Arabic News Daily Page for 9/17/2002
Daily Edition - Tuesday, September 17, 2002
- Yemenis interrogated in New York
American official sources announced on Monday that the five Yemenis who are carrying the American nationality and who were arrested on Friday in Buffalo, New York, under the charge of forming a cell for al-Qaida organization were investigated several weeks before the attacks of September 11, 2001. Yemen-USA, Local, 9/17/2002 - Suez Canal ready for competition
Head of the Suez Canal Authority (SCA) Ahmed Fadil explained that the Israeli proposed project of digging a canal linking the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea through the Dead Sea is unfeasible. Egypt, Economics, 9/17/2002 - Argan bay station project presented to world media
The 1,530,000 m2 station will include 35 hotels, with 19,760 beds. Third of the hotels will be five stars, another third four stars, and the remaining third will be made up of villas and residences that will offer 5100 beds. Some 260,000 m2 will be dedicated to entertainment and shopping areas. Morocco, Economics, 9/17/2002 - Turkey takes measure to prevent Kurdish state
The US Defense News magazine said that the tense relations between Turkey and the Kurdish groups of Masoud al-Barazani in northern Iraq, obstructs Washington's plan of directing a military attack against Iraq. Iraq-Turkey, Politics, 9/17/2002