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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (94228)	4/17/2003 12:08:17 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (1) of 281500

US, UK form secret inspection teams: UN bypassed hipakistan.com Britain and the United States have bypassed the United Nations to establish a secret team of inspectors to resume the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, it emerged on Saturday. In a sign of the desperation in London and Washington to find a "smoking gun" to justify the war, the Anglo-American team has already conducted three inspections in the past two weeks. No banned weapons have been found so far. The decision to set up a new group of inspectors, dubbed US-movic because they are an American-led rival to Unmovic (United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission), will infuriate the United Nations. Kofi Annan, the secretary general, pointedly reminded Britain and the US this week that Unmovic still has a mandate to carry out inspections. The role played by the new inspectors, who set up a base in Kuwait a week before the war was launched, was disclosed to the London-based Guardian newspaper by David Kay, the former head of Unscom (United Nations Special Commission), the arms inspections team which left Iraq amid recriminations in 1998.....

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