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Looking at the TV reports on the war, and reading about the worldwide spread of nuclear weapons, makes Anne Strieber think we’re living in a Strange New World. She reflects upon how, in the early hours of the war, a primitive car bomb set by Kurdish fundamentalists killed more people than had so far been killed by U.S. military weapons?an example of tribal infighting and religious wars going on right next door to the most sophisticated fighting the world has ever seen. Read about the world we’ll be facing in the future in Anne’s Diary.

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British intelligence reports say Saddam Hussein is alive, but left his compound in an ambulance, after it was hit by a U.S. raid. Foreign Office Minister Mike O’Brien says,”We’ve received information that Saddam Hussein left the area in an ambulance. There was some talk that he had been injured, even some suggestion that he had been killed. It seems that is unlikely, that if he was injured it doesn’t appear it was a serious injury.” The information came from “at least one eye witness” to the strike. O’Brien says, “It appears he subsequently appeared on Iraqi TV but again there are question marks over some of those TV appearances. In essence, we don’t know for sure.”
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Twenty-two people in states from New York City to California have symptoms similar to those of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the mysterious disease that’s striking people worldwide. Health department officials believe they got their infections abroad, since most of them recently returned from trips to Hong Kong or southern China, where the disease started.
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One special mission for U.S. forces in Iraq is to search for Capt. Michael Scott Speicher, a U.S. Navy pilot believed to have been held captive in Iraq since the Gulf War in 1991. U.S. intelligence reported last week that Speicher was seen alive in Baghdad earlier this month, while being moved to Baghdad, although the sighting could not be confirmed. Speicher was declared killed in action after his F-18 jet was shot down by a missile over Iraq on Jan. 17, 1991, but later reports indicated his plane had crash-landed and he had ejected. His flight suit was later found by a Red Cross mission in Iraq. The Navy has reclassified him as missing in action. A Navy spokesman says that recent intelligence “continues to suggest strongly that the government of Iraq can account for him.”
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