Britain feared US would &#39;nuke&#39; Afghanistan: ex-diplomat
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Britain joined the United States&#39; invasion to oust the Taliban in 2001 because it feared America would &quot;nuke the shit&quot; out of Afghanistan, the former British ambassador to Washington reportedly told a television documentary to be screened Saturday.
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The threat posed by the Taleban in Afghanistan was underestimated, the British defence secretary is set to admit.
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Britain &quot;will not allow terrorists to undermine the British way of life,&quot; a Downing Street spokesman told AFP in response to a chilling threat from Al-Qaeda.
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Failure in Afghanistan would directly threaten European security, US Defense Secretary Roberts Gates warned Friday as he sought to mobilize NATO allies and more especially public opinion in Europe.
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British diplomat Paddy Ashdown said Sunday he had withdrawn from consideration for a U.N. post as a so-called "super envoy" to Afghanistan after Afghan officials said he was not their preferred candidate.
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President Bush said today he was surprised by reports that a former top State Department official threatened heavy U.S. bombing of Pakistan if it did not cooperate with the United States after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and Pakistan's visiting president declined to comment on the...
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A British minister has suggested a shift  in foreign policy towards the United States, telling an  audience in Washington that a country&#39;s strength depended on  making alliances rather than military might.
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An international think-tank urged Britain&#39;s incoming prime minister Gordon Brown to take a new approach over Afghanistan to prevent a resurgence of the hardline Taliban.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew in to London Wednesday to discuss the stakes in Afghanistan as the United States and Britain pressed their allies to do more to crush a resurgent Taliban.
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BRITISH Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has complained to his American counterpart Colin Powell about the deportation from the US of former pop star Cat Stevens as a possible terrorist risk.
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The UK hits back at claims by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that UK troops are making the country's situation worse.
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US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband made a surprise trip to Afghanistan Thursday calling for NATO allies to step up support for the fight against the Taliban.
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Britain's former top Iraq expert at the United Nations said in previously secret testimony that most government officials did not believe Iraq posed a threat in the months leading to the U.S.-led invasion, according to a new report.
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A British man detained by the US military as an enemy combatant in the war on terror says he was tortured while held in Afghanistan and claims he saw fellow detainees killed by American soldiers there.
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Sceptical European allies came under pressure from a leading contender for the US presidency to provide more troops for Afghanistan.
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British foreign secretary calls on Karzai's government and its allies to raise their game
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A British citizen being held at GuantÃ¡namo Bay was subjected to &quot;vindictive torture&quot; and death threats while in US custody, according to claims in a letter he wrote that has been published today.