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...continuing to build up its forces, mainly air power, in the gulf region but shows no eagerness to use them. How, then, can Saddam be forced to open his doors to the inspectors searching for his hidden arsenal of poison and germs? As Richard Butler, head of the Special Commission, and Defense Secretary William Cohen both stressed last week, the issue is not just Iraq. It is how the world will try to control the spread of weapons of mass destruction for decades to come...
Back in the chilly days of the Cold War, news of a Soviet leader promising to slash one third of his nuclear arsenal would have made banner headlines worldwide. But when Boris Yeltsin made that pledge in Sweden on Tuesday, it barely rated a mention. Which could have something to do with the fact that his spokesman, Sergei Yastrzhembsky, told reporters that his boss had been "tired" when he spoke ? and no, this was not a promise, merely a suggestion...
...Special Commission that runs the inspections, on what might have been hidden during the blackout period. Then his team will try again to enter suspected weapons sites from which the Iraqis, violating Security Council resolutions, have repeatedly barred inspectors. Of most concern to the specialists is the arsenal of biological weapons they are certain Saddam is still concealing. Germ weapons like anthrax and botulinum are so deadly, so easy to make and hide that the monitors are not prepared to take the Iraqis' word that they have destroyed their stocks, especially since Saddam's scientists have denied for years that...
BAGHDAD: U.N. weapons inspectors and the U.S. military suspect that Saddam Hussein's arsenal includes 200 tons of VX nerve gas ? enough, says Defense Secretary William Cohen, to kill "every man, woman and child on the face of the planet." And while that information raises the stakes, Iraq is raising the heat: Its government newspaper al-Jumhouriya said Wednesday, "Iraq will not tolerate any more farces by inspection teams," adding they had become "virtual criminal courts...
Saddam Hussein's unwatched arsenal of poisons and germs can redouble the threat to America, and the terrorists are already among us. That message fairly screamed at Americans last week. In the shadow of the World Trade Center, the target of a bombing in 1993, New York City began the week with a drill involving 600 police, fire fighters and FBI agents responding to a mock attack by terrorists supposedly using deadly VX nerve gas, which Iraq has produced in vast quantities. The following day, in Fairfax, Va., a jury convicted Mir Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani, of assassinating...