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American forces said they had killed the sons of Saddam Hussein, Uday and Qusay, in a house they had besieged in Mosul, northern Iraq. Earlier, in his address to Congress, Mr Blair said with regard to Iraq and terrorism, ‘Can we be sure that terrorism and WMD will join together? Let us say one thing. If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least, is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive. But if our critics are wrong, if we are right as I believe with every fibre of instinct and conviction I have that we are, and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in the face of this menace, when we should have given leadership. That is something history will not forgive.’ The number of American soldiers killed in Iraq since the end of large-scale hostilities on 1 May rose to 41. Thousands of Shias demonstrated in the city of Najaf, chanting ‘Down with the invaders’. Hundreds of Taleban soldiers are returning to Afghanistan from Pakistan, funded by drug-trafficking, according to General F.L. ‘Buster’ Hagenbeck, the American commander of coalition forces in Kabul. Fighting continued in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, between rebels and forces loyal to President Charles Taylor; a shell killed 25 in the United States embassy compound, where 10,000 Liberians had taken refuge. Australia decided to send 2,000 troops and police to the Solomon Islands (population 450,000), beset by fighting between rival militias. Mr Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Prime Minister, flew to Washington for talks with President George Bush. Harvests in France, Germany, Italy and Spain were badly hit by drought. More than 52,000 dogs were killed in four days in the city of Lianjiang, in the Chinese province of Guangdong, following 74 human cases of rabies reported since January; last summer 300 people died of rabies in China.
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