The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Cairo, Egypt - The Arabic newspaper Al-Quds al-Arabi said Thursday it had received a claim of responsibility for the Madrid train bombings issued in the name of al-Qaida. The five-page e-mail claim, signed by the shadowy Brigade of Abu Hafs al-Masri, was received at the paper's London offices. It said the brigade's ``death squad'' had penetrated ``one of the pillars of the crusade alliance, Spain,'' and carried out what it called Operation Death Trains. The statement warned the United States that a major strike is approaching. "We announce the good news for the Muslims in the world that the strike of the black wind of death, the expected strike against America, is now at its final stage - 90 percent ready - and it is coming soon, by God's will.'' Washington, D.C. - Four of the world's biggest Internet and computer companies have banded together to take a bite out of e-mail spam. Microsoft Corp., America Online Inc., Earthlink Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. are together suing hundreds of people suspected of sending junk messages over the World Wide Web. Defendants have not yet been named. The companies say they hope to work through the courts to find them. Brussels - The European Commission banned Canadian imports of live poultry, poultry meat and eggs after a second strain of avian flu was found on a British Columbia farm this week.
