News Stories relating to "war"

Newswise - About 20% of all nations in the world face a serious risk ofcivil war or governmental collapse, and a half dozen of themare at high risk of future mass genocides, according to anew report. The greatest risks are in Sub-Saharan Africa andthe Muslim world. Nearly half of the 161 nations studied arefacing serious...

According to DNA studies, Jews are the genetic brothers ofPalestinians. Geneticist Harry Ostrer says, "Jews and Arabsare all really children of Abraham. And all have preservedtheir Middle Eastern genetic roots over 4,000 years." The researchers analyzed the Y chromosome, which passesunchanged from father to son, of more than 1,000 menworldwide...

The latest intelligence from the U.S. and Britain says Saddam may have lived through two bunker bombs. "This is a man who has spent a lifetime trying to avoid and evade assassins and military coups," says Richard Clarke, who was a national security adviser at the White House until recently. "There's really no explanation anyone has to this...

Terrorists from all over the world are converging on areas in and around the battlefield of the Iraq war, ready to shed blood using the methods only they are willing to use. The Iraqi National Congress reports that a squad of suicide bombers from Saddam's Fidayeen corps have arrived in Damascus, Syria, the country where Saddam's family is...

The CIA has analyzed the latest video released by the Iraqi government, showing Saddam meeting with his ministers, and now says there's a good chance that ALL the tapes of Saddam that have released since we initially bombed his bunker at the start of the war were made before the war began. If this it true, it means there is no evidence that...

Saddam Hussein and his sons Uday and Qusay recently made brief appearances on TV, but these could have been old video tapes. This is the first glimpse of Uday since the start of the Iraqi war. Saddam also delivered a message, which was read by Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf. Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke says the...

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is planning to escape to Syria and has already smuggled his family out, according to London's Daily Telegraph. Just days before the bombing of Baghdad began, Saddam's first wife Sajida, the mother of Uday and Qusay, fled to Damascus with three trucks full of possessions and 60 bodyguards. Protocol minister Haitham...

Russian arms dealers have supplied Iraq with electronic equipment that can throw U.S. planes and bombs off course. A Russian company is helping the Iraqi military deploy global-positioning system (GPS) jammers that can divert our smart bombs, which are guided by global satellites, from their designated targets. They could end up falling on...

The Iranian government admits it's been secretly building a uranium enrichment plant that can make fuel for nuclear reactors?or for bombs. Experts are questioning why Iran needs nuclear power, since it has plenty of oil. Therefore, it's assumed they intend to make nuclear bombs. And North Korea continues to build a series of plants that could...

British intelligence reports say Saddam Hussein is alive, but left his compound in an ambulance, after it was hit by a U.S. raid. Foreign Office Minister Mike O'Brien says,"We've received information that Saddam Hussein left the area in an ambulance. There was some talk that he had been injured, even some suggestion that he had been killed. It...

A new tracking system called Auto-ID uses highly miniaturized computers to track products, even when they're being used and worn. Every physical item, from a can of Coke to clothes to toothpaste, will have its own unique information in the form of an embedded chip. The chip sends out a signal that allows it to communicate with reader devices....

There are conflicting reports about whether we hit Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in an early bombing attack on his house. One intelligence report says he was injured and is no longer functioning as commander of the government or the war. U.S. intelligence sources say they have not detected any communications from him since Wednesday. "The last...

The Iraq war effectively began today, as British and American troops were involved in fierce fighting near Basra, Iraq's only seaport. At the same time, allied troops took up positions on the demilitarized zone on the Iraqi border with Kuwait. Allied warplanes bombed targets in Iraq after coming under fire in the no-fly zone. Special units are...

The Soviet leader Joseph Stain died fifty years ago, on March 5th, 1953. According to the official statement, he died of a brain hemorrhage, but one historian thinks he was poisoned, since he was about to plunge his country into another war, despite the fact that Russia was still recovering from World War II.