"Aljazeera airs tape of Italian captives"

Aljazeera has run a video of three Italian contractors being held in Iraq by anti-occupation forces.

Aljazeera also showed an Arabic-language statement by their captors, calling itself the Green Battalion, urging Italian people to demonstrate against the policies of US President George Bush and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. More at aljazeera.net

Flashback: 'US knew Iraq was WMD free'
Iraqi nuclear scientist Dr Imad Khadduri has told Aljazeera.net he does not believe any ''errors'' were made regarding WMD intelligence.

Dr Khadduri, a former senior Iraqi nuclear scientist who worked for the Iraqi nuclear programme from 1968 to 1998, said there was a deliberate media blackout of evidence proving Iraq did not possess WMD, and that to redress the balance he had written a book in English to have his witness testimony made available to the world. More at aljazeera.net