news stuff
- NEWS.com.au | Flight centenary celebrated (December 17, 2003):
[T]oday marks the 100th anniversary of the first flight by the Wright brothers
. - Howard urges doctors to back indemnity plan. 17/12/2003. ABC News Online
- Little taste for legal niceties in the matter of Saddam - www.smh.com.au:
The Americans, who declared Saddam to be a prisoner of war after his capture on Saturday, pointedly refuse to commit explicitly to how he should be dealt with - President George Bush says the US will 'work' with Baghdad and 'Iraqis should be involved'.
Why is the US acting like it's their right to decide what happens to Hussein? Well ok, because the US is the biggest bully in the schoolyard; but more seriously, how can Iraq move forward if the nation is not allowed to deal with Saddam in its own way? The death sentence may not be palatable to Kofi Annan, but the Iraqi people don't seem likely to lose sleep over the idea of executing Saddam. - Rumsfeld orders CIA to grill Saddam - www.smh.com.au / 7.30 Report transcript: Saddam's trial to take months:
Now that deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein is behind bars, US interrogators are expected to take months -- perhaps even years -- extracting information from the former dictator before he faces trial for crimes against humanity.
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