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• COALITION FORCES TARGET IRAQI MILITARY COMMUNICATION SITES 19 Jan 2003 -- In response to Iraqi hostile acts against Coalition aircraft monitoring compliance of United Nations Security Council Resolutions over Southern Iraq, Operation SOUTHERN WATCH Coalition aircraft used precision-guided weapons today to target eight unmanned cable repeater sites that are part of Iraq's military air defense command and control system. The sites were located between Al Kut, approximately 95 miles southeast of Baghdad, and An Nasiriyah, approximately 170 miles southeast of Baghdad. The strikes occurred at approximately 7:10 a.m. EST

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• RUMSFELD / IRAQ VOA 19 Jan 2003-- White House officials have indicated they are skeptical Saddam Hussein will ever relinquish power peacefully.
• Top Bush Officials Say Iraq Not in Compliance With U.N. Washington File 19 Jan 2003-- Rice, Powell, Rumsfeld appear on 5 U.S. TV news shows January 19
• Powell Says Time Is Running Out for Iraq to Comply With U.N. Washington File 19 Jan 2003-- Secretary of State Colin Powell was interviewed January 19 on CNN's Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer. He answered questions about U.S. policy toward Iraq and North Korea, and also answered a domestic policy question concerning affirmative action.
• "Wisdom Demands That Iraq Be Disarmed," Powell Says Washington File 19 Jan 2003-- Secretary of State Colin Powell was interviewed January 19 on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation" with Bob Schieffer. He answered questions concerning U.S. policy toward Iraq, as well a domestic policy question concerning affirmative action
• Rumsfeld Says Iraq Still Not Cooperating With U.N. Inspectors Washington File 19 Jan 2003-- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld answered questions about U.S. policy toward Iraq and North Korea January 19 on ABC Television's "This Week With George Stephanopoulos."
• BUSH IRAQ VOA 19 Jan 2003-- Top Bush administration officials are presenting a united front on American television, warning time is running out for Iraq
• Secretary Rumsfeld Interview With Fox News Sunday 19 Jan 2003-- Rumsfeld: No. What it means is that the inspections are designed to allow a cooperative country to show what they have. And the idea that inspectors can go in there and discover things, and find things, if they were be that, they would have been named "finders" or "discoverers" instead of "inspectors." We know what a proper inspection regime looks like. Kazakhstan opened up. South Africa opened up. Other countries -- Ukraine opened up, and inspectors went in and said, "Yes, that's what's there." The Iraqis clearly -- they filed a false declaration.
• Secretary Rumsfeld Interview On ABC This Week 19 Jan 2003-- Rumsfeld: Of course not. They've submitted a fraudulent declaration. There are great gaps between their records with respect to anthrax and botulism and sarin and VX. They are not submitting the list of scientists that could be taken out of the country. They have systematically not done things in a cooperative way. Now, the inspectors have every right in the world to be concerned about that.
• Rumsfeld: Only 'Certainty' on Iraq Is Saddam Not Cooperating AFPS 19 Jan 2003-- People are looking for certainty in respect to Iraq, but the only certainty now is that Iraq is not cooperating with U.N. weapons inspectors, said Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.

United Nations

• Tracking the Inspections 19 January 2003RFE/L 19 Jan 2003 -- Two International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors met with representatives of the Al-Qa'qa State Company and the Hittin State Company at the offices of the National Monitoring Directorate (NMD) to discuss inventories of HMX material present in Iraq since inspectors left in 1998.
• IRAQ / INSPECT VOA 19 Jan 2003 -- The top two U-N arms inspectors have arrived in Baghdad saying Iraq must offer more active cooperation in the search for banned weapons if it is to avoid possible armed conflict. The visit to Baghdad comes one week before the two men are to report to the U-N Security Council on their assessment of Iraq's claim that it has no weapons of mass destruction.
• UNMOVIC IAEA Press Statement on Inspection Activities in Iraq UNMOVIC/IAEA 19 January 2003

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