Gary Secondino: WarTerrorism, Arms, Actions, SecurityUN top inspector: We never asserted Iraq had any remaining weapons of mass destruction- March 19, 2003 Speaking on the day the last United Nations weapons monitors were withdrawn from Iraq, the top inspector, Hans Blix, yesterday said he feels the inspections should not have been stopped at this stage.Blix to brief UN as war looms BBC UN Still Discussing Disarmament CBS News Neither leader speaks the truth and both are manipulators. We had better see clear and incontrovertable evidence of WMD in Iraq or Dubya will lose all respect and cred. because now it's our children he's put in harms..http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030319/2003031930.html Navy Abandons Turkey Option, Moves Ships to Red Sea- March 18, 2003 Signaling impatience with the Turkish government, the Pentagon is moving about 10 Navy ships out of the Mediterranean to the Red Sea, where they could launch missiles on a path to Iraq that would not go over Turkey, officials said.US destroyers, submarines head for Gulf News24 US beefs up firepower BBChttp://foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81062,00.html Saddam ' calm ' awaiting the storm- March 18, 2003 Saddam Hussein appears calm and determined as he awaits the military firestorm set to rain down on his regime, according to officials and journalists who have spoken to him.In Baghdad, fears of factional strife Boston Globe A Tyrant 40 Years in the Making New York Timeshttp://www.news24.com/News24/World/Iraque/0,6119,2-10-1460_1333111,00.html Turkey Bans One Kurdish Party and Moves on Second- March 18, 2003 Turkey's senior prosecutor filed a petition with the Constitutional Court today to close the country's leading pro-Kurdish political party, the latest example of the government's tense relationship with the Kurdish ...Turkish court bans Kurd's party Boston Globehttp://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/14/international/europe/14KURD.html?ex=1048222800&e... Howard would defy polls to join Iraq war- March 18, 2003 ABC Online - The Prime Minister says Australia would go to war against Iraq even if military conflict did not have broad community support.Australia on the verge of war decision The Agehttp://www.abc.net.au/news/justin/nat/newsnat-14mar2003-42.htm Arab League puts off Iraq visit- March 14, 2003 Gulf News - The fate of an Arab ministerial committee came under strong doubts yesterday as Bahrain's foreign minister announced its crucial visit to Baghdad was put off, saying the Iraqi authorities asked it to 'delay' the visit.Hussein Controls Prime Time With Cool, Confidence Washington Post Arab push to get Saddam to disarm fails in disarray International Herald Tribunehttp://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=80621 US may drop Iraq resolution- March 14, 2003 The US secretary of state suggests American attempts to force a vote on a new UN resolution backing military action could be shelved. BBC Newshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/2848937.stm Pressure mounts on Iraq- March 7, 2003 UN arms inspectors report on progress in disarming Iraq, as moves to give Baghdad a 10-day ultimatum gather pace. BBC Newshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/2831317.stm US boosts forces near N Korea- March 5, 2003 The US steps up its military presence in the west Pacific after North Korean jets intercepted a US spy plane. BBC Newshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/2820469.stm U.S. Forced to Rethink Iraq War Strategy- March 3, 2003 Turkey's surprise rejection of a U.S. troop deployment is forcing American planners to rethink a strategy that called for attacks from two fronts. Turkey's parliament rejected the U.S. request on Saturday, leaving the U.S. plan to base 62,000 U.S. soldiers on Iraq's northern border in disarray. Basing troops in Turkey, on Iraq's northern border, is so crucial to U.S. war plans that American negotiators offered some $15 billion in aid to try to win over Turkish approval.http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=535&ncid=535&e=2&u=/ap/20... |