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No Military Action Against Iraq Decided: Britain

Britain on Wednesday confirmed that there are no clear plans to launch a military action against Iraq, though a second phase of the ongoing anti-terror war is a must.

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Britain on Wednesday confirmed that there are no clear plans to launch a military action against Iraq, though a second phase of the ongoing anti-terror war is a must.

The U.S. agrees with Britain on the need to deal a further blow to terrorism, and is working and consulting with its allies to put that conviction into action, Egypt's official MENA news agency quoted British diplomatic sources in Cairo as saying.

However, the sources said that Britain has not lost hope in a diplomatic drive to allow U.N. weapons inspectors back into Iraq, adding that Britain still believes that the new phase of the war against terror could deal with various aspects, including diplomatic and economic ones.

U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair will meet in April to examine the next move in the anti- terror war, a British official has recently said.

Last month, Bush termed Iraq, together with Iran and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as an "axis of evil," sparking fears that Iraq could be the next target of the ongoing anti-terror war.

Egypt and other Arab nations are strongly opposed to the extension of the U.S. anti-terror war to any Arab country, saying that any attempt to attack Arab countries under the pretext of the ongoing anti-terror war would dissolve the anti-terror coalition.

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