Topic: W A R - on March 29, 2003 at 12:48:22 PM CET
Near Real Time Satellite Images of Iraq
Depending on satellite availability, daily images will be posted here of the Middle East from the NOAA POES/LAC data. This data has a maximum nadir or center resolution of 1km per pixel. Images normally will be updated once a day between 1430 and 1500 GMT (09:30 and 10:00 EST), with a second potential update between 2330 and 0100 GMT (1830 to 2000 EST) using thermal IR data. These are mostly false color views designed to be visually pleasing and bring out some ground details.
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Topic: W A R - on March 29, 2003 at 1:32:22 AM CET
Viewers losing interest in war
In the media war - as in the war itself to some extent - disillusion has set in.
Audiences are slipping and the novelty of the wall-to-wall coverage, with its unprecedented media access to the front line, has worn off.
Only a few days ago, millions in Britain and elsewhere were marvelling at the live TV battle coverage from Umm Qasr and applauding the freedom granted to the correspondents and camera crews "embedded" with fighting units.
Now the drawbacks of this torrent of media coverage are becoming apparent.
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Topic: W A R - on March 29, 2003 at 1:30:21 AM CET
ALJAZEERA.NET DOMAIN HACKED AND MOVED TO MYDOMAIN.COM
Arab satellite TV network’s nameservers changed to MyDomain URL forwarding service by hacker; MyDomain reacts by suspending service.
VANCOUVER, Wash. – MyDomain.com, host to more than 600,000 domain names using its free URL forwarding and e-mail services, discovered this morning the domain aljazeera.net had been moved to MyDomain servers. MyDomain has learned from NavLink, the company that hosts the aljazeera.net Web site from its data centers in France, that Al Jazeera’s domain name account at Network Solutions was compromised. The hacker changed the Web site’s nameservers to point to MyDomain nameservers and erected a page displaying the American flag.
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Topic: W A R - on March 29, 2003 at 1:23:09 AM CET
FBI to investigate Al-Jazeera Web hijack
Visitors to both the Arabic and English versions of the Al-Jazeera Web site on Thursday were greeted with an American flag and a pro-US message, the work of an apparent online vandal.
The FBI has opened an investigation into the attack on Al-Jazeera's Web site, a representative with the bureau has said. The Middle Eastern news service was the victim of a domain hijacking. The actual defacement appeared on a free Web site service provided by NetWorld Connections. Technically known as a "redirect," the hack caused Web browsers that attempted to go to www.aljazeera.net -- as well as the English-language site -- to be surreptitiously redirected to the content hosted on NetWorld's servers.
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Topic: W A R - on March 29, 2003 at 1:19:12 AM CET
Captured and Missing American Troops
The following American servicemen and women have either been captured or are missing during Operation Iraqi Freedom as of 5:30 p.m. EST Friday:
Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown
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Topic: W A R - on March 29, 2003 at 1:08:23 AM CET
Missile rocks Kuwait City
An explosion rocked a shopping mall in central Kuwait City early Saturday.
A Kuwaiti security official said the explosion was in the vicinity of the Souq Sharq district, on the Gulf coast near the center of the city, according to a report from the Reuters news agency. Several missiles have been launched at Kuwait from Iraq since the U.S.-led war against Iraq began.
A policeman near the scene told Reuters he had seen a missile come in and land in the sea.
Earlier, more than 50 people were reported killed in a Baghdad marketplace as bombing of the Iraqi capital resumed after nightfall Friday.
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Topic: W A R - on March 29, 2003 at 12:52:03 AM CET
Reality Check: Psychogical Operations - Cheaper Than Blood
You've probably seen the pictures, again and again now, stunningly shot, poetically rendered. What could point to a more bloodless success than opposition forces that have made an informed decision that surrender is better than death?
What led them to do it?
U.S. President George W. Bush broadcast to the Iraqis: "Many Iraqis can hear me tonight in a translated radio broadcast…Our forces will give Iraqi military units clear instructions on actions they can take to avoid being attacked and destroyed."
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Topic: W A R - on March 29, 2003 at 12:45:23 AM CET
Fighting in the streets
As coalition forces advance in Iraq, they are increasingly faced with the inevitability of fighting in cities. Urban combat poses specific challenges in communicating, traveling and isolating enemies from noncombatants. Tall buildings and underground tunnels stretch the dimensions of the combat zone and shorten the range of engagement, making warfare even more unpredictable. Click on each of the arrows to find out more about the strategies and risks involved with urban combat.
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Topic: W A R - on March 29, 2003 at 12:38:52 AM CET
Bombs Can't Bust Saddam Bunker, Builder Says
The German architect of one of Saddam Hussein's main bunkers in Baghdad said on Friday the Iraqi leader can survive anything short of a direct hit with a nuclear bomb if he stays within its four-feet-thick walls. "It could withstand the shock wave of a nuclear bomb the size of the Hiroshima one detonating 250 meters away," said Karl Esser, a security consultant who designed the bunker underneath Saddam's main presidential palace in Baghdad.
U.S.-led troops will also find it hard to fight their way in through its three-ton Swiss-made doors, Esser told Reuters in an interview.
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Topic: W A R - on March 29, 2003 at 12:23:30 AM CET
Signs of U.S. POWs found at hospital
U.S. Marines who secured a hospital that had been used by Iraqi forces later found several bloodied U.S. uniforms worn by female soldiers, NBC’s Kerry Sanders reported Friday from the hospital. The find suggested that Iraq had held several POWs at the hospital, which is in An Nasiriyah, a town where at least five Americans were taken prisoner in an attack that killed two other soldiers and left eight missing.
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Topic: W A R - on March 28, 2003 at 12:48:44 PM CET
Soldier 'bloggers' report from war
There's a new breed of combat personnel at the war front: soldier "bloggers."
!!! W A R N I N G recommended by C N N !!!
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Topic: W A R - on March 28, 2003 at 12:19:27 PM CET
PATRIOTIC POSTERS
Attention American Citizens! You stand hereby directed to prove your patriotism by printing out hundreds of the wartime morale posters below, and distributing them widely throughout your community!
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