The News Review:

- Renowned Baptist Eye Hospital reopens in Sierra Leone.
- Museum handed rare letter
- Liberia: UN sends food to tens of thousands
- CLUB TEAM STATUS NOT PUTTING PRESSURE ON MPPJ.
- WTF? Bush: No evidence Saddam was involved in 9/11 attacks
- Press Review of Thursday, 18 September 2003
- Patricia Sarrafian Ward And Her Novel ‘The Bullet Collection’

Renowned Baptist Eye Hospital reopens in Sierra Leone.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 18, 2003
Renowned Baptist Eye Hospital reopens in Sierra Leone. (18-SEP-03) Asia Africa Intelligence Wire.

Museum handed rare letter
BBC News – Sep 18, 2003
William Wilberforce, who was a Tory MP for Hull, campaigned vigorously against slavery for more than 40 years until his death in 1833. His five-page letter, written in 1817, details the plight of a poor African boy looking for a safe passage home to Sierra Leone. Now the historic document is destined for Wilberforce House Museum to celebrate the £5. 1m development Hull’s Heritage Quarter. It will form part of the Wilberforce and Slavery collection and is set to be displayed in a black history exhibition in October. William Wilberforce, born into a family of wealthy Kingston-upon-Hull merchants in 1759, was elected as a Tory MP at the age of 20.

Liberia: UN sends food to tens of thousands
Scoop.co.nz – Scoop.co.nz (press release) – Sep 18, 2003
“This is an encouragingstart, but security remains a huge problem for most of thecountry and there are still hundreds of thousands of peopleout there, who have received no humanitarian aid formonths,” WFP Liberia Country Director Justin Bagirishyasaid. “It is vital that we reach them over the comingweeks. ” WFP is also starting food distributions this weekto tens of thousands of displaced Liberians and refugeesfrom Sierra Leone in camps outside Monrovia. Over the pastmonth, the agency has provided food assistance to some420,000 people, most of them displaced by the fighting andliving in temporary shelters in the capital. “Ourcapacity was seriously damaged by looting and destruction,”Mr. “We are now working round the clock torestore the operational capacity we need to feed half amillion people.

CLUB TEAM STATUS NOT PUTTING PRESSURE ON MPPJ.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 18, 2003
(From Bernama The Malaysian National News Agency) PETALING JAYA, Sept 18 (Bernama) — The status of being the first club team to qualify for the Malaysia Cup semi-finals is not putting any pressure on the Petaling Jaya Municipal Council (MPPJ) squad. Facing Northern Lions Perlis, with their twin imported Sierra Leone strikers Philemon Chipeta and Lamin.

WTF? Bush: No evidence Saddam was involved in 9/11 attacks
Southern Maryland Online – Sep 18, 2003
We already know he was giving money to families that had suicide bombers. If he was willing to give money, why wouldn’t he give weapons? With all of his bellowing, what would the world have been like if he had the capability to make nuclear weapons? Nerve gas? Smallpox or anthrax weapons?
Above all that – the world frequently wonders how we could just look the other way when Pol Pot was slaughtering his citizens (not long ago, before he died, he claimed that he was just "misunderstood"). When the slaughter went on in Rwanda, people asked, how can we let this happen? And in East Timor, in Sierra Leone, in Afghanistan (yeah, BEFORE we went after the Taliban). So we go and depose the biggest, worst one of them all – one who has used WMD’s on his people (albeit, an ethnicity he didn’t like) who has an axe to grind against everyone in the Middle East, who invaded Kuwait, threatened to invade Saudi, launched missiles at Israel (who wasn’t even IN the war, last time), Who *had* a nuclear program before, when the Israelis blew it up, pre-emptively, and post Gulf War, inspectors claimed he was a short time away from re-building his nuclear capability – and I could JUST go on, and on – we take out the most dangerous despot currently in power – and **WE’RE THE BAD GUYS**?? What are people who think this, smokin’?
What’s worse? Some of these folks, who are against the war, have the idiocy to say they’re glad Saddam is out of power, he had to go, blah-blah-blah. Like there was ANY chance he’d be out of power *peacefully*. Yeah, we’re glad the Iraqi people are free – that Saddam is gone – that a minimal amount of lives were lost – but you know, we just didn’t do it for the right *reason*. What a load of crap.

Press Review of Thursday, 18 September 2003
ghanaweb.com – Sep 18, 2003
Asiedu-Mante, first Deputy Governor of BoG, announced this at the 9th annual meeting of the Committee of Banking supervisors of West and Central Africa, which opened in Accra yesterday. The two-day meeting is being attended by about 100 delegates from 14 countries including Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Gambia. GHANA LISTED FOR AFRICAN GENDER DEVT. PROJECT – PG. 1 Ghana has been selected among 12 other countries for field trials in the development of an African Gender and Development Index (AGDI).

Patricia Sarrafian Ward And Her Novel ‘The Bullet Collection’
Dar Al-Hayat – Sep 18, 2003
There were many people there who had lived in the war, as well as the younger generation who had gone to Lebanon after the war. There were lots of very intense discussions afterwards. “The audience included a young man who had grown up in the war in Sierra Leone. “He had the same experience of war, and everything that was said about growing up in Beirut was the same for him in terms of what it’s like for a child. “Some of those at the reading told Ward they find people don’t want to talk much about the war. Ward says she too has sometimes encountered silence among friends, or people she has met, when she goes back to Beirut. A woman friend she grew up with in Beirut “told me after she read the book that I had given voice to all the things that she had felt growing up in the war but had never really expressed.