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If Saddam doesn't leave it will be his final mistake: U.S.
WASHINGTON, MARCH 19.As war clouds are nearing Iraq, Americans and the world at large are now in a waiting mode and in the process speculating when the United States President, George W. Bush, will make the final call. In giving the Iraqi ...
Bush meets war council
WASHINGTON, MARCH 19. The U.S. President, George W. Bush, met his war council on Wednesday and the White House sent Congress formal notification of justification for war with Iraq as the deadline neared for President Saddam Hussein to flee. ...
U.S. action will breed terrorism: Security Council
UNITED NATIONS, MARCH 19. The United States today came under fire in the Security Council for its decision to take military action against Iraq with France, Russia and Germany rejecting the American contention that the war against Baghdad was ...
Protect Iraqis, Kofi Annan tells U.S.
UNITED NATIONS, MARCH. 19.Promising that the U.N. would do everything possible to help the Iraqis during the imminent conflict, the Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, told the U.S. today that it would be its responsibility to ensure welfare of the ...
Ultimatum gains acceptability in U.S
WASHINGTON, MARCH 19. Even as the handling of the Iraq crisis by the Bush administration has come under criticism at home and abroad, a majority of Americans have accepted the present evolving scheme of things. According to a poll conducted by ...
Anglo-French ties under more strain
PARIS, MARCH 19. A full-fledged row has broken out between Britain and France after France said it was ``shocked and saddened'' by the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair's attempts to hold Paris responsible for the break down of diplomacy over ...
E.U.-U.S. ties may worsen
BRUSSELS, MARCH 19. Europeans face the distressing reality of a U.S.-led war in Iraq as they heard the U.S. President, George Bush's address — in which he issued an ultimatum to Iraq — which was relayed on major European television ...
Iraq's oil fields high on U.S. target list
MANAMA, MARCH 19.As the countdown for a possible war led by the United States against Iraq approaches its end, British and U.S. forces are getting ready to take an early hold over two out of Iraq's four strategic zones. Military analysts point ...
Blair wins Parliament support for war
LONDON, MARCH 19.Thanks to a steamroller majority and full-throated support from the Tories, the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, has won Parliament's backing for a pre-emptive military attack on Iraq even without an explicit United Nations ...
Musharraf under pressure over Iraq
ISLAMABAD, MARCH 19.The Pakistan Government is under pressure from the Opposition parties to condemn the ultimatum given by the U.S. President, George W. Bush, to Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq or face war. The Government finds itself in a bind, ...
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