August 2003
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Friday 2003
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After five days of Coma, the actress Marie Trintignant dies in the hospital of Neuilly-sur-Seine where it had been repatriated since Vilnius in Lithuania. It was in the deep coma following the blows which his/her companion carried to him the singer Bertrand Cantat. See Business Marie Trintignant
- According to certain opinions, it would be truly deceased in Lithuania, but the medical repatriation of a patient is easier and especially faster administratively than the repatriation of the body of late.
- the Safety advice of the United Nations vote the resolution 1497, presented by the United States, in order to authorize the deployment of a West African force to the Liberia.
- a attack-suicide with the car bomb destroys a Russian military hospital located at Mozdok, in Ossétie of North, close to the Chetchnia, making nearly 50 dead.
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Saturday August 2nd 2003
- In France:
- the country trade union leader, Jose Bove, is released after 40 days of detention at the prison of Maguelonne close to Montpellier, but with a house arrest after 3 weeks of prison.
- August 2nd and 3rd, in Corsica, 22e international Days of Corte at the time which Yvan Colonna, the alleged murderer of the prefect Erignac is celebrated like a hero.
- In the night, the stele of the Erignac prefect, with Ajaccio is broken.
Sunday August 3rd 2003
Monday August 4th 2003
- Death of Alice Salt maker-Seité at the 78 years age. She was Minister for the Universities under Valery Giscard d'Estaing.
Tuesday August 5th 2003
- Car bomb attack in front of a luxury hotel, with Djakarta in Indonesia, asserted by the Jamaah Islamiyah: 16 dead.
Wednesday August 6th 2003
Thursday August 7th 2003
- Car bomb attack against the embassy of Jordan to Baghdad: 17 dead. This attack occurs one week after the arrival of the 2 girls of Saddam Hussein to Amman.
- the Javanese Moslem extremist, Amrozi , which is one of the persons in charge of the double murder of Bali the 12 October 2002, is condemned to died by a special court of Dempasar. 37 other accomplices are on standby of judgment.
Friday August 8th 2003
- From August 8th to 10th, large gathering altermondialist Larzac 2003 : on the plate of the Larzac: 150.000 to 300.000 participants. Jose Bove, recently left prison, holds the high-speed motorboat to with it.
- In Iraq, the former minister for the Interior Mahmoud Diab Al-Ahmad is stopped.
- Whereas since the June 29th, the Palestinian organizations respected the truce which they had decided, the Israeli army, attacks and invested the refugee camp of Aksar, close to Nablus, with an aim of seizing an high ranking official of the Hamas: four Palestinian and an Israeli soldier is killed. The Hamas calls with the response.
Saturday August 9th 2003
Sunday August 10th 2003
- Death, in Boulogne-Billancourt, of the scenario writer Jacques Deray at the 74 years age.
Monday August 11th 2003
- Death in Paris, of lady Diana Mosley , at the 93 years age. She was one of the six Sœurs Mitford who had defrayed the chronicle at their time.
- Charles Taylor leaves the presidency of the Liberia, by giving up the capacity with the vice-president Moses Blah and is exiled with the Nigeria.
- Arrest of the alleged brain of the attack of August 4th with Djakarta; Riduan Isamuddin says “Hambali” is captured in Thailand.
Tuesday August 12th 2003
- Fine of the Heat wave in France which was the most important heatwave since the summer 1947. According to the head office of Health, the heatwave caused directly or indirectly a surmortality of 14.802 died for whole France. more information…
- Two suicide bombings in Israel. One against a supermarket in Tel-Aviv, and the other near the Jewish colony of Ariel in the West Bank: 2 killed Israelis and 12 wounded.
Wednesday August 13rd 2003
- In the business of the attack of Lockerbie, an agreement between the families of the victims and the Libya, was signed with London, by which the Libyan Gouvernement is committed paying 2,7 billion dollars, in exchange of the lifting of the sanctions of UNO and the the United States.
- France, in the business of the attack against the DC-10 above Ténéré in 1989, claims a revaluation of the 35 million dollars granted into 1999 to the families of the victims.
Thursday August 14th 2003
- In Corsica: bomb attack in Ajaccio: 5 wounded.
