OID‹‰‰†‰KOID‹‰‰†‰OID‹‰‰†‰MOID‹‰‰†‰C New Delhi, Wednesday,April 9, 2003www.timesofindia.com Capital 44 pages* Invitation Price Rs. 1.50 International India Times Sport Winona Ryder, No train or bus, but Hooper not to first pinch hearts cross Wagah play against then auction border by post the Aussies Page 13 Page 12 Page 21 WIN WITH THE TIMES Established 1838 Bennett, Coleman & Co., Ltd. Baghdad burns, Saddam missing After a war, a hero is just Reuters a man with one leg. — Anonymous Three journalists killed as Iraqis will NEWS DIGEST US forces bombard hotel rule Iraq, I’m sorry, says Mandira By Chidanand Rajghatta & Agencies JDAMS on a house adjoining a (With reference to the Delhi restaurant where its intelligence Times story dated April 3) Washington/Baghdad: Journal- vows Bush sources had indicated the Iraqi I would like to clarify that I have ists came in the line of fire in leader was meeting with two sons only called my dogs by those Baghdad even as the fate of Iraqi and his war council. names out of affection. I belong leader Saddam Hussein hung in The bunker-busters blasted 60 and Blair to the Sikh community and am the air after US forces dropped four proud to be a Sikh. The purpose feet deep craters and killed at least massive bombs on a residential By Rashmee Z Ahmed to call my dogs with those names 14 people, but there was no word of compound where he was said to be TIMES NEWS NETWORK was by no means to hurt the reli- Saddam’s fate. Intelligence ana- meeting aides. gious sentiments of my commu- lysts wondered if the Iraqi leader London: In a dramatic un- nity or my husband’s community. A Reuters’ cameraman, Ukran- ian national Taras Protsyuk and had got away because most places veiling of a roadmap for the I would like to apologise if I have he uses for meeting are said to have West Asia region as a whole, inadvertently hurt anyone and Spanish TV network Telecinco’s deep underground bunkers with the US and Britain have pub- would never ever refer to my cameraman Jose Couso, were tunnels connected to other places. dogs with those names again. killed and five other journalists licly pledged Iraq’s destiny as Their names henceforth will be wounded after American jets ‘‘I don’t know whether he sur- the first of more than 20 only be Ruger and Buster. Please strafed the Palestine Hotel, the last vived,’’ US President Bush said at a Arab dictatorships or monar- do not take this any further for I refuge for the media in Baghdad, joint news conference with British chies to “run its own affairs”. regret to have done it and would claiming Iraqi snipers were using Prime Minister Tony Blair in Post-conflict Iraq would be never ever do this again. Thank it as cover to fire on US forces. Northern Ireland. ‘‘The only thing run by an “interim authority, you. Mandira Bedi Doordarshan correspondent I know is that he’s losing power.’’ which will serve until a per- Satish Jacob and his cameraman According to accounts in Wash- manent government is cho- Syed Nooh Nizami had a narrow ington, the second direct US strike sen by the people of Iraq,” Jagmohan’s quest: Culture aimed at killing Saddam (or ‘‘de- President Bush declared at a minister Jagmohan escape when the hotel was hit. capitating the Iraqi leadership’’ in symbolically significant on Tuesday chaired In a separate incident, a camera- man for the Al-Jazeera network, Washingtonese) was based on hu- summit with Prime Minister a high-powered Blair in conflict-scarred meeting to under- Jordanian national Tarek Ayouba, man and technical intelligence de- Northern Ireland. take excavations in was killed in a missile attack on its veloped by the CIA that indicated different sites con- office by US forces. It was not clear Saddam, his son Qusay and other Addressing a key, deeply nected with the why US forces targeted the net- top members of the regime were controversial issue, both mythical river work’s office but a Al-Jazeera re- meeting at a residential compound leaders promised the United Saraswati. P11 porter said the attack was aimed at in the Al Mansour suburb. Nations would play a “vital The question is if the US could role in the reconstruction of Bhojshala order: Thousands of shutting out the network from re- porting US war crimes. extract such intelligence and home Iraq”, including what Bush devotees offered prayers at the described as the task of temple inside the Bhojshala complex Abu Dhabi television also re- in on Saddam, why it had to put ported that its offices were hit. Iraq through such a bloody war. “helping to stand up an inter- on Tuesday. The devotees entered im authority”. the temple’s premises