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BBC. 24 September 2002. UN lukewarm on Iraq dossier. UNITED NATIONS -- It is perhaps not surprising that the release of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's dossier on Iraq barely caused a splash at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Diplomats and UN officials have been immersed in the details of Iraq's non-compliance with Security Council resolutions, and its alleged pursuit of weapons of mass destruction ever since the end of the Gulf War more than a decade ago. The reaction from many of those who work here was that the dossier was interesting, but did not add a great deal to what was already known. "My impression is that it's largely unspecific, and doesn't really tell us anything we didn't know already," said David Malone, the president of the International Peace Academy, a think tank based just across the street from UN headquarters. "It's not likely to impress anyone here," he says. "It seems to contain far more in terms of assertions than it does in real evidence." This view was also reflected by a diplomat representing one of the non-permanent members of the Security Council, who did not want to be identified. "The question everyone will be asking is: Why now? Why has it taken so long to introduce this dossier?" he said. "It pulls together a lot of strands of old information. It's useful to know all of this, it spells out the evidence, but it doesn't really add anything." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ProletarianNews http://www.utopia2000.org ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# ##### ##### ##### ################################################################# ################################################################# ################################################################# --------------------------- ANTI-NATO INFORMATION LIST ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.bacIlu Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
