Topic: W A R - on April 28, 2003 at 11:14:01 AM CEST
Happy Birthday, my leader Saddam Hussein
On the eve of Saddam Hussein's 66th birthday, US soldiers armed with spray cans blackened out a freshly painted sign declaring: "Happy Birthday, my leader Saddam Hussein".
Saddam's iron rule is over, his palaces have been looted and he may even be dead, but some people are determined to celebrate his birthday on Monday in and around his home town of Tikrit, 175km north of Baghdad.
"If we don't celebrate in the streets, we will celebrate in our homes," said 40-year-old Saadi Mohammed, one of a group Iraqis in a Tikrit street who all believe Saddam was alive.
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Topic: - on April 28, 2003 at 11:10:51 AM CEST
Danish Pizzeria Supports Uncle Sam
The owner of a Danish pizzeria who refused to serve German and French tourists was charged with discrimination Wednesday.
Aage Bjerre, who owns a pizzeria on Denmark's Fanoe island, was investigated by police after he began refusing to serve tourists from Germany and France in February because of their countries' lack of support for the U.S.-led war in Iraq. He called them "anti-American."
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on April 28, 2003 at 11:08:38 AM CEST
Phone battery in oven explodes
FIRE authorities said today a Perth man was lucky to escape unharmed after his explosive attempt to recharge his mobile phone battery - in a microwave oven.
Firefighters were called to the man's home in suburban Scarborough last night after the battery exploded inside the oven, causing smoke to pour out of the appliance.
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Topic: COPYRIGHT - on April 28, 2003 at 11:03:23 AM CEST
Intel's trademark rights threatened by 17 artists
THE BIGGEST CHIP company in the known universe has caught a group of 17 artists in American town jeopardising its intellectual property by using the word "inside".
A report in the Boston Globe said that Intel has asked the artists' cooperative in Shelburne Falls, in Massachusetts, to stop using the phrase Art Inside as a name for its activities.
But it's shown it's no bully by offering to pay for a wooden sign worth $2,000 if the Art Inside collective agrees to its request.
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Topic: - on April 28, 2003 at 10:58:52 AM CEST
Playing Card Deck Shows Way to U.S. Regime Change
In the wake of the U.S.'s "pre-emptive" destruction of Iraq, her people, and her culture, the Trade Regulation Organization is issuing a "55 most wanted" playing-card deck similar to the one that the Pentagon issued two weeks ago in Iraq.
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Topic: Terror - on April 28, 2003 at 10:49:21 AM CEST
Link found between Saddam and Al Qaeda
Secret Iraqi intelligence documents found in Baghdad have provided the first evidence of a direct link between Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network and Saddam Hussein's regime, the London newspaper Sunday Telegraph reported.
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