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18 November Iraq Special Weapons News

  • BRIT/U-S/IRAQ VOA 18 Nov 2002 -- British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw says the U-N weapons inspectors who arrived in Iraq are Saddam Hussein's last chance to give up weapons of mass destruction
  • IRAQ WRAP-UPDATE VOA 18 Nov 2002 -- United Nations weapons inspectors are back in Iraq after a four year absence to resume searches for nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Led by Swedish diplomat Hans Blix, inspectors began arriving Monday, just as Washington was accusing Baghdad of already being in material breach of the Security Council resolution authorizing their return
  • IRAQ WRAP VOA 18 Nov 2002 -- United Nations weapons inspectors are back in Iraq after a four year absence to resume searches for nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Inspectors led by Swedish diplomat Hans Blix arrived Monday, even as Washington was accusing Baghdad of already being in material breach of the Security Council resolution authorizing the inspections, by firing on U-S and British military aircraft
  • CQ IRAQ / WEAPONS INSPECTORS VOA 18 Nov 2002 -- An advance team of U-N weapons inspectors arrived in Baghdad Monday to prepare for the resumption of inspections next month. Iraqi officials are promising full cooperation. But many political analysts in the region are not optimistic the resumption of inspections will provide real answers on Iraq's weapons program and avoid war
  • BUSH / IRAQ VOA 18 Nov 2002 -- The Bush administration says Iraqi attacks on U-S and British warplanes over the country's "no fly zones" violate the new U-N resolution to disarm Iraq. Most recently, coalition planes came under fire Monday over northern Iraq
  • OLIVIA BOSCH, A FORMER WEAPONS INSPECTOR IN IRAQ VOA 18 Nov 2002 -- United Nations weapons inspectors have returned to Iraq for the first time in four years to begin a search for banned weapons. After stepping off a U-N-chartered flight to Baghdad today (Monday), chief U-N weapons inspector Hans Blix told reporters his team is there because the world wants assurances there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Mr. Blix and Mohamed El Baradei of the International Atomic Energy Agency are heading a team of some 30 members, who will begin preliminary work to prepare for inspections November 27th
  • IRAQ/ARRIVAL VOA 18 Nov 2002 -- After an absence of four years, U-N arms inspectors have arrived in Baghdad to search for weapons of mass destruction. Iraqi authorities are promising full cooperation, but not everyone is convinced the inspection process will lead to a peaceful conclusion
  • IRAQ/FUTURE PLANS VOA 18 Nov 2002 -- While leaders of the Iraqi opposition wrangle over who should participate in a planning session for Iraq's future, lower-level technocrats are busy mapping out the nuts and bolts of a future government -- after Saddam Hussein. They are convinced that time will come
  • IRAQ / WRAP VOA 18 Nov 2002 -- United Nations weapons inspectors are back in Iraq after a four year absence. They are resuming searches for nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Washington is saying Baghdad is already in material breach of the Security Council resolution authorizing the return of inspectors, by again threatening coalition aircraft in Iraq's northern no fly zone
  • COALITION FORCES STRIKE COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES AND RADAR 18 Nov 2002 -- In response to Iraqi hostile acts against Coalition aircraft monitoring the Southern No-Fly Zone, Operation SOUTHERN WATCH Coalition aircraft used precision-guided weapons today to target two air defense communications facilities and one air defense radar facility. One communication facility and the radar facility were located near Al Kut, approximately 100 miles southeast of Baghdad. The other air defense facility was located near Tallil, approximately 170 miles south southeast of Baghdad. The strikes occurred at about 3:00 p.m. EST
  • As UN arms inspectors arrive in Iraq, Annan urges Baghdad's compliance UN News Service 18 Nov 2002 -- As an advance team of United Nations arms inspectors arrived today in Iraq, Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged President Saddam Hussein to comply fully with Security Council demands, "for the sake of his people, regional stability and world order."
  • Iraq Fires on Northern Watch Pilots AFPS 18 Nov 2002 -- Iraqi forces fired anti-aircraft artillery Nov. 17 and today at coalition airplanes enforcing the Northern No-fly Zone over Iraq
  • Iraq attacks ONW aircraft monitoring No-Fly zone 18 Nov 2002-- Iraqi forces threatened Operation Northern Watch (ONW) coalition aircraft today. Iraqi forces fired anti-aircraft artillery (AAA) from sites northeast of Mosul while ONW aircraft conducted routine enforcement of the Northern No-Fly Zone.
  • Armitage Says U.S. Hopes Force Will Not Be Needed in Iraq Washington File 18 Nov 2002-- Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said the United States hopes that U.N. weapons inspectors in Iraq will have full and complete access and cooperation from authorities in Baghdad, a situation in which "there would be no need for military force."
  • Legal Expert Describes Iraqi Treatment of Marsh Arabs as Genocide Washington File 18 Nov 2002-- Says massive network of canals meant to destroy a people
  • World Facing "Unfortunate Choice" on Iraq, Mideast Expert Says Washington File 18 Nov 2002-- War now or later, when Iraq has nuclear weapons, Pollack warns
  • Rumsfeld, Chileans Discuss Iraq, Mutual Interests AFPS 18 Nov 2002-- Iraq has no business firing on coalition aircraft engaged in activities that support U.N. Security Council resolutions, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said here Nov. 18.
  • Secretary Rumsfeld Joint Press Conference with Chilean MoD in Santiago, Chile 18 Nov 2002-- Rumsfeld: You have very accurately quoted me and I appreciate that. I cannot imagine a secretary of defense of the United States--past, present or future--who would feel, let alone say, that firing at U.S. and British and coalition aircraft is acceptable. It's the only place on the face of the Earth where our forces are being fired on and the response is measured. I'm uncomfortable with the idea that we ask young men and young women to serve in flight crews; to fly over Iraq in the north and the south, for the purpose of seeing that the U.N. resolution that Saddam Hussein agreed to, that they would not send forces south to again do violence against the Shia in the south or invade Kuwait; that they would not send forces to the north and do violence to the Kurds, of which they have done before; and that is the purpose of the no-fly zone. I do find it unacceptable that Iraq fires and it is for the president of the United States and the U.N. Security Council to make judgments about what their view might be of Iraq's behavior over some reasonable period of time and those negotiations and discussions are just starting.




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