- a breakdown of electricity to very large scales in the American North-East and part of Canada, touches the towns of New York, Cleveland and Detroit with the the United States, like Toronto and Ottawa with the Canada. On the whole 50 million people was private of current during long hours.
- It is not a question of an attack but of a failure on a line with High voltage of the Ohio, which according to a phenomenon, well-known, of collapse of the type “house of cards”, caused the complete collapse of the network.
- In 10 years the electricity demand increased by 35% whereas the capacity of distribution increased only by 18%.
- Into 1965,1977,1996 and 2000 several serious incidents had already highlighted the outdatedness of the North-American network. The the United States do not miss electric output, but capacity of distribution.
- the former Secretary of State to the Energy of the administration Clinton, William Richardson declares: “ We are a super power with an electrical communication of the third world ”.
- In Afghanistan, extending chaos, NATO takes the command of ISAF (International force of assistance to Safety) in Kabul.
- the Israelis kill a local leader of the Islamic Dihad, during a raid of Tsahal with Hebron.
- 150 navy American unloads with Monrovia, capital of Liberia.
Friday August 15th 2003
- the Serb Government request with the new chief of the Minuk (Mission of the United Nations in Kosovo), Finnish Harri Holkeri, of “ to do everything to stop ” violences antiserbes with the Kosovo.
- Since the setting under supervision of old the Serb province, in June 1999, by the “international community” following the war started by NATO, 180.000 Serb has to flee the province to take refuge in Serbia, 1.136 Serb were removed, without more any news, and 987 Serb was assassinated. It is about an ethnic purification without precedent managed by the the United Nations, it remains today in Kosovo only a few thousands of Serb, cut off in some villages.
- In Iraq, attack with dynamite against the oil pipeline connecting Kirkuk to the Turkish port of Ceyhan.
Saturday August 16th 2003
- Death with Djeddah, where he lived in exile since 1983, of the former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin Dada at the 80 years age. It had been with the capacity of 1971 with 1979.
Sunday August 17th 2003
- Attack in Bastia: 1 wounded.
- Last nine new arrests in Indonesia, related to the attack of August 4th with Djakarta.
- In Iraq:
Monday August 18th 2003
- In France, the first assessment of the heat wave estimating five thousands of deaths, is regarded as a plausible assumption by the Minister for the Health Jean-François Mattei which blames the managing director of Health, the professor Lucien Abenhaïm . This one resigns and counter-attacks. The polemic turns to the political crisis and one can start to speak about business of the heat wave.
- In Iraq:
- Suicide bombing at the general headquarter of UNO to Baghdad.
- With Mosul, with the Iraqi Kurdistan, the former vice-president of the deposed mode, Taha Yassin Ramadan is stopped.
- With Accra with the Ghana, the two rebel movements and the new government of the Liberia sign an peace agreement.
- Following the agreement announced on August 13rd, in the business of the attack of Lockerbie, the British Gouvernement files in a draft Resolution on the lifting of the sanctions. The French government threat to put its Veto.
- With the Mali, Release of the last fourteen tourists removed in February and March in the Algerian Sahara.
Tuesday August 19th 2003
- Attack with the truck trapped against the general headquarter of UNO to Baghdad: the 23 dead of which chief of the U.N. mission, Brazilian the Sergio Vieira of Mello.
- the president George W. Bush declares: “ the civilized world will not be intimidated (...) America, our friends and the United Nations will be at the sides of the Iraqi people at the time when it takes again possession of his country and its future ”.
- Attack-suicide in a bus with Jerusalem - Western: 18 passengers are killed.
- With Casablanca with the Morocco, end of the lawsuit of the 87 islamist militants continued within the framework of the attack of May 16th in Casablanca: 4 death sentences and 37 with perpetuity are marked. Another lawsuit must be held starting from August 25th.
Wednesday August 20th 2003
- the GFH (general Undertaking) advance the figure of ten thousand deaths due to the heat wave.
Thursday August 21st 2003
- the president Jacques Chirac, in a short televised speech announces a plan of assistance to the elderly.
- During the investigation of the commission Hutton into the Business David Kelly, a witness tells that David Kelly would have said to him, on February 27th, in Geneva, that it would be “ probably found died in wood ”, if Iraq were attacked,
- the Argentinian Parliament votes the abrogation of the laws of amnesty of 1986-1987 concerning the acts made during the military dictatorship of 1976 with 1983.
