13:17 Bush Plan to Assassinate Saddam
Illegal Bush
guilty of attempted murder under US and international
law Executive Order 12333 signed in 1976 by President
Ford has not been revoked, meaning that the attempted murder
of President Saddam Hussein by US military forces is illegal
under US law. The Fourth Convention of The Hague stipulates
that such actions violate international law. President George
W. Bush is guilty of the crime of attempted murder. More
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10:27 Bush’s Casus Casus
belli, a reason for war against Hussein was very simple for
Bush, very much like his political program. It supposes that
America is good and Iraq is bad, and what is more important,
Iraq has got weapons of mass destruction The path of
war is hard and dangerous, as the enemy has much weapon, and
this is not ordinary weapon but weapons of mass destruction.
However, the war is underway but nobody hasn’t yet used this
weapon against American troops. On the contrary, Iraqi troops
display heroism and contain the enemy with ordinary shooting
weapons More
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23:57 Coalition Forces Kill 62 Iraqi
Civilians 62
dead and around 400 injured in last 24 hours The Iraqi
Information Ministry claims that there are many children among
the 400 civilians injured during strikes by US and British
aircraft, 194 of these being in Baghdad. More
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20:24 USA Can Fabricate
"Finding" of Mass Destruction Weapons in Iraq
The
United States can fabricate "finding" of mass destruction
weapons in Iraq or "evidence" of Baghdad possessing prohibited
weapon programmes, a Russian military expert, who decided to
remain anonymous, told RIA Novosti. More
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14:32 Precision Weapons Hit Bus 100 Miles Inside
Syria 5
murdered by US precision weaponry The Pentagon’s
precision weaponry has once again proved to be as reliable as
a sieve on the high seas. As two cruise missiles landed in
Turkey, fortunately causing no victims, a third missile flew
100 miles inside Syria, striking a bus. Five people are
reported dead and ten injured, according to local sources
quoted by western news agencies. More
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13:12 American Command
Regards as Premature the Report on Discovering Chemical
Weapons Production Plant in Iraq The
Central Command (CENTCOM) of the US armed forces did not
confirm the reports that a plant for the production of
chemical weapons was discovered in the town of an-Najaf in
southern Iraq. A representative of the advanced CENTCOM
headquarters in Qatar declared they had no information to
confirm or refute these reports. More
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15:06 Basra: 77 civilians
butchered Terrorist
attack by coalition aircraft butchers 77
civilians Western news agencies have quoted Iraqi
sources, claiming that the result of the sustained bombardment
on Iraq’s second city, Basra, is 77 civilians. More
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02:31 USA Steals Iraq’s
Assets Thieving,
terrorism, murder…how much lower can the Bush administration
sink? The Bush administration and its allies have added
thievery to its growing list of criminal actions after three
days of terrorist and murderous activities in Iraq have left
hundreds of civilians injured and at least five dead. These
are war crimes. Bush, Rumsfeld, Blair, Hoon and their
administrations are terrorists, murderers and war criminals.
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17:21 Oscar in Time of
Plague The
75th Oscar award ceremony will take place on Sunday, but it is
going to be one of the saddest and one of the most shameful
ceremonies ever held in the history of the
Academy America is a strange country: when astronauts
die, a national mourning is declared in the country, but when
ordinary soldiers lose their lives, presentation of Oscars is
held there. The USA doesn’t care about Iraqi and Iranian
soldiers and civilians, but at the same time many American
soldiers are and will be dying at the war as well. And it is
not ruled out that some of them will fall victims right at the
moment when the Academy plans to distribute Oscar awards.
