US Wants to Increase Turkish Bases

World | December 4, 2002, Wednesday // 00:00

The United States has announced it will invest millions of dollars in military bases in Turkey in readiness for a possible conflict with Iraq. US Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was speaking after talks in Ankara but the Turkish foreign minister has said his country made no firm commitment. In Iraq itself, United Nations weapons inspectors travelled out of Baghdad on Wednesday to check two sites crucial to Saddam Hussein's past chemical weapons and nuclear programmes. As the inspections entered their seventh day, the Iraqi Government made its first criticism of the inspectors' work, describing their conduct on Tuesday as "misbehaviour".

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