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It didn't take long for reporters hostile to President Bush to begin spinning the news of Saddam Hussein's capture. "The one thing to remember is that, even though we've got Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden is still out there," complained Washington Post reporter Robin Wright on NBC's "Meet the Press." "And in many ways he's far more dangerous than Saddam Hussein was," she added. On the same program, Time Magazine columnist Joe Klein suggested that another 9/11 attack could revitalize Democrat hopes of defeating Bush next November. "This election, more than any other I've covered, is out of the hands...

LONDON (AP) — World leaders including the Iraq war's most prominent opponents welcomed Saddam Hussein's capture, saying it brought a long-awaited end to the career of a brutal dictator and could mark the beginning of peace in Iraq. The U.S. military announced that a bearded Saddam was detained without resistance in a hole on a farm near his hometown of Tikrit, ending one of the most intense manhunts in history. "Where his rule meant terror and division and brutality, let his capture bring about unity, reconciliation and peace," Prime Minister Tony Blair said. "Saddam is gone from power. He won't...

TIKRIT, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqis at the hometown of Saddam Hussein are in sombre mood after news of his arrest, but U.S. troops in the town are jubilant. While most Iraqis in other parts of Iraq rejoiced after hearing Saddam was arrested by U.S. forces just south of Tikrit, residents of the town near where Saddam was born clearly thought his arrest on Sunday was the result of betrayal and a major blow. "Today is the day that Iraq was defeated not in April," Hamid, a barber, told Reuters in Tikrit. U.S.-led forces toppled Saddam in April and forced him...

Iraqis celebrated the capture of fallen dictator Saddam Hussein in traditional style, blasting away with their favourite weapons pointed to the skies and folk dancing in the streets. As news spread across the country that ex-president Saddam Hussein had been captured alive near his hometown Tikrit, prolonged bursts of gun fire, automatic weapons, pistols and heavier calibres filled the air in Baghdad. "It's a great joy for the Iraqi people because a great dictator has been arrested," interim Governing Council member Mahmud Othman told AFP. In central Fardous Square, people threw old bank notes bearing Saddam's face into the air....

RAMALLAH, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Disbelief and gloom seized many Palestinians on Sunday at news of Saddam Hussein's capture as Israel fired off a telegram of congratulations to Washington. The former Iraqi ruler was a hero to many Palestinians for his stand against Israel and its U.S. ally, as well as for helping families of Palestinians dead in an uprising. For Israel, he was a menace over the horizon who long bankrolled the enemy. "It's a black day in history," said Sadiq Husam, 33, a taxi driver in Ramallah, West Bank seat of the Palestinian Authority. "I am saying so...

The capture of Saddam Hussein is actually bad news for U.S. troops serving in Iraq. That's the bizarre assessment from former Clinton administration counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke, who said Sunday morning that the Iraqi dictator's arrest may only exacerbate opposition to U.S. occupation forces. "I don't think it's going to have a near term positive effect on security," Clarke told ABC's "This Week." Ignoring reports that Saddam was bankrolling insurgents in Iraq, Clinton's terrorism czar insisted, "I think it's very likely that these cells [attacking U.S. troops] are fully autonomous, they're spread around the country and they haven't been getting...

Howard Dean: This arbitrary, unilateral capture will provoke more anti-American terror. Why weren't UN forces involved? It only highlights Bush's failure to capture Osama bin Laden.....

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Baghdad Blogger His irreverent web diary became an internet sensation during the war. Now, in the first of his fortnightly Guardian columns, Salam Pax reports on life in the Iraqi capital Wednesday June 4, 2003 The Guardian Vacancies: President needed - fluent in English, will have limited powers only. Generous bonuses." This appeared on the first page of the Ahrar newspaper. Another new weekly. Newspapers are coming out of our ears these days. There are two questions which no one can answer: how many political parties are there now in Iraq? And how many newspapers are printed weekly?" Most of...

Robbins Rants Over Critics Of His Antiwar Views Actor's Speech Chides Baseball Hall Decision, Media Outlets POSTED: 10:14 a.m. EDT April 16, 2003 Actor and peace activist Tim Robbins took another swing at the Baseball Hall of Fame during a speech at the National Press Club in Washington Tuesday, and also hit line drives at selected media outlets who have criticized his and partner Susan Sarandon's antiwar views. Robbins wrote a letter to Hall president Dale Petroskey last week, saying he belonged "with the cowards and ideologues in a hall of infamy and shame" after Petroskey cancelled a scheduled Cooperstown...

