Topic: - on April 12, 2003 at 10:25:24 AM CEST
Why Iraqis use shoes to shoo Saddam
As anyone who has been to the Middle East (or even to countries like India) knows, the foot and shoe are imbued with considerable significance.
The foot occupies the lowest rung in the bodily hierarchy and the shoe, in addition to being something in which the foot is placed, is in constant contact with dirt, soil and worse. The sole of the shoe is the most unclean part of an unclean object. In northern India, where I grew up, the exhortation "Jooté maro!" ("Hit him with shoes!") was invoked when one sought to administer the most demeaning punishment.
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 12, 2003 at 10:22:56 AM CEST
Gunmen open fire on Snoop Dogg
There's been another case of violence surrounding rap star Snoop Dogg.
Police in Los Angeles say three gunmen opened fire on a convoy of cars, one of which was carrying the musician. He wasn't hurt but one of his bodyguards -- an off-duty police officer -- was hit and wounded.
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Topic: Terror - on April 12, 2003 at 10:16:38 AM CEST
The News We Kept to Ourselves
Over the last dozen years I made 13 trips to Baghdad to lobby the government to keep CNN's Baghdad bureau open and to arrange interviews with Iraqi leaders. Each time I visited, I became more distressed by what I saw and heard — awful things that could not be reported because doing so would have jeopardized the lives of Iraqis, particularly those on our Baghdad staff.
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Topic: LONGEST - on April 12, 2003 at 10:06:04 AM CEST
Explorer trudged North Pole with broken ankle
An explorer who became the first person to walk unaided and alone to the North Pole has revealed he trudged the last 60 miles over five days with a broken ankle. David Hempleman-Adams broke his left ankle when he tumbled off an icefall 16 days into his record-breaking expedition.
"I crawled into my tent, it was late at night and it was blowing a hooly (gale)," he told a news conference on his first day back in Britain on Friday.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 12, 2003 at 10:01:39 AM CEST
The Dream Machine
Michel Gingras is getting ready for bed, a ritual not complete until he straps on his NovaDreamer. "It's the best form of virtual reality. It's a reality in which you can do absolutely everything," he said. Gingras is one of thousands who swear by the new technology, developed by The Lucidity Institute in Palo Alto, California. Tonight's "Tech Live" takes a look at the device that helps control and create dreams.
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Topic: FUN - on April 12, 2003 at 9:57:40 AM CEST
Vibrating Nokia self-pleasure
Girls, are you tired of spending your evening staring at your mobile, waiting for a man to call?
Guys, does your girlfriend wait up all night whilst you're out with the lads, waiting for you to call her?
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 12, 2003 at 9:53:20 AM CEST
Woman marries man 27 years younger than her
After living together for 57 years, Isolina Ojeda, 107, of Chile and her 86-year-old lover decided to make it official, tying the knot here this week, local media reported.
Slightly hard of hearing, it took Ojeda a moment to say her "I do," which she eventually declared loud and clear, according to people attending the civil ceremony in Santiago's La Florida district on Wednesday.
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Topic: Terror - on April 12, 2003 at 9:50:00 AM CEST
Main Suspects in USS Cole Bombing Escape From Yemeni Prison
The fugitives, including chief suspect Jamal al-Badawi, were jailed in the tightly guarded intelligence building in the port city of Aden since shortly after the destroyer was bombed, killing 17 American sailors.
Officials close to the investigation said the men fled through a window they smashed inside the building.
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Topic: W A R - on April 12, 2003 at 9:46:47 AM CEST
U.S. Issues Most Wanted Iraqi List
he U.S. military has issued a most-wanted list of 55 former leaders in Saddam Hussein's regime to be pursued, captured or killed. The list, in the form of a "deck of cards" with pictures of the wanted figures, was distributed to the thousands of U.S. troops in the field to help them find the senior members of the government. It also was being put on posters and handbills for the Iraqi public, Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks said.
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Topic: e-bay - on April 12, 2003 at 9:41:21 AM CEST
Saddam curios for sale online
Saddam Hussein has become an unlikely internet celebrity, with memorabilia connected to the former Iraqi leader appearing for sale on the web. More than a thousand items pertaining to Saddam Hussein are for sale on the auction website, eBay, including banknotes and even a fork supposedly from one of his many palaces.
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Topic: W A R - on April 12, 2003 at 9:16:10 AM CEST
Web Site for Iraqi Minister Rocks Cyberspace
A member of Saddam Hussein's vanquished regime has sprung up as an unlikely hero in cyberspace on a Web site embraced by both supporters and foes of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
Television news junkies transfixed by daily briefings by Iraqi Minister of Information Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf are now logging onto a day-old Web site featuring his finest invective against U.S. and British "infidels."
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¬> www.WeLoveTheIraqiInformationMinister.com
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Topic: W A R - on April 12, 2003 at 9:09:54 AM CEST
Saddam Hussein's yacht
The Iraqi tyrant's massive presidential yacht is still afloat, and drifting aimlessly with the tide on the Shatt-al-Arab waterway beside Basra's dockyards. Local bystanders counted 16 different bombs, shells and missiles - dropped from the air and fired from the ground - plough into it during the two-week siege of Iraq's second city.
But no matter how hard the coalition tried, they still couldn't sink it.
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