| Submit your comments on this article |
| Axis of Evil |
| Blix Urges Iraq to Play Nice... |
| 2002-10-16 |
| The chief of the United Nations weapons inspectors appealed to Iraq today to agree to arrangements for new inspections but said his weapons teams would only return to Iraq after the Security Council adopts a resolution giving them a new mandate. Reporting to a closed meeting of the Council, the weapons official, Hans Blix, said he still had no agreement with Iraq on several inspection issues: helicopter flights for his teams; conditions for interviews of Iraqi weapons experts, and permission for U-2 or Mirage photographic surveillance flights over Iraq. The chief of the United Nations weapons inspectors appealed to Iraq today to agree to arrangements for new inspections but said his weapons teams would only return to Iraq after the Security Council adopts a resolution giving them a new mandate. Reporting to a closed meeting of the Council, the weapons official, Hans Blix, said he still had no agreement with Iraq on several inspection issues: helicopter flights for his teams; conditions for interviews of Iraqi weapons experts, and permission for U-2 or Mirage photographic surveillance flights over Iraq. Doesn't that come as a surprise? Who ever expected any kind of delays to be associated with Sammy's "unconditional acceptance"? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |