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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...