----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 6:10 PM Subject: Britain: Iraq could get more [STOPNATO.ORG.UK] STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Build a marketing database and send targeted HTML and text e-mail newsletters to your customers with List Builder. http://www.listbuilder.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UPI News Article: Britain: Iraq could get more http://www.vny.com/cf/news/upidetail.cfm?QID=160911 =============== + ================= Saturday, 17 February 2001 8:17 (ET) Britain: Iraq could get more LONDON, Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Officials warned Saturday that Britain and the United States would launch more air and missile attacks against Iraq if Saddam Hussein persisted with "further aggression." British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook and Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon, who authorized London's role with Washington in Friday's attack on six air defense installations in Iraq, made it clear the allies are ready to strike again unless Saddam backs off. Iraq said two people were killed and 20 injured in the raids Friday, and the Baghdad government issued a statement on government television vowing "we will fight them in the air, land and sea, and their aggression will achieve nothing but failure." "Saddam Hussein should be clear that we will not tolerate continued attempts to endanger the lives of our aircrews," Hoon said. "But if he stops shooting at us, there will be no need for the RAF (Royal Air Force) to attack his air defenses." Cook echoed the warning: "There is one very simple way in which the bombing can stop -- it does not need to happen again -- that is for Saddam Hussein to stop targeting our pilots." "We cannot ask British pilots to patrol the no-fly zones and not act when we see Saddam Hussein preparing to shoot them down," the foreign secretary told a Labor Party spring conference in Glasgow on Saturday. But the hard response to the alleged Iraqi aggression drew some opposition in British Prime Minister Tony Blair's own ruling Labor Party. Tony Benn, a leading member of the party's left wing, demanded that Blair immediately recall Parliament to debate the issue. Benn sent a letter to the prime minister, saying "I am writing to ask for the immediate recall of Parliament to allow the defense secretary to make a statement about today's (Friday's) bombing of Iraq by American and British aircraft." Been added "these attacks cannot be justified in international law and will certainly increase tension in the area at a time when the Palestinian-Israeli situation is worsening." Hoon defended the attack. "We are quite confident that in international law our pilots have the right to defend themselves when they come under attack." -- Copyright 2001 by United Press International. All rights reserved. =============== + ================= Please support: http://www.antiwar.com and http://www.space4peace.org. =============== + ================= ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
