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21.11.02, 18:57
Bush seeks war aid from 50 countries
By Rupert Cornwell and Stephen Castle
21 November 2002
Terror and security
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The United States set about building an ad hoc coalition for a possible war
with Iraq as President George Bush said yesterday that the slightest delay or
defiance by Saddam Hussein would invite "the severest consequences".
On the eve of a historic Nato summit welcoming seven new members, Mr Bush
said terrorism had supplanted the former Soviet Union as the main threat
facing the alliance. "Never has our need for collective defence been more
urgent," he told an audience of students in Prague.
He called President Saddam "a unique and urgent threat" and made it clear
that Baghdad had to make a complete and truthful inventory" of its weapons of
mass destruction by the deadline of 8 December imposed by the United Nations.
To deny their existence would be a lie, the President added, "and deception
this time will not be tolerated".
More than 50 US embassies are sounding out countries for their assistance in
an invasion of Iraq. America intends to cap the Prague summit – which will
extend invitations for membership to Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia
and the three Baltic countries – with a formal endorsement by the alliance of
its policy on Iraq. Nato as such will not be involved in any attack.
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