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United Nations chief weapons inspector Richard Butler has denied reports that his teams in Iraq were used to spy for the United States.
According to reports in U-S newspapers, UNSCOM may have been used to help collect sensitive Iraqi communications for U-S efforts to undermine Saddam Hussein's regime.
The Boston Globe and The Washington Post quoted anonymous sources in Wednesday's editions as saying the electronic eavesdropping operation allowed the U-S to listen in on secret communications among military units responsible for the Iraqi leader's safety.
The Post quoted confidants close to U-N Secretary-General Kofi Annan as saying he was convinced Washington used the operation to penetrate the security apparatus protecting Saddam.
However, the Los Angeles Times reported that Annan had told key staff members he had no knowledge of the activities alleged by the Post.
As he arrived at U-N headquarters in Iraq, Butler angrily dismissed the reports.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
(Q: Mr Butler what do you make of allegations that UNSCOM was used to spy for US?)
"I've seen one story, I believe there is more than one out there, I will give a considered answer later today"
(More questions off camera)
A: "What assertion are you talking about?"
(Q: That UNSCOM is being used to spy for the US?)
"I have said in public, that is simply untrue, OK?"
SUPER CAPTION: Richard Butler, chief weapons inspector
Baghdad has repeatedly accused the U-S and Butler of using UNSCOM for secret espionage.
American weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who resigned over policy issues last March, told The Boston Globe that inspectors did know a lot of information about Saddam's security.
However, Ritter - who's now an N-B-C analyst - said on the Today programme that anything the inspectors did, they did on their own.
He also said his inspection team was not involved in any effort to overthrow Saddam.
Ritter himself was branded a spy by Iraq last year.
Baghdad complained that his team included too many American and British inspectors.
Angered by his tendency to make unannounced visits to suspected weapons sites, they refused to give him Iraqi escorts, preventing him from working.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Allegations about me being a spy are ridiculous. I work at the pleasure of Richard Butler, the executive chairman of the Special Commission."
SUPERCAPTION: Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector
Ritter resigned in March - incensed that the U-N Security Council failed to take a tougher stand over Iraq's decision to freeze co-operation with weapons inspectors.
UNSCOM was created by the U-N Security Council in 1991 to ensure that Iraq was stripped of weapons of mass destruction after the 1991 Gulf War.
UNSCOM withdrew all its personnel before last month's air strikes by the U-S and Britain.
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A documentary program on Dutch Television about the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) weapons inspections in Iraq during the nineties. I worked with UNSCOM for five years (1991-96) as a photographer and team leader mostly based in Baghdad. The successful work of UNSCOM was the reason that no WMDs were found after the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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The Clinton Administration has denied U-N weapons inspectors helped Washington collect sensitive Iraqi communications in order to undermine Saddam Hussein's regime.
A U-S State Department spokesman described newspaper reports to that effect as "mischief making".
In Washington, the State Department strongly dismissed suggestions that UNSCOM weapons inspectors ran a covert intelligence gathering operation for the United States.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"It is my understanding that at no time did the U-S work with anyone at UNSCOM to collect information for the purpose of undermining the Iraqi regime."
SUPER CAPTION: James Rubin, State Department Spokesman
The denial follows newspaper reports that UNSCOM allowed U-S intelligence access to sensitive Iraqi government communications, including listening into military units protecting Saddam Hussein.
Rubin did acknowledge that the U-S helped UNSCOM with intelligence, logistics and personnel, but added that as many as 40 other countries also did as part of the international search for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
SOUNDBITE: English
"The United States has been helping, with intelligence and logistical support, UNSCOM to try to get to the bottom of the concealment mechanism which operates primarily through the special Republican Guard units of the leadership to hide its weapons of mass destruction. And through intelligence, logistical support, expertise and personnel we have been helping UNSCOM to try to find out where these weapons of mass destruction are as called for by Security Council resolutions. That's the fact situation."
SUPER CAPTION: James Rubin, U-S State Department Spokesperson
The Clinton administration says any intelligence gain made by America as a result of it's involvement with UNSCOM was purely a by-product of it's presence there, not part of a covert surveillance operation.
At the White House, President Clinton's spokesperson refused to be drawn into the controversy.
SOUNDBITE: English
"We wouldn't be standing here having this conversation if it wasn't for the intransigence of Saddam Hussein. UNSCOM doesn't -- wouldn't need any assistance if he would cooperate, if he would just comply with the agreements he made at the end of the Gulf War as a condition for ending the Gulf War."
SUPER CAPTION: Joe Lockhart, White House Spokesman
U-S Secretary of State Madeleine Albright conferred with U-N Secretary General Kofi Annan on the matter, who assured her reports that he suspected UNSCOM of spying for the U-S were totally unfounded.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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UNSCOM inspectors, whose work is at the centre of the present crisis in Iraq, have allowed journalists to accompany them on one of their morning inspection trips.
Iraq is suspected of hiding weapons of mass destruction in presidential palaces - which have been declared off-limits to U-N experts charged by the Security Council to seek out and destroy Iraq's arms programme.
The UNSCOM team went to the al-Fao site on Saturday in south Baghdad.
It is one of a number of facilities in the Iraqi capital the team regularly visit as part of their monitoring of sites where they suspect weapons of mass destruction could be made.
The journalists, however, were only allowed to accompany the inspectors as far as the site gates.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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Iraq announced Friday that the international experts team will start the removal of toxic items weapons which inspectors left behind in their laboratories when they left Iraq last year.
The experts came to Iraq on Wednesday under instructions of the U.N.
Secretary-General.
The initiative to destroy the substances, which had been left in the UNSCOM laboratory in a Baghdad hotel, was made by Russia. The experts will start working on Friday.
International experts began work on Thursday to assess chemicals that weapons inspectors left behind in their laboratories when they evacuated Iraq last year.
The multinational team, accompanied by French, Russian and Chinese diplomats, entered the U.N. Special Commission's headquarters at the Canal Hotel, where the chemicals are stored.
They were later joined by presidential adviser Lt. Gen. Amer Hammoodi Al-Sa'adi and Gen. Hussam Mohammed Amin, director of Iraq's National Monitoring Committee.
During their four-day mission, the five experts are to assess what needs to be done to dispose of the chemicals and then close a chemical lab and a germ warfare room used by the inspectors.
Four of the experts are from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, an independent group based in The Hague, Netherlands, which was set up in 1997 to destroy deadly chemical agents throughout the world.
The fifth team member is an independent biological weapons expert.
Shah said they were fully briefed by UNSCOM experts in Bahrain on the nature of toxic materials in the building before heading to Iraq.
The Canal Hotel also houses U.N. relief agencies and staff supervising the implementation of the oil-for-food programme.
U.N. envoy Prakash Shah assured the 150 U.N. staff there that they have nothing to worry about as the experts destroy the chemicals and mustard gas.
The commission, or UNSCOM, overseeing the scrapping of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, occupies the third floor of the hotel. The U.N. weapons inspectors pulled out in December just before the United States and Britain launched airstrikes against Iraq for the country's alleged failure to cooperate with the inspectors.
Iraq has vowed not to let the commission back into the country. But it is allowing the independent experts into the country because they are not linked to the United Nations or the special commission.
However, their findings will be reported to U.N.Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Neither the experts nor the diplomats would comment on their mission Thursday.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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A U-N weapons inspection team has been turned back after it was refused admission to an office of the ruling Baath Party in Baghdad.
The Iraqis are is now suggesting it was all a mistake.
In the first official Iraqi reaction to the incident, the country's oil minister said the inspectors' Iraqi escort should not have declared the site to be "sensitive."
The latest disagreement was played out outside one of the four branch headquarters of the ruling Baath Party.
In a news conference on Wednesday, Iraqi Oil Minister Amer Mohammed Rashid tried to play down the incident.
He said the escort who was accompanying the inspectors allowed four people inside, but refused to allow all twelve of the group to go in.
This was apparently because the escort mistook the site for a "sensitive" area.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"To facilitate and not to create a problem, not to give justification because we know this is the objective of the Special Commission, especially by Mr Butler and his deputies to create a problems and to create friction so the Iraqi minder...he allowed the chief inspector and three other inspectors to enter a building just to acquire, to understand, to comprehend what was in that building, because it was cleared for party headquarters and if they were satisfied - this was the end of the problem. When they came back they decided that 12 inspectors needed to enter that small building - and they needed 12 inspectors at least. This was refused by the minder and there were a lot of details which followed."
SUPER CAPTION: Amer Mohammed Rashid, Iraqi Oil Minister
While the Oil Minister claimed the incident was just a mistake, he went on to criticise the UNSCOM inspectors for deliberately trying to provoke the Iraqis authorities.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We could say there is almost a deliberate action by Mr. Butler himself and his group in New York to create a crisis situation because on the first day of arrival the chief inspector made very clear that he would not adopt the modalities for inspection of sensitive sites which has been agreed on the 22 June, 1996 and was endorsed by the Secretary General on 23rd February 1998 and he said: My instruction is to implement Mr Butler's modalities."
SUPER CAPTION: Amer Mohammed Rashid, Iraqi Oil Minister
Also in Baghdad, a symposium was being held to mark the 50th anniversary of the U-N Convention on Human Rights.
It was attended by supporters of Iraq's calls for the end of U-N sanctions which have been in place since the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"These sanctions against Iraq violate the Genocide convention; they are genocide, the most serious crime on Earth, and they have to be recognised and condemned as such."
SUPER CAPTION: Ramsay Clarke, former U-S Justice Minister
Another opponent of U-N sanctions also had criticism for Richard Butler's team.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Well I regard UNSCOM under the leadership of Richard Butler as being essentially agent provocateurs here in Iraq. They are not here to resolve the outstanding issues - I wish they were."
SUPER CAPTION: George Galloway, British Labour M-P
Saddam Hussein's government has repeatedly tried to block the work of inspectors.
The chief U-N inspector, Richard Butler, said Iraq was entirely in the wrong in the incident.
He says it was a legal, surprise inspection.
Iraq had suspended inspections in August, but allowed them to resume last month under military threat from the United States and Britain.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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U-N weapons inspectors have arrived in Iraq and returned to their headquarters in the capital, saying they were ready to return to work.
With the threat of airstrikes over for now, 86 inspectors arrived from Bahrain, where they were evacuated last week when the crisis was at its height.
They were greeted by demonstrators protesting against the U-N trade sanctions.
There had been no evacuation in Northern Iraq where, over the weekend, humanitarian workers continued to prepare relief aid for distribution to the Kurdish population in Iraq.
Eighty-six inspectors from UNSCOM and the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived back in Iraq on Tuesday from the Gulf state of Bahrain.
A media frenzy greeted them as they stepped onto the tarmac at the military air base in Habaniya, 70 kilometres (44 miles) from Baghdad.
The inspectors say they are ready to test Iraq's pledge to cooperate in the search for its weapons of mass destruction.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"I don't want to comment about what we are doing. We never are informed in advance when we start and when we don't. But we are ready to start as soon as we can."
Q: What is the last order you received from the U-N before you moved from Bahrain?
A: "Just go back to Baghdad and start work."
SUPER CAPTION: Jaakko Ylitalo, Senior UNSCOM Inspector
Iraqi buses transported the inspectors to their headquarters in Baghdad.
There, the inspectors can monitor about 120 remote control cameras at suspected Iraqi weapons sites.
They also carry out both announced and spot visits.
Caroline Cross, a spokeswoman for the inspectors, was among those evacuated last week from Iraq when U-S airstrikes seemed likely.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We're looking forward to a professional and productive relationship with the Iraqi authorities in the next few days. You know, time will tell."
SUPER CAPTION: Caroline Cross, UNSCOM Spokeswoman
The arms inspectors have been working for more than seven years to unearth Iraq's chemical and biological weapons and long-range missiles.
Their work has been frequently blocked by Iraq.
The latest threat of attack by U-S and British forces produced a renewed promise by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to cooperate.
But Cross said that any obstacles would be reported to the U-N executive.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"If we have any problems in our activities it's our business to report it immediately to UNSCOM H-Q and onto the Security Council."
SUPER CAPTION: Caroline Cross, UNSCOM Spokeswoman
As inspectors returned to Baghdad they were met by protesters, including members of the U-S aid group "Voices in the Wilderness."
The group is demonstrating against the further possibility of air strikes and the ongoing U-N trade sanctions they say are killing innocent Iraqis.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Every single month 4-thousand to 5-thousand Iraqi children die as a direct result of the sanctions."
SUPER CAPTION: Kathy Kelly, Voices in the Wilderness
The sanctions, imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, limit the sale of oil and other trade dealings and have devastated Iraq's economy.
Iraqi officials say the sanctions have caused the deaths of more than 1-point-5 (m) million Iraqis in the past eight years.
The council has said the sanctions won't be lifted until UNSCOM and the I-A-E-A nuclear agency certify that Iraq has eliminated its lethal weaponry.
The Iraqi government wants the review to lead quickly to the lifting of U-N sanctions.
With the threat of American and British airstrikes aborted at the weekend, about 150 relief workers also returned to Baghdad.
In Northern Iraq, however, there was no evacuation and aid work continued, quietly, as normal.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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A group of 15 United Nation weapons inspectors left Baghdad on Saturday, in the first stage of a reduction of the U-N team in Iraq.
The withdrawal comes a week after Baghdad said it was halting all cooperation with the U-N Special Commission, which oversees the destruction of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons as well as long-range missiles.
The standoff has raised fears of a military strike by the United States and Britain.
The departure of these staff from the United Nations inspection team underlines the international community's increasing frustration with Baghdad.
UNSCOM says it is withdrawing twenty-six of its people in response to Iraq's decision to halt all co-operation with the inspectors, who are there to oversee the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.
The experts are heading for an air base outside Baghdad, from where they will fly to Bahrain. More inspectors are due to leave next week.
As their UNSCOM colleagues pulled out, members of the International Atomic Energy Agency team continued their efforts to inspect nuclear sites.
I-A-E-A monitors have not been banned by Iraq.
U-N special envoy Prakash Shah said Secretary General Kofi Annan, who signed an agreement with Iraq in February to end a previous crisis over inspections, was being asked to intervene again.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"The Secretary General has been asked by the Security Council to pursue his role in fulfilling the Memorandum of Understanding. The Secretary General and I are pursuing that."
SUPERCAPTION: Prakash Shah, special envoy for UN Secretary General in Baghdad
Iraq's Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh was the first to comment cabinet member to comment since a Security Council resolution calling the noncooperation "a flagrant violation" of U-N resolutions.
He gave no hint of compromise.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
``Our position still stands as it is".
SUPERCAPTION: Iraqi trade minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh
At the heart of the crisis are the U-N sanctions against Iraq, imposed after the invasion of Kuwait in .
The U-N says the sanctions - which have crippled the Iraqi economy and caused widespread hardship - can't be lifted until UNSCOM certifies Iraq is free of weapons of mass destruction.
But Iraq says inspections can resume only if the Council gives a timetable for the lifting the sanction.
Saddam Hussein's people, who believe it is the U-N who is responsible for their suffering and not their leader, support his latest position.
SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)
`Our decision is quite clear. Whether UNSCOM would like to withdraw its inspectors or not, we have given them a clear sign because we have been suffering for the past nine years from these unjust sanctions.''
