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US Warns That Bioterror Attack Is Inevitable The US warned on Sunday night that a bioterrorist attack that could kill thousands was inevitable and urged industrial and developing nations to spend tens of billions of dollars more to gear up medical systems to cope with the threat. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1062.htm

Iraq Charged With Hiding Weapons, Spying On UN  Inspectors LONDON (Reuters) - Government officials say Iraq is hiding banned weapons, spying on UN arms inspectors and hindering their movements, hours before a key inspectors' report will be presented to the Security Council. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1053.htm

How War Would Hit US Wallets The last time the United States went to war with Iraq, the economy plunged into a recession. Should the US fight a second war with Iraq, would that history repeat itself? http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1059.htm

Substantial Coalition Takes Shape Behind The Scenes THE Bush Administration is building up an alliance of nations willing to support the coming war with Iraq, many of which will probably reveal their backing only just before the conflict takes place. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1060.htm

Report: Turkey, U.S. Agree on Troops ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkey's military will allow up to 20,000 U.S. troops to pass through the country into northern Iraq in the event of war, a newspaper report said Sunday. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1061.htm

How Will Iraq Strike Back? Rather than making the world more safe, an attack on Saddam could put Americans here at home in harm’s way. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1064.htm

CIA Builds a Secret Army Because of past scandals, the agency had largely dropped its paramilitary operations. But the war on terrorism has brought it back into the business. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030203-411370,00.html

Washington's Success at Ousting Foreign Dictators A look at Washington's methods - and degrees of success - in dislodging foreign leaders. http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0127/p01s03-usmi.html

More Than 1,000 Historians Announce National Antiwar Network CHICAGO, Jan. 23 (AS Newswire) -- At the 117th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in January, historians from more than forty colleges and universities agreed to form a new national network, "Historians Against the War." http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1063.htm

'PentaGoon" Flash Movie A must see. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1056.htm

Meet The New Zionist's The members of the Christian Coalition of America are some of the most passionate defenders of Israel in the United States. There's just one catch: they want to convert all Jews to Christianity. Matthew Engel reports on an unholy alliance. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1057.htm

Israel's Evangelical Approach  In an effort to solidify its relationship with American evangelicals, the government of Israel has launched initiatives that include expense-paid trips to the Holy Land and strategy sessions with the Christian Coalition and other conservative groups.  http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1058.htm

America's Crude Tactics Let's get one thing straight. George Bush's determination to topple Saddam Hussein has nothing to do with oil. Iraq may account for 11% of the world's oil reserves, second only to Saudi Arabia, but the military build-up in the Gulf is about making the world a safer and more humane place, not about allowing America's motorists to guzzle gas to their heart's content. So, lest you should be in any doubt, let me spell it out one more time. This. Has. Nothing. To. Do. With. Oil. Got that? http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1054.htm

Orwell's Vision Is Still Alive In 2003 LOS ANGELES -- Animal Farm, George Orwell's nightmare vision of totalitarianism, became a best seller after World War II when the Cold War began. It has been taught in middle and high schools ever since as an allegory of the Russian Revolution, serving nicely to vilify our erstwhile nemesis, the Soviet Union. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1055.htm

The Bush Families Nazi Past: Standing On The Dead In October of 1942, under the Trading With the Enemy Act, the U.S. government halted operations at New York's Union Banking Corporation. A bank official was charged with "Running Nazi front groups in the United States." His name: Prescott Bush. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1052.htm

Bush Is Not A Nazi, So Stop Saying That Flash Presentation. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1051.htm

"Bankruptcy Is Booming In The United States,"  WASHINGTON,  U.S. bankruptcy experts said they expect an increase in bankruptcy filings in 2003 as consumer appetite for debt is fueled by widely available credit. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1047.htm

Dollar falls For A Record Ninth Day Against The Euro The dollar fell for a record ninth day against the euro as stocks tumbled and concern mounted that President George W. Bush will lead an attack against Iraq without the support its biggest European allies. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1048.htm

Gold Prices At Six-Year High Gold prices rose to a six-year high as US stocks dropped, increasing demand for the metal as an alternative investment. A weaker dollar made the dollar-priced metal cheaper for buyers using other currencies. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1049.htm

Fisk: Does Blair Know, What The Flies Are Like That Feed On The Dead? LONDON, 26 January 2003 — On the road to Basra, ITV was filming wild dogs as they tore at the corpses of the Iraqi dead. Every few seconds a ravenous beast would rip off a decaying arm and make off with it over the desert in front of us, dead fingers trailing through the sand, the remains of the burned military sleeve flapping in the wind. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1043.htm

More Of What's To Come: Pictures From The Last Last Iraqi War http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0212/pt_index.html

Sharon’s war Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon might not gain new votes in tomorrow’s elections following Saturday’s military incursion into Gaza City which killed 12 Palestinians and wounded more than 50. But this biggest Israeli raid on the Gaza City since the Palestinian uprising began more than two years ago will not hurt Sharon either. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1050.htm

