There has been an assumption, based on all the reports of troop movements and the increasingly insistent tone of President Bush, that war with Iraq is imminent. However, other sources
President Bushs State of the Union address comes as near to a declaration of war on Iraq as is possible without the guns beginning to fire. It rehearsed all
The idea that Britain might need an exit strategy from its commitment to the Bush administration over Iraq may seem fanciful in this week of all weeks when Tony Blair
Sixteen months after the attacks of 11 September, what is the status of al-Qaida and what are its prospects? Earlier articles in this series (7 November 2002 and 4
Towards the end of 2002 it became evident that the crisis with Iraq was composed of three core elements.
The first was a deep-seated commitment by the more hawkish
Every year for at least the past two decades, a hole in the ozone layer in the stratosphere has formed over the Antarctic during the spring months. The destruction of
It now seems clear, some would say abundantly clear, that the Bush administration is intent on terminating the Saddam Hussein regime, and it is frankly difficult to see how war
As the United Nations (UN) weapons inspection process continues in Iraq, and with mixed signals coming out of Washington, there appears to be some uncertainty over the likelihood of war.
Diplomatic moves by the United States to gain support for the termination of the Saddam Hussein regime have intensified in the past two weeks. One aspect of this has been
An analysis of the status of al-Qaida published a month ago entitled Is al-Qaida winning? came to the conclusion that the organisation had experienced disruption in Afghanistan and
The intense activity of the war on terror, combined with the build-up of US forces in the Gulf for a war with Iraq, has taken attention away from one
The United Nations (UN) inspection process is now getting under way with the arrival of Hans Blix and his team in Baghdad. But an absence of four years means that
