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/ 19 September 2003
Saudi Arabia, in response to the current upheaval in the Middle East, has embarked on a strategic review that includes acquiring nuclear weapons. This new threat of proliferation in one of the world’s most dangerous regions comes on top of a crisis over Iran’s alleged nuclear programme.
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/ 1 September 2003
Geoff Hoon, the British Defence Secretary, last week appeared to undermine Downing Street’s carefully crafted defence for the Hutton inquiry when he insisted that key officials in No 10 were intimately involved in the ”naming strategy” that led to the unmasking of Dr David Kelly.
The sequence of events surrounding the leaking of David Kelly’s name prior to his suicide implicates the UK’s Ministry of Defence and Blair’s office. Now, fingers are being pointed left, right and centre. Whose head will roll?
Charles Taylor, the Liberian president, under siege from rebels in the capital Monrovia, yesterday renewed his promise to step aside and seek asylum in Nigeria.
A senior Nigerian government official said President Taylor had accepted an offer of asylum. ”[He] asked to be given 40 days, but Nigeria said it should be some time this month,” said the official.
United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Jack Straw this week claimed that the political and security situation in Iraq was improving, in spite of attacks on United States soldiers and sabotage of electricity and oil supplies.
United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is planning to put forward detailed proposals at the United Nations for reform of the Security Council to try to mend some of the damage done by disagreements over the Iraq war.
At a bleak and barren airbase in southern Iraq, the United States and British governments began the process of forging a post-Saddam Hussein government in their own image: a liberal democracy, preferably headed by a Western-educated elite.
The United States and Britain offered conflicting predictions in the second week of March about the chances of winning a majority in the United Nations Security Council for a new resolution on Iraq.
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/ 27 January 2003
One of the most popular themes on the placards of anti-war demonstrators across the US and Europe is that the looming confrontation is primarily about oil. The US and British dismiss such a charge, and instead argue that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has to be dealt with.
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/ 18 January 2003
The Saudi government is canvassing a plan to give Saddam Hussein a last-ditch chance to go into exile if the United Nations security council passes a new resolution authorising war against Iraq, western and Arab diplomats have confirmed.