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 US Supplied Anthrax to Iraq
by Geoffrey Holland, 22 May 2003, the Badger, University of Sussex Student News. Documents purporting to link Osama bin Laden’s terrorist network with Saddam Hussein, discovered by a journalist in the former headquarters of the Iraqi intelligence service in Baghdad, are only the tip of the iceberg. United States Senate documents obtained from Washi...
Friday, September 19 @ 06:30:11 UTC
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Russian privatiser heads for Iraq
Daniel Kimmage, Radio Free Europe, September 17, 2003
The U.S. Coalition Provisional Authority has invited a notorious figures responsible for Russia’s disastrous “shock therapy” privatisation programme to participate in a conference on privatising Iraq
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Thursday, September 18 @ 18:05:25 UTC
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Wesley Clark: Not an Anti-War Candidate
FAIR Media Advisory, September 17, 2003
The possibility that former NATO supreme commander Wesley Clark might enter the race for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination has been the subject of furious speculation in the media. But while recent coverage of Clark often claims that he opposed the war with Iraq, the various opinions he has express...
Thursday, September 18 @ 17:54:28 UTC
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Al Qaeda Plans A Front in Iraq
Peter Finn and Susan Schmidt, Washington Post, September 7, 2003Two years after the attacks on the United States, Osama bin Laden's leadership cadre has been isolated and weakened and is increasingly reliant on the violent actions of local radicals around the world to maintain its profile. But the al Qaeda network is determined to open a new front ...
Tuesday, September 09 @ 13:23:14 UTC
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Militarizing the Americas
Laura Carlsen, The Americas This Week, September 3, 2003The war on terrorism has accelerated funding for establishing new U.S. military centers and beefing up old ones in the hemisphere. ...
Friday, September 05 @ 10:03:50 UTC
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Halliburton's Deals Greater Than Thought
Michael Dobbs, Washington Post, August 28, 2003
Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Cheney, has won contracts worth more than $1.7 billion under Operation Iraqi Freedom and stands to make hundreds of millions more dollars under a no-bid contract awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, according to newly available docume...
Thursday, August 28 @ 18:03:11 UTC
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Afghanistan: Not a Dress Rehearsal
The Economist, August 14, 2003
This article examines the state of Afghanistan two years after the US invasion. It concludes:
“Most Afghans still have no access to health care. Rates of maternal and infant mortality remain among the highest in the world. Cholera and other diseases are in the ascendant. As to donors, best not to ask. Well under $1 ...
Wednesday, August 27 @ 16:18:29 UTC
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