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CBC News – Indepth: Iraq

Canadians go to Baghdad as ‘human shields’
Martin O’Malley, CBC News Online | Dec. 5, 2002

Opposition to a war on Iraq has a long way to go before it rivals the draft-card burnings and demonstrations against the war in Vietnam in the 1960s, but a new anti-war movement is growing muscle. Some Canadians already have left for Iraq to serve as human shields against bomb attacks on Baghdad. More will follow before Christmas…

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Some Tentative First Steps Toward Universal Health Care. Worried that the growing number of uninsured patients will undermine the health care system, insurance executives are pressing for steps toward universal care. By Milt Freudenheim. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

CNN.com – Iraq shows journalists weapons declaration – Dec. 7, 2002

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — Journalists have been shown piles of documents on weapons of mass destruction that Iraq intends to hand over to the United Nations a day before a required deadline.

Bush Shakes Up Economic Team With Ouster of 2 Advisers. Paul O’Neill, treasury secretary, and Lawrence Lindsey, White House economic adviser, had been seen by many as weak links in the administration’s economic team. By Edmund L. Andrews. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

U.N. Inspections Chief Urges U.S. to Provide Intelligence on Iraq. Hans Blix called on Washington today to give him intelligence information to help in the search for Iraqi weapons sites. By Julia Preston. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]

Top Bush Economic Advisers Resign. Paul O’Neill, treasury secretary, and Lawrence Lindsey, White House economic adviser, had been seen by many as weak links in the Bush Administration’s economic team. By Edmund L. Andrews. [New York Times: Business]

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