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...Friday, Feb. 20, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan flew to the Iraqi capital aboard a Falcon 900 jet lent to him by French President Jacques Chirac. The deceptively soft-spoken Ghanaian listened for two days as the Iraqis pressed their position. On Sunday, Feb. 22, in the massive Republican Palace on the banks of the Tigris River, he calmly closed a deal with Saddam Hussein. There would be no bombing, at least not now. There was a global sigh of relief...
...York City, Butler and senior UNSCOM officials were not happy when they first read over the memorandum. "There were procedures in Kofi's agreement that UNSCOM has worked to get rid of," says one. Adding diplomats, along with a political adviser reporting to Annan, inserted another layer into the chain of command and could make the hands-on work of the expert inspectors more difficult. Republicans on Capitol Hill were more outspoken, with Senators Trent Lott, Jesse Helms and John Ashcroft in full denunciation. Even Connecticut Democrat Christopher Dodd was "very uneasy about this agreement...
...effectively to be discovered. After a few months of rummaging by the inspectors, Saddam could insist that he has carried out his part of the bargain and demand that the inspectors leave and the sanctions against his suffering people be lifted. If he handles it smoothly, as he did Kofi Annan and U.N. diplomacy, it might work...
BAGHDAD: Former Marine captain Scott Ritter successfully inspected Iraqi weapons sites Friday, accompanied by the standard Iraqi escorts. It was business as usual for the UNSCOM inspector, whose branding as a spy by Baghdad reignited the inspection crisis in January -- and that means Kofi Annan's deal with Saddam has passed its first test...
...next major test of the deal will come with the inspection of Iraq's presidential sites, which won't happen until UNSCOM chief Richard Butler, and the diplomatic chaperones, are in Baghdad -- not likely for at least another week. So far, so good, Kofi...