The United States and United Kingdom were accused this week of ”callous disregard” for the health of Iraqis and the fate of radioactive substances near a looted nuclear site south of Baghdad.
Al-Qaeda remains a ”potent” international terrorist network with more than 18 000 trained members at large in up to 90 countries, and could take a generation to dismantle, a leading international affairs think-tank warned last week.
United Nations chief weapons inspector Hans Blix condemned the efforts of British and United States intelligence before the war to show that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, and insisted that, without UN verification, their post-war inspections lacked credibility.
British artillery and jets launched a fierce attack last night on a convoy of up to 120 Iraqi tanks and armoured personnel carriers seen pouring out of the city of Basra towards the Faw peninsula at the southern tip of the country.
Britain and the United States have all but fired the first shots of the second Gulf war by dramatically extending the range of targets in the ”no-fly zones” over Iraq to soften up the country for an allied ground invasion.
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/ 19 February 2003
The lure of rich natural resources proves too good to resist on the subcontinent. A dramatic improvement has taken place in the investment climate in Southern Africa in the past two years, according to a recent report by the BusinessMap Foundation on investment in the South African Development Community
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/ 4 February 2003
The United States has evidence of an orchestrated Iraqi attempt to spy on United Nations weapons inspectors using hidden microphones and agents, allowing Baghdad to stay one step ahead of the search for banned weapons, US sources said this week.
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/ 21 January 2003
The British government yesterday committed a huge military force to a possible war against Iraq in the clearest signal yet that it believes the US is preparing to call time on the UN weapons inspectors’ mission and launch an invasion of the country.
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/ 20 January 2003
The United States last night offered Saddam Hussein immunity from prosecution if his departure from Baghdad would avert war.
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/ 5 September 2002
A dossier on Iraq’s nuclear, biological and chemical warfare capabilities was drawn up in March by the United Kingdom’s joint intelligence committee after intense discussions within the intelligence community about what should be published and how much speculation it should contain.