Word: iraqi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Saddam is a secretive, Stalinesque dictator, and even Iraqis are mystified by his decisions. Western experts can only speculate, but they suspect the next act may play out in one of two ways. In the first, Butler puts the eight presidential sites under continuous watch. He has never thought they were crammed with toxins and gas, but he does not want them available as quick-switch storage depots when he gets close to the hidden weapons. Butler's experts believe those are in offices of the Iraqi intelligence services and the Special Republican Guard complexes that Saddam also declared...
...problem. The U.S. and Britain will be on the go-it-alone hook again. Russia and France have agreed to use the phrase "severest consequences" in a resolution, but at weeks end they, along with China, were still haggling over how quickly military attacks might follow any future Iraqi violation. "There are no grounds," says Primakov, for discussing military strikes against Iraq. To help shepherd some kind of resolution through the Council, Annan canceled a long-planned trip to Washington this week...
...members of the U.N. Special Commission, all the while moving records of weapons production and perhaps the weapons themselves from site to site, sometimes one step ahead of UNSCOM teams in hot pursuit. Now it has been disclosed that the effort at concealment was systematic and controlled by top Iraqi officials...
...Iraqi government tried to portray Kamel as a lone rogue who was himself concealing records; they thus led U.N. investigators to a Kamel-owned chicken farm, where they found more than a million pages of documents on Iraq's banned weapons programs. "The chicken-farm documents gave us a clear indication of how much we had missed," says UNSCOM deputy executive chairman Charles Duelfer...
...were and whether anything is missing is the subject of the investigation,? said a State Department official who -- understandably -- preferred to remain anonymous. Next question: Could the brown tweed man be tied to a Washington Times report that the feds are also investigating the passing of information to an Iraqi agent? The spy, according to the Times, procured information about U.S. air strikes, then imminent. However, given the trumpeting of attack plans at the time, it?s hard to see what Iraq could have picked up from the desks of the State Department that it couldn?t have read...