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MIDDLE EAST

More violence: Marginalizing Arafat

As tit-for-tat violence claims more lives, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon unleashes the troops and dismisses the Palestinian leader as "irrelevant"

WAR ON TERROR

Indictment The First of Many

A U.S. Grand Jury charges that Moroccan-born Zacarias Moussaoui is an al-Qaeda operative tied to the Sept. 11 attacks

Roughing It: Omar's Place

While ordinary Afghans struggled in their war-torn country, Taliban leader Mullah Omar lived very well indeed

Evicted: Where Now?

Al-Qaeda's fighters enjoyed Afghan hospitality for years. They will now be looking for another, equally welcoming base