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Monday, March 3, 2003
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U.S. Is Tapping the Phones of U.N. Security Council Members and Reading Their E-Mail: It’s Headlines Around the World But Not Reported Here
The British newspaper The Observer is reporting the US is conducting a secret, aggressive surveillance operation directed at United Nations Security Council members ahead of the upcoming vote on Iraq.
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Top Iraqi Defector Says Iraq Destroyed Its Wmds, But Bush and Blair Continue to Cite Him to Drum Up Support for War, and the U.S. Media Buries the Story: An Interview with Former Unscom Chair Rolf Eke
Today we bring you a complicated story about President Bush, Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, top-level Iraqi defector Hussein Kamel, and the US media.
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"The Thirty Year Itch: For Three Decades, Washington Hawks Have Pushed for the U.S. to Seize Control of the Persian Gulf. Their Time Is Now."
"If you were to spin the globe and look for real estate critical to building an American empire, your first stop would have to be the Persian Gulf. The desert sands of this region hold two of every three barrels of oil in the world–Iraq’s reserves alone are equal, by some estimates, to those of Russia, the United States, China and Mexico combined. For the past 30 years, the Gulf has been in the crosshairs of an influential group of Washington foreign-policy strategists who believe that in order to ensure its global dominance the United States must seize control of it."
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