Topic: W A R - on March 23, 2003 at 8:44:22 PM CET
US TROOPS CAPTURE CHEMICAL PLANT
About 30 Iraqi troops, including a general, surrendered today to US forces of the 3rd Infantry Division as they overtook huge installation apparently used to produce chemical weapons in An Najaf, some 250 kilometers south of Baghdad.
One soldier was lightly wounded when a booby-trapped explosive went off as he was clearing the sheet metal-lined facility, which resembles the eery images of scientific facilities in World War II concentration camps.
The huge 100-acre complex, which is surrounded by a electrical fence, is perhaps the first illegal chemical plant to be uncovered by US troops in their current mission in Iraq. The surrounding barracks resemble an abandoned slum.
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Topic: W A R - on March 23, 2003 at 8:04:18 PM CET
Apparatus of Lies
Saddam’s Disinformation and Propaganda 1990-2003
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Topic: W A R - on March 23, 2003 at 7:02:36 PM CET
Russian Dealers Supply Iraq With Electronics, Supplies
Russian arms dealers have supplied Iraq with supplies and electronic jamming equipment that could throw U.S. planes and bombs off course, Fox News has confirmed. The Washington Post first reported Sunday that Bush administration sources said one Russian company is helping the Iraqi military deploy global-positioning system jammers to Baghdad, while two other companies have sold anti-tank missiles and thousands of night-vision goggles in violation of U.N. sanctions.
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Topic: W A R - on March 23, 2003 at 6:52:13 PM CET
Iran: Missile was Iraqi, not U.S.
Iran believes a missile that landed inside its border last week came from Iraq and not the United States, as first suspected, the country's official IRNA news agency said Sunday.
Interior Minister Abdolvahed Moussavi Lari said examinations indicated that the missile, which landed in the western region of Sardasht, was made by Iraq.
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Topic: W A R - on March 23, 2003 at 6:47:40 PM CET
Iraqi TV shows American POW's
Images of American dead and Captive Soldiers In Iraq
Your American Media fouls you .
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Topic: W A R - on March 23, 2003 at 6:37:42 PM CET
Rumsfeld: Iraqi Footage Violates Geneva Convention
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said on Sunday Iraqi television footage claiming to show American prisoners of war was a violation of the Geneva Convention.
On CBS's "Face the Nation," Rumsfeld was shown footage relayed by the Arabic satellite station al-Jazeera that Iraq television claimed were captive U.S. soldiers.
Rumsfeld said he did not know if the footage did in fact show American soldiers who had been captured, but he warned if it did, it violated the Geneva Convention governing treatment of prisoners of war.
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Topic: W A R - on March 23, 2003 at 6:16:22 PM CET
France said to be working on Saddam exile deal
American officials have told ABC NEWS that even with today’s bombing, secret talks have continued behind the scenes about a Saddam Hussein surrender and exile to, among other places, the country of Mauritania in west Africa.
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Topic: W A R - on March 23, 2003 at 3:37:33 PM CET
Unabhängige Irakberichterstattung online
Aktivisten berichten aus Bagdad
"Baghdad, as you must know, is now under heavy bombardment. We last spoke with our team in Baghdad two hours ago. The team is split up between three hotels in downtown Baghdad."
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Topic: W A R - on March 23, 2003 at 3:30:14 PM CET
Informationen an CIA weitergegeben
In der Entourage des irakischen Machthabers Saddam Hussein könnte sich ein "Maulwurf" befinden. Ein irakischer Offizier soll nach Angaben des US-Nachrichtenmagazins "Newsweek" der CIA Saddams Aufenthalt verraten haben. CIA-Chef Tenet empfahl daraufhin die gezielten Bombenangriffe auf den Präsidentenbunker von Donnerstagfrüh. Nach Angaben des britischen Außenministeriums wurde Saddam dabei leicht verletzt. Auch wie der Diktator dem Flammeninferno entkommen ist, will man nun wissen.
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Topic: W A R - on March 23, 2003 at 3:21:42 PM CET
Iraqis surrender in pink pickup
Members of the U.S. Army 7th Cavalry's 3rd Squadron in south-central Iraq battled a battalion-size fighting force of the Iraqi army Sunday but remained ahead of schedule in the march to Baghdad, the Army unit's commander said.
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Topic: W A R - on March 23, 2003 at 3:08:04 PM CET
Search for Scuds, chemical and biological weapons comes up empty thus far
U.S. troops hunting in Iraq for banned chemical and biological weapons and Scud missiles have so far come up empty, the Pentagon says. Iraq denies U.S. assertions it has any chemical or biological weapons, and Maj. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, vice director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters that none had been found.
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Topic: W A R - on March 23, 2003 at 2:59:37 PM CET
The War Room
He was the ultimate spy who came in from the cold. For months, the CIA and U.S. Special Forces had been working on the extraordinarily difficult and dangerous job of trying to penetrate Saddam Hussein’s inner circle. ACCORDING TO A knowledgeable intelligence source, Delta Force, the supersecret commando group, had managed to tap Saddam’s underground phone lines in Baghdad. But the real break came when the CIA managed to recruit an asset, a senior Iraqi official in a position to know Saddam’s greatest vulnerability: where he sleeps each night.
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