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Saddam thirsty for UK weapons
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THE MIDDLE EAST
BACKGROUND
We would come across them from time to time on the battlefields
of the Iran-Iraq war. Amid the ever-so-sweet smell of bodies
rotting in the 120 degree heat, behind berms of sand, alongside
ditches in which the arms and legs and heads of dead men had been
thrown in confusion by the incoming shellfire, we would catch sight
of an artillery piece transhipped to Iran by Noricum, the
state-owned Austrian armaments manufacturer.
Not far from Basra, we w...
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NATO enlargement benefits businesses.
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A QUESTION OF OBLIGATION
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