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Western Press Review: The Bombing Of UN Headquarters In Baghdad And 50 Years After Iran's Coup By Aug 20, 2003, 22:20 By Khatya Chhor Prague, 20 August 2003 (RFE/RL) -- Press coverage today is dominated by discussion of the bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad yesterday, which killed at least 17 people including Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN's top envoy to Iraq. A few hours later, a suicide bombing in Jerusalem left at least 20 people dead and wounded over 100 others, prompting Israel to suspend all talks with the Palestinian leadership. We also take a look today at...

Roots of Hope in a Realm of Fear July 28, 2003 The Washington Post Paul Wolfowitz Behind the police academy in Baghdad stands the forked trunk of a dead tree, unusual for the fact that on each branch the bark is permanently marked by two sets of ropes -- one high enough to tie up a man, the other, a woman. Near the tree is a row of small cells where special prisoners were held. Our guide, the newly appointed Sunni superintendent of the academy (who had spent a year in jail for having made a disparaging comment about Saddam...

Reprinted from NewsMax.com None So BlindDiane AldenWednesday, March 26, 2003 The left insists the war against Saddam Hussein is about oil. The record shows that is not the case. Currently the U.S. buys $15 million worth of oil from Iraq each year. The cost of the war is estimated at $100 billion. Even if the U.S. took all Iraqi oil and pocketed a net of $30 per barrel and produced oil at maximum capacity that would add up to $40 billion per year. That means it would take over two years to make up the costs of the war. (1)...