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 - A final report by the top U.S. arms inspector in Iraq concluded that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction but wanted to restart a weapons program. "We knew the dictator had a history of using weapons of mass destruction, a long record of aggression and hatred for America," President Bush said in a speech Wednesday in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. "There was a risk, a real risk, that Saddam Hussein would pass weapons or materials or information to terrorist networks. In the world after Sept. 11, that was a risk we could not afford to take." Hong Kong - A Singapore-based bank has offered to repay customers for lost cash, documents and expensive jewelry after a contractor accidentally removed dozens of full safe-deposit boxes and crushed them as scrap metal. Executives at DBS Bank (Hong Kong) were embarrassed to admit that 83 boxes filled with valuables were removed from the bank during renovations, then dumped and compressed in a junkyard. Baghdad - Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi says his government has "new plans" to crush the country's insurgency and restore security. In an address to Iraq's interim Parliament he said the current security situation requires exceptional forces. He said a suitable atmosphere was required for elections scheduled for January and the government would devise new plans.
