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| U.S. Seeks False Info, Emptying Iraq of Scientists: Iraq |
| 2002-12-31 |
| Iraq warned Monday that U.N. inspectors’ interviewing of Iraqi scientists abroad poses legal problems, as the Security Council extended the list of goods banned for export to Iraq, to include about five dozen chemicals, drugs, electronic items and vehicles. "We must not rush things because this issue poses real problems, legal ones linked to human rights," General Amer al-Saadi, one of President Saddam Hussein’s top advisors, said during a meeting with a Spanish delegation in Baghdad, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP). No, no. Certainly don't rush things. I mean, this could take months, even years, right? "One cannot force an Iraqi citizen to leave his country if he does not wish to," Saadi said, also describing Hans Blix and Mohammed El-Baradei, the chief weapons inspectors, as "lawyers who know human rights well." Why not? Sammy can prevent him from leaving if he does wish to... Saadi accused the United States of insisting that interviews be undertaken abroad to obtain "false information" and "emptying Iraq of its scientists." He added that the Iraqi scientists who defected in the past "had said what the United States wanted to hear" by providing "false information". Sounds worried to me. And like he's got something to hide. If they were happy and content and really had voted 100 percent for Sammy, then what would be the worry? Another senior official later said Iraq was seeking guarantees that the interviews would not be "modified" to provide Washington with an excuse to attack. "The guarantees are linked to what the scientists will say, since it could happen they attribute things to them which they did not say... which could be used as a pretext to strike Iraq," General Hossam Mohammad Amin, head of the National Monitoring Directorate, the agency that liaises with the inspectors, said in an interview with Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television channel Monday. Simple enough. Have al-Jazeera videotape the inerviews. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 "Have al-Jazeera videotape the inerviews" heh-heh. I like it: they'd probably do an honest job and get into trouble with the Qatar government [again], but they are used to that. |
| Posted by: John Anderson 2002-12-31 09:53:51 |