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World News Atlas    USA     2003   February

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Summary.     Click for More >   Space shuttle and crew lost
Feb.1   Texas  
  Columbia broke up as it descended toward a planned landing, showering debris across southeastern Texas.    Those killed on the flight were commander Rick D. Husband; pilot William C. McCool; payload commander Michael P. Anderson; mission specialists David M. Brown, ...
Feb.2   Texas Sensors: rising temperatures on Columbia Feb.3   Texas Nasa extends shuttle search Feb.7   Washington Bush to raise terrorism threat level Feb.12   North Korea CIA: North Korea missile could reach U.S. Feb.17   Baltimore   Snow blankets U.S. East Coast  A deadly winter storm dumped up to 3 feet of snow edging Baltimore toward a record snowfall   Chicago Club stampede kills at least 21 Feb.19   Germany   15 years for 9/11 conspirator  A court has jailed Mounir Motassadeq, a 28-year-old Moroccan man, for aiding the suicide hijackers Feb.20   Turkey Turkey demands pledges in writing   Southern Philippines U.S. troops may fight in Philippines   Florida FBI charges professor with terrorism   New England   96 killed in nightclub inferno  Band's pyrotechnics display igniting soundproofing material. Fire engulfed the wooden structure in 3 minutes Feb.21   New York Blast hits oil plant   New England Death toll rises to 65 in club inferno   New England Nightclub fire: Death toll at 95   Washington Mid-March targeted for U.N. vote Feb.22   Colombia     FARC rebels 'hold Americans'  Left-wing group has said that it is holding three US citizens who vanished when their plane crash-landed   Washington U.N. resolution will be 'clear and simple' Feb.24   UN U.S., U.K., Spain introduce new resolution   Colombia Missing US men 'prisoners of war' Feb.25   South Korea Powell: Missile test 'no surprise' Feb.26   Washington Bush: Democratic Iraq could be 'example' Feb.28   Philippines U.S. revises Philippines combat role




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Feb.1  Japan  U.S. Navy settles over Ehime Maru
  Texas  
  Columbia broke up as it descended toward a planned landing, showering debris across southeastern Texas
 Those killed on the flight were commander Rick D. Husband; pilot William C. McCool; payload commander Michael P. Anderson; mission specialists David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla and Laurel Clark; and Israel's astronaut, Ilan Ramon. The loss was caused by damage sustained during launch when a piece of insulation broke off
  Texas NASA mourns, seeks answers
  Texas Remains found among shuttle debris Feb.2   Texas Clues sought for shuttle disaster   Texas     Sensors: rising temperatures on Columbia  In the final minutes something occurred on the craft's left side, significant enough to make the space craft roll to the right  Florida  West beats East in All-Star game   Texas NASA probe progressing, assessing data Feb.3   Washington Powell will offer no 'smoking gun' on Iraq  Los Angeles  Rock legend Spector charged with murder  Washington  Aircraft move sends signal to N. Korea   Texas     Nasa extends shuttle search  Experts have extended their search for debris and crew remains across the western United States Feb.4   Texas NASA memo warned of tile damage  North Korea  N. Korea hits out at U.S. military moves   New York Powell to Iraq: 'Prove it'  Texas  NASA remembers 'Columbia seven'  New York  World Trade Center finalists chosen Feb.5  Washington  Video captured shuttle breakup  USA  Iraq could be pretense for terror attack Feb.6  Turkey  Turkey to let U.S. upgrade bases  Switzerland  Miller grabs men's combined world title   Washington Bush to Iraq: 'The game is over' Feb.7   Washington   Bush to raise terrorism threat level  President will raise the national terrorism threat level from an elevated risk of terrorist attacks to a high risk   Italy Rumsfeld warns Iraq against attacks   New York Computer Holds Kasparov to Match Tie   Washington Bush: 'Defining moment' for Sec. Council Feb.8  Washington  U.S. warns of soft targets attack   UN Annan: U.S. should seek consensus Feb.9  Texas  Shuttle recovery teams redeployed   Washington White House dismisses inspectors' optimism  US Georgia  West wins first double-OT All-Star Game Feb.10   Washington U.S. attacks NATO war plan veto  North Korea  U.S. warns of N. Korea missile tests   Washington Bush 'disappointed' by NATO stalemate  Detroit  Hull becomes sixth player with 700 goals Feb.11  San Francisco Bay Area  Niners name Erickson head coach  France  Yahoo boss cleared over Nazi sales Feb.12   CIA Tenet: messages followed by attacks   North Korea     CIA: North Korea missile could reach U.S.  