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US finds weapons in Iraqi schools

By Ravi Nessman · Monday, April 14,2003 12:38 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Men and boys played soccer just feet away from a rocket-propelled grenade hidden in the tall grass. Little children frolicked on huge, loaded anti-aircraft guns abandoned in the middle of a highway. Schools where families slept were stacked with thousands of boxes of ammunition.

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Iraq's reconstruction begins

By Martin Crutsinger · Monday, April 14,2003 12:36 a.m.

WASHINGTON -- Two international lending agencies endorsed a U.S. request to send fact-finders to Iraq to assess rebuilding costs as finance officials wrapped up meetings dominated by divisions over post-Saddam Iraq Sunday.

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Joy, tears and relief for POW families

By Sharon Cohen · Monday, April 14,2003 12:35 a.m.

Their long weeks of waiting over, their prayers finally answered, families of seven captured U.S. soldiers laughed and cried with unbridled joy Sunday as they celebrated word that their loved ones had been released in Iraq.

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Bush addresses Iraqis

By David Espo · Friday, April 11,2003 1:38 a.m.

Kurdish fighters swept into Kirkuk and other areas around Iraq's northern oil fields on Thursday, fresh evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime was history. "Your nation will soon be free," President Bush promised Iraqis in a televised address. There were fresh American casualties as well as widespread looting in Baghdad, 24 hours after the Iraqi capital fell to U.S. forces.

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Bush addresses Iraqi people

By David Espo · Friday, April 11,2003 1:35 a.m.

Opposition forces crumbled in northern Iraq on Thursday as U.S. and Kurdish troops seized oil-rich Kirkuk without a fight and held a second city within their grasp. U.S. commanders said signs pointed to a last stand by Iraqis in Saddam Hussein's birthplace of Tikrit.

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Top Islamic militant killed

By Ibrahim Barzak · Friday, April 11,2003 12:28 a.m.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Israeli helicopters launched four missiles at a car carrying Islamic militants in Gaza City on Thursday, killing a top commander and wounding 12 bystanders, Palestinian witnesses and doctors said. The leader of the Islamic Jihad's military wing, Mahmoud Zatme, 30, died in the attack, a group official said.

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Cheney condemns war criticism

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, April 10,2003 1:45 a.m.

NEW ORLEANS -- The advance of U.S. troops into Baghdad is proof that early criticism of the war's plans was misguided, Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday. The war is "one of the most extraordinary military campaigns ever conducted," Cheney said, speaking to the annual convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. "With every day, with every advance of our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent," Cheney said.

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Victory may not ensure lasting peace

By Andrea Minarcek · Thursday, April 10,2003 1:40 a.m.

Now that coalition forces have taken control of Baghdad, military triumph in the war on Iraq is virtually guaranteed. But long-term peace and rebuilding may not be won as quickly. Pictures of Iraqis celebrating may cover newspaper pages today, but some IU faculty members say the struggle for peace is just beginning.

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Iraqis cheer fall of brutal regime

By Alyson Brodsy · Thursday, April 10,2003 1:40 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Their hour of freedom at hand, jubilant Iraqis celebrated the collapse of Saddam Hussein's murderous regime Wednesday, beheading a toppled statue of their longtime ruler in downtown Baghdad and embracing American troops as liberators.

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Gaza street clashes kill 4

By Alyson Brodsy and Ibrahim Barzak · Thursday, April 10,2003 12:49 a.m.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinians on Wednesday killed at least four people, including a 16-year-old boy, as thousands poured into the streets to mourn seven killed in a missile strike Tuesday night.

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UN debates North Korean treaty retreat

By Alyson Brodsy and Edith M. Lederer · Thursday, April 10,2003 12:48 a.m.

UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. Security Council met Wednesday to debate North Korea's withdrawal from the global treaty to curb development of nuclear weapons, with Russia and China opposing any statement condemning the North and the United States pushing for one.

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Palaces infiltrated

Tuesday, April 8,2003 1:55 a.m.

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- American troops and tanks bore down on Baghdad with unstoppable force Monday, seizing two of Saddam Hussein's opulent palaces and bombing a building where the Iraqi leader and other regime officials were believed to be staying.

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Fire kills 21 Russian students

By Anatoly Medetsky · Tuesday, April 8,2003 12:31 a.m.

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia -- A fire engulfed an old wooden school in the northern Siberian republic of Yakutia on Monday, killing 21 students and a teacher, emergency officials said.

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Citizens injured near protest

By Martha Mendoza · Tuesday, April 8,2003 12:28 a.m.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Police opened fire Monday morning with non-lethal bullets at an anti-war protest at the Port of Oakland, injuring several longshoremen standing nearby.

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