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Friday, March 21, 2003

IRAQ WAR


- FLASH: US launches major air campaign in Iraq (Washington Post)
- A 'great mystery': was Saddam hit? (International Herald Tribune)
- US thinks Hussein, sons were in bunker (Washington Post)
- Allied forces march into Iraq (Washington Times)
- Iraqi CW chells (Washington Times)
- POWs to be stripped in suicide bomb fears (Daily Telegraph)
- Intense sand, dust storms due in Iraq next week (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
- Land, sea, and air assault (Guardian)
- US officer: 12 UK, 4 US dead in helicopter crash (Washington Post)
- Israel warns web sites on war coverage (CNET News)
- Britain reveals France's 135M pound exports to Iraq (Guardian)
- DUH! - Blix: Scuds a 'violation' (NY Post)
- Turkey delays opening airspace to US (AP)
- Traders bet on Saddam's ouster (Wired)
- 'Wave of steel' surges toward Baghdad (CNN)
- The JPost's Caroline B. Glick reports from the Iraqi battlefront (Jerusalem Post)
- 'Dead bodies are everywhere' ... Saddam's first martyrs lost (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Umm Qasr will be secured soon: UK (Indian Express)
- Developments in Iraq's oil fields, world oil markets (Boston Globe)
- Kurds wary of US invasion (Salt Lake Tribune)
- Vital Iraq port taken by allies (CNN)
- UK: Iraq torches 30 oil refineries (CNN)
- US Marine killed in Iraq offensive - spokesman (ABC News)
- Without the best (ABC News)
- Forces seize key Iraqi airbases (Fox News)
- Regime change: How will we know when it happens? (Christian Science Monitor)
- US Marines rip down Saddam portraits (AP)
- FLASH: Flash: B-52s to hit within hour (Sky News)
- Saddam decrees rewards for capture, death of enemy troops (AP)
- Forces may enter Iraq within four days, military says (Canadian Press)
- Experts to hunt for banned Iraqi weapons (New Scientist)
- Iraq fires 10th missile at Kuwait (AFP)
- Baghdad by Monday (Evening Standard)
- US confirms 2nd Marine death in Iraq (Las Vegas Sun)
- Baghdad ablaze after bombing (Reuters)


DISSENTING COWARDLY VIEWS


- US anti-war protests flare, more than 1000 arrests (Washington Post)
- San Francisco protesters stage a 'vomit in' (SF Chronicle)
- 10 more 'human shields' leave for Iraq (Mainichi)
- France wants no lead role for UK, US in rebuilding Iraq (AP)
- CNN reporters expelled from Baghdad (Washington Post)
- Rumsfeld: Saddam 'losing control' (MSNBC)


HOMELAND SECURITY


- America faces checkpoints as war begins (AP)
- Thompson says US ready for bioterror (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)


TERRORIST THREAT - ORANGE


- France: Ricin traces found in Paris railway (Washington Post)
- Palo Verde plant secure from attack, officials say (Arizona Republic)
- FBI on global hunt for Saudi al Qaeda suspect (Washington Post)


WAR ON TERROR


- AFGHANISTAN: US troops fan out in hunt for al Qaeda (Durham Herald-Sun)


TERROR SUSPECTS


- Germans detain five people in possible terror plot (Deutsche Welle)


AXIS OF EVIL


- IRAN: Rocket hits oil refinery depot in SW Iran - sources (Washington Post)


Pietro 5:57 AM

Thursday, March 20, 2003

IRAQ WAR


- FLASH: US begins air, ground war (MSNBC)
- Cruise missiles, stealth jets lead attack (Washington Post)
- CIA had fix on Hussein (Washington Post)
- Bush: US launches strike against Iraq (Washington Post)
- 'Conscripts to surrender' (Sky News)
- No-flags order causes a flap along the front line (International Herald Tribune)
- Iraq Scud fired at troops intercepted (AP)
- Saddam defies 'little Bush' in TV address (Reuters)
- Missiles aimed to hit Iraqi meeting - British (Reuters)
- US assesses damage from strike on Iraq (AP)
- Britain says main attack will begin 'very shortly' (Crosswalk)
- Israelis prepare for possible attack (Canoe)
- Kurds to fight guerilla group linked to al Qaeda (Sydney Morning Herald)
- US ground forces fire on Iraqi troops (Washington Post)
- Iraq oil wells may have been set on fire (Guardian)
- Rumsfeld warns of bigger US attack coming to Iraq (ABC News)
- Blair records war address to nation (Guardian)
- "Broad evidence" Iraqi military officials considering switching sides: Rumsfeld (AFP)
- Turkey's parliament ok's US on airspace (AP)
- US attack targets Iraq Republican Guard (Washington Post)
- US-led troops seize key border town (Reuters)
- Some Iraqi troops surrender - CBS (Reuters)
- Who will try Iraqi war criminals? (Slate)
- Iraqi refugees head to Jordan (Australia News Interactive)


ONION-LIKE QUOTE OF THE YEAR


"I heard reports that we fired Scud missiles on Kuwait. I would like to tell you that we don't have Scud missiles, and why they were fired, I don't know." - Iraqi information minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf



