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To: calgal who wrote (3404)1/25/2003 4:43:28 AM
From: calgal  Respond to of 8683
 
Saturday, Jan. 25, 2003
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U.S. Counts on Support from a Dozen Countries - Powell
ZURICH (Reuters) - The United States is counting on support from "at least a dozen" governments if it decides to attack Iraq without a fresh U.N. resolution, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Saturday.

Powell said these unnamed governments, like Washington, would prefer a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq, but would not insist on that.

"There are quite a number of countries that already have indicated that they would like to have another resolution, but without another resolution they will be with us," he told reporters on his way to an annual economic gathering in the Swiss town of Davos.

"I don't want to give you names or give you a count...but we would not be alone, that's for sure. I could rattle off at least a dozen off memory, and I think that there will be