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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (19782)	2/23/2002 10:59:01 PM
From: Glenn Petersen	Read Replies (1) of 281500

I don't think that saving Arafat's ass is going to be high on Bush's agenda: reuters.com Blair and Bush to Plan War on Iraq - Observer Last Updated: February 23, 2002 10:18 PM ET LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bush will meet in April to finalize details of military action against Iraq, The Observer newspaper reported Sunday. The paper said Blair would travel to Washington to give his support for action against Saddam Hussein if the Iraqi leader continued to ignore demands that he destroy his weapons of mass destruction. "The meeting will be to finalize Phase Two of the war against terrorism," the Observer quoted a senior Downing Street official as saying. "Action against Iraq will be at the top of the agenda." Iraq, identified by Bush as belonging to an "axis of evil" in a speech earlier this month, has refused to allow United Nations weapons inspectors into the country since 1998. But public and political opinion in Britain has started to turn against U.S. action on Iraq. The Observer said the British government was planning to publish evidence detailing Iraq's nuclear capabilities to quell criticism from its backbenches and to reassure the public. The document will reveal that Saddam is attempting to amass rudimentary nuclear capabilities and is also investigating a way to launch "dirty" nuclear bombs -- unsophisticated devices that would nevertheless cause havoc if used, the paper said. The Downing Street source told the paper that it was a "public persuasion" issue that was necessary to maintain support for military action against Iraq.

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