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George Ryan, 2003 News
Republican governor of Illinois, commuted the sentences of 167 inmates on death row, calling capital punishment fundamentally flawed. He announced the move in January, two day…Clara Harris, 2003 News
Texas dentist, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in February for killing her husband, David Harris, an orthodontist. In July 2002, Clara ran over David with her Mercedes-Ben…Kofi Annan, 2003 News
secretary-general of the UN, criticized the decision by the U.S. and Britain to attack Iraq without a UN mandate. Once the war was underway, he turned his focus to the plight …Tariq Aziz, 2003 News
deputy prime minister of Iraq, acted as Saddam Hussein's spokesman in the months leading up to the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, repeatedly denying that Iraq possessed—or was dev…José María Aznar, 2003 News
prime minister of Spain, stood firm as an important ally to the United States in its march toward a war in Iraq. Spanish public opinion was overwhelmingly against its conserva…Mohamed ElBaradei, 2003 News
head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, delivered several reports to the UN Security Council on his team's search for nuclear weapons inside Iraq. ElBaradei reported i…Dick Cheney, 2003 News
vice president, drew on his experience as secretary of defense during the 1991 Persian Gulf War as the Bush administration prepared for war in Iraq. While Cheney remained hole…Jacques Chirac, 2003 News
president of France, remained steadfast in his opposition to the U.S.-led attack on Iraq. Throughout the diplomatic process in late 2002 and into 2003, France repeatedly calle…Tommy Franks, 2003 News
the commander of allied forces in the Persian Gulf, directed the war in Iraq from the high-tech U.S. Central Command (Centcom) near Doha, Qatar. President Bush called on the f…John Howard, 2003 News
prime minister of Australia, outraged many constituents with his decision to send 2,000 troops to Iraq to participate in a war not sanctioned by the UN.Trending
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