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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (7731)	2/12/2003 10:54:41 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 25898

Rice urges Blix to be tough on Iraq WASHINGTON -- US President George W. Bush's national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, on Tuesday met with chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix to press him to acknowledge that Iraq has failed to scrap its prohibited chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programmes ahead of a Security Council briefing on Friday. 'They talked about the inspection process. Dr Rice wanted to make sure that the inspectors had everything they needed to do their job,' said an administration official, who declined to be named. The hour-long meeting was 'part of the ongoing consultations between the inspectors and members of the UN Security Council,' said the official. The meeting came as France, which wants beefed-up inspections as an alternative to the US push for military action, sent its proposals to Mr Blix and the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog agency Mohamed ElBaradei. The initiatives, first put forth by Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin last week, have been 'transmitted to Mr Blix and Mr ElBaradei for their comments,' a French foreign ministry spokesman said. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said that the proposals were 'off the mark' and did not address disarmament. Mr De Villepin's last week called for the number of UN weapons inspectors be doubled or tripled, and proposed spy planes be deployed on reconnaissance missions and the naming of a 'permanent coordinator' in Baghdad. The proposals also call for a pooling of intelligence resources and the creation of a specialised team tasked with overseeing sites in Iraq already visited by UN inspectors. On Monday, Paris, Berlin and Moscow issued a joint declaration calling for intensified inspections as an alternative to US calls for war against Baghdad. Mr Blix and Mr ElBaradei, who heads the International Atomic Energy Agency, are due to deliver a key progress report on the disarmament inspections to the UN Security Council on Friday. -- AFP straitstimes.asia1.com.sg

To: TigerPaw who wrote (7731)	2/12/2003 10:58:08 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

Biggest protest in British history coming up, folks! >>>MASSIVE PROTEST IN LONDON Feb 13, 2003 500,000 expected at anti-war rally By Alfred Lee STRAITS TIMES EUROPE BUREAU LONDON - All police leave has been cancelled for a massive protest in London on Saturday against a war against Iraq. Government ministers, Scotland Yard police and organisers of the demonstration all agree that more than 500,000 people will take part in the protest - making it the biggest demonstration in British history. It will be the largest assembly of crowds seen in London since VE-Day on May 8, 1945, when Britain celebrated Victory in Europe after World War Two. The entire heart of London will be closed to all traffic on Saturday for the demonstrations, threatening massive car jams. So many people are taking part in the demonstrations that two huge separate marches will take place - one along the banks of the River Thames and past the Houses of Parliament; the other past the busy shopping area of Oxford Street. The marchers will converge at Piccadilly Circus and then march to Hyde Park, where a mammoth rally will take place. It will be the biggest demonstration against a US-led war against Iraq held so far anywhere in the world - with five times the number of protesters that took part in recent protests in Indonesia and 10 times the size of a rally in Munich on Sunday. Over 1,300 London police officers, many on horseback, will be on duty to control the crowds. Scores of closed circuit security cameras have been set up along the routes of the marches and helicopters will give aerial reports to ground controllers. The demonstrations take place amid heightened security in London, which has seen troops and Army armoured vehicles sent to Heathrow airport. Many leading professors, doctors, scientists and other professionals, actors and actresses, and celebrities have already said they will take part in the protests. Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops, Muslim clerics and official representatives of most other faiths will also join in. Scores of schools have organised large groups of pupils and dozens of large trade unions will have contingents of members in the demonstration. But it will be ordinary members of the public who make up the largest percentage of demonstrators. They are coming to London from across Britain, the rest of Europe and the US. Politicians who will march include the Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Liberal Democratic Party leader Charles Kennedy and many Labour MPs including veteran left-winger Tony Benn, who recently had a face-to-face interview with Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Among the main speakers at the Hyde Park rally will be US civil and human rights campaigner Jesse Jackson. Scotland Yard police said: 'The public has a right to demonstrate and it is our job to see that it is peaceful.'<<< straitstimes.asia1.com.sg