Author: DXO
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NUCLEAR WEAPONS: Theft of Cobalt in Iraq Prompts Security Inquiry
November 25, 2003 By JOHN F. BURNS AMIRIYA, Iraq — A seeming lapse in surveillance by American forces has led to the looting of dangerously radioactive capsules from Saddam Hussein’s main battlefield testing site in the desert outside Baghdad and the identification of at least one 30-year-old Iraqi villager, and possibly a village boy, as…
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BAGHDAD Insurgents Use Rockets on Donkey Carts to Hit Sites in Iraqi Capital
November 22, 2003 By JOHN F. BURNSThe New York BAGHDAD, Iraq, Nov. 21 – Faced with an American military crackdown using all the paraphernalia of high-technology warfare, Iraqi insurgents resorted today to the humblest of creatures and the simplest of transports to carry out what American officers called “spectacular” strikes against heavily fortified targets in…
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Rockets Hit Two Hotels and Ministry in Baghdad
November 21, 2003 by John F Burns BAGHDAD — The Palestine and Sheraton hotels in central Baghdad were hit by a volley of rockets shortly at about 7:15 on Friday morning. First indications were that there were no casualties among the large number of Americans and other Westerners who live in the Palestine Hotel, but…
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WITNESS: The New Iraq Is Grim, Hopeful and Still Scary
November 16, 2003 By JOHN F. BURNS BAGHDAD — To return to Baghdad after six months is to encounter a country at once dispiriting and yet, in spite of all, still hopeful, if flaggingly so. The letdown begins at 19,500 feet over the southwestern limits of the city, in a twin-turboprop aircraft of Royal Jordanian…
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Italy Says Hussein Loyalists Are to Blame for Bombing
November 13, 2003 By JOHN F. BURNS NASIRIYA, Iraq, Nov. 13 — The Italian defense minister arrived here from Rome today under very tight security, and said there were strong indications that Saddam Hussein loyalists and Al Qaeda terrorists were responsible for a car or truck bomb explosion here on Wednesday that left at least…