Show : f t 'l ' I ' The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday December 18' 2003 AH I- S odd By Kant Kilpatrick Associated Press Writer It was the year the world was transfixed by a war that overthrew Iraq’s murderous ' dictatorship but opened rifts between longtime Western '! allies and worsened resent-::-men- ts of the United States As 2003 wound down Saddam Hussein crawled from a hole into the hands erf American soldier but his homeland remained unsettled amid attacks by insurgents ami the daunting needs of ' rebuilding after sanctions Shd three devastating wars Not all was grim India and Year In review : !' ences Terror bombings V blamed on Muslims hit around the globe — killing 45 in Casablanca Morocco in May 14 jn Jakarta Indonesia in August and 62 on two days in Istanbul Turkey in November! i Osama bin Laden remained at large while US and NATO troops fought a reviving Tal- -: iban in Afghanistan As the " year closed Afghan leaders V opened a constitutional con- -' vention looking ahead to - Pakistan two nuclear-arme- d neighbors at loggerheads for five decades took tentative steps toward peace Ibices calmed civil wars in several : ' - " ' : - : sqDD million people! In Ivory Coast ' once West Africa's most stable nation' the government and northern rebels plilnged into 'war then agreed on powers1 sharing but at yearns end : southerners appeared bent on v reopening the fight The year also saw the world ' paying more attention to Africa as a source of oil to ' lessen dependence on the Middle East American Euro-- ' ' ' pean and Chinese companies rushed to gel in on an oil ' bfmrn in West Africawhieh analysts' predicted would pro- vide a quarter'of US oil ' needs by 20 5 Most economies remaiiied in a slump across Latin Anier: ica! feeding widespread dis-- content and even violence: ' : : Rioting drove Bolivians : president from office in her hilt Vericyuela's populist leader weathered a year of "! demonstrationsdemarid-in- g ' ' huge AP photo' his resignationTlie presiAn Kalian Army soldier gestures next to the barracks building which was destroyed by a car bomb at the dents of Ecuador and Peru ' file photo Eighteen- - also saw their headquarters'of Italy's paramilitary police in Nasiriyah Iraq in this Nov 12 2003 popularity ' ' Italians were kilted in the attack plunge when they ' couldn't dent johh'ssrtess but peace negotiations have some election gains ratevry disease which threw a Argentina was a bright poi ' scare around the' worid last ! stalled After nearly going to war showing its first econjuiiie An international effort to winter and kxms as a worry it since two years ago Indii and Pakinto a growth plunged for this winter' istan turned to easing tensions ' get North Korea to shut down recession in llWX that limehed After years of international ' ' ' off years of political turmoil ' in 2003 Border crossings its nuclear program made little! and unrestin the streets were reopened train ana air pressure Scxith Africa's guy- progress' although' diplomats ' round a Colombia historically to resume links are expected to convene new eminent finally approved apian hope as - to provide free AIDS treatment South AnicricaYmost 'Volatile" and the two side are talking of talks perhaps as early ' nation alstr slHiwed signs of about scaling back military by 2005 It was the first ray of In! its first full year under : for 53 million South as the government forces along the frontierstability! hope ' ! Africans infected with HIV President Hu Jintao China ' In Sri Lanka off India's stepped up its war' on two left- ' Africans found ways to : southern tip the government ist rebel groups and negotiated pressed ahead with its ambi- : the demobilialion of right- - ' and ethnic Tamil rcbelsagreed tious economic transforma- quiet civil warsin Liberia ' tion But' it also was the Sudan and Congo conflicts last spring on a truce in the wing paramilitary groups that ' ' that had killed more than 5 civil war birthplace of SARS the respi- emerged in the 1980s: In May the United Stales and others presented a “road map" for bringing peace to conflict the but it wasn’t implemented and' the continuing violence joined the Iraq war in poisoning the atmosphere across the Middle East ' ebbed in ' As public-angeEurope after Saddam's ouster France and Germany sought to repair ties with Washington after leading tire opposition to attacking Iraq but bitterness lingered Britain Spain Italy and Poland were among those ‘i : siding with the Americans ' providing troops for either the war or tire occupation European governments also' split over efforts to create a stronger more united Euro- -' pean Union that could emerge ' as a rival of the United States Smaller natioas' suspicions of German and French domi-- : nance in the EU was'a factor in the collapse efforts the bloc's to of produce first constitution as it expands '! 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