IAEA Wants UN Inspectors to Finish Job in Iraq

[NNN0LHI]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030912/wl_nm/nuclear_iraq_dc&cid=574&ncid=1473

VIENNA (Reuters) - The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday he wanted his inspectors to return to Iraq to verify whether Saddam Hussein had renewed his nuclear weapons program as Washington and London insist he did.

"We still have a mandate under the Security Council. We hope to be able to go back to Iraq to complete our job," International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed ElBaradei told reporters after the IAEA's week-long board of governors meeting in Vienna.

U.N. weapons inspectors returned to Baghdad late last year after an absence of four years to hunt for Saddam's alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

Nearly four months of inspections revealed no proof Iraq had developed the massive arsenals of banned weapons that the United States and Britain said it had.

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[grytpype]

1. "Never! Never!"

Wanna guess that'll be the Bush Junta's response?

Even when their balls are in a vice they can't do the right thing.

[tom_paine]

2. Phat Chance, League of Nations

Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels and the rest don't like you very much.

You are a decadent and Liberal Institution who's time has been surpssed by the Strength of the New Order

</sarcasm off>

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[damnraddem]

3. The U.S. doesn't want them there.

But if they flew in, would the U.S. stop them?

Or would it let them land? Would they then be blown up in a mysterious explosion?

[grytpype]

4. "But if they flew in, would the U.S. stop them?"

This is a good point. The borders are open and people are coming and going pretty much as they please.

But the US won't let inspectors near the sites they want to visit, I'll bet. Strange, since before the war Saddam was letting the inspectors visit sites.

[Fridays Child]

6. Excellent prediction re: not letting the inspectors visit suspected sites.

And the irony would be staggering, if the bushistas banned them from sites that Saddam opened to them.

[Paschall]

8. Remember when the US allowed the IAEA into Iraq in July

They went in to investigate looting of a nuclear facility. But the US command strictly prohibited them from doing medical examinations of local inhabitants to test for radiation contamination.

Think about it.

[NNN0LHI]

5. Fly in?

Missile threat keeping Baghdad Airport closed: US commander

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030911/wl_mideast_afp/iraq_us_airport&cid=1514&ncid=1480

BAGHDAD (AFP) - The threat posed by surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) which fell into civilian hands after the collapse of Saddam Hussein's armed forces is still blocking the reopening of Baghdad Airport, the coalition ground forces commander revealed.

"A key issue here is the SAM threat, the SA-7 threat, out there," Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez told a news conference Thursday. "We have had some corroborated firings.

"We have got a buy-back programme that has been operational for some time," he said. "I guarantee you that we are out there looking for them, we are working that very hard.

"If we can put an end to that, we can open it (the airport) up. That would give a tremendous boost to the people and economy of Iraq."

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[Fridays Child]

7. Don't forget to give the Yahoo article a "5."

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[SoCalDem]

9. I saw "IKEA" and thought....

why on earth does IKEA even care:dunce:


Seriously.. The inspectors need to go back in to VERIFY that there are NO WMDS.. Then they can leave, giving Iraq a clean bill of health, the sanctions go BYE-BYE, and the US says.."

oops we are sorry we broke your country, but here's come cash, and we'll be going now.. You guys figure it out "

I think they would be much happier doing things on their own anyway.. The wet dream that the PNAC boys had about the flowers and kisses we would be receiving, was just THAT...a DREAM..

We need to accept the fact that Saddam was the ONE and ONLY thing that was keeping the Islamic forces in check..

The worls will have a mini-Iran now, and we will just have to accept that fact>...:(