Monday, March 3, 2003

categories: War U.S. Forced to Rethink Iraq War Strategy Turkey's surprise rejection of a U.S. troop deployment is forcing American planners to rethink a strategy that called for attacks from two fronts. Turkey's parliament rejected the U.S. request on Saturday, leaving the U.S. plan to base 62,000 U.S. soldiers on Iraq's northern border in disarray. Basing troops in Turkey, on Iraq's northern border, is so crucial to U.S. war plans that American negotiators offered some $15 billion in aid to try to win over Turkish approval.   10:17:52 AM  Google It!  comment

categories: War Iraq digs up toxic agents Top Iraqi weapons adviser, General Amer al-Saadi, told a press conference, "My task, my only task (is) to remove all excuses for waging war." Saadi said a first round of concrete technical talks to quantify destroyed germ weapons started at UN headquarters in Baghdad, as UN experts supervised the bulldozing of prohibited missile systems in two sites. He said excavations had turned up significant traces of anthrax and VX nerve agent, whose destruction UN inspectors have been seeking to certify for years.   10:01:24 AM  Google It!  comment