Iraq to make a "significant announcement" to UN on weapons inspectors within a few hours

AFP via Babelfish translation ^ | September 16, 2002

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Iraq would be on the point of making a "significant advertisement" with UNO (diplomats)

Monday September 16, 2002 - 19h10 GMT

BAGHDAD, 16 seven (AFP) - Iraq would be on the point of making a "significant advertisement" with UNO in the next hours, relating to the question of the return of the inspectors in disarmament, one learned Monday from Western diplomatic source in Baghdad.

The advertisement would be made "in a few hours" in New York by the head of the Iraqi diplomacy Naji Sabri, according to the diplomatic source which affirmed that the declaration "in the good direction" would defuse the crisis on the disarmament of Iraq.

The international community multiplied these last days the calls to Iraq so that it authorizes the return of the inspectors in disarmament of UNO in order to avoid an attack which the United States threatens to launch to reverse the Iraqi mode, marked to develop weapons of massive destruction.

Iraqi president Saddam Hussein chaired Monday a meeting common of the direction of the Baas party (to the capacity) and government and examined with high Iraqi persons in charge the American threats for a military offensive against the country, according to official agency INA.

The agency affirmed that the participants in the common meeting "discussed certain political questions of topicality", without more precision.

Saddam Hussein moreover examined Monday afternoon "a series of questions relating to the current political economic situation", during a second meeting in presence in particular of the number two Iraqi Ezzat Ibrahim, the vice-president Taha Yassine Ramadan, the Deputy Prime Minister Tarek Aziz and Latif Nassif Jassem, member of the Council of command of the révolutionla higher leading authority of the country), according to INA.

[Dog Gone]

France is holding some utopian view that Saddam can change his spots if he says he's really, really sorry.

[Dog]

I hate the French!

[Dog Gone]

They can't help it if they're slimy cowards who somehow manage to maintain some sort of deluded superiority complex!

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Update - A letter from Iraqi government given to Kofi Annan

[Michael Barnes]

re #36

Classic...

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AFP... nuff said.

[Argus]

Word just in on another thread that Iraq has agreed to the return of UN inspectors, without conditions. Predictable.

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LOL, RE: The French...Ol Mark Twain had it right

A Nation of whores!