September 15, 2003
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[edit] September 15, 2003
- China formally acknowledges that it has transferred guard duties along the Korean border from the police to the army. The government does not formally report the number of troops deployed, however independent media estimate place it at 150,000.
- VeriSign Inc introduces a wildcard DNS entry for all non-existent .net and .com domain names which redirect users to a VeriSign website with information about VeriSign products and purchases links to "partner" sites.
- 2003 California recall: The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco rules unanimously that the California recall election be postponed because several large counties, including Los Angeles County, have not upgraded their voting machines to replace the punch card ballot systems which have consistently resulted in a significant number of uncountable votes (and thus unrepresented citizens).[1]
- Weather: Hurricane Isabel is now predicted to hit the Mid-Eastern U.S. Coast with winds up to 110mph. [2] [3]
- Iraq: Shiite cleric's killer held. A former Baath Party official arrested in connection with the killing of Ayatollah Mohammad Baqir al-Hakim last month has confessed to planning the operation that killed the senior Shiite cleric. [4]
- Terrorism: German neo-Nazi threat 'rising'. Interior Minister Otto Schily has warned a new quality and new level of neo-Nazi terror has emerged. The discovery of a suspected plot to bomb a Munich Jewish centre during a visit by the German president has "dramatically confirmed" the danger to society. [5]
- Terrorism: A powerful truck bomb has exploded near the local headquarters of Russia's Federal Security Service in Ingushetia, which borders separatist Chechnya. Reports say three people were killed and more than 20 injured. [6]
