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• COALITION FORCES DROP LEAFLETS IN SOUTHERN IRAQ 23 Feb 2003 -- Coalition aircraft dropped informational leaflets over southern Iraq today.
• B-52s BEGIN TRAINING MISSIONS OVER NORTH ARABIAN GULF 23 Feb 2003 -- A U.S. B-52 aircrew conducted a training mission today in the North Arabian Gulf region. The missions will be conducted on a recurring basis and are designed to maintain aircrew proficiency and familiarization.

Deployments

US Policy

• Wolfowitz Talks to Iraqi Americans About Ousting Hussein, Rebuilding Homeland AFPS 23 Feb 2003 -- The United States seeks to liberate Iraq, not occupy it, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said here Feb. 23 to nearly 300 members of the Iraqi-American community.
• Powell Expects to Discuss Iraq, North Korea While in China Washington File 23 Feb 2003 -- State Department Spokesman and Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Richard Boucher issued a brief statement to the media while on board a flight to Beijing on February 23. The Text of that statement follows
• Powell: Time Is Running Out for Iraq to Disarm Voluntarily Washington File 23 Feb 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell held a press conference on February 23 at the U.S. Embassy Auditorium in Tokyo. The transcript of his remarks follows
• U.N. Security Council Now Faces 'Clear Choice' Over Iraq AFPS 23 Feb 2003 -- The U.N. Security Council faces "a clear choice" regarding disarmament of Iraq, President Bush said Feb. 22.
• Powell: U.S. to Table U.N. Resolution 'Early Next Week' AFPS 23 Feb 2003 -- The United States, Britain, and other countries will table a U.N. Security Council resolution "sometime early next week," Secretary of State Colin Powell said in Japan today.
• JAPAN/POWELL-IRAQ VOA 23 Feb 2003 -- U-S Secretary of State Colin Powell, in Tokyo at the start of an Asian tour, says Iraq is clearly in breach of United Nation's demands that it get rid of its weapons of mass destruction, and the time has come to force it to disarm. The Secretary confirmed that the United States will soon propose a new U-N resolution condemning Iraq, and expects the Security Council to vote on it next month.

United Nations

• UN maintains focus on missile inspections as probe continues in Iraq UN News Centre 23 Feb 2003 -- United Nations weapons inspectors in Iraq today maintained their focus on probing the country's missile systems while continuing scrutiny of suspected biological, chemical and nuclear warfare sites.
• IRAQ/INSPECTIONS VOA 23 Feb 2003 -- Iraqi officials say they are studying a U-N demand that Baghdad destroy its Al-Samoud missiles. A news conference in Baghdad was dominated by discussion on the missile system that chief U-N weapons inspector Hans Blix says violates mandated distance limits
• UNMOVIC IAEA Press Statement on Inspection Activities in Iraq UNMOVIC/IAEA 23 February 2003
• Tracking Inspections in Iraq RFE/L 23 Feb 2003

Foreign Reactions

• U-S/IRAQ/TURKEY VOA 23 Feb 2003 -- Turkish officials say a deal that would allow U-S troops to use bases in their country is close, but not complete. They are speaking out in interviews on regional and American television.
• N-A-M SCENE-SETTER VOA 23 Feb 2003 -- Dozens of heads-of-state and government from around the world have been arriving in Malaysia for Monday's opening of the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement. The issues of Iraq and North Korea appear likely to dominate the proceedings.
• BRITAIN-IRAQ VOA 23 Feb 2003 -- A spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair says Britain and the United States are making what he calls a "last push for peace," as they try to secure a new U-N resolution ordering Saddam Hussein to disarm.

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