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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Topic: W A R - on April 10, 2003 at 6:54:25 PM CEST
Iraqi embassy in Brazil
An Iraqi embassy employee orders the press to get off the wall of the embassy in Brasilia, Brazil on Wednesday April 9, 2003. Police said that embassy employees began burning boxes and large quantities of paper around the same time TV stations began broadcasting images of U.S. Army soldiers toppling a statue of Saddam Hussein.
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Topic: W A R - on April 10, 2003 at 6:50:36 PM CEST
Many citizens believe Saddam has mystical powers
Ahmed Ali believes Saddam Hussein can never die. All his life, the 23-year-old laborer has heard about the dictator's powerful stone.
Saddam, the story goes, had the stone made shortly after he came to power 24 years ago. Its powers were first tested inside a chicken. One of his soldiers pulled out a gun and shot a bullet at point-blank range. The chicken's feathers fell off, but it lived.
So the dictator implanted the stone in his upper arm.
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Topic: W A R - on April 10, 2003 at 5:54:06 PM CEST
Iraq, its domain and the 'terrorist-funding' owner
The war against Iraq may be drawing to a close but the war over its Internet future is just beginning.
As with the overthrow of the Afghanistan regime by US forces, it is widely thought that the removal of Saddam Hussein from power will see the Middle Eastern country catch up with the rest of the world in terms of Internet infrastructure and use.
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Topic: W A R - on April 9, 2003 at 5:54:39 PM CEST
That´s it ???
Fall of Baghdad: Is the war over?
Saddam Hussein's regime in Baghdad appears to have collapsed, with coalition forces now in control of most of the Iraqi capital. Is the war in Iraq now over? Is this the watershed moment for Saddam's regime?
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Topic: W A R - on April 9, 2003 at 5:12:34 PM CEST
SADDAM TOPPLED
Saddam Hussein's hated regime was ended today as hundreds of jubilant Iraqis hauled down a statue of their former dictator.
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Topic: W A R - on April 9, 2003 at 4:34:33 PM CEST
Could Saddam Hussein be striking a last-minute deal?
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Topic: W A R - on April 9, 2003 at 4:15:47 PM CEST
U.S. Marines roll into central Baghdad
U.S. Marines were greeted by journalists and cheering Iraqis Wednesday, as they took up positions in central Baghdad -- but fierce fighting raged elsewhere in the Iraqi capital.
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Topic: W A R - on April 9, 2003 at 3:24:46 PM CEST
Baghdad government doesn't show up for work today
Iraqis asked on Wednesday who was running their country after U.S. forces swept almost unchallenged through northeastern Baghdad toward the heart of the capital and cheering looters sacked shops and offices.
There was no sign of police or government authority on the streets of central Baghdad.
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Topic: W A R - on April 9, 2003 at 9:32:16 AM CEST
CIA death squads operating in Iraq
The longer the Iraq war continues, the more Orwellian the language and the more sinister the methods adopted by the Bush administration and its allies. While President Bush and his officials depict Iraqis resisting the US-led invasion as “terrorists” and “death squads,” CIA and Special Forces assassination squads are at work in Iraq, seeking to eliminate Iraqi leaders and other opponents of the US occupation of the country.
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Topic: W A R - on April 9, 2003 at 9:25:03 AM CEST
Chemical hypocrites
When Saddam Hussein so pig-headedly failed to shower US troops with chemical weapons as they entered Iraq, thus depriving them of a retrospective justification for this war, the American generals explained that he would do so as soon as they crossed the "red line" around Baghdad. Beyond that point, the desperate dictator would lash out with every weapon he possessed.
Well, the line has been crossed and recrossed, and not a whiff of mustard gas or VX has so far been detected.
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Topic: W A R - on April 9, 2003 at 9:20:12 AM CEST
Hotel hit 'deliberate': French TV
FOOTAGE filmed by France 3 television of a strike on a hotel which killed two journalists in Baghdad today shows a US tank targeting the journalists' hotel and waiting at least two minutes before firing.
The journalist and film editor who filmed the attack, Herve de Ploeg, who filmed the attack, said: "I did not hear any shots in the direction of the tank, which was stationed at the west entrance of the Al-Jumhuriya (Republic) bridge, 600 metres north-west of the hotel."
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