-Caveat Lector- Lead-in to opinion at www.the- times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/99/08/25/timopnope01003.html?1124027 > Our campaign of bombing and sanctions only strengthens Saddam > > Britain's secret wars > > Believe it or not, Britain is still at war. You may shrug. You > may think that pocket wars have become the adventure tourism of > Labour foreign policy. But British troops are engaging an enemy. > They are bombing, killing and spending a million pounds a week. > They have been fighting Saddam Hussein since he evicted United > Nations weapons inspectors from Iraq last December. The > inspectors remain out, and Saddam remains in. > > Small wonder the war has been kept secret. The last time it was > mentioned in Parliament was in June. Enemy casualties are > mounting. Last week 19 Iraqi civilians were reported killed in a > single day, topping the 17 killed when a missile hit a Basra > housing estate in January. Asked about the point of all this on > radio this week, a Foreign Office Minister, Geoff Hoon, was > reduced to the Vietnam "My Lai" defence, that civilians had to > die for their own protection. Another minister, John Spellar, was > asked about reports that he had just bombed the tomb of St > Matthew, no less. He claimed ignorance of the report. Ministers, > like their pilots, are fighting this war from above a thick cloud > base. <<End lead-in to Times>> Lead-in to ITN article www.itn.co.uk/World/world19990824/082402w.htm > St Matthew's tomb 'damaged in air strike'The tomb of St Matthew > has been damaged in an Allied air strike on a military target in > Iraq, according to reports. > > Britain's Ministry of Defence confirmed that Allied aircraft did > hit an air defence target at Ba'ashiqah on August 10, but could > not say if there was damage to the Christian site. > > However, the MoD supported the continuing raids against Iraq, > saying that British and US air crews are defending the local > ethnic populations in the north and south from Saddam Hussein. <<End lead-in to ITN article>> Lead-in to Wash(DC) post article http://search.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WAPO/19990824/V000099- 082499-idx.html > Iraq: Lab's Destruction a Cover Up > > By Edith M. Lederer > Associated Press Writer > Tuesday, August 24, 1999; 4:04 a.m. EDT > > UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- Iraq has claimed VX nerve gas and other > chemical agents in a Baghdad laboratory were destroyed to cover > up illegitimate activities by U.N. weapons inspectors. > > In a letter to the U.N. 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