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Smoking intercepts
Washington Times ^ | 2/06/03

Posted on 02/05/2003 11:59:40 PM PST by kattracks

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:00:46 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

In his address yesterday to the U.N. Security Council, Secretary of State Colin Powell remorselessly documented Iraq's links with al Qaeda terrorism and systematic efforts to deceive U.N. weapons inspectors about its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programs. Mr. Powell eliminated any reasonable doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime remains in material breach of Security Council Resolution 1441, passed on Nov. 8 to force Iraq to come clean about its WMD arsenal, an obligation Baghdad has ignored despite 16 previous resolutions dating back 12 years.


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1 posted on 02/05/2003 11:59:40 PM PST by kattracks
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To: kattracks
"'Just imagine,' Mr. Powell told the Security Council, "trying to find 18 trucks among the thousands and thousands of trucks that travel the roads of Iraq every day.'"

Aw, that's easy. Make all of the trucks go away.

--Boris

2 posted on 02/06/2003 2:47:40 AM PST by boris
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