According to unidentified sources, a federal grand jury had indicted Osama bin Laden, the Saudi millionaire who is believed responsible for the two recent bombings of American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. He is also a suspect in the June 1996 bombing of military barracks in Saudi Arabia. Currently bin Laden is believed to be hiding out in Afghanistan.

By now you may have heard about Kathryn Schoonover, the alleged cancer patient who was caught trying to mail cyanide packets that were supposed to be free samples of nutritional supplements. She was putting the cyanide into the baggies in the Marina del Ray post office lobby. Now news has surfaced that at least one person received one of the gray envelopes without a return address. This housewife thought the whole package looked odd, and just threw it away, but now we have questions about how many others may have also received it - and did they throw it away? If you receive unsolicited nutrititional supplements in the mail, authorities recommend that you leave it alone and contact your post office. Cyanide powder, even in small amounts, can kill within minutes by asphyxiation.

Michael Giovanetti was returning from Virginia where he had dropped off a friend before heading home to New York. Unemployed, he had planned to look for work while his wife and children vacationed in North Carolina. However, he lost control of his vehicle when trying to enter the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Skidding on gravel, he shot across the pavement and through the guard rail, where the car launched into the air and landed about 100 feet down a steep, boulder-strewn hill. He suffered broken ribs, a broken sternum, massive bruising and a head injury. The first day he banged a piece of metal from the wreckage on the car, but nobody heard him. The second day he tried unsuccessfully to get out. On the third day, he managed to get halfway out of the wreckage, and rigged up a rubber mat to collect rainwater into plastic bottles. That was his only water until his rescue on the fourth day - which occurred after he had crawled crab-like up the steep hill. Too weak to get over the guard rail, he lay on the side of the road, trying to wave down someone until good Samaritans in a beat-up sedan pulled over. He is recovering at his parents' home in Ohio, saying "I felt somebody else was helping me � like it was a team."

The Arab League has given strong backing to Sudan, denouncing the U.S. missile attack as aggression against an Arab country. During an emergency meeting, the council passed a resolution urging the U.S. to avoid future actions "which may arouse public outrage" in the Arab world. Sudan has asked the UN Security Council to investigate the strike that destroyed the Shifa Pharmaceutical Industries plant near Khartoum. The Deputy US Ambassador to the UN Peter Burleigh said he did not see a reason for a fact-finding mission as "there is no doubt about the credibility of the US determination" that the plant produced chemicals used in making VX nerve gas.

A senior US intelligence official said that a soil sample was "obtained by clandestine means" from the factory, and tested positive for a chemical that is "one-step away" from VX gas. The sample was obtained before the missile attack, and contained the chemical EMPTA, which has no commercial use except in the production of nerve gas. In addition, there is supposedly other evidence linking the plant with chemical weapons production such as links between senior officials at the facility in Sudan and an Iraqi who is known as "the father of Iraq's chemical weapons program."

The Pakistani government reports that an unexploded Tomahawk cruise missile has been found, apparently one of the several used by the U.S. in attacks against Afghanistan the night before. They announced that they will lodge a formal complaint against the U.S. at the United Nations. The Pakistani foreign ministry announced that Pakistan's airspace had been violated. The missile was found by locals around 10:30 pm and that other missiles fired by the U.S. warships were seen flying overhead. The dud missile made a crater 12 feet deep with clear markings of "Made in USA." It was more than seven feet long, according to a district official. The missile was cordoned off, and a bomb disposal squad rushed to the scene. The nearest settlement to where the missile landed is said to be seven miles away.

Last Friday Pakistan had claimed that a missile had struck their side of the Afghan border but later retracted the claim, because the missile did in fact hit Afghan territory, killing five or six people. At the time the Prime Minister had called President Clinton, lodging his protest. The Prime Minister later sacked the chief of intelligence over the blunder.

Approximately 75 Tomahawk missiles were fired Thursday at six targets in camps in eastern Afghanistan. The U.S. says these camps were terrorist training sites, linked to Saudi exile Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden is suspected to be the mastermind, or at least the financier, of two bombings at U.S. embassies in East Africa on August 7th. Those bombings killed at least 263 people, including 12 Americans, and wounded more than 5,000. Afghan officials say 21 people were killed and 30 injured in the U.S. missile strike.

The U.S. also fired missiles at a suspected chemical weapons factory in Khartoum, Sudan. Their government insists the factory only made medicines, but U.S. officials say they have evidence. Sudan's leader, President Omar Hassan el-Bashir, accused President Clinton of being a "war criminal of the first degree." Sudan says 10 people were wounded in the strike. White House spokesman Mike McCurry said the U.S. would consider cooperating with a formal U.N. investigation. Supreme Taliban leader Mohammad Omar ordered bin Laden to stop making threatening statements against the United States. An Afghan press report said that bin Laden has agreed to obey. His followers aren't being silent, though. According to one, "we won't shut down these camps. We will allow more so that the Muslims should fight for their rights and against the gangsterism of America."