Topic: W A R - on January 10, 2007 at 1:22:00 PM CET
US bombards Somalia for third day
US forces launched a third consecutive day of air strikes in Somalia today as Somali government officials said one of three al-Qaida suspects targeted by the raids was believed to have been killed.
The official said the operation was understood to have killed an al-Qaida militants thought to be behind the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed 224 people in all.
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Topic: W A R - on January 10, 2007 at 1:21:00 PM CET
Uranium 'killing Italian troops'
Italian soldiers are still dying following exposure to depleted uranium in the wars in Bosnia and Kosovo, their relatives say.
Troops who served during the wars in the 1990s believe they have contracted cancer and other serious illnesses from extended exposure to the munitions.
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Topic: W A R - on January 4, 2007 at 11:31:00 AM CET
FBI files detail Guantánamo torture tactics
Captives at Guantánamo Bay were chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor for 18 hours or more, urinating and defecating on themselves, an FBI report has revealed.
The accounts of mistreatment were contained in FBI documents released yesterday as part of a lawsuit involving the American Civil Liberties Union, a civil liberties group.
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Topic: W A R - on January 1, 2007 at 1:41:00 PM CET
U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 3,000
American deaths in the Iraq war reached the sobering milestone of 3,000 on Sunday even as the Bush administration sought to overhaul its strategy for an unpopular conflict that shows little sign of abating.
The latest death came during one of the most violent periods during which the Pentagon says hate and revenge killings between Iraq's sects are now a bigger security problem than ever.
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Topic: W A R - on December 27, 2006 at 1:30:00 PM CET
Hiroshima Atomic Bomb CGI Re-enactment
From the awesome BBC doco "Hiroshima". See CGI effects bring this disaster to horrifying life.
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Topic: W A R - on November 25, 2006 at 1:10:00 PM CET
Woman MP demands hookers for the troops
A top female politician ín Holland wants Dutch prostitutes sent abroad with the troops to help them relax.
Annemarie Jorritsma, a politician for the centre-right People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD) and the mayor of the town of Almere, went on national Dutch TV to demand the 'extra benefits' for soldiers.
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Topic: W A R - on November 24, 2006 at 10:08:00 AM CET
New technology catches Hitler off guard
New computer software that can read lips at almost any angle has helped make sense of one of the Second World War's lingering mysteries —Hitler's home movies. The technology allows the dialogue to be dubbed on to the silent films, many of them made by Eva Braun at Hitler's mountain retreat, the Berghof. With the new soundtrack, Hitler can be heard encouraging young children towards a life in the military, criticising even his closest henchmen and flirting with Braun.
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Topic: W A R - on November 1, 2006 at 5:32:00 PM CET
Depleted uranium risk 'ignored'
UK and US forces have continued to use depleted uranium weapons despite warnings they pose a cancer risk, a BBC investigation has found.
Scientists have pointed to health statistics in Iraq, where the weapons were used in the 1991 and 2003 wars.
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Topic: W A R - on October 28, 2006 at 3:43:00 PM CEST
Mystery of Israel's secret uranium bomb
Did Israel use a secret new uranium-based weapon in southern Lebanon this summer in the 34-day assault that cost more than 1,300 Lebanese lives, most of them civilians?
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Topic: W A R - on October 26, 2006 at 3:16:00 PM CEST
CIA tried to silence EU on torture flights
The CIA tried to persuade Germany to silence EU protests about the human rights record of one of America's key allies in its clandestine torture flights programme, the Guardian can reveal.
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Topic: W A R - on October 20, 2006 at 3:36:00 PM CEST
Video shows snipers' chilling work in Iraq
Chilling scenes from a videotape made by insurgents show the work of snipers in Iraq, targeting and killing American troops, taking them down with a single bullet from a high-powered rifle.
The graphic video of 10 sniper attacks was obtained by CNN -- through intermediaries -- from the Islamic Army of Iraq, one of the most active insurgent organizations in Iraq.
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Topic: W A R - on March 20, 2005 at 2:36:00 PM CET
Worldwide protests mark Iraq war
Protests have been taking place across the world marking two years since the start of the war in Iraq.
Thousands turned out in Japan and Australia to complain about their countries' involvement in Iraq.
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