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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (4396)	3/28/2003 8:18:40 AM
From: zonder	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

Since you reject that option, as most, then you agree with the former, that she was fully aware that Saddam would be encouraged to take action against Kuwait upon hearing her say "We're cool, this is between you two".

To: Art Bechhoefer who wrote (4396)	3/28/2003 9:02:27 AM
From: Doug R	Respond to of 21614

Exhibiting PoWs unlikely to be recognised as a war crime Exhibiting prisoners of war (PoWs) for public scrutiny may constitute a breach of the Geneva Conventions but this is nevertheless unlikely to be recognised as a war crime, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). [Jane's Defence Weekly - 27 March 2003] Russia protests at U-2 flights and US allegations of sales to Iraq Russia's Ministry for Foreign Affairs filed a formal protest to the US government on 22 March over "continuing flights of reconnaissance aircraft along Russian borders". [Jane's Defence Weekly - 27 March 2003] UK commanders ponder how to take down Basra Senior UK commanders are now starting to revise their strategy to deal with determined Iraqi resistance in the country's second city, Basra, with one senior UK military source here commenting: "We are in a situation here." [Jane's Defence Weekly - 27 March 2003]