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...Washington isn't the whole story. Blair is one of the few modern European politicians comfortable thinking of the world in moral terms. There's a strain of Victorian rectitude in him that explains why he's convinced of Saddam's venality. The soon-to-be-published British dossier on Saddam's behavior, say two sources who have read it, will stress the Iraqi leader's brutality--his use of torture, the fact that he killed perhaps 100,000 Kurds (some of them with chemical weapons) to maintain his rule...
...Washington isn't the whole story. Blair is one of the few modern European politicians comfortable thinking of the world in moral terms. There's a strain of Victorian rectitude in him that explains why he's convinced of Saddam's venality. The soon-to-be-published British dossier on Saddam's behavior, say two sources who have read it, will stress the Iraqi leader's brutality - his use of torture, the fact that he killed perhaps 100,000 Kurds (some of them with chemical weapons) to maintain his rule...
...establishing an internationally acceptable "trigger" for military action to remove Saddam. Of course the Bush administration is also promising to make an overwhelming case for such action independent of how Iraq responds to the inspection demand, and Blair has promised to publish in the coming weeks a dossier of damning evidence of the Iraqi leader's growing WMD threats. But unless either Washington or London offers up compelling new intelligence that has been kept out of the discussion thus far, their ability to generate a sense of international crisis requiring action may depend largely on the inspection demand...
...complete its preparations for a U.S. attack on Iraq by early November. And Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair will visit Bush in the next fortnight to discuss a battle plan, having promised his skeptical electorate (71 percent against a war in the most recent polls) to publish a dossier of compelling evidence of the danger posed by Saddam in the coming weeks...
...increasingly frantic--and ultimately fruitless--effort to persuade FBI headquarters to authorize a national-security warrant to search Moussaoui's computer. From Washington, requests were sent to authorities in Paris for background details on the suspect. Like most things having to do with Moussaoui, the contents of the dossier sent over from Paris are in dispute. One senior French law-enforcement source told TIME the Americans were given "everything they needed" to understand that Moussaoui was associated with Islamic terrorist groups. "Even a neophyte," says this source, "working in some remote corner of Florida, would have understood the threat based...