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...Verbatim "I hereby declare before you that Iraq is totally clear of all nuclear, chemical and biological weapons." SADDAM HUSSEIN, Iraqi leader, in a letter to the United Nations read by Iraq's Foreign Minister Naji Sabri...
...Iraqi dictator is no doubt already playing a familiar game of embroiling U.N. negotiators in endless dickering. Late last week he switched back to a more truculent tone in a second letter to the U.N. delivered by Foreign Minister Naji Sabri, repeating his long-standing accusation that the monitors serve as spies for Western governments. (American and U.N. officials have suggested that the U.S. may indeed have sent spies posing as inspectors into Iraq, but Washington has never publicly admitted it.) Last week Saddam seemed ready to play footsie with his promise to cooperate. On Saturday the Iraqis said they...
...Sabri al-Banna (Abu Nidal was his nom de guerre) was 11 when his affluent family was forced to flee the Arab city of Jaffa, now part of Israel, ahead of Jewish forces in the 1948 war. As a laborer in Saudi Arabia in the 1960s, he latched onto politics, joining Yasser Arafat's Fatah group, which would become the backbone of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Bouncing between Jordan, Sudan and Iraq, he rose through the ranks of the P.L.O...
...died as he lived, in a blaze of violence and under a cloak of mystery. Reports of his demise, from a bullet wound (or wounds) in his Baghdad residence raised more questions than it answered. Did the 65-year-old Palestinian born Sabri al-Banna die by his own hand - as the Iraqis say - or was he killed, as his Fatah Revolutionary Council organization claims? For whom was he working while in Baghdad? (Abu Nidal may have proclaimed himself a champion of the Palestinian cause, but he spent most of his career freelancing for various Arab and even possibly some...
...Iraq will chop off the head of anyone whose hand reaches its border." NAJI SABRI, Iraq's Foreign Minister, warning against any attempt to overthrow Saddam Hussein by military invasion...