SUPERCAPTION: Moussa Mohammed, Iraqi shop worker
SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)
"The decision taken by President Saddam and our leadership, we all support it. Why? Because there must be an end. Everything should have a clear end.''
SUPERCAPTION: Nasser Kahlid, headmaster of a school
As the U-N tries to assert pressure on Baghdad, the Iraqi authorities continue their campaign of hatred against the United States.
During Friday prayer at one of leading mosques, the preacher attacked the United States and Israel, reminding his faithful that they were Iraq's biggest enemies.
And his message to the people of America was plain.
SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)
"You ( Americans ) will regret your deeds very soon and you will be praying to God to save your lives''.
SUPERCAPTION: Haj. Mouhamed Ali, preacher
However, with renewed talk of military strikes against Baghdad, it could be the Iraqis who are most in need of prayer.
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- published: 23 Jul 2015
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The team of experts, dispatched to Iraq to assist the UN in the closure of the UNSCOM chemical laboratory, concluded its latest mission in Iraq on Wednesday.
Iraq accused the United Nations of erasing evidence that would have proved its claim that U-N weapons inspectors had contaminated Iraq missile warheads with the deadly V-X nerve agent.
The charge came hours after a U-N team of independent experts left Baghdad after a controversial mission that included the destruction of a small amount of V-X and other toxic materials left behind in a U-N laboratory.
U-N weapons inspectors, known as the U-N Special Commission, said they kept the V-X sample to calibrate equipment used to test Iraqi weapons sites for traces of the agent.
Iraq's Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan told reporters the U-N Security Council ordered the destruction of the V-X because it knew its weapons inspectors had used it for contamination.
Ramadan was referring to last year's row between Iraq and UNSCOM over whether Iraq had loaded its missiles with V-X.
Iraq has admitted producing V-X, but has denied it produced a form that was sufficiently stable to use in warheads.
In 1998, scores of warheads were taken for analysis in the United States, France and Switzerland.
The U-S tests turned up positive while the Swiss tests were negative and the French ones were inconclusive.
The U-N envoy to Baghdad, Prakash Shah, dismissed the Iraqi accusations.
Iraq has repeatedly charged that UNSCOM was not carrying out its disarmament in a fair manner, saying many of its members were undercover agents of the U-S Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
SOUNDBITE: (English): "The team's task was to evaluate the chemical lab, destroy the mustard agent and the chemical standards and to pack and store the non-toxic standards so that is the task we have done. This particular mandated task is nothing to do with what might have happened in the past or what might be the feelings or ideas about UNSCOM job in the past. This task was very limited and the mandate was very clear cut and all that the team done here was to complete the task , finish their mandate and go back."
SUPER CAPTION: Prakash Shah, U-N envoy to Baghdad
SOUNDBITE: (English translation from Arabic)
"Who brought the V-X to Baghdad. Why was it brought here? Is it a means of checking? I am sure that nothing has appeared on the warheads that were checked in the labs of France and other states but the ones which were checked in America."
SUPER CAPTION: Iraqi Vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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Iraq's announcement to suspend cooperation with U-N weapons inspectors has prompted immediate condemnation from the international community.
U-S Defence Secretary, William Cohen, warned Iraq could face military action if it fails to return to complying with U-N weapons inspectors.
The United Nation's Chief Inspector says he is concerned that Iraq is making a move against long term U-N monitoring of its weapons of mass destruction.
Israel has also been quick to comment on Iraq's decision, saying its actions represented a dangerous threat to peace in the region.
Commenting on Iraq's suspension of cooperation with the U-N, U-S Defence Secretary, William Cohen, said that the option of military intervention against Iraq was possible.
He said it would be preferred that any action be taken in conjunction with the United Nation and allies, but said that U-S unilateral military action was an option.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Q. Any concerns because once again Iraq seems to be defying the role of the international community. Any concerns on what they might do?
Well because Iraq has challenged the United Nations and this has been a conflict in terms of the agreement between Iraq and the United Nations Security Council, he (Iraqi President Saddam Hussein) continues to flout the rules, he continues to break agreement after agreement and I think all are concerned about this. Everyone at the Security Council should be concerned. Kofi Annan should be concerned because his credibility, that of the Security Council credibility is on the line. So we're going to have a series of meetings to discuss what options ought to be examined and pursued and I thought it was important I come back and participate in those discussions.
Q. Any chances of the United States acting unilaterally should we not be able to get the international community to follow through?
Well that's always been an option that we could pursue. The preference would be to keep it exactly where it is today and that is a contest between Iraq and the United Nations. We always have that capability, but we prefer to act through our allies and with our allies and hopefully that will be the case if we have to take any action at all."
SUPER CAPTION: William Cohen, U-S Defence Secretary
Cohen also said that everybody was getting "weary" of dealing with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Iraq announced on Saturday to ban U-N weapons inspectors from working in the country.
The United Nation's Chief Inspector says he is concerned that Iraq is making a move against long term U-N monitoring of its weapons of mass destruction.
Iraq has sent a defiant message to the United Nations, declaring it will not renew its cooperation with U-N weapons inspectors "before Iraq's demands are met."
The statement is Iraq's first response to the U-N Security Council's condemnation of its decision to ban U-N weapons inspectors from working in the country.
Iraq says it won't back down, even if military action is threatened.
In New York, Chief Inspector Richard Butler said the U-N's weapons inspectors remained in Baghdad and were ready to resume work.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"The Security Council met yesterday and said that what Iraq has done is wrong and it must rescind it. The council will work further on that in the next week. In the meantime we're in Baghdad with all of our staff and we're ready to resume work as soon as they are."
SUPER CAPTION: Richard Butler, U-N Chief Inspector
In Washington former Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole said the U-S and NATO should take preemptive action over Iraq's refusal to comply to weapons inspections.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
SUPER CAPTION: Bob Dole, former Republican presidential nominee
SOUNDBITE: (English)
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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The Iraqi deputy premier, Tariq Aziz, has said Iraq can "no longer tolerate" the continuation of UNSCOM inspections without moves to begin lifting sanctions in the United Nations.
Aziz was addressing students at Moscow's Institute of International Relations as part of a four-day official visit to the Russian capital.
And at a news conference later on Tuesday, Aziz said Iraq was not prepared to put up with U-S "intimidation".
Tariq Aziz, Iraq's deputy leader addressed mainly students at Moscow's Institute of International Relations conference.
He spoke of his country's continuing weapons inspections crisis.
The Baghdad regime in August and October halted the work of the U-N Special Commission, (UNSCOM) which oversees the inspections.
UNSCOM must certify that Iraq has eliminated its weapons of mass destruction before U-N trade sanctions, imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, can be lifted.
But Aziz said Iraq was no longer prepared to accept the status quo.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Eight years of implementation by Iraq. No step by the Security Council. This cannot work! We made it clear - and I repeated it in my meetings with Mr Ivanov (Igor Ivanov, Russian Foreign Minister) and Mr Primakov (Yevgeny Primakov, Russian Prime Minister) - I told them Iraq cannot tolerate anymore that UNSCOM continues its work, with all the expenses, moral and material expenses, we face, and the sanctions remain."
SUPER CAPTION: Tariq Aziz,Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister
The United States and Britain had threatened military action to force Iraq to cooperate.
But tension eased after Iraq announced it would allow the inspectors to resume work on November 14.
Russia continues to call for the lifting of sanctions against Iraq - not least for the valuable future investment opportunities Moscow eyes in the country.
Tariq Aziz later addressed journalists at a news conference in Moscow's foreign ministry offices.
He accused the UNSCOM team of spying for America, Britain and Israel and repeated that Iraq would not allow it to operate indefinitely if sanctions are not lifted.
SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)
"Iraq is not about to go along with or agree to the continuation of sanctions against Iraq if UNSCOM is to continue its work in Iraq. We have suffered greatly in these eight years. There is a limit to our patience and we cannot be patient for ever."
SUPER CAPTION: Tariq Aziz, Iraqi Deputy Premier
In another show of defiance, he accused the U-S of using its power to intimidate Iraq.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We are not afraid of America. We are not going to be intimidated by the Americans for ever. Because the Americans enjoy intimidating others and they are ready to continue this intimidation for each and every pretext they choose. But we will not yield to their intimidation. But I hope that there will be no war. No human being, no rational human being, would love to go to war unless he is obliged to, to defend himself against aggression."
SUPER CAPTION: Tariq Aziz, Iraqi Deputy Premier
Aziz held talks on Monday with both the Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and, behind closed doors, with Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov.
He said he was satisfied following the discussions, calling Russia a potential 'strategic partner'.
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English/Nat United Nations chief weapons inspector Richard Butler has denied reports that his teams in Iraq were used to spy for the United States. According to reports in U-S newspapers, UNSCOM may have been used to help collect sensitive Iraqi communications for U-S efforts to undermine Saddam Hussein's regime. The Boston Globe and The Washington Post quoted anonymous sources in Wednesday's editions as saying the electronic eavesdropping operation allowed the U-S to listen in on secret communications among military units responsible for the Iraqi leader's safety. The Post quoted confidants close to U-N Secretary-General Kofi Annan as saying he was convinced Washington used the operation to penetrate the security apparatus protecting Saddam. However, the Los Angeles Times reported that Annan had told key staff members he had no knowledge of the activities alleged by the Post. As he arrived at U-N headquarters in Iraq, Butler angrily dismissed the reports. SOUNDBITE: (English) (Q: Mr Butler what do you make of allegations that UNSCOM was used to spy for US?) "I've seen one story, I believe there is more than one out there, I will give a considered answer later today" (More questions off camera) A: "What assertion are you talking about?" (Q: That UNSCOM is being used to spy for the US?) "I have said in public, that is simply untrue, OK?" SUPER CAPTION: Richard Butler, chief weapons inspector Baghdad has repeatedly accused the U-S and Butler of using UNSCOM for secret espionage. American weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who resigned over policy issues last March, told The Boston Globe that inspectors did know a lot of information about Saddam's security. However, Ritter - who's now an N-B-C analyst - said on the Today programme that anything the inspectors did, they did on their own. He also said his inspection team was not involved in any effort to overthrow Saddam. Ritter himself was branded a spy by Iraq last year. Baghdad complained that his team included too many American and British inspectors. Angered by his tendency to make unannounced visits to suspected weapons sites, they refused to give him Iraqi escorts, preventing him from working. SOUNDBITE: (English) "Allegations about me being a spy are ridiculous. I work at the pleasure of Richard Butler, the executive chairman of the Special Commission." SUPERCAPTION: Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector Ritter resigned in March - incensed that the U-N Security Council failed to take a tougher stand over Iraq's decision to freeze co-operation with weapons inspectors. UNSCOM was created by the U-N Security Council in 1991 to ensure that Iraq was stripped of weapons of mass destruction after the 1991 Gulf War. UNSCOM withdrew all its personnel before last month's air strikes by the U-S and Britain. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/6a99f1d5506a086d525c05a977181901 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork -
1:20UNSCOM clip
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A documentary program on Dutch Television about the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) weapons inspections in Iraq during the nineties. I worked with UNSCOM for five years (1991-96) as a photographer and team leader mostly based in Baghdad. The successful work of UNSCOM was the reason that no WMDs were found after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. -
2:25USA: STATE DEPARTMENT UNSCOM SPYING ALLEGATION PRESS BRIEFING
USA: STATE DEPARTMENT UNSCOM SPYING ALLEGATION PRESS BRIEFINGUSA: STATE DEPARTMENT UNSCOM SPYING ALLEGATION PRESS BRIEFING
English/Nat The Clinton Administration has denied U-N weapons inspectors helped Washington collect sensitive Iraqi communications in order to undermine Saddam Hussein's regime. A U-S State Department spokesman described newspaper reports to that effect as "mischief making". In Washington, the State Department strongly dismissed suggestions that UNSCOM weapons inspectors ran a covert intelligence gathering operation for the United States. SOUNDBITE: (English) "It is my understanding that at no time did the U-S work with anyone at UNSCOM to collect information for the purpose of undermining the Iraqi regime." SUPER CAPTION: James Rubin, State Department Spokesman The denial follows newspaper reports that UNSCOM allowed U-S intelligence access to sensitive Iraqi government communications, including listening into military units protecting Saddam Hussein. Rubin did acknowledge that the U-S helped UNSCOM with intelligence, logistics and personnel, but added that as many as 40 other countries also did as part of the international search for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. SOUNDBITE: English "The United States has been helping, with intelligence and logistical support, UNSCOM to try to get to the bottom of the concealment mechanism which operates primarily through the special Republican Guard units of the leadership to hide its weapons of mass destruction. And through intelligence, logistical support, expertise and personnel we have been helping UNSCOM to try to find out where these weapons of mass destruction are as called for by Security Council resolutions. That's the fact situation." SUPER CAPTION: James Rubin, U-S State Department Spokesperson The Clinton administration says any intelligence gain made by America as a result of it's involvement with UNSCOM was purely a by-product of it's presence there, not part of a covert surveillance operation. At the White House, President Clinton's spokesperson refused to be drawn into the controversy. SOUNDBITE: English "We wouldn't be standing here having this conversation if it wasn't for the intransigence of Saddam Hussein. UNSCOM doesn't -- wouldn't need any assistance if he would cooperate, if he would just comply with the agreements he made at the end of the Gulf War as a condition for ending the Gulf War." SUPER CAPTION: Joe Lockhart, White House Spokesman U-S Secretary of State Madeleine Albright conferred with U-N Secretary General Kofi Annan on the matter, who assured her reports that he suspected UNSCOM of spying for the U-S were totally unfounded. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/48ba269de924158ee2b4aff9403aa14c Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork -
4:03UNSCOM 687 Bagdad - Herresflieger
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0:51IRAQ: JOURNALISTS ACCOMPANY UNSCOM INSPECTORS TO WEAPONS SITE
IRAQ: JOURNALISTS ACCOMPANY UNSCOM INSPECTORS TO WEAPONS SITEIRAQ: JOURNALISTS ACCOMPANY UNSCOM INSPECTORS TO WEAPONS SITE
Natural Sound UNSCOM inspectors, whose work is at the centre of the present crisis in Iraq, have allowed journalists to accompany them on one of their morning inspection trips. Iraq is suspected of hiding weapons of mass destruction in presidential palaces - which have been declared off-limits to U-N experts charged by the Security Council to seek out and destroy Iraq's arms programme. The UNSCOM team went to the al-Fao site on Saturday in south Baghdad. It is one of a number of facilities in the Iraqi capital the team regularly visit as part of their monitoring of sites where they suspect weapons of mass destruction could be made. The journalists, however, were only allowed to accompany the inspectors as far as the site gates. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/39f4b5d02e48858fa1d535eee3bef643 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork -
2:37IRAQ: EXPERTS TO CLEAN UNSCOM OFFICES OF TOXIC ITEMS
IRAQ: EXPERTS TO CLEAN UNSCOM OFFICES OF TOXIC ITEMSIRAQ: EXPERTS TO CLEAN UNSCOM OFFICES OF TOXIC ITEMS
Natural Sound Iraq announced Friday that the international experts team will start the removal of toxic items weapons which inspectors left behind in their laboratories when they left Iraq last year. The experts came to Iraq on Wednesday under instructions of the U.N. Secretary-General. The initiative to destroy the substances, which had been left in the UNSCOM laboratory in a Baghdad hotel, was made by Russia. The experts will start working on Friday. International experts began work on Thursday to assess chemicals that weapons inspectors left behind in their laboratories when they evacuated Iraq last year. The multinational team, accompanied by French, Russian and Chinese diplomats, entered the U.N. Special Commission's headquarters at the Canal Hotel, where the chemicals are stored. They were later joined by presidential adviser Lt. Gen. Amer Hammoodi Al-Sa'adi and Gen. Hussam Mohammed Amin, director of Iraq's National Monitoring Committee. During their four-day mission, the five experts are to assess what needs to be done to dispose of the chemicals and then close a chemical lab and a germ warfare room used by the inspectors. Four of the experts are from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, an independent group based in The Hague, Netherlands, which was set up in 1997 to destroy deadly chemical agents throughout the world. The fifth team member is an independent biological weapons expert. Shah said they were fully briefed by UNSCOM experts in Bahrain on the nature of toxic materials in the building before heading to Iraq. The Canal Hotel also houses U.N. relief agencies and staff supervising the implementation of the oil-for-food programme. U.N. envoy Prakash Shah assured the 150 U.N. staff there that they have nothing to worry about as the experts destroy the chemicals and mustard gas. The commission, or UNSCOM, overseeing the scrapping of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, occupies the third floor of the hotel. The U.N. weapons inspectors pulled out in December just before the United States and Britain launched airstrikes against Iraq for the country's alleged failure to cooperate with the inspectors. Iraq has vowed not to let the commission back into the country. But it is allowing the independent experts into the country because they are not linked to the United Nations or the special commission. However, their findings will be reported to U.N.Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Neither the experts nor the diplomats would comment on their mission Thursday. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/02b71e66ff633c9cfc9cb3860f91abd2 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork -
3:05IRAQ: UNSCOM
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English/Nat A U-N weapons inspection team has been turned back after it was refused admission to an office of the ruling Baath Party in Baghdad. The Iraqis are is now suggesting it was all a mistake. In the first official Iraqi reaction to the incident, the country's oil minister said the inspectors' Iraqi escort should not have declared the site to be "sensitive." The latest disagreement was played out outside one of the four branch headquarters of the ruling Baath Party. In a news conference on Wednesday, Iraqi Oil Minister Amer Mohammed Rashid tried to play down the incident. He said the escort who was accompanying the inspectors allowed four people inside, but refused to allow all twelve of the group to go in. This was apparently because the escort mistook the site for a "sensitive" area. SOUNDBITE: (English) "To facilitate and not to create a problem, not to give justification because we know this is the objective of the Special Commission, especially by Mr Butler and his deputies to create a problems and to create friction so the Iraqi minder...he allowed the chief inspector and three other inspectors to enter a building just to acquire, to understand, to comprehend what was in that building, because it was cleared for party headquarters and if they were satisfied - this was the end of the problem. When they came back they decided that 12 inspectors needed to enter that small building - and they needed 12 inspectors at least. This was refused by the minder and there were a lot of details which followed." SUPER CAPTION: Amer Mohammed Rashid, Iraqi Oil Minister While the Oil Minister claimed the incident was just a mistake, he went on to criticise the UNSCOM inspectors for deliberately trying to provoke the Iraqis authorities. SOUNDBITE: (English) "We could say there is almost a deliberate action by Mr. Butler himself and his group in New York to create a crisis situation because on the first day of arrival the chief inspector made very clear that he would not adopt the modalities for inspection of sensitive sites which has been agreed on the 22 June, 1996 and was endorsed by the Secretary General on 23rd February 1998 and he said: My instruction is to implement Mr Butler's modalities." SUPER CAPTION: Amer Mohammed Rashid, Iraqi Oil Minister Also in Baghdad, a symposium was being held to mark the 50th anniversary of the U-N Convention on Human Rights. It was attended by supporters of Iraq's calls for the end of U-N sanctions which have been in place since the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. SOUNDBITE: (English) "These sanctions against Iraq violate the Genocide convention; they are genocide, the most serious crime on Earth, and they have to be recognised and condemned as such." SUPER CAPTION: Ramsay Clarke, former U-S Justice Minister Another opponent of U-N sanctions also had criticism for Richard Butler's team. SOUNDBITE: (English) "Well I regard UNSCOM under the leadership of Richard Butler as being essentially agent provocateurs here in Iraq. They are not here to resolve the outstanding issues - I wish they were." SUPER CAPTION: George Galloway, British Labour M-P Saddam Hussein's government has repeatedly tried to block the work of inspectors. The chief U-N inspector, Richard Butler, said Iraq was entirely in the wrong in the incident. He says it was a legal, surprise inspection. Iraq had suspended inspections in August, but allowed them to resume last month under military threat from the United States and Britain. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/9c25ff029540f6a52cf8e00166afd9d7 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork -
3:06IRAQ: UNSCOM & IAEA PERSONNEL ARRIVE FROM BAHRAIN (2)
IRAQ: UNSCOM & IAEA PERSONNEL ARRIVE FROM BAHRAIN (2)IRAQ: UNSCOM & IAEA PERSONNEL ARRIVE FROM BAHRAIN (2)
English/Nat U-N weapons inspectors have arrived in Iraq and returned to their headquarters in the capital, saying they were ready to return to work. With the threat of airstrikes over for now, 86 inspectors arrived from Bahrain, where they were evacuated last week when the crisis was at its height. They were greeted by demonstrators protesting against the U-N trade sanctions. There had been no evacuation in Northern Iraq where, over the weekend, humanitarian workers continued to prepare relief aid for distribution to the Kurdish population in Iraq. Eighty-six inspectors from UNSCOM and the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived back in Iraq on Tuesday from the Gulf state of Bahrain. A media frenzy greeted them as they stepped onto the tarmac at the military air base in Habaniya, 70 kilometres (44 miles) from Baghdad. The inspectors say they are ready to test Iraq's pledge to cooperate in the search for its weapons of mass destruction. SOUNDBITE: (English) "I don't want to comment about what we are doing. We never are informed in advance when we start and when we don't. But we are ready to start as soon as we can." Q: What is the last order you received from the U-N before you moved from Bahrain? A: "Just go back to Baghdad and start work." SUPER CAPTION: Jaakko Ylitalo, Senior UNSCOM Inspector Iraqi buses transported the inspectors to their headquarters in Baghdad. There, the inspectors can monitor about 120 remote control cameras at suspected Iraqi weapons sites. They also carry out both announced and spot visits. Caroline Cross, a spokeswoman for the inspectors, was among those evacuated last week from Iraq when U-S airstrikes seemed likely. SOUNDBITE: (English) "We're looking forward to a professional and productive relationship with the Iraqi authorities in the next few days. You know, time will tell." SUPER CAPTION: Caroline Cross, UNSCOM Spokeswoman The arms inspectors have been working for more than seven years to unearth Iraq's chemical and biological weapons and long-range missiles. Their work has been frequently blocked by Iraq. The latest threat of attack by U-S and British forces produced a renewed promise by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to cooperate. But Cross said that any obstacles would be reported to the U-N executive. SOUNDBITE: (English) "If we have any problems in our activities it's our business to report it immediately to UNSCOM H-Q and onto the Security Council." SUPER CAPTION: Caroline Cross, UNSCOM Spokeswoman As inspectors returned to Baghdad they were met by protesters, including members of the U-S aid group "Voices in the Wilderness." The group is demonstrating against the further possibility of air strikes and the ongoing U-N trade sanctions they say are killing innocent Iraqis. SOUNDBITE: (English) "Every single month 4-thousand to 5-thousand Iraqi children die as a direct result of the sanctions." SUPER CAPTION: Kathy Kelly, Voices in the Wilderness The sanctions, imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, limit the sale of oil and other trade dealings and have devastated Iraq's economy. Iraqi officials say the sanctions have caused the deaths of more than 1-point-5 (m) million Iraqis in the past eight years. The council has said the sanctions won't be lifted until UNSCOM and the I-A-E-A nuclear agency certify that Iraq has eliminated its lethal weaponry. The Iraqi government wants the review to lead quickly to the lifting of U-N sanctions. With the threat of American and British airstrikes aborted at the weekend, about 150 relief workers also returned to Baghdad. In Northern Iraq, however, there was no evacuation and aid work continued, quietly, as normal. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/4de83202233ba2cd6780fe8966836b6b Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork -
3:25IRAQ: UNSCOM WITHDRAW 15 WEAPONS INSPECTORS
IRAQ: UNSCOM WITHDRAW 15 WEAPONS INSPECTORSIRAQ: UNSCOM WITHDRAW 15 WEAPONS INSPECTORS
Arabic/Eng/Nat A group of 15 United Nation weapons inspectors left Baghdad on Saturday, in the first stage of a reduction of the U-N team in Iraq. The withdrawal comes a week after Baghdad said it was halting all cooperation with the U-N Special Commission, which oversees the destruction of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons as well as long-range missiles. The standoff has raised fears of a military strike by the United States and Britain. The departure of these staff from the United Nations inspection team underlines the international community's increasing frustration with Baghdad. UNSCOM says it is withdrawing twenty-six of its people in response to Iraq's decision to halt all co-operation with the inspectors, who are there to oversee the elimination of weapons of mass destruction. The experts are heading for an air base outside Baghdad, from where they will fly to Bahrain. More inspectors are due to leave next week. As their UNSCOM colleagues pulled out, members of the International Atomic Energy Agency team continued their efforts to inspect nuclear sites. I-A-E-A monitors have not been banned by Iraq. U-N special envoy Prakash Shah said Secretary General Kofi Annan, who signed an agreement with Iraq in February to end a previous crisis over inspections, was being asked to intervene again. SOUNDBITE: (English) "The Secretary General has been asked by the Security Council to pursue his role in fulfilling the Memorandum of Understanding. The Secretary General and I are pursuing that." SUPERCAPTION: Prakash Shah, special envoy for UN Secretary General in Baghdad Iraq's Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh was the first to comment cabinet member to comment since a Security Council resolution calling the noncooperation "a flagrant violation" of U-N resolutions. He gave no hint of compromise. SOUNDBITE: (English) ``Our position still stands as it is". SUPERCAPTION: Iraqi trade minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh At the heart of the crisis are the U-N sanctions against Iraq, imposed after the invasion of Kuwait in . The U-N says the sanctions - which have crippled the Iraqi economy and caused widespread hardship - can't be lifted until UNSCOM certifies Iraq is free of weapons of mass destruction. But Iraq says inspections can resume only if the Council gives a timetable for the lifting the sanction. Saddam Hussein's people, who believe it is the U-N who is responsible for their suffering and not their leader, support his latest position. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) `Our decision is quite clear. Whether UNSCOM would like to withdraw its inspectors or not, we have given them a clear sign because we have been suffering for the past nine years from these unjust sanctions.'' SUPERCAPTION: Moussa Mohammed, Iraqi shop worker SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) "The decision taken by President Saddam and our leadership, we all support it. Why? Because there must be an end. Everything should have a clear end.'' SUPERCAPTION: Nasser Kahlid, headmaster of a school As the U-N tries to assert pressure on Baghdad, the Iraqi authorities continue their campaign of hatred against the United States. During Friday prayer at one of leading mosques, the preacher attacked the United States and Israel, reminding his faithful that they were Iraq's biggest enemies. And his message to the people of America was plain. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) "You ( Americans ) will regret your deeds very soon and you will be praying to God to save your lives''. SUPERCAPTION: Haj. Mouhamed Ali, preacher However, with renewed talk of military strikes against Baghdad, it could be the Iraqis who are most in need of prayer. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/0b6b842e4eb499c5af261dba9b1e0dc4 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork -
2:25IRAQ: UN WEAPONS EXPERTS FINISH UNSCOM CLEAN-UP
IRAQ: UN WEAPONS EXPERTS FINISH UNSCOM CLEAN-UPIRAQ: UN WEAPONS EXPERTS FINISH UNSCOM CLEAN-UP
Arabic/Eng/Nat The team of experts, dispatched to Iraq to assist the UN in the closure of the UNSCOM chemical laboratory, concluded its latest mission in Iraq on Wednesday. Iraq accused the United Nations of erasing evidence that would have proved its claim that U-N weapons inspectors had contaminated Iraq missile warheads with the deadly V-X nerve agent. The charge came hours after a U-N team of independent experts left Baghdad after a controversial mission that included the destruction of a small amount of V-X and other toxic materials left behind in a U-N laboratory. U-N weapons inspectors, known as the U-N Special Commission, said they kept the V-X sample to calibrate equipment used to test Iraqi weapons sites for traces of the agent. Iraq's Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan told reporters the U-N Security Council ordered the destruction of the V-X because it knew its weapons inspectors had used it for contamination. Ramadan was referring to last year's row between Iraq and UNSCOM over whether Iraq had loaded its missiles with V-X. Iraq has admitted producing V-X, but has denied it produced a form that was sufficiently stable to use in warheads. In 1998, scores of warheads were taken for analysis in the United States, France and Switzerland. The U-S tests turned up positive while the Swiss tests were negative and the French ones were inconclusive. The U-N envoy to Baghdad, Prakash Shah, dismissed the Iraqi accusations. Iraq has repeatedly charged that UNSCOM was not carrying out its disarmament in a fair manner, saying many of its members were undercover agents of the U-S Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). SOUNDBITE: (English): "The team's task was to evaluate the chemical lab, destroy the mustard agent and the chemical standards and to pack and store the non-toxic standards so that is the task we have done. This particular mandated task is nothing to do with what might have happened in the past or what might be the feelings or ideas about UNSCOM job in the past. This task was very limited and the mandate was very clear cut and all that the team done here was to complete the task , finish their mandate and go back." SUPER CAPTION: Prakash Shah, U-N envoy to Baghdad SOUNDBITE: (English translation from Arabic) "Who brought the V-X to Baghdad. Why was it brought here? Is it a means of checking? I am sure that nothing has appeared on the warheads that were checked in the labs of France and other states but the ones which were checked in America." SUPER CAPTION: Iraqi Vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/908c86242abee82e9262ea4f7410808e Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork -
2:53USA: REACTION TO IRAQI BLOCK ON UNSCOM INSPECTORS
USA: REACTION TO IRAQI BLOCK ON UNSCOM INSPECTORSUSA: REACTION TO IRAQI BLOCK ON UNSCOM INSPECTORS
