Topic: W A R - on March 18, 2003 at 11:48:26 AM CET
War Inc.
American corporations with close ties to the White House are poised to cash in on Saddam's defeat. French companies need not apply.
As the prospect of war with Iraq comes ever closer, companies with expertise in combating oil-well fires have begun to publicly complain that the U.S government has not been forthcoming with details of the firefighting services it may require in the Middle East.
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Topic: W A R - on March 18, 2003 at 11:45:44 AM CET
Microwave weapons: the dangers of first use
Will they use it or not? If the United States decides to attack Iraq, military analysts say a key decision for Washington will be whether to deploy a revolutionary and secretive weapon that is designed to spare human beings but destroy computers and telecommunications equipment.
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Topic: W A R - on March 18, 2003 at 11:42:06 AM CET
Axis of Evil and Declaring War on World
Twenty-four hours after the Azores Summit, the U.S., Britain, and Spain withdrew their proposed resolution to the United Nations Security Council and virtually declared war against the international community.
This decision was not unexpected because U.S. President George W. Bush told reporters in the Azores that they would give the Security Council only 24 hours to decide about Iraq and threatened that if the Security Council did not make the decision that the U.S. wanted, he would even change the United Nations system.
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Topic: W A R - on March 18, 2003 at 10:12:11 AM CET
MOVING TIPS FOR DICTATORS WHO MUST LEAVE THEIR COUNTRY WITHIN 48 HOURS
Moving isn’t an easy proposition for anyone, but certain complications arise when you’re a dictator who must leave your country in the matter of hours. Here at Plinkomedia, we feel it is our American duty to ensure that all dictators have the tools necessary to leave their country fast!
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Topic: W A R - on March 18, 2003 at 10:09:20 AM CET
French site to send Bush peace pretzels
U.S. citizens have turned on French fries and toast to vent their frustration at France's anti-war stance on Iraq. Now the French have joined in the food war -- with pretzels.
A French Web site is urging people to send pretzels to U.S. President, who fainted and fell off a sofa in January 2002 after gagging on the salty snack.
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Topic: W A R - on March 18, 2003 at 9:59:09 AM CET
US firms get $1.5bn deal to rebuild Iraq
The United States plans to transform the infrastructure of Iraq within a year of a war ending, but has sidelined aid agencies by allocating almost all the funds available to private American firms.
Non-governmental organisations and the UN would get just $50m, a tiny fraction of the $1.5bn being offered to private companies, according to more than 100 pages of confidential contract documents leaked to the Wall Street Journal.
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Topic: W A R - on March 18, 2003 at 9:48:31 AM CET
Remarks by the President in Address to the Nation
My fellow citizens, events in Iraq have now reached the final days of decision. For more than a decade, the United States and other nations have pursued patient and honorable efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime without war. That regime pledged to reveal and destroy all its weapons of mass destruction as a condition for ending the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
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Topic: W A R - on March 18, 2003 at 9:44:30 AM CET
Bush, not Saddam, should quit
Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri ruled out the possibility that President Saddam Hussein would go into exile to avoid war with the United States and its allies, saying Monday that President Bush should resign, instead.
Sabri was speaking before the U.S. president made a televised address Monday night, giving Saddam and his immediate family 48 hours to get out of Iraq or face military action.
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Topic: W A R - on March 18, 2003 at 9:36:23 AM CET
Bush sets ultimatum for Saddam:
Leave country in 48 hours or face war
President Bush said Monday Saddam Hussein must flee Iraq or face a U.S.-led invasion, abandoning U.N. diplomacy to brace Americans for war within days. Bush was giving the Iraqi leader 48 hours to comply, administration officials said.
The president, commander in chief of 250,000 U.S. troops poised at the borders of Iraq, planned to address the nation at 8 p.m. EST.
Karen Hughes, a former White House aide who was helping Bush prepare for the speech, said the president would set a deadline for the Iraqi leader to leave.
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Topic: W A R - on March 17, 2003 at 11:14:56 PM CET
Iraq Arming Troops With Chemical Weapons
Senior Defense and other U.S. officials confirmed that intelligence reports indicate that Saddam Hussein's troops are armed with chemical munitions.
"The information is raw … and hard to confirm ... but we are seeing -- using different methods -- that Saddam Hussein has armed troops south of Baghdad with chemical weapons," one official said.
Officials say it's hard to tell how many of these weapons are being distributed, but the intelligence reports indicate that "some chemical shells" have been provided to troops.
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Topic: W A R - on March 17, 2003 at 7:10:27 PM CET
Mother and sons die in room sealed against chemical attack
An Israeli mother and her two sons have suffocated in a sealed room they had prepared as a defence against a possible Iraqi chemical missile attack.
Police said the three died because of a coal-fuelled heater in an adjacent room.
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Topic: W A R - on March 17, 2003 at 6:04:06 PM CET
Iraqi's Weapons of Mass Destruction
Want to know if you're getting close to a Iraqi Chemical Site? Need to see the nearest Nuclear site to inspect? This is a list of locations in Iraqi, as of the end of the Gulf War, that are (and may still be) Chemical, Biological, or Nuclear sites.
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