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Stories from 2003-10-13

Another Day, Another Bomb: Eighty-Four Dates of Mayhem

Rory McCarthy | Guardian | October 13, 2003

"Since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, Iraq has been shaken by 84 major attacks, and countless smaller incidents and acts of sabotage, that have transformed America's promise of rapid reconstruction into an increasingly bloody guerrilla war." [more]

Army Probes Soldier Suicides in Iraq

Gregg Zoroya | USA Today | October 13, 2003

"Alarmed by the number of suicides among soldiers in Iraq, the Army has asked a team of doctors to determine whether the stress of combat and long deployments is contributing to the deaths. A psychiatrist at the Army's Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences ... is helping to investigate the suicides in Iraq. 'Is there something different going on in Iraq that we really need to pay attention to?' " [more]

Baghdad Suicide Bomber Aims for FBI and CIA

James Hider | Times of London | October 13, 2003

" 'If they can do that to the CIA and FBI, imagine what they can do to people like us,' one witness, who was too scared to give his name, said. 'This means the Americans are very weak.' " [more]

Analysis: New Rules for Israel and Syria

Neil MacFarquhar | New York Times | October 13, 2003

"The campaign against Damascus is rooted in the accusation that two groups labeled terrorist organizations by the United States and Israel, among others — Hamas and Islamic Jihad — are orchestrating suicide bombings from here. Few analysts expect that the elimination of their representatives here would do much to dent such operations." [more]

White House Injecting Politics into Scientific Research

Raja Parasuraman, Peter Hancock, Robert Radwin and William Marras | Why War? | October 13, 2003

"The [Bush] administration has engaged in political screening of appointees to peer review study sections that are charged with evaluating the scientific merits of research proposals ... these activities go to the very heart of scientific independence. There is now mounting evidence of systematic attempts to infiltrate political opinion into scientific deliberation." [more]

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