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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 4. Mars 2005 / Time Line March 4, 2005
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UK reveals payments for Iraqi intelligence
By Christopher Adams
The Financial Times
The US paid Iraqi opposition leaders millions of dollars a year for
intelligence on Saddam Hussein's regime that later proved flawed,
according to official documents published by the British
government.
A confidential paper, drawn up by the Foreign Office in July last
year, said the Iraqi National Congress, led by Ahmed Chalabi, was
"in receipt of approximately $4m per annum from the US
government"...
03/04/2005
Historical Records Mysteriously Disappear from Kew
Over 1,600 historical documents recently disappeared from the
National Archives at Kew, England. The missing records include 12th
century accounts from the court of Edward I, private papers for
past prime ministers, and many more.
In an article that appears 27 February 2005, the London based
Sunday Telegraph newspaper reported on how it obtained the alarming
information through the British Freedom of Information Act.
Speculation grows over the possibility of misfiled records or the
deliberate removal during loans to government agencies. According
to historian Andrew Roberts, while the number of papers lost was
insignificant given the size of the archive, nevertheless, it is
especially worrying that documents dating back to the Middle Ages
had gone missing. According to Roberts, "This sort of primary
source material is difficult to get hold of and there are not going
to be any copies." Courtesy of the History News Network, you can
access the article at:
http://hnn.us/readcomment.php?id=55055
writes NCH WASHINGTON UPDATE (Vol. 11, 9; 4 March 2005).
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