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Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)


03 December Iraq Special Weapons News

  • Tracking the Inspections 03 December 2002 RFE/L 03 Dec 2002 -- A team of 18 UN Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and five International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors visited the Al-Sujud Palace and nearby Al-Sajdah Hall, according to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry.
  • Daily Press Briefing State Department 03 Dec 2002 -- Deputy Secretary Armitage Travel to Japan, South Korea, China and Australia/ Consultations on Iraqi Compliance with UN Security Council Resolution / Iraqi Compliance with Resolution 1441 / U.S. Contingency for Using Force / Disarmament Versus Regime Change as Goal of U.S. Policy / Repairs to Iraqi Embassy Building / Hiring of UN Weapons Inspectors / Arms Trade
  • Official Projections Underestimate Cost of Iraq War According to American Academy Report 03 Dec 2002 -- The political, military, and economic consequences of war with Iraq could be extremely costly to the United States.
  • Transcript: DoD News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld And Gen. Myers 03 Dec 2002 -- "With the passage of the new U.N. resolution and the strong statement by our NATO allies in Prague, Saddam Hussein now faces a choice: to disarm or face the possibility of being disarmed. I should add that the members of the U.N. also face a choice. When the Iraqis send in their declaration, if it's false, will the United Nations continue the pattern of the past of allowing Iraq to ignore U.N. resolutions, or will the member countries hold Iraq to its obligations? As inspections begin, it's worth underscoring another important fact: the burden of proof is not on the United Nations or on the inspectors to prove that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction. The burden of proof is on the Iraqi regime to prove that it is disarming, as required by the successive U.N. resolutions. "
  • BLAIR / IRAQ VOA 03 Dec 2002 -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair warns Iraq to comply with United Nations resolutions and destroy its weapons of mass destruction. He says his government has information they exist and he urges U-N inspectors to find and destroy them. The British leader made the remarks in response to listeners' questions during a special B-B-C radio 70th anniversary broadcast
  • PENTAGON / IRAQ VOA 03 Dec 2002 -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the burden of proof is on Iraq and not on United Nations weapons inspectors, to show Iraq has eliminated its weapons of mass destruction
  • IRAQ / WOLFOWITZ VOA 03 Dec 2002 -- Senior U-S officials are visiting Turkey today (Tuesday) to discuss the Iraq crisis with Turkish leaders. During a stopover in London, U-S Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz pressed Turkey's case to join the European Union
  • IRAQ / WRAP VOA 03 Dec 2002 -- Iraq says it will meet the December 8th deadline set by the United Nations for declaring what weapons of mass destruction it may still have and will do so a day ahead of time. This, on a day when weapons inspectors carried out a search of one of President Saddam Hussein's palaces for banned nuclear, chemical and biological weapons which Baghdad says it no longer has
  • IRAQ/INSPECTIONS VOA 03 Dec 2002 -- U-N weapons inspectors visited a presidential palace in Baghdad, while Iraqi officials announced they would provide a list of their weapons systems on Saturday
  • BUSH IRAQ VOA 03 Dec 2002 -- With U-N weapons inspections in Iraq continuing, President Bush says the real test for Saddam Hussein is whether he will agree to give up weapons of mass destruction. The White House is downplaying reports that that the president expects weapons inspections to fail.
  • TURKEY / IRAQ / U-S VOA 03 Dec 2002 -- Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz is in Turkey seeking support in the event of a war against Iraq. The U-S official was among several prominent Western diplomats visiting the Turkish capital
  • UN weapons inspectors visit presidential site in Iraq UN News Centre 03 Dec 2002 -- Teams from the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) today conducted an unannounced joint inspection of one of the eight Presidential sites in Iraq
  • Threat of Force Key in Getting Inspectors into Iraq AFPS 03 Dec 2002-- U.N. weapons inspectors are back on the job in Iraq only because the world presented a united front and increased pressure on Saddam Hussein, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today during a Pentagon press briefing.
  • White House Report, Dec. 3: Bush on Iraq; Foreign Policy Appointments Washington File 03 Dec 2002-- United Nations weapons inspectors are in Iraq "not to play hide-and-seek" with Saddam Hussein but to "verify the will of the world" that he disarm for the sake of peace, President Bush said December 3.
  • Wolfowitz on Iraq, War on Terror, Turkey's Role in Europe Washington File 03 Dec 2002-- Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz spoke to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London December 2 that the goal in Iraq is "disarmament-the elimination of Iraq's programs to build chemical, biological and nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them. Disarming Saddam Hussein and fighting the war on terror are not merely related; the first is a crucial part of the second."




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