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BAGHDAD: A slew of horrific evidence ? including "inconclusive" photos of alleged human experiments and videotapes of beagles dying painfully in Iraqi chemical weapons tests are emerging at the center of the current weapons inspection standoff in Baghdad. U.N. officials say former Marine Scott Ritter was in search of more evidence when Iraq withdrew their escorts from his weapons inspection team. Thursday was the third day in a row that Ritter's operations were restricted...
BAGHDAD: At least the war of words is becoming more imaginative: Back during the standoff last month, Madeleine Albright called Saddam Hussein a ?congenital liar,? and Tariq Aziz fired back: ?It is she who is the liar.? Now, if nothing else, the two sides are becoming more loquacious: President Clinton called Saddam ?maddeningly stupid? Monday, while Iraqi newspapers retorted Wednesday that Clinton was an ?ugly adolescent? who has turned the White House into ?a nightclub where he plays the music himself on the flute and guitar...
...Thursday when chief weapons inspector Richard Butler briefed the Security Council on Iraq?s continued refusal to allow him access to presidential compounds. The Security Council itself hasn?t changed, either ? France, Russia and China are still not willing to sanction any military punishment. All of which keeps the standoff ticking over, and the insults jockeying back and forth. Word to Saddam: Just keep Buddy...
Iraq War of Words Drags On Their standoff still unresolved, the U.S. and Iraq continue to trade insults. But with little support for military action against Saddam, what further options does Washington have...
...feeling in the region is they?d prefer to see things calm down despite Iraq possessing biological weapons, rather than allow those weapons to become the reason for further conflict,? says Dowell. Which means the outcome of the present standoff may be even more inconclusive than the resolution of the Gulf War itself...