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| Iraqi Vows Some Limits on U.N. Probe |
| 2002-11-20 |
| Iraq's vice president said Wednesday there would be limits on the U.N. weapons investigation, though the top inspector says Baghdad has agreed to unannounced checks even on Saddam Hussein's ``special'' sites. Boy, am I suprised. The question of unannounced checks on sites like Saddam's palaces, an issue that helped derail inspections in the 1990s, ``is settled by the resolution. It wasn't even discussed,'' chief weapons inspector Hans Blix said Wednesday after departing Baghdad at the end of a two-day visit inaugurating a new U.N. oversight program, four years after the last inspections. Get ready, boys and girls.. Iraqi Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan said Wednesday that Iraq would fully cooperate with weapons inspectors, but he vowed to prevent them from gathering ``intelligence.'' Here it comes.. ``Any demand or question or a manner of work that conforms with the objective of the inspectors who want to verify that Iraq is free of weapons of mass destruction will be met with full cooperation,'' Ramadan said in an interview from Baghdad with the private Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation. Wait for it.. ``But for demands which are clearly (meant) for intelligence or for other objectives that have nothing to do with the weapons of mass destruction, we will act in such a way so as to safeguard the country's sovereignty and security,'' he said. SOVEREIGNTY!!!! Which means in Iraqi, "You can't look here!" Iraq had raised sovereignty in barring inspectors from Saddam's palaces and other sites in the 1990s. And we are counting on your doing it again. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #3 Someone really needs to point out that these conditions are because the LOST THE FRIGGIN WAR! They dont get sovereignty until they comply. |
| Posted by: flash91 2002-11-21 10:00:28 |
| #2 "OK, you can look all you want in and around our mosque. But in your search, if you happen to run upon any trap doors that lead you to anything resembling a 200,000 sq ft underground storage facility.... well, we will need to exercise our right to defend our country's soverignity." Right. |
| Posted by: Lexicon 2002-11-21 00:06:41 |
| #1 "And we are counting on your doing it again." Looks like they are really cooperating with our wishes, doesn't it? |
| Posted by: Kathy K 2002-11-20 19:33:32 |