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Stories from 2003-10-03

Bush Approval Ratings Slip with Weapons Report

Tom Raum | Associated Press | October 3, 2003

"Kay's inability to find such weapons in three months of searching will make it even harder for the administration to continue to insist that Saddam was an imminent threat — the core argument the White House had made last winter for going to war." [more]

CBS Website Hacked by Kucinich Supporter

STAFF | CBS News | October 3, 2003

" 'According to the most recent CBSnews/nytimes poll [sic], 77% of Democrats do not know enough about Dennis Kucinich. Since we can not expect the media to provide this information I decided to help them out,' the hacker page read." [more]

Opium Fuels Violence Against Afghan Aid Workers

Mark Fritz | Associated Press | October 3, 2003

"Aid groups are fleeing in terror. They blame much of their exodus from the southern third of the country on its drug crop, worth an estimated $1.6 billion Cdn, which purportedly finances Islamic extremist violence, ethnic blood feuds, warlord war chests, provincial property disputes and competing political movements." [more]

Peace Group Alleges Police Scrutiny

Diana Marcum | Fresno Bee | October 3, 2003

"In a four-paragraph statement issued Thursday, [Fresno County Sheriff Richard Pierce] defended his department's legal right to send undercover officers to community meetings. 'For the purpose of detecting or preventing terrorist activities, the Fresno County Sheriff's Department may visit any place and attend any event that is open to the public, on the same terms and conditions as members of the public generally.' " [more]

Why the Bush Doctrine is Dead

Hugh White | Age | October 3, 2003

"Two years on, Americans remain deeply hurt by September 11, but the country is not transformed. This was not another Pearl Harbor, uniting the nation in a steely determination to do whatever it takes to defeat a clear enemy. The ambiguities and complexities of Iraq, the mixed success against al-Qaeda and confusion about domestic counter-terrorist efforts in the US itself have all deflated the spirit of 1942 that was invoked so often in the last months of 2001." [more]

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