The United Nations’ top two weapons experts said Sunday that the invasion of Iraq a year ago was not justified by the evidence in hand at the time.
“I think it’s clear that in March, when the invasion took place, the evidence that had been brought forward was rapidly falling apart,” Hans Blix, who oversaw the [...]

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Statement of the Family Steering Committee for
The 9/11 Independent Commission
March 20, 2004
From {{link http://www.911independentcommission.org}}
The Family Steering Committee is deeply disturbed to learn about Executive Staff Director Phillip Zelikow

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Jimmy Carter, the former US president, has strongly criticised George Bush and Tony Blair for waging an unnecessary war to oust Saddam Hussein based on “lies or misinterpretations”. The 2002 Nobel peace prize winner said Mr Blair had allowed his better judgement to be swayed by Mr Bush’s desire to finish a war that his [...]

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GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli helicopter gunships fired missiles at Hamas’ spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin as he left a mosque before dawn on Monday, killing the Hamas leader and at least two body guards, witnesses said.
A Reuters reporter who rushed to the scene after hearing three loud explosions found the blown-up remains of Yassin’s blood-soaked [...]

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WASHINGTON - Richard A. Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism coordinator, accuses the Bush administration of failing to recognize the al-Qaida threat before the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and then manipulating America into war with Iraq (news - web sites) with dangerous consequences.
He accuses Bush of doing “a terrible job on the war against [...]

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n a first sign of official criticism in Poland of the US-led invasion of Iraq (news - web sites), President Aleksander Kwasniewski said that his country had been “taken for a ride” about the alleged existence of weapons of mass destruction in the strife-torn country.
“That they deceived us about the weapons of mass destruction, that’s [...]

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Two demonstrators from Greenpeace display a banner beneath the clock face of Big Ben, in central London on the first anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, March 20, 2004. Two anti-war protesters climbed London’s landmark Big Ben clock tower at the Houses of Parliament on Saturday ahead of a demonstration to mark the first anniversary [...]

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When the 9/11 commission holds public hearings next week, its central focus will be the choices that U.S. presidents made in fighting terrorism before 9/11. Just how committed to taking on al-Qaida was the Bush administration before Sept. 11? Some critics, including one former counter-terrorism insider, now say there was a surprising lack of urgency.
Shortly [...]

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A federal judge in Manhattan has ordered New York-Presbyterian Hospital to turn over to the Justice Department records on abortions performed there, saying the disclosure would not unduly harm the hospital or the privacy of its patients.
The ruling, issued on Thursday by Judge Richard Conway Casey of Federal District Court, conflicts with the interpretations of [...]

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Former White House terrorism advisor Richard Clarke tells Lesley Stahl that on September 11, 2001 and the day after - when it was clear Al Qaeda had carried out the terrorist attacks - the Bush administration was considering bombing Iraq in retaliation. Clarke’s exclusive interview will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday March 21 (7:00-8:00 [...]

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Millions of Americans will flock to the country’s national parks this summer. Dazzled by nature and history, will they notice the missing signs, crumbling roads, or disappearance of park rangers?
Facing what some people warn is a “crippling” budget shortfall, many national park superintendents are being asked to consider cutting their ranger staffs, services, and visitor [...]

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Arab journalists on Friday walked out of a news conference held by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell to protest the shooting deaths of two Iraqi reporters, allegedly by U.S. troops.
One Arab journalist stood up as soon as Powell walked into the room at the Baghdad convention center and read a statement saying that after [...]

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Senior Clinton administration officials called to testify next week before the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks say they are prepared to detail how they repeatedly warned their Bush administration counterparts in late 2000 that Al Qaeda posed the worst security threat facing the nation

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U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) Justice Antonin Scalia (news - web sites) rejected on Thursday a request that he remove himself from a case about Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites)’s energy task force after their recent duck-hunting trip raised questions about his impartiality.
“Since I do not believe my impartiality can [...]

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Crude oil futures closed above $38 a barrel for the first time since the 1990-91 Persian Gulf War, after the U.S. Energy Department reported a decline in nationwide gasoline inventories.
The 800,000 barrel drop last week left gasoline supplies at 199.6 million barrels, the lowest since November, while demand of 9 million barrels a day was [...]

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