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...They may also have destroyed critical records or carted them off. They may have rehidden weapons parts they do not intend to give up. Some of the inspectors suspect the Iraqis might have used the time to produce small batches of poisons or germ weapons to add to their secret stocks...
...Aziz may have struck with Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov, the Iraqis are unlikely to be any more cooperative than they were before. That is, not at all. Since March 1996, the inspectors have headed for 63 sites where they suspected the Iraqis were hiding weapons, banned equipment or secret records. The U.N. teams were physically turned away from 14 of them and were held up at the front doors before being let into 38 others. In some cases of delay, U-2 reconnaissance planes working for the U.N. spotted cavalcades of trucks hauling material out the back doors. From...
...responsible for the security of Saddam, his offices and palaces. Iraq routinely bars the U.N. from what it calls "presidential-residential" buildings, saying they are out of bounds. When Iraqi officials talk up the need for the inspectors to respect "the sovereignty of Iraq," they mean: Stay out of secret military and intelligence bases and presidential offices. These are precisely where inspectors believe some of the missing arsenals are hidden. Zilinskas thinks Saddam may be hiding other "unsavory materials," such as videos showing germ experiments on Iranian prisoners of war during the 1980s...
...embassy closely guarded the secret, lest premature publicity embarrass the Chinese and cause them to change their minds. Coach reservations, later upgraded to first class, on the Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit were made in the name of Mr. and Mrs. Woo Chan...
Surprisingly, it wasn't until Bobbi entered the hospital that word of her remarkable pregnancy became public, though it had been an open secret in and around Carlisle for months. That may seem incredible for anyone who hasn't experienced the close-knit solidarity of a small Midwestern town. But while Bobbi's condition was discussed freely in Carlisle, the McCaugheys' neighbors quietly agreed that word shouldn't leak to outsiders. Says Kay Scholl, who runs Carlisle Foods with her husband: "Nobody asked us personally to keep it a secret, but it was known that this was the family...