Fisk speaks out on Iraq

RENOWNED war correspondent Robert Fisk will give a major warning tonight against a full-scale war between the United States and Iraq.

The warning will be the main plank of a public lecture Mr Fisk will deliver at University College Cork tonight as part of the President's Lecture Series.

Mr Fisk believes the US is not going to war against Iraq because of the weapons of mass destruction which it claims Saddam Hussein controls. "This war is just about oil," he says. "If America wins, their new puppet Government will have the lucrative picking of Iraq's large oil reserves."