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| Iraq |
| Saddam says U.S., UK must halt raids during U-2 flights |
| 2003-02-10 |
| Iraqi President Saddam Hussein said on Monday U.S. and British planes patrolling two "no-fly" zones over the country should not launch raids on Iraq during U- 2 surveillance flights. Knew there was a catch, didn't you? Saddam's comments, read on state television, appeared to be setting a condition for the flights shortly after Iraq's U.N. envoy said Baghdad accepted the flights unconditionally. But an Iraqi source at the United Nations said no such condition existed in the letter that Iraq had delivered to U.N. weapons inspectors in New York. Someone didn't tell Sammy Iraq had previously said it could not guarantee the safety of the U-2 planes while coalition planes patrolled the zones. "If the world, besides America, finds that the U-2 plane is important to carry out more areial surveillance, it should tell America and Britain not to open fire at us. Otherwise, this demand would be a call for the surrender of Iraq to the American military force...," Saddam said. Hey, Sammy got it right! The Iraqi leader said Baghdad had agreed to all the demands of U.N. weapons inspectors and they had still not found any weapons of mass destruction which he said Iraq did not posses. "What are the pretexts that we have to defuse so that we convince America not to launch war?" Had your chance, you didn't take it. |
| Posted by:Steve |
| #1 Had his chance, took it, DID SURRENDER. Now he's openly denying ever having surrendered. |
| Posted by: Dishman 2003-02-10 14:25:03 |