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| Iraq accused US of ’unprecedented extortion’ for taking copies of arms declaration |
| 2002-12-10 |
| Iraq said the United States had engaged in "unprecedented extortion" by taking the only copy of Baghdad's arms declaration to the UN Security Council, claiming Washington might alter the report as a cover for launching a military attack. The United States took the only copy of the document from the United Nations on Monday to make copies in Washington for distribution to the other four permanent members of the Security Council, Britain, France, Russia and China. "This is unprecedented extortion in the history of the United Nations, when it (US) forced the president of the Security Council to give it the real copy of Iraq's declaration ... in contradiction with the agreement by all member of Security Council on Dec. 6," the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said in a statement faxed to The Associated Press. "Above all of this, this American behavior aims to play with the United Nations' documents with the aim of finding a cover for aggression against Iraq...," the statement said. It's part of the Secret Plan. Britain, France, Russia and China agreed on Monday to let the United States handle the 12,000-page document because Colombia, which holds the presidency of the Security Council, was not able to copy it quickly enough in a secure location. Kinko's was busy? The Iraqi Foreign Ministry statement claimed Washington would not hand over copies to the other permanent Security Council members until the United States was finished "studying it first and possibly forging what it wants to forge. "Let's see, do we add unauthorized materials to the list, or do we delete something and call that a violation?" The two UN bodies inspecting Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission and the International Atomic Energy Agency have copies of the declaration. Iraq also retains a copy. But I thought we had the only true copy? "The international community, states and establishments, will learn more lessons from this extortion and American hegemony on the Security Council and the dangerous effects it will lead to on international relations as well as peace and security in the world," the spokesman said. The new Iraqi plan appears to be if anything is included or not included on the list that is a violation, the US did it. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #2 "we've fired all the gay Arabic speakers" Not all of them, just the ones who got caught in bed together in the middle of a room inspection at the school. You know, the ones who could not follow the rules, or suppose that the rules only apply to hetros. |
| Posted by: Ben 2002-12-11 03:55:33 |
| #1 Odd thought. Is this written in English? The cover sheets I saw were. If so, it will help the process since we've fired all the gay Arabic speakers that could have translated. |
| Posted by: Chuck 2002-12-10 15:56:37 |