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U.N. Says Iraq Not Fully Cooperative
AP | 2/21/03

Posted on 02/20/2003 11:36:07 PM PST by kattracks

U.N. Joins U.S. and Britain in Saying Iraq Isn't Cooperating Fully With U.N. Inspectors

UNITED NATIONS Feb. 21

The United Nations joined the United States and Britain on Thursday in saying that Saddam Hussein is still not cooperating fully with U.N. inspectors despite Iraq's go-ahead for surveillance flights and hand-over of new lists of scientists.

In another blow to Iraq, chief inspector Hans Blix was expected to send a letter to Iraq on Friday demanding the destruction of Baghdad's Al Samoud 2 missiles and machinery to produce missile motors. Inspectors say the missiles' range exceeds the 93-mile limit set by a 1991 Security Council resolution.

U.N., U.S., and British officials said Iraq still has not provided evidence to answer outstanding questions about its nuclear, chemical, biological and long-range missile programs.

"Clearly Iraq needs to do more by way of cooperating, particularly on unresolved disarmament issues, which are clearly issues of substance," said Ewen Buchanan, Blix's spokesman.

With Washington and London pressing for U.N. authorization for military action against Iraq, the issue of Saddam's compliance with the last U.N. resolution giving Baghdad a final opportunity to answer outstanding questions and disarm peacefully is critical.

A U.S. official in Washington said a new resolution that would give a green light to use military force was expected to be presented to the Security Council on Monday but that it could slip a day or two. A British diplomat at the United Nations said the resolution was expected early next week.

Britain's U.N. Ambassador Jeremy Greenstock said he expects Blix and nuclear chief Mohamed ElBaradei to brief the council before a vote. Diplomats and U.N. officials said March 7 has been "penciled in" as a likely date for the briefing.

Buchanan said Blix would send a letter to Iraq on Friday with his decision on the Al Samoud 2 missile. Diplomats said he would likely demand they be destroyed.

Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Mohammed Al-Douri on Thursday reiterated the pledge he made to the council a day earlier at the end of a two-day meeting on the Iraqi crisis: The government is doing "the utmost" to fully cooperate with U.N. inspectors.

Since Blix and ElBaradei gave their last report to the Security Council on Friday, Al-Douri said his government has sent letters to Blix asking when surveillance flights by French Mirage aircraft and Russian Antonovs will begin and following up on an offer to let U.N. experts analyze the ground where anthrax and VX nerve agent were destroyed.

An American U-2 spy plane flew over Iraq on Monday for the first time in support of the U.N. inspectors, and Iraq said a second U-2 flight took place on Thursday.

"We would like to have the other aircraft carrying out surveillance in Iraq, too, like the U-2," Al-Douri told The Associated Press.

Iraq also gave U.N. inspectors the names of people who took part in the destruction of banned materials from its biological weapons and missile programs in the early 1990s, Buchanan said.

"Those lists are being studied, and clearly might be potential names for interviews," he said.

In his report to the council Friday, Blix said Iraq had presented a list of 83 participants "in the unilateral destruction in the chemical field, which took place in the summer of 1991." He asked Iraq for a similar list of people who took part in the destruction of other banned items, especially in the biological field.

Al-Douri said Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri also sent a 22-page letter to Secretary-General Kofi Annan refuting allegations by Secretary of State Colin Powell that Iraq has hidden weapons of mass destruction and links with Ansar al-Islam, which has been linked to al-Qaida terrorists.

In his presentation to the Security Council on Feb. 5, Powell displayed satellite pictures and intercepted telephone conversations that he said showed Baghdad cleaning up suspected weapons sites days before inspectors were to show up.

Al-Douri insisted that Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction so nobody including U.N. inspectors will find any hidden caches "because we don't have these things."

But Britain's Greenstock said Iraq is still not cooperating "on substance," though it was allowing surveillance flights and had turned over new lists of people who might be interviewed.

"What we need ... is voluntary disarmament," Greenstock said. "We know what it is when a country intends to disarm and comes to use the instrument of inspectors to disarm. That is not happening."

"It's clear that the Iraqis are not interested in real cooperation," said Richard Grenell, spokesman for U.S. Ambassador John Negroponte. "They continue to deceive, deny, and obstruct. We still want to know: Where is the 26,000 liters of anthrax? Where is the VX? Where are the missiles?"

Grenell said Iraq was also not cooperating in arranging private U.N. interviews with Iraqi scientists, a violation of the last U.N. resolution.

The only three scientists interviewed privately by inspectors were recommended by the Iraqis, but not a single scientist recommended by U.N. inspectors had agreed to a private interview, he said.




