From: J Corbally (icorb@indigo.ie)
Date: Thu Jun 26 2003 - 12:48:00 MDT
Two interesting items;
>Saddam spokesman 'quizzed'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3024046.stm
>Former Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf - dubbed
>"Comical Ali" during the Iraq war - handed himself in to US forces but was
>released after questioning, an Arab TV station says.
>Dubai-based Al-Arabiya TV said in a statement it would air an interview
>with Mr Sahhaf at 1900 GMT on Friday.
>"Sahhaf said he handed himself over to the American forces and the
>Americans interrogated him, then they released him," the channel said.
>Mr Sahhaf's daily press briefings in Baghdad during the war, at which his
>statements were increasingly at odds with reality, made him a figure of
>fun in the West.
>He was dubbed "Saddam's optimist" and "Comical Ali" by media commentators,
>before disappearing as American forces entered central Baghdad.
Good news on the SCOTUS front;
>US court overturns gay sex ban
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3022026.stm
>A ban on homosexual sex in Texas has been overturned by the US Supreme
>Court in what is being seen as a landmark gay-rights ruling.
>The case was brought by two Texas men, John Lawrence and Tyron Garner, who
>were caught having sex on private premises in 1998.
>On Thursday, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy said for the majority of the
>judges the two men "are entitled to respect for their private lives".
>BBC News Online's Washington correspondent Steve Schifferes says the
>ruling is likely to make laws that still regulate sodomy illegal, and
>provide an important assurance for the 600,000 openly gay households in
>the country.
James...
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