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| Iraq to admit no banned activities in declaration |
| 2002-12-05 |
| Iraq will admit to no banned activities in a key weapons declaration it is required to give the United Nations, its top liaison with UN disarmament experts said, courting US and British anger. General Hossam Mohammad Amin, who heads Iraq's National Monitoring Directorate, vowed Iraq would submit a "huge declaration" by Sunday's deadline, but reiterated that Baghdad had none of the weapons of mass destruction that Washington has said it must own up to or risk military action for "lying". "It will be a huge declaration containing new elements, containing new sites, new activities conducted during the absence of inspectors," Amin told a news conference. It covers biological, chemical, missiles, nuclear but there are no prohibited activities. We have absolutely no weapons of mass destruction." Both Best of the Web and the Little Tiny Green Footballs commented yesterday on the statement by an unnamed Iraqi officer that if we didn't believe they didn't have weapons of mass destruction, and went to war with them, they'd use those weapons they don't have on us. A senior Iraqi official who refused to reveal his name said that the Iraqi regime would defend its existence and its reputation. The Iraqi official said unequivocally: "When the regime was under intense attack in Al-Fau and began to be under threat, it did not hesitate to use all the weapons of mass destruction in its possession. Similarly, when the people of Halabja, or some of them, became guides for the Iranian forces that tried to breach the northeast [front], the regime did not hesitate to use chemical weapons." Therefore, "do not expect us to stand idly by in the face of any aggression that seeks to destroy and banish us not only from the regime but also from life." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 Let the games begin! Whoops, my bad! They had already started when the inspectors arrived... |
| Posted by: Ptah 2002-12-06 11:12:51 |
| #1 Hmmm - except those mustard-gas artillery shells they found yesterday.....those we declare |
| Posted by: Frank G 2002-12-05 10:51:28 |