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KEYWORDS: axisofweasels; iraq; unitednations
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1 posted on 02/20/2003 11:36:07 PM PST by kattracks
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To: kattracks
We need another resolution, ASAP.
2 posted on 02/20/2003 11:40:11 PM PST by Jeff Chandler ( ;)
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To: kattracks
"Clearly Iraq needs to do more by way of cooperating, particularly on unresolved disarmament issues, which are clearly issues of substance," said Ewen Buchanan, Blix's spokesman.

LOOK YOU MOROON .. SADDAM HAS NOT COOPERATED IN THE LAST 12 *($&$* YEARS .. WHAT MAKES YOU THINK IS WILL NOW??

WAKE UP .. HE IS MAKING THE UN LOOK LIKE FOOLS!!!

/RANT>

3 posted on 02/20/2003 11:47:34 PM PST by Mo1 (DC Chapter .. Patriots Rally for America IV .. on Saturday, March 1st)
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To: Jeff Chandler
There will be but ONE more resolution before we attack. There will be a flurry of them, when we do... all against us.
5 posted on 02/20/2003 11:51:27 PM PST by Robert_Paulson2
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To: seamole
not me... you?
Al gore?
6 posted on 02/20/2003 11:52:18 PM PST by Robert_Paulson2
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To: kattracks
U.N. Says Iraq Not Fully Cooperative

As opposed to fully uncooperative?
Not fully uncooperative?
Fully uncooperative?
Ohhh, fully UN-cooperative.

Got it.

7 posted on 02/20/2003 11:53:00 PM PST by Carry_Okie (Because there are people in power who are truly evil.)
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To: kattracks
The UN is toast and I hope Iraq is liberated!
8 posted on 02/21/2003 12:10:18 AM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)
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To: kattracks
The United Nations joined the United States and Britain on Thursday in saying that Saddam Hussein is still not cooperating fully with U.N.

Is this post a rerun or is Blix just repeating himself again.

9 posted on 02/21/2003 12:10:43 AM PST by EGPWS
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To: kattracks

Saddam Hussein at a nuclear reactor in France in 1975. Jacques Chirac is at right in the glasses. Saddam wanted a nuclear reactor capable of producing plutonium for nuclear weapons. France supplied its Osiris reactor which was named Osirak (Osiris + Iraq). It was being erected when it was destroyed in a Sunday strike (June 7, 1981) by the Israelis, timed to save the lives of the French scientists helping with the construction. See Israeli tribute to the raid and to astronaut Ilan Ramon who took part.


10 posted on 02/21/2003 12:50:41 AM PST by ppaul
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To: ppaul
The Dark side is posting a picture of Rummy shaking hands with Saddam to counter-this picture. Its amazing how the peaceniks prefer to defend the weasel Chirac over Americans. NO matter what they say THEY ARE ANTI-AMERICANS!
11 posted on 02/21/2003 3:34:17 AM PST by areafiftyone (The U.N. is now officially irrelevant! The building is for Sale!!!)
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To: kattracks
U.N. scmoo-en.....waddalaughingstock.
12 posted on 02/21/2003 3:52:58 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: Jeff Chandler
'Not fully'? Sheesh.
13 posted on 02/21/2003 4:05:46 AM PST by gulfcoast6 (Not)
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To: All; JohnHuang2; Howlin; Miss Marple; Dog; ladyinred; white rose; SeaDragon; WaterDragon; ...
Time to send email to the U.N. and laugh at them openly. Send e-ridicule today!

ceb@unsystem.org

OR

inquiries@un.org

14 posted on 02/21/2003 4:06:17 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: anniegetyourgun
Thanks for the ping, friend.
15 posted on 02/21/2003 4:10:22 AM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: Mo1
What? Saddam's not cooperating with U.N. weapons inspectors? (Gulp!Gasp!) That he's not disarming voluntarily? I'm shocked!!!!!!!! Shocked and disappointed! Say it ain't so, Saddam!

(G'morning, btw)

16 posted on 02/21/2003 4:12:02 AM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: kattracks; Mo1; Carry_Okie; ppaul; gulfcoast6; areafiftyone; EGPWS; seamole; Robert_Paulson2; ...
Ping to 14!
17 posted on 02/21/2003 4:12:23 AM PST by anniegetyourgun
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To: All
Duh! What was your first clue?????
18 posted on 02/21/2003 7:50:16 AM PST by mrb1960
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To: kattracks
No! I'm so shocked.
19 posted on 02/21/2003 8:36:58 AM PST by ncpastor
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To: Robert_Paulson2
There will be a flurry of them, when we do... all against us

yeah, but we can veto all of them.

20 posted on 02/21/2003 8:44:56 AM PST by SC_Republican
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