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...ironic it is that the Bush administration went to war to topple Saddam's regime, which did not have WMD, and yet remains allied with Pakistan, which not only possesses nuclear weapons but also peddled with impunity nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea. Anand Prakash Victoria, Canada...
...premier ahead of the March 14 presidential election. All of the ministers apart from Kasyanov were asked to stay in their posts on an interim basis. Putin, who has a near-unassailable lead in the polls, has two weeks to name Kasyanov's successor. Pat on the Back LIBYA The U.S. government lifted its 23-year ban on travel to Libya as a reward for Tripoli 's decision to abandon its nuclear-weapons program. The widely-anticipated move was briefly put on hold when Libyan Prime Minister Shokri Ghanem denied his country's responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing, but went...
...insists that an immediate, unilateral invasion was necessary. The real question for this election year is, Was going to war in Iraq the right choice in the larger struggle against radical Islam? Saddam Hussein is in jail. There may have been ancillary benefits from the American show of force: Libya has given up its nuclear ambitions; Iran may, or may not, be doing the same. But the situation on the ground in Iraq remains chaotic. The possibility of a Sunni-Shi'a civil war, which could destabilize the entire gulf region, is growing. The U.S. Army is pinned down; morale...
...IRAQ A delegation from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) visited ousted leader Saddam Hussein in U.S. custody for the first time since his capture in December 2003. An ICRC spokeswoman said that two of the organization's officials checked on Saddam's health condition. Nuclear Prowess LIBYA The International Atomic Energy Agency said that Libya had clandestinely acquired a range of nuclear technology and expertise and had even succeeded in producing a small amount of plutonium before Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi announced in December that the country was abandoning its unconventional weapons program. Road to Peace Mapped...
...receive another gold medal for building the country's nuclear bomb. But last week Khan, a hero to Pakistanis and many others in the Islamic world, came on the air, ashen and visibly shaken, to confess that he had sold Pakistan's nuclear secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea. He begged for President Pervez Musharraf's pardon--and, to the chagrin of many Western intelligence agencies that regard Khan as the world's most dangerous nuclear proliferator, it was granted the next day. "He has made mistakes, but he is our hero," said Musharraf...