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February 1- Jörg Schild becomes president of the government of Basel-Stadt. February 3 – John Edwards wins a primary in South Carolina with 46% of the vote. Wesley Clark wins the Oklahoma primary with 30% of the vote.
Archived 2004-08-31 at the Wayback Machine; Turkey's truckers' association says it will stop delivering goods to U.S. forces in Iraq, in what appears to be a direct response to insurgents' videotaped killing of a Turkish hostage. Doom 3, the long-awaited second follow-up to the 1993 first-person shooting classic, is leaked online.
(Mercury News) (Washington Post) Archived 2012-11-03 at the Wayback Machine; Microsoft denies that it illegally uses its desktop computer operating system monopoly to hurt digital media rivals. During the past month and a half, the total number of hits to NASA's homepage was 6.5 billion, a record for the agency.
Alberto Abadie, a professor at the Harvard University School of Government, theorizes that the level of political freedom, not poverty, explains terrorism. Areas with intermediate levels of political freedom experience the most terrorism, while societies with high levels of political freedom or authoritarian regimes have low levels of terrorism.
Sinclair claims it is a political ploy, while network ABC says it is meant as "an expression of respect which simply seeks to honor those who have laid down their lives for this country. President George W. Bush expresses his "disgust" at images of Iraqi prisoners being mistreated by U.S. soldiers: "Their treatment does not reflect the nature ...
Alfonso Durazo, spokesman and private secretary to Mexican President Vicente Fox, resigns over "political differences" with his boss, including the presidential ambitions of First Lady Marta Sahagún. The announcement came shortly after, but was not related to, a bad day for Fox's PAN party in state elections in its northern heartland.
Archived 2004-11-14 at archive.today; Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Yasser Arafat undergoes minor exploratory surgery for stomach pains and vomiting. [permanent dead link ] Israeli television news reports that Yasser Arafat is granted permission to go to hospital due to suffering from gall stones and had an intestinal infection.
International relations State papers released under Britain's Thirty Year Rule suggest that the United States considered using force to seize oil fields in the Middle East during an oil embargo by Arab states in 1973. (BBC) State papers also released reveal that, contrary to what was believed at the time, Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom would not have lost her title and Civil List ...