Topic: W A R - on March 16, 2003 at 3:28:46 PM CET
Chinese sold Iraq 'dual-use' chemical
Despite French denials, U.S. intelligence and defense officials have confirmed that Iraq purchased from China a chemical used in making fuel for long-range missiles, with help from brokers in France and Syria. Bush administration officials said the sale took place in August and was described in classified intelligence reports as a "dual-use" chemical used in making missile fuel.
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Topic: W A R - on March 16, 2003 at 1:28:59 PM CET
Die Flucht beginnt
Die meisten Inspektoren haben den Irak verlassen, die Botschaften weden geräumt, Journalisten reisen aus: Alle Hoffnung ist dahin, wer kann, flüchtet nun aus Bagdad. Saddam versetzt sein Militär in Bereitschaft - und eliminiert politische Gegner aus Angst vor einem Putsch.
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Topic: W A R - on March 16, 2003 at 12:06:21 PM CET
U.S., Russian Experts Test 'Dirty Bombs'
In New Mexico's desert and Russia's Ural Mountains, U.S. and Russian experts are experimenting with simulated ``dirty bombs'' to see how such radiation weapons and potential terrorist tools might work, officials of the two countries say.
It's a sensitive area in which some information is withheld to keep clues to bomb-building out of terrorists' hands. But American and Russian specialists attending a global conference on dirty bombs disclosed some aspects of recent testing to a reporter because, as a ranking U.S. official said, the public should know everything is being done to deal with the threat.
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Topic: W A R - on March 14, 2003 at 9:43:51 PM CET
Risking Everything for Independent Journalism
Sporting a cameraman's vest and lugging a satellite phone, Christopher Allbritton may be no match for heavy artillery. But he's apparently got enough guts to be the Web's first independent war correspondent.
Allbritton, a former New York Daily News reporter living in the East Village, plans to file stories directly to his weblog, Back to Iraq 2.0, next month as part of an independent news-gathering expedition to Iraq.
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Topic: W A R - on March 14, 2003 at 6:58:10 PM CET
Kevin Sites Syndicated Journalism
First-person account of a news correspondent's life on the front lines.
Kevin Sites is a CNN correspondent, often working as a one man unit, using portable, digital technology to report, write, edit and transmit his stories from conflict areas around the world. He has reported from war zones in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia.
Sunday, March 09, 2003 This post marks the beginning of my blog. Kevin 11:46 PM
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Topic: - on March 13, 2003 at 10:20:21 PM CET
Airstrike! The Pentagon simplifies media relations
Should war in the Gulf commence, the Pentagon proposes to take radical new steps in media relations - 'unauthorised' journalists will be shot at. Speaking on The Sunday Show on Ireland's RTE1 last sunday veteran war reporter Kate Adie said she had been warned by a senior Pentagon official that uplinks, i.e. TV broadcasts or satellite phones, that are detected by US aircraft are likely to be fired on.
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Topic: W A R - on March 13, 2003 at 11:19:09 AM CET
New posters
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Topic: W A R - on March 13, 2003 at 10:16:22 AM CET
Iraqis Reject Deadly Drone Claim by U.S.
"Smoking gun" made with duct tape
A remotely piloted aircraft that the United States has warned could spread chemical weapons appears to be made of balsa wood and duct tape, with two small propellors attached to what look like the engines of a weed whacker.
Iraqi officials took journalists to the Ibn Firnas State Company just north of Baghdad on Wednesday, where the drone's project director accused Secretary of State Colin Powell of misleading the U.N. Security Council and the public.
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Topic: - on March 12, 2003 at 12:54:17 AM CET
With an upcoming war with Iraq, we're all left asking a bunch of questions. This is a Frequently Asked Questions guide to the upcoming WAR WITH IRAQ (hopefully code-named Operation Desert Storm II: The Revenge)
So, what's up with Iraq anyway?
Iraq has been hiding weapons, and not being very honest. The U.S. doesn't like Iraq as it is part of the "Axis of Evil." Apparently they have terrorists hanging out there too, and terror is bad I've heard. <CENTER>
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Topic: - on March 12, 2003 at 12:21:46 AM CET
Air Force Tests Behemoth Bomb in Florida
In a flashy debut for its biggest non-nuclear bomb, the Air Force on Tuesday dropped a 21,000-pound behemoth onto a test range in Florida, hoping the test would rattle nerves in Iraq as well. The bomb test was declared a success, but movement on other fronts in the U.S.-led push toward war was murkier.
At the United Nations, the United States and Britain faced the prospect of defeat for their resolution giving Iraq until Monday to disarm or be invaded, and it appeared they might agree to a short extension of the deadline.
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Topic: - on March 11, 2003 at 10:07:47 PM CET
Another U.S. Diplomat Resigns Over Iraq War Plans
A U.S. diplomat resigned from government service on Monday in protest of President Bush's preparations to attack Iraq, the second to do so in less than a month. John H. Brown, who joined the U.S. diplomatic corps in 1981 and served in London, Prague, Krakow, Kiev, Belgrade and Moscow, said in a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) made available to the media: "I cannot in good conscience support President Bush's war plans against Iraq.
"Throughout the globe the United States is becoming associated with the unjustified use of force. The president's disregard for views in other nations, borne out by his neglect of public diplomacy, is giving birth to an anti-American century," the diplomat added.
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Topic: - on March 11, 2003 at 7:26:01 PM CET
Let slip the sea lions of war
With the military build-up in the Persian Gulf showing no sign of abating the US Navy has unveiled its secret weapon - a crack troupe of sea lions.
The specially trained mammals have been deployed to the region to protect US and British warships against attacks from underwater saboteurs and mines.
These whiskered warriors are even capable of clamping a floating marker to the legs of an intruder, alerting troops to his position, who can then move in and haul the attacker out of the water.
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