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U.N. Arms Experts Swoop on Newly Declared Iraq Site

U.N. arms experts swooped on a newly declared site near Baghdad Wednesday, saying it was among locations disclosed by Iraq in its mammoth weapons declaration.Inspections resumed across Iraq a day after the United States threatened possible nuclear retaliation if its forces or allies were attacked with doomsday weapons. Teams of inspectors, escorted.. More

33797 11/12/2002
Suspected North Korean missiles found on ship

The United States and Spain said they have intercepted a load of Scud missiles believed to be North Korean hidden on a freighter in the Arabian Sea near Yemen, a known center of terrorist activity.A senior State Department official said on condition of anonymity that the destination of the shipment "may well have been Yemen" but there was no evidence.. More

33796 11/12/2002
Israeli Occupation troops Shoot Dead Palestinian in West Bank

Israeli occupation troops shot dead a Palestinian resistance man who tried to resist capture on Wednesday by running across the rooftops of a crowded refugee camp in the West Bank, the occupation army said.They said Osama Badra, 27, was killed by the occupation soldiers as he tried to flee above the narrow streets of the Balata refugee camp in the city.. More

33791 11/12/2002
N. Korean Ship with Scuds Seized En Route to Yemen

A North Korean ship carrying at least 12 hidden Scud missiles and bound for Yemen has been stopped in the Arabian Sea, U.S. officials said Tuesday. The discovery could be politically explosive. North Korea recently acknowledged it has an active nuclear weapons program in violation of various agreements. Yemen is a Middle Eastern nation that is home.. More

33763 11/12/2002
Bush Presses Turkey Cooperation on Iraq

President Bush on Tuesday aggressively courted Turkey's cooperation in any military action against Iraq on two fronts. In a brief meeting with Recep Tayyip Erdogan, leader of Turkey's new ruling political party, Bush contended U.S. access to Turkish bases could actually help avert war. At the same time, the president wooed Turkey with a spirited boost.. More

33762 11/12/2002
Baghdad Bitter over U.S. Takeover of Iraqi Arms Copy

The Iraqi government accused Washington on Tuesday of taking control of a U.N. master copy of Baghdad's arms declaration in order to tamper with it and create a pretext for war. The White House dismissed Iraq's accusation that it altered the documents. Specialists at the CIA and other U.S. agencies began poring over the 12,000-page declaration, in which.. More

33761 11/12/2002
U.S., U.N. Analyze Huge Iraqi Arms Declaration

U.S. and U.N. experts began analyzing on Tuesday Iraq's mammoth arms declaration that contains detailed information about efforts to build a nuclear bomb, research on biological warfare and what could be an embarrassing list of suppliers for its illegal weapons. A nine-page table of contents was released to U.N. Security Council members on Monday. Much.. More

33754 10/12/2002
U.N. Teams Head Toward Iraq Uranium Mine

International nuclear monitors drove six hours across the Iraqi desert to a remote uranium mining site in one of five inspections mounted Tuesday, a marked expansion of the U.N. field operation. Still more inspectors were flying to Iraq later in the day. Iraq's chief liaison to the U.N. teams, meanwhile, told a Baghdad newspaper the Iraqis have found.. More

33753 10/12/2002
Top Palestinian Court: Free Arms Suspect

The Palestinian high court on Tuesday ordered the release of the alleged mastermind of a clandestine shipment of Iranian weapons to the Palestinian Authority , but it appeared unlikely he would be set free soon. The defendant, Fuad Shobaki, is being held under British supervision at a Palestinian jail in Jericho, the only West Bank town not under Israeli.. More

33752 10/12/2002
Iraq's Documents List Suppliers of Dangerous Arms

Iraq's mammoth document of its past weapons programs includes the names of foreign suppliers, disclosures that may be embarrassing for nations on the U.N. Security Council and others. A table of contents, the first clue to the contents of Iraq's document, listed all of Iraq's banned weapons programs, but did not indicate if any arms were bought or made.. More

33736 10/12/2002
UN Experts Search Iraqi Nuclear, Chemical Sites

U.N.-mandated inspectors revisited an Iraqi nuclear facility and an industrial complex Monday, hours after Baghdad's official declaration on weapons of mass destruction arrived at U.N. headquarters in New York. Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency drove to al-Tuweitha nuclear facility, 12 miles south of the Iraqi capital, and two other.. More

33735 10/12/2002
Mentally Disabled Palestinian Shot Dead

Israeli troops shot and killed a mentally disabled Palestinian on Monday and arrested an alleged activist accused of killing a 10-month-old Israeli girl last year in the West Bank city of Hebron. A Palestinian Cabinet minister, meanwhile, joined a growing chorus of Palestinian leaders questioning the use of violence in the 26-month-old uprising against.. More

33734 10/12/2002
U.N. Inspectors Return to Iraq Nuke Site

U.N. arms inspectors paid a return visit Monday to Iraq's huge al-Tuwaitha nuclear complex, where scientists in the 1980s worked to produce the fissionable material for nuclear bombs .On Sunday, a top science adviser to President Saddam Husseinsaid Iraq's arms report to the United Nationsdocuments Baghdad's drive to develop a nuclear bomb until 1991... More

33724 09/12/2002
U.S. Military Begins War Games in Qatar

A U.S. war game believed to be a rehearsal for an invasion of Iraq began Monday in Qatar with senior commanders and battle planners conducting a computer-assisted exercise to improve their ability to fight a war in the region. Led by Gen. Tommy Franks, the chief of U.S. Central Command, exercise Internal Look involves Army commanders in Kuwait, Navy.. More

33723 09/12/2002
Palestinians: Arafat in Bethlehem a Must

Palestinians warned Monday of a "dangerous escalation" of tensions if Israel stops Palestinian leader Yasser Arafatfrom celebrating Christmas in Bethlehem for a second straight year. The warnings came after an adviser to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon , Raanan Gissin, said Arafat should not try to attend the Midnight Mass. But Gissin stopped short of saying.. More

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