“The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa .”
George W. Bush, ‘ State of the Union ,’ 28 January 2003
. . . at April’s Nuclear Security Summit, we will bring forty-four nations together behind a clear goal: securing all vulnerable nuclear materials around the world in [...]
The West Begins to Doubt Georgian Leader
“Today, we are all Georgians,” Republican presidential candidate John McCain declared. The neoconservative commentator Robert Kagan compared the Russian action with the Nazis’ 1938 invasion of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia. And in a meeting with US Vice President Richard Cheney, Saakashvili was assured of Washington’s support for his [...]
“I’ve never seen a man so broken up and ripped apart…”
Pakistan soldiers ‘confront US’
Pakistani troops have fired shots into the air to stop US troops crossing into the South Waziristan region of Pakistan, local officials say.
Reports say nine US helicopters landed on the Afghan side of the border and US troops then tried to [...]
Strip of Iraq ‘on the Verge of Exploding’
Kurds Extend Role Beyond Autonomous Borders, Angering Arabs
By Amit R. Paley
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, September 13, 2008; A01
JALAWLA, Iraq — Kurdish leaders have expanded their authority over a roughly 300-mile-long swath of territory beyond the borders of their autonomous region in northern Iraq, stationing thousands of soldiers in [...]
