"...Iraqi politicians are reportedly adamant that the new, sovereign Iraq will accept no special constraints or monitoring. "They are demanding the same treatment as any other nation," says a U.N. official who spoke anonymously because of the sensitivity of his position.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8940843/site/newsweek/ Iraq: Stepped-Up Scrutiny? Newsweek Aug. 22, 2005 issue - In case a future Iraqi leader decides that Iran's nuclear ambitions next door mean Iraq should restart Saddam Hussein's nuclear-, chemical- or biological-weapon program, what kind of international monitoring should the country be subject to? "The question is starting to bubble up," says a British official who is not allowed by his government to speak for attribution. Demetrios Perricos, head of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, the agency probing Iraq's WMD work before the U.S. invasion, raised the issue in the United Nations Security Council in June. France and Russia both indicated that they thought Iraq would need to accept continued special inspections. The United States did not comment because Iraqi politicians are reportedly adamant that the new, sovereign Iraq will accept no special constraints or monitoring. "They are demanding the same treatment as any other nation," says a U.N. official who spoke anonymously because of the sensitivity of his position. Administration experts privately agree that Saddam's legacy will necessitate closer monitoring of Iraq for some years: Saddam's top weapons scientistsâ"held in a CIA jail in Baghdad as prisoners of warâ"will have to be released sometime. And despite a decade of searches through the 1990s, U.N. investigators never found what they called the "cookbooks," the Iraqi manuals laying out how to manufacture WMD. Still, this issue isn't receiving priority status yetâ"even though the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna has just disbanded its longtime team of experts on Iraq's nuclear-weapons work. "We have enough on our plate in Baghdad without raising that one," says the British official. Says the U.N. official: "It is an issue everyone wants to sweep under the carpet." â"John Barry ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hibjdai/M=362329.6886306.7839369.3040540/D=groups/S=1705323667:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124075566/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
