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...Jordan on Aug. 8. Saddam knew he couldn't keep Hussein Kamel quiet, so he decided to try to make points with the U.N. by producing a flood of information on the weapons program. The day after Hussein Kamel defected, the chairman of the U.N. special commission on Iraq, Rolf Ekeus, received a letter from Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz summoning him to Baghdad for "new and important revelations...
...West have not the will, the manpower nor the sense to stop those at war in the region. Can anybody defend the actions taken by the Balkan warlords or the useless talk by NATO members and the U.N.? Can't we shame those "leaders" into behaving like humans? ROLF JAMES Toronto...
...materials that could be used in biological warfare, the U.N. Security Council agreed to continue economic sanctions against the country. France and Russia had called for the ending of sanctions if Iraq cooperated with U.N. officials overseeing the elimination of the Iraqi weapon supply. But chief U.N. weapons inspector Rolf Ekeus reported that 17 tons of material that could be used to grow biological warfare germs remain unaccounted for, along with chemicals that could make 200 tons of nerve...
...visit to Kuwait, the U.N.'s top weapons inspector suggested that Iraq may have produced bacteria for biological weapons. "We have certain suspicions about one facility," said Rolf Ekeus, adding the U.N. Special Commission overseeing the destruction of Iraq's non-conventional weapons was told the material had "disappeared in the general turmoil" during the Gulf...
...like France and Turkey that had helped fight the Gulf War were eager to welcome Iraq back into the fold. For months Baghdad had been negotiating deals with former trading partners, all of them hoping to reopen a hugely lucrative market. And Iraq was making progress on other fronts: Rolf Ekeus, the U.N. official charged with setting up the system to monitor weapons building inside Iraq, was about to report to the Security Council that Iraq was in provisional compliance with that significant U.N. requirement...