Topic: W A R - on March 24, 2003 at 10:23:38 PM CET
Iraqi TV Shows Two Men Said to Be Captured U.S. Pilots
Iraqi television on Monday showed two men who it claimed were captured U.S. Apache helicopter pilots. Gen. Tommy Franks, the U.S. war commander, confirmed that one helicopter did not return from its mission and that its two-man crew was missing.
The two shown on Iraqi TV wore cream pilot overalls and did not speak to the camera but appeared confused. They turned their heads and looked in different directions as the camera filmed them.
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Topic: W A R - on March 24, 2003 at 10:15:08 PM CET
DJ No Chemical Weapons Found At Site In Najaf
NBC News reported from the Pentagon that no chemicals at all were found at the site. CNN, also reporting from the Pentagon, said officials now believe the plant there was abandoned long ago by the Iraqis.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 24, 2003 at 10:12:19 PM CET
Microsoft ad pulled by ASA
The Advertising Standards Authority of SA (ASA) has ordered that a Microsoft ad implying that its software will bring about the extinction of the hacker is to be pulled for being "unsubstantiated and misleading". The advert depicts a dodo, a woolly mammoth, a sabre tooth tiger and a hacker. The caption claims that not everyone benefits from Microsoft software and that with it, a customer's data couldn't be safer even if it was kept in a safe. It was published in the November issues of ITWeb Brainstorm and Time Magazine.
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Topic: SEX - on March 24, 2003 at 10:00:40 PM CET
Come Clean
A BBC Wales campaign has enlisted the help of Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh to promote safe sex and stop the rise of sexually-transmitted infections (STIs).
BBC Wales' Social Action Week aims to raise awareness about STIs with a multi-media promotion called Come Clean.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 24, 2003 at 9:42:03 PM CET
Hotmail restricts outgoing messages
Microsoft’s MSN Hotmail, a free Web-based e-mail service, has tightened restrictions on daily outbound messages sent by subscribers, a tactic it says will help curb spam. THE REDMOND, WASH.-based company said that Hotmail subscribers are now limited to sending only 100 messages a day “in an effort to prevent spammers from using Hotmail to spread spam,” said Lisa Gurry, MSN lead product manager. The change, made last week, should affect only about 1 percent of its nearly 110 million worldwide users, based on historical usage data, Gurry said.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 24, 2003 at 9:38:27 PM CET
KGB chief ordered 4m soldiers to keep watching the skies for UFOs
Yuri Andropov, the former Soviet leader and long-time head of the KGB, had an acute personal interest in UFOs and ordered a 13-year programme that required every soldier in the military to monitor sightings over Russian territory, according to new revelations.
Andropov shunned the splendour enjoyed by many Soviet leaders to live in a sparse flat throughout his 15 years as KGB chief and one year as Secretary-General of the Communist Party.
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Topic: W A R - on March 24, 2003 at 11:14:29 AM CET
Fake surrender used to trap troops
IRAQIS have used ambushes and even fake surrenders to kill and capture US troops, American officials have said.
Up to nine Marines died and a dozen US soldiers were taken prisoner in surprise engagements with Iraqis at the southern city of Nasiriyah.
"Clearly they are not a beaten force," said General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "This is going to get a lot harder."
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Topic: TV - on March 24, 2003 at 10:56:42 AM CET
Al-Jazeera Internetstream
Big one 380kbps
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Topic: TV - on March 24, 2003 at 10:34:08 AM CET
Al Jazeera clear on Astra 1E - yes its your dbox or DVB card in Europe
SES Astra has started a clear digital broadcasts of Al Jazeera information channel on the transponder 24 of the Astra 1E - 19,2E satellite. Al Jazeera channel is available in the frames of this part of French Canal Satellite digital package which broadcasts in clear.
Kanalnummer : 24 Frequenz GHz : 11.568 Polarisation : V Kanalname : Al-Jazeera Channel Symbolrate : 22000 Forw Error Corr : 5/6 Video PID : 55 Audio PID : 56 PCR 4DTV : 55 Service ID : 9021 Transponder ID : 1024 Network ID : 1 Hauptsprache : ARABISCH
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Topic: W A R - on March 24, 2003 at 10:02:57 AM CET
Iraq TV Shows Downed Apache Helicopter
Iraqi television showed pictures on Monday of what it said was a downed "enemy" helicopter south of Baghdad. The black Apache helicopter, still armed with guided missiles with U.S. markings on them, appeared intact with no sign of having been shot down. The television said it came down near the city of Kerbala, 70 miles southwest of Baghdad. There were reports of helicopter strikes by U.S. forces south of Baghdad overnight.
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Topic: W A R - on March 24, 2003 at 9:23:48 AM CET
Iraq's Saddam Hails Military on Iraqi Television
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, dressed in military uniform, appeared on state television on Monday and hailed the Iraqi military on the fifth-day of a U.S.-led invasion to overthrow him.
"We made a lot of sacrifices to avert war," Saddam said, praising the "valiant" contribution of the Iraqi military in resisting a U.S. and British war against Iraq that began on Thursday.
He said the invasion forces were "trapped" by heroic Iraqi resistance.
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on March 24, 2003 at 9:11:56 AM CET
75th Annual Academy Awards
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