] "There was a machine designed for shredding plastic.
] Men were dropped into it and we were again made to watch.
] Sometimes they went in head first and died quickly.
] Sometimes they went in feet first and died screaming. It
] was horrible. I saw 30 people die like this. Their
] remains would be placed in plastic bags and we were told
] they would be used as fish food . . . on one occasion, I
] saw Qusay [President Saddam Hussein's youngest son]
] personally supervise these murders."
]
] This is one of the many witness statements that were
] taken by researchers from Indict %u2014 the organisation
] I chair - to provide evidence for legal cases
] against specific Iraqi individuals for war crimes, crimes
] against humanity and genocide. This account was taken in
] the past two weeks.

See men shredded, then say you don't back war

] Reaction has been coming in from around the world
] following US President George W Bush's deadline for
] President Saddam Hussein and his two sons to leave Iraq
] by 0100GMT on Thursday 20 March or face war.

Quotes from a variety of countries: France, Japan, Germany, Denmark, Italy, Mexico, Canada, China, Russia, Philippines, Iran, the Arab League, Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), New Zealand, and the Vatican. All over the scale, from "we're for it" to "we're against it," to "we're staying out of it and minding our own business".

BBC NEWS : In quotes: Reaction to Bush ultimatum

] Last October, when I spoke at the Labour conference in
] Blackpool, I supported the efforts of President Bush and
] Prime Minister Blair to renew efforts to eliminate Saddam
] Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, and to try to
] accomplish this through the UN.
]
] In November, the UN security council adopted unanimously
] resolution 1441, giving Saddam a "final opportunity" to
] disarm, after 12 years of defying UN resolutions
] requiring him to do so. The resolution made it clear that
] continued sanctions were not sufficient and that
] continued defiance would lead to serious consequences.
]
] The credit for 1441 belongs in large measure to Blair,
] who saw it as a chance to disarm Saddam in a way that
] strengthened the UN and preserved the Atlantic alliance.
] Unfortunately, the consensus behind 1441 has unravelled.
] Saddam has destroyed some missiles but beyond that he has
] done only what he thinks is necessary to keep the UN
] divided on the use of force. The really important issues
] relating to chemical and biological weapons remain
] unresolved.

Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Bill Clinton: Trust Tony's judgment

] An airline passenger who had two "No War with Iraq" signs
] in his suitcase says the federal security agent who
] opened his luggage inserted a note criticizing his
] "anti-American attitude."
]
] "I found it chilling and a little Orwellian to have
] received this message," said Seth Goldberg, 41, of
] Cranbury, New Jersey.
]
] Federal Transportation Security Administration officials
] are investigating.

CNN.com - Passenger finds 'chilling' note from bag handler - Mar. 16, 2003

] Open acts of defiance by opponents of Saddam Hussein's
] regime have intensified in the past week, with saboteurs
] carrying out attacks against Iraq's railway system and
] protesters openly calling for the overthrow of the Iraqi
] dictator.
]
] The most blatant act of sabotage took place 20 miles
] south of the north Iraqi city of Mosul when members of
] the Iraqi opposition blew up a stretch of track on the
] Mosul-Baghdad railway, causing the derailment of a train.
]
] Before fleeing back to their base in Kurdistan, they left
] piles of leaflets by the side of the track urging the
] Iraqi soldiers who were sent to investigate the explosion
] to join the "international alliance to liberate Iraq"
] from "Saddam the criminal". In a separate incident, a
] rocket-propelled grenade was fired at a train illegally
] transporting fuel from Baghdad to Syria.

Telegraph | News | Iraqis launch campaign of sabotage and defiance to undermine Saddam

] An obscure Jewish sect in New York has been gripped in
] awe by what it believes to be a mystical visitation by a
] 20lb carp that was heard shouting in Hebrew, in what many
] Jews worldwide are hailing as a modern miracle.
]
] Many of the 7,000-member Skver sect of Hasidim in New
] Square, 30 miles north of Manhattan, believe God has
] revealed himself in fish form.
]
] Still, the shouting carp corresponds with the belief
] of some Hasidic sects that righteous people can be
] reincarnated as fish. They say that Nivelo may have been
] selected because he is not Jewish, but a weary Nivelo
] told the New York Times : 'I wish I never said anything
] about it. I'm getting so many calls every day, I've
] stopped answering. Israel, London, Miami, Brooklyn. They
] all want to hear about the talking fish.'

The Observer | International | Word is made flesh as God reveals himself... as a fish

Does Saddam move first?

I'm going with yes, with a spread of 12 hours.. That is, at least 12 hours before whatever deadline is set gets reached..

] The death of an American peace protester in the Gaza
] Strip Sunday is raising questions about the Israeli
] army's use of force and highlighting the risks
] international activists take to slow the steady violence
] that characterizes the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
]
] Rachel Corrie, a student at Evergreen College in Olympia,
] Wash., died trying to prevent an Israeli army bulldozer
] from demolishing a house in Rafah, where Gaza abuts the
] Egyptian border.
]
] Corrie, who was a member of the Palestinian-backed
] International Solidarity Movement, was standing in front
] of a house wearing a brightly colored top and shouting as
] a bulldozer approached her, witnesses said. "Rachel was
] alone in front of the house as we were trying to get them
] to stop," Greg Schnabel, a fellow protester from Chicago,
] told wire services. "She waved for the bulldozer to stop.
] She fell down and the bulldozer kept going. We yelled
] 'Stop, stop,' and the bulldozer didn't stop at all. It
] had completely run over her and then it reversed and ran
] back over her."

American peace protester killed in Gaza | csmonitor.com

] Saddam Hussein's most important Kurdish ally has
] defected to Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq in what
] officials here say is an indication that the Iraqi
] president's internal support is beginning to
] crumble.

Kurdish ally of Saddam Hussein regime defects

] The design package, called Wanda, is meant to create a
] cell phone that TI said would connect to each of these
] technologies: a Wi-Fi hot spot, which uses the 802.11b
] standards; a cell phone network using GSM (Global System
] for Mobile Communications); and any device using the
] short-range wireless standard called Bluetooth. TI says
] it is the first to combine all three in a single design.

Very cool..

TI unveils a design called Wanda