Bush Gives Saddam 48 Hours to Flee Iraq
President Bush on Monday gave Saddam Hussein a 48-hour deadline to flee Iraq or face a U.S.-led invasion, saying American forces will wage war "at a time of our choosing."

FLASHBACK: Bilderberg decide in May 2002 to launch Iraq war in early 2003

British Prime Minister Tony Blair calls emergency cabinet meeting
Blair arrived home Sunday night after a meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush on the mid-Atlantic Azores Islands. The leaders gave the United Nations a 24-hour deadline to endorse the use of force to compel Iraq's immediate disarmament.

	U.S. Advises Inspectors to Leave Baghdad
In the clearest sign yet that war with Iraq is imminent, the United States has advised U.N. weapons inspectors to begin pulling out of Baghdad, the U.N. nuclear agency chief said Monday UN Observers Cease Operations on Iraq-Kuwait Border U.N. observers ceased all operations on the Iraq-Kuwait border Monday, moving to a heightened state of alert for U.N. workers there

	Pentagon to put troops on 'hair-trigger' alert
As part of the final preparations, the United States is hastily building a desert airstrip in the United Arab Emirates to base more than 100 fighter planes that Turkey won't allow on its soil. Meanwhile, 10 U.S. warships and two submarines have been repositioned in the Red Sea.

	Aussies in Iraq told: Get out now
The Federal Government has urged the almost 50 Australians still in Iraq to leave immediately

Britons advised to leave Kuwait
The Foreign Office today advised all Britons in Kuwait except diplomatic staff to the leave the country as soon as possible

NBC, ABC Pull Reporters From Baghdad After Comments Indicating War
The Bush administration has advised journalists to leave Baghdad, but NBC and ABC would be the first major television networks to remove staff voluntarily from the Iraqi capital

Foreign Ministry advises Russian nationals to leave Iraq
The Russian Foreign Ministry has asked Russian nationals to leave Iraq and to refrain from travel to that country.

US orders diplomats to leave Israel, Syria, Kuwait
The United States ordered its non-essential diplomats and the families of all embassy personnel to leave Israel, Syria and Kuwait, in a move that could signal a war with Iraq is imminent

	Hollywood Designer Creates Military Media Center
The new, state-of-the-art room, designed by George Allison, is equipped with a 38-foot world map, two podiums, 70-inch projection screens, five 50-inch plasma screen TVs that can show maps, graphics and videos of the action and five digital clocks set to time zones all over the globe.

Veterans tell Bush: 'Gulf war will be worse than Vietnam'
1000 US servicemen and women warn military action will wipe out cities and breed terrorism

Top US military planner fears a 'likely' repeat of Somalia bloodbath
A former military aide to General Norman Schwarzkopf has warned that a US-led war against Iraq could turn into a disaster that echoes the bloody debacle of Somalia

	Rumsfeld urged Clinton to attack Iraq for Oil
Rumsfeld, the US defence secretary, and his deputy Paul Wolfowitz wrote to President Bill Clinton in 1998 urging war against Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein because he is a 'hazard' to 'a significant portion of the world's supply of oil'.

U.S. Lacks Specifics on Banned Arms
Despite the Bush administration's claims about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, U.S. intelligence agencies have been unable to give Congress or the Pentagon specific information about the amounts of banned weapons or where they are hidden, according to administration officials and members of Congress.

Dubious claims erode US credibility
Questionable US and British intelligence assertions about purported Iraqi weapons of mass destruction have undercut the Bush administration's credibility in building a case before the UN Security Council, according to analysts and some diplomats.

Ex-CIA Accuse Bush of Manipulating Iraq Evidence
The 25-member group, Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity, composed mostly of former CIA analysts along with a few operational agents, is urging employees inside the intelligence agency to break the law and leak any information they have that could show the Bush administration is engineering the release of evidence to match its penchant for war.