Turkish Prime Minister: "Turkish people and regional nations are opposed to war.'' DAVOS - Prime Minister Abdullah Gul said on Saturday, ''a possible war in Iraq has extremely negative impacts on Turkey. Therefore, Turkish people and regional nations are opposed to war.'' http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1045.htm

Jordan's King Abdullah Sees Iraq War, Barring 'Miracle' Jordan's King Abdullah said on Sunday it would take a miracle to find a diplomatic solution to avert a U.S.-led war on Iraq. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1044.htm

Jordan To Get Patriot Missiles From US Jan 26: Jordan is expected to receive Patriot anti-missile batteries as part of a new air defence system from the United States, the pro-government Al Rai newspaper reported on Sunday. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1046.htm

Israeli Army Kill Palestinian Boy, Aged 7 A -year-old Palestinian boy was killed by IOF fire Sunday afternoon while playing in an open field in the Brazil neighborhood in Gaza Strip town of Rafah. His 6-year-old brother was wounded in the incident. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1037.htm

US Flexes Muscle Near Iraqi Border US troops in Kuwait prepared a massive night-time exercise on Sunday, flexing their muscle as near as they could get to Iraqi sentries as the crisis over Baghdad's alleged weapons programmes neared a new peak. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1042.htm

British Troops To Spearhead The Bloody Battle For Bagdad BRITISH troops will spearhead the bloody house-to-house fighting to drive Saddam Hussein out of Baghdad, it emerged last night.
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UN To Be Given More Time To Find Iraq Weapons Tony Blair has indicated that the UN will get more time to establish whether Iraq is ridding itself of weapons of mass destruction. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1041.htm

Israeli Ministry Secretly Spy's On Reporter's Telephone Records The special Justice Ministry team investigating the leaking of a document about a criminal investigation against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had access to records of the phone calls made and received by Ha'aretz reporter Baruch Kra, a source involved in the investigation has confirmed. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1038.htm

Iraq: No Nuclear Evidence The United Nations' nuclear inspectors will deliver a serious blow on Monday to Washington's case for going to war with Iraq, telling the world they have found nothing and giving Saddam Hussein good grades for cooperation. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1036.htm

Israel, American Jews, And The War On Iraq  http://www.counterpunch.org/christison01252003.html

The Real Terrorist Is George W. Bush America is frightening the world. The vaunted beacon of freedom has turned into a Ku Klux Klan bonfire. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1034.htm

Iraq: What Does US Want From War? http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1034.htm

Destroying The Village To Save Weapons Manufacturers  One of the legacies of the Vietnam War is the now infamous quote from an American military press officer, "we had to destroy the village in order to save it." Rings some bells these days. In the name of "fighting terror," countries with secret weapons programs are poised to pulverize Iraq because of its secret weapons programs. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1039.htm

US Interrogators Turn To 'Torture Lite'  The United States is condoning the torture and illegal interrogation of prisoners held in the wake of September 11, in defiance of international law and its own constitution, according to lawyers, former US intelligence officers and human rights groups. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1030.htm

Vatican Criticism Of War Plans Chills Relations With U.S. John Paul II repeatedly pleaded for peace over the Christmas holidays, joining his voice to his senior aides who for months have been expressing increasingly strident opposition to a U.S.-led military attack on Iraq. Though the pope only once mentioned Iraq by name, he used the platform offered by the holiday events to deliver a pointed antiwar message. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1032.htm

Solzhenitsyn Breaks Taboo: The Role Of Jews In Soviet-era Repression Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who first exposed the horrors of the Stalinist gulag, is now attempting to tackle one of the most sensitive topics of his writing career - the role of the Jews in the Bolshevik revolution and Soviet purges. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1033.htm

Bush Hopes For Sharon Victory In Israeli Election WASHINGTON, Jan 25 (AFP) - The US administration is looking kindly on the prospect of Ariel Sharon being reelected prime minister of Israel next week as it seeks a reliable partner in any war against Iraq. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1031.htm

France Demands Iraqi Oil Rights To Drop Veto TONY Blair and George Bush have privately agreed a joint strategy that will delay any possible war against Iraq for four weeks during which time they will work tirelessly to achieve three key objectives: http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1028.htm

UN Report: A Million Refugees If Hostilities Begin A confidential internal United Nations report prepared last month estimated that a US-led war would create nearly one million refugees needing outside resettlement and 7.2 million people displaced internally, millions of whom could later swell the ranks of refugees. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1029.htm

Gaza: 12 Palestinians Killed, 51 Wounded In Israeli Raid Israel army tanks and helicopter gunship's entered Gaza City from three directions early Sunday, killing at least 12 people and 51, in the deepest attack in more than two years of fighting, security and hospital officials said. http://members.cox.net/informationclearinghouse/article1026.htm

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