Iraqis change defiant tone and admit likelihood of war By Andrew Gumbel and Kim Sengupta 30 September 2002 As US and British diplomats fanned out across the globe yesterday in an effort to ram their toughly worded resolution on Iraq through the United Nations Security Council, the Iraqis appeared, for the first time, to be resigned to the likelihood of war. Envoys were spread from Paris to Moscow and from Ankara to Beijing to urge support for an ultimatum to Saddam Hussein that the Iraqis have said they cannot accept. But while the French, the Russians and the Chinese all...
