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Newspaper
Aiken Standard
Location
Aiken, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 2004
Page
9
President Bush orders a commission on Iraq intelligence to relieve political pressure while promising independence. The panel could probe not only intelligence work but how the administration handled it and may demand access to secret briefings.
Asia reports 14 human deaths from bird flu as China creates a new outbreak headquarters and more poultry are culled. Health experts warn the spread raises pandemic risk but say no evidence yet of a highly contagious strain or human-to-human transmission beyond a single Vietnamese family.
AP reports the nuclear black market that helped Iran, Libya, and North Korea obtain weapons technology from Pakistan raises concerns that terror groups may have also acquired bomb components or expertise. Detentions in 2001 involved Pakistani scientists who allegedly met bin Laden in Afghanistan, later released without charges.
Belgrade Serbia-Montenegro struggles a year after its creation as cooperation remains minimal. Despite joint defense and foreign affairs, a common market and harmonized taxes lag. Separatist movements in both republics push toward 2006 independence referendums as EU deals loom.
Investigators probe whether the same author of two threatening ricin letters, mailed last fall to the White House and Transportation Department, also sent powder to Senator Bill Frist in the Dirksen Building. Hazardous materials teams search for a letter or parcel linked to the case as FBI and Capitol Police assess connections and responses.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that civil unions do not satisfy the state constitution and that only marriage between same sex couples meets constitutional requirements. The advisory opinion follows a prior ruling granting full marital rights to gay couples and sets up a fight over defining marriage ahead of an upcoming Constitutional Convention.
Rosie O'Donnell has postponed Celebrity Detox with Warner Books pausing release this summer. Publicist Jimmy Franco says she needs a breather and no new date is set while she works on a stage adaptation of Find Me.
Laura Moody and Chris Pitchford wed in a hospital chapel in St George Utah just 48 hours after Pitchford was beaten during his bachelor party in Nevada. He faced surgery and a feeding tube while Moody beamed as she helped him slip the ring past a swollen finger. The couple planned a home ceremony before the attack altered their plans.
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