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Hussein Rejects Ultimatum; U.S. Hones Its Plans for War
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersWar ticked ever closer Tuesday as Saddam Hussein appeared on television in uniform and rejected with contempt President Bush's ultimatum to relinquish power and flee Iraq by tonight. Instead, his foreign minister suggested that Bush and British Prime...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Los Angeles Times, Unrest, Conflicts and War, George W. Bush, Weaponry
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U.S. Forces Enter Iraq
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersU.S. and British troops swept into southern Iraq on Thursday in an invasion aimed at Baghdad, where a new wave of missiles and bombs struck a presidential compound housing several government departments at the heart of Saddam Hussein's power. The...Tags: Government Departments, Religious Conflicts, Los Angeles Times, Guerrilla Activity, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Turkey: We won't send more troops
Tribune foreign correspondentThe Turkish government backed away from its threat to send more troops into northern Iraq, defusing--at least for the moment--a potentially explosive conflict between the Turks and Iraqi Kurds, with U.S. Special Forces troops trapped in the middle. A...Tags: George W. Bush, Migration, Saddam Hussein, Mosul (Iraq), Baghdad (Iraq)
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U.S., British are readying new resolution for U.N.
Associated PressWASHINGTON - The Bush administration and its closest ally, Britain, are planning to present a new resolution to the United Nations Security Council on Monday in a bid for support to use force to disarm Iraq. Finishing touches were being put on the...Tags: PBS (tv network), Guerrilla Activity, Unrest, Conflicts and War, NATO, George W. Bush
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Louder Than Bombs
The intensive strategic alliance between Turkey and the United States, which has been maintained since the World War II both on a bilateral basis and within NATO, has nowadays become even more significant as a result of the pending Iraq question. Even...Tags: Religious Conflicts, European Union, Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, NATO
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Tension is high along border of Turkey, Iraq
Sun Foreign StaffSILOPI, Turkey - The air near Turkey's border with Iraq echoed with thunder and smelled of mud and fear. Lightning flashed along the banks of the Tigris River as a thunderstorm rolled down mountain slopes. A few covered trucks splashed through lakes of...Tags: Politics, Rivers, Bodies of Water, Iraq, Refugee
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Powell Hails Afghan Deal but Warns of Hard Work Ahead
Times Staff WriterSecretary of State Colin L. Powell heralded the historic agreement Wednesday creating a new broad-based government for war-ravaged Afghanistan, but he warned that the naming of a new interim administration is only the beginning phase of a long process....Tags: Colin Powell, Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, NATO, Kabul (Afghanistan)
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2 soldiers, 3 Iraqis injured in grenade attack in Baghdad
Los Angeles TimesBAGHDAD, Iraq -- Five people were injured yesterday when a man dropped a grenade on U.S. soldiers delivering mattresses to a university dormitory in Baghdad, and two Arab television networks broadcast videos of masked fighters calling for continued...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Los Angeles Times, Unrest, Conflicts and War, George W. Bush, Heat Stroke
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Turkey braces for wartime miseries
Chicago Tribune foreign correspondentTo understand why Turkey, one of America's staunchest allies, has had to be dragged kicking and screaming onto the U.S. war bandwagon against Iraq, one need look no further than the vast truck graveyards ringing this old caravan town on the fabled Silk...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Economic Sanctions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Weaponry, Defense
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Powell sets trip to mend fences
Tribune senior correspondentSeeking to repair two of the Bush administration's most serious diplomatic breaches in the run-up to the Iraq war, Secretary of State Colin Powell will travel to Turkey and Belgium this week to try to head off fresh complications threatening the war...Tags: Colin Powell, Religious Conflicts, Travel, Unrest, Conflicts and War, NATO
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U.S. impatience sank troop deal, some officials say
Special to the TribuneSenior Turkish officials say the United States could have had access to Turkish air bases and permission to move troops through Turkish territory to create a northern front in Iraq if they had given parliament a few more days to pass the necessary...Tags: Elections, Colin Powell, NATO, George W. Bush, Abdullah Gul
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Turkey to send troops to aid fight
New York Times News ServiceTurkey said Thursday that it would deploy 90 Special Forces troops to Afghanistan, making it the first Muslim nation to join the U.S.-led attacks on the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. Turkish officials said the soldiers would be sent to northern...Tags: Ramadan, Religious Conflicts, Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, NATO
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