107_day's_iraq_self_rule_after_us_led_war 12 Oct 2004 1 + 106_day's_Iraq_self_rule_after_US_led_war 041012 ... somebody * a_wrong_war_in_21k * Invasion & Occupation in Iraq from 20 Mar 2003 to "actual" and "Physical" date of Cut_and_run ( TBD ) * a_point_in_time: 45_minutes_Claim * 041012 ... 12 Oct 2004 Jack Straw (United_kingdom foreign secretary) has told MPs the claim Saddam Hussein could use weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes has been officially withdrawn. 16:17 GMT 17:17 UK 041012 041012 ... :) What's_next? Iraq_war_apology... Amen. 041012 ... Yahoo! Search Latest headlines: · Franks Says U.S. Should Have Hired Iraqis AP - 29 minutes ago · U.S. Steps Up Iraq Attacks Before Ramadan AP - 52 minutes ago 041012 ... Latest Stories · Dick_Cheney: Iraq Could Have Been Arms Source AP - 55 minutes ago · Saddam_Hussein Said to Have Undergone Operation AP - 1 hour, 1 minute ago · Iraq Donors Meeting Opens in Tokyo AP - 1 hour, 4 minutes ago · Coalition Tried to Rescue Iraq Hostages AP - 1 hour, 24 minutes ago · Britain admits error over Iraq threat amid demands for apology AFP - 1 hour, 44 minutes ago · Evidence of Saddam Sought at Mass Grave AP - 1 hour, 59 minutes ago · U.S. Photographer Kidnapped in Iraq Freed AP - 2 hours, 20 minutes ago · Bush special envoy in Iraqi debt controversy: report AFP - 2 hours, 24 minutes ago · Britain Withdraws Iraq Weapons Claims AP - 2 hours, 30 minutes ago · A Daily Look at U.S. Iraq Military Deaths AP - 2 hours, 38 minutes ago · 600 US scholars flunk Bush on foreign policy AFP - Tue Oct 12, 7:26 PM ET · The Latest Developments in Iraq AP - Tue Oct 12, 7:01 PM ET · Top Shiite Cleric Urges Iraqis to Vote AP - Tue Oct 12, 6:45 PM ET · Afghan polls shows democracy possible in Iraq: Powell AFP - Tue Oct 12, 6:28 PM ET · War in Iraq has made terrorism worse: Blix AFP - Tue Oct 12, 6:14 PM ET · U.S. Tried to Rescue American, UK Hostages - Officials Reuters - Tue Oct 12, 5:32 PM ET · US downplays concerns about missing Iraqi nuclear equipment AFP - Tue Oct 12, 5:17 PM ET · A firefight in the mountains U.S. News & World Report - Tue Oct 12, 5:08 PM ET · Investigators Unearth Grim Clues to Convict Saddam Reuters - Tue Oct 12, 5:04 PM ET · Iraq Says Open to UN Inspectors Amid Nuclear Alarm Reuters - Tue Oct 12, 4:57 PM ET · U.S. Photographer Freed After Abduction in Iraq Reuters - Tue Oct 12, 3:59 PM ET · Attacks in Iraq During Ramadan Last Year AP - Tue Oct 12, 3:52 PM ET · Video: Shiite Muslim Purportedly Beheaded AP - Tue Oct 12, 3:43 PM ET · Chirac Commits France to Iraq Conference AP - Tue Oct 12, 2:58 PM ET 041012 ... News Stories - Oil Firms Say Iraqi Purchases Were Legal - at The Washington Post (reg. req'd) (Oct 12, 2004) - U.S. Says It Hit Terror Targets, but Iraqi Civilians Disagree - at The New York Times (reg. req'd) (Oct 12, 2004) - Halliburton: Iraq Billing Settled Soon - Reuters via Yahoo! News (Oct 12, 2004) - U.S. Photographer Freed After Abduction in Iraq - Reuters via Yahoo! News (Oct 12, 2004) - Iraqi forces raid Ramadi mosques - at CNN.com (Oct 12, 2004) - Saddam undergoes surgery in Baghdad - AFP via Yahoo! News (Oct 12, 2004) - Britain admits error over Iraq threat amid demands for apology - AFP via Yahoo! News (Oct 12, 2004) - Poland has repatriated 34 soldiers from Iraq for psychiatric problems - AFP via Yahoo! News (Oct 12, 2004) - Iraqi Leaders Encourage Sunnis to Vote - AP via Yahoo! News (Oct 12, 2004) - Al-Mahdi army starts handing over weapons - at ArabicNews (Oct 12, 2004) - Militia in Sadr City hand in weapons - at The Guardian (UK). (Oct 12, 2004) - Islamist group beheads Iraqi 'spy' - AFP via Yahoo! News (Oct 12, 2004) - Video: Shiite Muslim Purportedly Beheaded - AP via Yahoo! News (Oct 12, 2004) - Cheney: Iraq Could Have Been Arms Source - AP via Yahoo! News (Oct 12, 2004) - Iraq says nuclear sites 'secure' - at BBC (Oct 12, 2004) - Rumsfeld appeals for NATO help in Iraq - AFP via Yahoo! News (Oct 12, 2004) - U.S. Steps Up Attacks on Iraq Insurgents - AP via Yahoo! News (Oct 12, 2004) - Iraq Says Open to UN Inspectors Amid Nuclear Alarm - Reuters via Yahoo! News (Oct 12, 2004) 041012 ... . - UN Fears Bombmakers May Get Iraq Nuke Items-Diplomats - Reuters via Yahoo! News (Oct 12, 2004) - Iraqi Kurds ready to fight for Kirkuk: Barzani - AFP via Yahoo! News (Oct 12, 2004) - British FM pressed to make 'full apology' on Iraq - AFP via Yahoo! News (Oct 12, 2004) - Ten Turks freed by Iraq militants - at BBC (Oct 12, 2004) - Disarmament Process Starts In Sadr City, Albeit Slowly - washingtonpost.com via Yahoo! News (Oct 12, 2004) - Japan: Participation, Not Pledges, Key in Iraq Meet - Reuters via Yahoo! News (Oct 12, 2004) - Nuclear assets 'vanish' in Iraq - at BBC (Oct 12, 2004) 041012 ... a "point" The US has been blocking full UN inspections in Iraq Equipment and materials that could be used to make nuclear arms have been vanishing in Iraq since the invasion, the United Nations has warned. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3735224.stm The US (United_States) has been blocking full UN (United_Nations) inspections in Iraq 041012 ... . "The disappearance of such equipment and materials may be of proliferation significance" Mohamed ElBaradei, UN's nuclear monitoring agency Iraq's nuclear puzzle http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3736158.stm 041012 what's it to you? who go blather from