with offerings US officials expressed regret at Comment: In Battlefield Iraq, per- Using folksy language and for the first time on a Tuesday the deaths but maintained Bagh- haps the worst casualty is truth it- since 1997. P11 dad was a war zone and the media self in the blitzkrieg of propagan- the sort of read-my-lips rhet- had been warned about it. da. This makes a mockery of the al- oric of his father, Bush said: Blackwill’s comments: US am- The bigger mystery of the day of lied campaign and compounds the “Iraqis are plenty capable of bassador Robert Blackwill’s argu- Saddam’s fate remained unre- tragedy of the non-combatant vic- running Iraq and that is pre- ments, defending the legality of US cisely what is going to hap- invasion on Iraq without specific UN solved more than 12 hours after US tims of the invasion. warplanes dropped four 2000lbs Edit page: ‘Embedded vs Embattled’ pen”. authorisation, are contradictory to Commentators said the the assurances provided by Wash- breadth of the US-UK vision ington to the Security Council. P12 FACT OR FICTION? was immense, with the po- THE LAST STAND tential to create the second YOU SAID IT by Laxman FOUND: US said Monday early tests functioning democratic enti- show chemical agents at a military ty in West Asia, after Israel. DAYDAY 2020 facility in Hindiyah near Karbala Cynics said it was colonisa- NOT FOUND: Secondary tests tion by another name. Tuesday didn’t show chemical agents Blair said it was a “false choice” if the “new Iraq that Toll ELUSIVE BASRA will emerge (is) run either by us or the UN ... It will be run UK: Troops are in control of Basra... by the Iraqi people”. US, UK but few days yet to cement the town TROOPS 121 In a significant lowering of WAR TALK hopes the UN would be called IRAQI upon actually to run affairs US: A leadership target was hit hard in post-Saddam Iraq, Blair CIVILIANS 1282 Iraq: US forces are going to surrender said he saw no need to “go Source: Reuters and news reports or be burned in their tanks US tanks operate on a bridge over the River Tigris in Baghdad on Tuesday. US forces blasted back into the wrangles of the government targets in central Baghdad. second resolution”. Luckily I didn’t take off, Sir. The moment I sat in the cockpit it crashed! The money behind the mask By Byas Anand masks are ineffective in filtering indiatimes.com POLL TIMES NEWS NETWORK the SARS virus. SARS suspected What’s helping Indian manufac- Yesterday’s results: Do you think the New Delhi: SARS is giving the turers is an absolute global short- Indian Air Force should ground its country’s specialised surgical The first suspected case of MiG fleet to avoid more casualties? SARS was detected at the Rajiv age. Australian companies have mask-makers big business — and been left with practically no stocks. sleepless nights. Manufacturers in Gandhi International Airport Yes No American firms are still trying to 84% 16% Delhi alone say they have got or- in Hyderabad on Tuesday. International Airport in Hy- satisfy the bottomless demand • The poll reflects the opinions of Net users who chose ders for over 30 million respiratory from Hong Kong and China. to participate, and not necessarily of the general public. derabad o masks. Work is on at a frenetic ‘‘Top-quality masks are the most Today’s question: Should doping in Indian pace to meet domestic and interna- difficult objects to find in Hong sports invite a life ban? tional demand for what every cau- The demand is for highly Kong,’’ says Gautam Saxena, an Cast your vote on tiously dressed person is wearing. specialised masks, which have investment banker who was www.indiatimes.com or SMS ‘Poll’ to 8888 ‘‘We now have to work overtime. a bacteria-filtering efficiency of there recently. The orders need to be delivered im- 99.5 per cent. Indian manufacturers are com- mediately to airports in India and These are three-layered face peting on price. Made-in-India clients in South-east Asia,’’ says masks with a clip on the nose — masks are moved by manufactur- Sandeep Jain of Delhi-based and made according to N95 specifi- ers at Rs 3 per piece, their US coun- AR Enterprises, a surgical equip- cations issued by the US health au- terparts cost Rs 20. “Most of the ment exporter. thorities. Basic cloth or paper Cockroaches spreading killer flu: P13 WEATHER o o No rum time for liquor commercials Max. 36 C/ Min. 19 C Moonset: Thursday — 0131 hrs Ajit Ninan Moonrise:Wednesday — 1056 hrs By Bhaskar Roy They pointed out that TV com- Sunset: Wednesday — 1843 hrs TIMES NEWS NETWORK mercials should not promote alco- Sunrise:Thursday — 0602 hrs hol, directly or indirectly.