Word: iraq
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, getting 100 kilos of anthrax and a crop duster over Washington would not be easy. "Dispersal is the real challenge," says Zilinskas. "You've got to get these bugs to the people." But if Iraq shipped toxins out by diplomatic pouch and handed them over to some cooperative terrorists, it might not be impossible. Iraq has also been tinkering with other methods. Before the Gulf War it had several hundred Italian-made pesticide dispensers fitted with spray nozzles for spitting out bioweapons in droplet size. In 1990 the Iraqis flight-tested a remote-controlled MiG-21 fighter mounted with...
...turned away from 14 of them and were held up at the front doors before being let into 38 others. In some cases of delay, U-2 reconnaissance planes working for the U.N. spotted cavalcades of trucks hauling material out the back doors. From March to October this year, Iraq blocked or interfered with 25 inspection efforts...
...Iraq's overall concealment efforts are highly organized and involve thousands of people, according to Charles Duelfer, the American who is deputy chief weapons inspector of the Special Commission. He says they are operated by the national intelligence service, Mukhabarat; the Amn al-Khass, a security unit dedicated to hiding information; and the Special Republican Guards, troops responsible for the security of Saddam, his offices and palaces. Iraq routinely bars the U.N. from what it calls "presidential-residential" buildings, saying they are out of bounds. When Iraqi officials talk up the need for the inspectors to respect "the sovereignty...
...back to business as usual for the inspectors, it is probably back to blockage as usual for the Iraqis. What, exactly, will the Security Council do the next time Iraq bars the door of a barracks or a palace that the inspectors want to investigate? Past performance is not encouraging: after 25 cases of interference earlier this year, the Security Council could not even agree to increase travel restrictions on senior Iraqi officials. With Primakov having brokered a deal with Iraq to push for an end to sanctions, Moscow may be planning to veto any effort to increase the punishment...
President Clinton says it should be different this time. The inspectors, he said last week, "must be able to proceed with their work without interference, to find, to destroy, to prevent Iraq from rebuilding nuclear, chemical and biological weapons." But that is what Saddam agreed to after his defeat in 1991, so no one can assume he means it this time. The U.S. does have the muscle in place in the gulf to hit Saddam with bombs and missiles if he does not comply with U.N. orders. Washington says it will wait and see. But is Clinton ready to bomb...