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Iraq: We have no more to declare
Iraq said yesterday that it had nothing more to declare to the UN on its weapons programme and warned that it might stop the destruction of its al-Samoud 2 missiles if America continued to threaten it with war.
"We ain't got nuttin, and we ain't ditchin' any of it either!"
Lieutenant-General Amer al-Saadi, the chief weapons adviser to Saddam Hussein, accused George Bush and Tony Blair of trying to engineer "a war driven by greed". General Saadi said Baghdad might cease scrapping the missiles if it believed Washington was going to ignore the UN Security Council. "If it turns out at an early stage during this month that America is not going to behave in a legal way, why should we continue?" he said.
Always enjoyable to listen to an Iraqi hood general talk about legalities.
Iraq has destroyed 10 missiles out of over 100 in two days. But stopping the process will almost certainly be seen by America and Britain as a "material breach" of UN resolutions, and provide the trigger for an invasion.
Yep, sure would. Hence the squawking.
The claim that Iraq has fulfilled all its UN obligations is also likely to be used by Washington and London as evidence that President Saddam is not prepared to "fully disarm".
Yep, sure would.
General Saadi said: "Practically all the areas of concern to Unmovic [the UN inspection team] and the subjects of remaining disarmament questions have been addressed."
"Fine, you won't mind us then bringing in about 225,000 inspectors and advisors for a look-see, now would you?"
Posted by: Steve White 2003-03-03
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