Iraq disarmament crisis

Belgium, with an area of 30,528 km², has three main geographical regions: the coastal plain in the north-west, the central plateau, and the Ardennes uplands in the south-east. The coastal plain consists mainly of sand dunes and polders. Polders are areas of land, close to or below sea level that have been reclaimed from the sea, from which they are protected by dikes or, further inland, by fields that have been drained with canals. The second geographical region, the central plateau, lies further inland. This is a smooth, slowly rising area that has many fertile valleys and is ...

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Multinational force in Iraq - The origin of the phrase. The precise origins of the phrase are unknown, but it has been used since at least the late 1980s to refer to groups of nations acting collectively without regard to United Nations opinion. Specific uses of the phrase in the context of disarming Iraq began appearing in mid 2001. The first American President known to have publicly mentioned acting with a "Coalition of the Willing" in place of a UN Mandate was Bill Clinton. The phrase was later used by George W. Bush to refer both ...

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The population density (342 per km²) is one of the highest in Europe, after the Netherlands and some smaller countries such as Monaco. The areas with the highest population density are around the Brussels-Antwerp-Ghent-Leuven agglomerations, as well as other important urban centres as Liège, Charleroi, Kortrijk, Bruges, Hasselt and Namur. The Ardennes have the lowest density. As of 2005, the Flemish Region has a population of about 6,043,161, Wallonia 3,395,942 and Brussels 1,006,749.^{See also:}

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Today, the term WMD means different things to different people. The most widely used definition is that of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons (NBC). http://www.state.gov/www/global/arms/treaties/mtcr_anx.html]), although there is no treaty or customary international law that contains an authoritative definition. Instead, international law has been used with respect to the specific categories of weapons within WMD, and not to WMD as a whole. The acronym NBC is used with regards to battlefield protection systems for armoured vehicl ...

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Densely populated, Belgium is located at the heart of one of the world's most highly industrialised regions. Belgium was the first continental European country to undergo the Industrial Revolution, in the early 1800s. Liège and Charleroi rapidly developed mining and steelmaking, which flourished until the mid-20th century. However, by the 1840s the textile industry of Flanders was in severe crisis and there was famine in Flanders (1846–50). After World War II, Ghent and Antwerp experienced a fast expansion of the chemical and petro ...

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Belgium is a constitutional popular monarchy and parliamentary democracy that evolved after World War II from a unitary state to a federation. The bicameral parliament is composed of a Senate and a Chamber of Representatives. The former is a mix of directly elected senior politicians and representatives of the communities and regions; while the latter represents all Belgians over the age of eighteen in a proportional voting system. Belgium is one of the few countries that has compulsory voting, thus having one of the highest rates of voter t ...

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The country's constitution was revised on 14 July 1993 to create a unique federal state, based on three levels: The federal government, based in Brussels. The three language communities: the Flemish (i.e., Dutch-speaking) Community; the French (i.e., French-speaking) Community; and the German-speaking Community. The three regions (which differ from the language communities with respect to the German-speaking community and the Brussels region): the Flemish Region;< ...

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1994 - January. January 1 - Arthur Espie Porritt, New Zealand politician and athlete (b. 1900) January 5 - Thomas P. 'Tip' O'Neill, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (b. 1912) January 9 - Johnny Temple, baseball player (b. 1927) January 15 - Harry Nilsson, American musician (b. 1941) January 17 - Helen Stephens, American runner (b. 1918) January 22 - Telly Savalas, American actor (b. 1924) January 23 - Brian Redhead, British journalist and bro ...

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1996 - January-February. January 2 - Karl Targownik, Hungarian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor (b. 1915) January 5 - Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian terrorist (b. 1966) January 8 - François Mitterrand, President of France (b. 1916) January 15 - Paramount Chief Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (b. 1938) January 17 - Barbara Jordan, American politician (b. 1936) January 18 - Leonor Fini, Argentine artist (b. 1908) January 20 - Gerry Mulligan, American musician (b. ...

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1993 - February. February 5 - Joseph L. Mankiewicz, American writer, producer, and director (b. 1909) February 5 - Tip Tipping, American actor and stuntman (parachuting accident) (b. 1958) February 6 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player and activist (b. 1943) February 11 - Robert W. Holley, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1922) February 18 - Jacqueline Hill, British actress (b. 1929) February 20 - Ferruccio Lamborg ...

