10 METRO Wednesday, November 25, 2009 D metrocompetition www.whitewatersc.ie choices! big Whitewater Shopping Centre, Newbridge Whitewater Shopping Centre, Newbridge, Irelands Largest Regional Shopping Centre is offering one lucky Metro reader a 500 shopping spree to spend this Christmas. Home to over 70 stores including Debenhams, H&M, M&S and Zara, a new state of art digital UCI cinema opening in December and Santas Grotto there are big choices this Christmas in Whitewater. Find us on Facebook or check out www.whitewatersc.ie for all the festive news and events. Text WHITEW followed by your answer A, B or C and your name to 53133 (texts cost 60c + standard network charge) or email your answer, your name and contact details to ireland.comps@metroireland.ie Terms & Conditions: The competition closes at Midnight 27th November and the winners will be chosen at random from the entries received. Entrants must be over 18 years old. Usual Metro rules apply. The Editors decision is final. SP. Oxygen8, Hospitality House, Cumberland Street South, D2. Customer Service number 0818286606 Celebrate Christmas with a 500 Shopping Spree in Whitewater Shopping Centre For your chance to win, just answer this simple question: Prize: 500 worth of vouchers to spend in any one of the 70 stores in Whitewater Shopping Centre, valid for 12 months. Whitewater Shopping Centre, Newbridge is located in which county: A) Kildare B) Donegal C) Cork Why not cash in on all that gold jewellery you NEVER wear! We buy and pay cash immediately for all gold items in any condition. Old Wedding Rings, Earrings, Chains, Bracelets, Ingots or Coins. EXTRA CASH FOR CHRISTMAS? Call Peter at College House Jewellers, 44 Nassau Street, Dublin 2. Tel: 01 677 7597 (Sorry no Engagement Rings) METRO World CYPRUS: Police detained dozens of elderly women for gambling, which is banned on the island. Neighbours complained the 42 women aged 75 to 95, who were arrested for playing poker and gin rummy at the venue in Limassol, were causing a disturbance with their comings and goings. STAR MAN: A man positions stars on a giant Christmas tree in Manila, Philippines, a bastion of Catholicism, with 80 per cent of Filipinos belonging to the faith NePal: Devotees lined up outside a Hindu temple at the start of a two-day religious celebration involving the sacrificial slaughter of more than 200,000 buffaloes, goats, chickens and pigeons. Protests have occurred in towns near the Gadhimai temple and in the capital Katmandu by animals- rights activists and other religious groups. However, Hindu organisers said they would not halt the slaughter, because it was a centuries-old tradition. ISRael: The government is said to be very near to agreeing a prisoner swap with Hamas, though it remains unclear which jailed Palestinians will be released. Hamas leaders were in Cairo to advance the Egyptian- and German-brokered negotiations under which Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier held in the Gaza Strip, would go free in exchange for hundreds of Palestinians in Israels prisons. PolaNd: Solidarity trade union founder Lech Walesa is suing President Lech Kaczynski for damages. Mr Walesa (pictured) claims Mr Kaczynski accused him of being a communist-era agent. Mr Walesa, a former Polish president, is demanding an apology and 100,000 zlotys (24,000). VeNezUela: Officials backed by troops have taken control of 31 farms, accusing owners of not putting the land to adequate use. Included was a ranch belonging to former presidential candidate Manuel Rosales, an opponent of President Hugo Chavez (pictured), who was granted asylum in Peru. US President George Bushs administration wanted to topple Saddam Hussein in 2000 three years before Iraq was invaded, an inquiry into the war heard yesterday. Before becoming secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice warned in a paper that year that nothing will change [in Iraq] until Saddam is gone so the United States must mo- bilise whatever resources it can, including support from his opposition, to remove him, a British official said. By 2001 there was concern in London and Washington that a strategy of containment towards Saddam was fail- ing, added Sir Peter Ricketts, who was chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee at the time. It also emerged on the first day of public hearings in London that British officials secretly discussed the pros- pects for regime change in Iraq in late 2001. The inquiry, headed by Sir John Chilcot, heard that Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) officials drew up an internal options paper which included the possi- bility of ousting Saddam Hussein. However Sir William Patey, the then head of the FCOs Middle East department, said the idea had been rejected because there was no basis in law for such action. The inquiry also heard that a two-page paper was drawn up against a background of growing impatience in the US with the strategy of containment of Saddam as there were increasing concerns the dictator was making progress to acquire weapons of mass destruction. Following the 9/11 attacks on NewYork and the Penta- gon in Washington, Sir Peter Ricketts, who was chair- man of the Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) said there had been a further hardening of opinion in the US. By GAVIN CORDON Saddam must go, said US 3yrs before attack Blood on his hands: A protester wears a mask depicting former British prime minister Tony Blair outside the inquiry in London yesterday Picture: Getty index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html28.html29.html30.html31.html