Powell admits that pre-war information
he gave United Nations on Iraq's mobile chemical and biological
weapons laboratories to justify US-led war on Iraq was not "solid".
Top US officials vow publicly to make
perpetrators pay for killing of four civilians as US media replayed
images of two blackened bodies being mutilated and hung from a
bridge. Fallujah community leaders denounce mutilations.
The United Nations plans to boost Asian,
Middle Eastern and African involvement in western- dominated aid
operations as they turn to Iranian Red Crescent to provide stand-by
teams of aid workers for international emergencies
Two Israeli chief
rabbis, Yona Metzger and Shlomo Amar, stage an unparalleled protest
as the strike takes an unexpected twist when they set up a tent
outside PM Arial Sharon's office.
Iraqis living around nuclear site fear
radiation contamination as dozens of radioactive barrels from the
site looted at the end of the war a year ago remain there.
Three U.S. soldiers are injured in an attack in the Maraab area
in downtown Ramadi.
British troops clash with Iraqi militiamen as UN
secretary general Kofi Annan sacks his security chief. Shiite cleric Mohammed
Bahr al-Ulum says he wants to see the United Nations play an "important role" in
the political transition underway
Hizbullah and Hamas officials said at a rally in Beirut that Israel is no
threat to them following Israeli reports saying Tel Aviv intends to assassinate
the Hizbullah chief after Yassin.
