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Tagged: 2003

February 21, 2003

Download MP3 Japan Will Strike North Korea First Japanese government officials have announced their intentions to launch pre-emptive strikes against North Korea if they discover North Korean plans of a missile attack against Japan.  Japan’s...

February 20, 2003

Download MP3 Turks Resist US Pressure The Turkish Parliament is today considering a motion on whether to allow US forces to use their land to open up a northern front for a possible war...

February 19, 2003

Download MP3 Bolivian Cabinet Resigns The Bolivian President’s 18-member cabinet resigned today after a week of protests capped off by a march yesterday where tens of thousands again took to the streets angry at...

February 18, 2003

Download MP3 Iraqis Prepare for War President Bush confirmed today that the US is drafting a new UN Resolution on Iraq, though the President also insisted that UN backing was not necessary for a...

February 17, 2003

Download MP3 Millions Protest Pending War French President Jacques Chirac said today that at this point, France would oppose any effort to draft a new U.N. resolution to explicitly authorize war against Iraq. This...

February 14, 2003

Download MP3 Blix: No Weapons of Mass Destruction (4:54) Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix spoke today before the UN Security Council. His message was clear — Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction. Blix...

February 13, 2003

Download MP3 NATO Talks Stall Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld today said the US would not rule out the use of nuclear weapons in a war on Iraq. This as NATO called off talks...

February 12, 2003

Download MP3 Bin Laden Tapes As Secretary of State Colin Powell used yesterday’s supposed Bin Laden tapes to bolster the Administration’s claims that Saddam Hussein has strong links to Al Qaeda, what most of...

February 11, 2003

Download MP3 Baghdad Peace Vigil As Iraqis anxiously await Friday’s UN Security Council briefing by chief inspectors Hans Blix and Mohammed el Baradai, fears are increasing in Iraq that war is inevitable. As people...

February 10, 2003

Download MP3 Inspections and the US No Fly Zones (5:00) Iraq has approved the use of U2 surveillance planes as part of the effort to determine if the country has weapons of mass destruction....