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October 4, 2003 (Saturday)
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A Palestinian suicide bomber blows herself up in a crowded beach restaurant in the northern Israeli port city of Haifa, killing at least 19 people and wounding about two dozen, at least six seriously.[1] Hours later Israeli helicopter gunships retaliate by attacking targets in Gaza City and Central Gaza.
- Robin Cook, former United Kingdom Foreign Secretary who resigned from the British Government in protest prior the Iraq war, publishes his personal diaries. In them he alleges inter alia that Tony Blair knew before the Iraq war began that the 45 minutes to launch claim was false.
- Poland apologizes to France for its claims that it had found newly produced Roland surface-to-air missiles in Iraq. It is believed that the Polish soldiers misinterpreted a "use-by" date or installation date marked on the missiles as a date of production.[2]
- ↑ Archived November 15, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Breaking News, Top News & Latest News Headlines - Reuters.com". Retrieved 22 December 2015.
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