Ian Williams

A little technical detail overlooked by the White House in its enthusiasm to go to war against iraq - a thousand UN peacekeepers guarding the border bweteen Iraq and Kuwait.

UN Security Council members are holding a meeting today to hear out US Secretary of State Colin Powell's message o­n the case for war against Iraq.

It is strange that for an administration whose ideological position is derived from the Book of Revelation, the Bush administration chooses not to reveal much.

What would George Orwell have made of the US' war on terror? Plenty, as it is 1984 and Animal Farm revisited.