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.
Oslo - An axe-wielding passenger on a small commuter plane in northern Norway attacked two pilots and a passenger as the aircraft was landing Wednesday, police said. Despite the attack, the pilots were able to safely land the plane, which was carrying seven passengers. The pilots received serious but non life-threatening injuries in the attack. Brighton, England - British Prime Minister Tony Blair defied anti-war hecklers and pro-fox hunt protesters Tuesday to reaffirm his conviction that invading Iraq was the right course of action to take. Though focusing on domestic issues for most of his speech, Blair eventually attacked the issue of Iraq head-on, saying he knew it had divided the nation. Blair said that since Sept. 11, 2001, the world was facing a "wholly new phenomenon of worldwide terrorism," based on a perversion of true Islam. Acknowledging U.S. and U.K. intelligence about Iraqi weapons mass destruction ahead of the war had been wrong, Blair avoided making a full of apology of the kind demanded by critics of those intelligence failures, which they allege were used to pave the road to war. Rome - The abductors of two Italian women in Iraq reassured them they wouldn't die and tried to teach them about Islam, one of the former hostages says. Simona Torretta and Simona Pari were freed Tuesday "They didn't touch us. They treated us with dignity."
