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| Axis of Evil |
| Inspectors root through Sammy's underwear drawer... |
| 2002-12-03 |
| United Nations weapons inspectors knocked on the doors of one of Saddam Hussein's presidential compounds Tuesday morning, quickly gaining entry in a test of the inspection teams' newfound power to go anywhere in Iraq. The monitors found a spectacular, opulent palace inside the huge Al-Sajoud complex that sprawls along the Tigris River. But there was no word that they found anything else. "The Iraqi side was cooperative," said Gen. Hossam Mohammed Amin, the chief Iraqi liaison officer, to journalists afterward. "The inspectors were happy." He's an Iraqi. What's he going to say? "We were truculent and obstructive?" In New York, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan described Iraq's cooperation — not only at the palace but in other inspections so far — as good but cautioned "this is only the beginning." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |