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US planning to launch lightning strikes on Iraq
Washington: US commanders poised to attack Iraq have "innovative, daring and simultaneous" plans to launch lightning strikes from Kuwait and other bases to storm into Baghdad in not more than three or four days.
US 'frustrated' with Pak efforts to nab terrorists
Washington: US military officials have expressed growing "frustration" with Pakistan in their efforts to nab al-Qaida and Taleban terrorists, notwithstanding recent arrests of the terror networks' operatives in the country.
FBI, CIA confident of dismantling al-Qaida soon
Washington: Encouraged by the arrest of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other top ranking al-Qaida operatives, American intelligence agencies have expressed confidence the terror network would soon be dismantled.
Blair convenes war Cabinet to discuss strategy
London: With a diplomatic consensus in the UN Security Council to resolve the Iraq standoff eluding, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has held an emergency 'war Cabinet' meeting to review the military's readiness, which also gave the UN time till March 17 to choose between war and peace.
FMs call for meet at UNSC, diplomats sceptical
United Nations: In an attempt to breathe life into the dying diplomatic process, France, Russia and Germany called for a meeting of the United Nations Security Council at Foreign Ministers' level on Iraqi crisis on March 18, but diplomats say it is futile unless there is real change of heart by major powers, which is highly unlikely.
US readies Iraqi officials' list for post-war trial
New York: With war seemingly imminent in the Gulf, the US has prepared a list of several senior Iraqi officials, including Saddam Hussein's two sons, who would be tried for war crimes or crimes against humanity after an American-led attack on Iraq, a senior American official was quoted as saying.
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