The hotel is described as luxury class and it boasts the longest private beach on the Mediterranean. But is it really a place where an ex-dictator and his chums would hide?
An internal audit report forecasts a whopping R2-billion loss for South African Airways (SAA) in the 2002/03 financial year — despite the fact that it will notch up a healthy operating profit.
Every day since he was secretly spirited into Iraq by the United States military, Ahmad Chalabi, the man favoured by the Pentagon to succeed Saddam Hussein, has been holding court with local dignitaries in Nassiriya. But allegations of financial impropriety linger over Chalabi, head of the Iraqi National Congress, the most important of which concern a -million banking scandal in Jordan.
Fears that Iraq may not be the last United States target have been raised by bellicose statements from the Pentagon and US neo-conservatives directed against other members of the ”axis of evil” and the so-called ”states of concern”.
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/ 27 February 2003
Broadcasts of Osama bin Laden’s videos and exclusive footage of the Afghan war allowed TV channel al-Jazeera to make a huge name for itself. But not everyone approves of its output
Two Palestinian suicide bombers blew themselves up outside an all-night grocery kiosk in Tel Aviv on Wednesday night, killing three bystanders in what police said was a ”multiple terror attack”.
Exiled Iraqi officers meeting in London last weekend backed United States efforts to remove Saddam Hussein, but promised they would not seek to replace him with another military regime. They, however, avoided discussing blueprints for overthrowing the president.
A speech by the Palestinian Authority leader to win support fell short of concrete proposals. Yasser Arafat, fighting to resurrect the Palestinian Authority, tried to win over his people this week with promises of sweeping reform
Holding a rifle in one hand and a cigar in the other, Saddam Hussein fired into the air, a signal to the world that he is back — with a bang.