- In Iraq, the Centcom (American central Command) announces the capture of the former minister for Defense Ali Hassan Al-Majid, alias Ali chemical the for his responsibility in many the gazages against its people.
- Israel counteracts the attack of August 19th by a raid of helicopter with Gaza, killing one of the founder of the Hamas, Ismaïl Abou Chamah , and by the re-establishment of the cutting road block into two the Gaza Strip.
Friday August 22nd 2003
- the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin, receives the representatives of certain agricultural trade unions and a help of 500 million euros announces to them, intended to compensate for part of the losses (1 to 4 billion euros) due to the dryness.
- the peasant confederation and her leader Jose Bove protest not to be received.
- the Hamas and the Islamic Djihad denounce the three months truce issued unilaterally the June 29th.
Saturday August 23rd 2003
- With the Stade de France of Saint-Denis, at the time of the opening ceremony of the 9th championship of the world of athletics, part of the assistance whistles and decries the Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin.
- Portuguese Ramiro Lopes da Silva replaces Brazilian the Sergio Vieira of Mello , assassinated on August 19th, in its mission of chief of the U.N. mission in Iraq.
Sunday August 24th 2003
- In Corsica, a former sympathizer of FLNC, Maurice Galeani is assassinated into full Ajaccio.
- Third failure of the Brazil (after those of 1997 and 1999) in its attempt at launching a satellite in terrestrial orbit. The space Fusée explodes on basis of Alcântara and makes 21 dead among the technicians on the ground.
- In Gaza, 2 activists of the Hamas and 2 members of the close guard of Yasser Arafat are killed.
Monday August 25th 2003
- In Corsica, 4 ordinary prisoners escapes from the prison of Ajaccio, and another detention center is the target of an attack.
- In Ivory Coast:
- ten people implied in the preparation of a coup d'etat against the president of the Ivory Coast Laurent Gbagbo are stopped in Paris.
- Two French soldiers of the operation “Unicorn” are killed by rebels.
- With Bombay in India, two car bomb attacks make 52 dead and of many casualties. The Indian government shows the implication of the Pakistan.
- With Casablanca with the Morocco, opening of the lawsuit of 34 other islamist of which French Pierre Robert , alias Abou Abderrahmane , alias the emir with the blue eyes , presumed head of networks implied in these attacks.
- With the Rwanda, the first election presidential since the genocide of 1994 is gained by the outgoing president Paul Kagame.
Tuesday August 26th 2003
- In the Business of the Prefect Erignac, Marc Simeoni , one of wire of Edmond Simeoni, historical figure of Corsica autonomy, is stopped within the framework of the investigation into complicities from which Yvan Colonna in her mare would have profited.
Wednesday August 27th 2003
- Death of Pierre Poujade, at the 82 years age. He was the founder in 1953 of UDCA (Union of defense of the tradesmen and craftsmen).
- With Beijing, opening of discussions enters the China, the North Korea, the South Korea, the the United States, the Japan and the Russia, about the crisis with the nuclear blackmail, generated by the government North-Korean.
Thursday August 28th 2003
- In the Business David Kelly, after hearing, the day before, of the Minister for defense Geoff Hoon, the Prime Minister Tony Blair is in her turn heard by the commission Hutton . He denies any falsification of the reports/ratios of the intelligence services.
Friday August 29th 2003
- In France:
- INVS (National Sanitary Surveillance Institute) made state of 11.435 deaths which would be due to the heat wave.
- Death of the actor Michel Constantin at the 79 years age.
- Following the hearing of British the Prime Minister Tony Blair, in front of the commission Hutton , its communications director, Alain Campbell , resigns.
- In Iraq, car bomb attack with Nadjaf: 82 dead of which one of the Shiite chiefs, the ayatollah Mohammed Baqer Hakim .
Saturday August 30th 2003
Sunday August 31st 2003
- Following the death of one of their religious leader, the Shiites of Najaf in Iraq, expresses with weapons, and says to want to even give of the order in the country by them, the occupants American and the Iraqi police force while not being able.
- Two new forest fires began in the Massif Moors, and close to Cagnes-sur-Mer (the Alpes-Maritimes), in the South-east of the France.
- the France finishes the Championnats of the world of athletics with seven medals including two out of gold.
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