"Al-Riyadh newspaper raised a question about the fates of the Iraqi human resources and the prospects of the brain drain of the talented Iraqi people.After the silence of the guns, there will be a problem of the human resources inside and outside Iraq. Are they going to be kept for Iraq or will they be incited to emigrate to America, Britain and other countries in order to continue the sanction over this country and prevent it from growing in a way that might threat Israel which is planning along with America to dry out the springheads of the highly professional Iraqi people with any means," the paper said."

What about them running off to Pakistan, Iran or some Russian Mafia boss to be auctioned off to the highest bidder?

Below is a different story. I hope the reasons we started this war can somehow justify what's happened to this little boy. His life ruined, for ever.

Ali Ismail Abbas, 12, who says he was wounded during an airstrike, lies in a hospital bed in Baghdad, on April 6, 2003. Abbas was fast asleep when war shattered his life. A missile obliterated his home and most of his family, leaving him orphaned, badly burned and blowing off both his arms

U.S. media show carnage with a soft-focus lens
During an era when popular culture is filled with depictions of violence and death, the images that many Americans are seeing are remarkably bloodless.

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Other title(s) for this story: Saudi paper concerned Iraqi weapons experts will be pushed to leave country

"In a warehouse outside Baghdad. The U.S. news station National Public Radio, reporting what appeared to be a separate discovery, said U.S. forces found a weapons cache of around 20 medium-range missiles equipped with potent chemical weapons.

NPR said the rockets, BM-21 missiles, were equipped with sarin and mustard gas and were "ready to fire.""

Smoking gun -- coming soon. My guess is that most is hidden in the Iraqi/Syria border area.

North of Karbala: U.S. Army commanders said they have discovered more than a dozen barrels of chemicals in an agricultural facility 30 miles northeast of there that have tested positive as blister and nerve agents.

In a compound south of the central Iraqi town of Hindiyah, about 60 miles south of Baghdad: initial tests of samples from the facility were inconsistent. Some tests did not indicate chemical weapons, while others indicated the presence of G-class nerve agents Ñ which include sarin and tabun Ñ and mustard agent, a blistering chemical first used in World War I.

Washington Post's take on the story and Fox's.

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Other title(s) for this story: US say may have found Iraqi WMD storage site

I saw them! Fairies! Pink ones! Actually, these are from 6 months ago. Maybe I didn't put them up, because nobody would have believed me.

Some of these I'm printing out in A4 size. I love the grainy quality, the jpeggedness. Like a dream. Gentle fairy music and you'll believe it too.

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Other title(s) for this story: Fairies in my living room