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3.19.04 - 5:45 p.m.

Standoff on the Pakistan border

Reuters raw video news feeds - "Powell in Iraq: Arab Journalists Stage Walk-Out," includes Colin Powell's speech.
Reuters (story): Iraqi Journalists Rebuke Powell Over Killings
Online Newshour story (based on Al-Arabiya reports) : Arab Journalists In Iraq Protest Deaths Of Reporters, Lack Of Security

Dueling stories:
Al Jazeera: Taliban warns US, Pakistan to stop attacks;
Reuters: Taliban Spokesman Denies Threatening Pakistan.

Al Jazeera: Mass Iraq protests planned in the US
Primary source on the long-planned protests: unitedforpeace.org

Agence France-Presse: 'The al-Qaeda number 2 is safe' / Al-Qaeda Top Two Safe In Afghanistan: Taliban (same story at Islam Online (Qatar) with more reporting at the bottom)

Debkafile (Israel):

DEBKAfile Reports Exclusively: Pakistan red-faced on discovering “high value” terrorist target its troops surrounded in Waziristan was not bin Laden’s No. 2 Zuwahiri but chief of Pushtun Ahmadi tribal federation. DEBKA sources estimate that any harm to Pushtun chief would spark wholesale tribal war offensive against Pakistan.

Asia Times: Afghan offensive: Grand plans hit rugged reality:

Al-Jazeera - (Qatar) - live breaking news from Pakistan/Afghanistan border

While mainstream news sources continue to report the possibility that a high-level Al-Qaeda leader may be under attack in Pakistan, The Australian has reported, Bin Laden's right-hand man slips net; similarly, The International Herald Tribune, citing Reuters and AFP sources, reports, Militant may have fled fighting in Pakistan.