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Deployments

• 32 AOG deploys to support GWOT USAFE 03 Feb 2003 -- More than 40 airmen from the 32nd Air Operations Group here left Feb. 2 for the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility to support the global war on terrorism.

  US Policy

• White House Daily Briefing White House 03 Feb 2003
• Boucher: Powell to Make "Compelling" Presentation to Security Council Washington File 03 Feb 2003 -- State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher said Secretary of State Colin Powell will make a "compelling" case to the U.N. Security Council February 5th that Iraq has been deceiving the U.N. weapons inspectors about its programs to develop weapons of mass destruction in violation of Security Council resolutions.
• Powell Article Called Preview of February 5 Remarks to U.N. Washington File 03 Feb 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell's article in the February 3 Wall Street Journal is "a good guide to what he's going to say" to the United Nations Security Council February 5, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer told reporters February 3.
• CONGRESS/DEMOCRATS/IRAQ VOA 03 Feb 2003 -- Congressional opponents of a possible U-S-led war to disarm Iraq are stepping up their criticism of the Bush administration, as Secretary of State Colin Powell prepares to present new information (on Wednesday) to the United Nations. The renewed criticism comes as the Bush administration prsents its budget for 2004.
• POWELL/IRAQ VOA 03 Feb 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell is preparing what he says will be a "compelling" presentation to the U-N Security Council Wednesday, including the release of highly-classified information, to bolster the case that Iraq is not complying with last November's disarmament resolution.
• "We Will Not Shrink From War," by Secretary of State Colin Powell Washington File 03 Feb 2003 -- President Bush warned in his State of the Union address that "the gravest danger facing America and the world is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical and biological weapons." Exhibit A is Saddam Hussein's Iraq. As the president said, we need only look at how Saddam has terrorized, oppressed and murdered his own people to understand his methods. And, perhaps most critically, the president confirmed that Iraq has open channels and ties to terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda.
• EDITORIAL: THE UNITED NATIONS REPORT VOA 03 Feb 2003 -- Under the cease-fire that ended the Persian Gulf War in 1991, the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein was required to destroy all its weapons of mass destruction. For more than a decade, Iraq lied and covered up its weapons programs. Iraq ceased all cooperation with the inspectors in December 1998.
• Secretary of Defense Message on the Global War on Terrorism APFS 03 Feb 2003 -- Be assured that the president will not decide to commit forces unless conditions require it, and only as a last resort. Should action be necessary, you will have what you need to carry out the missions assigned
• U-S IRAQ PROOF VOA 03 Feb 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell's appearance Wednesday before the U-N Security Council provides the Bush administration with its best opportunity to sway international opinion on the threat posed by Iraq's weapons program. Secretary Powell's presentation is already being compared to the 1962 showdown at the United Nations between the United States and the Soviet Union, over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba
• IRAQ INSPECTIONS VOA 03 Feb 2003 -- Iraqi officials are becoming more vocal about resolving remaining issues with U-N weapons inspectors, as U-S Secretary of State Colin Powell prepares to show the Security Council evidence he says proves Iraq is still in possession of weapons of mass destruction

United Nations

• IRAQ INSPECTIONS VOA 03 Feb 2003 -- U-N inspectors are continuing their search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, as Baghdad expresses more willingness to cooperatewith them to resolve remaining issues. Regional leaders say it is up to Iraq to avoid armed conflict
• EDITORIAL: STATE OF THE UNION -- IRAQ VOA 03 Feb 2003 -- The "gravest danger facing America and the world," said President George W. Bush in his State of the Union address, "is outlaw regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. These regimes could use such weapons for blackmail, terror, and mass murder. They could also give or sell those weapons to terrorist allies, who would use them without the least hesitation."
• UNMOVIC IAEA Press Statement on Inspection Activities in Iraq UNMOVIC/IAEA 03 February 2003
• Tracking Inspections in Iraq RFE/L 03 Feb 2003

Foreign Reactions

• Iraq - Its Infrastructure of Concealment, Deception and Intimidation UK Foreign Commonwealth Office 03 Feb 2003 -- "This report draws upon a number of sources, including intelligence material, and shows how the Iraqi regime is constructed to have, and to keep, WMD, and is now engaged in a campaign of obstruction of the United Nations Weapons Inspectors." [PDF 205 Kb] The report was later discovered to have been in large part plagiarized from open sources, raising credibility issues for the British government which clumsily portrayed the information contained in the report as unique, up-to-date "intelligence" and the result of its own work See Steve Aftergood's Project on Government Secrecy

• UN / IRAQ / E-U VOA 03 Feb 2003 -- A member of the European Parliament has delivered to chief U-N weapons inspector Hans Blix what she describes as fresh evidence of hidden material in Iraq that could be used in weapons of mass destruction.
• BUSH / IRAQ / RUSSIA VOA 03 Feb 2003 -- President Bush has held another round of telephone consultations on Iraq with Russian President Vladimir Putin. They spoke on the eve of a crucial appearance by Secretary of State Colin Powell before the U-N Security Council
• BRITAIN / IRAQ VOA 03 Feb 2003 -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair says there is no question that Iraq has failed to cooperate with U-N weapons inspectors. Because of this, he says, the final phase of the showdown over Iraq's weapons of mass destruction has begun
• BRITAIN / IRAQ VOA 03 Feb 2003 -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair says the disarmament showdown with Iraq is nearing its conclusion. He told parliament there is now unmistakable evidence that Iraq is not cooperating with U-N weapons inspectors
• AUSTRALIA / IRAQ VOA 03 Feb 2003 -- Australian Prime Minister John Howard has announced he will go to Washington and London next week to discuss a possible military response to disarm Iraq. And the prime minister will also address Parliament on Tuesday to spur a debate on his administration's controversial support for the U-S hard-line stand on Iraq

News Reports

• Iraqi-born Educators and Scholars Consider Critical Educational Reforms Washington File 03 Feb 2003 -- Seventeen Iraqi-born scholars and educators met at the Department of State January 24-26 to discuss ways to make Iraq's education system more effective in preparing citizens to succeed in the democratic society they hope will follow the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime.