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Pastimes : GET THE U.S. OUT of The U.N NOW! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: calgal who wrote (263)	8/20/2002 9:44:15 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 411

U.S. Agents Tried to Bribe Iraqi Officials During UN Talks: Sabri BAGHDAD -- Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri said in an interview published Tuesday that U.S. secret service agents tried to bribe Iraqi officials who took part in talks with the United Nations in New York in May. "The U.S. secret service violated the personal freedom of certain members of my delegation by trying to recruit them to betray their homeland," Sabri told the *Al-Raifdain *weekly newspaper. Sabri and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan met at UN headquarters in May, the second round of talks between the United Nations and Iraq since dialogue resumed at the beginning of the year. Sabri accused the United States of having violated the status of the UN by delaying visas for the technical delegation accompanying him and by trying to corrupt team members in a "crude and tactless way." "The security services at the airport (on arrival) also searched us deliberately to provoke us," AFP quoted Sabri as saying. "All that led us to ask Kofi Annan not to hold the last session of talks in New York," he said. A third meeting between Annan and Sabri took place in July in Vienna, but the two-day talks also did not yield an agreement on a return of weapons inspectors, evacuated from Baghdad in December 1998 on the eve of U.S.-British strikes. The U.S. administration has repeatedly threatened to launch a military strike on Iraq to topple the regime of Saddam Hussein, whom it accuses of developing weapons of mass destruction. Iraq denies the allegations. tehrantimes.com YA RIGHT!??????