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The wars & local soldiers, 2003

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Helping the children get through it War in Iraq

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 4 April 2003 · page 5

TURN on the TV and it’s war. Even adults find the graphic images excessive. So how are the children coping? Experts approached by the…

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Predictions of a short war 'will be over by Christmas': PM

The Chaser · Friday 4 April 2003 · page 4

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Australian Prime Minister John Howard today dismissed concerns that…

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World Jenin plaza named for bomber of US troops War in Iraq

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 4 April 2003 · page 11

JERUSALEM - Palestinians in the refugee camp of Jenin have named their main square after the Iraqi Army officer who carried out the first suicide…

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Casualties are the first truth of war The Right Thing to Say

The Chaser · Friday 4 April 2003 · page 3

I've always said that casualties are the first truth of war. And thankfully in this war that…

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The Pilgrim's Legacy What does the outbreak of war mean for Americans? As war was breaking out, Sholto Macpherson was in the heart of the empire at the Nasdaq stock exchange in New York. He filed this report

The Chaser · Friday 4 April 2003 · page 20

It's 9.30 the Tuesday morning after President Bush's 48-hour ultimatum to Saddam Hussein, and a crowd of executives…

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? barfly Inside the media Phone: 02 9280 4554 Fax: 02 9280 4564 Email: barfly@chaser.com.au War profiteering, Murdoch-style

The Chaser · Friday 4 April 2003 · page 19

IF you thought Rupert Murdoch's Herald-Sun or Daily Telegraph was bad, check out his…

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Iraqis discover CNN isn't an elaborate hoax David Stewart takes a cynical eye to a cynical world and discovers the war is giving our leaders a thumping big reality check News Junkie

The Chaser · Friday 4 April 2003 · page 18

There is something painful but very healthy about the moment when fantasy is brought back to Earth with a…

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War encourages 4WD owners to upgrade to tanks

The Chaser · Saturday 5 April 2003 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday: The era of the off-road 4WD as the vehicle of choice for wealthy mums doing shuttle runs…

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If you want peace, prepare for war Ian Johnson joins his local peace group and discovers that even it's at war

The Chaser · Saturday 5 April 2003 · page 19

War is the new peace, at least in Bondi. After my experience in a local peace group, I am now committed…

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United States of Iraq For our latest war coverage visit http://www.centcom.mil/ US begins talks for 'Gulf War 3'

The Chaser · Saturday 5 April 2003 · page 2

WASHINGTON, Monday: The US administration revealed yesterday that it has already commenced plans for Gulf War 3. A Defense…

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Feature Cry Havoc! and Let Slip the Suits of War

Tharunka · Monday 7 April 2003 · page 8

All you need to strike oil in the world of backroom deals and international politics is…

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Mourning News Soldier Reprimanded for Piddling in Sand

Tharunka · Monday 7 April 2003 · page 18

An Aussie soldier was reprimanded yesterday. alter he was caught playing with his missiles. The RAAF operaive who could not be named for [?]…

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Case for War

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 11 April 2003 · page 15

I WAS disappointed that Professor Colin Tatz argued the case against war with Iraq with polernic rather than specifics (AJN 28/3/03)…

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Iraq war’s first Jewish casualty War in Iraq

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 11 April 2003 · page 12

NEW YORK - As a young boy, Mark Evnin insisted on wearing a yarmulke to the Boy Scouts and later talked of enlisting in the Israel Defence Forces…

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Kazak attacks war aims, wants pressure on Israel War in Iraq

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 11 April 2003 · page 4

PALESTINIAN representative in Australia Ali Kazak has attacked Australian, American and British war objectives in Iraq, saying the…

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Memories of Baghdad War in Iraq

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 11 April 2003 · page 6

GAD Ben-Meir, 72, hopes for a swift regime change in Iraq so that he can return to his childhood home in Baghdad…

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Belgium to rescind International War Crimes Law

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 11 April 2003 · page 13

JERUSALEM - A Belgium senator who was instrumental in passing the unique Belgian law which seeks to prosecute war crimes and genocide…

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MTV reporter: out of Iraq War in Iraq

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 11 April 2003 · page 12

NEW YORK - It’s not just Ted Koppel and Wolf Blitzer blaring news from the war-torn Persian Gulf anymore…

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Don’t invite Howard, Muslim groups protest War in Iraq

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 11 April 2003 · page 4

PRIME Minister John Howard has been told that some Muslim groups do not want him as guest of honour at the Australian Federation of Islamic…

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Talmud: more interesting war commentary than Cnn? War in Iraq

The Australian Jewish News · Friday 18 April 2003 · page 18

In Jewish tradition, the redemption from slavery to Pharaoh is a paradigm for ail true…

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