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...upshot: Aziz gets to look magnanimous; the media remains skeptical about whether what it saw was the real deal; and chief inspector Richard Butler's blood goes a couple of degrees past boiling. Butler reported to the Security Council Thursday on Iraq's continued prevarication. Aziz, he said, told him that Iraq had destroyed all its weapons of mass destruction ? but then turned around and increased the number of sites to which Butler and his team are denied access. Now it's not only "presidential and sovereign sites" that are off limits, but also ministry headquarters, plus anywhere Saddam Hussein...
...much for diplomatic niceties. When it comes to resolving the Iraq crisis, precisely nothing has changed since U.N. inspectors returned last month. That much became clear Thursday when chief weapons inspector Richard Butler briefed the Security Council on Iraq?s continued refusal to allow him access to presidential compounds. The Security Council itself hasn?t changed, either ? France, Russia and China are still not willing to sanction any military punishment. All of which keeps the standoff ticking over, and the insults jockeying back and forth. Word to Saddam: Just keep Buddy...
Gulf Crisis: No Way Out? Things are looking dismal in Iraq as the Chief Weapons inspector leaves. Is there any end to this standoff...
BAGHDAD: Chief U.N. arms inspector Richard Butler says there?s no way out of the standoff over Iraq?s weapons of mass destruction and its refusal to grant UNSCOM access to presidential sites. But don?t expect any military action as a result, says TIME correspondent William Dowell...
...Gulf bugaboos, Iran and Iraq. To wit: Iranian President Mohammed Khatami says he wants to talk ? and according to TIME Middle East correspondent Scott MacLeod, it's a genuine offer. Meanwhile Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz is embroiled in potentially positive discussions with Richard Butler, chief U.N. weapons inspector, over opening up more sites to inspectors of all nations ? even American ones...