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.
Fallujah, Iraq- About 40 people were killed on Wednesday when U.S. aircraft attacked a mosque compound in central Iraq. A six-hour battle raged around the Abdul-Aziz al-Samarrai mosque on Wednesday afternoon, beginning when a marine vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade fired from the mosque, said Marine Lt. Col. Brennan Byrne. A Cobra helicopter fired a Hellfire missile at the base of the mosque minaret, and an F-16 dropped a 225-kilogram laser-guided bomb on the compound. Witnesses said more than 40 people were killed. Tokyo - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said on Wednesday that he would continue to visit a controversial religious shrine even though a court ruled his visits illegal. The Yasukuni religious shrine honours Japan's 2.5 million war dead. But it also includes a number of people found guilty of war crimes, including Hideki Tojo, the prime minister of Japan during the Second World War. Budapest - Thousands of people attended the funeral of a Hungarian man Tuesday who spent more than half a century locked up in Russia. Andras Toma, 78, known in Hungary as the "last PoW," was buried on with full military honours in Nyiregyhaza, eastern Hungary. Toma spent 55 years as a prisoner of war before he was discovered by chance by a Slovakian doctor visiting a psychiatric hospital in northern Russia in 2000.
