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Stories from 2003-09-17

FBI Plans Counterterrorism Database

Dan Eggen | Washington Post | September 17, 2003

"The master watch list will be tapped by thousands of federal law enforcement officers and many others ? from small-town cops making traffic stops to airport workers screening passengers to personnel managers checking on applicants for jobs at nuclear plants." [more]

US Considers 'Regime Change' for Syria

Timothy M. Phelps | Newsday | September 17, 2003

"Bolton testified that Syria and Libya had weapons of mass destruction programs that must be 'rolled back' and eliminated. [He] said diplomacy is the administration's preferred approach but that 'every tool in our nonproliferation toolbox' was an option. Bolton refused to rule out 'regime change' as an administration option in Syria." [more]

US May Be Detaining Americans, Britons in Iraq

STAFF | Reuters | September 17, 2003

"A spokesman in Iraq did not specify how many were being held but U.S. defense officials in Washington said six people claiming American nationality and two who said they were British were in detention at the Abu Ghraib prison west of Baghdad." [more]

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