English/Nat Iraq's announcement to suspend cooperation with U-N weapons inspectors has prompted immediate condemnation from the international community. U-S Defence Secretary, William Cohen, warned Iraq could face military action if it fails to return to complying with U-N weapons inspectors. The United Nation's Chief Inspector says he is concerned that Iraq is making a move against long term U-N monitoring of its weapons of mass destruction. Israel has also been quick to comment on Iraq's decision, saying its actions represented a dangerous threat to peace in the region. Commenting on Iraq's suspension of cooperation with the U-N, U-S Defence Secretary, William Cohen, said that the option of military intervention against Iraq was possible. He said it would be preferred that any action be taken in conjunction with the United Nation and allies, but said that U-S unilateral military action was an option. SOUNDBITE: (English) "Q. Any concerns because once again Iraq seems to be defying the role of the international community. Any concerns on what they might do? Well because Iraq has challenged the United Nations and this has been a conflict in terms of the agreement between Iraq and the United Nations Security Council, he (Iraqi President Saddam Hussein) continues to flout the rules, he continues to break agreement after agreement and I think all are concerned about this. Everyone at the Security Council should be concerned. Kofi Annan should be concerned because his credibility, that of the Security Council credibility is on the line. So we're going to have a series of meetings to discuss what options ought to be examined and pursued and I thought it was important I come back and participate in those discussions. Q. Any chances of the United States acting unilaterally should we not be able to get the international community to follow through? Well that's always been an option that we could pursue. The preference would be to keep it exactly where it is today and that is a contest between Iraq and the United Nations. We always have that capability, but we prefer to act through our allies and with our allies and hopefully that will be the case if we have to take any action at all." SUPER CAPTION: William Cohen, U-S Defence Secretary Cohen also said that everybody was getting "weary" of dealing with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. Iraq announced on Saturday to ban U-N weapons inspectors from working in the country. The United Nation's Chief Inspector says he is concerned that Iraq is making a move against long term U-N monitoring of its weapons of mass destruction. Iraq has sent a defiant message to the United Nations, declaring it will not renew its cooperation with U-N weapons inspectors "before Iraq's demands are met." The statement is Iraq's first response to the U-N Security Council's condemnation of its decision to ban U-N weapons inspectors from working in the country. Iraq says it won't back down, even if military action is threatened. In New York, Chief Inspector Richard Butler said the U-N's weapons inspectors remained in Baghdad and were ready to resume work. SOUNDBITE: (English) "The Security Council met yesterday and said that what Iraq has done is wrong and it must rescind it. The council will work further on that in the next week. In the meantime we're in Baghdad with all of our staff and we're ready to resume work as soon as they are." SUPER CAPTION: Richard Butler, U-N Chief Inspector In Washington former Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole said the U-S and NATO should take preemptive action over Iraq's refusal to comply to weapons inspections. SOUNDBITE: (English) SUPER CAPTION: Bob Dole, former Republican presidential nominee SOUNDBITE: (English) You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/7e8a51285aa80e27a38ed16f8000c994 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork -
2:53RUSSIA: AZIZ COMMENTS ON UNSCOM WEAPONS INSPECTIONS
RUSSIA: AZIZ COMMENTS ON UNSCOM WEAPONS INSPECTIONSRUSSIA: AZIZ COMMENTS ON UNSCOM WEAPONS INSPECTIONS
Arabic/Eng/Nat The Iraqi deputy premier, Tariq Aziz, has said Iraq can "no longer tolerate" the continuation of UNSCOM inspections without moves to begin lifting sanctions in the United Nations. Aziz was addressing students at Moscow's Institute of International Relations as part of a four-day official visit to the Russian capital. And at a news conference later on Tuesday, Aziz said Iraq was not prepared to put up with U-S "intimidation". Tariq Aziz, Iraq's deputy leader addressed mainly students at Moscow's Institute of International Relations conference. He spoke of his country's continuing weapons inspections crisis. The Baghdad regime in August and October halted the work of the U-N Special Commission, (UNSCOM) which oversees the inspections. UNSCOM must certify that Iraq has eliminated its weapons of mass destruction before U-N trade sanctions, imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, can be lifted. But Aziz said Iraq was no longer prepared to accept the status quo. SOUNDBITE: (English) "Eight years of implementation by Iraq. No step by the Security Council. This cannot work! We made it clear - and I repeated it in my meetings with Mr Ivanov (Igor Ivanov, Russian Foreign Minister) and Mr Primakov (Yevgeny Primakov, Russian Prime Minister) - I told them Iraq cannot tolerate anymore that UNSCOM continues its work, with all the expenses, moral and material expenses, we face, and the sanctions remain." SUPER CAPTION: Tariq Aziz,Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister The United States and Britain had threatened military action to force Iraq to cooperate. But tension eased after Iraq announced it would allow the inspectors to resume work on November 14. Russia continues to call for the lifting of sanctions against Iraq - not least for the valuable future investment opportunities Moscow eyes in the country. Tariq Aziz later addressed journalists at a news conference in Moscow's foreign ministry offices. He accused the UNSCOM team of spying for America, Britain and Israel and repeated that Iraq would not allow it to operate indefinitely if sanctions are not lifted. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) "Iraq is not about to go along with or agree to the continuation of sanctions against Iraq if UNSCOM is to continue its work in Iraq. We have suffered greatly in these eight years. There is a limit to our patience and we cannot be patient for ever." SUPER CAPTION: Tariq Aziz, Iraqi Deputy Premier In another show of defiance, he accused the U-S of using its power to intimidate Iraq. SOUNDBITE: (English) "We are not afraid of America. We are not going to be intimidated by the Americans for ever. Because the Americans enjoy intimidating others and they are ready to continue this intimidation for each and every pretext they choose. But we will not yield to their intimidation. But I hope that there will be no war. No human being, no rational human being, would love to go to war unless he is obliged to, to defend himself against aggression." SUPER CAPTION: Tariq Aziz, Iraqi Deputy Premier Aziz held talks on Monday with both the Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and, behind closed doors, with Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov. He said he was satisfied following the discussions, calling Russia a potential 'strategic partner'. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/fed9255d6586b2feaf99ec75a6b97c52 Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork
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UN/IRAQ: UNSCOM TEAMS ACCUSED OF ESPIONAGE
English/Nat United Nations chief weapons inspector Richard Butler has denied reports that his teams in Iraq were used to spy for the United States. According to reports in U-S newspapers, UNSCOM may have been used to help collect sensitive Iraqi communications for U-S efforts to undermine Saddam Hussein's regime. The Boston Globe and The Washington Post quoted anonymous sources in Wednesday's editions as saying the electronic eavesdropping operation allowed the U-S to listen in on secret communications among military units responsible for the Iraqi leader's safety. The Post quoted confidants close to U-N Secretary-General Kofi Annan as saying he was convinced Washington used the operation to penetrate the security apparatus protecting Saddam. However, the Los Angeles Tim... -
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A documentary program on Dutch Television about the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) weapons inspections in Iraq during the nineties. I worked with UNSCOM for five years (1991-96) as a photographer and team leader mostly based in Baghdad. The successful work of UNSCOM was the reason that no WMDs were found after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. -
USA: STATE DEPARTMENT UNSCOM SPYING ALLEGATION PRESS BRIEFING
English/Nat The Clinton Administration has denied U-N weapons inspectors helped Washington collect sensitive Iraqi communications in order to undermine Saddam Hussein's regime. A U-S State Department spokesman described newspaper reports to that effect as "mischief making". In Washington, the State Department strongly dismissed suggestions that UNSCOM weapons inspectors ran a covert intelligence gathering operation for the United States. SOUNDBITE: (English) "It is my understanding that at no time did the U-S work with anyone at UNSCOM to collect information for the purpose of undermining the Iraqi regime." SUPER CAPTION: James Rubin, State Department Spokesman The denial follows newspaper reports that UNSCOM allowed U-S intelligence access to sensitive Iraqi government co... -
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IRAQ: JOURNALISTS ACCOMPANY UNSCOM INSPECTORS TO WEAPONS SITE
Natural Sound UNSCOM inspectors, whose work is at the centre of the present crisis in Iraq, have allowed journalists to accompany them on one of their morning inspection trips. Iraq is suspected of hiding weapons of mass destruction in presidential palaces - which have been declared off-limits to U-N experts charged by the Security Council to seek out and destroy Iraq's arms programme. The UNSCOM team went to the al-Fao site on Saturday in south Baghdad. It is one of a number of facilities in the Iraqi capital the team regularly visit as part of their monitoring of sites where they suspect weapons of mass destruction could be made. The journalists, however, were only allowed to accompany the inspectors as far as the site gates. You can license this story through AP Ar... -
IRAQ: EXPERTS TO CLEAN UNSCOM OFFICES OF TOXIC ITEMS
Natural Sound Iraq announced Friday that the international experts team will start the removal of toxic items weapons which inspectors left behind in their laboratories when they left Iraq last year. The experts came to Iraq on Wednesday under instructions of the U.N. Secretary-General. The initiative to destroy the substances, which had been left in the UNSCOM laboratory in a Baghdad hotel, was made by Russia. The experts will start working on Friday. International experts began work on Thursday to assess chemicals that weapons inspectors left behind in their laboratories when they evacuated Iraq last year. The multinational team, accompanied by French, Russian and Chinese diplomats, entered the U.N. Special Commission's headquarters at the Canal Hotel, where the chemic... -
IRAQ: UNSCOM
English/Nat A U-N weapons inspection team has been turned back after it was refused admission to an office of the ruling Baath Party in Baghdad. The Iraqis are is now suggesting it was all a mistake. In the first official Iraqi reaction to the incident, the country's oil minister said the inspectors' Iraqi escort should not have declared the site to be "sensitive." The latest disagreement was played out outside one of the four branch headquarters of the ruling Baath Party. In a news conference on Wednesday, Iraqi Oil Minister Amer Mohammed Rashid tried to play down the incident. He said the escort who was accompanying the inspectors allowed four people inside, but refused to allow all twelve of the group to go in. This was apparently because the escort mistook the site for a "sens... -
IRAQ: UNSCOM & IAEA PERSONNEL ARRIVE FROM BAHRAIN (2)
English/Nat U-N weapons inspectors have arrived in Iraq and returned to their headquarters in the capital, saying they were ready to return to work. With the threat of airstrikes over for now, 86 inspectors arrived from Bahrain, where they were evacuated last week when the crisis was at its height. They were greeted by demonstrators protesting against the U-N trade sanctions. There had been no evacuation in Northern Iraq where, over the weekend, humanitarian workers continued to prepare relief aid for distribution to the Kurdish population in Iraq. Eighty-six inspectors from UNSCOM and the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived back in Iraq on Tuesday from the Gulf state of Bahrain. A media frenzy greeted them as they stepped onto the tarmac at the military air base i... -
IRAQ: UNSCOM WITHDRAW 15 WEAPONS INSPECTORS
Arabic/Eng/Nat A group of 15 United Nation weapons inspectors left Baghdad on Saturday, in the first stage of a reduction of the U-N team in Iraq. The withdrawal comes a week after Baghdad said it was halting all cooperation with the U-N Special Commission, which oversees the destruction of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons as well as long-range missiles. The standoff has raised fears of a military strike by the United States and Britain. The departure of these staff from the United Nations inspection team underlines the international community's increasing frustration with Baghdad. UNSCOM says it is withdrawing twenty-six of its people in response to Iraq's decision to halt all co-operation with the inspectors, who are there to oversee the elimination of weapons of mass destru... -
IRAQ: UN WEAPONS EXPERTS FINISH UNSCOM CLEAN-UP
Arabic/Eng/Nat The team of experts, dispatched to Iraq to assist the UN in the closure of the UNSCOM chemical laboratory, concluded its latest mission in Iraq on Wednesday. Iraq accused the United Nations of erasing evidence that would have proved its claim that U-N weapons inspectors had contaminated Iraq missile warheads with the deadly V-X nerve agent. The charge came hours after a U-N team of independent experts left Baghdad after a controversial mission that included the destruction of a small amount of V-X and other toxic materials left behind in a U-N laboratory. U-N weapons inspectors, known as the U-N Special Commission, said they kept the V-X sample to calibrate equipment used to test Iraqi weapons sites for traces of the agent. Iraq's Vice-President Taha Yassin ... -
USA: REACTION TO IRAQI BLOCK ON UNSCOM INSPECTORS
English/Nat Iraq's announcement to suspend cooperation with U-N weapons inspectors has prompted immediate condemnation from the international community. U-S Defence Secretary, William Cohen, warned Iraq could face military action if it fails to return to complying with U-N weapons inspectors. The United Nation's Chief Inspector says he is concerned that Iraq is making a move against long term U-N monitoring of its weapons of mass destruction. Israel has also been quick to comment on Iraq's decision, saying its actions represented a dangerous threat to peace in the region. Commenting on Iraq's suspension of cooperation with the U-N, U-S Defence Secretary, William Cohen, said that the option of military intervention against Iraq was possible. He said it would be preferred t... -
RUSSIA: AZIZ COMMENTS ON UNSCOM WEAPONS INSPECTIONS
Arabic/Eng/Nat The Iraqi deputy premier, Tariq Aziz, has said Iraq can "no longer tolerate" the continuation of UNSCOM inspections without moves to begin lifting sanctions in the United Nations. Aziz was addressing students at Moscow's Institute of International Relations as part of a four-day official visit to the Russian capital. And at a news conference later on Tuesday, Aziz said Iraq was not prepared to put up with U-S "intimidation". Tariq Aziz, Iraq's deputy leader addressed mainly students at Moscow's Institute of International Relations conference. He spoke of his country's continuing weapons inspections crisis. The Baghdad regime in August and October halted the work of the U-N Special Commission, (UNSCOM) which oversees the inspections. UNSCOM must certif...
UN/IRAQ: UNSCOM TEAMS ACCUSED OF ESPIONAGE
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United Nations chief weapons inspector Richard Butler has denied reports that his teams in Iraq were used to spy for the United States.
Accord...
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United Nations chief weapons inspector Richard Butler has denied reports that his teams in Iraq were used to spy for the United States.
According to reports in U-S newspapers, UNSCOM may have been used to help collect sensitive Iraqi communications for U-S efforts to undermine Saddam Hussein's regime.
The Boston Globe and The Washington Post quoted anonymous sources in Wednesday's editions as saying the electronic eavesdropping operation allowed the U-S to listen in on secret communications among military units responsible for the Iraqi leader's safety.
The Post quoted confidants close to U-N Secretary-General Kofi Annan as saying he was convinced Washington used the operation to penetrate the security apparatus protecting Saddam.
However, the Los Angeles Times reported that Annan had told key staff members he had no knowledge of the activities alleged by the Post.
As he arrived at U-N headquarters in Iraq, Butler angrily dismissed the reports.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
(Q: Mr Butler what do you make of allegations that UNSCOM was used to spy for US?)
"I've seen one story, I believe there is more than one out there, I will give a considered answer later today"
(More questions off camera)
A: "What assertion are you talking about?"
(Q: That UNSCOM is being used to spy for the US?)
"I have said in public, that is simply untrue, OK?"
SUPER CAPTION: Richard Butler, chief weapons inspector
Baghdad has repeatedly accused the U-S and Butler of using UNSCOM for secret espionage.
American weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who resigned over policy issues last March, told The Boston Globe that inspectors did know a lot of information about Saddam's security.
However, Ritter - who's now an N-B-C analyst - said on the Today programme that anything the inspectors did, they did on their own.
He also said his inspection team was not involved in any effort to overthrow Saddam.
Ritter himself was branded a spy by Iraq last year.
Baghdad complained that his team included too many American and British inspectors.
Angered by his tendency to make unannounced visits to suspected weapons sites, they refused to give him Iraqi escorts, preventing him from working.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Allegations about me being a spy are ridiculous. I work at the pleasure of Richard Butler, the executive chairman of the Special Commission."
