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...Blair knew he could not persuade British public opinion to support military action solely on the basis that Sad-dam should go and that Bush had made up his mind. He had to use, in his own phrase, "different arguments." The arguments he chose were based on Saddam's "active, detailed and growing" WMD program and his nuclear ambitions. In doing so, Blair stretched the truth about WMD to breaking point. (Read a TIME cover story on Saddam Hussein being captured...
...Read: "Top Blair Aide Testifies at British Inquiry on Iraq...
...food giant Kraft has reached an agreement to buy 186-year-old British confectioner Cadbury for $19.5 billion, ending months of resistance and rejected offers. But the takeover has left a bad taste for British citizens upset at the sale of a national icon--and for Kraft shareholder Warren Buffett, who criticized the purchase. If finalized, the deal will make Kraft the largest player in the global candy market, displacing Mars...
...What They're Claiming in Argentina: It's the fight that Argentina just won't give up. Though it relinquished the Falklands when it surrendered to the British to end a 1982 war, Argentina has consistently asserted sovereignty over the South Atlantic archipelago. In December, the Argentine Congress passed a law that recognized the disputed territory as part of its Tierra del Fuego province. On Jan. 18 the British government rejected the gambit, saying there is "no doubt" that Britain remains the islands' rightful owner. Recent indications that there could be oil reserves surrounding the territory may have sparked...
...After all, just such a Concorde plane crashed in a ball of fire nearly 10 years ago, less than two miles (3 km) from where the mounted jet now stands. It was an event that doomed the world's fastest-ever passenger jet - an aircraft designed by French and British engineers - to a future as a museum relic...