Pakistan hails India’s anti-war stand: Vajpayee on Wednesday told Lok Sabha, “There should not be any war, anywhere in the world, be it between the US and Iraq or between India and Pakistan.”
302 Killed in Crash of Iranian Military Plane
US disallowed to use Iran’s airspace in the event of an Iraq war
US lobbyist helped draft Eastern Europeans’ Iraq statement: Richard Mucins, counselor at the Latvian embassy in Washington, said, according to the paper, that Jackson suggested the following passage, one of the most compelling sections in the statement: “Our countries understand the dangers posed by tyranny and the special responsibility of democracies to defend our shared values”.
The statement which was published by what is known as the Vilnius 10 on February 5 is considered as a way to help seven out of the 10 countries, which are not yet members of NATO, to join the Atlantic alliance, says the paper.
Washington Post: Full U.S. Control Planned for Iraq (US Occupation): The administration is particularly keen on averting interference by other regional powers, and cites the “ability of people like the Iranians and others to go in with money and create warlords” sympathetic to their own interests, one official said. “We don’t want a weak federal government that plays into the hands of regional powers” and allows Iraq to be divided into de facto spheres of influence. “We don’t want the Iranians to be paying the Shiites, the Turks the Turkmen and the Saudis the Sunnis,” the official, referring to some of the main groups among dozens of Iraqi tribes and ethnic and religious groups.
CBS EXECUTIVES WANT NO ‘ANTI-WAR’ STATEMENTS DURING GRAMMYS
Jury considers death for American spy
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