Iraq: Scientists Refused Private Talks

AP ^ | January 23, 2003 at 20:20:15 PST | HAMZA HENDAWI

[Cultural Jihad]

It's time to end this inspection sham.

[rogue yam]

If I was an Iraqi scientist I too would refuse to talk in private to the U.N. inspectors unless I and my entire family were already out of Iraq. Why risk being tortured on the basis of false suspicion?

[WOSG]

Right ... and even taking your wife and children may not be enough. what about your brothers and sisters, your parents, etc.? Your friends?

Hoping for a quick liberation of Iraq.

[Lurker]

Agreed.

It's time to finish this thing.

First Iraq, then the House of Saud.

The Ba'ath Party needs a modern day version of Nuremberg Trials and the Saudis, well they just plain need killing.

L

[l33t]

And if they lie to the UN inspectors they would not be looked upon kindly when Saddam is kicked out.

[PokeyJoe]

Perhaps instead of Inspectors, we should call them "UN Disarmament Verification Monitors.

The French can call them UN Investigators?

[Cultural Jihad]

Too bad your irrational tag line erases any rationality found in your post, IMHO.

[dead]

Please, scientist! Talk to the inspectors!

So we can torture and kill everybody in your family, everybody you are friends with, and everybody who lives near you.

We want to tell the world the truth. Speak to them. Go ahead.

We dare you.

[Lurker]

What's irrational about it?

And just how does one statement 'erase' the truth of another statement? I didn't realize that the truth was something that could be erased.

At least that's what I read somewhere, maybe it was the Bible. But, it could have been the Encyclopedia Brittanica.

L

[MindBender26]

There is correctmess there. Tag lines like that make people underestimate your basic intellect. You make good posts. Don't throw it away, friend.

[MJY1288]

I'm quite sure the Scientist are fully aware of what happens if they talk, We need to stop this madness and hunt down Saddam like the Skunk he is, and kill him, as well as all of Saddam's inner circle. Once Saddam is swimming with the fishes, most if not all the scientist will be fighting to be the first to tell us where the WMD's are buried or hidden.

I would look for next weeks State of the Union address to solidify the nation and this Skunk hunt to get started in mid February with the U.N. supporting our actions and the people of Iraq will be shed of Saddam once and for all.

[Michael Barnes]

I know nothing of an Iraqi scientist other than I would not want to be one. Damned if you do, damned if you don't. The wealth of knowledge we could get out of just a few of them. But it would take extraditing 3 generations of immediate family, not to mention all the "removed" relatives. Sad part, all those mentioned are going to be effected anyway, no matter if it is by hussein or our direct involvement in regime change.

Bad time to have a sharp mind in that region..

[Lurker]

I like it when people underestimate me.

It makes it easier for me to do them in.

L

[AF68]

The Iraqi scientists are well aware of what may await them and their families in Saddam's chambers of horrors.

[kanawa]

m/00\m

[freepersup]

It has been reported (possibly here at FR) that Saddamm threatened to kill or has killed families through the 6th cousin. The Iraqis know this and would not cooperate for this reason. That is why the scientist that was removed from his home was vociferous in explaining he knew nothing about W of MD, was furious about the UN visit to his home, and wanted Iraqi personnel present before being interviewed.

[happygrl]

The Ba'ath Party needs a modern day version of Nuremberg Trials and the Saudis, well they just plain need killing.

Agreed. Genocidal Baathists and Bigoted Saudis shouldn't waste precious resources by breathing.

[EternalVigilance]

It's time to end this inspection sham.

I agree.

In a stressful moment, and quite unintentionally, Scott Ritter admitted straight out that the 'inspections' were simply a means of slowing down and trying to prevent the war...nobody seriously expects Saddam to make even the slightest attempt to comply with the terms of the ceasefire that he signed at the 'end' of Gulf War I.

The U.N. (short for Useless Nincompoops), and its inspections are a sick joke.

Time for the U.S. Army, Air Force, and Marines to provide the punch line.

[Rain-maker]

  It's Time to Bomb Saddam !