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>From ArabicNews.CoM
Egyptian parliament opens issue of those who disappeared in Iraq
Egypt, Politics, 1/6/99
The Egyptian People's Assembly decided to open the issue of Egyptian
citizens who disappeared in Iraq.
The head of the assembly, Fathi Serour, delivered two urgent statements
yesterday regarding this matter to the committee on the Arab affairs at the
assembly.
The Egyptian newspaper al-Akhbar al-Youm published an expanded
investigation about the disappearance of 6,000 citizens who are working in
Iraq, and it has blamed the Iraqi government for this.
A member the leading front of the parliamentary bloc for the ruling
national party, Fathi Biyoumi, read an urgent statement before the assembly
in which he asked Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa to raise an inquiry
to reveal the facts, pointing to the role played by the Egyptian government
for saving Iraq in its different crises.
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Arab personality visited Baghdad to stop information attack campaign
Iraq, Politics, 1/6/99
Iraqi official sources said that an Arab personality confidentially visited
Baghdad few days ago and asked to meet Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to
stop criticizing Arab governments.
The opposition Iraqi National Conference denounced the Iraqi informational
campaign against the Arab states.
In a statement, the Iraqi National Conference said that "at a critical
juncture in which the Iraqi regime needs all the fraternal and positive
situations that sympathize with their crisis, some mercenaries of the
ruling regime addicted to fact-faking insist upon confronting any Arab
official statement that calls for respecting human rights in Iraq."
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Butler: I did not spy on Iraq for the US
Iraq, Politics, 1/6/99
UNSCOM chief Richard Butler responded with strong denials today to US media
reports that the UN organization for investigating Iraqi weapons of mass
destruction spied on the Iraqi government and gave the information to the
United States.
Butler stated that the United States was one of several countries assisting
UNSCOM in its duties. In every case, he said, UNSCOM used US assistance
only "in the pursuit of our disarmament mandate."
He said that all inspection operations were required to have a disarmament
purpose consistent with UNSCOM's mandate. He said that assistance UNSCOM
received was used for "our legal purposes alone."
"Have we facilitated spying? Are we spies? Absolutely not," Butler said.
Iraqi officials have often referred to Butler and his agency as a spies.
Asked whether UNSCOM was given any equipment that could be used for
eavesdropping on the Iraqi government, Butler said, "None of it includes
eavesdropping equipment," adding after a slight pause, "Our office in Iraq
is closed."
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Iraq accuses Saudi Arabia and Egypt of approving recent US military attack
Iraq, Politics, 1/6/99
Iraqi Deputy Premier Tariq Aziz accused in an article published on Tuesday
by the Iraqi daily al-Jouhmouriyah both Saudi Arabia and Egypt of being
told beforehand about the US-British attacks against Iraq and agreeing to
the attacks out of their belief that these attacks would lead to the
collapse of the Iraqi government.
Aziz said in his article that the crisis during November had given the
governments in Saudi Arabia and Egypt the green light for the United States
to launch the aggression through the statement released by the Doha meeting
of the Damascus Declaration signatory states.
Aziz added that Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz and Egyptian
President Hosni Mubarak agreed to the attack on Iraq after they received
guarantees and assurances from US President Bill Clinton that the attacks
aimed at changing the government in Baghdad.
Aziz wrote that the US president told his "puppets and hirelings" in the
region, especially Saudi Arabia and Egypt and others involved in the
November crisis, that what he was preparing this time was different from
previous ones. The main target of the military aggression is to change the
regime, Aziz alleged.
Aziz said that the aggression failed in realizing its set objectives.
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>From Nando.NeT
U-2 spy plane flights over Iraq halted, U.N. official confirms
Copyright � 1999 Nando Media
Copyright � 1999 Reuters News Service
By ANTHONY GOODMAN
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UNITED NATIONS (January 5, 1999 7:27 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) -
Not only have U.N. weapons inspectors been withdrawn from Iraq, but also
flights over the country by Saudi Arabia-based American U-2 spy planes have
also been halted, a U.N. official confirmed on Tuesday.
The last flight took place some time before the start of four days of
attacks on Iraqi targets by United States and British warplanes and cruise
missiles that ended on Dec. 19.
U.N. weapons inspectors were withdrawn from Iraq on Dec. 16, hours after
the head of the U.N. Special Commission (UNSCOM) in charge of disarming
Iraq, Richard Butler, issued a report saying Baghdad had failed to abide by
a promise to resume full cooperation with his teams.
"We have not asked for any U-2 flights," UNSCOM spokesman Ewen Buchanan
said in reply to questions.
"I am not sure what value such flights would be if you can't actually do
any inspections on the ground," he said. The U-2 missions were just one
tool in an integrated UNSCOM package.
High-altitude U-2 flights, bearing United Nations markings but manned by
U.S. crews based in Saudi Arabia, have been flown for UNSCOM since August
1991.
They have provided valuable surveillance information for UNSCOM ground
teams ferreting out Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and related
facilities.
UNSCOM gave Iraq advance notice of the approximate "time window" during
which each flight would be carried out.
This was to reduce the likelihood of any attempt to try to shoot down the
aircraft on grounds that Iraq was unaware of their identity.
Baghdad has repeatedly complained about the use of American U-2
surveillance planes, charging that they were spying on behalf of
Washington. From time to time it has threatened to try to shoot them down,
although their altitude is believed to be beyond the range of Iraqi
anti-aircraft missiles.
The U-2 flights were entirely unrelated to flights carried out by U.S. and
British warplanes patrolling no-fly zones over northern and southern Iraq.
Unlike the U-2 flights, those patrols are not conducted on behalf of the
United Nations and are not authorized by Security Council resolutions.
The no-fly patrols, which are still being carried out, have recently been
challenged by Iraq, resulting in three incidents in the past eight days.
The most recent incident occurred on Tuesday, when U.S.
air force and navy warplanes fired missiles at four Iraqi MiG-25 fighters
over southern Iraq.
The Pentagon said no Iraqi jets were hit but that another Iraqi fighter, a
MiG-23, apparently crashed after fleeing from the no-fly zone. Iraq said
all its aircraft returned to base safely.
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