Word: greenstock
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...allies in Iraq last weekend suggested that capturing Saddam and putting him on trial would be preferable to killing him. Britain's UN ambassador, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, who takes up his post as deputy to U.S. administrator in Baghdad Paul Bremer in September, argued strongly in a BBC interview that Saddam should be taken alive and brought to court. That call was echoed by Ahmed Chalabi, once the Pentagon's most-favored Iraqi exile and now serving on the Bremer-appointed Governing Council. Putting Saddam on trial would allow Iraqis to own the process of their liberation from his regime...
...Hans Blix and Mohamed ElBaradei, that while Iraq has not made "a serious effort" to comply substantively with inspectors' requests, the teams probably will not produce a smoking gun by Jan. 27. That disclosure emboldened several key states to wobble, including faithful Britain. Its ambassador to the U.N., Jeremy Greenstock, told reporters to "calm down" about Jan. 27 and insisted "more time" is needed for an adequate inspection process. British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who faces an insurrection within his party if he signs up for a U.S. campaign that lacks the U.N.'s blessing, was reported to be pushing...