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In the second part of his conversation with Jim Lehrer, Vice President Dick Cheney discusses the threat posed by Iraq and the possibility of military action against Saddam Hussein. He also adds his personal reflections on the events of Sept.

Israeli police Thursday destroyed one of the largest car bombs ever discovered in the Middle East, narrowly averting what Israel's foreign minister called a catastrophe that would have changed the nature of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai survived an attempt on his life in the southern city of Kandahar Thursday just hours after a deadly car bomb explosion ripped through the downtown commercial district of Kabul, Afghanistan's capital.

Scott Sullivan, WorldCom's former top finance executive, pleaded innocent to charges he hid billions of dollars of the phone company's expenses as part of a scheme to artificially inflate its earnings by some $5 billion over the course of 18…