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A BRITISH journalist was abducted from his hotel in the southern city of Basra, Iraqi police said today. About 30 gunmen, including some dressed as police, stormed the Diyafah Hotel in Basra on Thursday, CaptainHashem Abdullah said. Hotel owner Mohammed Uglah said gunmen found the man, reportedly a journalist for The Sunday Telegraph of London, and shot him twice in the leg before taking him away.

Attack Iran, US chief ordered British By Michael Smith, Defence Correspondent (Filed: 30/06/2004) America's military commander in Iraq ordered British troops to prepare a full-scale ground offensive against Iranian forces that had crossed the border and grabbed disputed territory, a senior officer has disclosed. An attack would almost certainly have provoked open conflict with Iran. But the British chose instead to resolve the matter through diplomatic channels. Lt Gen Ricardo Sanchez "If we had attacked the Iranian positions, all hell would have broken loose," a defence source said yesterday. "We would have had the Iranians to our front and the...

UK Newspaper Says Documents Link Bin Laden to Iraq Sat Apr 26, 5:19 PM ET Add Top Stories - Reuters to My Yahoo! LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper said it had discovered documents showing Iraqi intelligence hosted an envoy from Osama bin Laden (news - web sites) in 1998 and sought to meet the alleged September 11 mastermind in person. The finding, if verified, would appear to support Washington's assertion of links between ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) and bin Laden, one of the justifications for the U.S.-led war in Iraq (news - web...

UK Newspaper Says Documents Link Bin Laden to IraqSat April 26, 2003 05:13 PM ETLONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper said it had discovered documents showing Iraqi intelligence hosted an envoy from Osama bin Laden in 1998 and sought to meet the alleged September 11 mastermind in person. The finding, if verified, would appear to support Washington's assertion of links between ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and bin Laden, one of the justifications for the U.S.-led war in Iraq. The paper said the documents, which its correspondent found in the wrecked headquarters of the Iraqi Mukhabarat intelligence service, showed...