SUPERCAPTION: Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector
Ritter resigned in March - incensed that the U-N Security Council failed to take a tougher stand over Iraq's decision to freeze co-operation with weapons inspectors.
UNSCOM was created by the U-N Security Council in 1991 to ensure that Iraq was stripped of weapons of mass destruction after the 1991 Gulf War.
UNSCOM withdrew all its personnel before last month's air strikes by the U-S and Britain.
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United Nations chief weapons inspector Richard Butler has denied reports that his teams in Iraq were used to spy for the United States.
According to reports in U-S newspapers, UNSCOM may have been used to help collect sensitive Iraqi communications for U-S efforts to undermine Saddam Hussein's regime.
The Boston Globe and The Washington Post quoted anonymous sources in Wednesday's editions as saying the electronic eavesdropping operation allowed the U-S to listen in on secret communications among military units responsible for the Iraqi leader's safety.
The Post quoted confidants close to U-N Secretary-General Kofi Annan as saying he was convinced Washington used the operation to penetrate the security apparatus protecting Saddam.
However, the Los Angeles Times reported that Annan had told key staff members he had no knowledge of the activities alleged by the Post.
As he arrived at U-N headquarters in Iraq, Butler angrily dismissed the reports.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
(Q: Mr Butler what do you make of allegations that UNSCOM was used to spy for US?)
"I've seen one story, I believe there is more than one out there, I will give a considered answer later today"
(More questions off camera)
A: "What assertion are you talking about?"
(Q: That UNSCOM is being used to spy for the US?)
"I have said in public, that is simply untrue, OK?"
SUPER CAPTION: Richard Butler, chief weapons inspector
Baghdad has repeatedly accused the U-S and Butler of using UNSCOM for secret espionage.
American weapons inspector Scott Ritter, who resigned over policy issues last March, told The Boston Globe that inspectors did know a lot of information about Saddam's security.
However, Ritter - who's now an N-B-C analyst - said on the Today programme that anything the inspectors did, they did on their own.
He also said his inspection team was not involved in any effort to overthrow Saddam.
Ritter himself was branded a spy by Iraq last year.
Baghdad complained that his team included too many American and British inspectors.
Angered by his tendency to make unannounced visits to suspected weapons sites, they refused to give him Iraqi escorts, preventing him from working.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Allegations about me being a spy are ridiculous. I work at the pleasure of Richard Butler, the executive chairman of the Special Commission."
SUPERCAPTION: Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector
Ritter resigned in March - incensed that the U-N Security Council failed to take a tougher stand over Iraq's decision to freeze co-operation with weapons inspectors.
UNSCOM was created by the U-N Security Council in 1991 to ensure that Iraq was stripped of weapons of mass destruction after the 1991 Gulf War.
UNSCOM withdrew all its personnel before last month's air strikes by the U-S and Britain.
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UNSCOM clip
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A documentary program on Dutch Television about the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) weapons inspections in Iraq during the nineties. I worked...
A documentary program on Dutch Television about the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) weapons inspections in Iraq during the nineties. I worked with UNSCOM for five years (1991-96) as a photographer and team leader mostly based in Baghdad. The successful work of UNSCOM was the reason that no WMDs were found after the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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A documentary program on Dutch Television about the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM) weapons inspections in Iraq during the nineties. I worked with UNSCOM for five years (1991-96) as a photographer and team leader mostly based in Baghdad. The successful work of UNSCOM was the reason that no WMDs were found after the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
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USA: STATE DEPARTMENT UNSCOM SPYING ALLEGATION PRESS BRIEFING
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The Clinton Administration has denied U-N weapons inspectors helped Washington collect sensitive Iraqi communications in order to undermine Sadda...
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The Clinton Administration has denied U-N weapons inspectors helped Washington collect sensitive Iraqi communications in order to undermine Saddam Hussein's regime.
A U-S State Department spokesman described newspaper reports to that effect as "mischief making".
In Washington, the State Department strongly dismissed suggestions that UNSCOM weapons inspectors ran a covert intelligence gathering operation for the United States.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"It is my understanding that at no time did the U-S work with anyone at UNSCOM to collect information for the purpose of undermining the Iraqi regime."
SUPER CAPTION: James Rubin, State Department Spokesman
The denial follows newspaper reports that UNSCOM allowed U-S intelligence access to sensitive Iraqi government communications, including listening into military units protecting Saddam Hussein.
Rubin did acknowledge that the U-S helped UNSCOM with intelligence, logistics and personnel, but added that as many as 40 other countries also did as part of the international search for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
SOUNDBITE: English
"The United States has been helping, with intelligence and logistical support, UNSCOM to try to get to the bottom of the concealment mechanism which operates primarily through the special Republican Guard units of the leadership to hide its weapons of mass destruction. And through intelligence, logistical support, expertise and personnel we have been helping UNSCOM to try to find out where these weapons of mass destruction are as called for by Security Council resolutions. That's the fact situation."
SUPER CAPTION: James Rubin, U-S State Department Spokesperson
The Clinton administration says any intelligence gain made by America as a result of it's involvement with UNSCOM was purely a by-product of it's presence there, not part of a covert surveillance operation.
At the White House, President Clinton's spokesperson refused to be drawn into the controversy.
SOUNDBITE: English
"We wouldn't be standing here having this conversation if it wasn't for the intransigence of Saddam Hussein. UNSCOM doesn't -- wouldn't need any assistance if he would cooperate, if he would just comply with the agreements he made at the end of the Gulf War as a condition for ending the Gulf War."
SUPER CAPTION: Joe Lockhart, White House Spokesman
U-S Secretary of State Madeleine Albright conferred with U-N Secretary General Kofi Annan on the matter, who assured her reports that he suspected UNSCOM of spying for the U-S were totally unfounded.
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wn.com/USA State Department Unscom Spying Allegation Press Briefing
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The Clinton Administration has denied U-N weapons inspectors helped Washington collect sensitive Iraqi communications in order to undermine Saddam Hussein's regime.
A U-S State Department spokesman described newspaper reports to that effect as "mischief making".
In Washington, the State Department strongly dismissed suggestions that UNSCOM weapons inspectors ran a covert intelligence gathering operation for the United States.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"It is my understanding that at no time did the U-S work with anyone at UNSCOM to collect information for the purpose of undermining the Iraqi regime."
SUPER CAPTION: James Rubin, State Department Spokesman
The denial follows newspaper reports that UNSCOM allowed U-S intelligence access to sensitive Iraqi government communications, including listening into military units protecting Saddam Hussein.
Rubin did acknowledge that the U-S helped UNSCOM with intelligence, logistics and personnel, but added that as many as 40 other countries also did as part of the international search for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
SOUNDBITE: English
"The United States has been helping, with intelligence and logistical support, UNSCOM to try to get to the bottom of the concealment mechanism which operates primarily through the special Republican Guard units of the leadership to hide its weapons of mass destruction. And through intelligence, logistical support, expertise and personnel we have been helping UNSCOM to try to find out where these weapons of mass destruction are as called for by Security Council resolutions. That's the fact situation."
SUPER CAPTION: James Rubin, U-S State Department Spokesperson
The Clinton administration says any intelligence gain made by America as a result of it's involvement with UNSCOM was purely a by-product of it's presence there, not part of a covert surveillance operation.
At the White House, President Clinton's spokesperson refused to be drawn into the controversy.
SOUNDBITE: English
"We wouldn't be standing here having this conversation if it wasn't for the intransigence of Saddam Hussein. UNSCOM doesn't -- wouldn't need any assistance if he would cooperate, if he would just comply with the agreements he made at the end of the Gulf War as a condition for ending the Gulf War."
SUPER CAPTION: Joe Lockhart, White House Spokesman
U-S Secretary of State Madeleine Albright conferred with U-N Secretary General Kofi Annan on the matter, who assured her reports that he suspected UNSCOM of spying for the U-S were totally unfounded.
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UNSCOM 687 Bagdad - Herresflieger
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IRAQ: JOURNALISTS ACCOMPANY UNSCOM INSPECTORS TO WEAPONS SITE
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UNSCOM inspectors, whose work is at the centre of the present crisis in Iraq, have allowed journalists to accompany them on one of their morni...
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UNSCOM inspectors, whose work is at the centre of the present crisis in Iraq, have allowed journalists to accompany them on one of their morning inspection trips.
Iraq is suspected of hiding weapons of mass destruction in presidential palaces - which have been declared off-limits to U-N experts charged by the Security Council to seek out and destroy Iraq's arms programme.
The UNSCOM team went to the al-Fao site on Saturday in south Baghdad.
It is one of a number of facilities in the Iraqi capital the team regularly visit as part of their monitoring of sites where they suspect weapons of mass destruction could be made.
The journalists, however, were only allowed to accompany the inspectors as far as the site gates.
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UNSCOM inspectors, whose work is at the centre of the present crisis in Iraq, have allowed journalists to accompany them on one of their morning inspection trips.
Iraq is suspected of hiding weapons of mass destruction in presidential palaces - which have been declared off-limits to U-N experts charged by the Security Council to seek out and destroy Iraq's arms programme.
The UNSCOM team went to the al-Fao site on Saturday in south Baghdad.
It is one of a number of facilities in the Iraqi capital the team regularly visit as part of their monitoring of sites where they suspect weapons of mass destruction could be made.
The journalists, however, were only allowed to accompany the inspectors as far as the site gates.
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IRAQ: EXPERTS TO CLEAN UNSCOM OFFICES OF TOXIC ITEMS
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Iraq announced Friday that the international experts team will start the removal of toxic items weapons which inspectors left behind in their ...
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Iraq announced Friday that the international experts team will start the removal of toxic items weapons which inspectors left behind in their laboratories when they left Iraq last year.
The experts came to Iraq on Wednesday under instructions of the U.N.
Secretary-General.
The initiative to destroy the substances, which had been left in the UNSCOM laboratory in a Baghdad hotel, was made by Russia. The experts will start working on Friday.
International experts began work on Thursday to assess chemicals that weapons inspectors left behind in their laboratories when they evacuated Iraq last year.
The multinational team, accompanied by French, Russian and Chinese diplomats, entered the U.N. Special Commission's headquarters at the Canal Hotel, where the chemicals are stored.
They were later joined by presidential adviser Lt. Gen. Amer Hammoodi Al-Sa'adi and Gen. Hussam Mohammed Amin, director of Iraq's National Monitoring Committee.
During their four-day mission, the five experts are to assess what needs to be done to dispose of the chemicals and then close a chemical lab and a germ warfare room used by the inspectors.
Four of the experts are from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, an independent group based in The Hague, Netherlands, which was set up in 1997 to destroy deadly chemical agents throughout the world.
The fifth team member is an independent biological weapons expert.
Shah said they were fully briefed by UNSCOM experts in Bahrain on the nature of toxic materials in the building before heading to Iraq.
The Canal Hotel also houses U.N. relief agencies and staff supervising the implementation of the oil-for-food programme.
U.N. envoy Prakash Shah assured the 150 U.N. staff there that they have nothing to worry about as the experts destroy the chemicals and mustard gas.
The commission, or UNSCOM, overseeing the scrapping of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, occupies the third floor of the hotel. The U.N. weapons inspectors pulled out in December just before the United States and Britain launched airstrikes against Iraq for the country's alleged failure to cooperate with the inspectors.
Iraq has vowed not to let the commission back into the country. But it is allowing the independent experts into the country because they are not linked to the United Nations or the special commission.
However, their findings will be reported to U.N.Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Neither the experts nor the diplomats would comment on their mission Thursday.
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wn.com/Iraq Experts To Clean Unscom Offices Of Toxic Items
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Iraq announced Friday that the international experts team will start the removal of toxic items weapons which inspectors left behind in their laboratories when they left Iraq last year.
The experts came to Iraq on Wednesday under instructions of the U.N.
Secretary-General.
The initiative to destroy the substances, which had been left in the UNSCOM laboratory in a Baghdad hotel, was made by Russia. The experts will start working on Friday.
International experts began work on Thursday to assess chemicals that weapons inspectors left behind in their laboratories when they evacuated Iraq last year.
The multinational team, accompanied by French, Russian and Chinese diplomats, entered the U.N. Special Commission's headquarters at the Canal Hotel, where the chemicals are stored.
They were later joined by presidential adviser Lt. Gen. Amer Hammoodi Al-Sa'adi and Gen. Hussam Mohammed Amin, director of Iraq's National Monitoring Committee.
During their four-day mission, the five experts are to assess what needs to be done to dispose of the chemicals and then close a chemical lab and a germ warfare room used by the inspectors.
Four of the experts are from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, an independent group based in The Hague, Netherlands, which was set up in 1997 to destroy deadly chemical agents throughout the world.
The fifth team member is an independent biological weapons expert.
Shah said they were fully briefed by UNSCOM experts in Bahrain on the nature of toxic materials in the building before heading to Iraq.
The Canal Hotel also houses U.N. relief agencies and staff supervising the implementation of the oil-for-food programme.
U.N. envoy Prakash Shah assured the 150 U.N. staff there that they have nothing to worry about as the experts destroy the chemicals and mustard gas.
The commission, or UNSCOM, overseeing the scrapping of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, occupies the third floor of the hotel. The U.N. weapons inspectors pulled out in December just before the United States and Britain launched airstrikes against Iraq for the country's alleged failure to cooperate with the inspectors.
Iraq has vowed not to let the commission back into the country. But it is allowing the independent experts into the country because they are not linked to the United Nations or the special commission.
However, their findings will be reported to U.N.Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
Neither the experts nor the diplomats would comment on their mission Thursday.
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IRAQ: UNSCOM
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A U-N weapons inspection team has been turned back after it was refused admission to an office of the ruling Baath Party in Baghdad.
The Iraqis ...
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A U-N weapons inspection team has been turned back after it was refused admission to an office of the ruling Baath Party in Baghdad.
The Iraqis are is now suggesting it was all a mistake.
In the first official Iraqi reaction to the incident, the country's oil minister said the inspectors' Iraqi escort should not have declared the site to be "sensitive."
The latest disagreement was played out outside one of the four branch headquarters of the ruling Baath Party.
In a news conference on Wednesday, Iraqi Oil Minister Amer Mohammed Rashid tried to play down the incident.
He said the escort who was accompanying the inspectors allowed four people inside, but refused to allow all twelve of the group to go in.
This was apparently because the escort mistook the site for a "sensitive" area.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"To facilitate and not to create a problem, not to give justification because we know this is the objective of the Special Commission, especially by Mr Butler and his deputies to create a problems and to create friction so the Iraqi minder...he allowed the chief inspector and three other inspectors to enter a building just to acquire, to understand, to comprehend what was in that building, because it was cleared for party headquarters and if they were satisfied - this was the end of the problem. When they came back they decided that 12 inspectors needed to enter that small building - and they needed 12 inspectors at least. This was refused by the minder and there were a lot of details which followed."
SUPER CAPTION: Amer Mohammed Rashid, Iraqi Oil Minister
While the Oil Minister claimed the incident was just a mistake, he went on to criticise the UNSCOM inspectors for deliberately trying to provoke the Iraqis authorities.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We could say there is almost a deliberate action by Mr. Butler himself and his group in New York to create a crisis situation because on the first day of arrival the chief inspector made very clear that he would not adopt the modalities for inspection of sensitive sites which has been agreed on the 22 June, 1996 and was endorsed by the Secretary General on 23rd February 1998 and he said: My instruction is to implement Mr Butler's modalities."
