April 15, 2003

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See also April 14, 2003 - April 2003 - April 16, 2003

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• Abu Abbas captured by United States forces in Iraq. [1]
• Parliament of Finland elects Anneli Jäätteenmäki as the nation's first woman Prime Minister. [2]
• In New York, Omar Portee, founder and leader of the United Blood Nation, receives a sentence of 50 years in jail. He had been convicted in August of racketeering, murder conspiracy, credit card fraud and drug selling. [3]
• 10 Iraqis are reported killed and 16 injured in the city of Mosul. Marines insist they were fired at, survivors say demonstrators only threw stones. [4]