Topic: W A R - on November 21, 2003 at 3:43:42 PM CET
Rocket-equipped donkey carts attack two hotels, oil ministry in Iraq.
Guerrillas fired rockets into Iraq's oil ministry and two Baghdad hotels today, in yet another show of defiance against US security forces.
More than a dozen rockets, launched from donkey carts, struck at some of Baghdad's most heavily protected civilian sites.
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Topic: W A R - on November 20, 2003 at 7:28:53 PM CET
War critics astonished as US hawk admits invasion was illegal
International lawyers and anti-war campaigners reacted with astonishment yesterday after the influential Pentagon hawk Richard Perle conceded that the invasion of Iraq had been illegal.
In a startling break with the official White House and Downing Street lines, Mr Perle told an audience in London: "I think in this case international law stood in the way of doing the right thing."
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Topic: W A R - on November 19, 2003 at 7:56:02 PM CET
U.S. to Test 'Mother of All Bombs' at Florida Base
The U.S. military plans this week to conduct its final developmental test on the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal, a weapon so big it is dubbed the "mother of all bombs," the Air Force said on Tuesday.
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Topic: W A R - on November 13, 2003 at 1:16:41 PM CET
CIA Report Says U.S. Losing Popular Support in Iraq
A CIAreport concludes that ordinary Iraqis increasingly are siding with the insurgency amid doubts about the U.S. ability to stamp it out, officials said on Wednesday, while the U.S. administrator in Iraq said it was hard to figure out where the Iraqi public stands.
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Topic: W A R - on November 8, 2003 at 5:12:44 PM CET
''Kriegsheldin'' Lynch kritisiert Pentagon
Die Soldatin Jessica Lynch, die in den US-Medien wie eine Nationalheldin gefeiert wurde, hat die Pentagon-Darstellung ihrer Befreiung im Irak-Krieg scharf kritisiert. Die Truppen hätten ihre Gefangennahme und dramatische Rettung benutzt, um die Unterstützung der Öffentlichkeit für den Krieg zu gewinnenn sagte Lynch. "Ich glaube nicht, dass es wirklich so passiert ist", so Lynch in einem vorab veröffentlichten Interview des US-Fernsehsenders ABC.
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Topic: W A R - on November 8, 2003 at 5:11:19 PM CET
Jessica Lynch: Military Used Me
Former prisoner of war Jessica Lynch accused the military of using her capture and dramatic nighttime rescue to sway public support for the war in Iraq.
Dramatic video of U.S. commandos whisking the former Army supply clerk from a Nasiriyah hospital to a waiting chopper April 1 helped cement Lynch's image as a hero. But the 20-year-old private told ABC's Diane Sawyer there was no reason for her rescue to be filmed.
"They used me as a way to symbolize all this stuff," Lynch told Sawyer in a "Primetime" interview to air Tuesday. "It's wrong."
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Topic: W A R - on November 8, 2003 at 1:26:17 PM CET
Red Cross pulling out of Baghdad
The international Red Cross is closing its offices in Baghdad and Basra temporarily because of "extremely dangerous" conditions in Iraq, the organization said.
The Swiss-based agency reduced its international staff last month after two staff members and 10 other people were killed in an October 27 car bomb attack on its Baghdad offices.
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Topic: W A R - on November 7, 2003 at 7:51:02 PM CET
Rats to sniff for landmines
A Belgian research project for detecting landmines, using specially trained sniffer rats, will be launched next week when the first batch of rodents are sent on their first assignment to Mozambique.
African giant pouched rats were trained over three years to sniff out explosives at a test site, in Tanzania. They spent two months in field trials among heavily mined areas of Mozambique, along the Limpopo banks.
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Topic: W A R - on November 3, 2003 at 4:18:09 PM CET
Dolphin massacre turns sea blood red
Animal activists have released a video of Japanese fisherman hacking to death dolphins they had trapped at a small port. An American anti-whaling group trying to stop the massacre took footage of the recent hunt that shows blood-filled coves and several dead dolphins being brought ashore in boats.
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Topic: W A R - on November 2, 2003 at 8:37:40 PM CET
Wie US-Firmen vom Wiederaufbau im Irak und Afghanistan profitieren
Mehr als siebzig amerikanische Firmen, die mehrheitlich über prima Verbindungen zur Bush-Administration verfügen, teilen sich den Löwenanteil am Wiederaufbau-Budget für den Irak und Afghanistan: etwa 8 Milliarden US-Dollar an Aufträgen.
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Topic: W A R - on November 2, 2003 at 5:04:56 PM CET
Verschleierte Beltway-Banditen
Mehr als siebzig amerikanische Firmen, die mehrheitlich über prima Verbindungen zur Bush-Administration verfügen, teilen sich den Löwenanteil am Wiederaufbau-Budget für den Irak und Afghanistan: etwa 8 Milliarden US-Dollar an Aufträgen. Die größten Aufträge erhielten Kellog, Brown & Root, eine Tochter von Halliburton - 2,3 Milliarden US-Dollar - und Bechtel - 1,03 Milliarden. Dass die Firmen zugleich die großzügigsten Wahlkampfspenden an George Bush und die republikanische Partei verteilt haben, ist ein weiteres Ergebnis der Recherchen, die das investigativ arbeitende Center for Public Integrity (CPI) zu einem Zeitpunkt publik macht, an dem der Etat für den Wiederaufbau der beiden Länder aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach um weitere 20 Milliarden Dollar aufgestockt wird.
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Topic: W A R - on October 28, 2003 at 6:08:32 PM CET
Hanfparade nach Kundus
Der Einsatz in Nordafghanistan führt die Bundeswehr in eines der wichtigsten Drogenanbaugebiete
"Kundus ist der hellste Stern am afghanischen Drogenhimmel. Und ausgerechnet dort sollen unsere Soldaten die Kastanien aus den Feuern der Machthaber holen, sich dabei die Hände schmutzig machen und zwischen alle Fronten geraten?" (Willy Wimmer, Bundestagsabgeordneter der CDU, in einem Brief an Verteidigungsminister Peter Struck) .
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