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...suicide put the dispute back on the front pages and in a "weird new dimension," says a Whitehall official. The Daily Mail's headline after he died captures the feverish anger at the government: proud of yourselves?, it reads, over pictures of Blair, Campbell and Defense Minister Geoff Hoon. At a press conference in Japan, on an Asian trip that seemed almost surreal in its bad timing, a visibly shaken Blair was even asked if he had "blood on his hands." That's because Campbell was apparently instrumental in arranging the testimony that caused Kelly such heartache. How did that...
...Star Wars British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon announced his government's "preliminary" go-ahead to upgrade computers at the Fylingdales radar station as part of the still-embryonic U.S. missile-defense system. Fylingdales, along with bases in Greenland and the U.S., would provide early warning of incoming missiles, which - if everything works right - would then be intercepted and destroyed outside the earth's atmosphere. Hoon said the government hadn't yet decided whether to allow antimissile interceptor rockets on British soil. But he argued that ballistic missiles from states including Iraq and North Korea represented a potential "threat...
...British university graduate Abu Ibrahim--put the numbers at between 600 and 700. British authorities, however, speculated that volunteers probably amounted to a few dozen. Conservative peer Norman Tebbit suggested that it would be treason for British citizens to take up arms against Anglo-American forces. Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon warned that those who did fight for the Taliban might face prosecution should they return...
...Defence Staff reported "significant" damage to Yugoslav tanks from nato bombing. After the fighting, most destroyed "tanks" were found to be crude wooden fakes. NATO officials later conceded that many war claims had been knowingly exaggerated to impress public opinion. So now should we believe British Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon?s statement that bombing has destroyed all nine al-Qaeda training camps...
...Freeny, Rachel S.C. Friedman, Kimberlee R. Garris, Jamie H. Ginott, Rebecca P. Gogel, Jennifer L. Gooden, Alexander H. Gourevitch, Elizabeth A. Greenwood, Nicholas R. Guydosh, Bilqis B. Hijjas, Susannah L. Hollister, Justin E. Howell, Katherine Huang, Inga-britt C. Hunter, Radu P. Iovita, Sarah E. Kennedy, Humayun Khalid, Hoon-Jung Kim, Joshua N. Lambert, Robert A. Lauridsen, Courtney H. Leimkuhler, Paula R. Levy, Sarah E. Lewis, Jie Li, Jennifer L. Liu, Patrick P. Liu, James B. Lounsbury, Rochelle K. Mackey, Luba T. Mandzy, Adam G.W. Matthews, Emily O. Matthews, Zoe B. McKee, Marianne E. McPherson, Gabriel Mendlow, Paul M. Monteleoni...