IAEA head repeats demand for return of nuclear inspectors to Iraq

NNN0LHI

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Tue Apr-13-04 04:41 PM
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IAEA head repeats demand for return of nuclear inspectors to Iraq

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040413/wl_mideast_afp/iaea_nuclear_iraq&cid=1514&ncid=1480

CAIRO (AFP) - The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reiterated a call for arms inspectors to return to Iraq (news - web sites), saying he had asked the UN Security Council for a green light to do so.

Mohamed ElBaradei, speaking at a conference at the University of Cairo, said the IAEA's "mandate for the inspection of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq) is still in force."

He said IAEA "inspectors should return there and the Security Council should give its green light for that return."

The inspectors pulled out of Iraq just before the outbreak of the US-led war to unseat Iraqi president Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) that began in March 2003.

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displacedtexan

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Tue Apr-13-04 04:45 PM
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1. The WMDs must be in place already.

Stories from Tehran have been out all week about US planting WMDs in Iraq.

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54anickel

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Tue Apr-13-04 04:56 PM
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3. Thought the exact same thing! WTF? n/t

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54anickel

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Tue Apr-13-04 05:00 PM
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5. So is IAEA trying to help in the lie, or block it from taking place? From

the article:

He noted that prior to the war, the IAEA issued a report to the effect that it had no proof that Baghdad had reconstituted its nuclear program.

The United States has said it does not want UN disarmament inspectors to return to Iraq, where its own search for mass destruction weapons -- the principal justification for the invasion and occupation of the country -- has found nothing.

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tom_paine

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Tue Apr-13-04 04:56 PM
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2. Like asking Hitler to allow Inspectors into Poland

Not gonna happen. If it does, expect a Soviet-Level-Series-of-Deceptions.

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daleo

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Tue Apr-13-04 04:59 PM
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4. Wonder if it is a setup

As others have pointed out, planting rumors have been in the air. I wonder how independent this agency, and this fellow, are. I mean, what is the point otherwise?

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Tue Apr-13-04 05:04 PM
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6. Fine...

just bring in Hans Blix, David Kay et al to verify. 85% of the country had been searched and nothing. Bush and Blair's credibilities have already been shot to hell--so any WMDs turning up now will surely raise suspicions.

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NNN0LHI

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Tue Apr-13-04 05:24 PM
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7. Can't let them in to inspect because there are nukes in Iraq

American tactical nukes. We don't leave home without them.

Don

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