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Thursday, February 6, 2003
By Edith M. Lederer
and Dafna Linzer
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
UNITED NATIONS —
Secretary of State Colin Powell,
elying on a stream of U.S.
ntelligence, urged the U.N.
Security Council on Wednesday
o move against Saddam
Hussein because Iraq has failed
to disami, harbors terrorists and
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His extraordinary presenta-
ion in the packed council cham
ber included satellite photo
graphs, intercepted conversa
tions between senior Iraqi offi
cers and statements from
informants that could make or
break support for going to war
to disarm Iraq.
Russia, France, China and
other council members skeptical
of the need for a military con
frontation now said they would
review the evidence and demand
answers from Baghdad. But
they endorsed continued
weapons inspections and diplo
matic efforts to avert war.
France and Germany went
further, calling for strengthening
inspections regime that was
already toughened up in
November under a Security
Council resolution crafted by
Washington and adopted by an
unanimous council.
Three months after Iraq
dged that it would disarm,
Powell presented his evidence to
UNITED STATES
Nicolas Khayat • KRT CAMPUS
U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell presented tape recordings, satel
lite photos and informants' statements during his address to the
United Nations' Security Council on Wednesday.
a high-level audience of foreign
ministers and ambassadors in an
appearance that was televised
live to an anxious world. While
he spoke, Iraqi TV carried a
day-old interview with Saddam.
Iraqi officials dismissed
Powell’s case as a collection of
“stunts” and “special effects”
that relied on “unknown
sources” and were aimed at
undermining the work of the
inspectors.
“What we heard today was
for the general public and main
ly the uninformed, in order to
influence their opinion and to
commit aggression on Iraq,” Lt.
Gen. Amir al-Saadi, an adviser
Key players react to presentation
Some responses to Secretary of State Colin Powell’s presentation
to the United Nations:
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‘As long as there is still the slightest
hope for political settlement, we
should exert our utmost effort to
ieve that.”
- Chinese Foreign Minister
Tang Jiaxuan
France
Still opposes war; proposes tripling
number of inspectors and placing a
full-time monitor in Baghdad. “The
use of force can only be a final
recourse.”
- French Foreign Minister
Dominique de Villepin
fig Germany
Evidence presented by Powell and
findings of the weapons inspectors
“have to be examined carefully," and
“we must continue to seek a peaceful
solution to the crisis.”
- German Foreign Minister
Joschka Fischer
Russia
More study and analysis is needed
of the evidence presented by Powell;
inspections “must be continued.”
- Russian Foreign Minister
Igor Ivanov
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Secretary (Powell) made a “most
powerful” case; Saddam is
"gambling that we will lose our nerve
rather than enforce our will.”
- British Foreign Secretary
Jack Straw
“The clear goaf behind Powell’s
presentation and the council meeting
"is to sell the idea of war and
aggression against Iraq without any
legal or moral or political justification.”
He reiterated that “Iraq is totally free
of weapons of mass destruction."
- Iraqi Ambassador
Mohammed Al-Douri
SOURCE: Associated Press
Prosecutors seeks maximum
for Sept. 11 terror suspect
HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — Federal pros
ecutors demanded the maximum sentence
of 15 years Wednesday for the first Sept. 11
terror suspect to be tried, calling the defen
dant "a cog that kept the machinery going."
During more than three months of testi
mony, prosecutors portrayed Moroccan stu
dent Mounir el Motassadeq, 28, as an inte-
part of a terror cell that included lead
Sept. 11 hijacker Mohamed Atta.
AP
to Saddam, said in Baghdad.
The overwhelming majority
of the Security Council believe
Iraq must do more to cooperate
with inspectors and disarm. But
of the 15 council members, only
the United States and Britain
have voiced support for forcibly
disarming Saddam — though
Spain and Bulgaria are also
expected to take part in any
coalition against Iraq.
The Bush administration’s
next step is to decide whether
council members are willing to
support a new U.N. resolution
specifically authorizing force
against Iraq.
President Bush has said that
the United States — with or
without its allies — will forcibly
disarm Iraq if it does not imme
diately comply with U.N. reso
lutions. But winning U.N.
approval would mean the United
States could share the costs of
war and rebuilding in Iraq and
would be operating with the
support of the international
community. . .
A senior White House offi
cial, speaking on condition of
anonymity, said the next 24 to
36 hours will be critical as
Powell gauges reaction. The key
is France, one administration
official said. If President
Jacques Chirac insists on veto
ing such a resolution. Bush
won’t seek one.
But if Powell determines a
resolution can be adopted, the
next step would be to deter
mine what it might take to get
consensus on the measure. One
option is adopting a deadline
by which Saddam would have
to comply, though officials said
it was too soon to put that issue
on the table.
For many at the United
Nations, a visit to Baghdad this
weekend by the chief weapons
inspectors, followed by their
next reports to the council on
Feb. 14, will be critical for any
decision on war.
Britain, America’s closest
ally, prefers a second resolution
but would join forces with the
United States against Saddam
without one. British Foreign
Secretary Jack Straw said
Powell made a “most powerful”
case Wednesday. Saddam is
“gambling that we will lose our
nerve rather than enforce our
will,” Straw said.
In an 80-minute presenta
tion, Powell claimed that
Saddam has had a relationship
with al-Qaida dating back to
1996 and was now allowing
followers of a senior associate
of Osama bin Laden to roam
freely around the Iraqi capital.
Saddam, in an interview
broadcast Tuesday in London,
forcefully denied that his gov
ernment has weapons of mass
destruction or a relationship
with al-Qaida.
In his presentation, Powell
asserted that Iraq bulldozed land
around a chemical complex in
2002 in order “to conceal chem
ical weapons evidence” and hid
mobile biological weapons labs
on at least 18 flatbed trucks.
Powell played audio tapes
of what he described as inter
cepted phone conversations
between Iraqi military officers.
One was a purported discus
sion about hiding prohibited
vehicles from weapons inspec
tors. Another dealt with remov
ing a reference to nerve agents
from written instructions.
The chief weapons inspec
tors, Hans Blix and Mohamed
ElBaradei, told council mem
bers at a private lunch after the
presentation that they woifld
study the details of Powell’s
report, diplomats said.
“I think it was interesting
and 1 think that all the facts are
desirable to be on the table,”
Blix told The Associated Press
as he left U.N. headquarters for
Europe, en route to Baghdad.
“This is our job and it’s his job
and the more the better.”
Powell told the council Iraq
is working on developing mis
siles with a range of about 620
miles or more, putting Russia
and other nations within Iraq’s
reach. Iraq is banned from hav
ing missiles with a range greater
than 93 miles.
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World Court: U.S. must stay
execution of 3 Mexicans
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - The
United States must temporarily stay the exe
cution of three Mexican citizens on death
row in Texas and Oklahoma, the World
Court ruled Wednesday.
in a unanimous decision, the 15-judge
panel said that the delay was needed while
the U.N. court investigates in full whether
the men - and 48 other Mexicans on death
row in U.S. prisons - were given their right
to legal help from the Mexican government.
The World Court, officially known as the
International Court of Justice, is the U.N.'s
court for resolving disputes between nations.
It has no power to enforce its decisions.
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