Topic: Terror - on March 21, 2003 at 11:26:38 PM CET
Loss of control in the Middle East; Explosion at U.S. embassy compound
Nearly 40,000 protestors have broken through police lines and held up traffic in downtown Cairo, Friday, hours before the shock and awe phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom was initiated.
On Friday, Egyptians cried in unison their support for Iraq and their resentment of Arab leaders as they set fire to trucks near the Egyptian TV and Broadcast building overlooking the Nile in downtown Cairo.
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Topic: W A R - on March 21, 2003 at 10:48:47 PM CET
CNN Special Reports
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Topic: ROBOT - on March 21, 2003 at 10:29:51 PM CET
Tiny robot weighs less than half an ounce
Seiko Epson took a year to develop the prototype Monsieur II-P microrobot.
The tiny machine dances on two wheels and is fitted with miniature ultrasonic motors.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on March 21, 2003 at 10:10:04 PM CET
Boycott the Oscars
As they said during the Vietnam era, "What if they gave a war and nobody came?" So think of the significance, with this insoluble invasion of Iraq coinciding with the insipid Oscars, if they gave the biggest awards show in the world and nobodies came.
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Topic: Terror - on March 21, 2003 at 9:59:08 PM CET
Spanish authorities release Al Qaeda suspects
Chemical weapons material found at their homes turned out to be laundry soap
Authorities in Spain have released almost all of a group of 16 men accused of being Al Qaeda militants - after suspected chemical weapons material found at their homes turned out to be laundry soap.
High Court officials in Madrid say the men, mainly from Algeria, were detained in dawn raids on a dozen homes in the north-eastern region of Catalonia in January.
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Topic: W A R - on March 21, 2003 at 9:55:45 PM CET
Amerikaner entfesseln Bomben-Inferno
Der Stadtkern Bagdads wurde von zahlreichen gewaltigen Explosionen erschüttert. Mehr als 20 Marschflugkörper schlugen ein. Der Regierungskomplex stand nach dem Angriff in Flammen. Krankenwagen rasten mit heulenden Sirenen durch die Straßen. Allein in Saddam Husseins Hauptpalast in Bagdad schlugen nach Informationen der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters ein Dutzend Raketen ein. Später folgte offenbar ein zweite Welle von Luftangriffen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 21, 2003 at 9:53:46 PM CET
SPIEGEL-ONLINE-SIDEBAR
Immer wissen, was wichtig ist
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Topic: SECURITY - on March 21, 2003 at 9:51:55 PM CET
PEINLICHE PANNE
Hacker knacken NSA-Computer
Wahrscheinlich politisch motivierten Hackern ist ein sportlicher kleiner Punktsieg gegen Amerikas Geheimdienst NSA gelungen: Sie knackten den Presseserver der Behörde. In der Nacht zu Donnerstag gelang es muslimischen Hackern, die Inhalte von rund 400 US-Websites durch politische Slogans zu ersetzen.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 21, 2003 at 9:49:27 PM CET
Yahoo schließt Übernahme von Inktomi ab
Dezember-Deal über 235 Millionen Dollar ist nun über die Bühne
Yahoo (Börse Frankfurt: YHO) hat jetzt die Übernahme des Suchspezialisten Inktomi abgeschlossen. Wie das Unternehmen mitteilte, ist der im Dezember angekündigte 235 Millionen-Dollar-Deal nun über die Bühne gegangen.
Der Kauf war kurz vor Weihnachten angekündigt worden. Inktomi-Technologie steckt unter anderem hinter den Suchoptionen von MSN und Hotbot. Das finanziell ins Straucheln geratene Unternehmen suchte Rettung und fand sie jetzt bei Yahoo. Bezahlt wurde 1,65 Dollar pro Inktomi-Aktie, so Yahoo in einer offiziellen Stellungnahme.
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Topic: - on March 21, 2003 at 9:42:56 PM CET
Thank God for the death of the UN
Its abject failure gave us only anarchy. The world needs order. Saddam Hussein's reign of terror is about to end. He will go quickly, but not alone: in a parting irony, he will take the UN down with him. Well, not the whole UN. The "good works" part will survive, the low-risk peacekeeping bureaucracies will remain, the chatterbox on the Hudson will continue to bleat. What will die is the fantasy of the UN as the foundation of a new world order. As we sift the debris, it will be important to preserve, the better to understand, the intellectual wreckage of the liberal conceit of safety through international law administered by international institutions.
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on March 21, 2003 at 9:36:53 PM CET
Teacher found in closet with crack pipe, jailed
A middle school teacher who was found in a school closet with a crack pipe was arrested on Thursday.
The Parkway Middle School teacher, 40-year-old Marc Slutsky, said ''he had made a terrible mistake'' when he was found at the school near Fort Lauderdale, according to a Broward Sheriff's Office arrest report.
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Topic: W A R - on March 21, 2003 at 8:59:19 PM CET
U.S.: Saddam was wounded in initial air strike
Iraqi leader was seen being taken from his home on stretcher wearing oxygen mask. The Pentagon on Friday evening announced that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was wounded in the American air attack two days earlier. The Iraqi leader was the target of the air strike at the start of the war, which was carried out after intelligence information was received on his location.
Iraq denied that Saddam Hussein was injured.
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