Topic: W A R - on March 26, 2003 at 8:10:49 AM CET
Iraqi Chemical Weapons
Iraqi Chemical Weapons Program
Gulf War Non-Use of Chemical Weapons
UNSCOM and the Iraqi Chemical Weapons Program
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Topic: W A R - on March 26, 2003 at 7:56:54 AM CET
U.S. seizes Iraqi "military staging area" hospital
The United States said on Tuesday that Marines seized more than 200 weapons, stockpiles of ammunition and over 3,000 chemical suits with masks at an Iraqi hospital which was being used as a "military staging area".
Central Command in Qatar said in a statement that Marines operating in the southern city of Nassiriya -- scene of the fiercest fighting so far in the six-day-old war -- captured about 170 Iraqi soldiers at the hospital. They were not armed.
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Topic: W A R - on March 25, 2003 at 9:54:49 PM CET
Saddam's Bunkers Said 'Impossible' to Destroy
Underground bunkers built for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein can resist massive bombardment and those hiding inside could survive for up to six months, a retired Yugoslav army officer who helped build them said.
"I believe that if Saddam does not leave, and I think he has nowhere to go, they will find him in one of these facilities -- if he does not find a way out by then," retired Lt. Col. Resad Fazlic told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday. "These bunkers can resist a direct hit of a 20 kiloton- strong bomb or atomic bomb impact and keep those inside independent of the outside world for six months," said Fazlic, who oversaw the building of the bunkers in the late 1970s.
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Topic: W A R - on March 25, 2003 at 9:42:00 PM CET
Al-Jazeera Site Experiences Hack Attack
Hackers attacked the Web site of Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera on Tuesday, rendering it intermittently unavailable, the site's host said.
The newly launched English-language page, which went live Monday, was hardest hit in a bombardment of data packets known as a denial-of-service attack.
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Topic: W A R - on March 25, 2003 at 9:34:43 PM CET
Cheney Urges Daughter Not to Be 'Human Shield'
Vice President Dick Cheney will soon head to Jordan to urge his daughter, who is in the capital, Amman, not to go to Baghdad with "human shields," an Arabic daily in London claims.
Al Quds Al Arabi wrote today: "News agencies cited sources as saying that Cheney will arrive in Amman next Friday. He will try to convince his daughter who is currently staying at a hotel in Amman not to go to Baghdad along with a group of volunteers who want to go to Iraq and form human shields against the Anglo American attacks.”
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Topic: W A R - on March 25, 2003 at 9:14:57 PM CET
One rule for them - Five PoWs are mistreated in Iraq and the US cries foul.
What about Guantanamo Bay?
Suddenly, the government of the United States has discovered the virtues of international law. It may be waging an illegal war against a sovereign state; it may be seeking to destroy every treaty which impedes its attempts to run the world, but when five of its captured soldiers were paraded in front of the Iraqi television cameras on Sunday, Donald Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, immediately complained that "it is against the Geneva convention to show photographs of prisoners of war in a manner that is humiliating for them".
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Topic: W A R - on March 25, 2003 at 9:10:27 PM CET
Iraqi Sailors Sip Espresso on Italy's Riviera
Tourists hoping to catch the first rays of the Italian summer could find themselves rubbing shoulders with a group of Iraqi sailors sipping espresso at one of the waterfront cafes on Italy's Riviera.
Italy impounded Iraq's two most modern warships, the bulk of its navy, 12 years ago under an arms embargo imposed by the United Nations following the Gulf War.
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Topic: W A R - on March 25, 2003 at 9:08:15 PM CET
F-16 Fires on Own Patriot Launcher, No One Hurt
A U.S. F-16 fighter plane accidentally fired on a Patriot missile battery in southern Iraq, a spokeswoman at Central Command forward headquarters in Qatar said on Tuesday.
There were no casualties in the incident which took place on Monday some 30 miles south of Najaf.
"During combat air operations...Monday a U.S. F-16 fighter engaged a U.S. Patriot battery approximately 30 miles south of An Najaf," Central Command said in a statement.
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Topic: W A R - on March 25, 2003 at 9:06:04 PM CET
SLUG: 2-301262 Iraq Chemical Weapons
DATE=3/25/2003
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=IRAQ/CHEMICAL WEAPONS
NUMBER=2-301262
BYLINE=ALISHA RYU
DATELINE=CENTRAL IRAQ
CONTENT=
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INTRO: U-S ground forces in Iraq have crossed the Euphrates River, entering an area that leads directly to the capital, Baghdad. But as Correspondent Alisha Ryu reports from central Iraq, U-S military commanders say the troops could also be within striking distance of Saddam Hussein's artillery shells, which they fear could be filled with deadly chemicals.
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Topic: W A R - on March 25, 2003 at 8:59:43 PM CET
Bush sends $75bn bill for war
President Bush has sent Congress a request for $74.7bn (£47.5bn) to pay for the first six months of the war.
Speaking at the Pentagon, Mr Bush said that America accepts the cost of supporting the military, and asked Congress for the freedom to spend much of the money as he wished due to the "fluid" nature of the war.
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Topic: W A R - on March 25, 2003 at 8:50:04 PM CET
All Six Iraqi GPS Jammers Destroyed, U.S. Says
U.S.-led forces have destroyed six GPS jamming systems it said Iraq had been trying to use to disrupt its satellite positioning equipment, a U.S. general said Tuesday.
"We have noticed some attempts by the Iraqis to use a GPS jamming system that they have procured from another nation," Maj.-Gen. Victor Renuart told a news briefing at the command headquarters in Qatar of the U.S.-led invasion.
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Topic: W A R - on March 25, 2003 at 8:40:13 PM CET
Al-Qaida message aids Iraq
Terrorist network offers information on defeating U.S. forces
NBC News has obtained a copy of a message from the al-Qaida terrorist network to Muslims in Iraq, a message that is, in effect, a military playbook on how to defeat Americans. THE MESSAGE obtained by NBC News is in Arabic, and is addressed to “our brothers in Iraq.” It is written by Saif Al-Adel, the security chief for Osama Bin Laden, said to be the mastermind for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania. Al-Adel is believed to be the third highest al-Qaida official alive and on the run.
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