Topic: W A R - on April 1, 2003 at 1:05:57 PM CEST
US Forces Enter Red Zone
American forces have clashed with troops from Iraq's elite Republican Guard in fierce fighting 50 miles from Baghdad, according to reports.Fox News said some units had crossed into the so-called 'red zone' surrounding the city, pointing to a drive on the Iraqi capital.
The zone refers to an area around Baghdad, in which Saddam Hussein is reported to have authorised his generals to use chemical weapons.
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Topic: W A R - on March 31, 2003 at 8:07:44 PM CEST
Hackers Condemn Arab Site Hack
Don't blame hackers for the attacks that recently took down Arab news network Al-Jazeera's website.
Technically the site was hacked. But hackers, who say they abhor breaking into systems for fun or profit -- as opposed to malicious crackers and the amateurs known as script kiddies -- believe shutting off access to information is distinctly un-hackerlike behavior.
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Topic: W A R - on March 31, 2003 at 7:55:43 PM CEST
Hack attack on Al-Jazeera raises questions
Someone made hacker history by knocking out Aljazeera.net, the Arabic satellite news channel's Web site, for most of last week. No one has ever sustained a crippling attack against a big Web site for so long.
The timing and scale of the assault fueled speculation that pro-U.S. tech vigilantes pulled off a cybercoup: derailing Al-Jazeera, a rising media outlet, just as it was moving to extend its pro-Islamic news coverage to a wider audience.
But the cyber warriors also frustrated hundreds of thousands of news-hungry computer users accustomed to checking out diverse viewpoints online.
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Topic: W A R - on March 30, 2003 at 3:50:09 PM CEST
Patriotic dolphin missing
Takoma, the Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphin, had been in Iraq for 48 hours when he went missing on his first operation to snoop out mines.
Takoma and his fellow mine hunters have a special diet, regular medical checks and their own sleeping quarters, which is more than can be said for the vast majority of the military whose domestic arrangements are basic, to say the least.
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Topic: W A R - on March 30, 2003 at 9:17:43 AM CEST
Dawn of the Airborne Laser
The Air Force is readying the first airborne laser weapon, which could be used to intercept Scud missiles.
In a starkly sanitized clean room, a stocky Lockheed Martin engineer wearing a shower cap and laboratory smock scuttles in and about black plastic curtains, talking with near-manic intensity and flashing his bright eyes and wry smile. "Want to see something really cool?" asks Paul Shattuck as he yanks back the curtains, revealing a maze of psychedelically colored optics and black anodized metal hardware. "This," he says, "is what they call the Wall of Fire."
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Topic: W A R - on March 30, 2003 at 9:06:20 AM CEST
Nuke 'Em From On High BLU
The most likely candidate is a tactical micro-nuke called the B61-11, an earth-penetrating nuclear device known as the "bunker buster."
The B61-11 was designed to destroy underground military facilities such as command bunkers, ballistic missile silos and facilities for producing and storing weapons.
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Topic: W A R - on March 30, 2003 at 8:40:01 AM CEST
Media Map of Iraq
A bird's-eye view of where journalists are.
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Topic: W A R - on March 30, 2003 at 8:32:37 AM CEST
Operation Playmate
Playboy magazine announced today it is resuming a free pen-pal program that lets U-S military communicate with its models.
"Operation Playmate" allows military personnel to e-mail letters to the magazine, each of which will be answered with an autographed non-nude photo and message from a Playmate.
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Topic: W A R - on March 30, 2003 at 8:24:32 AM CEST
Lies in the first days of war
The uprising that wasn't, mythical chemical weapons and other items of 'breaking news' Rumours and half-truths have been seized on and presented as facts with enormous propaganda power. As the tide of war, and of information, moves on, to recall what was true and what was not has often been difficult.
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Topic: W A R - on March 30, 2003 at 8:04:31 AM CEST
Spectre orange
Nearly 30 years after the Vietnam war, a chemical weapon used by US troops is still exacting a hideous toll on each new generation. Hong Hanh is falling to pieces. She has been poisoned by the most toxic molecule known to science; it was sprayed during a prolonged military campaign. The contamination persists. No redress has been offered, no compensation. The superpower that spread the toxin has done nothing to combat the medical and environmental catastrophe that is overwhelming her country. This is not northern Iraq, where Saddam Hussein gassed 5,000 Kurds in 1988.
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Topic: - on March 29, 2003 at 7:46:00 PM CET
WARBLOG HEADLINES
from: Back to Iraq 2.0 - Warblogs:CC - War In Iraq - IraqWar.info - The Command Post /Op-Ed Page - Cato the Youngest - csmonitor.com | Assignment: Kuwait
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Topic: W A R - on March 29, 2003 at 12:57:40 PM CET
SATELLITE IMAGES OF BAGHDAD
NEW Baghdad Images:
Overview of Baghdad Collected March 27, 2003 ¬> Digitalglobe ¬> Digitalglobe Iraq ¬> Saddam's house ¬> more
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