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U.N. observers stop Iraq-Kuwait border operations
U.N. observers monitoring the Iraq-Kuwait border said on Monday that they had stopped all operations in the demilitarised zone amid U.S. preparations for an attack on Iraq. "Effective today, we have ceased all operations under... our security plan," Daljeet Bagga, spokesman of the U.N. Iraq-Kuwait Observer Mission (UNIKOM), told Reuters. "We are still here in the DMZ (demilitarised zone) but we have ceased operations and are awaiting further instruction," he said."Sarge, when do we bug-out?" "Yesterday. Now shaddup and strap that gear down." UNIKOM, set up after the 1991 Gulf War, last week began withdrawing civilian and military staff from the DMZ straddling the 200-km (120-mile) desert frontier, which U.S. forces would have to cross in any invasion of Iraq. Tick, tick, tick ... Posted by: Steve White 2003-03-17 |
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