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September 1, 2003

  • Dutch dispensaries are to become the first in the world to offer cannabis as a prescription drug. »(BBC)

September 2, 2003

September 3, 2003

  • Occupation of Iraq: Poland assumes a position in postwar Iraq. The coalition in Iraq hands over the south-central part of the country to a force led by Poland. The force of Polish troops leads a multinational peacekeeping brigade that will relieve Coalition forces (in particular the United States Marine expeditionary force). This is Poland's biggest military operation since World War II. This is also the first sign of the global community's commitment to a postwar Iraq. »http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0903/p07s02-woeu.html [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,96288,00.html] Secretary of State Colin Powell seeks support from Britain, France, Germany, and Russia on a proposed United Nations resolution that would give the United Nations a role in Iraq's economic and political future.[http://www.boston.com/dailynews/246/wash/Powell_sounds_out_allies_on_U_%3A.shtml] [http://www.nynewsday.com/news/ny-uniraq0903,0,4084645.story?coll=nyc-topnews-short-navigation] Coalition soldiers strongly desire to see more troops from other nations share the work of occupation. »http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3378091
  • Palestinian Authority: Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas threatens to quit if the Palestinian legislature does not endorse his government and its policies at a session scheduled for Thursday. [http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=B2CDAE69-7656-4FC5-9082E31ABCE4BE1E&title=Palestinian%20PM%20Abbas%20Threatens%20to%20Resign%20Unless%20Government%20Endorsed]
  • Iraq: Iraqi Governing Council swears in the first ministerial cabinet since Saddam Hussein's removal. They urge the cabinet to help restore stability to the country. [http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=B60CCD9C-EA19-4B63-836D5DC28A8A7898&title=Iraq%20Swears%20In%20First%20Post%2DSaddam%20Ministerial%20Cabinet]
  • Iran: Iranian Vice President Mohammad Ali Abtahi states that President Mohammad Khatami rejects compromise with hard-line opponents over key reform bills. The bills seek to curb the conservatives' power. »http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2003/09/03092003153037.asp
  • Diplomacy: British Embassy in Tehran closes temporarily after shots are fired at it from the street. [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-802481,00.html]
  • United States: Former Presbyterian minister Paul J. Hill is executed for his 1994 murder in Pensacola, Florida of an abortion doctor and his bodyguard. »http://www.cbn.com/CBNNews/News/030903e.asp »http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21484-2003Sep3.html
  • Irish minister Frank Fahy accuses US Immigration authorities at Shannon Airport of acting 'disgracefully' in turning back a group of 13 Irish musicians travelling to attend New York benefit concert to raise money for an Irish cancer victim in the United States for treatment. Ireland's 2003 Eurovision Song Contest singer Mickey Joe Harte, one of the singers refused entry, said they were told they needed no visas in their case. However, at Shannon, the musicians were suddenly told they needed work visas, though the event was for charity and they were providing their services 'free of charge'. Irish people travelling to the United States do not normally need visas except to get paid employment. The concert is scheduled for Friday. »http://www.rte.ie/arts//2003/0903/harte.html
  • Miss Justice Mary Laffoy dramatically resigns as chairperson of the Laffoy Commission on Child Abuse, which is investigating evidence of child sex abuse in schools, orphanages and Catholic Church-run institutions over decades in Ireland. Her resignation followed one day after the Minister for Education, Noel Dempsey told RTÉ Radio that the Irish Government, worried by suggestions that the investigation would last more than a decade and cost hundreds of millions of euro, wanted to restructure the investigation to examine only a sample of the 1800 cases being investigated. The government has delayed publishing Justice Laffoy's resignation letter. Abuse victim and crusader against abuse Christine Buckey calls for Dempsey's resignation. Colm O'Gorman, of the child abuse charity One in Four, and himself a prominent survivor of abuse, calls on Taoiseach Bertie Ahern to publish all correspondence relating to the resignation. »http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/0903/ABUSE.html
  • California recall: Five candidates (Lt. Governor Cruz Bustamante, California state senator Tom McClintock, Peter Camejo, Peter Ueberroth and Arianna Huffington) attended the first debate held for the recall election. Arnold Schwarzenegger was criticized for not turning up at the debate. Issues such as tax and campaign finance were brought up. »http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030904/ap_on_el_gu/davis_recall_538

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September 7, 2003

  • Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declares that Hamas leaders are "marked for death" and won't have a moment's rest, after Israel failed in an attempt to kill the top-ranking members of Hamas with a 550-pound bomb dropped on a Gaza City apartment.
  • Violence surges sharply in Indian-controlled Kashmir with a series of separatist attacks across the Himalayan region. This follows a bomb explosion on Saturday in the main wholesale market for fruit in the region, which killed six people and wounded 25.
  • Tennis: Andy Roddick defeated Spain's Juan Carlos Ferrero in straight sets (6-3, 7-6, 6-3) in the Men's Singles Final at the U.S. Open. This marks the first Grand Slam victory for the 21-years-old American.

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September 12, 2003

  • Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Arab and Non-Aligned nations call on the United Nations Security Council to stop Israel carrying out its threat to expel the head of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, from the West Bank. Elsewhere the European Union and Russia describe the Israeli proposal as a 'terrible mistake'. UN General Secretary Kofi Annan calls the Israel's proposed action "dangerous" and "unwise". The Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern, who takes over as President of the European Council in January, tells journalists after a summit meeting with French President Jacques Chirac in Paris that he is "shocked" by the Israeli plan and said his government is "totally opposed" to the Israeli plan. The United States Ambassador to Israel meets the Israeli Defence Minister to outline American hostility to the plan. »http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/0912/mideast.html »http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3105180.stm »http://www.rte.ie/news/2003/0912/annank.html
  • Zimbabwe's only opposition newspaper, the Daily News ceases publication following a court order that it breached the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act introduced by President Robert Mugabe in 2002. The closure follows an armed raid on the paper's offices by police. One reporter told Reuters that the action was an "unprecedented attack on press freedom". »http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3105220.stm
  • Libya : The United Nations today ends 15-year old sanctions against Libya. The sanctions were imposed following the Lockerbie disaster. The sanctions are lifted following payment by Libya (following an admission of responsibility) of $2.7 billion to the families of those who died in the bombing.
  • Johnny Cash died at the age of 71 due to complications from diabetes, which resulted in respiratory failure, while hospitalized at Baptist Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He was interred next to his wife in Hendersonville Memory Gardens near his home in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

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September 18, 2003

  • International Atomic Energy Agency: Iranian officials give signals that they do not intend to comply with a resolution passed by the United Nations's nuclear watchdog giving Tehran until the end of next month to come clean on its atomic programme. Parliamentary speaker Mehdi Karrubi, a close ally of President Mohammad Khatami, said the IAEA resolution was "political" and that "the Iranian people will not accept giving in to the logic of force." »http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_18-9-2003_pg7_47
  • Hurricane Isabel makes landfall on the east coast of the United States near Kill Devil Hill, North Carolina.
  • A passenger aboard a South African Airways jet tries to break into the cockpit during a flight from Cape Town to Atlanta. The passenger, James Drake, is arrested upon arrival. He had also been arrested in 1987 after trying to break into another airplane's cockpit.

September 19, 2003

  • Peace: United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan rings the Japanese Peace Bell, marking International Day of Peace at United Nations Headquarters in New York, cautioning that for some, the direst threat to peace was terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, while for others it was poverty, disease, deprivation, and civil war. »http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=8298&Cr=peace&Cr1=bell
  • Occupation of Iraq: Iraq's former defense minister, Sultan Hashim Ahmed, surrenders to Coalition troops. He was seen at Saddam Hussein's side in what is thought to have been the ousted dictator's last public appearance as Baghdad fell. He is number 27 on the most-wanted list of former top officials under Saddam Hussein (also eight of hearts). The ex-minister surrendered at a house in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and was being taken to Baghdad. »http://asia.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3472711 [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=578&ncid=578&e=2&u=nm/20030919/ts_nm/iraq_dc]
  • Hurricane Isabel: Isabel, now a tropical storm, moves through western Pennsylvania before heading to Ontario, Canada. The storm leaves more than 4.3 million residents along the East Coast of the United States without power.
  • Canadian Liberal Leadership Race: Balloting begins in delegate-selection meetings across Canada which will determine the outcome of the Liberal leadership convention this November. Paul Martin is expected to easily secure enough votes to beat opponent Sheila Copps. This all-but guarantees Martin will replace his longtime rival Jean ChrĂ©tien as the next Prime Minister of Canada.[http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/09/19/delegates030919]
  • Email virus: Email users are swamped by a new fast-spreading computer virus circulating through email that purports to be security software from Microsoft, but actually tries to disable security programs that are already running. The worm, dubbed "Swen" or "Gibe," takes advantage of a two-year-old hole in Internet Explorer and affects systems that have not installed a patch for that security hole.
  • Nuclear Weapons: Secretary of the Guardians Council Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, a leading hardline Iranian cleric, calls for Iran to withdrawal from Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty because of the compliance protocols referred to by the International Atomic Energy Agency and not consent to unfettered inspections of its nuclear facilities. "The treaty has been denounced by a number of countries. Although Iran has inked the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, it is free to withdraw from it anytime". "North Korea withdrew from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Many countries have not even signed it. It would have been better if Iran had not signed it." [http://www.irna.ir] [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=news/archive/2003/09/19/international0946EDT0515.DTL]

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September 22, 2003

  • Terrorism - Iraq: An attacker killed an Iraqi police officer and himself outside the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, also injured 19 people, including two Iraqi U.N. workers. This occurred a month after a previous deadly bombing there. The bombing comes as the United Nations considers expanding its role in Iraq. »http://www.iht.com/articles/110767.html UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan states that personnel are assessing the situation following the attack. »http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=8316&Cr=iraq&Cr1=
  • 90% of the delegates elected to the November 15 convention of the Liberal Party of Canada support Paul Martin Jr., thereby assuring that he will win the leadership of the party and thereby become Prime Minister of Canada after Jean ChrĂ©tien retires in February 2004.
  • Anthropology: The jawbone of a cave-man found in Romania is confirmed as the oldest fossil from an early modern human. The bone, found in 2002, was carbon dated to between 34,000 and 36,000 years ago. [http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=nm/20030922/sc_nm/science_humans_dc_1]

September 23, 2003

  • California recall: A federal appeals court overturns a three-judge panel's ruling and reinstates the original date for the recall election, October 7, 2003. The ACLU, whose suit was responsible for the original decision, will not appeal to the United States Supreme Court. »http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/state/2003-09-23-court-rules_x.htm
  • United Nations: World Heads of State and Government convened at United Nations Headquarters in New York City for the start of the General Assembly's annual high-level debate. President of the United States George W. Bush urges the international community to help Iraq rebuild itself into a democracy with the "great power to inspire the Middle East." President Bush states a transformed Middle East would also benefit the entire world "by undermining the ideologies that export violence to other lands." President Bush also calls on the Security Council to adopt new anti-proliferation resolution "calling on all members of the UN to criminalize the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction," enacting strict export controls, and securing all sensitive material. »http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=8329&Cr=iraq&Cr1=
  • Iraq: A new Gallup poll shows majority of Iraqis expect better life in 5 years. After foreign military occupation and the removal of Saddam Hussein, around two-thirds of Baghdad residents state the Iraqi dictator removal was worth the hardships they've been forced to endure. »http://www.iht.com/articles/110955.html
  • Iraq: A US-led coalition backed Iraqi Governing Council member, Iyad Allawi, announces restrictions of the operations of TV networks al Jazeera and al-Arabiya. The networks are barred from reporting on official activities and news conferences and from entering ministries and office buildings for the next two weeks. The council claims they incited anti-occupation violence (by airing statements from resistance leaders; specifically broadcasting a video of "terrorists terrorizing Iraqis"), increased ethnic and sectarian tensions and were supportive of the lawless resistance. Allawi hopes the ban sends a "very clear message" to other stations. Al Jazeera responds that it is trying to give a balanced view of the current situation in Iraq and that it considers its ethical standards to be similar to western ones. The Coalition Provisional Authority has not responded to inquiries about the announcement. [http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/09/23/sprj.nitop.iraq.networks], »http://english.aljazeera.net/Articles/News/ArabWorld/US-backed+council+bans+Arab+TV+stations.htm, »http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20030923-111537-1915r, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1047728,00.html]
  • The Methuselah Foundation launches the Methuselah mouse contest, offering a prize to the team which can extend mouse lifespan the longest. The aim is to promote research which can offer insights into human longevity.
  • Blackout: A power shortcut lays the southern part of Sweden and the eastern part of Denmark dead from midday, creating traffic problems and other disruptions throughout the area. About 2-3 million people are affected. From 4 p.m. Copenhagen has power again. A Swedish nuclear power plant abruptly stopped producing power.

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