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Bush accuses Iraq of Hiding Nukes in North Korea |
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1:25 am EDT, Oct 23, 2002 |
"In a bombshell with serious ramifications for U.S. foreign policy, President Bush today accused Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein of hiding nuclear weapons in North Korea." Bush accuses Iraq of Hiding Nukes in North Korea |
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Attacking Iraq - Countdown Timeline |
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5:49 pm EDT, Oct 7, 2002 |
"Attacking Iraq - Countdown Timeline" Very interesting timeline. The lock is at 29 days and counting down, see Nov. 5th. Attacking Iraq - Countdown Timeline |
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Yahoo! News - C.I.A. Rejects Request for Report on Preparations for War in Iraq |
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4:09 pm EDT, Oct 3, 2002 |
"The Central Intelligence Agency ( news - web sites) has refused to provide Congress a comprehensive report on its role in a possible American campaign against Iraq, setting off a bitter dispute between the agency and leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Congressional leaders said today. In a contentious, closed-door Senate hearing today, agency officials refused to comply with a request from the committee for a broad review of how the intelligence community's clandestine role against the government of Saddam Hussein ( news - web sites) would be coordinated with the diplomatic and military actions that the Bush administration is planning. " Yahoo! News - C.I.A. Rejects Request for Report on Preparations for War in Iraq |
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Yahoo! News - Turkish Police Say Seized Uranium Weighs 5 Ounces |
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1:57 pm EDT, Sep 29, 2002 |
"A Turkish police official said on Sunday the amount of uranium recently seized by officers was around 5 ounces and did not weigh 33 lbs as initially reported. The state-run Anatolian news agency on Saturday reported that paramilitary police in the southern province of Sanliurfa detained two men after discovering 15 kg of uranium in a lead container hidden beneath a taxi car seat. " Yahoo! News - Turkish Police Say Seized Uranium Weighs 5 Ounces |
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Yahoo! News - German TV Network Says Saddam Has Three Doubles |
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8:10 pm EDT, Sep 26, 2002 |
"BERLIN (Reuters) - A German television network said on Thursday it had made a scientific study of 450 photographs of Saddam Hussein ( news - web sites) in Iraq and concluded there are at least three doubles posing as the Iraqi president.
The ZDF public television network, working with a German coroner, said it took the photographs and film clips of Saddam which it had in its archives and used facial recognition technology to determine that men said to be him were lookalikes. "In the film sequences since 1998 only the doubles appear," said Dieter Buhmann, a Homburg coroner. "He himself has not been seen again." " Yahoo! News - German TV Network Says Saddam Has Three Doubles |
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Greenspan awarded knighthood |
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3:45 pm EDT, Sep 26, 2002 |
"Amid the baronial splendor of the royal familyâs summer residence in the Scottish Highlands, the worldâs most powerful central banker Alan Greenspan was awarded an honorary knighthood on Thursday." Greenspan awarded knighthood |
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Yahoo! News - Police: Strike Killed Hamas Leader |
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11:25 am EDT, Sep 26, 2002 |
"JERUSALEM (AP) - The chief Hamas bombmaker, Mohammed Deif, who has topped Israel's wanted list for years, was killed in an Israeli air strike Thursday, Israeli sources and TV reports said. Hamas insisted Deif was alive.
An Israeli government spokesman, Daniel Seaman, confirmed that Deif was the target of Thursday's air strike, but said he did not know whether Deif was killed.
Several Israeli police officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said they had been informed by the Israeli military that Deif was killed. " Yahoo! News - Police: Strike Killed Hamas Leader |
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Yahoo! News - U.S. Detects Al Qaeda Camp in Iran - NBC News |
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11:49 pm EDT, Sep 25, 2002 |
"U.S. intelligence has detected what appears to be an al Qaeda training camp in a remote region of eastern Iran along the border with Afghanistan ( news - web sites), NBC News reported on Wednesday, citing unidentified sources. The network said it was told by its sources that overhead imagery of the site shows a suspected terrorist camp that includes a driving course and rifle range very much like al Qaeda camps in Afghanistan that were used to train for assassinations, NBC reported. Iran has denied that al Qaeda members have sought refuge within its borders. Washington has named Iran part of an "axis of evil" accusing it of seeking to acquire weapons of mass destruction and sponsoring terrorism, a charge Iran denies. " Will Bush get on his soap box and start beating the drum for a regime change in Iran now? Yahoo! News - U.S. Detects Al Qaeda Camp in Iran - NBC News |
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KFC Customer Gets Pot With Chicken |
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9:31 am EDT, Sep 23, 2002 |
"A Mill Valley KFC restaurant employee was arrested after a customer received a little something extra with his chicken dinner. This customer received two bags of marijuana Friday, instead of the extra biscuits he had requested. The customer gave the marijuana back to the employee, got his extra biscuits and called police. " KFC Customer Gets Pot With Chicken |
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Bin Laden Targeted U.S. Defense, State, CIA Chiefs |
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11:27 pm EDT, Sep 18, 2002 |
Osama bin Laden targeted the heads of the Defense Department, State Department, CIA and FBI, and offered a $9 million bounty for the assassination of four top intelligence officers, a congressional investigator said on Wednesday. In August 1999, U.S. intelligence agencies obtained information that bin Laden's organization had decided to target the top officials at the State and Defense departments and the CIA, said Eleanor Hill, staff director of the joint 9/11 inquiry of the House and Senate intelligence committees. Bin Laden Targeted U.S. Defense, State, CIA Chiefs |
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