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American investigators are trying to persuade Musharraf to let them expand their bin Laden search into the tribal belt, but the Pakistanis have "a different agenda," says a Western diplomat in Islamabad. "The Americans' aim, obviously, is to get the bad guys." The Pakistani strategy is to extend the government's influence in these lawless areas by winning over the local chieftains, a kind of mini--nation building. That's why Musharraf is wary of mishaps like the one in which two U.S. missiles recently strayed inside the Pakistani border and landed a few hundred yards from a tribal militia...
...Iraqi disarmament, Hans Blix arrived in Baghdad last week to face such momentous questions. After touching down at Saddam International Airport, Blix fielded reporters' questions before being whisked away to the Al Rasheed Hotel. Iraqi Lieut. General Amer al Saadi later hosted talks with Blix and praised the Swedish diplomat's "integrity and impartiality." Blix thanked him for his "warm welcome," but added a sly reference to Iraqi obstruction, saying he regretted that his team had been unable to visit Baghdad many months earlier...
...Swedish diplomat Hans Blix led the advance guard of his inspection team back to Baghdad this week, but their mission was a combination of housekeeping and diplomacy. While administrative staff set to work on cleaning and re-equipping the operational headquarters of the UN Monitoring and Verification Committee (UNMOVIC), Blix held a series of meetings with top Iraqi officials to set out what will be required of them. Sources close to the discussions described the atmosphere as positive and businesslike, with the Iraqis promising full cooperation...
...Even as the dapper Swedish diplomat was beginning his meetings with Iraqi officials at the Foreign Ministry on Wednesday morning, the vacuum cleaners were blasting into action on the third floor of the former Canal Hotel, now the UN headquarters in Iraq. So thick was the layer of dust, one inspections official told me, that the rodents who had taken up temporary residence in the offices left tracks. "It is quite eerie to walk through there," says the official. "It is like a time capsule. You can tell that the inspectors left in a hurry. There's a tool...
...Iraqis are living like there's no tomorrow, that's because they seem gripped by an ever deepening sense of fatalism. This week, UN weapons inspectors, led by Swedish diplomat Hans Blix, are back in Baghdad after a four-year absence. But Iraqis see their arrival as delaying war rather than preventing it. Even Saddam himself seems to echo the anxiety. The letter from Saddam's government accepting Security Council Resolution 1441 is full of defiant rants about injustice, but its key passage cites the normally defiant Saddam's "sacred duty" to spare Iraqis from disaster...