SUPER CAPTION: Amer Mohammed Rashid, Iraqi Oil Minister
Also in Baghdad, a symposium was being held to mark the 50th anniversary of the U-N Convention on Human Rights.
It was attended by supporters of Iraq's calls for the end of U-N sanctions which have been in place since the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"These sanctions against Iraq violate the Genocide convention; they are genocide, the most serious crime on Earth, and they have to be recognised and condemned as such."
SUPER CAPTION: Ramsay Clarke, former U-S Justice Minister
Another opponent of U-N sanctions also had criticism for Richard Butler's team.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Well I regard UNSCOM under the leadership of Richard Butler as being essentially agent provocateurs here in Iraq. They are not here to resolve the outstanding issues - I wish they were."
SUPER CAPTION: George Galloway, British Labour M-P
Saddam Hussein's government has repeatedly tried to block the work of inspectors.
The chief U-N inspector, Richard Butler, said Iraq was entirely in the wrong in the incident.
He says it was a legal, surprise inspection.
Iraq had suspended inspections in August, but allowed them to resume last month under military threat from the United States and Britain.
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A U-N weapons inspection team has been turned back after it was refused admission to an office of the ruling Baath Party in Baghdad.
The Iraqis are is now suggesting it was all a mistake.
In the first official Iraqi reaction to the incident, the country's oil minister said the inspectors' Iraqi escort should not have declared the site to be "sensitive."
The latest disagreement was played out outside one of the four branch headquarters of the ruling Baath Party.
In a news conference on Wednesday, Iraqi Oil Minister Amer Mohammed Rashid tried to play down the incident.
He said the escort who was accompanying the inspectors allowed four people inside, but refused to allow all twelve of the group to go in.
This was apparently because the escort mistook the site for a "sensitive" area.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"To facilitate and not to create a problem, not to give justification because we know this is the objective of the Special Commission, especially by Mr Butler and his deputies to create a problems and to create friction so the Iraqi minder...he allowed the chief inspector and three other inspectors to enter a building just to acquire, to understand, to comprehend what was in that building, because it was cleared for party headquarters and if they were satisfied - this was the end of the problem. When they came back they decided that 12 inspectors needed to enter that small building - and they needed 12 inspectors at least. This was refused by the minder and there were a lot of details which followed."
SUPER CAPTION: Amer Mohammed Rashid, Iraqi Oil Minister
While the Oil Minister claimed the incident was just a mistake, he went on to criticise the UNSCOM inspectors for deliberately trying to provoke the Iraqis authorities.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We could say there is almost a deliberate action by Mr. Butler himself and his group in New York to create a crisis situation because on the first day of arrival the chief inspector made very clear that he would not adopt the modalities for inspection of sensitive sites which has been agreed on the 22 June, 1996 and was endorsed by the Secretary General on 23rd February 1998 and he said: My instruction is to implement Mr Butler's modalities."
SUPER CAPTION: Amer Mohammed Rashid, Iraqi Oil Minister
Also in Baghdad, a symposium was being held to mark the 50th anniversary of the U-N Convention on Human Rights.
It was attended by supporters of Iraq's calls for the end of U-N sanctions which have been in place since the 1990 invasion of Kuwait.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"These sanctions against Iraq violate the Genocide convention; they are genocide, the most serious crime on Earth, and they have to be recognised and condemned as such."
SUPER CAPTION: Ramsay Clarke, former U-S Justice Minister
Another opponent of U-N sanctions also had criticism for Richard Butler's team.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Well I regard UNSCOM under the leadership of Richard Butler as being essentially agent provocateurs here in Iraq. They are not here to resolve the outstanding issues - I wish they were."
SUPER CAPTION: George Galloway, British Labour M-P
Saddam Hussein's government has repeatedly tried to block the work of inspectors.
The chief U-N inspector, Richard Butler, said Iraq was entirely in the wrong in the incident.
He says it was a legal, surprise inspection.
Iraq had suspended inspections in August, but allowed them to resume last month under military threat from the United States and Britain.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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IRAQ: UNSCOM & IAEA PERSONNEL ARRIVE FROM BAHRAIN (2)
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U-N weapons inspectors have arrived in Iraq and returned to their headquarters in the capital, saying they were ready to return to work.
With ...
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U-N weapons inspectors have arrived in Iraq and returned to their headquarters in the capital, saying they were ready to return to work.
With the threat of airstrikes over for now, 86 inspectors arrived from Bahrain, where they were evacuated last week when the crisis was at its height.
They were greeted by demonstrators protesting against the U-N trade sanctions.
There had been no evacuation in Northern Iraq where, over the weekend, humanitarian workers continued to prepare relief aid for distribution to the Kurdish population in Iraq.
Eighty-six inspectors from UNSCOM and the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived back in Iraq on Tuesday from the Gulf state of Bahrain.
A media frenzy greeted them as they stepped onto the tarmac at the military air base in Habaniya, 70 kilometres (44 miles) from Baghdad.
The inspectors say they are ready to test Iraq's pledge to cooperate in the search for its weapons of mass destruction.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"I don't want to comment about what we are doing. We never are informed in advance when we start and when we don't. But we are ready to start as soon as we can."
Q: What is the last order you received from the U-N before you moved from Bahrain?
A: "Just go back to Baghdad and start work."
SUPER CAPTION: Jaakko Ylitalo, Senior UNSCOM Inspector
Iraqi buses transported the inspectors to their headquarters in Baghdad.
There, the inspectors can monitor about 120 remote control cameras at suspected Iraqi weapons sites.
They also carry out both announced and spot visits.
Caroline Cross, a spokeswoman for the inspectors, was among those evacuated last week from Iraq when U-S airstrikes seemed likely.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We're looking forward to a professional and productive relationship with the Iraqi authorities in the next few days. You know, time will tell."
SUPER CAPTION: Caroline Cross, UNSCOM Spokeswoman
The arms inspectors have been working for more than seven years to unearth Iraq's chemical and biological weapons and long-range missiles.
Their work has been frequently blocked by Iraq.
The latest threat of attack by U-S and British forces produced a renewed promise by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to cooperate.
But Cross said that any obstacles would be reported to the U-N executive.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"If we have any problems in our activities it's our business to report it immediately to UNSCOM H-Q and onto the Security Council."
SUPER CAPTION: Caroline Cross, UNSCOM Spokeswoman
As inspectors returned to Baghdad they were met by protesters, including members of the U-S aid group "Voices in the Wilderness."
The group is demonstrating against the further possibility of air strikes and the ongoing U-N trade sanctions they say are killing innocent Iraqis.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Every single month 4-thousand to 5-thousand Iraqi children die as a direct result of the sanctions."
SUPER CAPTION: Kathy Kelly, Voices in the Wilderness
The sanctions, imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, limit the sale of oil and other trade dealings and have devastated Iraq's economy.
Iraqi officials say the sanctions have caused the deaths of more than 1-point-5 (m) million Iraqis in the past eight years.
The council has said the sanctions won't be lifted until UNSCOM and the I-A-E-A nuclear agency certify that Iraq has eliminated its lethal weaponry.
The Iraqi government wants the review to lead quickly to the lifting of U-N sanctions.
With the threat of American and British airstrikes aborted at the weekend, about 150 relief workers also returned to Baghdad.
In Northern Iraq, however, there was no evacuation and aid work continued, quietly, as normal.
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wn.com/Iraq Unscom Iaea Personnel Arrive From Bahrain (2)
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U-N weapons inspectors have arrived in Iraq and returned to their headquarters in the capital, saying they were ready to return to work.
With the threat of airstrikes over for now, 86 inspectors arrived from Bahrain, where they were evacuated last week when the crisis was at its height.
They were greeted by demonstrators protesting against the U-N trade sanctions.
There had been no evacuation in Northern Iraq where, over the weekend, humanitarian workers continued to prepare relief aid for distribution to the Kurdish population in Iraq.
Eighty-six inspectors from UNSCOM and the International Atomic Energy Agency arrived back in Iraq on Tuesday from the Gulf state of Bahrain.
A media frenzy greeted them as they stepped onto the tarmac at the military air base in Habaniya, 70 kilometres (44 miles) from Baghdad.
The inspectors say they are ready to test Iraq's pledge to cooperate in the search for its weapons of mass destruction.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"I don't want to comment about what we are doing. We never are informed in advance when we start and when we don't. But we are ready to start as soon as we can."
Q: What is the last order you received from the U-N before you moved from Bahrain?
A: "Just go back to Baghdad and start work."
SUPER CAPTION: Jaakko Ylitalo, Senior UNSCOM Inspector
Iraqi buses transported the inspectors to their headquarters in Baghdad.
There, the inspectors can monitor about 120 remote control cameras at suspected Iraqi weapons sites.
They also carry out both announced and spot visits.
Caroline Cross, a spokeswoman for the inspectors, was among those evacuated last week from Iraq when U-S airstrikes seemed likely.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We're looking forward to a professional and productive relationship with the Iraqi authorities in the next few days. You know, time will tell."
SUPER CAPTION: Caroline Cross, UNSCOM Spokeswoman
The arms inspectors have been working for more than seven years to unearth Iraq's chemical and biological weapons and long-range missiles.
Their work has been frequently blocked by Iraq.
The latest threat of attack by U-S and British forces produced a renewed promise by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to cooperate.
But Cross said that any obstacles would be reported to the U-N executive.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"If we have any problems in our activities it's our business to report it immediately to UNSCOM H-Q and onto the Security Council."
SUPER CAPTION: Caroline Cross, UNSCOM Spokeswoman
As inspectors returned to Baghdad they were met by protesters, including members of the U-S aid group "Voices in the Wilderness."
The group is demonstrating against the further possibility of air strikes and the ongoing U-N trade sanctions they say are killing innocent Iraqis.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Every single month 4-thousand to 5-thousand Iraqi children die as a direct result of the sanctions."
SUPER CAPTION: Kathy Kelly, Voices in the Wilderness
The sanctions, imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, limit the sale of oil and other trade dealings and have devastated Iraq's economy.
Iraqi officials say the sanctions have caused the deaths of more than 1-point-5 (m) million Iraqis in the past eight years.
The council has said the sanctions won't be lifted until UNSCOM and the I-A-E-A nuclear agency certify that Iraq has eliminated its lethal weaponry.
The Iraqi government wants the review to lead quickly to the lifting of U-N sanctions.
With the threat of American and British airstrikes aborted at the weekend, about 150 relief workers also returned to Baghdad.
In Northern Iraq, however, there was no evacuation and aid work continued, quietly, as normal.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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IRAQ: UNSCOM WITHDRAW 15 WEAPONS INSPECTORS
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A group of 15 United Nation weapons inspectors left Baghdad on Saturday, in the first stage of a reduction of the U-N team in Iraq.
The withd...
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A group of 15 United Nation weapons inspectors left Baghdad on Saturday, in the first stage of a reduction of the U-N team in Iraq.
The withdrawal comes a week after Baghdad said it was halting all cooperation with the U-N Special Commission, which oversees the destruction of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons as well as long-range missiles.
The standoff has raised fears of a military strike by the United States and Britain.
The departure of these staff from the United Nations inspection team underlines the international community's increasing frustration with Baghdad.
UNSCOM says it is withdrawing twenty-six of its people in response to Iraq's decision to halt all co-operation with the inspectors, who are there to oversee the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.
The experts are heading for an air base outside Baghdad, from where they will fly to Bahrain. More inspectors are due to leave next week.
As their UNSCOM colleagues pulled out, members of the International Atomic Energy Agency team continued their efforts to inspect nuclear sites.
I-A-E-A monitors have not been banned by Iraq.
U-N special envoy Prakash Shah said Secretary General Kofi Annan, who signed an agreement with Iraq in February to end a previous crisis over inspections, was being asked to intervene again.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"The Secretary General has been asked by the Security Council to pursue his role in fulfilling the Memorandum of Understanding. The Secretary General and I are pursuing that."
SUPERCAPTION: Prakash Shah, special envoy for UN Secretary General in Baghdad
Iraq's Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh was the first to comment cabinet member to comment since a Security Council resolution calling the noncooperation "a flagrant violation" of U-N resolutions.
He gave no hint of compromise.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
``Our position still stands as it is".
SUPERCAPTION: Iraqi trade minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh
At the heart of the crisis are the U-N sanctions against Iraq, imposed after the invasion of Kuwait in .
The U-N says the sanctions - which have crippled the Iraqi economy and caused widespread hardship - can't be lifted until UNSCOM certifies Iraq is free of weapons of mass destruction.
But Iraq says inspections can resume only if the Council gives a timetable for the lifting the sanction.
Saddam Hussein's people, who believe it is the U-N who is responsible for their suffering and not their leader, support his latest position.
SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)
`Our decision is quite clear. Whether UNSCOM would like to withdraw its inspectors or not, we have given them a clear sign because we have been suffering for the past nine years from these unjust sanctions.''
SUPERCAPTION: Moussa Mohammed, Iraqi shop worker
SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)
"The decision taken by President Saddam and our leadership, we all support it. Why? Because there must be an end. Everything should have a clear end.''
SUPERCAPTION: Nasser Kahlid, headmaster of a school
As the U-N tries to assert pressure on Baghdad, the Iraqi authorities continue their campaign of hatred against the United States.
During Friday prayer at one of leading mosques, the preacher attacked the United States and Israel, reminding his faithful that they were Iraq's biggest enemies.
And his message to the people of America was plain.
SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)
"You ( Americans ) will regret your deeds very soon and you will be praying to God to save your lives''.
SUPERCAPTION: Haj. Mouhamed Ali, preacher
However, with renewed talk of military strikes against Baghdad, it could be the Iraqis who are most in need of prayer.
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wn.com/Iraq Unscom Withdraw 15 Weapons Inspectors
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A group of 15 United Nation weapons inspectors left Baghdad on Saturday, in the first stage of a reduction of the U-N team in Iraq.
The withdrawal comes a week after Baghdad said it was halting all cooperation with the U-N Special Commission, which oversees the destruction of Iraq's chemical and biological weapons as well as long-range missiles.
The standoff has raised fears of a military strike by the United States and Britain.
The departure of these staff from the United Nations inspection team underlines the international community's increasing frustration with Baghdad.
UNSCOM says it is withdrawing twenty-six of its people in response to Iraq's decision to halt all co-operation with the inspectors, who are there to oversee the elimination of weapons of mass destruction.
The experts are heading for an air base outside Baghdad, from where they will fly to Bahrain. More inspectors are due to leave next week.
As their UNSCOM colleagues pulled out, members of the International Atomic Energy Agency team continued their efforts to inspect nuclear sites.
I-A-E-A monitors have not been banned by Iraq.
U-N special envoy Prakash Shah said Secretary General Kofi Annan, who signed an agreement with Iraq in February to end a previous crisis over inspections, was being asked to intervene again.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"The Secretary General has been asked by the Security Council to pursue his role in fulfilling the Memorandum of Understanding. The Secretary General and I are pursuing that."
