NATO has approved a plan to send defensive equipment to Turkey, after a compromise that papered over a damaging split in the military alliance's Iraq policy. The alliance is to dispatch Awacs radar planes, Patriot anti-missile batteries and chemical and biological response units to Turkey - the only Nato member that borders Iraq. Turkey itself has delayed a decision on whether to allow the United States to send troops that could be used to invade Iraq from the north - insisting first on a new Security Council resolution explicitly authorising the use of force.

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