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Stories from 2003-07-17

Boulder Activists Find Planted GPS Trackers On Their Cars

Joel Warner and Pamela White | Boulder Weekly | July 17, 2003

" 'They are putting some money into it,' says Johnson about the systems, which he estimates could cost about $2,000 each." [more]

Inconvenient Facts...

Harold Meyerson | Washington Post | July 17, 2003

"The point is not that an apology is in order, though it plainly is. The point is that ... the vice president dismissed [contradictory] information out of hand and disparaged its source. He did not, however, refute it. Refutations plunge you into the realm of facts, where this administration is exquisitely uncomfortable." [more]

North, South Korea Exchange Fire Over DMZ

Christopher Torchia | Associated Press | July 17, 2003

"Tension on the Korean Peninsula is high over North Korea's suspected development of nuclear weapons, and such shooting incidents in the DMZ are rare. In recent years, however, negotiations and reconciliation efforts have moved forward despite such outbreaks of violence." [more]

Thousands of Children Killed or Wounded by Abandoned Weapons in Iraq

STAFF | Agence France-Presse | July 17, 2003

A UNICEF official said that "the casualties were the result of handling arms, ammunition and cluster bombs dumped at several hundred sites around Iraq. Hundreds of surface-to-air missiles abandoned by the now-disbanded Iraqi army, many of them damaged and unstable, also pose a serious threat." [more]

US Allowed Weapons to Flood Iraq

Roger Atwood | Mother Jones | July 17, 2003

"In the crucial weeks after Saddam disappeared, American officials stood back and let a flood of guns wash over Iraq." [more]

US Facing Guerrilla War, General Admits

Robert Schlesinger | Boston Globe | July 17, 2003

"[A] soldier's death raised the number of combat fatalities in the Iraq war to 146, one shy of the combat death toll of US soldiers in the 1991 Gulf War." [more]

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