Topic: W A R - on April 14, 2003 at 9:01:36 AM CEST
Secret Police Files Found
U.S. Marines have uncovered an underground vault containing the detailed files of Saddam Hussein's secret police.
Under the headquarters of the Special Security Organization, run by Saddam's most trusted son, Qusay, the Marines found a massive complex of offices over an area the size of two football fields, littered with millions of documents — detailed records that stretch back more than three decades.
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Topic: W A R - on April 14, 2003 at 8:47:40 AM CEST
Inside the Secret World
Snapshots and papers found in a lavish, looted safe house paint a vivid picture of Saddam's unhappy eldest son Uday. It's not easy being the freeloading, oversexed, overlooked scion of an Iraqi dictator. Consider Uday Hussein, 39, who in 1990 wrote to an uncle, "It is difficult being in the family of Hussein. People want to kill us."
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Topic: W A R - on April 13, 2003 at 4:22:43 PM CEST
Exklusiv-Interview mit El Saadi
Der irakische Präsidentenberater und General El Saadi hat sich den US-Streitkräften gestellt. Begleitet wurde er dabei auf eigenen Wunsch von einem ¬> ZDF -Team
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Topic: W A R - on April 13, 2003 at 2:00:25 PM CEST
Die wahre Jessica
Der Krieg war noch nicht ganz vorbei, da meinten Verschwörungstheoretiker bereits beweisen zu können, dass einer der spektakulärsten amerikanischen Erfolge nie stattgefunden hat: die Rettung der Obergefreiten Jessica Lynch aus der Hand der Iraker.
Die 19-jährige Jessica Lynch war am 23. März in irakische Kriegsgefangenschaft geraten, Spezialeinheiten befreiten sie neun Tage später schwer verletzt aus einem Krankenhaus. Merkwürdig war, dass jemand schon die passenden Internet-Seiten reserviert hatte: jessicalynch.net und jessicalynch.org, beide registriert am 17. März, sechs Tage vor der Gefangennahme.
Eigentümer der Domain-Namen ist eine PR-Agentur.
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Topic: W A R - on April 13, 2003 at 1:40:30 PM CEST
Britney Spears in Saddams Palast
In den Häusern der irakischen Führungselite, die unermüdlich gegen die US-Kultur gewettert hatten, finden sich erstaunliche Hinterlassenschaften: In einem Palast Saddams hängen Poster von Snoopy und Britney Spears, die Kinder spielten mit US-Spielzeug. Und Saddams Vizepremier Tarik Asis hatte Hollywood-Schnulzen wie "Schlaflos in Seattle" im Regal.
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Topic: W A R - on April 13, 2003 at 10:26:04 AM CEST
Troops Discover Lush Saddam Hideaway
The doors of the town house opened to reveal a playboy's fantasy straight from the 1960s: mirrored bedroom, lamps shaped like women, airbrushed paintings of a topless blonde woman and a mustached hero battling a crocodile. "This must have been Saddam's love shack," said Sgt. Spencer Willardson of Logan, Utah.
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Topic: W A R - on April 13, 2003 at 10:06:31 AM CEST
Irreparabler Schaden
Auch Tage nach der US-Besetzung der größten irakischen Städte gehen die Plünderungen hemmungslos weiter. Ziel der Raubzüge sind auch die Museen des Landes. Zehntausende Altertümer von unschätzbarem Wert wurden bereits gestohlen oder zerstört. Auch das Nationalmuseum in Bagdad mit seinen einmaligen Schätzen wurde ausgeräumt. Das Museum macht die US-Truppen dafür mitverantwortlich, weil sie nicht eingriffen. Die UNESCO forderte schnelle Schutzmaßnahmen.
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Topic: W A R - on April 13, 2003 at 10:02:26 AM CEST
Looters Ransack Baghdad's Antiquities Museum
- Looters have sacked Baghdad's antiquities museum, plundering treasures dating back thousands of years to the dawn of civilization in Mesopotamia, museum staff said on Saturday.
They blamed U.S. troops for not protecting the treasures.
Surveying the littered glass wreckage of display cases and pottery shards at the Iraqi National Museum on Saturday, deputy director Nabhal Amin wept and told Reuters: "They have looted or destroyed 170,000 items of antiquity dating back thousands of years...They were worth billions of dollars."
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Topic: W A R - on April 12, 2003 at 11:48:23 AM CEST
Baghdad in chaos
· Vigilantes tackle looters · Suicide vests found in school · Kurdish troops remain in Kirkut
US troops today took the last known stronghold of Saddam Hussein's loyalists in Baghdad while looters continued to run riot in the city.
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Topic: W A R - on April 12, 2003 at 11:01:23 AM CEST
Radio 'raps' Saddam Hussein
A radio station thought to be backed by the CIA has been broadcasting a gangsta rap-style parody of Saddam Hussein to Iraq.
The radio has a Saddam impersonator in its comic slot rapping out a message in English and Arabic to the tune of Coolio's Gangsta's Paradise.
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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: 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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