SUPERCAPTION: Prakash Shah, special envoy for UN Secretary General in Baghdad
Iraq's Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh was the first to comment cabinet member to comment since a Security Council resolution calling the noncooperation "a flagrant violation" of U-N resolutions.
He gave no hint of compromise.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
``Our position still stands as it is".
SUPERCAPTION: Iraqi trade minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh
At the heart of the crisis are the U-N sanctions against Iraq, imposed after the invasion of Kuwait in .
The U-N says the sanctions - which have crippled the Iraqi economy and caused widespread hardship - can't be lifted until UNSCOM certifies Iraq is free of weapons of mass destruction.
But Iraq says inspections can resume only if the Council gives a timetable for the lifting the sanction.
Saddam Hussein's people, who believe it is the U-N who is responsible for their suffering and not their leader, support his latest position.
SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)
`Our decision is quite clear. Whether UNSCOM would like to withdraw its inspectors or not, we have given them a clear sign because we have been suffering for the past nine years from these unjust sanctions.''
SUPERCAPTION: Moussa Mohammed, Iraqi shop worker
SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)
"The decision taken by President Saddam and our leadership, we all support it. Why? Because there must be an end. Everything should have a clear end.''
SUPERCAPTION: Nasser Kahlid, headmaster of a school
As the U-N tries to assert pressure on Baghdad, the Iraqi authorities continue their campaign of hatred against the United States.
During Friday prayer at one of leading mosques, the preacher attacked the United States and Israel, reminding his faithful that they were Iraq's biggest enemies.
And his message to the people of America was plain.
SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)
"You ( Americans ) will regret your deeds very soon and you will be praying to God to save your lives''.
SUPERCAPTION: Haj. Mouhamed Ali, preacher
However, with renewed talk of military strikes against Baghdad, it could be the Iraqis who are most in need of prayer.
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- published: 23 Jul 2015
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IRAQ: UN WEAPONS EXPERTS FINISH UNSCOM CLEAN-UP
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- Updated: 21 Jul 2015
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The team of experts, dispatched to Iraq to assist the UN in the closure of the UNSCOM chemical laboratory, concluded its latest mission in Ir...
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The team of experts, dispatched to Iraq to assist the UN in the closure of the UNSCOM chemical laboratory, concluded its latest mission in Iraq on Wednesday.
Iraq accused the United Nations of erasing evidence that would have proved its claim that U-N weapons inspectors had contaminated Iraq missile warheads with the deadly V-X nerve agent.
The charge came hours after a U-N team of independent experts left Baghdad after a controversial mission that included the destruction of a small amount of V-X and other toxic materials left behind in a U-N laboratory.
U-N weapons inspectors, known as the U-N Special Commission, said they kept the V-X sample to calibrate equipment used to test Iraqi weapons sites for traces of the agent.
Iraq's Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan told reporters the U-N Security Council ordered the destruction of the V-X because it knew its weapons inspectors had used it for contamination.
Ramadan was referring to last year's row between Iraq and UNSCOM over whether Iraq had loaded its missiles with V-X.
Iraq has admitted producing V-X, but has denied it produced a form that was sufficiently stable to use in warheads.
In 1998, scores of warheads were taken for analysis in the United States, France and Switzerland.
The U-S tests turned up positive while the Swiss tests were negative and the French ones were inconclusive.
The U-N envoy to Baghdad, Prakash Shah, dismissed the Iraqi accusations.
Iraq has repeatedly charged that UNSCOM was not carrying out its disarmament in a fair manner, saying many of its members were undercover agents of the U-S Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
SOUNDBITE: (English): "The team's task was to evaluate the chemical lab, destroy the mustard agent and the chemical standards and to pack and store the non-toxic standards so that is the task we have done. This particular mandated task is nothing to do with what might have happened in the past or what might be the feelings or ideas about UNSCOM job in the past. This task was very limited and the mandate was very clear cut and all that the team done here was to complete the task , finish their mandate and go back."
SUPER CAPTION: Prakash Shah, U-N envoy to Baghdad
SOUNDBITE: (English translation from Arabic)
"Who brought the V-X to Baghdad. Why was it brought here? Is it a means of checking? I am sure that nothing has appeared on the warheads that were checked in the labs of France and other states but the ones which were checked in America."
SUPER CAPTION: Iraqi Vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan
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The team of experts, dispatched to Iraq to assist the UN in the closure of the UNSCOM chemical laboratory, concluded its latest mission in Iraq on Wednesday.
Iraq accused the United Nations of erasing evidence that would have proved its claim that U-N weapons inspectors had contaminated Iraq missile warheads with the deadly V-X nerve agent.
The charge came hours after a U-N team of independent experts left Baghdad after a controversial mission that included the destruction of a small amount of V-X and other toxic materials left behind in a U-N laboratory.
U-N weapons inspectors, known as the U-N Special Commission, said they kept the V-X sample to calibrate equipment used to test Iraqi weapons sites for traces of the agent.
Iraq's Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadan told reporters the U-N Security Council ordered the destruction of the V-X because it knew its weapons inspectors had used it for contamination.
Ramadan was referring to last year's row between Iraq and UNSCOM over whether Iraq had loaded its missiles with V-X.
Iraq has admitted producing V-X, but has denied it produced a form that was sufficiently stable to use in warheads.
In 1998, scores of warheads were taken for analysis in the United States, France and Switzerland.
The U-S tests turned up positive while the Swiss tests were negative and the French ones were inconclusive.
The U-N envoy to Baghdad, Prakash Shah, dismissed the Iraqi accusations.
Iraq has repeatedly charged that UNSCOM was not carrying out its disarmament in a fair manner, saying many of its members were undercover agents of the U-S Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
SOUNDBITE: (English): "The team's task was to evaluate the chemical lab, destroy the mustard agent and the chemical standards and to pack and store the non-toxic standards so that is the task we have done. This particular mandated task is nothing to do with what might have happened in the past or what might be the feelings or ideas about UNSCOM job in the past. This task was very limited and the mandate was very clear cut and all that the team done here was to complete the task , finish their mandate and go back."
SUPER CAPTION: Prakash Shah, U-N envoy to Baghdad
SOUNDBITE: (English translation from Arabic)
"Who brought the V-X to Baghdad. Why was it brought here? Is it a means of checking? I am sure that nothing has appeared on the warheads that were checked in the labs of France and other states but the ones which were checked in America."
SUPER CAPTION: Iraqi Vice-president Taha Yassin Ramadan
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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USA: REACTION TO IRAQI BLOCK ON UNSCOM INSPECTORS
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- Updated: 21 Jul 2015
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Iraq's announcement to suspend cooperation with U-N weapons inspectors has prompted immediate condemnation from the international community.
U...
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Iraq's announcement to suspend cooperation with U-N weapons inspectors has prompted immediate condemnation from the international community.
U-S Defence Secretary, William Cohen, warned Iraq could face military action if it fails to return to complying with U-N weapons inspectors.
The United Nation's Chief Inspector says he is concerned that Iraq is making a move against long term U-N monitoring of its weapons of mass destruction.
Israel has also been quick to comment on Iraq's decision, saying its actions represented a dangerous threat to peace in the region.
Commenting on Iraq's suspension of cooperation with the U-N, U-S Defence Secretary, William Cohen, said that the option of military intervention against Iraq was possible.
He said it would be preferred that any action be taken in conjunction with the United Nation and allies, but said that U-S unilateral military action was an option.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Q. Any concerns because once again Iraq seems to be defying the role of the international community. Any concerns on what they might do?
Well because Iraq has challenged the United Nations and this has been a conflict in terms of the agreement between Iraq and the United Nations Security Council, he (Iraqi President Saddam Hussein) continues to flout the rules, he continues to break agreement after agreement and I think all are concerned about this. Everyone at the Security Council should be concerned. Kofi Annan should be concerned because his credibility, that of the Security Council credibility is on the line. So we're going to have a series of meetings to discuss what options ought to be examined and pursued and I thought it was important I come back and participate in those discussions.
Q. Any chances of the United States acting unilaterally should we not be able to get the international community to follow through?
Well that's always been an option that we could pursue. The preference would be to keep it exactly where it is today and that is a contest between Iraq and the United Nations. We always have that capability, but we prefer to act through our allies and with our allies and hopefully that will be the case if we have to take any action at all."
SUPER CAPTION: William Cohen, U-S Defence Secretary
Cohen also said that everybody was getting "weary" of dealing with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Iraq announced on Saturday to ban U-N weapons inspectors from working in the country.
The United Nation's Chief Inspector says he is concerned that Iraq is making a move against long term U-N monitoring of its weapons of mass destruction.
Iraq has sent a defiant message to the United Nations, declaring it will not renew its cooperation with U-N weapons inspectors "before Iraq's demands are met."
The statement is Iraq's first response to the U-N Security Council's condemnation of its decision to ban U-N weapons inspectors from working in the country.
Iraq says it won't back down, even if military action is threatened.
In New York, Chief Inspector Richard Butler said the U-N's weapons inspectors remained in Baghdad and were ready to resume work.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"The Security Council met yesterday and said that what Iraq has done is wrong and it must rescind it. The council will work further on that in the next week. In the meantime we're in Baghdad with all of our staff and we're ready to resume work as soon as they are."
SUPER CAPTION: Richard Butler, U-N Chief Inspector
In Washington former Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole said the U-S and NATO should take preemptive action over Iraq's refusal to comply to weapons inspections.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
SUPER CAPTION: Bob Dole, former Republican presidential nominee
SOUNDBITE: (English)
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Iraq's announcement to suspend cooperation with U-N weapons inspectors has prompted immediate condemnation from the international community.
U-S Defence Secretary, William Cohen, warned Iraq could face military action if it fails to return to complying with U-N weapons inspectors.
The United Nation's Chief Inspector says he is concerned that Iraq is making a move against long term U-N monitoring of its weapons of mass destruction.
Israel has also been quick to comment on Iraq's decision, saying its actions represented a dangerous threat to peace in the region.
Commenting on Iraq's suspension of cooperation with the U-N, U-S Defence Secretary, William Cohen, said that the option of military intervention against Iraq was possible.
He said it would be preferred that any action be taken in conjunction with the United Nation and allies, but said that U-S unilateral military action was an option.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Q. Any concerns because once again Iraq seems to be defying the role of the international community. Any concerns on what they might do?
Well because Iraq has challenged the United Nations and this has been a conflict in terms of the agreement between Iraq and the United Nations Security Council, he (Iraqi President Saddam Hussein) continues to flout the rules, he continues to break agreement after agreement and I think all are concerned about this. Everyone at the Security Council should be concerned. Kofi Annan should be concerned because his credibility, that of the Security Council credibility is on the line. So we're going to have a series of meetings to discuss what options ought to be examined and pursued and I thought it was important I come back and participate in those discussions.
Q. Any chances of the United States acting unilaterally should we not be able to get the international community to follow through?
Well that's always been an option that we could pursue. The preference would be to keep it exactly where it is today and that is a contest between Iraq and the United Nations. We always have that capability, but we prefer to act through our allies and with our allies and hopefully that will be the case if we have to take any action at all."
SUPER CAPTION: William Cohen, U-S Defence Secretary
Cohen also said that everybody was getting "weary" of dealing with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
Iraq announced on Saturday to ban U-N weapons inspectors from working in the country.
The United Nation's Chief Inspector says he is concerned that Iraq is making a move against long term U-N monitoring of its weapons of mass destruction.
Iraq has sent a defiant message to the United Nations, declaring it will not renew its cooperation with U-N weapons inspectors "before Iraq's demands are met."
The statement is Iraq's first response to the U-N Security Council's condemnation of its decision to ban U-N weapons inspectors from working in the country.
Iraq says it won't back down, even if military action is threatened.
In New York, Chief Inspector Richard Butler said the U-N's weapons inspectors remained in Baghdad and were ready to resume work.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"The Security Council met yesterday and said that what Iraq has done is wrong and it must rescind it. The council will work further on that in the next week. In the meantime we're in Baghdad with all of our staff and we're ready to resume work as soon as they are."
SUPER CAPTION: Richard Butler, U-N Chief Inspector
In Washington former Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole said the U-S and NATO should take preemptive action over Iraq's refusal to comply to weapons inspections.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
SUPER CAPTION: Bob Dole, former Republican presidential nominee
SOUNDBITE: (English)
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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RUSSIA: AZIZ COMMENTS ON UNSCOM WEAPONS INSPECTIONS
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- Updated: 21 Jul 2015
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The Iraqi deputy premier, Tariq Aziz, has said Iraq can "no longer tolerate" the continuation of UNSCOM inspections without moves to begin li...
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The Iraqi deputy premier, Tariq Aziz, has said Iraq can "no longer tolerate" the continuation of UNSCOM inspections without moves to begin lifting sanctions in the United Nations.
Aziz was addressing students at Moscow's Institute of International Relations as part of a four-day official visit to the Russian capital.
And at a news conference later on Tuesday, Aziz said Iraq was not prepared to put up with U-S "intimidation".
Tariq Aziz, Iraq's deputy leader addressed mainly students at Moscow's Institute of International Relations conference.
He spoke of his country's continuing weapons inspections crisis.
The Baghdad regime in August and October halted the work of the U-N Special Commission, (UNSCOM) which oversees the inspections.
UNSCOM must certify that Iraq has eliminated its weapons of mass destruction before U-N trade sanctions, imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, can be lifted.
But Aziz said Iraq was no longer prepared to accept the status quo.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Eight years of implementation by Iraq. No step by the Security Council. This cannot work! We made it clear - and I repeated it in my meetings with Mr Ivanov (Igor Ivanov, Russian Foreign Minister) and Mr Primakov (Yevgeny Primakov, Russian Prime Minister) - I told them Iraq cannot tolerate anymore that UNSCOM continues its work, with all the expenses, moral and material expenses, we face, and the sanctions remain."
SUPER CAPTION: Tariq Aziz,Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister
The United States and Britain had threatened military action to force Iraq to cooperate.
But tension eased after Iraq announced it would allow the inspectors to resume work on November 14.
Russia continues to call for the lifting of sanctions against Iraq - not least for the valuable future investment opportunities Moscow eyes in the country.
Tariq Aziz later addressed journalists at a news conference in Moscow's foreign ministry offices.
He accused the UNSCOM team of spying for America, Britain and Israel and repeated that Iraq would not allow it to operate indefinitely if sanctions are not lifted.
SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)
"Iraq is not about to go along with or agree to the continuation of sanctions against Iraq if UNSCOM is to continue its work in Iraq. We have suffered greatly in these eight years. There is a limit to our patience and we cannot be patient for ever."
SUPER CAPTION: Tariq Aziz, Iraqi Deputy Premier
In another show of defiance, he accused the U-S of using its power to intimidate Iraq.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We are not afraid of America. We are not going to be intimidated by the Americans for ever. Because the Americans enjoy intimidating others and they are ready to continue this intimidation for each and every pretext they choose. But we will not yield to their intimidation. But I hope that there will be no war. No human being, no rational human being, would love to go to war unless he is obliged to, to defend himself against aggression."
SUPER CAPTION: Tariq Aziz, Iraqi Deputy Premier
Aziz held talks on Monday with both the Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and, behind closed doors, with Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov.
