 British Prime Minister Tony Blair will unveil the results of a major foreign policy review on Monday, his office said.Blair, who is expected to stand down as leader in May, held discussions with senior Cabinet colleagues before sanctioning the wide-reaching paper."It's essentially a document which reflects on the last 10 years of policy and uses that to see how we may continue or conduct foreign policy in the future," said a Downing Street spokesman, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with department policy.The Observer newspaper on Sunday carried a report outlining the contents of the document.It said the prime minister will reveal a "disturbing vision" of dangers the country faces....
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 Soldiers in Iraq view troop surge as a lost cause |
Army 1st Lt. Antonio Hardy took a slow look around the east Baghdad neighborhood that he and his men were patrolling. He grimaced at the sound of gunshots in the distance. A machine gunner on top of a Humvee scanned the rooftops for snipers. Some of Hardy's men wondered aloud if they'd get hit by a roadside bomb on the way back to their base. "To be honest, it's going to be like this for a long time to come, no matter what we do," said Hardy, 25, of Atlanta. "I think some people in America don't want to know about all this violence, about all the killings. The people back home are shielded from it; they get it sugar-coated." While senior military officials and the Bush administration say the president's decision to send more American troops to pacify Baghdad will succeed, many of the soldiers who're already there say it's a lost cause. "What is victory supposed to look like? Every time we turn around and go in a new area there's somebody new waiting to kill us," ...
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Editor - 22:58:00 02-03-07
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| NATO kills Taliban chief as tries to retake town |
NATO forces killed a Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan on Sunday during an offensive to retake a town from the militants, NATO and residents said. The commander, Mullah Ghafour, was killed along with an unknown number of Taliban fighters in an air strike targeting his vehicle near Musa Qala in Helmand province, they said.Ghafour was the Taliban commander in Musa Qala, which the Taliban seized on Thursday night after months of peace from a truce tribal elders brokered between NATO's British forces and the Taliban in the area."This key Taliban leader was well known to have commanded insurgents within the Musa Qala District and was directly responsible for the recent uprising and insurgent attacks within the village of Musa Qala," NATO said in a statement....
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| One soldier’s death sums up US torment |
FOR a few days last month the death of Captain Brian Freeman, a 31-year-old US Army reservist in Iraq, seemed likely to be remembered mainly for the chilling circumstances of the attack that killed him. Freeman died on January 20 when a group of insurgents dressed in US military uniforms tricked their way into a heavily guarded security compound in the city of Karbala, about 60 miles southwest of Baghdad. The attackers opened fire, killing one American soldier and capturing four others. They then fled with their hostages, who were found dead or dying from bullet wounds 25 miles away. The raid by an enemy in disguise sent shockwaves through US forces in Iraq, but there was another surprise in store when word reached Washington that Freeman was among the dead....
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| U.S. can't prove Iran link to Iraq strife Despite pledges to show evidence, officials have repeatedly put off presenting their case. |
Bush administration officials acknowledged Friday that they had yet to compile evidence strong enough to back up publicly their claims that Iran is fomenting violence against U.S. troops in Iraq. Administration officials have long complained that Iran was supplying Shiite Muslim militants with lethal explosives and other materiel used to kill U.S. military personnel. But despite several pledges to make the evidence public, the administration has twice postponed the release — most recently, a briefing by military officials scheduled for last Tuesday in Baghdad. "The truth is, quite frankly, we thought the briefing overstated, and we sent it back to get it narrowed and focused on the facts," national security advisor Stephen J. Hadley said Friday. The acknowledgment comes amid shifting administration messages on Iran. After several weeks of saber rattling that included a stiff warning by President Bush and the dispatch of two aircraft carrier strike groups to the Persian Gulf, near Iran,...
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| Israel prepares for possible Gaza incursion: report |
Israel has stepped up preparations for a possible military incursion into Gaza over concerns that fighting between Palestinian factions may lead to renewed attacks on Israel, a newspaper reported on Sunday. The Haaretz daily quoted senior military sources as saying that such a raid was not an immediate possibility but part of a contingency plan in case the violence escalated further. More than 80 Palestinians have been killed in fighting that has erupted between rival factions Fatah and Hamas after unity government talks stalled and President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah called for new elections. The fighting continued on Saturday despite a new ceasefire deal. Asked about the Haaretz report, Israeli Foreign Ministry Director-General Aharon Abramovitch said "there is no doubt we are in a difficult period." He said Israel was watching the violence and was concerned at continued weapons smuggling into Gaza as well as sporadic rocket fire at Israel despite a November 26 truce....
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