Mr. Mohammed was a victim of his own sloppiness, said a senior European intelligence official. He was meticulous about changing cellphones, but apparently he kept using the same SIM card.

Israel ordered Jewish settlers to leave nine West Bank outposts or face eviction, possibly by next week, in a move aimed at helping prime minister Ariel Sharon win a trip to Washington and US backing for his unilateral disengagement plan.

Yemeni police havearrested a founder of an Egyptian militant group linked with al-Qaeda - their second high profile arrest this week of an alleged Islamic extremist.
Yemeni authorities have not given the reason for Mr Sharif's arrest, nor explained what he had been doing in Yemen and how long he had been there.

Aristide alleged Paris's attitude was in reaction to his demand for the restitution of Haiti's "independence debt" from its former colonial ruler, which Haiti estimates to be worth $US21.7 billion ($28.8 billion).
Mr Aristide told Ribbe his removal from Haiti had begun about 6pm on Saturday. "It was one of the longest nights of my life," he recalled. "I saw US soldiers at the airport with my own eyes.
"We were there (in the plane) for 20 hours without knowing where we were going. It was only 20 minutes before we arrived here that we discovered we were going to land here. There were French soldiers with cameras to film it all."

Bush's election swept into power a generation recommended by pedigree as much as politics: Michael Powell, son of Secretary of State Colin Powell, became chairman of the Federal Communications Commission; Elaine Chao, wife of Senator Mitch McConnell, became Secretary of Labor; Elizabeth Cheney, the Vice President?s daughter, became a deputy assistant secretary of state; her husband became chief counsel for the Office of Management and Budget.
Bush even appointed the grandson of the irascible nonagenarian Senator Strom Thurmond as US attorney for South Carolina.

The Labor Department reported the economy added just 21,000 positions in February and also downgraded job gains for January from 112,000 to 97,000.

Ashcroft, 61, believing he had stomach flu, canceled a Thursday appearance to announce verdicts in a terrorism case, the department said.