al Qaida's European Truce Ends

ROME (AP) - A three-month offer of a terrorism truce purportedly made by Osama bin Laden expired Thursday with little notice in the European countries invited to accept it.

After the taped message was broadcast on Islamic satellite networks April 15, CIA officials said technical analysis of the recording indicated it probably was authentic.

"I announce a truce with the European countries that do not attack Muslim countries,'' said the audiotape by a man identifying himself as bin Laden.

"The door to a truce is open for three months,'' but the time frame could be extended. "`The truce will begin when the last soldier leaves our countries,'' the speaker said without elaborating.

The truce was an apparent effort to drive a wedge between Europe and America, and was quickly spurned by Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain.

As the deadline passed in European capitals, where security forces already were on increased alert, there was no apparent change in the resolve to battle terrorism.

Possible al Qaida Threat Against Italy IanLivingston.Com Exclusive

This is an ultimatum to the Italian people. Either get rid of Berlusconi, the Incapable, or -specifically- we will burn Italy. This is a clear equation. We're indicating, to clear our conscience at this point, that you have been warned. After this, the next message you will see on your earth - you won't be reading it on an Internet site.

Berlusconi promises you only blood and total slavery to the United States...I remind you again of the great Italian journalist Antonio Rosso who was killed by Putin's secret service because he shared in the suffering of our brothers in Chechnya where he was welcome. Berlusconi has not lifted a finger to ask for an open investigation into that murder.

'Fumes' Sicken Passengers on Southwest Flight

LINTHICUM, Md. -- A passenger vomited onboard a plane just before it landed at Baltimore-Washington International Airport late Thursday night.

A Southwest Airlines flight from Houston that was supposed to dock at BWI's Gate C11 was initially reported to have as many as 12 people onboard who were not conscious when the plane landed, WBAL-TV 11 News reporter John Sherman reported.

But airline officials told 11 News that one person was passed out on the plane after vomiting. That set off an apparent chain reaction as five others also became ill. The first person refused treatment at the scene after the plane landed, but at least one person was reported to have been transported to a local hospital, 11 News reported.

Ozzy Osbourne Compares Bush to Hitler

WANTAGH, N.Y., July 14 — "Enjoy yourself — while you still can," Tom Araya of Slayer told the crowd at Ozzfest halfway through a low-slung, fast and unpretentious set here tonight. And that's a fine doom-trope, a typical metal pensée: live hard and prevail over the weak-willed, for the horned one doth await with sharpened fang and scythe.

But it was also a weather report. By the end of Slayer's set, the first raindrops wet the Jones Beach Amphitheater, and it stormed miserably for the next two hours, right through Judas Priest's reunion set and into the first quarter of Black Sabbath's closing performance.

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"War Pigs," the opener, was the best song of the set and the entire day. To double the force of the music, the giant screens next to the stage showed pictures of President Bush juxtaposed with pictures of Hitler.

It may have been Mr. Osbourne's shrewd answer to the Bush campaign's recent Internet advertisement "Coalition of the Wild-Eyed," which sets film of various Democratic leaders fulminating against films of Hitler fulminating. Another image during the same song showed the president with a red dot superimposed on his nose; the caption read "Bush the Clown." One more showed Mr. Bush's face with a slash across it, reading "Wanted."

2nd al Qaida Militant Surrenders to Saudis

LONDON, England (CNN) -- A Saudi militant has turned himself in to authorities in Syria, Saudi security sources said Thursday, the second such surrender in two days.

The militant, Ibrahim al-Harbi, gave himself up Thursday at the Saudi Embassy in Damascus, sources said.

He is said to have met with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

On Tuesday, another militant, Khalid al-Harbi, surrendered to the Saudi Embassy in Tehran, Iran, and was flown to Saudi Arabia.

Both men, who are thought to be from the same Saudi tribe but not necessarily closely related, appear to be taking advantage of a 30-day leniency offer extended by Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah last month.