United Arab Emirates: Al-Qaida members detail planning of Sept. 11 attacks

Arab station Al-Jazeera said Thursday that it will broadcast interviews with two al-Qaida members who admit to helping the terror network plan and carry out the Sept. 11 attacks.

The Qatar-based, pan-Arab broadcaster, which drew world attention when it carried videotaped interviews with Osama bin Laden, said the interviews would air next Thursday as part of its coverage marking the anniversary of the attacks against the World Trade Center and Pentagon.

Al-Jazeera said the al-Qaida members, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Ramzi Binalshibh, were interviewed recently at a secret location but did not elaborate further.

Binalshibh, a Yemeni believed to be in his late 20s or early 30s, was a member of a Hamburg-based cell led by Mohammed Atta, the Egyptian-born suspected lead Sept. 11 hijacker. Binalshibh remains at large.

Mohammed, 36, is one of the FBI’s most-wanted terrorists and is believed to be at large in Afghanistan or nearby, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press in June.

India: Government seeks extradition of ex-Union Carbide chief

Despite a delay of 18 years, the Indian government is preparing to seek the extradition of the American who headed Union Carbide Corp. when a gas leak killed thousands in India in 1984, a top official said Thursday.

The government was processing evidence gathered against Warren Anderson, former chairman of the company, before seeking his extradition from the United States to face trial in India, the official told reporters.

Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official gave no time frame as to when extradition would be sought.

Anderson headed Union Carbide when methyl isocyanate gas leaked from the plant on Dec. 2, 1984, killing 4,000 people within hours.

Washington: Stewart faces legal action

A House committee investigating Martha Stewart’s sale of stock in biotech company ImClone has “reached the end of the road” in trying to get her cooperation and may take legal action, a spokesman said Thursday.

Possible courses of action include a referral to the Justice Department for potential criminal prosecution, said Ken Johnson, a spokesman for Rep. Billy Tauzin, R-La., chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Stewart sold nearly 4,000 shares of ImClone stock on Dec. 27, a day before the company’s application for federal review of Erbitux had been denied.