Word: iraq
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BAGHDAD: As the U.N. Security Council debates what to do about Iraq's continuing defiance of weapons inspectors, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz cooked up another propaganda coup Friday ? by taking foreign journalists on a tour of some of the off-limits-to-weapons-inspectors presidential sites...
Media Gets Iraq Access Baghdad may have barred U.N. weapons inspectors from its presidential sites, but it offered the foreign media a guided tour Friday...
...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...
...Iraq War of Words Drags On Their standoff still unresolved, the U.S. and Iraq continue to trade insults. But with little support for military action against Saddam, what further options does Washington have...
...feeling in the region is they?d prefer to see things calm down despite Iraq possessing biological weapons, rather than allow those weapons to become the reason for further conflict,? says Dowell. Which means the outcome of the present standoff may be even more inconclusive than the resolution of the Gulf War itself...