Month October 2002

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Ireland heating up big time A suspected Provisional IRA spy operating at the heart of government passed hundreds of sensitive political documents to Sinn Fein, it has emerged after a series of dawn raids by police in Belfast.

Bin Laden is aliveOsama bin Laden is alive and regularly meeting Mullah Omar, the fugitive leader of the Taliban, according to a telephone call intercepted by American spy satellites.

1.5 million people protest Iraq war in Italy You read that right. 1.5 million More than 1.5 million Italians took to the streets of dozens of cities Saturday afternoon and evening to protest possible U.S. military action against Iraq — a surprise…

Why the Net was broken ThursdayUUNet, who handle 50% of the world’s Net traffic, was doing a router upgrade and they botched it. Network experts were troubled at UUNet’s choice to deploy a wide-scale upgrade without testing and retesting the…