Philadelphia
Military asks researchers to help develop 'odor bomb'
Scientists are experimenting with the worst smells imaginable to help the military develop an "odor bomb" so foul it could clear crowds.
"What they would be interested in is something to keep people out of certain areas," said Pamela Dalton, a researcher at the Philadelphia-based Monell Chemical Senses Center. "We are going for odors that every culture has experienced and the experience is negative."
Dalton cautioned that the military could be a long way from developing such an offensive weapon, and that scientists are still trying to work out some bugs.
"How do you contain these odors until you are ready to use them?" she asked.
Iraq
Saddam vows defeat of any foreign attack
President Saddam Hussein on Sunday vowed that Iraq's army would defeat any foreign attack and shrugged off reports that the United States might extend its campaign against terrorism to Iraq.
Addressing the nation on the occasion of Army Day, Saddam also praised Iraq's military and the Palestinian uprising against Israel.
"As your debased enemies failed in the past, so will any aggressor fail, if he lets himself be seduced into committing an act of evil," Saddam said in a 20-minute speech on national television.
India
Unmanned plane shot down in Kashmir
Indian soldiers shot down an unmanned Pakistani spy plane that intruded into Indian air space in disputed Kashmir on Sunday, military officials said. Pakistani officials denied this.
The drone, which takes aerial photographs, was flying nearly 2.5 miles inside Indian territory in the Poonch sector along the India-Pakistan border when troops fired at it, an Indian army official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
In Islamabad, Pakistani military officials said no Pakistani spy plane had been shot down.
"No Pakistani spy plane has been shot down by India in the Himalayan region of Kashmir," a senior military official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Another Pakistani military official suggested that India may have shot down a child's remote-control drone.
Afghanistan
Food running out for al-Qaida holdouts
Anti-Taliban troops said Sunday they plan to starve out seven heavily armed al-Qaida members who have been holed up in an Afghan hospital for a month.
Troops with automatic weapons have cornered the al-Qaida members in a few rooms of the Mir Wais hospital in Kandahar. They said they expect the standoff to end within a week.
"The United States wants us to take them alive. It would be easy to finish it now, but they would all die," said Fazil Bali, a commander with the Kandahar security force. He said the men's food was running low, and one doctor said it might already be finished.
"We gave (soldiers) advice and said 'Let the food run out,"' Bali said.
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