WAR ON TERROR


- AFGHANISTAN: US steps up Afghanistan campaign (Guardian)


TERROR SUSPECTS


- Metro man with $12M in fake checks indicted (Detroit News)
- Immigration agents arrest Iraqi in Zamboanga (Manila Times)
- Feds arrest UCF professor (Sun-Sentinel)
- FBI hunts al Qaeda suspect in US (MSNBC)


HOMELAND SECURITY


- Top White House anti-terror boss resigns (UPI)
- US battens down under heavy security (Albany Times-Union)


TERRORIST THREAT - ORANGE


- 'Suicide commandos' threat (Australia News Interactive)
- US official: Arizona nuclear plant may be target (CNN)


DISSENTING VIEWS


- Protesters disrupt morning commute in SF, other cities (SF Chronicle)


Pietro 5:44 AM

Wednesday, March 19, 2003

WHO IS WITH US?


Supporting military forces:

  • UK
  • Australia
  • Albania
  • Denmark
  • Latvia
  • Poland
  • Spain

WMD experts:

  • Ukraine
  • Czech Republic
  • Bulgaria
  • Romania
  • Slovakia
  • Germany (YES, Germany)

Logistical support:

  • Bahrain
  • Croatia
  • Hungary
  • Italy
  • Jordan
  • Kuwait
  • Qatar
  • UAE

Other support:

  • Afghanistan
  • Azerbaijan
  • Colombia
  • El Salvador
  • Eritrea
  • Estonia
  • Ethiopia
  • Georgia
  • Iceland
  • Japan
  • South Korea
  • Lithuania
  • Macedonia
  • Netherlands
  • Nicaragua
  • Philippines
  • Turkey
  • Uzbekistan



IRAQ


- The war has started (Evening Standard)
- Saddam's troops fire the first shots of the conflict (Independent UK)
- First shots fired at sea as allied battle plan unfolds (London Times)
- US troops stationed in Kuwait move closer to Iraqi border (WABC-TV New York)
- Early teams to seek hidden arms (International Herald Tribune)
- The band of brothers (Sun)
- Saddam likely to go underground (Washington Times)
- Saudi Arabia proposes exile for Saddam to stop war (Washington Post)
- US troops get ready for Iraq war (MSNBC)
- Military may microwave Iraqi electronic circuits (Washington Post)
- Saddam's obstinacy signals start of war (Ottawa Citizen)
- Good morning soldier, this is your life (Washington Post)
- Saddam's sons powerful, brutal (Arizona Republic)
- US planes bomb west Iraq after fired on (Reuters)
- US forces move into Kuwait-Iraq DMZ, sources say (Reuters)
- Gov't prepares Americans for casualties (Washington Post)
- Tareq Aziz might have defected (South Africa Independent)
- UPDATE: Iraq's Aziz puts defection rumors to rest (Washington Post)
- Baghdad a ghost city as clock ticks toward war (Reuters)
- Officer: 15 Iraqi soldiers surrender (AP)
- Armed Baath party fans out across Baghdad (AP)
- Commando force poised to track and kill Saddam (USA Today)


TERRORIST THREAT


- Three arrested outside London with bombs (Washington Post)
- Guess who worked at our nuke base (Town Hall)
- Western deaths spark Middle East terror alert (Guardian)
- Europeans fly flag in Yemen to fend off attacks (Forbes)
- A dirty bomb may not kill but it sure would hurt (Reuters)


HOMELAND SECURITY


- Air patrols and officers at TV stations as city goes on alert (NY Times)
- Homeland security steps tightest since 9/11 (USA Today)
- Florida tightens security around airports, seaports, theme parks (Lakeland Ledger)


TERROR SUSPECTS


- Somalia says Qaeda suspect handed to US agents (Reuters)


SEPTEMBER 11 TRIALS


- Is Moussaoui small fry? (CBS News)


OPINION


- Diplomatic debacle? Not so by Michael Barone (US News)


Pietro 7:33 AM

Monday, March 17, 2003

IRAQ


- Bush has audacious plan to rebuild Iraq within year (Dow Jones)
- Powell in the bunker (Newsweek)
- Young Marines getting jittery as desert countdown drags on (Sydney Morning Herald)
- US tells weapons inspectors to leave Iraq (Financial Times)
- Iraq puts its forces on war alert (Hindu)
- US observers cease patrols on Iraq-Kuwait border (SF Chronicle)
- Marine predicts brief bombing, then land assault (Washington Post)
- Thousands rally for troops at Valley forge (Philadelphia Inquirer)
- NBC, ABC pull reporters from Baghdad after comments indicating war (Tampa Tribune)
- US psychological war in Iraq moves to faxes (New Zealand Herald)
- Marines lift prayers, sandbags (NY Daily News)


HOMELAND SECURITY


- FBI has war plans to mobilize agents against terrorists (Washington Post)


OPINION


- Blix's weird world by John Podhoretz (NY Post)


TERROR SUSPECTS


- Another top al Qaeda man caught in Pakistan (Straits Times)


TERROR INVESTIGATION


- FBI takes terror hunt to college campuses (CNN)


Pietro 7:57 AM



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