The Reminder is making its archives back to 2003 available on our website. Please note that, due to technical limitations, archive articles are presented without the usual formatting.
Washington - Iraqi scientists never revived their long-dead nuclear bomb program, and in fact lied to Saddam Hussein about how much progress they were making before U.S.-led attacks shut the operation down for good in 1991, Iraqi physicists say. Before that first Persian Gulf War, the chief of the weapons program resorted to "blatant exaggeration" in telling Iraq's president how much bomb material was being produced, key scientist and Toronto resident Imad Khadduri writes in a new book. Other leading physicists said the hope for an Iraqi atomic bomb was never realistic. "It was all like building sand castles," said Abdel Mehdi Talib, Baghdad University's dean of sciences. Baghdad - U.S. officials said Sunday that their occupying coalition won't be cowed by roadside ambushes that increasingly target American allies. Attackers killed two South Korean electricians, a day after a Colombian contractor, two Japanese diplomats and seven Spanish intelligence officers were slain. Ramallah, West Bank - Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia on Saturday harshly criticized Israel's West Bank security barrier, threatening to pull out of peace negotiations if construction of the structure isn't halted. The barrier of razor wire, fences, concrete walls and trenches is expected to run about 680 kilometres along the Israel-West Bank border.