NASIRIYAH, Iraq -- Sheik Lami Abbas Ajali looked around at the small cell where he spent several bleak weeks of his life and recounted the torture: how he was hit, prodded, had his eyelids pulled back, had electric shocks applied to his temples and genitals, how his hands were cuffed behind him then raised until he was off the ground. He recalled Saturday how torturers stuffed 10 suspects into an 8-by-6-foot room so only two could sleep at any given time while the other eight were forced to stand

<p>FORT BLISS, Texas (CNN) --One was determined and never gave up on any task. Another had a positive attitude and a lighthearted sense of humor. Still another always went the extra mile to help his fellow soldiers.</p> <p>One by one, the nine soldiers of the U.S. Army's 507th Maintenance Company killed in the war in Iraq were remembered Friday during a memorial service at Fort Bliss, the unit's home post.</p>

Friday » April 11 » 2003 Baghdad falls The new American era of peace through power Robert Fulford National Post National Post columnist Robert Fulford explains how the war in Iraq marks a turning point in world history. - - - A monstrous bronze version of Saddam Hussein, its elephantine arm outstretched, towered above Paradise Square in the core of Baghdad, one of the hundreds of self-glorifying symbols that he installed in his capital and across the country to tell the world that he was omnipresent as well as all-powerful, the only man of consequence in the Republic of Iraq....

April 7, 2003 A Sinister Past Comes to Light at an Iraqi Post By JIM DWYER ARBALA, Iraq, April 6 — To the Americans who arrived by tank and helicopter and Humvee, this city 45 miles south of Baghdad began to reveal itself today in hints of a sinister past in captured military archives. Inside a bombed military headquarters, soldiers found strips of film negatives showing images of people who appeared to have met violent deaths. The images, shown to a reporter, appeared to document injuries on the bodies of three different people. Scores of other negatives kept in the...

<p>WASHINGTON (CNN) --Iraqi forces have placed dozens of landmines at a mosque in the northern part of the country, an anti-landmines group says.</p> <p>About 150 anti-personnel landmines had been stored inside the Kadir Karam mosque and placed within the grounds before it was abandoned on March 27, Human Rights Watch said.</p>

Reuters Friday, March 28, 2003; 6:27 PM KUWAIT (Reuters) - Debris lay scattered around a Kuwait City shopping mall on Saturday, Reuters correspondents at the scene said, after a blast that witnesses said was caused by a missile that landed nearby. Reuters correspondent William Maclean said the Al-Sharqiah cinema, which was part of the seafront mall in the Souq Sharq district, showed signs of damage to its frontage and roofing but it was unclear whether it had been struck by a missile. There was a smell of smoke in the area. A policeman at the scene told Reuters he had...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/battle/la-war-iraqfight28mar28,1,3949765.story?coll=la%2Dhome%2Dheadlines QUICK KNOCKOUT, OR STREET FIGHT? Hussein Hopes to Draw U.S. Into Urban Combat The Iraqi regime has spent years preparing for this showdown and how to play to world opinion. Its strategists have researched U.S. military involvement in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia. By Sebastian Rotella Times Staff Writer March 28, 2003 LONDON -- Saddam Hussein hopes to turn the battle for Baghdad into a Mesopotamian version of Stalingrad. The Iraqi president is an admirer of Josef Stalin. He has modeled his ruthless rule and cult of personality on the Soviet leader. SNIP SNIP SNIP And then, he appears to...

Jessica Lynch is known for her smile, her laugh and for loving children so much that she wants to be a teacher. "That smile is all you ever see," Glenda Nelson, a close family friend, said Monday. "No matter what, she always had a smile on her face." Lynch, who aspires to become a teacher, joined the Army to get an education and because it was one of the few opportunities available in a farming community with an unemployment rate of 15 percent &#8212; one of the highest in West Virginia. Once she entered the service, Jesse, as she...

Well, since Turkey has shown themselves to be a bunch of turkeys, what are the chances that the troops and equipment destined for Turkey would be allowed to move to eastern Jordan?

The clash of battling war plans Arnaud de Borchgrave Published 7/22/2002 About 5,000 ships — from battleships to small landing craft loaded with 130,000 troops — and more than 1,000 air transports to drop three divisions of paratroopers was the Allied plan for the invasion of Normandy scheduled for early June 1944. Imagine Operation Overlord for D-Day splashed all over the front page of the New York Times. Unthinkable, you say. Then imagine the German high command's plans to repulse the Allied invasion announced by Adolf Hitler himself in a meeting with his closest advisers and then leaked to a...