Word: ultimatum
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...urging the Bush administration to allow the inspection process to continue for a few more weeks, confident that ramping up the inspectors' activities will turn up significant evidence of prohibited programs. But even if it doesn't, the inspection report tees up the U.S. and Britain to issue an ultimatum: Blix's "can do better" can be relatively smoothly parlayed by Washington into "must do better within a month, or else." And unless Saddam complies, the Security Council may well be cajoled, however reluctantly, into passing a war resolution...
...Bandar's wife Princess Haifa al-Faisal were sent to associates of two Sept. 11 hijackers had some Congressmen questioning Saudi Arabia's commitment to the war on terrorism. And Administration hard-liners were leaking word to the Washington Post of a White House staff proposal to deliver an ultimatum to Riyadh about Saudi financing of terrorists. As soon as Bandar arrived at the West Wing, though, the hard line vanished. President Bush stopped by and insisted that Bandar stay for dinner. After meeting with Rice, the prince headed upstairs for a leisurely meal with the President and First Lady...
...Saudi alliance. Bush aides spent last week pouring cold water on the Washington Post report that outlined a National Security Council task-force proposal to give the Saudis a 90-day deadline for cracking down on terrorism financiers. Senior aides insisted that Bush had no plans to issue an ultimatum, and Rice and CIA Director George Tenet demanded that the FBI launch a criminal investigation to find out who leaked the report. Meanwhile, every Administration heavy from Donald Rumsfeld to Colin Powell rushed to defend Bandar and the Saudis...
Hans Blix arrives in Baghdad Monday on a mission to test Iraq's compliance with a UN Security Council ultimatum on disarmament. As head of the UNMOVIC inspection team, Blix will supervise the new inspection program. And it will be up to him to report any Iraqi violations to the UN Security Council - an action that would likely spark a U.S. invasion. But Blix rejects any idea that the choice between war and peace is in his hands, preferring to see himself simply as a polite but firm detective out to do nothing more (or less) than establish the facts...
...ultimatum to Saddam Hussein was a fast track to war only if the Iraqi leader had been dumb enough to make Don Rumsfeld's day. But as Arab diplomats like to point out, Saddam may be homicidal but he's not suicidal - and there were few surprises Wednesday when Iraq announced its acceptance of the Security Council's terms for new arms inspections...