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Washington diary

By Andreas Frew

28 February 2004

ONE way to win friends and influence people in the White House, if you’re a Middle Eastern dictator anyway, is to deliver some good old weapons of mass destruction. As everyone knows, they’re damned hard to find these days. So Muammar Gaddafi, once numbered among the princes of the axis of evil, is now in the pink with George Bush and his pals at the Pentagon and in the State Department.

All he had to do was send the US some uranium, centrifuge parts for enriching more uranium, some missile parts and 25,000 kilograms of documents on how to make…

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