Academy insiders and organizers of the award ceremony laugh at
all rumors saying that the ceremony will be postponed because
of the Iraqi war More
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16:32 Ivanov: Washington
Will Have to Contact UN Security Council After Iraqi
War The
United States will have to ask the UN Security Council to
legalize its actions, after the Iraqi war ends. This was
disclosed here today by Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov,
as he addressed a session of the foreign-and-defense policy
council. More
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22:40 France, Go Home!!! USA on the Offensive on All
Fronts NewsMax.com,
one of the leading online news services standing for American
values, has launched an anti-France campaign on the American
Internet The USA seems to have determined to quickly
assume the offensive on all fronts at once. The Iraqi front is
just one of them. An uncovered ideological war has been
launched against the French. France is known as the main
opponent to Washington’s aggressive plans. France was the
first to promise to resolutely veto the British-American
resolution on Iraq. And being completely crazy from impunity,
the USA cannot forgive this promise to France More
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18:07 USA Commits Act of
Terrorism Attempted
murder in Iraqi capital In a criminal attack against
the Iraqi capital, US forces launched 36 Tomahawk missiles and
made multiple raids with Stealth bombers during the night,
after a joint operation by US/British aircraft targeted 10
Iraqi artillery positions in the southern no-fly zone. More
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13:37 Cuba - U.S.:
Hijack Crisis Resolved The
crisis with the Cuban plane hijacked to the United States on
Wednesday has been resolved. The six hijackers surrendered to
the U.S. authorities in the Key West international airport
(Florida), no-one on board was injured. More
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12:43 Military Operation
Against Iraq Began Before Bush Ultimatum Expired
George
Bush decided to begin a military operation an hour before the
ultimatum expired. An informed source at the US president's
administration said this to journalists. According to him,
Bush ordered to begin the military operation between 2.30 and
3.00, Moscow time. More
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19:13 USA Insists That
Russia should Finance Extra Space Flights to International
Space Station The
USA insists that the construction and launching of more
spaceships to the international space station should be
financed by Russia and promises to compensate for the expenses
later, the Russian Aviation and Space Agency informed RIA
Novosti on Wednesday. More
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13:01 Washington Started
to Recall US Diplomats from Israel, Syria and Kuwait
The
US Department of State on Sunday announced the recalling of
non-essential diplomats and also all members of their families
from the American embassies and consulates in Israel, Syria
and Kuwait. In its official information, the Department of
State explained that the recall of the diplomats by local
security reasons and by the threat of military action in Iraq.
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17:17 Dollar to Step Down Ahead of
Saddam Is
it possible to avoid further dollar devaluation?
Numerous leaks of information and analysis of
activities of the US authority are a sufficient basis to
forecast further development of the US economic policy. This
estimate is extremely important as it will further determine
future situation in the world in many respects. After the
large-scale collapse dollar devaluation will be not the only
problem to be solved; it will also cause breakup of the
international futures markets and entail more problems. And
there are no guarantees that the Bush administration is ready
for these very consequences of its policy More
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15:02 American
Legislators Threaten Russia to Start a "Chicken War"
On
Thursday, 140 congressmen and 51 senators sent letters to the
White House on behalf of the House of Representatives and the
Senate of the US Congress in which they demanded that
President George W. Bush should seek annulment of the new
import quotas of American meat and poultry which had been
introduced by the Russian government. More
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14:55 Consensus on Iraq
May Be Reached in UN Security Council Consensus
on the Iraq issue may be found in the UN Security Council
already at the beginning of next week, informed diplomatic
sources in the UN who wanted to remain unidentified stated
late on Thursday night. In their opinion, the USA and Great
Britain realise the impossibility to pass the ultimatum-type
resolution in the Security Council but are most likely to
prefer to act vis-à-vis Iraq within the bounds of legitimacy
provided by the decision of the UN Security Council. More
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13:52 US Ambassador:
American People Will Join in St. Petersburg's 300th
Anniversary Celebrations 'We
are as interested in 'Peter's creation' as we were two hundred
years ago,' announced US Ambassador to Russia Alexander
Vershbow at a meeting with US Consul in St. Petersburg Morris
Hughes yesterday. As Mr Hughes told journalists at the
international press centre 300 Years of Saint Petersburg
afterwards, the US ambassador believes that the 300th
anniversary is an event that will be celebrated not only in
Russia but the whole world over. More
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12:20 Washington Puts More Pressure Over Chile and
Mexico US
phone diplomacy turns into a hot line, as Bush still looks for
support from the two Latin American seats at the UN Security
Council Versions about an affirmative response from
Chile and Mexico to the US plans on Iraq spread out as quickly
as vanished on Wednesday. Soon after Chilean President Ricardo
Lagos confirmed to the press he had had a phone conversation
with George W. Bush, the local and international media, mainly
CNN, said Washington had secured Chile's support More
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01:42 Open Letter from Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey to His
Excellency President George W.
