Posted on 05/07/2003 10:01:27 PM PDT by null and void
Good Morning.
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A total of 17 confirmed cases of cholera were reported yesterday by the World Health Organisation in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.
The number of confirmed cholera cases pointed to a probable outbreak of the waterborne disease among "several hundreds of people", the World Health Organisation said. The city's water treatment system shut down after US-led air strikes damaged the electric grid, leaving large parts of the city without clean water for several weeks.
I think he will retire. Who else is likely to pay him - 
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Dubai - Al-Qaeda is preparing a new attack in the United States on the scale of September 11 after adopting a new operational structure which is impenetrable to US intelligence, a Saudi weekly reports in its Friday edition.
"An attack against America is inevitable," Al-Majallah quotes the Islamic militant network's newly-appointed spokesperson Thabet bin Qais as saying in an e-mail to the paper.
LONDON - A British paratrooper died in what appeared to be a shooting accident at his army base in Iraq, British defense officials said Thursday.
Pvt. Andrew Kelly, 18, was killed Tuesday, the Ministry of Defense said, adding that the incident was under investigation.
U.S. intelligence analysts have detected slight 'increases of activity' around North Korean Yongbyon nuclear plant but have made no 'hard conclusions' on whether the country is reprocessing nuclear fuel for potential weapons use, U.S. officials said May 7, 2003. A satellite image of the facility in North Korea
Your headline reminded me of the segment I heard on NPR yesterday.
Going around the Middle East, they were reporting that Arabs never "loved" Saddam, but are seething with anger at our defeating him. This contention was supported with "man on the street" interviews...well the last one was a woman.
She told of how angry they are, hurt and desolate, since the U.S. "invasion" of Iraq. They feel surrounded...Israel on one side, the U.S. on the other. At least they didn't have to feel afraid of Saddam.
At the very end NPR added a little footnote: her husband's steel business, which sold its product to Saddam Hussein, and has now gone bankrupt.
(No bias here!)
More Reporting By Times Writer Called Suspect [Wash Compost]My favorite part is Howell Raines (NYT Editor-in-Chief) called it, "maddening." And, "I wish we had caught it earlier, but we didn't," Raines said. "Frankly, no newspaper in the world is set up to monitor for cheats and fabricators."Jayson Blair, the New York Times reporter who resigned last week after plagiarizing a story about a woman whose son died in Iraq, never talked to two other soldiers' parents he quoted in separate articles, the parents said in interviews this week.The Rev. Tandy Sloan, an associate minister at a Cleveland church whose son was killed in Iraq, said he did not meet or speak to Blair, despite the fact that the reporter published his comments and described him at a church service.
"The article he wrote was totally erroneous," Sloan said. "He hadn't talked to me. He fabricated the whole story, is basically what he did."
Gregory Lynch, the father of Pfc. Jessica Lynch, the former POW who was rescued by U.S. forces, said Blair "was never at my house and never spoke to me."
Really, now Howell. Are you trying to make excuses?
Trouble in Bush's America (NYT Hate/Barf alert)That flight suit has really made the 'rats collective heads explode.While our "What, me worry?" president is having a great time with his high approval ratings and his "Top Gun" fantasies, the economy remains in the tank. And the finances of state and local governments are sinking tragically into ever deeper and ever more unforgiving waters.
Papers suggest 'active' program of illicit armsMaybe these guys could teach our media a thing or two about investigating and researching.CAMP AS SAYLIYA, Qatar — U.S. military officers are examining "very promising" documents that they believe will allow them to put together a comprehensive picture of Iraq's secret weapons programs.Some of these documents, described as complex, technical and difficult to translate accurately, have revealed orders for chemical-weapons precursors, said the U.S. Central Command official in charge of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense. Precursors are materials that could have either military or civilian uses.
Bull. This is an attempt at an excuse. Many, if not most other industries have systems in place to check for and detect discrepancies and abuse within their departments and companies. Talk with some of them Howard, and find out how to go about cleaning up your papers act. Perhaps you should start with your HR and Editing Depts.
Good morning Carolina! Great article to start my day, thanks!
Prairie
It took about a week for the Democrats to explode after President Bush's dashing flight onto the Abraham Lincoln. Just enough time for a poll. The results must have been devastating to them.
It's as if the Dems compare President Bush's putting on the flight suit to Christ putting on human flesh so as to better identify with us all.
DAN NOT THE MANRatings for the "CBS Evening News" with Dan Rather plummeted to one of the broadcast's least-watched weeks ever - pulling in less than 7 million viewers.CBS News officials yesterday could not point to any one reason for the dip.
But industry observers attributed the ratings drop to an editorial decision to focus less on Iraq and more on SARS.
NBC, the perennial evening-news winner, focused heavily on Iraq and drew about 9.4 million viewers, while ABC's "World News Tonight" finished second (with about 8.9 million viewers).
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Meanwhile, CBS News president Andrew Heyward told a group of media executives gathered at a conference this week that the three big evening news broadcasts are "uncannily similar" and said "I'm not proud of it."
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