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Stories from 2002-12-06

$2b Raytheon Pact Approved

STAFF | Bloomberg News | December 6, 2002

"Since the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the Navy has fired about 1,100 earlier-model Tomahawks, including up to 70 against Taliban and Al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan." [more]

Afghan Defense Official Looks Warily at Iraq

Camelia Entekhabi-Fard | EurasiaNet | December 6, 2002

"Gulbuddin, the Afghan defense official known as 'Doctor' from his former job as a surgeon, is worried about developments in the Middle East. An American invasion of Iraq, he says, could hurt his country’s efforts to build a lasting peace." [more]

US Pressuring Inspectors in Iraq to Aid Defections

Patrick E. Tyler | New York Times | December 6, 2002

"The push by Washington for defectors has further pressurized the atmosphere surrounding the first week of inspections as Iraq prepares to make what the Security Council has said must be a full disclosure of its secret arms programs." [more]

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This website is a tribute to Why War?, one of the nation's first and most innovative post-9/11 student antiwar organizations. Born on October 22, 2001 at Swarthmore College, we were a handful of freshmen and sophmores who vocally opposed the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere. And now, seven years later, we are retiring this website as we focus our efforts on new directions. We hope that it continues to serve future activists and we remain confident that humanity is on the verge birthing a better world.