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White House backs off Iraqi uranium claim WASHINGTON (AFP) Jul 08, 2003 In a new blow to the US case for war with Iraq, the White House formally admitted Tuesday that President George W. Bush overstated Saddam Hussein's alleged efforts to obtain uranium for nuclear arms. Six dead in shooting at Mississippi aircraft plant MERIDIAN, Mississippi (AFP) Jul 08, 2003 An employee of a key US defense contractor opened fire on fellow workers here Tuesday, killing five and wounding eight before killing himself, police said. US most armed nation on Earth: study UNITED NATIONS (AFP) Jul 08, 2003 The United States is the most heavily-armed nation on Earth, with nearly one gun per person, according to a study released Tuesday at a UN conference on small arms. |
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Democrats fault White House over admission of faulty Iraq intelligence WASHINGTON (AFP) Jul 08, 2003 US Democrats on Wednesday said the Bush administration had been too slow to admit that claims Iraq tried to procure nuclear material from Africa were false. DCN, Thales eyeing German submarine maker HDW: sources PARIS (AFP) Jul 08, 2003 The French state-owned shipbuilding group Direction des constructions navales (DCN) is considering a possible bid to acquire German group HDW, the world's leading maker of conventional submarines, a DCN spokesman said Tuesday. No criminal trial over Britain's chemical warfare "guinea pigs" LONDON (AFP) Jul 08, 2003 An inquiry into the deaths of British soldiers allegedly used as "guinea pigs" over 50 years in chemical warfare tests, has ruled there is insufficient evidence for a criminal trial, state prosecutors said Tuesday. Abizaid appointment to head US Centcom stirs pride in Lebanon BEIRUT (AFP) Jul 08, 2003 The appointment of Lebanese-American General John Abizaid to head up the US military Central Command (Centcom) has stirred a sense of pride back in his ancestral home of Lebanon. Israeli Supreme Court puts off petitions on targeted killings, human shields JERUSALEM (AFP) Jul 08, 2003 Israel's Supreme Court Tuesday turned down two petitions by human rights groups requesting interim orders against targeted killings by the Israeli armed forces and the use of "human shields". Oman names new army chief of staff, commander MUSCAT (AFP) Jul 08, 2003 Oman's Sultan Qaboos on Tuesday named General Ahmad bin Hareth bin Nasser al-Nabhani chief of staff of the sultanate's armed forces, promoting him to the rank of marshal, the official ONA news agency reported. |
US soldiers turn into jacks of all trades three months on in Iraq BAGHDAD (AFP) Jul 08, 2003 The marketplace hums with activity, families buy sweets, and young men mill around music shops as a column of US soldiers in M1 tanks and gunship Humvees rumble down the street under the moonlight of a sticky summer night. Sudan air defense chief, seven foreigners among dead:official KHARTOUM (AFP) Jul 08, 2003 The head of Sudan's air defense forces as well as at least seven foreigners -- including three Indians, a Chinese and a Briton -- were among the 115 people killed in Tuesday's airline crash, a senior official said. Blair decided before parliament vote that Iraq war unavoidable LONDON (AFP) Jul 08, 2003 Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday he decided war against Iraq was unavoidable "a few days" before the British parliament on March 18 gave the green light for military action on Baghdad. We did right thing in attacking Saddam, says British PM LONDON (AFP) Jul 08, 2003 Britain "did the right thing" in going to war against Iraq, Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted Tuesday, a day after a parliamentary report criticised the way in which he took the country into the conflict. Taiwan to mass produce first locally-designed armoured vehicle TAIPEI (AFP) Jul 08, 2003 The Taiwanese army confirmed Tuesday that it would begin mass producing the first locally-designed light armoured vehicle in 2007. British PM faces new grilling over Iraq war LONDON (AFP) Jul 08, 2003 Prime Minister Tony Blair faced some tough questioning on Tuesday from deputies on whether the war on Iraq was justified, a day after a parliamentary report rapped the manner in which he took Britain into the conflict. |
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