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• British American Tobacco Evacuates Foreign Staff From Kuwait 

British American Tobacco, the world's second-largest cigarette maker, pulled its foreign staff out of Kuwait where U.S. and U.K. forces are preparing for a possible invasion of Iraq as early as next week.

``It's a precautionary measure in case something does happen,'' company spokesman David Betteridge said in an interview. A ``handful'' of foreign staff members were asked to leave the country, he said, without giving details.

British American, the maker of the Pall Mall and Lucky Strike cigarettes, is the latest foreign company to evacuate staff from Kuwait on concern Iraq may retaliate against the Arab emirate with chemical and biological weapons in the event of war.

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