Bush Mr.
President, I address myself to you in your capacity as
president of the United States of America and as Honorary
Chairman of the People to People International Program, whose
motto is “Peace Through Understanding”. More
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19:50 US Ambassador to
Russia: Washington does Not Seek Control Over Iraqi Oil Fields
Washington
does not seek the control over Iraqi oil fields, US Ambassador
Alexander Vershbow told RIA Novosti on Thursday. The
Ambassador said that the US realised that the Iraqi oil
belonged to the Iraqi people, and it should be used to
guarantee security and wellbeing of the country. More
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19:03 US: Military
Operation in Iraq to Take One Month The
USA believes that military action against Iraq, if need be,
will not take more than a month, said an American diplomat in
a conversation with Russian journalists in Moscow. The
military phase of the ground operation, if it starts, will be
conducted on one or two fronts, the Southern and the Northern.
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14:23 “Mother-Bomb” to UN's
Misfortune If
Americans fail to have a quorum to attach visible legitimacy
to a military intrusion in Iraq, they put the question
differently White House spokesman Ari Fleisher said
that if the United Nations Organization was inactive and
couldn’t act as an international organization capable of
disarming Saddam Hussein, that would be done by some other
organization. He also confirmed that the US president had the
right to form an alternative organization or an international
coalition that could pass a vote on disarmament of Iraq. The
USA held testing of an air bomb weighing about 8.5 tons (21
thousand pounds) on the Eglin Air Force Base in Florida.
Sources in the Pentagon say the air bomb is likely to be used
in the US-led war campaign in Iraq More
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20:50 Master to Revive the WTC Site
Announced As
it became known, Daniel Libeskind, the architect famous all
over the world (has been residing in Berlin within several
past years), won a contest for building of the world’s most
prestigious ground, the lot where the WTC Towers were
destroyed by terrorists on September 11. At the contest,
Daniel Libeskind was the best among seven famous architects,
the authors of many constructions standing all over the world.
When Daniel Libeskind learnt he won the contest for
construction of a complex on the site of the 9/11 tragedy, he
was happy, shocked and devoid of the gift of speech at the
same time More
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16:53 “Shock and Awe” Splits
America First
victims of spread-eagleism: Phil Donahue, George
Clooney The society of average Americans is split: half
of the population supports Bush’s intention to overthrow
Saddam Hussein without UN sanctions, and the rest protest
against settlement of the Iraqi crisis by force. And it is
hardly likely that the latter sympathize with Saddam: they
consider Hussein a dictator and would like democratic changes
to be started in Iraq (it means that institutes of the civil
society must be created there, free elections are to be
introduced, etc.), but they think this must be done in an
evolution way. However, the propagandistic mechanism of
spread-eagleism has reached its peak in the USA: everybody is
speaking only about Iraq in the newspapers, on the radio and
on TV, but this is mentioned from a patriotic point of view
only. Liberals are not wanted now More
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14:13 Why Does America Need Second UN Resolution That
Much? Senator
Joseph Biden tries to explain that American Senator, a
member of the committee for international relations of the US
Senate, Democrat Joseph R. Biden, gave an interview to the
newspaper the Washington Post. The article, which was
published in the newspaper, was called “Why We Need a Second
U.N. Resolution.” The article is a very good reflection of the
tense expectation that Washington experiences on the threshold
of the coming Security Council voting regarding the American
and British resolution on Iraq More
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12:26 Senator Richard
Lugar Submits Draft Law on Cancellation of Jackson-Vanik
Amendment with Respect to Russia The
well-known US Republican Senator, Richard Lugar, who is
chairman of the Senate's international affairs committee,
submitted for the Senate's consideration a draft law on
cancelling the restrictive Jackson-Vanik trade amendment with
respect to Russia. Lugar also demands that Russia be given the
most favoured nation status in trade with the USA, the status
which most countries of the world have. More
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14:09 Russian Foreign
Minister Ivanov Arrived in New York for UN Security Session on
Iraq Russian
Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov has arrived in New York to
participate in a meeting of the UN Security Council on Iraq on
Friday. The meeting will be held at the level of foreign
ministers of the countries - permanent members of the UN
Security Council (Russia, the USA, France, Great Britain and
China). More
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