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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 16 Oktober 2005 / Time Line October 16, 2005
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10/16/2005
SA clamp on war zones
By Peter Fabricius, Jani Meyer & Noelene Barbeau
http://www.sundaytribune.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=160&fArticleId=2948298
Thousands of South Africans doing security work in Iraq and other
conflict areas face arrest under sweeping new anti-mercenary
legislation recently approved by the cabinet.
The Bill goes even further by outlawing humanitarian work in
conflict areas without authorisation from the South African
government.
The Prohibition of Mercenary Activity and Prohibition and
Regulation of Certain Activities in an area of Armed Conflict Bill
is now being scrutinised by the state law adviser before being
tabled in parliament.
It is expected to meet strong opposition by the time the window for
public comment closes on October 31.
If passed, it will replace the original mercenary legislation, the
1999 Regulation of Foreign Military Assistance Act - which the
government considered too weak to secure enough convictions against
mercenaries.
10/16/2005
Bush to Blair: First Iraq, Then Saudi
By Marie Woolf
The Independent UK
Sunday 16 October 2005
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/3730
George Bush told the Prime Minister two months before the invasion
of Iraq that Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Iran and North Korea may also
be dealt with over weapons of mass destruction, a top secret
Downing Street memo shows.
The US President told Tony Blair, in a secret telephone
conversation in January 2003 that he "wanted to go beyond
Iraq".
He implied that the military action against Saddam Hussein was only
a first step in the battle against WMD proliferation in a series of
countries.
Mr Bush said he "wanted to go beyond Iraq in dealing with WMD
proliferation", says the letter on Downing Street paper, marked
secret and personal.
No 10 said yesterday it would "not comment on leaked documents".
But the revelation that Mr Bush was considering tackling other
countries over WMD before the Iraq war has shocked MPs. Saudi
Arabia and Pakistan have been close allies of the US in the war
against terror and have not been considered targets in relation to
WMD.
The confidential memo recording the President's explosive remarks
was written by Michael Rycroft, then the Prime Minister's private
secretary and foreign policy adviser. He sent the two-page letter
recording the conversation between the two leaders on 30 January
2003 to Simon McDonald, who was then private secretary to Jack
Straw, the Foreign Secretary.
Mr Rycroft said it "must only be shown to those with a real need to
know ".
The revelation that Mr Bush told the Prime Minister Iraq should be
seen as a first step comes in the American edition of Lawless
World, a book by the leading international lawyer Philippe Sands
QC, who is also a professor of law at University College London and
senior barrister at Matrix chambers, which he shares with Cherie
Blair...
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