's King Abdullah told CNN the uncovering of a terrorist 
cell planning attacks on hotels in his country during millennium 
celebrations over New Year's 2000 helped prevent thousands of 
deaths in the United States and Europe. 
 
• French President Jacques Chirac met with President Bush at 
the White House Tuesday evening and said his country stands in 
"total solidarity" with the United States and will "fight by your 
side" during a "conflict of a completely new nature." (Full story) 
 
• The U.N. General Assembly will postpone its annual high-level 
debate involving 50 heads of state because of the World Trade 
Center collapse, it said Tuesday. Diplomats said the 
postponement is to avoid putting a burden on New York's 
exhausted security forces. 
 
• U.S. and European financial regulators are investigating 
whether Osama bin Laden and his associates profited by trading 
in stocks of airlines and other companies affected by last week's 
terrorist attacks, CNN has confirmed. (Full story) 
 
• A Pakistani convenience store owner in rural south Texas has 
been arrested on ammunition charges after being placed on the 
FBI's watch list after the terrorist attacks in Washington and 
New York, authorities said Tuesday. 
 
• Investigators have compiled evidence regarding the terrorist 
attacks from a "good volume" of e-mail messages exchanged 
before September 11 by hijackers and what were termed 
"known associates," an FBI source told CNN Tuesday. The 
evidence was gathered from both privately owned computers 
and public computers such as those in libraries, the official said. 
 
• More than 5,000 people are feared dead in the September 11 
attacks. A fourth plane crashed in Stony Creek Township, 
Pennsylvania, killing everyone aboard. (Full story) 
 
• New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says 218 people are 
confirmed dead in the World Trade Center attacks; 152 of those 
have been identified. Emergency workers accounted for 74 of 
the dead. "The chances of recovering any live human beings are 
very, very small now, given the amount of time and the condition 
of the site," Giuliani said. (Full story) 
 
• Meanwhile, Giuliani may consider running for a third term, 
despite a term-limits law that appears to preclude such a run. 
Giuliani's popularity has soared as a result of his handling of the 
attacks, and has been lauded by TV personality David Letterman 
on the air as "the personification of courage." 
 
• Determining the identity of victims of the World Trade Center 
tragedy will require meticulous sorting, special attention to 
comparative location of objects and the skills of anthropology 
and dental experts. (Full story) 
 
• Mohamed Atta -- one of the suspected hijackers on board the 
first plane to slam into the World Trade Center last week -- met 
with an Iraqi intelligence official somewhere in Europe this year, 
U.S. officials said Tuesday. The officials cautioned this contact 
does not mean that Iraq had a role in last week's attacks, but 
they are exploring what it may mean. 
 
• The FBI is conducting a nationwide manhunt for 185 people it 
has identified as possibly having information about last 
Tuesday's attacks. At least 49 people are in federal custody and 
being questioned. 
 
• Two weeks before the terrorist attacks in New York City and 
Washington, FBI agents were at a flight school in Oklahoma 
asking questions about a man now suspected of having a link to 
those attacks, sources said. (Full story) 
 
• Philippine authorities warned the FBI six years ago of a 
terrorist plot to hijack commercial planes and slam them into the 
Pentagon, the CIA headquarters and other buildings, Philippine 
investigators told CNN. (Full story) 
 
• The USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier battle group will 
deploy today from Norfolk, Virginia, headed for the 
Mediterranean Sea "and perhaps points east" of there, officials 
told CNN Tuesday. (Full story) 
 
• U.S. troops will soon provide security around the Pentagon, 
defense officials tell CNN. The troops will augment the 
Pentagon's civilian police force and military police. No timetable 
was provided for the arrival of troops. 
 
• The federal trial of the highest-ranking accused associate of 
suspected terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden in U.S. 
custody, scheduled to begin Wednesday, has been postponed 
until next year. Mamdouh Mahmud Salim is charged with 
attempted murder in the stabbing of a federal jail guard while 
awaiting trial on conspiracy charges linked to the 1998 bombings 
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