Posted on 05/17/2003 9:06:44 PM PDT by null and void
Good Morning.
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CEEGAR GUY.. says "thanks for remembering Veteran's day"
Mango.. even if you have the discs, I need to tell you my story. I had to reinstall ME .. there was also corruption in the MS Office 2000. recommended I reinstall them. It required me to register. When I did it told me i couldn't because THE SOFTWARE WAS ALREADY REGISTERED TO DOLLLY HOWARD (THAT IS ME)
After numberous phone calls, letters, faxes, emails.. I still do NOT have it .. and that was 2 months ago.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news...I am quite POd over it as you no doubt are. I feel for you with the need for it for resumes... bummer.
The library might not be the easiest but perhaps the best choice now that will not cost you money you don't have..
Good luck !! /d
Sharon was scheduled to leave Israel today enroute to the US to meet with President Bush but now has cancelled due to:
Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terror network has threatened to deliver devastating blows to the United States and Israel, a Saudi-owned weekly reports.
"The next strikes will stun the Americans and Israelis," Abu Mohammad al-Ablaj, "coordinator of the al Qaeda-affiliated Mujahedeen Training Centre," said in an email published by London-based Al-Majallah on Friday.
The German government has intercepted a cargo of 30 tonnes of sodium cyanide, which can be used in the manufacture of chemical weapons, at the request of Washington, which believes the shipment was bound for North Korea, according to the German weekly Der Spiegel.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for a sustained international campaign against terrorism, following a series of bomb blasts in Casablanca, Morocco, that have left at least 41 people dead.
UN spokesman Fred Eckhard said in a statement that Mr Annan "utterly condemns" the attacks and sends his "heartfelt condolences" to the government and people of Morocco and to the families of all the dead and injured.
The head of the United Nations emergency relief has warned of a major humanitarian disaster if coalition forces do not quickly establish law and order in Iraq.
Speaking in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, Kenzo Ashima said the occupying forces have an obligation under international law to provide that security.
Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt says he will refer back to the United States a war crimes lawsuit that has been filed in Belgium against the commander of coalition forces in Iraq .
The lawsuit was filed by a group of Iraqis under Belgium's controversial law that allows its courts to try foreigners for war crimes and human rights violations.
A member of Saddam Hussein's inner circle has surrendered to coalition forces in Iraq, where a mass grave thought to hold hundreds of Kuwaiti prisoners of war was uncovered outside Baghdad.
Meanwhile the United States backed away from an upcoming deadline to establish new democratic institutions in the country and a new showdown over Iraq threatened to embroil the UN Security Council.
Curious Iraqis look at a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter as it waits for Col. Michael S. Linnington, commander of the 101st Airborne's 3rd Brigade, to finish facilitating a meeting between Kurdish and Arab local leaders in northern Iraq.
BAGHDAD, May 17 -- Alarmed by rampant crime and remnants of Iraq's vanquished leadership, the United States has signaled its intention in recent days to use a firmer hand in directing this country's political future and filling a worrisome security vacuum that has undermined U.S. credibility here in the weeks since the end of the war.
Jan Fermon who has filed a lawsuit against US General Tommy Franks
America's top military officer has warned that Nato may have to move from its Brussels headquarters after an attempt to bring war crimes charges against General Tommy Franks, the commander of coalition forces in Iraq, in the Belgian courts.
General Richard Myers, chief of the US general staff, intervened in the row with Belgium after American officials expressed fears that Belgian war crimes laws would expose Nato officers to the risk of arrest.
NAIROBI, May 17 -- U.S. and British military forces will help their Kenyan counterparts set up round-the-clock surveillance of the country's airports in response to continuing fears that terrorists are planning to attack commercial airplanes here, officials from the three nations said today.
A mass grave containing the suspected remains of at least 40 Kuwaiti prisoners of war, amongst 600 other bodies, has been found near Baghdad. The grave is more evidence of Saddam Hussein's brutality has emerged near Baghdad.
Earlier another mass grave was uncovered in al-Habbaniyah. It contains the remains of Kuwaitis listed missing after Iraq invaded the country in 1990. Saddam always maintained he released all prisoners - this appears to prove otherwise. A member of the Iraqi National Congress made the discovery after being lead to the site by an informer.
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