Developments in Terrorist Attacks
By The Associated Press
Developments related to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks:
Taliban reject President Bush's "second chance" offer to surrender terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden, the Afghan Embassy in Pakistan says. The president had earlier given the Taliban another opportunity to "cough up" bin Laden and his followers.
Fighter jets pounded the area around Kabul's airport Saturday in a seventh straight day of airstrikes. The action followed a hiatus in the U.S.-led campaign for most of Friday, the Muslim holy day.
An assistant to NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw contracted the skin form of anthrax after receiving a letter containing a suspicious powder. The FBI said authorities "see no connection whatsoever" to the Sept. 11 attack. But Vice President Dick Cheney says he's skeptical that they're not related: "I think the only responsible thing for us to do is proceed on the basis that it could be linked."
The government widened its financial dragnet, announcing a freeze of U.S. assets of senior aides to Osama bin Laden and bakeries and honey shops in Yemen accused of fronting for bin Laden's terror network.
President Bush said the nation "is still in danger" from future attacks by terrorists, but vowed that "they will not take this country down."
A Taliban report that 200 villagers were killed in a missile strike this week opened a contentious exchange of claims and counter-claims Friday over civilian casualties from the U.S.-led air campaign against Afghanistan.
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