] held as a prisoner of war in Iraq, reports said. US
] forces have rescued a young female soldier who was US
] forces have rescued a young female soldier who was

apparently we rescue cute people ;-)

Cute military POW saved!

] U.S. Marines searching Iraqi military headquarters in
] this southern city that was the site of intensive
] fighting came across a mural depicting a plane crashing
] into a building complex resembling New York's twin
] towers, a news agency photograph showed Wednesday.

This has been all over the news.. Now, if they attempt to date its creation somehow, and it was made before 9/11/2001, then its going to be something really damming.. Otherwize, its just a particularly offending peice of propaganda.. I don't think it proves a link between Saddam and 911, which seems to be why its being spun so hard.. The Bush Admin and the Media are doing anything they can to establish that Saddam/911 link. They have attached so much (too much) of the justification for this war to that largely unproven link..

Marines discover Iraqi 9/11 mural

Message base (arabic language, I can't read it) with higher resolution shots of the soldiers from the IraqTV/Al-Jazeera video. You can clearly make out their faces in these.

Screen captures, IraqTV/Al-Jazeera Video

] Tom, the evil CEO of Industrial Memetics, turned
] another year older today...and another year wiser.
] Yay for Tom!!!:)

I command the Nashville crew to ensure Tom is kept very drunk and happy tonight.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So there's this 14 year old, "The Boss", and all he wanted to to do was figure out "how he could make money, fast." The plan? "The Boss envisioned making as much as $100,000 by assigning various 'jobs' to his friends, then taking a 25 percent cut for himself. The Boss, according to one of the lists he compiled, envisioned his "family" making money in prostitution, weapons sales, money laundering, recruiting hit men - even candy sales." Well, atleast they new their market with the candy sales. So the story gets better. Another student "arrested on the misdemeanor charge was nicknamed 'The Hacker' because he was supposed to alter grades in the school's computer system." Now, I won't ruin the plot or climax for you but I'm thinking this should be a TV show or movie called Youngfellows.

Middle-school 'mafia boss' arrested on felony charges

] Some of the Iraqis he interviewed on camera "told me they
] would commit suicide if American bombing didn't start.
] They were willing to see their homes demolished to gain
] their freedom from Saddam's bloody tyranny. They
] convinced me that Saddam was a monster the likes of which
] the world had not seen since Stalin and Hitler. He and
] his sons are sick sadists. Their tales of slow torture
] and killing made me ill, such as people put in a huge
] shredder for plastic products, feet first so they could
] hear their screams as bodies got chewed up from foot to
] head."

Anti-War human sheilds change their minds about the war upon meeting Iraqis

] CNN Ordered Out of Baghdad - Accused of being propaganda machine.

Yahoo! News - CNN Ordered Out of Baghdad

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CUYAHOGA FALLS -- A member of Ohio's 5694th National Guard Unit in Mansfield legally changed his name to a Transformers toy.

Optimus Prime is heading out to the Middle East with his guard unit on Wednesday to provide fire protection for airfields under combat.

"On Sunday, we were awarded as the best firefighting unit in the Army National Guard in the entire country," said Prime. "That was a big moment for us."

Prime took his name from the leader of the Autobots Transformers, which were popular toys and a children's cartoon in the 1980s.

He legally changed his name on his 30th birthday and now it's on everything from his driver's licence, to his military ID, to his uniform.

National Guardsman changes his name to a 'Optimus Prime'

] AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) -- Amazon.com's Chief Executive
] Jeff Bezos was involved in a helicopter crash last week
] in southwest Texas and was slightly injured in the
] incident, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

CNN.com - Amazon's Bezos hurt in helicopter crash - Mar. 13, 2003

House cafeterias change names for 'french fries' and 'french toast'
By Sean Loughlin
CNN Washington Bureau
Tuesday, March 11, 2003 Posted: 5:45 PM EST (2245 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The cafeteria menus in the three House office buildings changed the name of "french fries" to "freedom fries," in a culinary rebuke of France stemming from anger over the country's refusal to support the U.S. position on Iraq.

Ditto for "french toast," which will be known as "freedom toast."

CNN.com - House cafeterias change names for 'french fries' and 'french toast' - Mar. 11, 2003