Wednesday, June 11, 2003
Blix casts off diplomatic reserve to denounce Pentagon smears: "An undiplomatic attack by the outgoing chief UN arms inspector for Iraq, Hans Blix, on his critics in Washington met with understanding by some at the United Nations. (AFP)"
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"Blow to Blair over 'mobile labs'": "From The Observer :
Powell defends them being biological labs here , and there are previous posts here , here , and here ."
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Chalabi: 'Saddam and WMD will be found': "CFR breakfast meeting
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Bush condemns Jerusalem bus bombing: "President Bush deplored Wednesday's bus bombing in Jerusalem and urged all nations to block financial assistance to the Palestinian militant group Hamas and similar organizations and "isolate those who hate so much that they are willing to kill to stop peace.""
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Jerusalem blast kills 16; 7 die in Gaza: "A suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus in Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people and wounding nearly 70. An hour later, an Israeli helicopter fired missiles at a car in Gaza City, killing two Hamas officials and at least five other people and wounding 30."
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Team surveys damage to ancient Iraq sites: "Some ancient sites in Iraq, where civilization began, have been looted and badly damaged but others remain well-guarded, according to a team of researchers who conducted the first archaeological survey outside Baghdad since the war ended."
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Former Iraq FM defends US plans for interim administration: "Octogenarian ex-foreign minister Adnan Pachachi defended the US-led coalition's plans for an Iraqi interim administration against growing criticism from other former exiles. (AFP)"
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WEAPONS OF MASS OPPRESSION: " (New York Post)"
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"Blow to Blair over 'mobile labs'": "From The Observer :
Tony Blair faces a fresh crisis over Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, as evidence emerges that two vehicles that he has repeatedly claimed to be Iraqi mobile biological warfare production units are nothing of the sort... The intelligence agency MI6, British defence officers and technical experts from the Porton Down microbiological research establishment have been ordered to conduct an urgent review of the mobile facilities, following US analysis which casts serious doubt on whether they really are germ labs...
Instead The Observer has established that it is increasingly likely that the units were designed to be used for hydrogen production to fill artillery balloons, part of a system originally sold to Saddam by Britain in 1987...
A separate investigation published by the New York Times yesterday discloses that the trailers have now been investigated by three different teams of Western experts, with the third and most senior group of analysts apparently divided sharply over their function...
Powell defends them being biological labs here , and there are previous posts here , here , and here ."
In Command Post: Irak
Chalabi: 'Saddam and WMD will be found': "CFR breakfast meeting
Ahmad Chalabi, co-founder of the Iraqi National Congress (INC), claimed on Tuesday that Saddam Hussein, constantly on the move to evade capture, has offered a bounty for every American soldier killed in Iraq. [...] He insisted that the weapons would be found, just as Saddam would eventually be captured. "The key is to find the concealment teams," he asserted. "These people will guide you to the weapons."Full story »» and Full transcript »»"
In Command Post: Irak
Bush condemns Jerusalem bus bombing: "President Bush deplored Wednesday's bus bombing in Jerusalem and urged all nations to block financial assistance to the Palestinian militant group Hamas and similar organizations and "isolate those who hate so much that they are willing to kill to stop peace.""
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Jerusalem blast kills 16; 7 die in Gaza: "A suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus in Jerusalem on Wednesday, killing at least 16 people and wounding nearly 70. An hour later, an Israeli helicopter fired missiles at a car in Gaza City, killing two Hamas officials and at least five other people and wounding 30."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Team surveys damage to ancient Iraq sites: "Some ancient sites in Iraq, where civilization began, have been looted and badly damaged but others remain well-guarded, according to a team of researchers who conducted the first archaeological survey outside Baghdad since the war ended."
In Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Former Iraq FM defends US plans for interim administration: "Octogenarian ex-foreign minister Adnan Pachachi defended the US-led coalition's plans for an Iraqi interim administration against growing criticism from other former exiles. (AFP)"
In Yahoo! News: War with Iraq
WEAPONS OF MASS OPPRESSION: " (New York Post)"
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