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To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (15769)	7/6/2002 10:17:12 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Language blow for China's Muslims Saturday, 1 June, 2002, 06:46 GMT 07:46 UK " For more than 50 years, Xinjiang University has offered its students the choice of learning in Chinese or Uighur, the native tongue to most of the province's Muslim population." Full story >>> news.bbc.co.uk

To: Eashoa' M'sheekha who wrote (15769)	7/7/2002 1:27:56 AM
From: D. Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

Please. Just because you call yourself a Clown doesn't mean you have to quote clown sources. Take a look through the UNSC resolutions and find the resolution that states bilateral disarmament as a condition of the cease fire. fas.org Here's a hint - it doesn't exist. What DOES exist, is the UNSC resolutions calling for the unilateral, complete and verifiable destruction of Iraq's nuclear, biologic, and chemical weapons programs, and unconditional submission to an international monitoring regime. An ONGOING monitoring regime. To first, find and destroy Iraq's WMD. Second, to monitor and verify Iraq's ongoing compliance with the UNSC resolutions, the cease fire agreement, and compliance with Iraq's treaty obligations under the Geneva Convention and Nuclear Non-proliferation agreement which Iraq is party to. From the start, Iraq has not been in compliance with the monitoring regime. Iraq has sought to mislead, obfuscate, and outright obstruct UNSCOM and IAEA. By the IAEA and UNSCOM's own reports, as can be read by any fool with eyes, Iraq's full compliance can not be verified. Especially since Iraq refuses to abide by its obligations to allow the ONGOING inspections, as per the UNSC resolutions. Richard Butler's letter to Kofi Annan regarding Iraqi non-cooperation: fas.org Here's three whole sections of information on Iraq's WMD programs. fas.org Note the nuclear section especially. Iraq retained the documentation and human talent dedicated to its nuclear program. Critical components of the Iraqi bomb project have not only not been recovered, but were smuggled out the back gate of one complex while inspectors were held up at the front - the whole farsical episode being caught on film by the inspectors. As Major Scott Ritter Former Chief, Concealment Investigations Unit U.N. Special Commission on Iraq reported to the US Congress, if Iraq were able to procure the proper fissile material it would be a matter of days, maybe weeks before they could be assembled into a device. nci.org There is only one person responsible for the ongoing sanctions regime, and that is Saddam Hussein. The sanctions could have been lifted in 1995. Your own quoted article spells it out quite nicely. Saddam Hussein has an interest in continuing the sanctions regime - it strengthens his police state. The Kurds aren't doing better after a decade because of land better suited to agriculture, they are doing better because they aren't under Hussein's thumb. Derek