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...militants, and they are angry." - By Simon Elegant and Mageswary Ramakrishnan In the Dock THE NETHERLANDS Pre-trial hearings in the case of Dutch businessman Frans van Anraat, accused of complicity in genocide for selling banned chemicals to Iraq, opened in Rotterdam. Van Anraat is alleged to have sold mustard gas and nerve gas to Saddam Hussein. The agents were used in the 1988 attack on the Kurdish town of Halabja, in which 5,000 people died. New Allegations UKRAINE The Prosecutor General's Office said that 18 Soviet-made nuclear-capable cruise missiles were "smuggled to third countries" - reportedly...
...Seeing Red A Danish biotech company has developed a new way to detect land mines using genetically modified THALE CRESS, a member of the mustard family. The plant turns a deep red when exposed to nitrogen dioxide, a gas released by mines. The grow-anywhere green, which scientists propose to sow from airplanes or handheld seed-shooters in heavily mined areas, could prove an inexpensive and safe solution for land mine detection?a boon to countries like Cambodia, which harbors an estimated four million mines...
...famous Buddhist story, a young woman wanders the streets of a town with her dead infant in her arms, asking everyone she meets to bring him back to life. Someone directs her to the Buddha, who listens patiently and then promises to help if she brings him a mustard seed from a household that has never witnessed a death. The young woman knocks on many doors. By the time she returns empty-handed to the Buddha, she has begun to grasp his lesson: all things in the world are impermanent, and to be ignorant of this fact...
...literally end up in a graveyard," says Simmons. Not all the new creations are as charged or provocative as those of Timorous Beasties (whose fabrics cost about $120 a meter from www.timorousbeasties.com). Designer Manuel Canovas rolled out wallpapers with traditional pastoral scenes in funky color combinations like mauve on mustard and rose on lime. You never know, though: Timorous Beasties' toile may be cutting edge now, but it could become a classic like Wedgwood someday. Simmons reports that in November he visited Buckingham Palace - where he met the Queen...
...many minds in Italy, but perhaps they can start to change the subject. - By Jeff Israely Saddam's Supplier? THE NETHERLANDS Police arrested businessman Frans van Anraat on charges of war crimes and involvement in genocide for his alleged role in supplying thousands of tons of raw materials for mustard gas to Saddam Hussein's regime between 1984 and 1988. Prosecutors said the gas was used in an attack by Saddam's forces on the Iraqi town of Halabja in 1988, in which 5,000 Kurds died. Double Victory GHANA President John Kufuor was elected to a second term, earning...