"Portable missiles were fired at incoming planes [in Iraq] several times in recent weeks, one senior official said. Most of those incidents have not been reported to the public." [more]

" 'It is not enough to be with us in the war on terrorism, but you have to trumpet it,' explained an American official in Southeast Asia. Washington would prefer that leaders behave like President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines, who has publicly pledged her allegiance to the United States in the campaign against terrorism." [more]

"The terrorist network that Osama bin Laden has stealthily built up in Southeast Asia over the past decade is largely intact, intelligence officials in several countries said in interviews over the last week. It may even have become more deadly and more virulently anti-American than it was a year ago, they say." [more]

"The blast that killed nearly 200 people on the Indonesian resort island of Bali this weekend is a different type of terrorism from what the Bush administration has campaigned against, and will open a new geographic front in that campaign, Western officials said yesterday." [more]

"Authorities in Singapore announced today the arrests of 21 men they identified as members of an extremist Islamic organization that spans Southeast Asia, strengthening evidence gathered by American investigators that the group was preparing attacks on American targets." [more]

" 'Listen to me,' he said, pointing his finger and switching from Pashtu to English. 'There was a time, when Russia was in power, we liked Americans.' Indeed, when the Soviet Union occupied Afghanistan, men from the tribal areas joined the guerrilla army that was backed by the United States. 'Now we hate Americans. Under our tribal rules, we designate an enemy. America is now the enemy.' " [more]

"This was the most deadly attack in which American civilians were killed since Sept. 11. There has been a surge of sectarian killings of Shia doctors in recent weeks in Karachi, Pakistan, long know as a city with considerable crime and violence. The American journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped in Karachi in January and then killed." [more]