Portal talk:Current events/March 2003

Since this article weighs 32 kilobytes, I think we should consider breaking it up. Does anyone disagree with this? How should I break it up? The most obvious way to me would involve creating March 1, 2003 to March 15, 2003 and March 16, 2003 to March 31, 2003. --Ellmist Saturday, April 19th, 02003

Missing March 29th current events

Moved from Wikipedia:Village pump/March 2003 archive 4 on Tuesday, November 4th, 02003.

Where did several entries for March 29th of the Current Events page go? --66.47.86.47 12:02 Mar 31, 2003 (UTC)

Well, the first page from March 30 shows this:

March 29, 2003

• 2003 invasion of Iraq
  • The Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf has accused the US forces of killing 140 civilians during the last 24 hours and denied allegations that Iraqi soldiers are disguising themselves as civilians.
  • An explosion damaged a shopping center in Kuwait City before dawn, apparently caused by a malfunctioning U.S. cruise missile. No injuries are reported. [1]
  • A Iraqi military suicide bomber, driving a taxi, killed four US soldiers in an attack. "We will use any means to kill our enemy in our land and we will follow the enemy into its land," Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan said, "This is just the beginning. You'll hear more pleasant news later."
• SARS: Dr. Carlo Urbani, a WHO expert on communicable diseases and the physician who first identified the outbreak, dies of the disease in Thailand. He had been infected in Vietnam. [2]

An aweful lot of edits to go through here. I suggest you just reinsert this material if it meaningful to you. Fred Bauder 13:40 Mar 31, 2003 (UTC)

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