Neoconservative Chronology 2004

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January

• Devon Gaffney Cross visits London to set up Policy Forum operation.

February

• 13 Christopher Caldwell highlights the Policy Forum in a Financial Times profile of European Atlanticist networks.

June

• 22 Melanie Phillips speaks at the launch of Dean Godson's book on David Trimble, Himself Alone in Belfast.
• 27 The Observer reports that Dean Godson has had his contract terminated by the Telegraph.

October

• Dean Godson wrote a study of the 'Lessons from Northern Ireland for the Arab-Israeli conflict' for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs which argued that the British "believe that the IRA, like the Palestinians, has a great number of very good excuses to go back "to war."
• 5 Paul Wolfowitz visits Munich and Warsaw.
• 6 Paul Wolfowitz visits London for meetings with No. 10 and the Ministry of Defence. In the evening, he meets a group of British writers at Annabel's in Mayfair. This may be the occasion when he met Nick Cohen, John Lloyd and Charles Moore at Annabel's. It may also be the occasion when Cohen described Wolfowitz presenting "a coherent case for helping the democratic movement in Iran fight the priests."
• 6 Labour Friends of Iraq founding statement posted online.

November

• 18 Interview with Paul Wolfowitz by Radek Sikorski published in Prospect.

December

• 2 George Galloway wins £150,000 in libel damages from the Daily Telegraph over claims he received money from Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq.

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