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What will that turn out to be? The first target set is sure to include Saddam's command-and-control and air-defense systems--pulverized in 1991 but steadily rebuilt in the years since. Because the strategy is to make the targets "proportional"--that is, linked to the weapons of...
Air strikes are planned against the headquarters of the Iraqi officials who barred the U.N. inspectors from doing their job and against many of 200 suspected production centers for weapons of mass destruction--80 of them for chemical weapons, 100 for biological weapons and 20 for nuclear weapons, according to...
Saddam and his parliament seem satisfied that the Russians will work on their behalf to implement the crucial article 22 of U.N. resolution 687 ? which, of course, you know by heart ? and its promise to end sanctions once Iraq?s weapons of mass destruction are neutralized. Saddam?s happy because...
According to diplomats, the Russian deal involves Iraq readmitting U.N. arms inspectors in exchange for promises of impartiality and a guarantee that sanctions will be lifted once Iraq is certified to have destroyed its weapons of mass destruction.
But insiders remain skeptical over whether Baghdad will accept such a deal. "There is a lot of suspicion here that Saddam wants to maintain the option of developing weapons of mass destruction, and that Iraq will not therefore agree to allow UNSCOM to freely perform its duties," says Fischer.