Topic: W A R - on March 25, 2003 at 8:59:43 PM CET
Bush sends $75bn bill for war
President Bush has sent Congress a request for $74.7bn (£47.5bn) to pay for the first six months of the war.
Speaking at the Pentagon, Mr Bush said that America accepts the cost of supporting the military, and asked Congress for the freedom to spend much of the money as he wished due to the "fluid" nature of the war.
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Topic: TV - on March 25, 2003 at 8:55:14 PM CET
Al-Jazeera's English Site Slammed by Traffic
The al-Jazeera Arabic TV channel based in Qatar is known to most Americans only be reputation. Few Americans have access to the station's satellite signal.
But the station is reaching a new audience thanks to a newly launched website. With little promotion, the station's Web site is being swamped with hits.
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Topic: W A R - on March 25, 2003 at 8:50:04 PM CET
All Six Iraqi GPS Jammers Destroyed, U.S. Says
U.S.-led forces have destroyed six GPS jamming systems it said Iraq had been trying to use to disrupt its satellite positioning equipment, a U.S. general said Tuesday.
"We have noticed some attempts by the Iraqis to use a GPS jamming system that they have procured from another nation," Maj.-Gen. Victor Renuart told a news briefing at the command headquarters in Qatar of the U.S.-led invasion.
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Topic: W A R - on March 25, 2003 at 8:40:13 PM CET
Al-Qaida message aids Iraq
Terrorist network offers information on defeating U.S. forces
NBC News has obtained a copy of a message from the al-Qaida terrorist network to Muslims in Iraq, a message that is, in effect, a military playbook on how to defeat Americans. THE MESSAGE obtained by NBC News is in Arabic, and is addressed to “our brothers in Iraq.” It is written by Saif Al-Adel, the security chief for Osama Bin Laden, said to be the mastermind for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. Al-Adel is believed to be the third highest al-Qaida official alive and on the run.
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Topic: W A R - on March 25, 2003 at 8:34:22 PM CET
Putin denies Russian arms sales to Iraq
'Groundless' allegations can only hurt relations, he tells Bush
Russian President Vladimir Putin has told President Bush that Russian companies are not supplying sensitive military equipment to Iraq.
Putin made the denial in a telephone conversation Monday evening. He told Bush that the allegations can only harm relations between the two countries.
The United States accuses privately owned Russian companies of supplying Iraq with antitank missiles, night-vision goggles and radio-jamming equipment that can interfere with planes and bombs.
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 25, 2003 at 8:30:39 PM CET
Portable computer pioneer Adam Osborne dead at 64
Adam Osborne, who co-founded a company that pioneered portable computers but met the same fate of countless future Silicon Valley firms that grew too quickly, has died. He was 64.
Osborne died in his sleep in Kodiakanal, India, on March 18, after a series of strokes caused by a brain disorder, his first wife, Cynthia Geddes, said Monday. He was buried Tuesday in India.
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Topic: W A R - on March 25, 2003 at 8:22:46 PM CET
Cooking Iraq's Computers
War with Iraq may allow the United States to debut a new -- and perhaps revolutionary -- class of weapons that can cripple an enemy's ability to fight without harming people or destroying buildings.
They are known collectively as "high-powered microwave weapons" (HPM) and use bursts of electromagnetic energy, delivered by low-impact bombs or "ray gun"-like devices, to disable or destroy the electronics that control everything from an enemy's radar to its laptops.
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Topic: W A R - on March 25, 2003 at 8:17:09 PM CET
Dolphin belonging to Commander Task Unit
K-Dog a Bottle Nose Dolphin belonging to Commander Task Unit (CTU-55.4.3) leaps out of the water in front of Sergeant Andrew Garrett while training near the USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44) operating in the Arabian Gulf.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 25, 2003 at 7:27:32 PM CET
Why You Should Never Wear Red In A Casino
A lady in red is a welcome visitor to any casino -- though she may not like the reason why.
It seems the security cameras that casinos rely on for catching cheaters have the side-effect of seeing right through any clothing colored red.
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Topic: - on March 25, 2003 at 7:03:01 PM CET
Company shows 'cloned baby'
A company claiming to have created the world's first cloned babies has distributed a photograph of one of the "clones" for the first time. Clonaid said a picture of an infant in an incubator published on its website showed the third of five babies supposedly cloned since December.
Many scientists have dismissed Clonaid's claim that any babies were ever cloned at all, pointing to the absence of DNA proof.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on March 25, 2003 at 6:37:34 PM CET
You don't speak Arabic ?
aljazeerah in english. This website is not related to Al-Jazeera TV
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Topic: COMPUTER - on March 25, 2003 at 6:32:48 PM CET
Honey i shrunk the PC
Casetronic, an industry innovator in the design and manufacture of electronic enclosures and passive electronic components has developed Mini-ITX systems, using the VIA EPIA and EPIA M-series mainboards, which are nothing short of engineering marvels. To actually get all the components of a complete PC in a footprint of this size is astounding! The case is the same dimensions as a car stereo based on the Japanese and Euro standards.
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