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The distinction between the characterization of the foreign forces as occupiers or liberators has become a matter of dispute in itself (see 2003 occupation of Iraq), as well as a matter of domestic concern within the United States. Nominally, the occupation ended on June 28, 2004, but for those who questioned the legitimacy of the US-appointed interim governments it continued. Indeed, the expulsion of the occupation forces is a major stated aim of Iraqi guerilla fighters. U.S. president Bush disagreed with the rationale of the insurgents, claiming that "...what is causing vio ...

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Belgium, with an area of 30,528 km², has three main geographical regions: the coastal plain in the north-west, the central plateau, and the Ardennes uplands in the south-east. The coastal plain consists mainly of sand dunes and polders. Polders are areas of land, close to or below sea level that have been reclaimed from the sea, from which they are protected by dikes or, further inland, by fields that have been drained with canals. The second geographical region, the central plateau, lies further inland. This is a smooth, slowly rising ...

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In Australia there was little public debate about the scale or military impact of the Australian commitment. Instead, public debate centred on the more fundamental question of whether forces should be sent at all, and if so, whether they should take part without explicit United Nations backing. Australians generally regard their soldiers, sailors and airmen as a highly trained elite group, worthy of comparison with any in the world. Their ability to affect the course of the war in a significant way is limited by the different and rela ...

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The Australian military contribution was relatively small, around 2000 personnel in total, which is also smaller than other Coalition commitments in proportional terms. Calculated on a military personnel per head of population basis, the Australian forces could have been seven times larger and still not have been equal to the per-capita commitments of either the United States or the United Kingdom. The overall purpose of the Australian commitment to the US invasion of Iraq is difficult to define with certainty. According to Prime Mini ...

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1999 - January-April. January 14 - Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director (b. 1933) January 25 - Robert Shaw, American conductor (b. 1916) January 31 - Norm Zauchin, baseball player (b. 1929) February 1 - Paul Mellon, American philanthropist (b. 1907) February 5 - Wassily Leontief, Russian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906) February 7 - King Hussein of Jordan (b. 1935) February 8 - Iris Murdoch, Anglo-Irish author (b. 1919) February 15 ...

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2000 - January. January 2 - Patrick O'Brian, English writer (b. 1914) January 15 - Fran Ryan, American actress (b. 1916) January 19; Bettino Craxi, Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1934) Hedy Lamarr, Austrian actress (b. 1913) 2000 - February. February 9 - Beau Jack, American boxer (b. 1921) February 10 - Jim Varney, Actor (b. 1949) February 11 - Roger Vadim, French film director (b. 1928) Feb ...

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1997 - January-May. January 10 - Sheldon Leonard, American producer, actor, director January 10 - Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1907) January 12 - Charles B. Huggins, Canadian-born cancer researcher, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1901) January 17 - Clyde Tombaugh, American astronomer (b. 1906) January 19 - James Dickey, American poet and novelist (b. 1923) January 20 - Curt Flood, American b ...

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1992 - Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel. Gary Becker ...

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1992 - January-April. January 3 - Dame Judith Anderson, Australian actress (b. 1897) January 9 - Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910) January 23 - Freddie Bartholomew, Irish actor (b. 1924) January 26 - José Ferrer, Puerto Rican actor (b. 1912) January 27 - Allan Jones, American actor and singer (b. 1908) January 29 - Willie Dixon, American composer and musician (b. 1915) February 2 - Bert Parks, American game show host (b. 1914) Februar ...

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1991 - January-February. January 5 - Vasko Popa, Yugoslavian poet (b. 1922) January 8 - Steve Clark, English guitarist (Def Leppard) (b.1960) January 11 - Carl David Anderson, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905) January 17 - King Olav V of Norway (b. 1903) January 29 - Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian (b. 1907) January 30 - John Bardeen, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908 January 30 - John McIntire, American actor (b. 1907) ...

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1995 - January-February. January 1 - Fred West, English serial killer (suicide) (b. 1941) January 1 - Eugene Wigner, Hungarian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1902) January 7 - Murray Rothbard, American economist (b. 1926) January 9 - Peter Cook, English comedian and writer (b. 1937) January 18 - Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1903) January 18 - Ron Luciano, baseball umpire (b. 1937) January 22 - Rose Kennedy, American phil ...

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For more deaths see: Deaths in 2002 2002 - January. January 3 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch-born beer magnate (b. 1923) January 8 - Alexander Prochorow, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1916) January 8 - Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur (b. 1932) January 12 - Stanley Unwin, South African comedian (b. 1911) January 12 - Cyrus Vance, United States Secretary of State (b. 1917) January 13 - Ted Demme, American film and television direc ...

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