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.
Instanbul - Bombings by groups linked to al-Qaida killed dozens of people in 2003, most of them in Islamic countries, leading to a backlash against radical groups among some Muslims. While the U.S. government heightened alert levels at year's end, the shift in targets from western to Muslim countries raises the possibility that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network has been stymied by western security measures, battered in the war against terrorism and now depends on local militants to carry out attacks. London - Britain may deploy armed sky marshals on some passenger flights in response to the heightened terrorism alert in the United States, the government said Sunday. The U.S. Homeland Security Department's Dec. 21 warning raising the national alert to its second-highest level, code orange, focused on the threat from foreign commercial airliners, American officials said. Bam, Iran - Aid from around the world poured into Iran on Sunday, two days after an earthquake reduced most of this ancient city to rubble and killed more than 20,000 people. More than 45 foreign aircraft arrived carrying aid and workers to assist the people of Bam, where rescuers still rushed to find survivors. Most people in the city of 80,000 were asleep when the earthquake, measured at magnitude 6.6 by the U.S. Geological Survey, struck about 5:30 a.m. Friday.12/29/2003
