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BEYOND IC21?
http://www.moretothepoint.com/
Intelligence and Claims of Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction listen
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Powell all said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. So did Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. France and Russia never denied it. David Kay, America's former top weapons inspector, once thought so too but has concluded that he and other intelligence experts "were all wrong" about what they were telling political leaders. Skeptics, both here and abroad, still suspect evidence was manipulated to justify war in Iraq. How could so many intelligence agencies have been so wrong about weapons of mass destruction? What was the intelligence based on? Were analysts stuck with out-dated assumptions? What kind of evidence should be required to justify pre-emptive war? We speak with journalists, former CIA intelligence officials, political scientists and the head of the Carnegie Institute's Non-Proliferation Project.


ON PAKISTAN...

FOGGY SPEAK...
http://www.theworld.org/latesteditions/20040129.shtml
Pakistan interview (4:00)
The US Department of Defense is planning a spring offensive in Afghanistan. The US military hopes to find Osama bin Ladin this year, but if he crosses into Pakistan, the hunt could get complicated. Pakistan said today it won't allow US forces on its territory. The World's Lisa Mullins speaks with Teresita Schaffer, Director of the South Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

...STREAMING BBC - DISAGGREGATE ENGLISH CLUSTERS?
10:00 PM 1/29/2004
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/index.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/indepth/cluster/2004/01/040120_pak_nuclear_special.shtml