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.
Jerusalem - Yasser Arafat is a legitimate target for assassination despite a three-year-old promise to the United States not to harm the Palestinian leader, said Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. "Whoever aims to kill Jews, whoever sends murderers to kill Jews, is marked for death," Sharon said. Two weeks ago, Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin was killed in Gaza City by rockets fired from an Israeli army helicopter. Stockholm - The man who made billions of dollars selling people furniture they can assemble themselves has managed to build an estate bigger than anyone else on the planet, Swedish television reported on Sunday. Ingvar Kamprad, the 77-year-old Swede who founded the IKEA retail chain, is worth $53 billion US, according to SVT2 news. The figure puts him ahead of Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, 49, who Forbes magazine estimates is worth $47 billion US. Madrid - The man suspected of organizing last month's train bombings in Spain was among four suspects who blew themselves up in a Madrid suburb, the country's interior minister said Sunday. The suspect, Serhane ben Abelmajid Farkhet, alias "The Tunisian," died in a powerful explosion set off after special police forces surrounded a building in Leganes, just south of Madrid.
