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...language stronger than ever, that although he would prefer clear U.N. backing for a war in Iraq--and he will make that point at Camp David--Britain's troops will fight alongside their American counterparts if Washington judges that Saddam Hussein is not making a good-faith effort to disarm Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Britons are used to his trimming and spinning on domestic issues; but as a senior British official said admiringly, on Iraq he has never wavered. "He is convinced," said another official, "that if we don't tackle weapons of mass destruction...
...language stronger than ever, that although he would prefer clear U.N. backing for a war in Iraq - and he will make that point at Camp David - Britain's troops will fight alongside their American counterparts if Washington judges that Saddam Hussein is not making a good-faith effort to disarm Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Britons are used to his trimming and spinning on domestic issues; but as a senior British official said admiringly, on Iraq he has never wavered. "He is convinced," said another official, "that if we don't tackle weapons of mass destruction...
...Both the British and the Americans are giving the inspectors intelligence leads (the British claim responsibility for the discovery of the chemical warheads) and believe that the combination of Iraqi intransigence and rigorous, informed inspections will soon convince international opinion that only military force will compel Saddam Hussein to disarm. --By Massimo Calabresi, Meenakshi Ganguly, J.F.O. McAllister and Marguerite Michaels
...needed a lot more time. Still, the U.S. looks unlikely to call a halt to inspections and move to military action in the wake of Blix's report. President Bush will likely use his State of the Union address Tuesday to amplify his argument that Saddam has failed to disarm and therefore made military action all but inevitable, but he is unlikely to use the speech as a platform for declaring...
...political spectrum. The deal calls for President Laurent Gbagbo to cede some of his powers to the new Prime Minister, Seydou Diarra, a respected Muslim diplomat who served as Premier in 1999 and 2000. The rebels dropped their demands for Gbagbo's resignation and immediate elections. They agreed to disarm. And progress was also made on the question of Ivorian citizenship requirements, which Muslims believe Christians have manipulated to keep them from power. But many key details, including a timetable for new elections, still need to be negotiated. E.U. A Poor Trade-Off? The European Commission proposed a series...