Portal:Current events/2003 September 11
September 11, 2003 (Thursday)
- As the United States remembers the deadliest terrorist attack ever on its shores, the United States Department of State warns it is seeing "increasing indications that al-Qaeda is preparing to strike United States interests abroad" and urges citizens overseas to take special caution on the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks amid growing indications that al-Qaeda is planning bigger attacks, "possibly involving unconventional weapons such as chemical or biological agents."[1][2][3]
- Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh dies in the hospital from stab wounds inflicted while she was shopping in a department store in the centre of Stockholm. In the wake of the incident, both the Yes and No Euro campaigns suspended their activities.[4]
- The Security Cabinet of Israel votes in principle to expel President of the Palestinian National Authority Yasser Arafat from the West Bank. According to one source, the cabinet decided to ask the Israeli Defense Force to draw up a plan to expel Arafat. No timeline was specified, and Israeli government sources say that the decision was not to expel him immediately. The U.S. Department of States criticises such a move as "unhelpful". Thousands of Palestinians travel to the presidential compound in Ramallah to protest at the Israeli decision. Ahmed Qurei, Prime Minister of the Palestinian National Authority-designate, announces in response that he is halting efforts to form a government. Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov states an international force may be needed to end spiraling violence in the Palestinian territories.[5][6][7]
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists achieve the lowest temperature ever recorded, half a billionth of a Kelvin (0.5 nanokelvin) above absolute zero, in sodium gas. At that speed, atoms move about 12 cm/second.[8]
- The 6-10 Office, an arm of the National Security Bureau and Public Security Bureau of the People's Republic of China responsible for the measures against Falun Gong, changes its name to the "Leading Bureau for the Prevention and Procession of Evil Cults."
- Actor John Ritter dies just shy of his 55th birthday after an unsuccessful surgery for an undisclosed heart condition.
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