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A BUSINESSMAN has appeared in court accused of trading with Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime. Full Article at This is Local London
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A Tony Blair mask set afire by a protester outside London’s Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, where the Iraq war inquiry is being held. Full Article at The National Newspaper
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DURING A STROLL outside the gates of the White House grounds the other night, I thought about the controversy surrounding Tareq and Michaele Salahi and started wondering about ways to sneak in to a state dinner. Full Article at NorthJersey.com
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As Labour prepares for the general election, Jack Straw talks candidly about his relationship with Gordon Brown, the Iraq war, Islamism, why he is a self-styled radical on electoral reform, and how he will transform our chilling libel laws For a... Full Article at New Statesman
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Don't you just hate it when your own words come back to bite you? You sweat and you squirm -- at least you do if you're being honest with yourself. Full Article at Chicago Tribune
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If President Barack Obama was thinking straight, he would regard Climategate, especially its timing, not as a great setback for his global warming agenda—but a great godsend. Why? Full Article at Hit and Run
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(WASHINGTON, D.C. — NOVEMBER 30, 2009) A controversial war that has claimed the lives of more than 4,000 U.S. troops and tens of thousands of civilians. A war with countless stories of bravery, triumph, sacrifice and tragedy. Full Article at Daemon's TV
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Most of us vividly recall the march to the war in Iraq. Many marched against the war, as I did in Brussels in February 2003. Yet I actively supported the removal of Saddam Hussein from power. Hence the basic dilemma. Full Article at Lebanon Daily Star
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We must deny al Qaeda a safe-haven. We must reverse the Taliban's momentum and deny it the ability to overthrow the government. Full Article at Huffington Post
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In the early paragraphs of his speech yesterday, President Obama restated the reasons for the military action in Afghanistan in 2001. In 2001, I thought those were legitimate reasons. Eight years later, those reasons are moot. Full Article at The Mahablog
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Welcome to the Dawn Patrol, our daily roundup of information on the War on Terror and other topics - from the MilBlogs and various sources around the world. If you're a blogger, you can join the conversation. Full Article at Mudville Gazette
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Another week, another reminder of how tough it is to stay financially sound for Championship clubs flirting with the big time. FFT.com's Championship Correspondent Emyr Price looks at the worries besieging Watford. Wind the clock back three years. Full Article at FourFourTwo.com
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It is a very interesting question, this. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Obama and his allies clearly have no stomach for this fight, his Afghanistan operation is an exit strategy, and the Taliban will wait Barack Obama's announcement of an Afghan "surge" is his frantic bid to rescue what promises to be a stumbling... Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Both wars were justified at inception in the case of Afghanistan, to overthrow a government that refused to yield those who attacked the World Trade Center and the Pentagon; in the case of Iraq, to rid the world of a dictator who threatened... Full Article at National Review Online
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“The ‘al-Arab’ channel, dubbed Saddam TV in Iraq first appeared on Bahrain-based Noorsat and Egypt-owned NileSat on Friday and is also streamed on the Internet. Full Article at The Arabist
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Sir Peter Ricketts, a British intelligence chief at the time of the conflict, said the US had wanted to dethrone Saddam since the Iraq war in 1990. Full Article at Metro.co.uk
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Dec. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The tunnel stank, yet I could scarcely keep from leaping into it after my guide said, “You are now standing on the ruins of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.” We were in ancient Mesopotamia’s greatest city, on the grounds of one... Full Article at Bloomberg.com
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2:10pm UK, Tuesday December 01, 2009 Ruth Barnett, Sky News Online The United States had "touching faith" everything would be fine in Iraq as long as Saddam Hussein was removed, an official inquiry into the war has heard. Full Article at Sky News
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Tony Blair himself raised concerns directly with US President George Bush amid alarm in London at the state of the Pentagon’s preparations. Full Article at Irish Examiner
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A woman cries beside the tomb of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, seen in portrait at left, in his home village of Ouja, near Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, April 28, 2009. About 150 supporters visited the tomb Tuesday to mark Saddam's birthday.
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HILLAH, IRAQ, APRIL 21: Iraqis stand inside a marbled room, where Saddam supposedly once slept, at one of the former dictator 's palace villas, which can be rented for about USD170 a night on April 21, 2009 in the city of Hillah in Babil province about 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq.
