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...pressing allies for support. But when Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz met with Turkey's foreign minister on Tuesday, he was told that country would allow the U.S. to use all-important bases to attack Iraq's northern flank only if a military intervention had been authorized by the UN Security Council. Foreign Minister Yasar Yakis went to great length to emphasize that Turkey believes a war would require a new UN resolution. And the Security Council is unlikely to even consider military action against Iraq unless Baghdad impedes access by inspectors to suspected weapons sites, or those inspectors turn...
President Bush says "the signs are not encouraging" that Saddam Hussein intends to comply with UN demands. But UN Secretary General Kofi Annan sees things differently, saying on Tuesday that "there is a good indication that the Iraqis are cooperating," but adding that "this is only the beginning." As minor as this disagreement may sound, it masks a significant difference of perception. That's important, since whether or not there will be war in Iraq now depends - to the chagrin of the Bush Administration's more hawkish elements - in large part on the findings of the UN arms inspectors...
...Annan has noted, Iraq has allowed the UN inspectors access to every site visited, including one of Saddam's palaces - an inspection that symbolized the break with the previous inspection regime for which the Iraqi leader's expansive digs were off limits. And as far as the inspectors have let on, they've found little amiss. Some missile parts and monitoring equipment had gone missing from one previously-inspected site, but the Iraqis have explained the absence. The daily TV images of inspectors poking around at will has made it tougher for Administration hawks to make the case that Iraqi...
...Comments from Hussam Mohammed Amin, the top Iraqi official dealing with the UN inspectors, suggest that Bush is correct in warning that the Iraqis plan to claim they have no weapons of mass destruction. However, while Administration officials insist that if Saddam claims to be clean he's lying, the UN Security Council is unlikely to be persuaded by the argument that an Iraqi declaration deemed false by Washington and London will, in itself constitute an infraction of Resolution 1441. If they had been prepared to accept at face value the U.S. and British claim that Saddam is actively pursuing...
Unfortunately, bathrooms under Dorm Crew’s jurisdiction often go un-cleaned for weeks...