Posted on 05/11/2003 9:05:43 PM PDT by null and void
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...BellyGirl.
Thanks nully!!!
I've been so out of the loop with the news the last couple weeks ..what was on fire in Bagdad today?
Also are any of the Bagdad cams or Sky News still working?
Amrozi bin Nurhasyim, a key suspect of the Bali bombing, sits on the dock during his trial in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Monday, May 12, 2003. The first of more than 33 suspects accused in last year's devastating bombings on the Indonesia resort island of Bali arrived in court Monday to face charges he helped plan the attack. Amrozi could face the death penalty if convicted.
First Suspect in Bali Bombings on Trial
BALI, Indonesia - The first suspect in last year's deadly nightclub bombings went on trial Monday, a case seen as a test of Indonesia's willingness to crack down on radical Islamic groups in the world's largest Muslim nation.
Amrozi bin Nurhasyim arrived at the court in a convoy of police cars. He said nothing as he entered the courtroom, surrounded by hundreds of armed officers and reporters.
Firefighters arrive to the scene as fire rages at the Central Telecomunications building in downtown Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday May 11, 2003. When Saddam Hussein's regime was in power, the department which ran the country's public viewing television channel was housed in the building. The cause of the blaze was unknown.
Fire breaks out at Baghdad telecoms centre
BAGHDAD (AFP) - A massive fire broke out at Baghdad's main telecommunications facility in the centre of the Iraqi capital.
One person covered in soot was escorted by local residents down the fire escape and out of the building, where an enormous blaze was raging. It was not immediately known if any other people were inside.
U.S. Army 1st Lt. John Fernandez lies in a hospital bed in Washington, a symbol of heroism and hope.
Fernandez, of Rocky Point, L.I., no longer has his feet - they were blown off on April 3, when mortar fire hit his unit 20 miles south of Baghdad.
BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 9 - One of the enduring images of the war with Iraq was the sight of American M1A1 tanks rumbling through downtown Baghdad. But in this war there were many dramas that took place out of public view and away from the front lines.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - He's a "drop-and-give-me-20" Marine with a Master's, in classical studies. He's an assistant district attorney in Manhattan. He has crisscrossed the planet to pursue criminal suspects, from Sean "P. Diddy" Combs to Osama bin Laden.
Now, in the blistering heat of postwar Iraq, Col. Matthew Bogdanos — infantryman, scholar, amateur boxer and one-time waiter at his father's Greek restaurant — has found the case that draws on all his wide-ranging expertise: tracking down the looted treasures from Iraq's national museum.
An Iraqi goalkeeper practices on a soccer field in Baghdad, Saturday, May 10, 2003. During Saddam Hussein's rule, sports _ mainly soccer, which is Iraqis' favorite _ were largely run not by experts but by people with close ties to Saddam's regime. And athletes say Saddam's eldest son Odai, who ran Iraq's Olympic Committee and the Iraqi Football Federation, always liked to see them punished for performing badly.
Iraqi Athletes Look to Brighter Days
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two years ago, Iraqi wrestler Maitham Ali Hadi was competing in the Arab championships in Syria and defected. When the delegation returned home without him, its members were imprisoned and tortured.
The punishment — which included wrestlers, coaches, journalists, even referees — was a message to others who might have been thinking about defecting. Even the chairman and the secretary of the Wrestling Federation were imprisoned, though they weren't in Syria during the tournament.
Sheikh Al-Bo Aiesa Muzahin Ali Kareem looks at a rocket propelled grenade, RPG, launcher that he handed over to US soldiers at Tikrit, Sunday May 11, 2003. The Sheikh voluntarily disarmed his people and handed over more than 80 AK-47 assault rifles, 3 mortars, 3 RPGs and three cases of explosives. The soldiers in uniform are Free Iraqi Fighters.
Saddam's Hometown Torn Between Loyalty
TIKRIT, Iraq - Haji Shafiq and Sami Hemeid are treading a fine line. They belonged to Saddam Hussein's Baath Party — but, they insist, that was just a formality. They earned their living working for Saddam — but they acknowledge the failures of his rule. Then again, they argue, everyone makes mistakes.
They aren't the only ones feeling ambivalent here in Tikrit, the ousted Iraqi leader's hometown and the region that benefited most from his 23 years in power.
BASRA, Iraq - The new American civilian administrator of Iraq arrived Monday to take over the task of piecing this country back together and declared he was "delighted to be here" to begin helping set the country on a democratic course.
"It's a wonderful challenge to help the Iraqi people basically reclaim their country from a despotic regime," L. Paul Bremer in a tarmac interview minutes after his plane landed.
I see Bob Dole layed the smackdown on Bill Clinton last night! The times, they are a changin'!
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