The public spotlight fell on GCHQ in late 2003 and early 2004 following the sacking of Katharine Gun after she leaked to The Observer a confidential email from agents at the American National Security Agency addressed to GCHQ agents about the wire-tapping of UN delegates in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war.

This claim was repeated several times in the run-up to the war, including in then-Secretary of State Colin Powell's speech to the U. N Security Council on February 5, 2003, which concluded with a long recitation of the information provided by al-Libi.

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The latter was claimed by the United States during the run-up to the war, but no such weapons have since been found.

In the run-up to the Iraq war, Halliburton was awarded a $ 7 billion contract for which ' unusually ' only Halliburton was allowed to bid.

In the later part of the war, United States Army troops were billeted in the area, but they were relocated in the run-up to D-Day.

Since then he has attacked the government on a number of issues, most notably that of genetically modified food and the 2003 Iraq war, though in the run-up to the invasion he had accepted reports by the intelligence services and government saying that Iraq had Chemical Weapons.

Having been prominent in her concern for the situation in Iraq before the war there in 2003, Tony Blair made her a Special Envoy on Human Rights in Iraq in the run-up to the War.

The latter is one of the pre-eminent British diaries of the 20th century and an invaluable source on British political history from 1930 through the 1950s, particularly in regard to the run-up to World War II and the war itself: Nicolson served in high enough echelons to write of the workings of the circles of power and the day-to-day unfolding of great events from, as it were, a medium distance.

She voted for the Iraq war and subsequently voted against an independent investigation into the run-up to the war.

The day before the trial, Gun's defence team had asked the government for any records of advice about the legality of the war that it had received during the run-up to the war.

Short made the confidential letter public, and in turn rebuked Turnbull for allegedly allowing the government decision-making machinery to crumble in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war.

" She was hyping bullshit stories about Iraq's WMD capabilities as far back as 1998, and in the run-up to the war, her front-page scoops were cited by the Bush administration as evidence that Saddam needed to be taken out, right away ...

On May 26, 2004, a week after the U. S. government apparently severed ties with Ahmed Chalabi, a Times editorial acknowledged that some of that newspaper's coverage in the run-up to the war had relied too heavily on Chalabi and other Iraqi exiles bent on regime change.

He supervised and championed the development of RDF ( radio-direction finding, later to become more familiarly known as radar ) in the run-up to the war.

It was used particularly in the run-up to the war in Iraq, having been popularized by the right-wing National Review journalist Jonah Goldberg to describe European and especially French opposition to military action in that war.

Groundskeeper Willie's description of the French as " cheese-eating surrender monkeys " from the episode "' Round Springfield " has become widely used, particularly in the run-up to the war in Iraq.

The committee was the center of much controversy and contentiousness during the run-up to the war in Iraq in 2002 and 2003, when chairmanship of the committee changed hands following the November 2002 election.

In the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war Rangwala wrote articles in newspapers and appeared on British TV, especially in the context of the " dodgy dossier " prepared by Tony Blair's government.

In 1993, Paul Wolfowitz, who would later become prominent as the Deputy Secretary of Defense in the run-up to the Iraq war, became Dean of SAIS.

Spain made a fair recovery during the truce, ordering her finances and doing much to restore her prestige and stability in the run-up to the last truly great war in which she would play as the leading power.

After its brick-by-brick relocation to Stanley, the site was sold by the Government for " only HK $ 1 billion " in August 1982 amidst growing concern over the future of Hong Kong in the run-up to the transfer of sovereignty.

The Maginot Line (, ), named after the French Minister of War André Maginot, was a line of concrete fortifications, tank obstacles, artillery casemates, machine gun posts, and other defenses, which France constructed along its borders with Germany and Italy, in light of its experience in World War I, and in the run-up to World War II.

The novel featured strongly in the film's marketing campaign, and was serialized in the journal Illustriertes Blatt in the run-up to its release.

Over the years, stock traders and analysts noted that a company touted on WSW on Friday would experience a run-up in its stock price the following Monday.

Aziz's trial, and its run-up and aftermath, bring out all the racial tensions and prejudices between indigenous Indians and the British colonists who rule India.

The Sun newspaper had declared its support for Redwood in the run-up to the leadership contest, running the front page headline " Redwood versus Deadwood ".

Fine Gael had to jettison its plans for tax-cuts in the run-up to the election and a draconian mid-year budget was introduced almost immediately.

The Stahlhelm still tried to keep its distance from the Nazis, and in the run-up to the German federal election of 5 March 1933 formed the united conservative " Black-White-Red Struggle Front " ( Kampffront Schwarz-Weiß-Rot ) with the DNVP and the Agricultural League, reaching 8 % of the votes.

In 2005, The Economist described the run-up in UK house prices as forming part of " the biggest bubble in history ", and, by October 2007 — when the UK housing bubble was at its peak — the IMF was reporting that the UK housing market was " overpriced by up to 40 per cent ".

Aircraft noise is noise pollution produced by any aircraft or its components, during various phases of a flight: on the ground while parked such as auxiliary power units, while taxiing, on run-up from propeller and jet exhaust, during take off, underneath and lateral to departure and arrival paths, over-flying while en route, or during landing.

The results of the PDRR programme were expected in March 1998 but the procurement became ensnared in the run-up to and aftermath of the UK General Election in May 1997, as the new Labour government conducted its Strategic Defence Review.

U. S. pressure on Germany to change its monetary policy was one of the factors that unnerved investors in the run-up to the crash.

criticised the Central Bank for its role in the run-up to the financial crisis

The London Borough of Bromley has consulted interested parties on proposals put forward by London Biggin Hill Airport to temporarily amend aspects of its operating conditions for the run-up to, the period of, and a short period after the Olympic Games in 2012.

In the run-up to the 2002 presidential election, the PUSC party convention selected him to be its candidate by an overwhelming 76 % of the delegates ' votes on 10 June 2001.

The albatross is so large that it can only launch itself after a run-up to create a flow of air over its wings.

One aircraft was written-off during an engine run-up immediately prior to its resale to another operator when one propeller struck a ground power unit.

The paper was to serve as the voice of Solidarity during the run-up to semi-free elections to be held June 4, 1989 ( hence its title ).

Responsibility for air traffic control in the UK passed to NATS in the run-up to the establishment of its public-private partnership in 2001.

* Thunderbirds: while this mid-sixties series was originally not tied into a single range of toys, like other Gerry Anderson series it heavily featured vehicles that were strongly toyetic, and from its original run onwards through subsequent re-runs in many decades that followed it was accompanied by extensive merchandise in both Europe and Japan, most notably in the UK during the run-up to Christmas 1993, when demand for The Tracy Island toy set so massively outstripped supply that it became headline news and the example cited every Christmas since as the archetypal mistake the whole toy industry must avoid.

Launched in late 2004, this campaign aimed to pressure the Tunisian government to improve its human rights record in the run-up to, and following, the UN-sponsored World Summit on the Information Society ( WSIS ), which was held in Tunis in November 2005.

The Encores production was presented during the run-up to the Iraq War and was the scene of an unlikely controversy when, during the five performances, part of the audience responded with loud applause and cheers to the line " One can be loyal to one's country and yet forswear its leader " and others replied to the cheers with boos.

Due to its loacation near the northern border with Bohemia, the market town held by the Lords of Ottenstein was devastated during the Hussite Wars in 1427 and again in the run-up of the Battle of White Mountain in 1620.