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Christiane Amanpour: Aid as a psychological tool: It is not just about humanitarian aid for the needy, but also as a very powerful political and psychological tool. For the British, certainly, this war is as much about heavy metal fighting as it is about winning hearts and minds. We keep getting this message every day about how they want to get the civilian population on their side and this is part of that battle.
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Russia to ‘lose out on Iraqi oil': Russia’s top oil company LUKoil, which cancelled a lucrative contract with Baghdad last December following reports that the oil firm was in contact with exiled opposition groups, is unlikely to receive any favourable treatment, Tokarev said.
“No one is going to ask them (the Iraqi opposition) who is going to work there.
“There will be a puppet government, and the United States and Britain will themselves carve up the cake,” he said, expressing the view that it was “obvious” the main object of the US-led war was to control Iraqi oil reserves.
Israelis fear Blair’s influence over Bush: But he was caught off guard by Mr Bush’s announcement that the road map would be published as soon as a Palestinian prime minister was in place, and that it would lead to the creation of a viable independent state. The Israelis blame Mr Blair for the hardening of the American president’s position.
However, some of Mr Sharon’s aides are counting on powerful hawks in the US administration and the power of the pro-Israel lobby to offset Mr Blair’s influence once the Iraq war is out of the way. Israel’s conduct severely harms the American position. The Bush administration needs to distance itself from Israel to shrink its independent power. It is becoming a liability.
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