Topic: W A R - on April 2, 2003 at 3:34:12 PM CEST
Analysis: Strains Show in Trans-Atlantic Alliance
So much for the "special relationship."
Barely two weeks into war and strains are already showing between the United States and its top ally Britain over what sort of war to wage in Iraq and how the region will look once fighting ends.
Britain is at pains to stress the two nations are entwined in the most "intimate" of operations -- protecting each other's backs in war -- and that "absolute openness, close cooperation" characterizes the transatlantic military alliance.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on April 2, 2003 at 2:32:26 PM CEST
Toxin threat to Inuit food
Researchers have for the first time documented "unacceptable levels" of man-made environmental toxins in the Inuit population of Greenland. There is little doubt the toxins originate from the traditional local diet of polar bears, seals and whales, a diet which so far has been considered one of the healthiest on the planet.
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Topic: - on April 2, 2003 at 2:29:53 PM CEST
Vorhut schon 30 Kilometer vor Bagdad
Die Stadt al-Kut sei erobert und die Division geschlagen worden, welche die Fernstraße nach Bagdad gehalten habe. "Die Bagdad-Division ist vernichtend geschlagen", sagte US-Brigadegeneral Vincent Brooks. Nach seinen Worten finden schwere Kämpfe im Raum Kerbela mit anderen irakischen Elitedivisionen statt.
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Topic: - on April 2, 2003 at 2:28:03 PM CEST
Battle for Baghdad Begins in Area Surrounding Iraqi Capital
The battle for Baghdad got under way today as American ground forces entered the "red zone." United States Army and Marine ground forces advanced on separate axes into the swath of territory around Baghdad that is defended by the Republican Guard and has been characterized by American commanders as the most strategically vital and treacherous of the war.
Although still 50 miles or more from the capital, the attack brought the American military one step closer to its ultimate objective: capturing Baghdad and toppling the government of President Saddam Hussein.
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Topic: W A R - on April 2, 2003 at 2:26:13 PM CEST
Saddam 'intends to damage holy sites'
Tony Blair claimed today that Saddam Hussein intends to destroy Iraq's holy sites and pin the blame on coalition forces.
During prime minister's questions, Mr Blair pledged that Britain would do everything it could to protect the shrines.
The prime minister said intelligence reports showed that the Iraqi regime "intends to damage the holy sites ... with a view to blaming the coalition falsely for that damage".
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Topic: W A R - on April 2, 2003 at 2:03:19 PM CEST
I Planned Saddam's Bunker
As U.S.-led forces bombarded Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's main palace complex, spare a thought for the German architect who says he designed a multi-million-dollar bunker buried deep underneath it.
Karl Bernd Esser claims on his company's Internet website that the bunker, built in 1982 to the highest specifications, has a total area of 1,800 square meters (19.370 square feet).
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Topic: W A R - on April 2, 2003 at 2:00:55 PM CEST
Wir schützen Bunker für jeden Bedarf weltweit
Saddam Bunkerbauer
1.0. Private Schutzräume
Hausschutzräume in bestehenden oder neu zu errichtenden Gebäuden sind in ihrer Größe begrenzt und fassen maximal 50 Personen. Die Schutzräume können jedoch in Gruppen arrangiert werden, um z.B. 300 Personen in einer Wohnanlage Schutz zu bieten.
Es ist möglich, die Risiken, die durch alle Arten von Waffenwirkungen entstehen, mit gut entworfenen Schutzbauten zu reduzieren. Die Schutzmaßnahmen hängen vom gewünschten Schutzausmaß ab, wobei solche Faktoren wie zu erwartende Waffen, annehmbare Risiken und Kosten sorgfältig in Betracht gezogen werden müssen.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 2, 2003 at 1:26:18 PM CEST
Airport trouble for Saddam son's ex-double
A former double of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's feared elder son Uday says he was treated "like dirt" by immigration officers who refused him entry to Britain at the weekend.
"Honestly, I never had this before," 39-year-old Latif Yahia, who survived nine assassination attempts while impersonating Uday, said of his detention at Birmingham airport after arrival from Germany.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on April 2, 2003 at 1:22:52 PM CEST
Identity of killer pneumonia bug confirmed
Scientists have satisfied key tests that confirm that the virus causing the global outbreak of severe pneumonia is a new type of coronavirus. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) has so far struck down more than 2300 people, and killed 78.
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Topic: W A R - on April 2, 2003 at 12:40:50 PM CEST
Serb chair of Bosnia presidency resigns over arms-to-Iraq scandal
The Serb chairman of Bosnia's tripartite presidency Mirko Sarovic has resigned after being implicated in an arms-to-Iraq scandal and a spying affair, Bosnian Serb parliamentary speaker Dragan Kalinic said.
A report by Western intelligence services links Sarovic with secret arms sales by the Serb military aviation company Orao to Iraq while he was president of the Serb part of the country, known as Republika Srpska.
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Topic: POLITIK - on April 2, 2003 at 12:06:54 PM CEST
Bahrain expels Iraqi diplomat for suspected bombing links
Bahrain on Wednesday expelled the first secretary of the Iraqi Embassy due to his suspected links to a bombing outside a US naval base, Egypt's official MENA news agency reported.
Charge d'Affaires Abdullah al-Gabori of the embassy was summonedto the Bahraini Foreign Ministry and handed the order of the departure of Nazem Gawad Ali, MENA said, quoting the Bahraini news agency.
Ali was suspected of having close contact with Iraqi national Udai Abdel Amir Hasoun who was held responsible for the Jufair blast on March 24.
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Topic: ART - on April 2, 2003 at 10:55:44 AM CEST
An Austrian artist has staged an unusual anti-war protest by parking three cars bearing controversial slogans in Vienna
Artist Poeter Siegl parked a red Ford Mustang for George W Bush, a white Rolls Royce for Tony Blair and a hearse for Saddam Hussein.
The cars are offered as "head money" for anyone who "brings the balls" of the politicians to Vienna.
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