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| Axis of Evil |
| Iraq renews spy charge against UN experts |
| 2003-01-08 |
| Middle East Online Iraq hit out at the UN disarmament mission for spying Wednesday for a third day in a row, with Deputy Prime Minister Tareq Aziz accusing the inspection teams of pursuing "espionage questions". Must have accidentally gotten close to something... "A great deal of their work here in Iraq is not to search for weapons of mass destruction," Aziz told a delegation of South African anti-war activists. "They are searching for other information, information about the Iraqi conventional military capability, information about the Iraqi scientific and industrial capability in the civilian area, and also espionage questions." Terrible. Just terrible. Damn them! The deputy prime minister was echoing accusations already levelled by President Saddam Hussein on both Monday and Tuesday in a sharp downturn in the official rhetoric towards the UN mission. "The inspection teams are going around looking at army units and posing questions which have nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction," Saddam said Tuesday. "They are going into factories, questioning workers and asking for lists of scientists who have nothing to do with mass destruction weapons. They are indulging in lowly intelligence work," he charged, reprising virtually word for word accusations he had made in a keynote speech the previous day. Guess they're using the same shouting points memo... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 Spies!! ALL SPIES!!!! |
| Posted by: Raj 2003-01-08 13:44:33 |