Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
14 November Iraq Special Weapons News
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- Joint-service protective suit working in CENTCOM Army News Service 14 Nov 2002-- Hours after it was reported that Iraq had ordered antidotes to a nerve gas it claims not to have, Army chemical soldiers at a Pentagon press briefing affirmed they have the skills and equipment to respond to such weapons of mass destruction.
- DISARMING IRAQ VOA 14 Nov 2002-- The Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations announced on November 13th that Iraq would accept a new U-N Security Council resolution. Unanimously adopted on November 7th, the resolution requires Iraq to reveal its weapons of mass destruction and destroy them. The resolution also demands that Saddam Hussein's regime give U-N weapons inspectors a full and unimpeded access to verify Iraq's disarmament. The Iraqi regime has flagrantly violated similar resolutions passed since the 1991 Persian Gulf War. President George W. Bush called the new U-N Security Council resolution a final test for the Iraqi regime. Will Saddam Hussein disarm? I'll ask my guests: former C-I-A [Central Intelligence Agency] director James Woolsey; John Barry, national security correspondent for Newsweek Magazine; and Patrick Clawson, deputy director of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- IRAQ / WAR / ECONOMY VOA 14 Nov 2002-- As United Nations inspectors prepare to begin searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, analysts in the United States are discussing the costs of a war if Saddam Hussein fails to comply with a tough U-N resolution requiring Baghdad to disarm. Some economists say such a war would send shock waves through the global economy and cause oil prices to skyrocket
- PENTAGON/RUMSFELD VOA 14 Nov 2002-- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has brushed aside Iraq's denials that it has weapons of mass destruction
- KENNETH ALLARD on Iraq VOA 14 Nov 2002-- Iraq, faced with the prospect of war, has given its unconditional acceptance to a United Nations resolution that allows U-N weapons inspectors back into the country to search for weapons of mass destruction. In an interview with VOA's Tom Crosby, Kenneth Allard says Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had few options when confronted by the United Nations resolution. Mister Allard is a former army officer and featured military analyst on MSNBC and NBC News who has written extensively about military affairs.
- BRITAIN / IRAQ VOA 14 Nov 2002-- British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon says 10-percent of the country's armed forces are on fire-fighting duty because of a strike
- Armitage Says Peaceful Means of Dealing with Iraq Must Be Exhausted Washington File 14 Nov 2002-- Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said the American public
and the international community need to feel that every avenue in the
search for peace has been exhausted before resorting to warfare to
eliminate weapons of mass destruction from Iraq.
- ElBaradei Lays Out Prerequisites for Success of Iraq Weapons Inspections Washington File 14 Nov 2002-- In a speech to the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in
Washington November 14, the director of the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA), Mohamed ElBaradei, laid out five prerequisites
for the success of the next round of weapons inspections in Iraq that
are scheduled to get underway November 18
- Rumsfeld Dismisses Iraqi Claims of Innocence Regarding WMDs AFPS 14 Nov 2002-- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld today dismissed Iraq's claims that it has no weapons of mass destruction.
- IRAQ/ARAB REACT VOA 14 Nov 2002-- Governments throughout the Arab world and Gulf states are expressing relief and some cautious optimism following Iraq's acceptance of the U-N Security Council resolution on weapons inspections
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