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 - The commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks feels unanimously that White House national security adviser Condoleezza Rice should testify in public, the panel's chairman said yesterday. Rice is refusing to appear before the commission in public and under oath to answer allegations from a former White House counterterrorism official that the Bush administration neglected the threat from al Qaeda. Baghdad - In an apparent effort to undermine U.S.-led reconstruction efforts in Iraq, gunmen yesterday killed a Briton and a Canadian working as security guards for foreign electrical engineers at a northern power station. Baghdad - Several thousand Iraqis protested the closure of a newspaper Sunday, chanting anti-U.S. slogans and burning American flags outside the newspaper's office. The U.S.-led civil administration in Iraq closed the newspaper Al Hawsa for 60 days, accusing its publishers of inciting violence against coalition troops. Islamabad, Pakistan - A deadly, 12-day confrontation between government troops and Islamic fighters in a remote tribal region reached a peaceful settlement yesterday after the militants released 12 paramilitary troop hostages and soldiers began pulling out of the area. Jerusalem - Israel's state prosecutor will recommend that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon be indicted on charges of taking bribes from a real estate developer, Israeli news media reported Saturday night.