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HILLAH, IRAQ, APRIL 21: Iraqis sit in the gardens at one of the Saddam Hussein's palace villas, which can be rented for about USD170 a night on April 21, 2009 in the city of Hillah in Babil province about 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq.
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HILLAH, IRAQ, APRIL 21: Iraqis stand inside a marbled room, where Saddam supposedly once slept, at one of the former dictator 's palace villas, which can be rented for about USD170 a night on April 21, 2009 in the city of Hillah in Babil province about 50 miles south of Baghdad, Iraq.
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A man and a woman watch the Saddam Channel at their home, showing the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, in his hometown of Tikrit, some 180 km (100 miles) north of Baghdad on Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009.
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This image taken from al-Lafeta TV channel on Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009, former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein center pose with his sons Uday, left and Qusay right.
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gave his secret service instructions to violently disrupt the Iraqi broadcasting of Radio Free Europe and provided significant financial resources for the operation.
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touching faith that once Iraq had been liberated from Saddam Hussein... there would be dancing in the streets
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It wasn't clear then exactly what scenario there would be. But we assumed from that point onwards that we would be dealing with an Iraq without Saddam Hussein and in the aftermath of a military intervention.
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They had a touching faith that once Iraq had been liberated from the tyranny of Saddam Hussein, everyone would be grateful and there would be parties in the street
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As far as I'm aware the first time the president mentioned Iraq to the Prime Minister was on September 14 in a telephone call and he said he thought there might be evidence that there was some connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. The Prime Minister's response was that the ...
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He (Mr Bush] said that he thought there might be evidence that there was some connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda
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He [Bush] said that he thought there might be evidence that there was some connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida
– David Manning SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited -
I … went through the need to wrongfoot Saddam on the inspectors and the UN security council resolutions and the critical importance of the Middle East peace plan. If all this could be accomplished skilfully, we were fairly confident that a number of countries could come on board
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said that he thought there might be evidence that there was some connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda
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The first time the President mentioned Iraq to the Prime Minister after 9/11 was on September 14 when he said, if I recall, there might be some evidence that there was a connection between Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda. The Prime Minister’s response to this was that the evidence would hav...
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Saddam Hussein ordered his intelligence to violently disrupt Iraqi broadcasting of the Radio Free Europe and for this operation he provided significant financial means
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It's hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct a war itself.
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The notion that it will take several hundred thousand US troops to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq [is] wildly off the mark.
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I'm not trying to make a party political point here whatsoever, but quite often I think about this: what would Margaret Thatcher have done? ... I think she would have insisted on a coherent political and diplomatic strategy and she would have demanded the greatest clarity about what the heck happened if...
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It was an incredible experience to be there for the invasion of Iraq and the toppling of Saddam ... It was all about playing our part.
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The U.S. and the UK had, well before then, decided that the threat from Iraq, which was genuinely perceived as including the potential threat of the use of WMD, could only be terminated either if Saddam Hussein conceded absolutely everything the resolutions demanded or if his regime fell.
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The last person who had ever used anthrax was Saddam Hussein
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We could have achieved more by playing a tougher role ... if we had made it a condition of our participation in any military operation that indeed a major effort should be made with the Arab/Israel dispute and ... detailed planning for what would happen if and when we remove Saddam Hussein, there could ...
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led— I think not inadvertently but deliberately — to a conflation of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein.
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The intelligence picture that they paint is one accumulated over the last four years. It is extensive, detailed and authoritative. It concludes that Iraq has chemical and biological weapons that Saddam has continued to produce them, that he has existing and active military plans for the use of chemical ...
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She said there's no doubt this was an Al-Qaida operation, we are just looking to see if there could possibly be any connection with Saddam Hussein
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What he was trying to do was to draw the lessons of 9/11 and apply them to the situation in Iraq. which led - I think not inadvertently but deliberately - to a conflation of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. When I heard that speech, I thought that this represents a tightening of t...
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The threat that Saddam could deploy WMD within 45 minutes was fundamental to the government’s argument that Iraq presented an imminent danger. This evidence proves what has long been suspected – that intelligence was cherry-picked or dismissed to support the case the government wanted to make.
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We never found evidence linking him (Saddam] closely to al-Qaeda and we didn't believe that he was in any way behind the 9/11 bombings. We never found any evidence that chemical or biological material had been passed by the Iraqi regime to terrorists.
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Our view was that there was no evidence to suggest serious collaboration of any sort between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's regime
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