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| Baghdad has one more last chance warns Powell |
| 2003-03-05 |
| Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has made no strategic or political decision to disarm and new intelligence data shows he is making new attempts to deceive UN weapons inspectors, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said last night. Powell said that the US was prepared to move quickly if the crisis came to war, but said Saddam has "one last opportunity" to disarm peacefully. One more last opportunity, he means... Two days before a crucial Security Council meeting on a new US-British-Spanish resolution which argues that Iraq has failed to disarm, Powell laid out a dramatic new charge-sheet against Baghdad. He accused the regime of moving weapons of mass destruction around to escape detection and of producing new missiles, even as it publicly destroys old stocks of the Al Samound 2 rocket. Taking aim at an audience outside Washington, Powell also warned fellow members of the Security Council that international divisions over how to force Iraq to disarm were encouraging Saddam to continue on the path of deception. Save your breath, Colin... |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #2 Remember the photos of the missile test beds shown at the UN? These missiles were tested on the old one, the new one looks at least four times as large. I don't think it was so they could test four engines at a time... |
| Posted by: John Anderson 2003-03-05 23:17:12 |
| #1 Uh huh. This probably makes it the eighth or ninth "last chance". I lost count several last chances ago. |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2003-03-05 23:10:00 |