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Euro Edition: Morning Papers

Aired August 18, 2003 - 05:43   ET

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Well let's check what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Charles Hodson is live from London and with a show and tell a little bit of the newspapers there.
CHARLES HODSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Fredricka.

Well, it's a Monday, there's not very much happening. People are on holiday, people are on vacation so there's not really a tremendous consensus really as far as the news headlines are concerned, the front page of the newspapers. But if there is anything, it is, of course, events in Iraq over the weekend.

So, for example, here the front page of "The Independent" there, sabotage threatens Iraq's economy. Picture there of the burning pipeline, smoke engulfs the skies above Baije (ph), about 125 miles north of Baghdad. And of course Iraqis cool off in water spilt from a pipeline north of Baghdad. Again, ruptured by saboteurs.

But there is, of course, that story, that rumbling inquiry, the Hutton inquiry, into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. David Kelly, the consultant to the Ministry of Defense here who committed suicide over his role in the whole exposure of the events leading up, the dossier leading up to the decision by the British Parliament to go to war over Iraq. And Hoon, that's Geoff Hoon, the Defense Secretary here, he is due to appear before that inquiry in the course of the week. He says, it says here at the front page of "The Financial Times," he is set to stand his ground.

Still on Iraq, and perhaps on a rather lighter note, the U.S. military has its latest secret weapon. Perhaps you've been reporting this. In order to get back at Saddam Hussein and his supporters, sad dame (ph) U.S. unveils new secret weapon. The new secret weapon is pictures of Saddam Hussein, like this, for example, as busty Veronica Lake, a slinky Zsa Zsa Gabor, a grooving Elvis and British born rocker Billy Idol. Those are going to be apparently this -- this is him as Billy Idol.

The idea is that this will so outrage Saddam's supporters that they will somehow reveal themselves. We're going to have a bit of -- we're going to do something devious with these as the U.S. your left tenant colonel -- lieutenant colonel is reported as saying. So we'll see whether that works.

With that, Fredricka, back to you.

WHITFIELD: All right, Charles, thanks very much for a look at the newspapers there.

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Aired August 18, 2003 - 05:43   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Well let's check what's making headlines overseas in this morning's "Euro Edition." Charles Hodson is live from London and with a show and tell a little bit of the newspapers there.
CHARLES HODSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Fredricka.

Well, it's a Monday, there's not very much happening. People are on holiday, people are on vacation so there's not really a tremendous consensus really as far as the news headlines are concerned, the front page of the newspapers. But if there is anything, it is, of course, events in Iraq over the weekend.

So, for example, here the front page of "The Independent" there, sabotage threatens Iraq's economy. Picture there of the burning pipeline, smoke engulfs the skies above Baije (ph), about 125 miles north of Baghdad. And of course Iraqis cool off in water spilt from a pipeline north of Baghdad. Again, ruptured by saboteurs.

But there is, of course, that story, that rumbling inquiry, the Hutton inquiry, into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr. David Kelly, the consultant to the Ministry of Defense here who committed suicide over his role in the whole exposure of the events leading up, the dossier leading up to the decision by the British Parliament to go to war over Iraq. And Hoon, that's Geoff Hoon, the Defense Secretary here, he is due to appear before that inquiry in the course of the week. He says, it says here at the front page of "The Financial Times," he is set to stand his ground.

Still on Iraq, and perhaps on a rather lighter note, the U.S. military has its latest secret weapon. Perhaps you've been reporting this. In order to get back at Saddam Hussein and his supporters, sad dame (ph) U.S. unveils new secret weapon. The new secret weapon is pictures of Saddam Hussein, like this, for example, as busty Veronica Lake, a slinky Zsa Zsa Gabor, a grooving Elvis and British born rocker Billy Idol. Those are going to be apparently this -- this is him as Billy Idol.

The idea is that this will so outrage Saddam's supporters that they will somehow reveal themselves. We're going to have a bit of -- we're going to do something devious with these as the U.S. your left tenant colonel -- lieutenant colonel is reported as saying. So we'll see whether that works.

With that, Fredricka, back to you.

WHITFIELD: All right, Charles, thanks very much for a look at the newspapers there.

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