He said he was satisfied following the discussions, calling Russia a potential 'strategic partner'.
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wn.com/Russia Aziz Comments On Unscom Weapons Inspections
Arabic/Eng/Nat
The Iraqi deputy premier, Tariq Aziz, has said Iraq can "no longer tolerate" the continuation of UNSCOM inspections without moves to begin lifting sanctions in the United Nations.
Aziz was addressing students at Moscow's Institute of International Relations as part of a four-day official visit to the Russian capital.
And at a news conference later on Tuesday, Aziz said Iraq was not prepared to put up with U-S "intimidation".
Tariq Aziz, Iraq's deputy leader addressed mainly students at Moscow's Institute of International Relations conference.
He spoke of his country's continuing weapons inspections crisis.
The Baghdad regime in August and October halted the work of the U-N Special Commission, (UNSCOM) which oversees the inspections.
UNSCOM must certify that Iraq has eliminated its weapons of mass destruction before U-N trade sanctions, imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, can be lifted.
But Aziz said Iraq was no longer prepared to accept the status quo.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"Eight years of implementation by Iraq. No step by the Security Council. This cannot work! We made it clear - and I repeated it in my meetings with Mr Ivanov (Igor Ivanov, Russian Foreign Minister) and Mr Primakov (Yevgeny Primakov, Russian Prime Minister) - I told them Iraq cannot tolerate anymore that UNSCOM continues its work, with all the expenses, moral and material expenses, we face, and the sanctions remain."
SUPER CAPTION: Tariq Aziz,Iraq's Deputy Prime Minister
The United States and Britain had threatened military action to force Iraq to cooperate.
But tension eased after Iraq announced it would allow the inspectors to resume work on November 14.
Russia continues to call for the lifting of sanctions against Iraq - not least for the valuable future investment opportunities Moscow eyes in the country.
Tariq Aziz later addressed journalists at a news conference in Moscow's foreign ministry offices.
He accused the UNSCOM team of spying for America, Britain and Israel and repeated that Iraq would not allow it to operate indefinitely if sanctions are not lifted.
SOUNDBITE: (Arabic)
"Iraq is not about to go along with or agree to the continuation of sanctions against Iraq if UNSCOM is to continue its work in Iraq. We have suffered greatly in these eight years. There is a limit to our patience and we cannot be patient for ever."
SUPER CAPTION: Tariq Aziz, Iraqi Deputy Premier
In another show of defiance, he accused the U-S of using its power to intimidate Iraq.
SOUNDBITE: (English)
"We are not afraid of America. We are not going to be intimidated by the Americans for ever. Because the Americans enjoy intimidating others and they are ready to continue this intimidation for each and every pretext they choose. But we will not yield to their intimidation. But I hope that there will be no war. No human being, no rational human being, would love to go to war unless he is obliged to, to defend himself against aggression."
SUPER CAPTION: Tariq Aziz, Iraqi Deputy Premier
Aziz held talks on Monday with both the Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and, behind closed doors, with Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov.
He said he was satisfied following the discussions, calling Russia a potential 'strategic partner'.
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Reconciliando-se Uns Com os Outros
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Lembrancinha Quadrinho "Comunhão uns com os Outros"
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Perdidos na Tribo - Ep. 6 - Uns com fome e outros a cuspir chouriço!
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Apresentação Zenlifesocial Português
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Canção sobre a vida - Mais noa precisamos uns com os outros - Eugene Simon
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Rachima Blondeel Timmerman
www.SomosNoviosBand.com
Holanda Europe Studio Recording Album 2016
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Eugene Simon - Mais noa precisamos uns com os outros
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Animais misturados uns com os outros
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Pr. Judson de Oliveira - Alinhados com os céus, alinhados uns com os outros.
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Escola do Clamor 2014 - Avivamento e Relacionamento.
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SEJAMOS BONS UNS COM OS OUTROS
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"E esta é a mensagem que dele ouvimos, e vos anunciamos: que Deus é luz, e não há nele trevas nenhumas. Se dissermos que temos comunhão com ele, e andarmos em trevas, mentimos, e não praticamos a verdade. Mas, se andarmos na luz, como ele na luz está, temos comunhão uns com os outros, e o sangue de Jesus Cristo, seu Filho, nos purifica de todo o pecado." (1 João 1.5-7) Para saber mais ou baixar em áudio ou vídeo acesse: http://defesadoevangelho.com.br/videos/pregadores/paulo-junior/evidencias-da-conversao-paulo-junior/ Site Oficial: http://defesadoevangelho.com.br INSCREVA-SE em nosso canal https://youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=defesadoevangelho CONTRIBUA com o Defesa do Evangelho: http://defesadoevangelho.com.br/paginas/contribuir/ COMPARTILHE: Facebook: https://faceboo...
Sendo Honestos uns com os outros | Pr. Gerson Santos
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A busca de comunhão com Deus e uns com os outros
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Segunda ministração de Abílio Chagas no encontro anual do Ministério Translocal de Bauru, no dia 16 de novembro de 2013, na chácara da CMC, em Bauru. Ele afirmo...
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"E esta é a mensagem que dele ouvimos, e vos anunciamos: que Deus é luz, e não há nele trevas nenhumas. Se dissermos que temos comunhão com ele, e andarmos em t...
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"E esta é a mensagem que dele ouvimos, e vos anunciamos: que Deus é luz, e não há nele trevas nenhumas. Se dissermos que temos comunhão com ele, e andarmos em trevas, mentimos, e não praticamos a verdade. Mas, se andarmos na luz, como ele na luz está, temos comunhão uns com os outros, e o sangue de Jesus Cristo, seu Filho, nos purifica de todo o pecado." (1 João 1.5-7)
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IRAQ: UNSCOM WITHDRAW 15 WEAPONS INSPECTORS
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IRAQ: UN WEAPONS EXPERTS FINISH UNSCOM CLEAN-UP
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USA: REACTION TO IRAQI BLOCK ON UNSCOM INSPECTORS
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RUSSIA: AZIZ COMMENTS ON UNSCOM WEAPONS INSPECTIONS
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Lembrancinha Quadrinho "Comunhão uns com os Outros"
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Perdidos na Tribo - Ep. 6 - Uns com fome e outros a cuspir chouriço!
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Temos muito a aprender uns com os outros.
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Canção sobre a vida - Mais noa precisamos uns com os outros - Eugene Simon
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Animais misturados uns com os outros
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SEJAMOS BONS UNS COM OS OUTROS
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Sendo Honestos uns com os outros | Pr. Gerson Santos
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A busca de comunhão com Deus e uns com os outros
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4. A necessidade de quebrantamento para termos comunhão uns com os outros - Cícero Batista
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Engenheiros e Economistas, o que podemos aprender uns com os outros?
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A Descoberta Interior e o relacionamento uns com os outros
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Culto 01/02/2015 - Série Mutualidade - Relacionem-se uns com os outros (1 Jo. 2.10)
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Ukraine's Jamala Wins 2016 Eurovision Song Contest
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Stockholm (AP) -- Ukrainian singer Jamala's melancholic tune about Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's 1944 deportation of the Crimean Tatars was crowned the winner of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest early Sunday, an unusual choice for the kitschy pop fest ... Australia's Dami Im was second with 511 points, followed by Russia's Sergey Lazarev in third with 491 ... Last year's contest reached nearly 200 million viewers globally ... Russia was first ... ....
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Beijing blasts Pentagon report on Chinese military as damaging trust
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BEIJING. China condemned the United States (US) Defense Department's annual report on the Chinese military on Sunday, calling it deliberate distortion that has "severely damaged" mutual trust ... It is the US that has always been suspicious and flexing its military muscle by frequently sending military aircraft and warships to the region, Yang said ... DAWN_VIDEO - /1029551/DAWN-RM-1x1 ... ....
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Five Australian terror suspects charged with trying to travel to Syria by boat
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(CNN)Australian police have charged five men suspected of planning to travel to Syria to join ISIS. The five men, who were on a terror watch list, were planning a journey that would have started in a small motor boat, taking them to Indonesia and the Philippines. They have been charged with foreign incursion offenses, according to Attorney-General for Australia George Brandis ... Read More ... Sea escape ... 'Serious attempt' to exit Australia ... ....
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Polls: Sanders has more potential to beat Trump
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Recent polls have demonstrated that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders holds a much higher potential to defeat Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, in an election than Hillary Clinton, altough the latter is the Democratic party's front-runner ... Clinton has so far won 1,716 delegates and Sanders has gained 1,433. Counting super-delegates, Clinton has 2,240 and Sanders has 1,473 ... READ MORE ... Source. Al Jazeera ... ....
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Verstappen becomes youngest ever F1 winner in Spain
Edit Deccan Herald 15 May 2016
Teenager Max Verstappen became the youngest ever Formula One winner today when he took full advantage of Mercedes' first lap crash to claim a drama-laden Spanish Grand Prix. In his maiden outing for Red Bull following his unexpected promotion from Toro Rosso, the 18-year-old Dutchman showed supreme composure under pressure as he resisted all attacks to claim a memorable victory in only his 24th F1 race ... More ... "It is stupid ... ....
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Blair and Clinton: global concerns of two buddies
Edit The Guardian 07 Jan 2016
Transcripts released to BBC shed light on leaders’ closeness in phone chats about Diana, Gerry Adams, Iraq and stateless terrorism calling for James Bond skills ... Blair calls Clinton mate, and Clinton refers to Blair as bud ... Blair explained ... It’s just bizarre.” ... “ If people knew how many weapons Unscom inspectors have exposed they would understand why this is so important.” Clinton said he was under pressure to act against Saddam Hussein....
Chalabi's Final Victory in Iraq
Edit Huffington Post 09 Nov 2015
Picture released by the Iraqi Parliament's press office shows mourners attending the funeral of Ahmed Chalabi, head of parliament's finance committee, on November 4, 2015 in the capital Baghdad ... Even Scott Ritter, the former weapons inspector who eventually stood against the war conceded that Chalabi had "a reliable network" that provided information of "considerable value" to the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) ... ....
We Don't Need to Wait for Chilcot, Blair Lied to Us About Iraq. Here's the Evidence
Edit Information Clearing House 30 Oct 2015
With the help of the BBC and Dr David Morrison, I carried out my own inquiry. The facts are devastating for Blair, for Parliament and for all of us. By Peter Oborne ... Both the UK and the US replaced question marks by exclamation marks ... “Any VX produced by Iraq before 1991 is likely to have decomposed over the past decade …Any G-agent or V-agent stocks that Iraq concealed from UNSCOM inspections are likely to have deteriorated by now....
Peter Oborne's unofficial Chilcot Inquiry into Iraq war
Edit BBC News 29 Oct 2015
Sir John Chilcot's report into the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq is nearly five years late. He is about to reveal when he will publish it ... Witness 1 ... "They had taken much of that [the contents of the dossier] from an UNSCOM document that had been issued in December 1999." [Unscom was the UN's weapons inspection body before UNMOVIC]. "In the UNSCOM document they talked about items unaccounted for." ... Question 2 ... Witness 2 ... Question 3 ... ....
Iraq profile - timeline
Edit BBC News 11 Aug 2015
A chronology of key events.. 1534 - 1918 - Region is part of the Ottoman Empire. Iraq timeline - the short version. 1534-1918 - Ottoman rule ... 1980-1988 - Iran-Iraq war ... 1998 October - Iraq ends cooperation with UN Special Commission to Oversee the Destruction of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (Unscom) ... 1999 December - UNSC Resolution 1284 creates the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (Unmovic) to replace Unscom ... ....
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For Unscom, the UN programme to inspect Iraqi weapons, on which I served between 1991 and 1998, the CIA set up a ‘gateway’ operation in Bahrain, with the assistance of the British, Canadian and Australian intelligence services ... The charges against them were refuted, and Powell dropped his inquiry, but by the summer of 1992 both men had been pushed out of Unscom ... Enter Unscom ... Unscom inspectors never returned....
Correction: UN-Chemical Agents story
Edit U~T San Diego 13 Jun 2015
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In a story dated Aug. 30, 2007 about U.N. weapons inspectors finding the potentially hazardous phosgene chemical in their offices, The Associated Press erroneously identified Svetlana Utkina as a U.N. chemical weapons expert. Utkina worked for the U.N ... U.N ... By EDITH M ... U.N ... The materials had been in UNMOVIC and its predecessor inspection agency, UNSCOM, apparently since 1996 when they were inadvertently shipped to U.N ... ....
The Opportunistic Evil of Tariq Aziz
Edit The Daily Beast 06 Jun 2015
Saddam’s Eight of Spades plays his final hand ... He was 79 ... “America could be an enemy and could be a friend, and could be neutral.” ... Between Iraq’s defeat in Kuwait and the 2003 American invasion, Aziz’s principle task was to attempt to persuade the international community, and in particular UNSCOM, that his country had disposed of the biological and chemical weapons programme which it had built up and that sanctions should be lifted ... ....
Progressives Line Up to Defend Clinton Corruption
Edit CounterPunch 24 Apr 2015
Suddenly, what was once evil and corrosive — peddling elite insider influence for private profit — is just old hat, no big deal, business as usual ... “Every politician” does this, every single one of them — and has done since the high and palmy days of Rome ... “UNSCOM had directly facilitated the creation of an intelligence collection system for the United States in violation of its mandate.” ... ....
Chairman Royce to Convene Hearing on Iran Nuclear Framework Agreement Tomorrow at 10 a.m. (US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs)
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(Source. US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs). Washington, D.C. - Tomorrow at 10 a.m., U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will convene a hearing to examine the recent nuclear framework agreement with Iran. The hearing, entitled "Nuclear Agreement with Iran ... Chairman Royce on the hearing ... What.. Hearing ... When.. 10.00 a.m ... (Former Chairman, UN Special Commission on Iraq [UNSCOM])....
A Look Ahead – April 20-24 (US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs)
Edit noodls 17 Apr 2015
(Source. US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs). Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced the following upcoming Committee events.. Wednesday, April 22. Hearing. Nuclear Agreement with Iran. Can't Trust, Can We Verify?. 10 a.m. on Wednesday, April 22 in 2172 Rayburn House Office Building ... Rep ... (Former Chairman, UN Special Commission on Iraq [UNSCOM]) ... Mr ... Rep....
The Lies Still Killing Gulf War Vets
Edit Huffington Post 14 Apr 2015
Later in 1991, UNSCOM (the United Nations Special Commission) found nerve gas in the remains of rockets the U.S ... (Six years later, the DOD de-classified the UNSCOM memo, posting it on its Gulflink website ... At Riegle's hearings, when DOD and CIA witnesses admitted that UNSCOM inspectors had found traces of nerve gas at Khamisiyah, they still insisted they "could not confirm that any U.S....
Chairman Royce Announces Hearing on Iran Nuclear Framework Agreement (US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs)
Edit noodls 11 Apr 2015
(Source. US House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs). Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), announced that on Wednesday, April 22, the Committee will convene a hearing to examine the recent nuclear framework agreement with Iran. The hearing, entitled "Nuclear Agreement with Iran. Can't Trust, Can We Verify?" will take place at 10 a.m ... Charles Duelfer, former head, UN Special Commission on Iraq (UNSCOM)....
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