CIA Director George Tenet: North Korea has an untested ballistic missile capable of hitting the United States Feb.13  Washington  NASA email warned of disaster  U.S. Congress  Enron 'bribed tax officials'   Texas NASA: puncture may be to blame   Washington U.S. to broker N. Korea's deal Feb.14  Washington  Navy group chief sacked  Washington  U.S.: Tape 'almost certainly' bin Laden  California  Hearst gangsters sentenced Feb.15   New York Huge crowds of anti-war demonstrators   Moscow U.S., Russia push peaceful Korea solution Feb.16   Washington US warns UN against Iraq delay  U.S. Congress  McCain urges China role on N. Korea  San Francisco Bay Area  San Francisco ends world peace rallies Feb.17   Baltimore   Snow blankets U.S. East Coast
  A deadly winter storm dumped up to 3 feet of snow edging Baltimore toward a record snowfall
  Chicago   Club stampede kills at least 21  Hundreds of panicked nightclub patrons rushed to escape after a disturbance. 19 critically injured  USA  Million of credit cards hacked into Feb.18  Washington  US draws up new Iraq resolution  New York  Northeast begins digging out  Turkey  Turkey: Don't assume Iraq support Feb.19   Germany   15 years for 9/11 conspirator
  A court has jailed Mounir Motassadeq, a 28-year-old Moroccan man, for aiding the suicide hijackers
 Washington  Rumsfeld: War 'not inevitable' Feb.20   Turkey     Turkey demands pledges in writing  Washington had made its final offer of economic aid in exchange for securing access to Turkish bases   Southern Philippines   U.S. troops may fight in Philippines  Some 350 special operations troops will take part in a mission to 'disrupt and defeat' the Abu Sayyaf rebels   Florida     FBI charges professor with terrorism  University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian said to be a top leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad   New England   96 killed in nightclub inferno
  Band's pyrotechnics display igniting soundproofing material. Fire engulfed the wooden structure in 3 minutes
Feb.21   New York   Blast hits oil plant  A massive explosion has struck an Exxon Mobil facility on Staten Island. The blast started a huge fire   New England   Death toll rises to 65 in club inferno  Search for bodies continuing. 160 people injured. Fire was breaking out during a pyrotechnics display at a rock concert   New England   Nightclub fire: Death toll at 95  Only a handful of the bodies have been identified. 25 people in critical condition   Washington   Mid-March targeted for U.N. vote  The Bush administration hopes that the Security Council will vote on a second resolution on Iraqi disarmament  New England  At least 96 killed in nightclub inferno Feb.22   Colombia     FARC rebels 'hold Americans'
  Left-wing group has said that it is holding three US citizens who vanished when their plane crash-landed
  Washington     U.N. resolution will be 'clear and simple'  President Bush said resolution should address just one question: Is Saddam Hussein complying with a November resolution  Mexico  Mexico refuses to bend to U.S. on Iraq  USA  Tyson win over Etienne after 49 seconds  Colombia  U.S. adds to military presence Feb.23  Turkey  U.S. presses Turkey on war deal Feb.24  San Francisco Bay Area  Aids vaccine only limited success   UN   U.S., U.K., Spain introduce new resolution  Resolution designed to clear the way for military action against Iraq on the grounds that it has failed to disarm   Colombia     Missing US men 'prisoners of war'  Left-wing rebels of FARC say hostages will only be freed in return for the release of several fellow militants Feb.25   South Korea     Powell: Missile test 'no surprise'  U.S. Secretary of State was in South Korea for the swearing in of President Roh Moo-hyun  Texas  NASA: debris part of shuttle wing  Washington  Rumsfeld: Iraq military may still be potent Feb.26   Washington     Bush: Democratic Iraq could be 'example'  Creating a 'free and peaceful' country will be a difficult task requiring a 'sustained commitment'   Texas Engineers warned of shuttle wing burning   New England Suspicious blaze kills 10 at nursing home  New York  New WTC plan is chosen Feb.27   Microsoft Bill Gates again richest man in world Feb.28   Washington Poll: Bush re-election support below 50%   U.S. Congress NASA chief blasted over shuttle memos   Philippines     U.S. revises Philippines combat role  The Pentagon has not yet made a final decision on allowing troops to join a combat offensive against Muslim rebels   Washington 3 Chechen groups on terrorist list