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The Dow is down — these days often attributed to war jitters. Oil prices and health costs are up, and over 8 million people are unemployed. On March 8, 2003 the Department of Labor released new figures that were, according to news analysts, "far more severe" than had been predicted. Recently, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL ran a page one story on a worker who had sent out over 700 resumes without landing a job. The White House now estimates the budget deficit will hit a record $304 billion this year. On March 6, 2003, the NEW YORK TIMES reported that...

Kuwait City British and American soldiers are building an internment camp at a secret location inside Iraq to hold thousands of prisoners of war from Saddam Hussein's forces. They have not disclosed the location even to the Red Cross, which has a right under international law to visit the prisoners. About 500 soldiers from Britain's Queens Dragoon Guards are among the troops involved in building the camp in southern Iraq, close to the Kuwaiti border. It will include feeding stations, washing facilities and areas for providing medical care. American General Tommy Franks, the officer overseeing the US-led war, said this...

EDMONTON - It really gets under Myron Thompson's skin when he hears anti-war protesters chanting that United States President George Bush is a baby killer. The Wild Rose Alliance MP and his wife can't help but think of their 29-year-old son Dennis, who's a U.S. combat soldier somewhere deep in Iraq. "When they say that, they're accusing the soldiers," he said Saturday. "They should know that there's a young Canadian who's part of that force, and he's my son, and he's no baby killer." Thompson acknowledges the demonstrators have a right to march and state their opposition. However, he says,...

Battlefield Beauty With more women taking military positions closer to combat, that old male phrase: "That's what your fighting for!" takes a strange twist as the girl back home now may be flying above giving close air support. British Army Doctor, Lt. Col. Lesley Lintonbon, from East Devon, England Unidentified Apache Pilot

<p>The Rev. Frederick Boyle, a pacifist and pastor of Millbrook United Methodist Church in Randolph, is planning to head to Baghdad next week to join the ranks of human shields there.</p> <p>The controversial shield movement is drawing volunteers from Russia, Canada, Italy, the United States, Ireland, England and other countries. Their first wish is to dissuade an American preemptive strike against Iraq. But Boyle, 53, said that's not why they're going.</p>

<p>The longer a war, the worse for Arab regimes that aid U.S.</p> <p>When Secretary of State Colin Powell heads to the United Nations Wednesday to make the case for attacking Saddam Hussein, the spotlight of international attention will fix on reluctant U.S. allies such as France and Germany.</p>

WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein's playboy son Uday blustered yesterday that if America invades Iraq, the U.S. will be hurt so badly that the Pentagon and World Trade Center attacks will seem like a "picnic." "If they come, Sept. 11, which they are crying over and see as a big thing, will be a real picnic for them, God willing," Uday Hussein said on the al-Shahab (Youth) TV station he runs. "It is better for them [the Americans] to keep themselves away from us," he said. "They will be hurt and pay a price they will never imagine," he said without...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - More than two-thirds of Americans believe the Bush administration has failed to make its case that a war against Iraq is justified, according to a poll by the Los Angeles Times published Tuesday. Ninety percent of respondents said they don't doubt Iraq is developing weapons of mass destruction. But without new evidence from U.N. inspectors, 72 percent of respondents, including 60 percent of Republicans, said the president has not provided enough evidence to justify starting a war. The Times poll, which interviewed 1,305 adults nationwide, was conducted from Thursday to Sunday, in the week after Iraq...