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• PENTAGON / IRAQ UPDATE VOA 07 Jan 2003 -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says war with Iraq is not inevitable. But senior defense officials are pressing ahead with a military build-up in the Gulf region, including the dispatch of key battle planning personnel
• U.S. Increasing Troops in Gulf; War Still Not Inevitable AFPS 07 Jan 2003-- The U.S. military is building up forces in the Persian Gulf, but that's not a sign war with Iraq is inevitable, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today.
• Select forces to receive smallpox vaccination Marine Corps News 07 Jan 2003-- Thirty percent of those who contract it die. There is no cure. In 1980, it was declared eradicated. But with the threat of terrorists using weapons of mass destruction, the military will be vaccinating service members against it once more.

US Policy

• BUSH / IRAQ / KOREA VOA 07 Jan 2003 -- President Bush says international diplomacy will ultimately solve the crisis over North Korea's nuclear weapons program. But Mr. Bush is still taking a different approach with Iraq where he says Saddam Hussein must surrender all weapons of mass destruction
• EDITORIAL: BUSH ON IRAQ VOA 07 Jan 2003 -- The fate of the current Iraqi regime is being determined by its own actions. President George W. Bush said, "Saddam Hussein knows precisely what he can and must do to avoid conflict. We have made that clear. The world has spoken with one voice." The United Nations Security Council has made it clear: Iraq is required to cooperate in full with U-N inspectors to destroy its weapons of mass destruction, or face the consequences
• Defense Leaders Discuss Difference Between Iraq, North Korea Threats AFPS 07 Jan 2003-- North Korea's recent admission that it's pursuing a banned nuclear weapons program does not put it in the same boat as Iraq, officials contend.

United Nations

• Tracking the Inspections 07 January 2003RFE/L 07 Jan 2003 -- A total of 70 inspectors visited 11 sites on 7 January.
• UN inspectors use helicopters to visit site outside Baghdad UN News Centre 07 Jan 2003 -- United Nations experts travelled by helicopter today for the first time since the resumption of weapons inspections in Iraq, visiting a fertilizer plant well outside Baghdad to probe for evidence of illicit arms
• IRAQ/INSPECTORS VOA 07 Jan 2003 -- United Nations weapons inspectors used helicopters Tuesday to broaden their search for Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction.
• UNMOVIC IAEA Press Statement on Inspection Activities in Iraq UNMOVIC/IAEA 07 January 2003

Foreign Reactions

• BLAIR SPEECH VOA 07 Jan 2003 -- In a speech in London to nearly all of Britain's ambassadors, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Tuesday that the world cannot afford to ignore terrorist organizations and rogue states
• Defence Secretary - statement on Iraq UK Defence Ministry 7 Jan 2003-- The Secretary of State for Defence, Geoff Hoon MP, announced in the House of Commons on 7 January 2003, that he was enabling the precautionary call-out of a number of Reservists, to ensure that they are available should operations against Iraq become necessary. He once again emphasised, however, that such operations are by no means inevitable, but that such preparations were necessary to underpin the continuing diplomatic efforts to secure full Iraqi compliance with United Nations resolutions.
• FRANCE / CHIRAC VOA 07 Jan 2003 -- French President Jacques Chirac has told his country's military that French troops may be involved in combat with Iraq. But he also has made clear that France would go to war only with the backing of the United Nations

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