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...Saddam Hussein in 1991. Galbraith, the 58-year-old son of economist John Kenneth Galbraith, is a former U.S. ambassador to Croatia who served recently as the top-ranking American in the U.N. mission in Kabul. He was fired in September...

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...that he had prohibited items. " Hans Blix, the chief UN weapons inspector, told the Foreign Office at the end of February 2003 that Saddam might not have weapons of mass destruction, the inquiry was told. Mr Blair continued to say there was...

In this article: Saddam Hussein, Tony Blair, Iraq, Liberal Democrat, UN, Nick Clegg, Edward Davey, and Hans Blix

There had been scant new intelligence about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programme since UN inspectors left the country in 1998, although it was assumed Saddam would step up efforts to obtain such weapons, the officials said.

In this article: Saddam Hussein, Iraq, Al-Qaeda, Silvio Berlusconi, UN, Palestinian militant groups, Iraq War, Us-led Invasion Of Iraq, and Anorexia

...would involve going to war in Iraq. However, he insisted that in Britain the policy remained one of containment and of using UN weapons inspectors to check on Saddam's suspected WMD programme. The 9/11 attacks led to concerns in...

In this article: Saddam Hussein, Britain, Tony Blair, Iraq, Iraq War, Washington, and Osama bin Laden

...against humanity. He is executed two months later. 12 March 2007 Former UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix accuses Tony Blair of "exercising spin" in the run-up to the war. December Britain hands over security of Basra province to...

In this article: Iraq, Saddam Hussein, US, Tony Blair, UN, George W Bush, Washington, and Britain

...Baghdad and toppled Saddam Hussein. The payments, which AWB hotly denied for three years, breached UN sanctions against the pariah state, and ultimately caused AWB enormous commercial damage. Mr Lindberg wants the court to halt one of...

In this article: AWB, Iraq, Allegation, Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Saddam Hussein, UN, and Tigris

...meeting Bush at the president's Crawford ranch in April 2002. At the time, Britain's policy towards Iraq was to contain Saddam through UN sanctions and no-fly zones. But Sir Christopher said the "Americans were going to bust a gut to...

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September 28 Hundreds of thousands of anti-war protesters march through London to a rally in Hyde Park as Britain and the US propose a new UN resolution authorising the "use of all necessary means" against Iraq should Saddam Hussein continue...

In this article: Tony Blair, Iraq War, Iraq, UN, Britain, US, London, Colin Powell, Saddam Hussein, and Hans Blix