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...While Albright stormed toward London for a pre-airstrike pep rally with British foreign secretary Robin Cook and Jordan's King Hussein Friday, an amicable Tariq Aziz organized a road show at one of Saddam's sprawling palaces Friday for an unidentified number of foreign diplomats. His message: You can trust us, really...
...inspection chief RICHARD BUTLER thought he was there to gain access to SADDAM HUSSEIN's palaces and Republican Guard facilities. Instead he encountered four video cameras mounted on tripods. Their purpose was just to make an accurate record of the meeting, promised Deputy Prime Minister TARIQ AZIZ. Nothing will be leaked, he said. Aziz then delivered Iraq's bottom line: inspectors would never be allowed in the palaces or most other sensitive facilities. Later that night, Butler flipped on the TV set. The Iraqi newscast was airing the video of his meeting with Aziz. Welcome to Saddam's theater...
BAGHDAD: As the U.N. Security Council debates what to do about Iraq's continuing defiance of weapons inspectors, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz cooked up another propaganda coup Friday ? by taking foreign journalists on a tour of some of the off-limits-to-weapons-inspectors presidential sites...
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...
...Curiously co-incidental detentes may be breaking out between the U.S. and its Persian Gulf bugaboos, Iran and Iraq. To wit: Iranian President Mohammed Khatami says he wants to talk ? and according to TIME Middle East correspondent Scott MacLeod, it's a genuine offer. Meanwhile Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz is embroiled in potentially positive discussions with Richard Butler, chief U.N. weapons inspector, over opening up more sites to inspectors of all nations ? even American ones...