] US Marines found cyanide and mustard agents in high
] concentrations in the Euphrates River near Nassiriya in
] Iraq, television network MSNBC has reported.
]
] The network said a briefing from Marine officials was its
] source for the information.

EUPHRATES 'POISONED'

] A woman lion tamer has run away from a circus in Germany
] with eight lions, two tigers and the circus director's
] son, police said on Friday.
]
] The woman, in her late 40s, is believed to have developed
] a close relationship with the 20-year-old man she was
] training to become a lion tamer, a police spokesman in
] the northern German town of Melle said.

Oh my!

Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage

] Reminiscent of the Hitler Youth of World War II, Saddam
] Hussein has trained an 8,000-strong army of children to
] face coalition forces in Baghdad.
]
] In a report by the New York Daily News, Peter Singer of
] the Brookings Institution explains the children are
] considered a junior Fedayeen Saddam %u2013 the
] paramilitary forces Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
] has dubbed "death squads" for the atrocities they commit.
]
] The child army is called Ashbal Saddam, or Saddam's Lion
] Cubs, according to the report.

WorldNetDaily: Saddam trains kids to kill

] The recording industry is suing students at Michigan
] Technological and two other universities, saying they ran
] Napster-like file sharing systems on the schools'
] high-speed Internet networks.
]
] The lawsuit says Michigan Tech student Joseph Nievelt and
] three others ran systems offering more than 1 million
] copies of songs for illegal downloading.

Michigan Tech student sued by music industry over file sharing

] MSNBC.com tests reveal evidence of the deadly toxins
] ricin and botulinum at a laboratory in a remote mountain
] region of northern Iraq allegedly used as a terrorist
] training camp by Islamic militants with ties to the
] al-Qaida terrorist network. The U.S. Central Intelligence
] Agency is conducting its own tests at the same area, but
] has not yet released the results, according to officials
] in northern Iraq.

Positive test for terror toxins in Iraq

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] Wiretapping takes on a whole new meaning now that phone
] calls are being made over the Internet, posing legal and
] technical hurdles for the FBI (news - web sites) as it
] seeks to prevent the emerging services from becoming a
] safe haven for criminals and terrorists.
]
]
] The FBI wants regulators to affirm that such services
] fall under a 1994 law requiring phone companies to build
] in surveillance capabilities. It is also pushing the
] industry to create technical standards to make
] wiretapping easier and cheaper.
]
] But privacy advocates fear that because online
] eavesdropping technology is crude, tapping into the data
] stream for voice means getting more than what a court
] ordered - including possibly e-mail and other
] digital communications.

Yahoo! News - Online Phone Monitoring Sticky for FBI

] Clutching her new cowboy hat, 2-year-old Carson Weigart
] nodded as she surveyed the array of four-legged critters
] moseying around Maury County Park yesterday afternoon.
]
] ''Haflingers,'' she said matter-of-factly when her
] grandfather asked what type of horses those were.
]
] He grinned at her knowledge.
]
] This pint-sized Bethel, Ala., cowgirl %u2014 clad in
] Wrangler's, a fancy belt and cowgirl shirt %u2014
] sauntered through her first Mule Day experience like a
] seasoned cowpoke, eyeing the mules and petting the
] horses.
]
] Tomorrow, she will join her family for the 11 a.m. Mule
] Day parade %u2014 riding in a wagon pulled by her
] grandfather's set of Haflingers, a popular breed of horse
] that traces its origin to the Tyrolean mountains of
] Austria and northern Italy.
]
] Mule Day festivities got under way yesterday in Maury
] County Park, with visitors first having to walk a
] gauntlet of food vendors hawking everything from roasted
] ears of corn to fried Twinkies.

Can you say roasted corn and mullets?

County begins Mule Day festivities - Friday, 04/04/03

] One of the most mysterious aspects of this highly
] mysterious war is the absence of casualties. People get
] killed in normal wars. Who is getting killed in this one?
] And where is the Iraqi army?
]
] As a percentage of those engaged, casualties represent
] less than one tenth of one per cent. For purposes of
] comparison, during the Second World War casualties in
] Bomber Command of four per cent per sortie - say 300 dead
] aircrew each 1,000 bomber raid - were thought bearable.
]
] The British death toll so far is under 30 and most of the
] victims have died in accidents. The American death toll
] is not much higher.
]
] Opponents of the war will say that, though Western
] casualties may be low, that is not true of the Iraqis.
] Perhaps but where is the proof?
]
] Although there is still a large Western press corps in
] Baghdad, television has so far succeeded in bringing us
] only the most paltry evidence of deaths inflicted among
] civilians by the coalition - three here, perhaps 17
] there, but that may have been Iraqi friendly fire. In a
] similar incident during the Bosnian war, when a Sarajevo
] market was shelled by the Serbs, 80 were killed. The
] Iraqi government announced yesterday that 1,250 civilians
] have died but provided no evidence.

Where are the casualities and the Iraqi army? - War on Iraq - smh.com.au