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| Iraq to make weapons declaration |
| 2002-12-03 |
| Iraq says it will give the United Nations a report on its weapons of mass destruction on December 7 -- one day ahead of the deadline set by the U.N. Hussam Mohammed Amin, head of the Iraqi National Monitoring Directorate told reporters: "We are going to deliver this declaration in the proper time on the seventh of this month and the people here, the UNMOVIC and IAEA, will take this declaration to New York and Vienna." U.S. President George Bush has insisted Baghdad must supply a "credible and complete" list of its nuclear, biological and chemical weapons by Sunday -- the December 8 deadline set by U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441 giving Baghdad one last chance to disarm or face war. But Amin declared: "We are a country devoid of weapons of mass destruction. This fact is known to all countries including the United States of America and Britain and all those concerned." "And they have the intelligence to disprove it." |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #3 If we have hard intel on Iraqi WMD, we do not want Saddam to know what we actually know, and letting the UN know lets Saddam in on the secret. Those sites are critical targets and the last thing we want is to spook the Iraquis into dispersal, unless we get to watch. Which would almost suggest that the last thing we want is to have UMOVIC actually stumble onto something; luckily we have Blix. He gets to ramble around and we watch how the Iraquis react. Confused? Be patient. |
| Posted by: john 2002-12-03 21:20:56 |
| #2 My guess is that the US has a list of known stuff. When Saddam produces his list (or lack of a list) we'll compare the two and tell the weapons inspectors to check out the inconsistencies. Planes will be in the air and troops ready. Saddam will have the most obvious ones clean and clear hoping to humiliate us, but I'm pretty sure our list is going to be more extensive than he thinks. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2002-12-03 17:18:51 |
| #1 Looks like Iraqis will make, at most, token admissions of WMD programs in an effort to draw out the process and deprive the US of a casus belli. We'll need hard evidence to refute them. I know the Iraqi's are lying but am getting a bit worried we do not have the goods to prove it or we would have already presented them to the UN. Should I be? |
| Posted by: John B. 2002-12-03 17:09:04 |