Author Topic: Iraq allows weapons inspectors back. (Read 586 times)

Thrawn · « **on:** October 01, 2002, 02:34:14 PM »

Iraq agrees to return of weapons inspectors but...

Last Updated Tue, 01 Oct 2002 15:29:47
VIENNA, AUSTRIA - Iraq has agreed to the return of UN weapons inspectors, with an advance team slated to arrive in Baghdad in about two weeks.

At a meeting in Vienna Tuesday, chief inspector Hans Blix said an agreement was reached for inspectors to continue to search for weapons of mass destruction under previous UN Security Council rules.

"The Iraqi representatives declared that Iraq accepts all rights of inspection provided for in all the relevant Security Council resolutions," Blix said.

http://cbc.ca/stories/2002/10/01/inspectors_021001

Curval · « **Reply #1 on:** October 01, 2002, 02:37:07 PM »

So they have finally hidden everything away...wtg Sadaam.

Thrawn · « **Reply #2 on:** October 01, 2002, 02:41:08 PM »

"A senior State Department official said the United States would "move into thwart mode" if the international body's Security Council fails to pass a resolution before Hans Blix, the U.N.'s chief weapons inspector, sends the inspectors back. They are scheduled to return in mid-October. "

http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe/10/01/inspectors.iraq/index.html

T0J0 · « **Reply #3 on:** October 01, 2002, 02:45:22 PM »

Saddam has been stalling until they could hide all the marbles...
Now inspectors can come in... To bad for him our Sats have been working over time taking pictures of his moving marbles...

Apache · « **Reply #4 on:** October 01, 2002, 02:46:49 PM »

According to U.N. and Iraqi officials, restrictions on surprise visits to President Saddam Hussein’s presidential palaces remain in place.

Now, I wonder where they're hiding the stuff?

Kanth · « **Reply #5 on:** October 01, 2002, 02:47:38 PM »

Presidential sites are still off limits.

What a joke.

Sikboy · « **Reply #6 on:** October 01, 2002, 02:48:39 PM »

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Originally posted by Apache
According to U.N. and Iraqi officials, restrictions on surprise visits to President Saddam Hussein’s presidential palaces remain in place.

Now, I wonder where they're hiding the stuff?

dude, those are just palaces man, that's like where he lives, and keeps his art collection and stuff.

I hear he even has a dragon in one of the moats.

-Sikboy

Thrawn · « **Reply #7 on:** October 01, 2002, 02:49:54 PM »

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Originally posted by Kanth
Presidential sites are still off limits.

What a joke.

Why did the Bush Sr. administration agree to the resolutions in the first place then?

Must be Clinton's fault.

GRUNHERZ · « **Reply #8 on:** October 01, 2002, 02:52:06 PM »

So you blame Saddam's behavior on the Bush family?

Apache · « **Reply #9 on:** October 01, 2002, 02:54:55 PM »

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Originally posted by Thrawn

Why did the Bush Sr. administration agree to the resolutions in the first place then?

Must be Clinton's fault.

As I recall, Bush didn't. The UN Secretary General did 4 years ago.

Lets see. Who was president then?

Thrawn · « **Reply #10 on:** October 01, 2002, 03:01:34 PM »

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Originally posted by Apache

As I recall, Bush didn't. The UN Secretary General did 4 years ago.

Lets see. Who was president then?

Aren't these the security council resolutions that were inacted right after the Gulf War?

If so Bush could have vetoed them.

Sikboy · « **Reply #11 on:** October 01, 2002, 03:20:30 PM »

Thrawn,

It is my understanding that The "Palaces" in question are part of Iraq's attempts to run an end around the sancitons. Many if not most of them are new construction since 1991. They are created for the sole purpose of creating safe havens for these programs. I do not recall their exclusion as part of the original deal, but rather as something that was tacked on by the Iraqis in subsiquent inspections. Attempts to inspect these areas are documented in the UN reports of UNSCOM (I can't find the FAS link, I'll look again later).

This is just part of Saddams attempt to get around the inspections, much like his starving his own people to get out of the sanctions against his government.

-Sikboy

Thrawn · « **Reply #12 on:** October 01, 2002, 03:27:08 PM »

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Originally posted by Sikboy
They are created for the sole purpose of creating safe havens for these programs. I do not recall their exclusion as part of the original deal, but rather as something that was tacked on by the Iraqis in subsiquent inspections.

It wouldn't suprise me if they were used for weapons programs. But I don't see how Iraq could just arbitrarily "tack it on" to a UN resolution.

If they aren't part of the resolutions, and Iraq still doesn't allow access to the palaces. Then they would still be breaking the original resolutions and I think the US and Britain would be justified invading Iraq to uphold the original resolutions.

Sikboy · « **Reply #13 on:** October 01, 2002, 03:28:07 PM »

Ok, found it.

http://www.fas.org/news/un/iraq/s/980409c-unscom.htm

I just grabed one at random on "presidential sites"

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Originally Posted by UNSCOM
1. The initial entry to the eight Presidential sites in Iraq, tasked by
the Executive Chairman of the Special Commission, was performed by
mission UNSCOM 243 during the period of 25 March to 4 April 1998. The
initial entry was conducted following the Memorandum of Understanding
between Iraq and the Secretary-General of 23 February 998. This
agreement and its implementing procedures provided for special
arrangements by which Iraq would accept UNSCOM and IAEA access to the
eight Presidential sites. Previously, and contrary to Security Council
resolutions, access to these sites had been blocked from UN inspectors.
As will be seen below, one major aspect of the agreement involving the
continuing nature of such access - is still unresolved, merely
postponed.

I can't blame Iraq for trying to get out of this deal, but I can and do blame us if we help him do it by accepting this new paradigm.

-Sikboy

Sikboy · « **Reply #14 on:** October 01, 2002, 03:29:12 PM »

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Originally posted by Thrawn

If they aren't part of the resolutions, and Iraq still doesn't allow access to the palaces. Then they would still be breaking the original resolutions and I think the US and Britain would be justified invading Iraq to uphold the original resolutions. [/B]

Glad to have you aboard
Scoot over Grunherz, Thrawn is driving the war train now!
-Sikboy