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Ante-invasion period (2003 Iraq War)


US ready to use Blix report as launchpad for Gulf war
Blix will say there is a prima facie case of breach against Iraq for testing the Samoud-2 missiles beyond the permitted 150km range, but that firing them an extra 33km [without a payload] is not significant, despite Tony Blair insisting yesterday that it was. Suzanne Goldenberg in Baghdad and Ewen MacAskill, The Guardian (UK), Friday February 14, 2003

British Union leaders warn of strikes over Iraq war
Leaders of 5 of Britain's largest Unions warn of massive strikes over Iraq war, demand recall of Trade Union Congress - The Guardian Staff and Agencies -- Monday, February 10, 2003

Union chiefs' war warning [United Kingdom]
Union leaders are calling for a special meeting of the Trade Union Congress to debate the Iraq crisis. Tory party is broadly supportive of the government's policy on Iraq. Liberal Democratic Party leader Charles Kennedy said "our case is a pro-UN case, not antiwar come what may." - BBC News, 10 February 2003

Blair-Powell UN Report Written by Student
By William Rivers Pitt, truthout, February 7, 2003

UK defends 'Copied' Iraq Dossier
BBC (UK) News, Friday 07 February 2003, 03:23 GMT
Reprinted at Truthout.org

Leaked [British Intelligence] Report Rejects Iraqi al-Qaeda Link
BBC, February 5th, 2003

US Claim Dismissed by Blix
Dan Plesch in New York, The Guardian UK, 05 Feb 2003

Cross-examining Colin
By William Rivers Pitt, truthout, 06 Feb  2003

Pilger: Blair is a Coward
William Russell, the great correspondent who reported the carnage of imperial wars, may have first used the expression "blood on his hands" to describe impeccable politicians who, at a safe distance, order the mass killing of ordinary people. : John Pilger :29 Jan 2003